Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1970-07-30

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JULY 30 - TAMMUZ 26
lOONewMembersi Goal Of Center
July 27 to August 27 has been designed as enrollment month for the Jewish Center's 20th Anniversary A|Iembership Campaign. The goal of the campaign is to enroll 200 new families as members of the Center, 10 for each year the Center has been in existence.
Mr. Roth pointed out that the recent Demographic Study
conducted under the the Franklin County United auspices of the United Jewish Fund and Coimcil, indicated a marked growth in the Jewish population of Columbus, primarily from new people moving into the .city. A major goal of the campaign is to make these newcomers feel wdcome to Columbus and to become active participants in Jewisfi communal life.
The membership cam¬ paign committee, under the leadership of Burton Schildhouse, Bernard Frank and Martin Hoffman, met on July 15 to assign cards for contact as prospective new members. A member was defined as one who is willing to affiliate and identify with the Jewish Center, support its purposes in program, and cooperate With: other members in doing so. He recognizes the Center as a community-wide organization which .em¬ braces a cross, section of Jewish community life.
Other campaign workers attending the initial meeting were: Myer Hausman, Sig Wasserman, Gerald Friedman, Milton Pinsky, Robert Landy'and Mr. and ¦ Mrs. Earl Sonenstein.
Membership dues account for approximately 25 percent
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Because of rising costs and the urgency of overseas needs, membership income . plays an increasingly im¬ portant role in the support of the Center. Mr. Roth pointed out that inability to pay the full membership fee does not prevent anyone from par¬ ticipating in the Jewish Center program. Through private and confidential consultations with an ex¬ perienced staff member, individual's or families are enabled td participate with a fee based on their personal circumstances.-
In 1969 over $18,000 in 'membership fee ad- - justments were awarded. Persons interested in joining the Center may^ c^ the membership office 231-2731, and arrange for an in¬ terview.
NEllv YORK, (WUP)—The New York Times, whose editorial attitude has not too often been realistic on the (^ question of the Middle East, has finally conceded that the United States must not allow the niilitary balance in the region to be upset. In a recent leading editorial, the Times declared:
' "Hie possibility, cannot be disregarded that American forebearance in arms shi{^ents to Israel has only inflated Soviet ambitions. Unless there is clear evidence soon that these ambitions are being curbed and serious peace negotiations undertaken, the United States will have no choice but io redress the balance by further military aid to Israel." .
JERUSALEM, (WUP)—Jacques Soustelle, the FVench statesman and long-time friend of Israel, . General Pierre Koenig and General P. Bonneville, were guests of Minister Menachem Begin at a specially-arranged dinner held at the King David Hotel here recently. The three notables are leaders of the France-Israel Friendship League.
Cte-hosts with Begin at the reception honoring the Frenchmen were Ministers Ezer "Weizman, Yosef Sapir and Haim Landau. .
TEL AVIV,. (JTA)—The chairinan of the Knesset Finance Committee, Israel Kragmann, said in Haifa over the weekend that increasing expenditures for security have made tax increases inevitable. He called ' for an urgent decision of the nature of such taxation. Possibilities include higher fuel prices and higher, taxes on airline and ship tickets.
LONDON, (WUP)—Michael <3omay, who preceded Yosef Tekoah as Israeli Ambassador to the UN, has 'been appointed Jerusalem's new' envoy to Great -''^ Britain.  He succeeds Aharon Remez.
The White Houst Pressures Israel
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Tlie White House and tbe Department are putting pressure on Israd, both hero and Jh'' Jerusalem, to accept the American peace proposal for the' Middle East, sources here said this past wedcend. Offidals • are Idling Israel not to fear an Elgyptian military buildup' during a three-month cease-fire, as a military freeze along -
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the Suez Canal is built into' the plan devised by Secretary of State William P. Rogers and accepted last Thursdjay by Egypt. Joseph Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State for Nedr Eastern and South Asian Affairs, reportedly has made that point personally to Israeli officials     here. Ad¬
ministration, officials are /telling the Israelis that Egypt and the Soviet Union have been advised that military-freeze conditions apply, by implication, under a temporary cease-fire evoi though the Rogers proposal did not mention it. The administration's ace is expected to be ddays in the approval of jet-purchase requests. Western sources believe the administration 'will coiisider as "an Isradi' acceptance of its proposal
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anything short of outright-, rejection. *'• ;
The most immediate aim, in conjunction with a tem¬ porary cease-fire, is the reactivation of the peace mediation efforts of United Nations envoy Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring. Any Egyptian or Isradi qualms about aspects of the U.S. initiative, the administration feels, can be negotiated under Dr. Jarring's auspices during the three-month fighting pause. American officials are saying thdr optimism over Egypt's acceptance of the U.S. plan has not been dulled by his description of it as "nothing new" beyond the Securify Council resolution and bis insistence on three con- .ditions^Isradi. .witbdrawal from all'occupied Arlib territdries, the "saf^uar- ding of the Palestinian peoples' rights" and an end to U.S. military assistance tb Israd. The American of¬ ficials say President Gairial Abdel 'Nasser's detailing' of his position in private has led them to retain theu: op-. timism for a peace s^- tlement. Some sources say (joI. Nasser's acceptance of the U.S. plan was designed and timed to put sdl ,the pressure for implementation of the plan on Israd. If Israel rejected the proposal C^irb could daim Israd sabotaged the peace effort.
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I Waited 2000 Years! To Visit Israel
by Hersh Lif Adlerstein
The Iirst in a senes 61 reports by Ihe Regional Oirector ol the Anti- DclaRiatiur^League of B'nai B'rilh, and Director of the Columbus CRC, who is spending 5 weeKs In Israel as part ol the Seminar on World Jewish Service ol the Hebrew University.
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,... JEJiUSALEM: I waited for 2000 years to visit Israel, and I'ijbviously I cannot expect to encompass the land and the ';^,8eople in a series of newspaper arUcles.   Today, when "Americans visit Israel by the tens of thousands,  the
newspaper reader is constantly deluged by impressions of . Israel. Perhaps I can bring to the task a body of knowledge
and particular viewpoint 'gained'   from    years    of
professional involvement in
the field  of  J^sh  com¬ munity relations. I shall try
to make you share with me
the impact ot Israel. First * impressions   are
notoriously unreliable-  Lod
Airport seen through tear- filled ejfes provides mother
an objective nor a complete
picture of Israel. 0nly7with>
the jerky Egged Bus ride
through the hills does the land begin to effect you. Only with the entry into Jerusalem does history begin to live. Only with your first pilgrimage to the Hotel Hamaharavr, the Western Wall, doe^yo"'" Jewish^fieritage sudd%nly overwhelm you. Only when you stand in front of the new Intercontinental Hotd, built by    Americans    on    the
shamefully desecrated cemetery: on the Mount of Olives, and view the Old City do you frighteningly recall this was the city of Solomon'sr glory. Only wheri you walk through the streets of the Old City do you realize that to'be a Jew in Jerusalem in 1970 is indeed a privilege' denied our fathers before its. No longer for us "I'shana haba b'Yerushalayim." For u 5 ¦ ' ' a c h s'h a v b'Yerushalayim" - now in Jerusalem.
Tlie first sight of the Old C5ty, from the Mount of Olives, is heartrending. The heart of Judaism sits! before us - and the grim reality of the Jordahian occupation' from 1948 to 1967 staggers the imagination. What kind of "friend of the West" can
Hussein '   be      if      he
systematically     and
shockingly destroyed the
holy graves of the Jewish
dead on the Mount of Olives
to build a new hotel on them -
and to use the gravestones to
pave   roads    and    build
latrines. In       the
Old  City   itself,   a  walk
through what for centuries
was the Jewish  Quarter
should have a sobering effect
on anydne who still thiiiks
Hussein is a "moderate";
the       virtually        total
destruction x>f  all- cif  the
synagogues   and   yeshivot,
the denial of access to the
Western Wall for 20 years,
' the programmed vandalism
which attempted to destroy
even   old   British   signs
because   they   contained
Hebrew lettiSrine - these are
among  Jordan's  legacy.'  .' Israeli politics are complex, ¦ but all parties agree on one thing:     Jerusalem  shall never again be divided.
The New City is neither all new or all city. It is a sprawling proliferation of suburbs (in various stages of growth) . surrounding a' business district of fau-ly old (by American standards, not by. Isriaeli staiidards, which mei^^ure age by .centuries) stores and buildings. The' city includes areas as diverse as'Ein Kerem,.where the Hadassah Hospital magnificently overlooks the village ofJohn the Baptist; Mount Herzl, 'where Theodore Herzl lies -buried under a 'stark black granite tombstone inscribed simply HERZL, as if anything else
would be siqierfluous; the . military cemetery bn the same Mount Horzl where at least one hardened ADL professional wept ^lenly at, the grave of a 13 year-old soldierd) whose grave- marker notes he was killed ,"while carrying out his duty"; the Mea Shearim, where - Hassidim in "kapotes" stroll in a I9lh centitfy world just blocks from where mini-skirted hippies wander through city streets'; the Hebrew Universiiy, whose "old" campus on Mount Scopus, liberated in 1967, is being r«>adicd for use once again, and wh()se beautiful new ciampus we attend daily for onr Seminar. Jerusalem is - physically, socially, morally and spiritually - cndecd the< aty ofCold.
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