Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1983-01-20

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VOL.GJ   NO. 3
JANUARY 20,1983-SHEVAT 6
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B'nai B'rith
Ziosi Lodge
Rejuvenated
B'nai B'rith's rejuvenated
Zion Lodge has embarked on
three of its favorite projects,
Hillel, ADL and B'nai B'rith
Youth and now is seeking
active members to participate in these and other programs.
Interested persons, Lodge
members and their wives
are invited to attend Zion
Lodge's first meeting of the
year at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, 1125 College
Ave., Thursday, Jan. 20.
' Michael Kotzin, regional
director of ADL; Rabbi
Howard Alpert, OSU Hillel
director, and a representative from BB Youth in Columbus will be present to
furnish helpful ideas.
A new leadership committee has been formed, headed
by Dr. Marvin Zuravsky.
Spearheading a drive for
new members are Richard
Grundstein and Leo Wein-.
berg. Serving with these
men are Charles Weinstein,
Sol Zeldin, Ernest Stern, and
Richard Gurevitz, president.
IF I WERE A RICH MAN'
Korczak Foundation Established
AMSTERDAM (JTA)-A "Janus Korczak Foundation"
has been established in Holland to keep alive the memory of
the Polish Jewish educator and his ideals. Korczak, whose
real name was Henryk Goldszmit, was born in 1878 and died
in 1942 in the Nazi concentration camp to which he was deported from Warsaw along with 700 children of the Jewish
Orphanage in Warsaw which he headed. The Foundation
intends to publish translations of his books into Dutch and
promote an interest in his books on child welfare and education. 	
Wolf Foundation Prize Winners Named
- TEL AVIV (JTA)—Two American scientists are to be
awarded the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize for physics
for 1982, the Foundation announced last week. They are Prof.
.Leon Lederman, of the Fermi Laboratory of Chicago, and
Prof. Martin Perl of Stanford University, California. They
will be awarded the $100,000 prize by President Yitzhak
Navon at a ceremony in the Knesset in May for their independent experimental discoveries of unexpected new particles
establishing a third generation of the tiniest building forms of
matter inside the atom—quarks and leptons.
Jewish Youth To Be Dratted
Into W. German Army
BONN (JTA)—The West German army (Bundeswehr),
expecting a shortage of manpower over the next two years, is
re-examining a long-standing unofficial arrangement whereby Jewish young men of (military age have been exempted
from the draft for historical and political reasons. Jewish
leaders here have told young people that the issue could become a test of the Jewish community's will to be accepted as
A        . an integral part of West German society. Pressure is mount-
MOrCn Of DlltlGS    in£to treat al*recruits equallv and exceptions are no longer
tolerated.
Begins Jan. 23
1983 marks the 25th year
since the March of Dimes
turned its attention to the
problem of birth defects
after successfully conquering polio. Each year, tens of
thousands of volunteers have
asked friends and neighbors
to come to the aid of our unborn - and newborn. Some
quarter-million babies are
born each year with physical
or mental handicaps.
ul Upson Comes To Town
To Portray Tevye In 'Fiddler'
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
What's a nice Jewish boy
like Paul Lipson, a social
work student at the Ohio
State University during the
depression, doing with 15
wives and, at last count, 95
daughters?
He's setting a world's
record, of course—the
Guinness Book of World
Records title for having
played the role of Tevye in
Fiddler on the Roof 2,167
times. -
"The part and the play
have something important to say to Jews and
non-Jews alike."
Lipson, who played the
same role in New York for
two and a half years during
which time the musical
broke the record for the longest running play on Broadway, is in Columbus to portray Tevye again, this time
in the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center Gallery Players' production which opens in the
Roth/Resler Theater on Jan.
22 and runs through Feb. 13.
The veteran actor agreed
to visit Columbus for two
reasons. The first was sentimental. "The idea of dedicating a theater with a play I
have been associated with
for so many years was truly
lovely," he said, "and coming to Columbus is actually a
homecoming experience for
me." The Pittsfield, Mass.,
native is referring to his
years at O.S;U. and his association with the B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation, as caretaker and activities director; as youth activities director at Schonthal Center and
as a Sunday School teacher
at Temple Israel. He still has
many friends here. Also
during this time, he became
very   involved  in   theater,
SUPER SUNDAY '83 Sets $250,000 Goal
"Let's rediscover America
, . . the America whose rich
tradition of generosity began
by simple acts of neighbor
caring for neighbor."
President, Ronald Reagan
The Mothers March originated in 1950 in .Phoenix,
Ariz,  and continued as a
major fund-raising activity
for the March of Dimes after
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"A goal of $250,000 has
been set for SUPER SUNDAY '83," announced Dennis
Mellman, chairman of the
Jan. 23 Federation telephone
solicitation for pledges to the
1983 Federation Campaign
and the Israel Special Fund.
"More than 120 volunteers
will call their neighbors to
explain the dimension of
need among the people of Israel and among Jewish
communities of the world as
well as the local community
services which benefit from
the annual drive," Mellman
stated.
"The largest portion of the
dollars we raise in our community campaign goes "
directly to theJJnited Jewish
Appeal. These funds help
meet the health, welfare and
educational needs of the
people of Israel. They also
provide vital humanitarian
services for Jews in need
throughout the world," Mellman stated.
"Two organizations—the
Jewish Agency in Israel and
the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee
worldwide—carry out these
lifesaving, life-sustaining
functions," he explained.
"Our dollars also provide
needed assistance for many
of the national agencies that
perform vital functions on
behalf of the Jewish people,"
continued Mellman.
"jn our own community,
our campaign supports a
wide variety of local agencies, programs and services.
Each of us, or someone we
know, will be touched by the
services provided through
our Federation this year,"
he said.
According to Mellman,
"The calls we make will help
determine the quality of
Jewish life in this decade.
Moreover, in 1983, we will be
requesting a one-time gift to
the Israel Special Fund,"
Mellman declared.
"The Israel Special Fund_
Campaign  is  a  one-time
effort, launched by UJA to
help the Jewish Agency
maintain social service, welfare and educational programs endangered by the
enormous human cost of Israel's response to terrorism.
The Special Fund is the
American Jewish community's share of the cost of the
human support programs
and services which traditionally have been the responsibility of the Jewish Agency
but which the Agency could
no longer sustain when the
UJA/community campaigns
failed to provide adequate
funds   in   recent  years.
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Dennis Mellman, chairman of Super Sunday 1983, is
pictured at a recent Super Sunday planning session. '
Paul Lipson as Tevye '
directing Hillel Player's productions, beginning numerous local dramatic groups
and working, both as an entertainer "' and waiter/bus-
boy, in the Catskills during
summer vacation.
The second reason, according to Lipson was professional. "The idea of working with a community
players group sounded like
fun," he explained. Since arriving, he has found-the
company, which numbers 65,
extremely talented and is
especially enjoying working
with Harold Eisenstein,
Center Cultural Art director,
and Bill Bugh, choreographer and cast member, who
coincidentally, he worked
with on Broadway.
Although he has piayed the
role of Tevye hundreds and
hundreds of times, he never
tires of it, he said, because it
carries a Universal message.
"The part and the play have
somethfng important to say
to Jews and non-Jews alike,"
he pointed out. "They say,
'This is where we came
from. There is dignity and
integrity, even in hardship
and poverty,' "And while he
acknowledges this may be
the social worker in him
talking, he also feels that
"from an actor's point of
view, the part of Tevye is one
of the greatest roles ever
written."
He has played Tevye with
national, professional companies, in dinner theaters, in
summer stock. This is jthe
second time he is working
with a nonprofessional
group. Each, he said, offers
its own unique challenge and
special adjustments.- And
each is equally exciting. "I
simply love to do it," he
noted, and doubts he will
ever tire of the role.
- ". . . the part of Tevye
is one of the greatest
roles ever written."
He is impressed with the
dedication of Gallery
Players' members, who
volunteer their time to bring
live theater to the community, and thinks it would be
"nice jf this particular performance winds up being
special, especially since it is
the first in the new Jewish .
Center." He would also like
to see it prove that the Gallery Players are "commercially viable and self supporting."
Tickets for Fiddler on the
Roof can be purchased at the
Jewish Center, 231-2731. According- to Pam Klynn,
Drama Committee Chairwoman, good seats are still
available for most performances. Tickets, for
opening night are $17.50,
which includes a reception
with Lipson; Saturday evening performances are
$8.50; Sunday nights and
week nights are $7.50_ and
Sunday matinees are $6. Special discounts are available
for Center members, senior
citizens and students.
Jordan Edging Toward
Role In Peace Talks
JERUSALEM (JTA)-
Jordan appears to be edging
toward some sort of participation in peace talk.-, with
Israel. But it is moving with
extreme caution and, according to reports from Amman there is sharp disagreement between King Hussein
and Palestine Liberation
Organization chief Yasir
Arafat over the composition
of the delegation which presumably will speak for
Jordan and the Palestinians.
Hussein, meanwhile, is
trying to include Egypt- in
inter-Arab consultations
over a Jordanian role in the
yeace process. Hikmat Al
Masri, a resident of Nablus
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