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Pictured above (1. to r.) are Jamie Fox, Tracy
Schaeffer, David Weingarten, Rebecca Greene, Glenn
Tanenbaum and Stephanie Ellsley enjoying their new
indoor gym equipment at Temple Israel Preschool.
Temple Israel Preschool
Has New Gym Equipment
Temple Israel preschoolers are delighted with
their new indoor gyni;equip-
ment. Mrs.- Linda Hayon,,
-Director of the preschool, is
pleasedrto-announce .that the,-
new gym equipment was a
gift from Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Simons and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Zimmerman.
The school, located at 5419
E. Broad Street, operates,
five mornings a week with
children selecting either a
two, three or five day schedule. Mrs. Hayon states that
the new preschool plus, program, which offers the children" airoxtended day until \1
p.m. has been well received.
Anyone with children ages
two and one-half to five interested in obtaining more
information about the preschool may call Temple
Israel at 866-0010.
Washington Correspondent Of
Jerusalem Post To Speak
Wolf Blitzer, Washington
correspondent of "The Jerusalem Post," Israel's
English-language daily
newspaper, will be the guest
of the Columbus Jewish
Federation on Wednesday
evening, Feb. 11 and Thursday, Feb. 12.
Blitzer has been coyering
the Washington Foreign
policy scene since the 1973
Yom Kippur War. Since
then, he has met personally
Wolf Blitzer
with top American, Israeli
and Arab political leaders
and has written hundreds of
ee Jews Among 52 Former Hostages
ces Last Friday Night
NEW YORK (JTA)-The
three Jews among the 52 former American hostages released from Iran last Tuesday received spiritual ministrations from a U.S. Air
Force chaplain who conducted their first Sabbath'sery-'
ices in over 14 months in
Wiesbaden, West Germany,
last Friday night. -
According to the National
Jewish Welfare Board in
New York, Rabbi Joel
Schwartzman, who is stationed at the Ramstein Air
Force Base, flew to Wiesbaden to meet the returnees.
The Jewish returnees are
Barry Rosen, 36, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Jerry Plotkin, 45,
' of Sherman Oaks, Calif.; and
Malcolm Kalp; 42, of Fairfax, Va. Schwartzman described his meeting with
them in a telephone call to
Rabbi Joseph,'Messing,
director of the JWB's Armed
Forces, Veterans Services
and Jewish Chaplaincy corn-
articles on the Arab-Israeli
conflict.
He has been a frequent
commentator on national
and local television and
radio news programs. He
served as a special guest on
NBC's live telecast of Egyptian President Sadat's arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in
Israel in November 1977.
During the Camp David
Summit, he was interviewed
by Barbara Walters on the.
ABC evening news. He has
also appeared on ABC's
"Good Morning America,"
Public Broadcasting's
"McNeil-Lehrer Report"
and other programs.
Blitzer spent two weeks ui
Egypt in December 1$77,"
covering the first Israeli-
Egyptian peace conference.
.During his visit, he had a
chance to meet with leading
Egyptian governmental officials and other influential
Egyptians. In March 1979, he
accompanied President
Carter to Egypt and Israel
during the final round, of
negotiations which led to the
signing of the peace treaty.
Blitzer's first trip to Egypt
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missions, who sent him on
his mission.
His first act was to give the
three men the JWB's prayer
book and Bible, a necklace
with a Star of David and the'
JWB's. chaplaincy badge,
which also bears a Star of
David. "All three men are
wearing the JWB necklace
and Rosen is proudly wearing the chaplaincy badge,"
Schwartzman reported.
He joined a Protestant
, minister' and a Catholic
priest in an ecumenical serv-'
ice for all of the returnees
and conducted Friday night
services for Rosen, Plotkin
and Kalp and for Jewish
military personnel stationed
" in Wiesbaden.
Rosen, who was Press
Attache at the U.S. Embassy
. in Teheran when it was
seized by student revolutionaries Nov. 4, 1979, had
served with the Peace Corps
in Iran in the 1960s. The
Iranian  militants  had re-
ScootSabbath[Scheduledfor
ebruarj 13 At Temple Israel
The twelfth point of the
scout law says "A scout is
reverent." He is reverent toward G-d. He is faithful in
his religious duties and
respects the convictions of
others in matters of custom
and religion.
Scout Sabbath,., annually
sponsored by The- Jewish
Committee on Scouting, Central Ohio Council, will be
held on Friday, Feb. 13, at
Temple Israel, 5419 E. Broad
St. at 8 p.m. Rabbi Harvey
Goldman will officiate.
The highlight of the program will be the presentation of the Aleph Award and
the Shofar Award. Cub
Scouts, Seth Andrew Rozen,
Pack 279, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Mel Rozen; and Jeffrey
A. Gutter, Pack 126, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gutter will receive the Aleph
Awards.
This year's recipient of the
Shofar Award will be Marc
Lee Hall, Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 126, Marc is
associated with Knolls Realty Co., Bexley.
This year is the Bar Mitzvah Year for WUliam "BUI"
Goldsmith who is serving as
chairman of The Jewish
Committee on Scouting with
the help of Co-chairman San-
ford Lichtenstein. The most
important goal of the committee is to identify and inspire the youth with eternal
value of Torah and Jewish
tradition.
On the 71st anniversary of
the Boy,Scouts of America,
Marc Lee Hall
Chairman Goldsmith said,
"I am grateful for the opportunity given me to make a
small contribution whose
main purpose is to provide a
foundation of wholesome-
ness ' and good citizenship
ferred to him as a "famous
spy and plotter."
Plotkin, a businessman on
his first trip outside the U.S.,
arrived in Teheran in October, 1979, seeking business
opportunities and chanced to
be in the U.S. Embassy when
it was seized. He was born in
New York and has lived in
California for the past 18
years.
Kalp's duties at the Embassy are unknown. The
militants accused him of
being a CIA agent. He had
served in Vietnam. He told
his brother by telephone
after landing at Wiesbaden
that because of repeated attempts to escape, he was
beaten by his captors, kept
in solitary confinement for
five months and denied mail
from home.
Many of the former hostages suffered maltreatment
at the hands of the Iranians
but none apparently was
singled out because of his
Jewish origin. Schwartzman, a Reform rabbi from
Cincinnati, is one of 55 Jewish chaplains stationed at
U.S. military, naval and air
bases all over the world, the
JWB said.
D. Levi Appointed News Editor
For The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
announces the appointment
of .Diane H. Levi as Chronicle News Editor.
Mrs. Levi, a Bexley resident, joined - the Chronicle
staff in June, 1980. Her re-
. sponsibilities include-editing..
national and local news and .
publicity releases, news layout, and coordination of
advertising accounts. She is
also available to publicity
chairmen and advertisers
for consultation.
A graduate of Bexley High
School, Mrs. Levi attended
Ohio State University and
Columbus Business School.
She also has extensive bookkeeping experience.
She has worked as a Legal
Secretary for the Columbus
firm of Lucas, Prendergast,
Albright and Warren; an
Adminstrative Secretary for
a computer company in Atlanta, Ga.; and an Administrative News Editor for a
community newspaper in
Atlanta, Ga.
Diane has two children,
Lori, 14, a freshman at Bexley   High   School,   and
Diane H. Levi
Sammy, 11, in the fifth grade
at Cassingham Elementary
School. Her husband, Steven, is a salesman with Midwest Roofing and Furnace
Company.
An active Life Member of
B'nai B'rith Women, Mrs.
Levi is Expansion Chairman
of the BBW Council and a
charter member of Twin
Rivers Chapter. She is also a
member of Bexley ORT. She
and her husband and children are members of
Temple Israel.
William Goldsmith
with which boys and girls
may grow into moral and
ethical young men and
women."
The community is cordially invited to attend Scout
Sabbath Services.
Federenko Decision Hailed
NEW YORK (JTA)—Two major Jewish organizations
hailed the Supreme Court for-its 7-2 decision to revoke the
citizenship of Feodor Federenko, a former guard at the Tre-
blinka concentration camp in Poland during World War II,
who concealed his past when he entered the United States ih
1949 under the Displaced Persons Act and applied for citizenship in 1970 in New Haven, Conn.
USSR Urged To Free Shcharansty
WASHINGTON (JTA)-The International Committee for
the Release of Anatoly Shcharansky today, on the 33rd birthday of the Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Conscience, appealed to
the Soviet government to release him from prison and allow
him to emigrate to Israel and rejoin his wife, Anital, there.
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