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!«bbi Berman Elected Presided
)f Columbus Board Of Rabbis
Rabbi Harold J. Berman.
of Congregation Tifereth
Israel has been elected
President of The Columbus
Board of Rabbis for
1981-1982. Also elected were
Rabbi Robert Levy of
Temple Israel, Vice President, and Rabbi David Stavsky of Congregation Beth
Jacob, Secretary-Treasurer.
Rabbi Berman served as
Vice President of the Board
of Rabbis during the 1980-81
year. He succeeds Rabbi
IJIarvin Possick of Congrega-
* tion Ahavas Sholom.
Rabbi Berman has served
Congregation Tifereth Israel -
since coming to Columbus in
August, 1979. He also serves
on the Board of Trustees of
the Jewish Family Service,
The- Jewish Center and
' Heritage House. He' is a
member of the Executive
Committee of the Columbus
Jewish Federation's Community Relations Committee
and serves as. co-chairman
of its Interfaith Task Force,
A native of Paterson, N.J.*,
Rabbi Berman graduated
with honors from Rutgers
University, where he was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
He holds a master's degree
and rabbinic ordination from
the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
Before c'oming to Columbus,
Rabbi Berman served pul-.
pits in Benton Harbor,
Mich., and Ridgefield Park,
N.J. Rabbi Berman has also .
served as editor of "Judaism
in Social Action," a newsletter of the Joint Commission
on Social Action of the
United Synagogues of America. For a number of years
he has been involved in community * relations activities
and in special programs for
the training of rabbis and for
providing rabbinic internship experiences. His biography is listed in Who's Who
in World Jewry and Who's (
Who in American Jewry.
Rabbi Harold J. Berman
The Columbus Board of
Rabbis coordinates information and activities among the
congregation rabbis of Columbus. Other members of
the Board of Rabbis include
Rabbi Howard Apothaker,
Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman,
Rabbi Harvey S. Goldman,
Rabbi Roger C. Klein, Rabbi
Samuel W. Rubenstein and
Rabbi Sheldon W. Switkin.
BONN (JTA)-West German authorities, thoroughly
alarmed by the prospects of
escalating rightwing
violence, have begun to take
sterner measures against
neo-Nazi groups and activists, some of whom have
been linked to the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
The latest manifestation of
the tougher attitude was the
announcement last week
that four neo-Nazis • have
been accused by the federal
prosecutor in Stuttgart of
organizing a terrorist group
active against Jews and
foreigners. v At the same
time, the ruling Social
Democratic  Party   (SPD)
has moved to tighten legislation barring neo-Nazi
propaganda.
Meanwhile, further details'
of the long-known link between the outlawed Wehrs-
portsgruppe Hoffmann and
the PLO were published last
week in the Bonner Rundschau. The neo-Nazi organization, headed by Karl Heinz
Hoffman, was banned last
year after its masquerade as
a sports club was exposed:
According to the newspaper,
Hoffman and his female
friend, Franziska Brinkman,
led a group of 16 persons who
spent time at a PLO installation south of Beirut last year
to receive training in ter-
Is .For Tbha isA¥ Appeal-
Seyman L. Stern, president of the Temple Israel
Congregation, would like to
extend a special invitation to
the entire community to
attend services on Friday,
The Jewish National Fund
is calling the attention of the
community to a special
Tisha B'Av appeal, the anniversary of the destruction of
the Temples. This year, the
JNF is once again thrust into
a role of urgent responsibility. This high priority
appeal for funds is to replant
and restore more than 200
acres of Galilee destroyed in.
recent days by forest fires
resulting from PLO shell-
ings.
Dr. Samuel I. Cohen,
Executive Vice-President of
the Jewish National Fund,
issued the appeal following
reports from Jsrael that estimate damage to woodlands
and. orchards in northern
Galilee at several million
• dollars. Numerous export
1 fruit crops have been consumed by the fires.
"In recent days," Dr.'
Cohen said, "forest '< fires
have been breaking out
along Israel's northern Galilee border causing- widespread damage and forcing
JNF fire-fighting brigades
and spotter planes to operate
around the clock under barrages of deadly shelling
from terrorist organizations
across the Lebanese
border."
Dr. Cohen said the JNF
would undertake re-afforestation activity as soon as
practicable. "Naturally," he
said, "this will add an
unforeseen burden to the
JNF budget, and extra funds
are sorely needed to complete this vital work of
rebuilding, replanting and.
restoring the ravaged land."
Of the more than 100,000
trees destroyed in the forest
fires, many thousands were
planted by kibbutz settlers 30
years ago as living memorials to victims of the Nazi
Holocaust. The trees have
preserved the soil of northern Galilee by preventing
erosion and creating- the
necessary ecological systems for wildlife habitation.
Tax-deductible contributions may be mailed to the
Jewish National Fund of Columbus, 2700 £. Main St., Columbus -43209. The Jewish
National Fund is the agency
responsible for afforestation
and land reclamation in the
Land of Israel.
cantor, Alane S. Katzew.
There will be a special Oneg
Shabbat immediately following services to honor Cantor
"Katzew. Cantor Katzew begins her duties at Temple
* Israel where she-wUlpartici-
pate in services, assist with
Bar Mitzvah and Confirmation students, help with children's services, youth choir,
religious school teacher
training and various other
Temple programs.
Alane has just been invested as Cantor at the HUC-
JIR School of Sacred Music
in NY. She is a native of
Detroit and attended the
University  of Michigan,
Cantor Alane Katzew
Aug. 7, 8 p.m. to worship
with the Temple Israel family and welcome their new
C1C Supports Exfeltston
The Community Relations
Committee (CRC) of the Columbus Jewish Federation
recently adopted a resolution in favor of the extension
of the Voting Rights Act of
1965. Ira O. Kane, chairman
of the CRC, reported that the
CRC's decision in support of
the Act's extension came as
a result of the effectiveness
of that piece of legislation.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
has been hailed as one of the
most important pieces of
civil rights legislation, enabling minorities to participate fully in the electoral
process by eliminating discriminatory practices. The
Act, originally enacted in
-1965, was extended last in
1975 for seven years and is
due to expire unless Congress once again extends its
provisions.
The Community Relations
Committee in announcing its
support of the Act's extension joins with many other
Jewish organizations in
favor of the extension,
including the ADL, American Jewish Congress and
National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council. •
Mr. Kane encouraged members of the CRC and Jewish
community of Columbus to
express their support of the
Voting Rights Act to their
local Congressmen and
Senators.
Irv Flox, chairman of the
'Columbus Jewish Center
Sports Hall of Fame, is
proud t6 announce the 1981
selections for the Hall of
Fame. The inductees are Dr.
Sol Maggied and the late Joe
Zimmerman, Leo Yassenoff
and Mose Solomon. Dr. Maggied is currently a physician
in West Jefferson, Ohio.
The event will .take place
Sunday, Oct. 4, and .will
focus strictly on the outstanding  accomplishments
The Israel/Judaic Department of The Jewish Center
and the Community Relations Committee of The Columbus Jewish Federation
announce a special program
entitled "Journey to Jerusalem: The Survivors
Meet,"* to be held at The
Jewish Center, 1125 College
Avenue, Thursday, August 6,
at 8:00 p.m. Participating in
the discussion will.be-Mys;
and Mrs. Max Grinblatt,
Mrs. Ann Rubin, Mr. and
many Cracking Down On
etivists
rorist tactics and the use of '
firearms.
The paper reported that
three members of the group,
including 21-year-old Kai
Uwe Bergmann,. found
conditions at the camp
intolerable and tried to
' escape. They were captured
and tortured by Hoffmann
and his cohorts. They managed to escape again in /
September, 1980, the Bonner
Rundschau said, and were
given flight tickets back to
Germany by the German
Embassy in Beirut. But as
they boarded the plane, they
were seized by PLO guards
and taken back to the training camp.
In June, 1981;- the Bonn
Foreign Ministry made a
deal with the PLO to allow
the three to return to West
Germany where they gave
the press a full account of
their experiences. According
to the newspaper, the three
warned that a major terrorist raid was planned for
Augustr1881. _       __,'",
CBG Calls For Action
1 SdHtransky's
Anatoly Scharansky, the
Soviet- Jewish activist-
imprisoned in- the- Soviet
Union, is in very poor health
according to reports from t
the press service of" the'
National Conference on ;
Soviet Jewry. Mrs. Karen. -
Moss, co-chairwoman of the.
Israel and Overseas Jewry
Task. Force of the CRC
reports that Scharansky is
suffering from heart trouble
and is almost completely
blind. She further says that
observers fear that Scharan-
sky's poor health- and the
fact that he.is in prison will
only complicate his already
deteriorating condition. •
. Mrs. Moss brought this
situation to the attention of
the Community Relations
Committee at its most recent
meeting. The CRC drafted a
telegram to President Reagan asking that he intercede
on Scharansky's behalf in
order to win his release from
prison and permission to
emigrate to Israel. The telegram was issued through the
CRC's Mailgram Bank.
Moss encouraged €RC
members and residents of
the community to continue
writing the President and
their Congressional delegation urging them to do all
they can to save Scharansky's life, For more information j>ir Scharansky- and ad-
.dre?ses to write to, contact
ihe CRC at 237-7686.
where she sang in the Festival Choir, performed in concerts in Ann Arbor, with the
Detroit Symphony and during the choir's European
tour. A scholarship from the
: School -of Sacred Music gave'
her the opportunity to serve
as Assistant Cantor at the
HUC-JIR Jerusalem School.
She was the first woman to
lead a religious service in
Israel.
Cantor Katzew-was married this year to Jan Katzew,
a rabbinic student at Hebrew
Union College in Cincinnati.
Alane will be commuting
from Cincinnati on -week-,
ends.
I
and talents of the Hall of-
Famers. John Gordon,
WTVN Sports Director, will
again serve as master of
ceremonies, and Sid Gillman, one of the greatest pro- -
fessional football coaches of
all time, will be the guest
speaker.
A complete story on all the
, inductees and guests - will
appear in future issues of the
Chronicle. For additional
information, contact Flox or
David Valinsky at the
Center.
Holocaust Survivor Program Sot, Aug.
Mrs. Alfred Tibor, Mr. Abe
Weinrib, and Mrs. Rose
Burke, who recently
attended the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in
Jerusalem.'They will relate
their experiences at the
Gathering, which ranged
from reunions with old
friends to an address by
Prime Minister Menachem
Begin at.the, Western Wall.
• FA*' more information,
* please caH-1._8cy Lewis M-
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