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VOL.59   NO.35
AUGUST 27,198I-AV 27
Columbu
Selects
The Co]umbus Men's
Chapter of American ORT
Federation announced the
selection of Rabbi Samuel
W. Rubenstein as its.Man 6f
the Year. Rabbi Rubenstein
will be honored at ORT's
Scholarship. Dinner on October 18,, at Winding Hollow
Country Club.
Rabbi Rubenstein is the
spiritual leader of .the
Agudas Achim Synagogue,
2767 E. Broad St., Bexley.
He is the senior Rabbi of >
Columbus, having assumed
his present position in June,
1949. Agudas Achim,.one of
the largest Orthodox pulpits
in the midwest, has a membership of 850 families.
Agudas Achim Congregation
is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year, being
founded in 1881.
Rabbi Rubenstein received his B.A. and his ordination from Yeshiva University in New York City. He
has done graduate work at
Ohio. State .University, Capital University, and has completed all his credits-for, a'
doctorate at Yeshiva Univer-.
sity. His major is in Biblical
Exegesis and American
Jewish History.
Prior to his coming to
Columbus,  Rabbi  Rubenstein served the Beth Israel
Congregation of Charleston,
South  Carolina  and   the
Mt. Sinai  Congregation  of
Cheyenne, Wyoming. During
World War II, he served as a .
civilian chaplain at Fort
Francis  E.  Warren,
Cheyenne, Wyoming and the
Casper Air Base in Wyoming. He also organized and
served as President of the
National Council of Christians and Jews of Wyoming.
Rabbi Rubenstein is Vice
President of the Ohio Region
of  Rabbinical   Council  of
America, and a Vice President of the Rabbinical Alumni of Yeshiva University. He
was  co-chairman of the
"Interfaith Conference on
Race and Religion" held in
1986, which was sponsored
by  the  Columbus  Synagogues, the Catholic Diocese
, of Columbus, and the Columbus Area Council of Churches. Rabbi Rubenstein was
acknowledged as  having
made the most valuable contribution to the effectiveness
and success of the conference involving hundreds of
people of all faiths. He has
also received many awards
, and citations from the local
Kiwanis Club, Lions?. Club,
Sertoma, Masons, arid'Opti-
mist Organizations, Rabbi
Rubenstein has served as
President of the Columbus
Board of Rabbis on several
occasions.
Rabbi Rubenstein is vitally concerned with Jewish
and non-Jewish communal
causes. He was an executive
board member of the United
Appeals of Columbus, Ohio,
and served on the Mayor's
Transportation Committee.
He was Chaplain of Friendship Lodge No. 9, Ancient
Free Masons—Charleston,
S.C.
In June 1970, Rabbi Rubenstein was an official delegate
of the United States Government to the 32nd Session of
the International conference on Public Education
(U.N.E.S.C.O.) held in
Geneva, Switzerland.
In addition to serving his
Congregation, Rabbi Rubenstein was/or is a member of
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Rabbi Samuel W.
Rubenstein
the Board of Trustees of the
following organizations:
Hillel .Advisory Board, Boy
Scouts of America—Columbus Chapter, Columbus
Hebrew School, Jewish Center, Welfare Federation,
Jewish Home for the
Aged—Heritage House,
Zionist District, Community
Chest,' United Appeals,
O.R.T. and Israel Bonds. In
addition, he was one of the
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JERUSALEM (JTA)-
The Jewish Agency announced last week a new
plan designed to drastically
reduce the dropout rate of
Jews leaving the Soviet
Union. The plan calls for
reducing the number of Jews
who will get assistance if
they decide to settle in the
United States.
Under the new arrangement, HIAS and the Joint
Distribution Committee, the
agencies which handle
Soviet Jews on their way to
the U.S. will.take care only
of those who have parents,
children or spouses injhe
U.S. The others will come to
Israel with the help of the
Jewish Agency—or be on
d To Combat
Disorder That Strikes Ashkenaie Jew
NEW YORK (JTA)-Re-
search efforts are underway
to combat Gaucher's disease, a little known .progressive and as yet incurable inherited genetic disorder that
strikes approximately one in
every 2,500 Ashkenazi Jews,
according to Marilyn' Bau-
mel, press manager, at the
department of public affairs
for Mount Sinai Medical
Center here.
An estimated one in every
25 Jewish people are otherwise healthy carriers of the
recessive disease-causing
gene. When two carriers
have children, there is a one
in four chance that a child
will receive the" recessive «
gene from each1 parent required to cause the disease.
In the New, York metropolitan area alone, more than
1,000 Ashkenazi Jews suffer
fom Gaucher's, „ and over -■
120,000 are carriers of the
Gaucher gene.
Patients with Gaucher's
disease la-ck sufficient
amounts of glucocerebro-
side, an enzyme needed to
break dovyn and eliminate a
Joyce* Zacks, chairman, leads a planning committee
meeting for the Sept. 20 Columbus Jewish Federation's
55th Annual Meeting.
The entire Columbus Jewish Community is invited to a
family celebration at Congregation Beth Tikvah for
the 55th Annual Meeting of
the .Columbus Jewish
Federation on Sunday evening, Sept.-20. A theme of
American Jewish Community "and. the Jewish Family
will be developed at Columbus' most recently built tem-
< pie. Its northside location expands the borders of the
Greater Columbus Jewish
Community which reflects
the scope of Federation's
concerns. •■•; p ■"; -
Bernard K. Yenkin, President of the Columbus Jewish.
Federation expresses his
opinion that the feeling of
family and strong sense of
cohimunity are. evidenced
both in the Temple's warm
architectural design and its
friendly atmosphere. Joyce
L. Zacks, Annual Meeting
Chairman, stated, "This, our
55th Annual Meeting, will be
a family get-together, a celebration where the geographic branches of our Jewish family meet and learn to
know each other. Come join
US." .-...;,.
particular fatty substance in
cells. The result is a rapid
proliferation "of abnormal
blood' cells containing "the
fatty substance; which ac- "
cumulate within the spleen,
liver, bone marrow and lung
causing symptoms which include anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, abnormal biood clotting and
bone pain and. fractures,
Baumelsaid. I
Research is currently being conducted to develop
methods to identify carriers
and strategies to treat the
disease. One approach now
seeks to inject a supplemental amount of the enzyme, glucocerebrosidase,
obtained from human placenta, into the body to replace the missing enzyme,
according to Dr. Robert Des-
.nick, director of Mount
Sinai's Center for Jewish
Genetic Diseases.
Desnick explained, however,* that the isolation and
purification of this enzyme is
a difficult and highly technical problem. To date, the
preliminary-trials of enzyme
replacement have not proved convincingly effective. A
number of hurdles need to be
overcome.
Baumel described the two
types of Gaucher's disease.
Patients with Type I, the
"Jewish genetic disease,"
may display a wide variety
of, symptoms and symptom
severity. Some of these patients may live fairly normal
lives, while others die of the
disease in their tee^s or during early adulthood. The infantile form of Gaucher's, or
Type 2, is severe. It strikes
at four to six months of age
and causes death within two
years,; according to Baumel.
their own in Europe.
Speaking at a press conference here, Leon Dulzin,
chairman of the Jewish
Agency Executive,
declared: "A Jew who
comes, wherever he comes,
if he wants help, has to be
helped. If a,Soviet Jew will
come tomorrow to Cleveland, he is a Jew, and if he
needs help he should be
helped. But I don't have to
help him get there. My duty
is to help him come to
Israel.".
The new measures end a
long period of deliberations
on the issue. If Dulzin had his
way, he said last week' he
would have taken those measures a year and a half ago
and thus cut down.the growing rate of dropouts—which
reached 80 percent last
month.
Last year HIAS and the
JDC,accepted the compromise suggested by Premier
Menachem Begin, which
stipulated ~ that the two
"Organizations would only aid
' those whose, first degree
relatives live in the U.S. But
the compromise was turned
down by the communities in
the U.S., Dulzin said. The
new measures were therefore a unilateral step, with
the Jewish Agency imposing
its will on those who support
assistance to Jews—whether
they go to Israel or to the
U.S. In an effort to appease
the American Jewish community, Dulzin went especially to the U.S. this week
and informed local Jewish
leaders of the decision.
He met with JDC president
Henry Taub, JDC executive
vice president Ralph Goldman, HIAS president Edwin
Shapiro, and HIAS executive
vice president Leonard
Seidenman and asked for the
"understanding" of both
organizations and their cooperation. "I am sure they
understood our stand and
hope that there will be
cooperation," Dulzin told.the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency".
He. also met  with Max
Fisher, the chairman of the.
Jewish   Agency  Board .of
Governors, who, Dulzin said.   .
"expressed  reservations
about the timing and suggested that action be. post-
poned until after the Jewish.
Agency General Assembly"..
- which ?opens" in Jerusalem
Aug. 28; Howard Squadron,
chairman of jthe Conference
of  Presidents of  Major
American Jewish Organiza-.
tions;   Edgar   Bronfman,
president of the World Jewish  Congress;   Theodore
Mann, chairman of the N'a-
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Alan Kina To Headline
im 'Night Out'
Agu
On Thursday evening,
Sept. 10 at 6:30 at the Sheraton Hotel, headliner Alan
King will present his Las
Vegas Revue at the "Night
Out With The Stars" sponsored by the Sisterhood and
Brotherhood of the Agudas
Achim Congregation.
This year's event is in conjunction with the Congregation's 100th Anniversary and
a gala evening is planned
from an open bar, full course
dinner, a Las Vegas Revue
and comedian Alan King.
Ticket sales are going well
and an attendance of over
1,000 people is expected.
For reservation, call the
Alan King
synagogue  at  237-274".
Tickets are $100 a couple
($50 for a single).