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VOL.59   NO.9
FEBRUARY 26,1981-ADAR122
A group of Russian children, now living in Columbus,
- will sing in the Russian Festival and Fair, March 1 at
- the Jewish Center. Their program, entitled "From
Russia With Song" with feature,songs in Russian,
English, Yiddish and Flebrew. The children are being
coached by Sheila Batelman of the Jewish Family
,   Servicestaff. (PhotocrecM:LeoSchulman)
Russian Children To Sin
Activity is at a high pitch
in preparation for "A Celebration of Freedom," the
Russian Festival and Fair.
The Jewish Family Service
and Columbus' New Americans are putting the finishing touches on this exciting
event to be held at the Jewish Center, Sunday, March 1,
from 1-5 p.m.
There will be many high-
fights at the program. Dora
Lebensteinj concert pianist,
will make her Columbus
debut. In addition, the grand,
finale will consist of an ori-"
ginal children's- musical,
"From Russia With Songs."
- Folk dancing, soccer and
volleyball demonstrations as
S. Weiner Appointed Men's
ORT Annual Meeting Chairman
well as chess and Russian
Scrabble will be featured.
Other exhibits and booths
will include an art exhibit,
an immigration information
booth, children's activities
and food.
Stanley Yenkin, President
of the Jewish Family Service, described and complimented the "creativity and
hard work-of both the JFS
and Jewish Center staff in
helping this excellent event
to its fruition." ' . . >
.., PrK..,Car,l,..Y^iUejv„JFS."
Executive'Director, explained the excitement of "having
over 100 New Americans
participating in the program
in a voluntary capacity."
Samuel B. Weiner has.
been appointed chairman of
the annual meeting of Columbus Men's ORT, according to Elliot Grayson, the
organizations president. The
meeting will be held Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. at
the Governor's Mansion 350
N, Parkview Ave.
The Men's ORT Chapter's
gathering will feature David
Hermelin, vice president of
the American ORT Feder-
Samucl B. Weiner
ation and a prominent
Detroit and national com-,
munity leader, as keynote
speaker.
Grayson stated: "The last
year saw a renewed, energetic and rapidly expanding
Men's ORT putting its imprint on the community. We
have grown tremendqusly in
membership, -expanded.our
educational programs, and
most importantly established a large new community-wide constituency of
scholarships contributors to
the ORT worldwide technical colleges and schools
system."
Commenting on Weiner's
appointment, Grayson said:
"One of the most exciting
things we have seen in the
development of Columbus
Men's ORT over the past
years has been emergence of
a team of young men who
have pledged their energies,
talents and time to ORT.
This is most dramatically
illustrated in a delegation of
five couples that Columbus
Men's ORT sent to the National Conference of the
American ORT Federation
last month in New York
City."
"Sam Weiner, who
together with his wife, Fran,
attended the Conference, is
one of the men who has been
leading in the rapid growth
of the local chapter. As a
member of the executive
committee of our organization, he has been instrumental in developing new innovative programs,'* Grayson concluded.
For further information
concerning the annual meeting, call Jeffrey A. Paine at
-253-7269.'•    r
vich Receives Joyous Welcome
n Recent Arrival In Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)-Iosif
Mendelevich arrived in
Israel last week to a joyous
welcome from hundreds of
singing, dancing, cheering
people, including Cabinet
ministers who came to Ben
Gurion Airport to greet him.
The former Prisoner of Conscience, the last of the Jewish defendants at the' 1970
Leningrad hijack trial to be
freed, had spent 11 years in
Soviet prisons arid labor
camps. His unexpected
release electrified the
nation.
Premier Menachem Begin
hailed it as a great event for
the Jewish people, and Leon
Dulzin, chairman of the
World Zionist Organization
and Jewish Agency Execu-
tives( called his arrival here
"a. festival for the Jewish
people." He said Mendelevich had "suffered as an
.Orthodox Jew and as a Zionist. . . He embodies the very
essence of. the Zionist
struggle—not to surrender,
and tpjxiumph in the end."
A'frso'rptiofi'Minisfer David
Levy was on hand at the airport to personally present
Mendelevich with Immigrant Certificate No. 1 as he
stepped off the El Al plane
that brought him from
Vienna. The certificate is the
first of the new series now
issued by the Absorption
Ministry instead-of the Jewish Agency as was the case
in the past.
The 33-year-old Orthodox
Jew looked haggard from his -
long ordeal and the excitement attending his freedom.
Speaking fluent Hebrew, he
told the welcomers, "As you
greet me, so I greet you who
are here building this country. May we all continue to
observe the holy commandments enjoined on us by
God."
According to, his sister,
Rivka Dori of Gush Etzion,
who was at the airport to
meet him, Mendelevich insisted on walking from Ben
Gurion Airport to the West-
ern Wall in, Jerusalem—a
distance of some 40 miles,
mostly uphill. He said he had
studied maps while in prison
and thought the distance was
not too great. But friends
•and relatives deterred-him
from undertaking that feat.
He was persuaded to travel
by car to the outskirts of the
city and continued his pilgrimage from there on foot.
The   reasons   why   the
Soviet authorities decided to
release Mendelevich at" this
time—more than a year
before he was due to complete his 12-year sentence—and allow him to
leave for Israel, remained a
mystery. All Begin would
say, in a radio appearance
yesterday, was that the Israeli government received
hints two days earlier that he
might  soon  be  freed.   He
would not explain where the
hints came from or how the
release was achieved.
Levy told reporters at the
airport that many friendly
governments, organizations
and individuals had been
active in attempting to.
obtain freedom for Mendelevich but that much work
remained to be done to
secure the release of other
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Mixed Signals From Israel And U.S.
On Arms Equipment Sale To Saudis
WASHINGTON
(JTA)—Mixed signals
appear to be coming from Israel and from American
friends of Israel toward the
proposal that the U.S. deliver to Saudi Arabia additional fuel tanks and bomb
racks to enhance the combat
performance of the 60 F-15
jet fighters Saudi Arabia
was authorized to purchase
" herealmost th'ree:yeaYs'SgoV'
The issue is now under consideration by the Reagan
Administration.
Key Senators have voiced
protests against delivery of
the extra equipment on
grounds that it would upset
the Israeli-Arab military
balance and affect the security of the U.S. besides
repudiating the pledge made
by Defense Secretary Harold
Brown to the Senate in 1978
that the F-15s being sold to
Saudi Arabia would not be
given improved combat
capability.
In Jerusalem, however,
caution was expressed in the
past few days by Israel government officials and similarly in Washington by some
friends of Israel that the
Congress should not make
overt moves against the proposed delivery and thereby
create a confrontation with
the Reagan Administration,
which thus far has been
strongly supportive of Is
rael.   Ih   that   connection, nations conference in New
observers  noted the State Delhi,   which   called   for
.Department's- blast   this moves to deprive Israel of its
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Marion Feldman will perform at The Jewish Center
Community Orchestra  Annual  Winter Concert' on
"Feb. 28.
Marion Feldman To Perform
Agudas Aehim To Sponsor
Cantorial Concert March 29
On Sunday evening, March
29 at 7:30 p.m. the Agudas
Achim Cantorial Concert
will be held in conjunction
with the 100th Anniversary
celebration of the synagogue
and in honor of Jewish Music
Month.'
Cantor Yehuda Shifman of
Agudas Achim is directing
the program and will also be
one of the featured participants. The Agudas Achim
Choir will also participate. -
The Concert will also feature - the  Temple  Israel
Choir, directed by Carol
Maize and the Columbus Hebrew School Choir, directed
by Sunny Ghitman.
Cantors Neil Schwartz of
Tifereth Israel, Eldwin Red-
fern of Beth Jacob, Philip.
Wolf of Columbus and Sarit
Shifman, wife of Cantor Shifman will also star in this
first for Columbus.
This program will be an
annual event in different
synagogues and. temples
.each year. The Concert-is
free to the public.,.   -
A highlight of the forthcoming Annual Winter Concert of The Jewish Center
Community Orchestra at the
Center will be cellist Marion
Feldman's rendition of Max
Bruch's "Kol Nidrei" on
Saturday, Feb. 28. The concert is scheduled for 8:30
p.m.
Miss Feldman, the guest
soloist who is being brought
to Columbus for this event by
the Center's Cultural Arts
Department will also be
heard in the "Vionloncello
Concerto No. 1 in A Minor"
by Camille Saint-Saens.
Miss Feldman began combining her career as teacher
and performer upon graduation with a masters degree
as a scholarship student at
the Juilliard School of Music.
For three years she was a
member of the Princeton
Chamber Orchestra, as well
as playing with Musica
Aeterna, the New York City
Opera Orchestra and the Little Orchestra Society. Miss
Feldman has appeared in-
trio, quartette and quintette
recitals throughout the
Eastern part of the country.
In addition to heading the
Chamber Music Program at
the International String Conference, she appeared there
in concerts as well. The artist has been a featured performer in the Basically Bach
New York Series.
Praised for her rich sound
as well as her combination of
strong and sensitive playing,
Miss Feldman is now a
member of the New York
Lyric Arts Trio with which
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