Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1969-11-20

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NOVEMBER 20,1969 r-KISLEV 10
Hadassah Drive In High Gear
The annual drive for Ha¬ dassah Medical Qrgaiilzatlon moved into high gear at tte ' innrkera tadc-Ott rally oii Nov. 12.
Mrs. PanI SbarflnChajpter
- ponor Chairman, gave die ' mecbaidcs of raisiqg dooor
to tbedoaarandpatronwarkr ers. Mrs. Sanford Solorooo, Cimrman ot Donor andMrs.
- Melvin RackaCr, Chapter President spoke tothe work¬ ers giving them all the iie-
' cessary informatian on the , Hadassah^ Medical Hospital aid the transforming of JMt. iSeopns Hosirital into a vital adjunct to the Medical Cen¬ ter at Eln Karenu
The irorkers were remind¬ ed thtf fiiOl pledge card cre¬ dit will be given for theall occasion greeting cards sel¬ ling for $1.00 each. Each card or ^ertiflcate purchas¬ ed in $l.OO-4!5.0D-or $10.00 denominattans is credited at flnll value, towards a H.M.O. pledge. Cards Cor Birthdays, G^ Well, Bar Mitzvah, Bon Vosragef-births, Mazel'l^oir and Siynipat^.' Cards may be jpurchased fkromthe iQdl- Tidual group cards and cer¬ tificate chahrman. Bee 1 is the Gut-oir date for the 1969- 1970 Donor Credit.
litrs. Robert Paine, Chap-^ ter Fpaai Raising VIce-Flre- sident spoke to the workers of the ext^ special efforts - needed in this year's cam¬ paign because d our added , Fesponsltdlities. WE must all support Hadassah Hospi¬ tal on Mt. Scopus and main- tafai the Hosidtal at Eln Ka- rem.
Berman
Announces
Retirement
The retirement cf Carl Berman, manager of The Jewish Center'Bovding Xanes, effective Dec 1 was amounoed by Irv Barkan chahrman of tbe Center's personnel committee and Al' Tynler, chairman d the
- Center's boiding committee.
According to Mr. Barfcai^ "ta order nottolosetfae skill and mtperlenee of Mr. Ber¬ man completely, be has agree^ to malntahi his long afflHatlon with the Center In the parttlme capacity of desk siqiervlsor."
'     Balkan also annooncedthe
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'^ position of lane manager and
midntenanoe supervisor and
^Etbel Welse toassistantma-
'-iWvS^'fWB" «« teases \ f M^'Bpei^ai programs.
'' f flt^is important," staled Baifcan, "to keep aflneteam BiMb as this together in order to provide the high leveld aervlce for tbe community. We all wish Carl the best of faeattb and maael.
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Hadassah Medicol Or^onizotion
riie World's Week
JERUSALEM (WNS)—IsraeU officials have notedthe Govemmenffs concern over the situation in Lebanon anid Us efCect of ftiture relations with that nation. Newsmen were t<dd by a source who was to remain
' unidentified that Israel could do nothing if tbe present moderate Lebaitese Government waste be deposed Iv ah extremist mglmevlfaib commandos weregiyen teiiltxKy In sgf^m'i^ibta^ a^Wsutt"ot^the agiKN()1qenta;beH(!^ : the -B^ikit G<n^
.' ^giieRiQaB^:tbm^^sK>eI:''W^ separate sovereignly and feel fr^ to take >^iatever ^eEansiye nwasures were necessary to protect its citizens.
WASRiNGrON (WNS)--The State Deiiartment, reac¬ ting to continned "mlsapiprebenslan" of United States policy In the Mideast, has Issued a statemeiit noting Washingtoii's strong opposition to the "invcflvement by private Americans" in the armed forces of othNr nations and declared such service viras "contrary to the foreign policy interests of the VA" One spokesman said that American Jews were doiiig a disservice to tbeir country by bearing arms for Israel becausetbey offentlBd the Arabs. Department spokesmen noted that tiiere was no law preventing any jGnericiiii fromgolQg to a foreign nation and en||eriag its armed forces. It was noted that the fkivernmeid^is ''.actively consid¬ ering^' wliat additional steps m^ht be talqsn to "sup¬ port more fully the p(>liGyobjectives...'Atliis matter." JEBCSALEM (ZINS)—140,000 veterans of Israel's defense forces have voluntarily mobilized as a hcune guard to protect Jewish settlements which are coming under increasii^ attack by Arab terrorists. The home guard^s chmposed of veterans of the Haguiah, of the World War D Jewish Brigade, of the underground militant aangaiilzaUons that, were active in the days oCthe British Mandate and (tfthpse Israel soldiers, who have compteted their reserve duties in Israel's formal Armed Farces. Women also volunteer and help'by . lending a faahd in those border setttements vridch are particularly vulnerable to attadc The guidiqg spirit of this movement is a retired Israel Army General, Eiiyahu Ben-Hur. -
Nosser% Aides Go To Moscow
LONIKM*. (JTA) ;- Three t(ip aids of PresldentNasser., of Egypt wOl go to Moscow next week for talks with So¬ viet officials aboutth^Arab- Israell coofiic^ it was; an¬ nounced iivCahro. The Mos¬ cow talics will precede an Arab summit conference set tn Rabat, Morocco^ for Dec. 20—the second toplevel Arab meeting since the Khartoum summit confer- enc« of September,  1967^
The semi-official Cahrp newspaper A| Ahram said
that Col. Nasser is sending to Moscow Anwar El^Sadat^ a membei' of the supreme executive committee of the Arab Specialist Union Par¬ ty — Foreign Minister Mahmoud Rindt Minister of War Gen. Moliammed Faw- zi, Mr. El-Sadat, who is considered tp be second to President Nasser in.Egypf s ruling hierarchy, will liead the mission, Al Ahram said,. The Arab Socialist lAiion is the only pditical party per¬ mitted in J5gypti *
Som^ces in Cairo said that the invttations to the, Riibat summit confenince Included a proposed agenda basied on resolutions ad(>pted by the Arab Defense Council which just m^ in Cairo. Thby are.
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i^ws' Letter To U thiint
UNITEO NATIONS (WNS)~Israel has dropped the hot question of the Soviet Union's treatment ot its Jevf^ Intdthe lap of the United Nations by forwani^toSecretaiy General U Thant an ^^eal i^om 18 Orthodox Jews lil^ hi Soviet Georgia asking the world organlzsition fw help In'efidgrating firom Russia to Israel.
Israeli Ambassador YosefT«koah,_wfap served as Ambas¬ sador to Moscow for two   sian at a news confeicnce.
years, presented the appeal, addressed'to "the Human. Rights Comnilssianer, i7nl- ted Nations, New York, U. iS^." to Mr.Thantand asked the Secretaiy General touse his "good offices" to help the 18 petitioners and "to alleviate the situation of Soviet Je*vry."
Mr. Tekoahalsoaskedthat tte appeal and a covering let¬ ter be distributed as an offi¬ cial General Asse^ly docu¬ ment He mgde clear that this was tte first time that Jerusalem had raised Rus¬ sia's treatment of Soviet Jews tefore tte' U.N. " Observer? at the UN said that Israel's action indicates that Jerusalem was pre- palred "to sqmtor: aiv "Rus- s^ blackmail on tte Mid¬ east lyputttag world pres- suipe on'Moscow to: prevent flirttor. discrlmimitionahdto provide better treatment of its Jews.
t/ix, tekoah read tte ap¬ peal InbcthEngllsbandRus-
Robbi Is Opposed To Shrine
LAS VEGAS, (JTA)—A Las Vegas rabbi C!pposed to tte erection of a statue of Jesus as a peace symbol In firont oftte local convention center reported that te has been assured by convention iauthorlties that aiv''statue plans tbiy devise would te submitted for his approvaL Rabbi AaronS. Gold, of Tem¬ ple Beth Shalom, saldthatte also accepted an invitation to become a memter of tte Peace Memorial Committee. Tte invitation was issued after tte Clark County Min- *i ste rial Associa^on, of which Rabbi Gold is presi¬ dent, adopted a resolution opposing erection of reli¬ gious symbols on public property. The Mhiisterial Association is an interfaith groupL Its otterofficers are Revi Caenn L. Tudor oftte First ChristianChurch,Rev. Rotort E. Bateman of St Ciurlstopter's Episcopal Church and Rev. O.T. Phil¬ lips of tte ChristCranmupify Church.
' Theh: resolution said they opposed religious symbols on^piibilc prweii^fitliirlight or*'our'tlatlonai'>^traditlon of tte separatidhbf church and state and depislons which teve been handeddownlgrtte Supreme C ourt...regardfa)g religious practices or sym- h<fls in public programs and places."
He said tte petitiooers had sent tte document to him personally because "I am not a straiiger to fbem and tbey are not a stranger to me." Heexplalnedwithemo- tion how be had visited tte petitioners' villages In 1965 at New Year's and tte warm greetings he received wter- ever te went. ""As I spoke, upon tearing the first words in Hebrew, tte entire community raised their hands in a kiss to tea- Ven^" tte Ambassador said. Mr. Tekoah said te spoke in
neglected synagogues 'and broken courtyards and wten te started to express Us wishifoii''happUieas for tte nett year, tte crowds would chaii^ "next y^ar in Jeru¬ salem," He added that^aste moved through tiie crov^ ttere would to a singlet>rord whhniierect; "Salvation" in Hebrew andthe whisper; would turn into a cry.
In tte appeal to tte Human Rights Commiasion, tte' petitioners, who slgnedti»ir names and addresses, said 'iWe, 18 religious Jewish families of Georgia, request you to telp us leave for IsraeL" It noted that Soviet authorities hadindicatedthat exit visas would te granted and each "sold his property
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Zacks GivesSpeech
BOSTON (WNS>~The teUef Of a growUig number d American Jews that tte community's finances should te directed to Jewish heads.sfauch as education ratter than nationally-supported efforts such as hospital's was presented to comnuuial leaders at a meeting of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. Leadership Cidbfaiet of tte
United Jewish Appeal t<dd a plenary session at CIJFWF's 38tfa ^neral Assembly that " we. have diluted and watered down Jewish education totte point that far too often, in far too many schools, it is one vast wasteland of banal¬ ities, unimaginative, unin- splrbig, unlnformative and unproductive."
He 'called for tte es¬ tablishment of a $100 mfl- lion -foundation for Jewish Identity in America and later said that three delegates bai each offered to contribute $100,000 for flmdtais of such a foundation.
Mr. Zacks' slashingcritir dsm of tte.directionofJew¬ ish Ufb included a demand ifor "Amdameitfal changes" in tte community's decision¬ making processes. He urged inclusion In fiederation lead¬ ership of men vribose only qualification is "Jewish learning and commitment to Jewish life."
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Gordon Zacks
Federation boards, l» sali^ must te more repre¬ sentative: ^ tte comniunity and tteir concern should te directed to'Jewish atEaIrs ratter tiian activtties that are now teing supported by the entire American nation., As an Ocampl^ te said that education should te tte re- sponsOiilfiy of tte feder^on rather than the;^exclusf ' concern of i^ynagogiieilltl rabbis. -        f.
The same tteme was' espoused by Concerned Jew¬ ish Youth, an organization of active Jewish youth with strong renresentaUon from tte New EUigland and New
York areas. A delegation appeared attte CJEWF gath¬ ering anddeniandeda"dras- tic and imniedlate reor¬ dering of priorities" of pro¬ grams and activities supported by tbe Jewish community.
milel Levine, a 23-yBar- old Harvard graduate wte Is an ordained rabbi said "present allocation policies favor a greater roabiUz«- tion of resources to' combat one crackpot anU-Se mite than to deal with tte Jewish illiteracy of millions of Jews.'"
The students submitted a series of demands for action on Jewish education^ Soviet Jewry, for reftvm of ti>o i;(;1(|den|{(in structure, feder- iH:'*itiiii£4'ractian to encourage riv;l|C|wproiBcts irithlntbecom- ' muntty, and tte filling of profiassianal and lay 16ad- ership positions I19' persons yibo "stew tbebr commit¬ ment to Judaism by parti¬ cipating m Jewish siuSy.".
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