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VOL. 55 NO. 16
APRIL 21,1977-1YAR3
Rabin Takes Official 'Vacation'
Photo by Tom Wilcox, Courtesy of Columbus Citizen Journal
Junior Division Raises Over $2000 During Walk
By Lauri Zofan
Chronicle News Editor
It was a real family affair
as the Columbus Jewish
community "walked as one"
on Sunday afternoon, Apr. 17
in a combined teenage Walk-
A-Thon and community-wide
parade. The Junior Division
of the Columbus Jewish Fed¬
eration raised $2261 for the
United Jewish Fund Cam¬
paign as a result of their
walking efforts.
Students at Torah Acad¬
emy and the various
branches of the Columbus
Hebrew School, as well as
representatives of the
numerous Jewish teenage,
organizations in -Columbus,
got friends, neighbors, rela¬
tives, etc., to pledge money
for every mile, they walked.
Pledges ranged, from one
cent per mile (a peer pledge)
to as high as $10 per mile.
Eric .Schottenstein brought
in a record $390 in sponsor
pledges.
■Wearing blue tee shirts
with "We Walk As One"
across the front, approx¬
imately 100 youth started at
The Jewish Center, pro-'
ceeded east on Livingston to
James Rd., marched north
on James Rd. to Broad St.
and trekked west on Broad
St. to Agudas Achim Syna¬
gogue. They were, led by
Tanya Frank anpl^ Judy
Adlerstein, co-chairpersons
of the Walk-A-Thon-  r.
At Agudas Achim, a full
fledged parade started, led
by Grand Marshall (Dr.)
James Tennenbaum, pres¬
ident of The Jewish Center,
who carried a torch symbol¬
izing the eternal light; an
honor guard,' under Com¬
mander Irwin Weiner,
Jewish War Veterans Cap¬
ital Post #122; and the 60-
member Eastmoor High
School Band, under the
direction of Ray Castle.
The. four^mile long Walk-
A-Thon route (to Agudas
Achim) included seven-year-
olds through college age stu¬
dents. It turned into a real
family affair at Agudas
Achim as babies in strollers
and toddlers on shoulders
were .evident In the parade.
The older' generation was
equally well represented, as
five residents of Heritage
House rode in a special blue
v3n to show their solidarity
with the. Columbus Jewish
.^community..    ,,,,_. .-._
The* approximately 300-
strong parade included
many signs showing group
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By David Landau
(Copyright, 1977, JTA, Inc!)
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Premier Yitzhak Rabin will
take a vacation immediately
after the celebrationof Yom
Ha'a.tzmaut and has recom¬
mended that the Cabinet ap¬
point Defense Minister
Shimon Peres as acting pre¬
mier, Israel radio an-"
nouncedApr.M.
Rabin will still remain
legal premier and will be re¬
sponsible, under law, for all
government actions. There
was no indication of how long
he will be away. The an¬
nouncement came as pres¬
sure mounted from within
the Labor Party and the pub¬
lic for Rabin ,to hand the
reins of government to some¬
one else.
Rabin had decided earlier
last week to stay in office
until the next government is
formed after the May 17
elections. He based that
decision on the law which
forbids a minister to.resign
from a care-taker regime.
Although a' loophole exists
that would permit him to
step down, Rabin chose to
.ignorejt.^. . _T....,..*.. „ iv.
Yediot Achronot reported
Apr. 14 that Rabin was plan¬
ning to take a leave of ab¬
sence, a move suggested by
several Labor "Party min¬
isters. Rabin resigned one
week ago as leader of the
Labor party because of .the
joint bank account he and his
wife kept in Washington,
D.C. in violation of-Israel's
currency laws.
Peres was chosen by-the
party 'to replace him at the
head of Labor's election
ticket. There are elements
within the party who fear
Jhat it will suffer in the elec¬
tion if Rabin, sgcyes out his;
tenure. '" ' "'""
Former Justice Minister
Dov Joseph said in a signed
. article in Maariv that Rabin
could legally take a vacation
and have another minister
run the government.. Al¬
though he would remain Pre¬
mier officially and would
continue to be responsible
for government decisions, a
leave would be the best and
quickest way "to satisfy the
many people who believe
th/it a man who committed
offense should not serve
Premier," Joseph wrote.
Strauss Talks On Soviet Trade
UJF Campaign Tops $2.75 Mil.,
More Pledges Still To Come
By Lauri Zofan
Chronicle News Editor
Led by the Eastmoor High
School Band playing Hatik-
vah (learned specially for
the occasion) and the an¬
nouncement of a 2.75 million
dollar campaign total to
date, the Solidarity' Day.
rally and campaign finale
began with a feeling of cele¬
bration in the air.
' ■ /The'rally was held at Beth
Jacob Congregation, imme¬
diately following Sunday's
community Walk-A-Thon
and parade. With more
pledges still to come, the fig-
, ure to date' is the largest
campaign total ever
achieved, except for con¬
tributions following the 1973
Yom Kippur War, Ernest
Stern, Federation president,
announced.'" >
A special feature of the
rally was the passing of an
Israeli flag from the Colum¬
bus Hebrew School to the*
Tifereth Israel Religious
School. Millard Cummins,
chairman of the' day's pro¬
gram, told the approxi¬
mately i75 people in the
audience/that this passing of
the flag from one religious
school to another has be¬
come a tradition in Colum¬
bus. •   "
The dais was shared by
Rabbi David Stavsky of Beth
Jacob, who gave a welcom¬
ing address; Sol Barnett,
representing    Heritage
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By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON • (JTA) -
Former Democratic Party
National Chairman Robert
S. Strauss,, President Car¬
ter's chief foreign , trade
negotiator with the rank of
ambassador, does not give a
positive "yes" of support to
the Jackson-Vanik section of
the U.S. Trade Reform Act.
In line with expressions,
usually private, of other high
Administration" officials,
Strauss indicates that the
law tying U.S, trade benefits
to the Soviet Union's'emigra-
tion policy is an open issue.
This also is the known.posi¬
tion, of Arthur Hartman, the
assistant secretary of state
for Europe.
Before coming to his pres¬
ent post) Strauss told, the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
in an interview:" "I could
have emotional and histor¬
ical views and the prejudices
from tha, t. Now, with ' my
present responsibilities, I
must,be absolutely certain
that I am looking at it (Jack-
son-Vanik) from the stand¬
point of the whole America. I
will .take a purely critical
and analytical look and I will
speak .out when I have the
authority," he said.
Strauss, who is Jewish, did
, hot say he opposed Jackson-
Vanik and neither did the
officials who briefed report¬
ers just before they left
Washington for Moscow with
Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance for his meeting with
Soviet leaders that floun¬
dered over nuclear wea¬
ponry. Like other subjects of
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — In an unexpected Middle
East Development, the State Department and the
Syrian government announced Apr. 14 that Syrian For¬
eign Minister Abdal-Halim Khaddam will visit Wash¬
ington Apr. 21-23 for meetings with President Carter
and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. His visit is at the
invitation of Vance and will be part of the "continuing
discussions of their efforts for a just and lasting peace
in the Mideast," the'State Department said.
PARIS (JTA) — Israel's Weizmann Institute and
France's "Institut Pasteur" embarked Apr. 14 on a
joint program of intensive' cancer research. France's
Health Minister Simone Veil said the project "is a sym¬
bol of what scientists can do "when they place them-
^i^eives^aboyeijna^iona.lXmbjUons'." The Minister, also
said Leonard Bernstein will conduct the French Na¬
tional Orchestra next month at a gala performance to
help raise money for the program. The Weizmann-Pas-
teur project is a private venture but, Mrs. Veil said, it
is being conducted within the framework of existing
Franco-Israeli scientific agreements.
VIENNA (JTA) - Dr. Mikhail Stern, released last
month from a Soviet prison camp where he had served
' two years and eight months of an eight-year sentence
for alleged bribery, arrived here Apr* 13 and,an¬
nounced that he plans to settle in the United States. The
sentencing of the 58-year-old endocrinologist from
Vinnitsa, Ukraine on obviously false charges, had
aroused a world-wide wave of' protests, which were
credited with obtaining his early release from the labor
camps and permission for him to leave the Soviet
Union on an emigrant visa for Israel.
Nazi War Criminals Still Abound In Numbers
By Lauri Zofan
Chronicle News Editor
Only 10,000 of the 100,000
German Nazis who com¬
mitted war crimes between
' 1940 and 1945 have been
caught; and of that group
only 2000 havfe*been brought
to trial. In addition, there
currently.' are 5000 Nazi
criminals (not German) in
the United States.
These are some of the
harsh facts Tuviah "Fried¬
man, director of the Institute
' for Investigation of Nazi War
Crimes in Haifa and
Jerusalem, brought to the
people of Columbus last
week. .Friedman spoke
on April 11 at Beth Jacob
Congregation, during Yom
Hashoah observances.
The famed Nazi hunter
who spoke briefly with the
Ohio Jewish Chronicle, said
70% of those criminals in
Germany who are convicted
go free. Some claim in¬
sanity, others are let go
because of their age, he
explained.
Friedman, known for the
part he played in the capture
of Adolf Eichman, heads an
office that has no official
connection with the Israeli
government, but works
closely with the authorities
in ' various' countries,
especially Germany and the
United Stales., He said he
gets complete co-operation
with the German authorities,
but that there is no true
justice in Germany because
many of the judges and
people in high positions were
themselves Nazis of have
friends and relatives who
were involved in the war
crimes.
Revenge is no longer the
reason the search for Nazi's
goes on. Friedman says his
office is trying "to make
justice and history."
One problem that faces
Friedman and his co¬
workers is that "We are
running today with a watch
in our hand" because in 1980
the Statute of Limitations
ends in Germany. No Nazi
criminal can be brought to
trial after that.
Friedman . feels that
American Jewish com-,
munities can help his
organization. He suggests
that concentration- camp
survivors in the United
States could perhaps
remember names and faces
of those who committed,
crimes in the camps where
they were, and therefore
these „ survivors could
become "important wjt-
nesses"„in future trials.
Although Friedman did
not play an active part in the
actual capture of Adolf
Eichman, he spent 15 years
collecting     material.
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