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B. Zox Appointed
UJA Chairman
Benjamin L. Zox has been
appointed General Chairman of the 1981 United Jewish Fund Campaign. In
making the -announcement,
Federation President Myer
W. Mellman praised Zox for
Benjamin L. Zox
his, leadership ability displayed this past year when
he served as chairman of the"
Advance Gifts Division. • •
"Ben Zox is a truly dedicated member of our community who will meet the
.1981 .Can-jpaign challenge
1 head-on and "successfully: In "•
accepting this leadership
responsibility, he will need
the cooperation and help of
the members and leaders of
.our Jewish community,"
President Mellman said.
' The new General Campaign Chairman is a member of -the Federation's
Board of Trustees and has
previously served on the
Federation's Community
Relations Committee and on
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Minister To Visit Israel
TEL AVIV, Aug. 13 (JTA)-Jerzy Kuberski, Poland's Religious Affairs Minister and a member of the Communist
Party central'committee, will visit Israel next October. He
announced this officially to participants of the Fourth European Congress for Hebrew and Hebrew Culture now underway at Warsaw University, Kuberski made it clear that his
visit will be within the framework of his role as minister
heading the international, committee which is now at work
establishing a scientific institute to be named after Janusz
Korczak, the. famed Polish Jewish educator and doctor who
perished in the Holocaust. ( By Yitzhak Shargil)
Senior Centers Imperiled By Freeze
NEW YORK (JTA)-^More than half of the 15,000 older
persons in'the city's 120 senior centers affected by a job
freeze are Jews, according to Bernard Warach, executive
director of the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged
(JASA). ,. •      .•"',''.'•,•-,
Warach and Rabbi David Cohen, executive director of the
Metropolitan New York Coordinating. Council on Jewish
Poverty, said the job freeze threatens senior citizen centers
in New York. The freeze, which was put in place last October,
is> aimed at a Jobs for the Elderly program financed under
Title Xof the federal Comprehensive Employment and
Training Act (CETA),
Israel Rejects Offensive in UN
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 13 (JTA)-Ambassador Yehuda
Blum of Israel met with U.S.| Ambassador Donald McHenry
to "exchange views" and to discuss the upcoming session of
the Security Council on Jerusalem. Sources here said Blum
told McHenry that Israel categorically rejects the new offensive against Israel by the Islamic countries and the Palestine
'Liberation Wganization: The Islamic UN member states* are
requesting the Council meeting asAa~ response to the proclamation by. the Knesset that undivided Jerusalem is
Israel's capital. (By Yitzhak Rabi)
Muskie Blames Jerusalem Law
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (JTA)-Secretary of State
Edmund Muskie, in his latest remarks on Egyptian-Israeli
relations, blames Israel's Jerusalem law for the impasse in
the West Bank/Gaza autonomy talks but makes no mention
of Egyptian legislative measures and actions that preceded
the Knesset proclamation of the Jerusalem law on July 23.
The Egyptian Parliament on April 1 and July 1 adopted
measures establishing East Jerusalem as Arab'. Muskie implies that the Jerusalem law is meaningless insofar as the autonomy talks are concerned. ,  ' .(By Joseph Polakoff)
White House Refutes Fears
of Carter Pressuring Israel
By Philip Slomovitz
DETROIT, Aug. 14
(JTA)—Distressing assumptions; which have' escalated
into fears/that if President
Carter-is .reelected for a
second term he would have
no obligation to pursue the
policy of unrestrained
defense of Israel's security
and might yield to demands
Acclaimed Writer Elie Wiesel To Speak
. 4
Elie Wiesel is acclaimed
as one of the most gifted and
sensitive writers of our time,
and an outstanding voice for
the universal human conscience. His lectures are
recognized, as cultural
events, experiences of emotional depth and intellectual
challenge..
Columbusites will have the
rare opportunity to hear
Wieset speak at the Columbus Jewish Federation's 54th
Annual Meeting on Sunday,
Sept. 14 at Temple Israel,
when he presents the first
Abe I. Yenkin Memorial
Address.
The family of the late Abe
,1. Yenkin recently established a special memorial
funa in Abe's honor in order
to annually provide an outstanding speaker at Federation's Annual Meeting.
"... my mother, sistere
and I hope that the establishment of this fund will enable
the Federation to bring'to
our Annual Meeting
speakers of note who might
^otherwise no.t be -available.to.
Elie Wiesel
us ..." according to
Bernard K. Yenkin{ Abe's
son.
Wiesel is the recipient of
many honors, including National Jewish Book-Council
Awards in 1964 and 1973, the
Jewish Heritage Award for
Literature in 1966, and the
■ -1968   Prix   Medicis   for
"Beggar in Jerusalem.' \
The holder of honorary
■ doctrates from many
academic institutions,
Wiesel served until recently
as Distinguished Professor
for "pressures" upon Israel
to submit to enemy
demands, were emphatically refuted ih a statement
to The Detroit Jewish News
made in behalf of the President.
Jody Powell, Press Secre-"1
tary to the President, presented that refutation in an
extensive reply from the
White House to questions on
College of New York, and is
currently an Andrew Mellon
Professor of the Humanities
at Boston University. *
Any member of the Colum- J
bus Jewish Federation, a
contributor of $10 or more, is
invited to attend, Rhea
Kaplan, Chairperson for the
event, has announced.
The evening's format will
also include the election of
Federation officers and
board members, the presentation of the Therese Stern
Kahn Young, Leadership
Award, the presentation of
the Community Award of
Excellence, a tribute to the
1980  campaign   leadership
- and a reception. i
Set to begin at 7 p.m., this
year's Annual Meeting is
being planned so that the
maximum number of people
can be accommodated and
thus have the priviledge of
hearing Wiesel, Mrs. Kaplan.,
noted.
For further  information.
and to 'make' reservations
contact the Federation office
v.3W3WI>Slj».» t,u.t.*jjxs.t.',*.♦:•:
, "Once In A Generation Gala" Co-chairperson Irving
Schottenstein (top, 1. to r.) and Capital Campaign Associate Chairman Edwin Ellman are two men who have
not only made' substantial financial commitments to
The'New Jewish Center, but are also expressing their
personal dedication to the project b y spending endless
voluntary hours on the campaign. They are shown addressing the 400 Gala attendees. -
Gala participants included William Glick (at micro-
' phone) and in the foreground (bottom, 1. to r.) Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Weiler and Freidrich Bohm, whose architectural firm of Godwin-Bohm, NBBJ, designed the
'   proposed facility.
Center's Capital Campaign
A Total Community Effort
Everyone can help make
The New* Jewish Center a
reality ... from the youngest members ... to adult
participants ... to those in
the greater Columbus com--
munity.
With the success of the
recent "Once In A Generation Gala" when nearly $5
million was raised, plans for
. the New Center arc now in
the working drawings stage.
The involvement of every
Columbus Jewish family is
needed in order to complete -
the total$7.5 million drive.
Gifts of ajl sizes, once-in-a-
lifetime gifts,  made now,
■.MaJ^.*V$»#W*-&W8k*
Center conclude this vital
campaign and meet the goal
of a late fall groundbreaking: It is anticipated'that all
potential givers will be
reached within the next few
months through a variety of
methods: direct. contact,
telethons, mail-a-thons and
another major community
wide event.
Enthusiasm for giving has
been demonstrated throughout the drive by the general ■
community. A recent gift
from the Columbus law firm
of Vorys, Sater, Seymour
and Pease is one such
example. Center members
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this issue, raised primarily .
in the media and in some
Jewish ranks, by this editor
of The Detroit Jewish News.
In a letter to the President. I
wrote: "The predictions, if
the reports are to be treated
as justified and acceptable
prophecy, is that i981 will be .
a 'tough' year for Israel.
Some apply to such augury
the definition 'calamitous'.
"We are not dealing in
secrets. The media, keep
emphasizing that the .
general trend is to awajt
action on peace negotiations
until after-the Presidential
election. The contention is
that as of November 5 the
avenues will be opened for
pressure on Israel. It is not
necessary to define the term.
Pressure is assumed to
mean obstruction in Israel's
path against assuring the -
nation's guaranteed
security.
. "Egyptian spokesmen
have been quoted similiarly.
■ giving emphasis to the .view'
that biding time until after
the election will give you the
freedom to exert your influence. The intimation is
that as of November you will
be a free man to act firmly,
to deal with the Israel issue
without interference from
the pleadings that come in
behalf of Israel and from the .
friends and supporters of the
Jewish State ... What of
November 5 and, its .aftermath. Mr. President?"
In response to the letter.
Powell, replied:
Thank you for your recent
letter to President Carter
expressing your concern
over news media predictions
and unsubstantiated reports
that claim the year 1981.
after the Presidential election; will be a "tough" year
. for Israel and that President
Carter will be a free man to
"bear down" on our friend
and ally.
We regret that you lend so
much credence to these
reports and urge you to. once
again, review' the public
record and the words and ac-,
tions of President Carter.
In March.. 1978, he
repeated a pledge he has
never varied from; "We
have, a commitment to the
preservation of Israel as a
nation, to the security of Israel, the right of the Israeli
people who have suffered so
much to live in peace; that is
absolutely permanent' and
uhshakeable." The President has never wandered
from this commitment, and
heverwill. *
In his recent statement to
the   Democratic   Platform
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