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VOL.59   NO;48
NOVEMBER 19,1981-CHESHVAN 22
Devoted to American
and Jewish id. Ms.
Icrah Ae©d@mv Dinner
Torah Academy's annual
Scholarship Dinner will take
place on Sunday evening,
Nov. 22, 6:30 p.m. at The
Sheraton-Columbus.
Following a gourmet dinner, the guests will be entertained by Miss Elinor Ross,
world-renowned soprano.
The program will be a combination of popular songs
from well-known broadway
musicals, Yiddish and
.Israeli music, as well as
some opera.
The seventh grade class
will perform a skit created
by Mrs. Marcia Hershfield.
Reservations for this gala
event may still be made by
calling Mrs. Zelda Hirsch at
239-8775, or Mrs. Carole
Schwartz at 861-2450. Silver
tickets are $70 per couple
and gold are $125.
SAYS PUN IS 'STEP SIDEWARD,' WOT FORWARD
an A Tactieal Switch
Biased Practice To End -
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)-The publisher of California
Christian Yellow Pages telephone directories, which limited
advertisers to "born again" Christians, has signed a court-
approved agreement to cease the discriminatory practice, it
was disclosed by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
Condemns Evangelical light
NEW YORK (JTA)—The American Jewish Congress has
issued a Strong condemnation of the evangelical right for using religion as an instrument of political coercion and has
pledged to oppose the movement on many of its domestic
policies and practices.
Druckman Resigns
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Rabbi Haim Druckman, the ultra-
hawkish National Religious Party Knesset member,-who
recently took up residence in Yamit,. has announced'his
resignation as Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs.
Offer Community Mini-Course
O.S.U.'s Melton Center for
Jewish Studies is offering a
special three-session community  mini-course  titled
'"Great  Modern Jewish
Writers.!'" The mini-course
will  be  held  Wednesday
evenings Dec. 2,-9 _rtid~16-
from  7:30-9  p.m.   at  the
. Jewish Center, and will consider what some of the most
outstanding Jewish writers
of recent years say about
key problems of modern
Jewish life. The mini-course
also provides all members of.
the Columbus Jewish Community with an opportunity
to learn with an O.S.U. professor who is an expert in the
field of Jewish literature.
Mini-course instructor,
Gila Ramras-Rauch, is Professor of Judaic and Near
Eastern Languages and
Literatures at the Ohio State
University, and a specialist
in Modern Hebrew and European literature, Israeli-born,
Ramras-Rauch has nearly 20
years of teaching experience
and is the author of two
books and numerous
scholarly articles. Most
recently, she organized the
first major academic conference ever held on the
topic of Women in Jewish
Culture.
Session one of the mini-
course is titled "Exile as a
Modern . Experience" and
deals with Franz
Kafka—father of much of
modern . literature, S, Y.
Agnon—Israeli winner of the
Nobel Prfee for Literature
and Isaac Bashevis
Singer—the' most' recent
Professor Gila
Ramras-Rauch
Jewish Nobel Laureate. The
writers deal with the pain of
modern people who feel
isolated from family, friends
and community.
Session two' is- titled
"Experience on the Edge of
Destruction: The Holocaust" and deals with
Aharon Appelfeld, Yehuda
Amichai and Sholem Asch,
each of whom lived through
the Holocaust. These writers
all discuss the Nazis' attempt to dehumanize the
Jews and how, in impossible
circumstances, Jews,
managed  to  keep  their
humanity.
Session three is • titled
"Israelis and Arabs in
Modern Hebrew Literature"
and deals with S. Yizhar and
A. B. Yehoshua, two prominent Israeli writers. They all
discuss what Israelis think
about the Arabs and about
. themselves and describe the
hard realities of life in a
state surrounded by
enemies.
O.S.U.'s Melton Center for
Jewish Studies encourages
all interested members of
the Columbus Jewish Community to register for this
mini-course. Registration
cost is $10, and the minimum
number of registrants required is 10 persons.
Registration deadline is
Wednesday, Nov. 25.
For more information, call
the Melton Center for Jewish
Studies at 422-0967.    .
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
Moshe Arens, chairman of
the Knesset Foreign Affairs
and Security Committee,
declared here last week that
Saudi Arabia's eight-point
peace plan was unacceptable because it was aimed at
the "dismemberment of
Israel."
Arens, who heads a six-
member Knesset delegation
sent to the U.S. to oppose the
plan proposed by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd,
emerged from an hour-long
meeting at the White House
to say that the Saudi plan
was not a "little step" forward as one newspaper
headline quoted him as saying, but a "step sideward."
. He said the plan, was a
tactical switch by the Saudis
which was in a way more
dangerous to Israel because
it. gave Riyadh the appearance of being moderate.
Arens, who conceded that he
spoke by telephone to
Premier Menachem Begin in
Jerusalem, said Begin
understood that he had been,
misquoted after the Knesset;
delegation met for 90
/minutes with Secretary of
State Alexander Haig.
At that time, Arens said
that Fahd's seventh point,
which calls for all countries
in the region to live in peace,
seemed to go "just a little
way" toward recognition of
Israel. But he stressed that
the Saudis still have a "long
way".to go in order to join
the Middle East peace process. He said to do this they
would have to show a willingness ' to negotiate directly
with Israel and "learn how
to pronounce the name of
Israel."  Fahd's  seventh
point does not mention Israel
directly but speaks of "the
countries of the region."
While making these
remarks, Arens denied that
he was at odds with Begin,
who has rejected the plan
totally, calling it a means for
Israel's liquidation in stages.
Arens saidthe plan included
demands and conditions
which are "totally unacceptable to Israel.'rWhile he did
not list them, the Fahd plan
calls for Israel's complete
withdrawal to its pre-1967
borders and the establishment of a Palestinian state
with East Jerusalem as its
capital.
After the Knesset group's
meeting with White House
Counsellor Edwin Meese and
National Security Advisor
Richard Allen, Arens said he
rejects the Fahd plan com
pletely and denied he had
seen some good in it. At the
same time, he stressed that
Israel is willing to have
"direct negotiations" with
the Saudis at any time either
in Israel or Saudi Arabia.
Arens said that in the
group's talks with Administration officials it was
"clear" that there is a difference between Israel and the
U.S. on the Saiidi plan. He
said the Knesset group,
which includes three Likud
members and three members of the opposition Labor
Alignment, explained
Israel's position to the
American officials and expressed concern about what
they perceived as a change
in the U.S. attitude in recent
weeks. He did not elaborate
on this.
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to.Host
Nov. 23
.. Tzavta. .-Club and .the,
Jewish Center Will' host
Robert Slater, author of
Golda,   The  Uncrowned
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Robert Slater
Queen of IsraeT: A Pictorial
'Biography, Monday, Nov.. _3,-
' 7:30 p.m. at the Center. The"
program is being held in
cooperation with Dor Hem-
shecb, the Young Leadership
Division of the World Zionist
' Organization, and the
Midwest Region Zionist
Federation.
Slater will present a discussion and pictorial review
of the life of Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir as well
as a discussion of the current
political situation in Israel
and the Middle East.
Slater is currently the
editor of Newsview, Israel's
only English language news
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CoSurrcbu
eraiien Announces
I
Melvin L, Schottenstein,
1982 UJFC Chairman, announced the appointment of
Lawrence D. Schaffer as
Chairman and Diane Cummins as Vice Chairman of
the Dec. 13 Spirit of '82 Celebration. In making his announcement, * he indicated
that "two skilled and dedicated Columbus Jewish
Federation leaders will,
launch' a most exciting and
important- community
event: one in which every,
family in Columbus is invited to join, together- in, a
spirit of unity and", friendship.        *
."There will be an introduc
tion of leadership and displays by all of the Federation  beneficiary   agencies
make this "Dec. 13 Jewish
Community event one of
great importance." -
Lawrence   Schaffer   has
long been active in Jewish
Lawrence Schaffer
and many of the Jewish community organizations."
Schottenstein referred to the
credentials of both Chairman and Vice Chairman as
the kind of skilled and committed individuals that will
Diane Cummins
community activities. They
include; President of Hillel
Building Corporation, past
International President of
Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity,
former. Chairman  of  the
Committee  on   College, -,$
Youth and Faculty of the   ,
Council of Jewish Federations. He was* also 1964kCo-   •
Recipient ,of  the  Therese
Stern Kahn Award and is
presently the Secretary of
the   Board- of   Trustees,
Columbus  Jewish  Federa- '"
tion. A Columbus businessman, Schaffer is President'
of Town Homes, Inc.-and
Chairman of, the American
Bank Corporation.
Schaffer will bring his
understanding of the Columbus community and his
technical   and  supervising
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