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FEBRUARY 8. 1973 — ADAR 6
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Robert Lazarus Sr.
Robert Lazarus
Sr. Dead At 82
Robert Lazarus Sr., 82,
chairman emeritus of the
board of F & R Lazarus &
Co., died Sunday in his home
at 2075 Fair Ave., Bexley,
after a brief illness.   <
A member of the Ohio
Board of Regents, Lazarus
was renowned as a mer¬
chant, civic leader and
humanitarian.
He was the grandson of the"'
store' founder   and   had"
assumed the presidency in
1947 after.the death of his
brother, Simon.
Robert Lazarus Sr. began
his career in the family store
in 1899 at the age of 9,
working Saturdays - for 25
cents. ',
He   attended   Sullivant
School and graduated from
Central   High   School.   He
graduated from Ohio State
University in 1912 where he
was  a   member  of Beta
Gamma Sigma and Alpha
Kappa     Psi     honorary
societies.   , '■■■_.■,-,
He <enlisted- in • the U.S.
Army as a private in 1918
attended .' officers   training
school and was discharged
at the end of the war as a
second lieutenant in the
f Quartermaster Corps.
y   After his graduation from
; OSUj he began working
f fulltime in the store in the
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TEL AVIV: (WNS)-Ten new letter bombs were found
in.Israeli post offices this week, all of them mailed
from Instanbul, Turkey. Some of the letter bombs were
addressed to widely known addressees, such as Tel
Aviv University's President Prof. Yuval Neeman, and
the Begged-Or leather goods factory in Migdal
Haemek. Police authorities issued new warnings to the
public to take precautions in handling unexpected and,
unusually heavy mail.
BONN (WNS)-In a German television interview, a
former Arab member of El Fatah's financial section
revealed E3 Fatah gets $85 million a year from Arab
states, primarily Libya, Saudi Arabia and the Pdrsian
Gulf states. He said Libya's President Muammer el-
Qaddafi, gave a $5 million reward to Fatah leader
Yassir Arafat for the Munich Massacre, in addition to
the annual payments. The informant, who refused to
disclose his identity, said that El Fatah and Black
September are the same organization. His story has
been corroborated by German and Mideast security
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MONSEY, N.Y.   (WNS)-Rabbi Louis Bernstein,
Rabbinical Council of America president, has called on
the American Orthodox community to "support the
institution of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel and the two
distinguished scholars who are at its head." He was
s addressing 500 delegates attending the national con¬
ference of the RCA-the first .rabbinic body in the "
^United States- to take a public stand in support of the
- Chief Rabbinate. The Council's executive adopted a
resolution calling upon "those to whom the Torah is
dear to desist from conflict," a direct reference to
recent attacks on (he Chief Rabbinate, which, is said,
threaten its authority and continued existence.
i Jews Reported Murdered:
Situation Threatens Remaining tews
NEW YORK, (JTA)-The
recent murder of nine Iraqi
Jews who had been in prison
for some months was
reported on Feb. 1 by Jacob
Stein, chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations. Declaring he
had received this in¬
formation from unim¬
peachable sources, Stein
urged the governments of
the world to protest this
latest atrocity inflicted upon
the small Jewish community
in Iraq, now numbering less
than 500, compared to some
150,000 in the 1940s.
The chairman of the
Presidents Conference
called upon "the nations of
the world to make formal
protest to the government of
Iraq against- this latest-'
report of the murder of nine
Jews and the virtually
complete disen-
franchisement of the
remaining Jews in the
country."
Stein expressed "great
concern over the worsening
of the situation that
threatens the total extinction
of the Jews residing in Iraq.
My information is that the
government of Iraq has
seized the property of all its
Jews through newly enacted
regulations. The situation of
the Jews in Iraq has
tragically deteriorated in the
past few months to a point
where life there for Jews is
completely intolerable.
Their only hope for life is
immediate emigration."
In a statement issued
before disclosure of the
murders by Stein, Rep.
Edward I. Koch (D.N.Y.)
said in Washington that he
had asked the World Bank to.
cease financial aid to the
government of Iraq until
Iraq Jews who wish to
emigrate are allowed to do
so and those remaining are
free from discrimination. In
a letter to the Bank's
president, Robert Mc-
Namara, Koch protested the
recent abduction, im¬
prisonment, and harassment
of Iraqi Jews. "There are
many middle-aged and
elderly people who have lost
their jobs, their businesses
have been boycotted, their
assets frozen and their
religious observances
viewed as acts of sedition,"
Koch stated.
Soviet Engineer Sentenced
For "Slandering" System
Sklare:
Jewish Family Fails To Pass On Identity
by BILL COHEN
CHRONICLE
SPECIAL REPORTER
Perhaps the most crucial
problem of today's
American Jewish family is
that it is often failing to give
Jewish children "a
meaningful Jewish iden¬
tity^" according to Dr.
Marshall Sklare, Professor
of American Jewish Studies
at Brandeis University.
Sklare, who last week
spoke in Columbus as the
Accepts Responsibility Fof
Airing 8. Smith Broadtiflol'
WASHINGTON    (WNS)-.
Willianv, Bertenshaw,
pro^uicer^of  Gerald  L.K.
; Sniith's:/broadcast carried
by the Mutual Broadcasting
Company.'and later;by the
Defense    Department's
Armed Forces Radio and
Television Service, accepted
the sole responsibility for the
broadcast which reached
isome 2 million servicemen
[around   the   world.   The
broadcast was one of a series
i - of      "public '    service"
programs' produced;- and
packaged by Bertenshaw, an
independant radio and TV
producer, under the general
title, "Suggested Solutions."
James  Roberts,  the New
Jersey Church Council's
director   of   radio   and
television said the council
last. year requested to be
disassociated from the
series. He said the council
had been associated with
only the first four programs
in the series, about three
years agoJ.:
Bertenshaw said he would
not have put the show on if he
had the background on
Smith he has now. He said
his series also included a
program about t Israel.
Smith, a professional-anti-
Semite and white racist used
the broadcast to promote his
"Christian shrine" at
Eureka Springs, Ark., as a
substitute for Christian holy
places in Israel which he
said were "marred and
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DR. MARSHALL SKLARE
Rabbi -Harjry Kaplan
Scholar-In-Residence,- told
about 100 persons at^ the
Hillel Foundation, "Just as
the Jewish.family tends to
help the ,child in oc¬
cupational and educational
achievement, so it tends to
fail him Jewishly."
\"What the Jewish com¬
munity is now in the business
of doing is substituting, for
the family. The synagogue is
substituting for the family.
The ^e\vM;^hool is sub-
stiutmg for the family. The
Jewish camp is substituting
for the family. The Jewish
Club is substituting for the
family. Israel has sub¬
stituted for the family," said
Sklare.'      \t
"Jewish children are the
blacks of our society,"
Sklare continued, explaining
that "they come to the
Jewish school not knowing
■ how to read. They come to
the Jewish school without
the reinforcement from the
home."'
Sklare, the author of four
books on Jews in the United
States, listed another Jewish
family problem as "Jewish-,
gentile integration,"
especially when it leads to
intermarriage.
"The introduction of
gentiles into a Jewish family
network breaks the
regularity of that network.
That network is no longer a
Jewish' identity-building
network. There is hardly a
Jewish family, an extended
kinship family, certainly
outside of New York, that
. does 'not have at least one
gentile now in the network,"
said Sklare.
He stressed that while the !
second generation American
Jew may believe in in¬
tegration but does not act on
his idea, the third generation
{inay be different.
"There is the possibility
that a younger generation,
raised with the integrationist
psychology of Jews, is
capable of acting on the
integrationist sentiment,
which their parents are not
capable. of acting upon,"
said Sklare.
Another problem in the
Jewish family, according to
Sklare, is what he called "a
diminishing interaction with
' the extended family."
Sklare emphasized that'
studies show that Jewish
interaction beyond the small
nuclear family is still much
more than that in families of
other ethnic groups in the
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LONDON, (JTA)-Lazar
Lubarsky, a '46-yearmold
engineer who was never
bothered by Soviet
authorities until he applied
for an exit visa to Israel, was
sentenced on Feb. 1 at the
end of a two-day secret (rial
to four years in a forced
labor camp on charges of
slandering the Soviet Union
and giving away official
state secrets. The trial was
held at Rostov-On-Don.
The judge was named as
Trust, a Jew, according to
Jewish sources in Russia,
who reported (the verdict.
The' nine-page indictment
accused Lubarsky, who had
been chief engineer at a high
tension network institute in
Rostov, of writing slan¬
derous letters to Jews who
had appeared on Soviet
television to denounce Israel
and of writing other slan¬
derous letters. The defense
counsel, named as
Pamynlna, argued that the
letters could not constitute
slander. Her efforts were
severly handicapped by
refusal of the court to let her
see Lubarsky's file, the
sources reported.
The prosecution charged
that Lubarsky had given
away state secrets at the
institute. Miss Pamynina
said Lubarsky had simply
shown a document-not
classified as secret, to a
fellow-worker, had received
a mild reprimand and the
incident closed. She added
he had continued working at
the same post until April,
197Q, when he was dismissed
for applying for the exit visa.
On the second day of the
trial, 10 of the 16 defense
witnesses were allowed to
give evidence. Lubarsky's
wife was permitted to enter
the courtroom on the second
day. A group of 32 Jews in
Viina cabled the Rostov
District Court chairman
they were holding a 24-hour
hunger strike in solidarity)
with the engineer.''u' }
Prior   to   the   verdict,
gngressmen in Wa:
d called on Soviet
to   free   Lubarsky.
dressing the House,
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Ad-
Rep.
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OSU Hillel To Co-Sponsor
Second Camp Placement Day
by Deborah Schiff
Hillel Staff Writer
On Wednesday, Feb. 14,
the Ohio State University
Health, Physical Education
and Recreation Division in
conjunction'with the O.S.U.
B'nai B'rith Hillel < Foun¬
dation and the Campus
Ministry Association, will
sponsor its second annual
Camp Placement Day.
The  program  was   suc-
director of the Hillel
Foundation and Dr. Charles
Mand of the O.S.U. Health,
Pysical Education and
Recreation Dept. This year •
the program is joining the
circuit of universities which
are sponsoring, this type of
program, and is expected to
be an even greater success.
Various campus Ministry
Association buildings in the
campus area,' including
Hillel,    will    serve    as
\      ,
cessfully initiated last year - recruiting stations between
by     Aaron     Leventhal*
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