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VOL.58   NO.2
JANUARY 10,1980-TEVET21
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Hospital Criticized
For Billing Patients
For Kosher Food
By Ben-Gallob
. NEW YORK (JTA)-The
National Council of Young
Israel, an association of Orthodox' synagogues, has issued a statement criticizing
the University"Hospital of
the New York Medical Center for its "discriminatory"
practice of billing patients
for kosher food.
Nathaniel Saperstein,
Young Israel president, said
"kosher food is an inalienable right of all observant
Jews," adding that "the
practice of billing the patient" at New York Hospital
"a surcharge for this food is
unconscionable." He said
that, in recent months, several cases have been disclosed of Orthodox patients
at New York University Hospital being charged extra for
kosher food. Saperstein said
that despite repeated requests, the hospital has refused ' to correct this
situation.
Saperstein declared that
! persons - requiring   special
; diets were not billed by the.
■> hospitai:"untess that special
I diet happens., to; be kosher.
!This   is   clearly   discriminatory and smacks of anti-
Semitism." He added .that
"what makes this situation-
especially galling is the fact
. that   the   major   hospital
insurance companies.do con-'
sider kosher food as a normal expense and reimburse
thehospital'forit."
Saperstein said that "in all
the cases which have come
to our attention, the patients,
were insured. Not only does
-the hospital bill them improperly, in the first place,
but they are billed even
\ though the kosher diets are
paid for by their insurance
policies."
Review Of The 1970s:
A Decade of Trial And Triumph
Tribute To 'Holocaust' Author
Mrs. Sondra Osipow (right) participated in special ceremonies recently at the New York Headquarters of the Women's League for Conservative Judaism when Gerald Green
(second from right), author of "Holocaust," was honored by
the League "for his craftsmanship and his humanity in bringing before the world the unparalleled account of atrocities
perpetrated in our century." The special citation awarded to
him added that "when good people fail to resist, evil is accepted as good, and might becomes right."
Fritz Weaver, who played the role of Dr. Weiss in the NBC-
TV Mini-Series, participated in the tribute. The presentation
was made by Mrs. Goldie Kweller, president of the organization, largest synagogue women's organization in the
world, with a membership of 210,000 in the United States,"
Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Israel. ■»
Membership Appreciation Day
Set For Sunday, January 13
The Jewish Center's
"Membership Appreciation
Day,"~se't for .this Sunday,
Jan. ■ 13,- will offer Center
members an opportunity to
register for the Center's.-
.Winter .-Mini-Session. The
four weeks of programs
begin the week of Jan. 20,
and have been designed lo
help warm up the. cold winter
days and nights.    •
Featured on Jan. 13 wilfbe ,.
day-long   activities   and
demonstrations—the   Center's way of saying "thank-
you"  to its members for -
their continued and valued
support and involvement.
.   Membership Appreciation
Day    will    demonstrate,
through the wide array of ,
programs planned! that the
Center is still the best buy
for any and all leisure time
activities. Staff, committee
chairpersons''-'ahd ''officers'
will also be on Hand to meet
and receive" members' comments' or suggestions on all
aspects of ,the Center's program.
Whatever one's pleasure,
Center, members are .urged
to partake of the day-long
activities and demonstrations. According to Burt
Schildhouse, Vice-President
and Chairman of the Program Direction and Evaluation Committee, and'Dr. Al
Tyroler, Secretary and
Chairman of the Membership Committee, "January
13 is guaranteed to be free,
fun and fantastic for all
members of the Center family." .   '
U.S. Aid Offer Disappoints Israeli Officials
By Gil Sedan
and Yitzhak Shargil
JERUSALEM (JTA)-Is-
raeli officials expressed disappointment with the $200
. million in military sales
credits that President Carter
has agreed to add to the $3
billion aid package for Israel
over the next three years.
The White House announced
on Jan. 1 that the President
will seek Congressional approval of that sum. Israel
had requested a total of $3.4
billion in military and economic assistance for the
fiscal year 1981 which begins
next Oct. 1.
According to officials
here, the short-fall means
that military expenditures
.- will have to be reduced sub
stantially, and the government will be forced to implement even tougher eco; -
nomic- austerity measures
than l those already announced.
' Defense Minister Ezer
Weizman returned from
Washington Jan. 1, where he
had spent a week conferring
with President Carter,
Secretary of ,State Cyrus
Vance,  Defense Secretary
„ Harold Brown and other top
officials on the new aid package. According-to .reports,
top U.S. officials complained .
to Weizman about Israel's
West Bank settlement policy
and about the lack of progress in the autonomy talks.
;.„   -The   $3.4   billion   Israel
'sought, double its present
allocation, was expected to ■
cover the loss of purchasing
power of the U.S. dollar owing to inflation. Congress has,
already approved $2.2 billion
in military aid credits over
the next three years to help
Israel carry out the terms of
its peace treaty with Egypt,
including the redeployment
of its forces from Sinai to the,
Negev. Congress also approved $800 million in economic aid.
- The amount Israel will receive for fiscal 1981 will not
be knownjintil the Administration announces its budget
later this month. In announcing the additional $200 million for military purposes,
the White House said the increase "reflects our sympathy and concern for Is-
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By Maurice Samuelson
LONDON (JTA)-For Israel and the Jewish people
the 1970s were the decade of
trial and triumph. The Jewish State not only withstood a
sustained challenge to her
existence but finally
achieved peace with her biggest and most dangerous
neighbor. Despite all the
other dangers which still
confront her, therefore, she
enters the 1960s with a positive balance sheet.
- The two outstanding
events of the decade for Israel were the Yom Kippur
War in 1973 and Egypt's
President Anwar Sadat's
visit to Jerusalem in November, 1977. It was the Yom
Kippur War which gave
Egypt the assurance to negotiate with Israel. Yet the two
events belong to different
chapters in the history of the
Middle East.
War And Peace
The Yom Kippur War was
the climax of the Arab
world's military attempt to
vanquish Israel with Soviet
^support. ~TheJ-' pact*-,-with'
Egypt marks the start of her
acceptance as one of the
Middle East nations..
At the height of the Yom
Kippur War, and in the preceding years, Israel risked
not only war with the Arab
states but also with the Soviet Union. Only a-worldwide military alert by the
United States thwarted the
Soviet Union's plan to strike
against the Israeli. forces
- who had entered Egypt
proper after their counterattack across the .Suez
Canal.
Although most Soviet military advisers had -been
ousted from Egypt the year
before the Yom Kippur War,
Egypt's initial military successes were due largely to
the dense concentrations of
anti-aircraft missiles which
Russia had installed along
, the canal in breach of the
cease-fire which ended the
Suez war of attrition in the
summer of 1970.
In those- bitter summer
months of 1970, too, the Israel air force clashed with
Soviet aircraft as it struck at
strategic targets deep inside
Egypt. Many Israelis began
to compare their fate with
that of Finland which fought
a crippling war with Russia
on the eve of World War II.
However, a wider conflagration was averted and
while Israel < emerged
strengthened, the Soviet
Union finally lost her position of influence in Egypt,
which under Sadat's leadership, became a firm ally of
the United States,     '     .>.
Old And New Dangers
Nevertheless, the decade
saw the revival of old
dangers and the birth of new
ones. Terrorism became a
world-wide phenomenon in
which the Palestinians gave
a lead to many other disaffected groups. Hijacking became the nightmare of every
airline passenger. Its most
spectacular manifestation
,was in September, 1970 when
the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine captured three airliners and
blew them up on Dawson'sl
Field, an old RAF airstrip in
the Jordanian desert.
This prompted Jordan's
crushing of the Palestinian
terrorist movements and
created the "Black September" movement which
ushered,in a new spate of
world-wide terror, culminating in the massacre of Israel's athletes at the 1972
Munich Olympics. But from
this, too, Israel emerged
with a positive balance
sheet. Her protection of her
national  airline,   and  her
stunning rescue of captured
Israelis at Entebbe, Uganda,
in July, 1976, were shining
examples' of heroism to the
rest of the world.
World-Wide Anti-Semitism
The negative side of the Israeli balance was headed by'
the resurgence of world-wide
anti-Semitism, cloaked as
anti-Zionism, It was fueled
by the official creed of the
Soviet Union, as well as by a
rampant Islamic fanaticism,
which finally broke loose in
the Overthrow of the Shah of
Iran at the beginning of 1979.
In November, 1975, the General Assembly of the United
Nations passed a resolution
equating Zionism with racism and Nazism, the movement which had sent six million Jews to their deaths.
Chaim Herzog, Israel's
Ambassador at the UN, told
the General Assembly that
this episode would merely
strengthen Zionism while
weakening the United Nations.' It certainly did
strengthen the internal cohe-
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Harris Appointed Chairman
Of Newly Formed Committee
Ben Goodman, Chairman,
and Norman Meizlish, Vice
Chairman of the Columbus
Jewish Federation's Endowment Fund Committee, announce the appointment of
local attorney and community leader I. M. Harris
as Chairman of the newly
formed Legal and Ta.x Ad<-
visory Committee of the Endowment Fund.
This committee, which
will meet on Jan. 15, includes
attorneys, accountants and
others familiar with or interested in the legal and tax aspects inherent in charitable
giving. The group will;
'' • Act in a' consultative capacity to the Endowment
Fund on legal and tax matters;
• Serve as a vehicle for
disseminating information
and goodwill regarding the
Endowment program to the
legal and accounting professions' in the community;
• Provide self-education
on the various tax considerations in charitable giving.
In addition, Committee
members will speak to community groups, assist the
Federation's lay leadership
in understanding legal and
tax aspects of charitable giving and will be participants
in a panel to whom donors
without attorneys or accountants can be referred to
for guidance,
- . Lawyers and accountants
can and do play a critical
1. Al. Harris
role in the decisions of their
clients regarding estate,
planning, tax, family and
other matters which might
involve use of an Endowment program, according to
Harris. Their understanding
and friendly intefest in the
Federation's program can
be rrfbst beneficial: This interest displayed by lawyers
and - accountants can be
transmitted to other professionals in the community.
Members have the benefit
of exchange of current information and ideas which enhance their professional education to their benefit, as
well as their clients.-
A successful and active
Legal and Tax Advisory
Committee can be responsible for making substantial
charitable funds available to
the community which might
not otherwise be forthcoming, - Endowment' Fund
Chairman Goodman said.