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Foundation Sabbath
To Be Observed At
Temple Israel April 8
Friday, April 8,-at 8 p.m.,
Temple Israel will observe
the annual Foundation Sabbath. Special recognition
will be given to those members who have contributed to
the Temple's endowment
program during the past
year. Foundation president
Robert A. Glick will present
honorary certificates to 27
inductees of the Rabbi's
Round Table.
Guest speaker will be Troy
Feibel, whose foresight and
leadership led to the establishment of the Foundation.
Feibel is a lifetime member
of Temple Israel, having
served as its president from
1964-1966. He received the
Brotherhood's "Temple Man
of the Year" Award in 1965
and is currently a member of
the Foundation's Advisory
Board. Feibel, a partner in
the law firm of Guren, Mer-
ritt, Feibel, Sogg and Cohen,
is a Temple Life Member.
The Foundation Board, of
Trustees extend an invitation, to the entire Temple Israel family and friends.
Chaim Herzog Elected Israel's
Sixth President By Secret Ballot
Hebrew School Students
Plaee In Bible Contest
Four Columbus Hebrew School students (standing, 1.
to r.) Carl Wasserman, Steven Kapetansky and Stacy
Leemanand (seated) Andrew Hertzoff hold the Certificates For Distinction they received from the National
Bible Contest Committee for their participation in the
District Bible Contest that was held on March 6. Two of
the participants, Steven Kapetansky and Carl Wasserman, the district top winners, advanced and will compete in the National Finals in New York City on May 15.
• * The students are Jutbred by Dr. David Salczer ,■ director
of CHS (standing right);
Professor Jacob Neusner Selected Recipient
Of 1983 Distinguished Humanitarian Award
The Melton Center for
Jewish Studies at the Ohio
State University has
selected Dr. Jacob Neusner
as the recipient of its 1983
Distinguished Humanitarian
Award.
Dr. Neusner, professor
and Ungerleider Distinguished Scholar of Judaic
Studies at Brown University,
is an authority on the history
of Judaism. He has published many works on the
Talmud, the Mishnah, the
Pharisaic tradition and
other Rabbinic texts.
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Professor Jacob Neusner
His five-volume History of
the Jews in Babylonia was
the first full scale work in
over 50 years about the place
and conditions that gave rise
to the Babylonian Talmud.
Other works by Dr. Neusner
include a 12-volume History
of the Mishnaic Law of Purities and three volumes on
1 The  Rabbinic  Traditions
about the Pharisees before
70. Born in Hartford, Conn.,
Dr. Neusner studied at Harvard College and Columbia
University. He also received
training and ordination from
The Jewish Theological
Seminary of America. He
has served on the Faculties
of Columbia University, the
University of Wisconsin;
Dartmouth College and
Br6wn University. In 1974,
he was awarded the University Medal for Excellence
from Columbia University
and has received other
honorary degrees and
awards from universities in
the United States and
Europe.
A scholar and historian,
Professor Neusner has not
only devoted his career tore-
search and teaching but also
to furthering the goals of
Jewish Studies programs
around the world. He is a
founding member of the
Association for Jewish
Studies; past President of
the American Academy of
Religion; an active member
of the National Council for
the Humanities and holder of
numerous positions in inter-
national religious and Jewish studies associations.
The ceremony will be held
on Sunday, April 17, at 8 p.m,
at the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow. Professor Neusner
will speak on "Professors or
Curators? Universities or
Museums? The Case ofJew~
ish Studies." The community is invited to attend.
R.S.V.P. by calling 422-0967.
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Chaim Herzog, the Labor
Alignment's candidate, was,
elected Israel's sixth President by secret ballot in the
Knesset last week. His defeat of the coalition candidate, Supreme Court Justice
Menachem Elon, by a vote of
61-57, and two abstentions,
was a stunning political setback for Premier Menachem
Begin's government.
Sources within the coalition itself called for the government's resignation because it was clear that Her-
zog's victory was the result
of defections within the,
coalition's Knesset faction.
Herzog, who will be sworn
into office on May 5, succeeding President Yitzhak
Navon, pledged after his
election that as President he
would strive for greater
unity in Israel and would devote himself totally to serving and representing the
entire nation regardless of
political affiliation. He also
expressed his "hope" that
"during my term we shall
reach peace with our neighbors."
Cries Of "Traitor"
Although political pundits
had predicted a close vote
and even the possibility of an
upset, it was generally be-
eral congregations. He has
been active in many inter-
faith and community organi-
Holocaust Remembrance Day
To Be Marked With Service
At Agudas Achim Synagogi
The Jewish community of
Columbus will join together
to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah)
by holding a memorial service on Sunday, April 10, at 7
p.m. at Agudas Achim Synagogue, 2767 E. Broad St.
Rabbi Abraham Feffer,
spiritual leader of Beth EI
congregation in Akron, will
be the guest speaker. His
topic will be "What of the
Holocaust, Why of the Holocaust and What Can We Do
Today?" Special emphasis
will be focused on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising since
this April marks the 40th
anniversary of the uprising.
Rabbi Feffer was one of five
representatives sent to Warsaw to commemorate the
25th anniversary of the fighting.
Born in Poland, Rabbi
Feffer is a survivor of both
Auschwitz and Dachau. He
has published numerous articles on the Holocaust.
Rabbi  Feffer  came  to
Akron from Canada where
1 he served as rabbi for sev-
Rabbi Abraham Feffer
zations. Additionally, Rabbi
Feffer has taught on the
faculty of the Jewish Teachers Seminary and Peoples
University in New York City.
He has also worked to reunite Jewish children with
relatives they were separated from during World
War II.
The Columbus community
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lieved that Elon would
emerge victorious to become
the first Israeli President
since Chaim Weizmann not
affiliated with the Labor
Party. That belief was based
on the conviction that Likud
MKs felt it was time Israel
had a President who was the
choice of the governing
party, not the; opposition.
The coalition musters a
total of 64 votes in the Knesset. The margin of Herzog's
victory indicated that seven
coalition MKs failed to vote
for the government's candidate. This brought cries of
"traitor" from the Agudat
Israel Party which strongly
backed Elon, himself an :
Orthodox Jew and an authority on religious law.
Begin Visibly Shocked
Begin was visibly shocked
when Knesset Speaker
Menachem Savidor announced the results of the
vote. He left the Knesset
chamber without personally
congratulating the victor.
But later Begin and Elon
separately telephoned Herzog to offer their congratulations and good wishes.
The blow to the coalition
and to Begin personally was
compounded by the fact that
this was the second time during a Likud administration
that the ruling party failed to
elect its own Presidential
candidate. Retiring President Navon was a Labor MK
before his election five years
ago. He had served in the
Knesset from 1974-77 when
-premier Yitzhak Rabin's
Labor-led coalition governed
the country.
Begin and his coalition
floor managers hald a dour
post-mortem after the
voting. "What happened is
very saddening but that is
our democracy and now we
must congratulate the
elected President," Begin
said. Most coalition members conceded that it was
virtually impossible to find
out which of their colleagues
defected because of the
secret ballot.
But at least one Herat MK,
David Magen, infuriated by
the "betrayal," warned in a
radio interview that it would
not take long for the truth to
be known. There are members of the coalition, he said,
who will "now walk with an
unclean conscience." Magen
added that he thought highly
of Herzog personally but the
issue was the "trampling" of
coalition discipline.
Labor Party chairman
Shimon Peres was among
the first to congratulate Herzog. "This is a great day for
the Knesset. The vote was
not dictated by party consid
erations," he said.
Elon, the defeated candidate, told reporters after the
vote that he was "proud of
the democratic process" and
wished every success to the
President-elect and his wife,
Ora.
But coalition chairman
Avraham Shapiro of the
Agudat Israel, charged that
there were seven "traitors"
and the coalition will have to
be careful in the future to
"know whom we are sitting
withl" He said, however,
that he was a long-time personal friend of Herzog
though he voted for Elon who
he knew and respected for
"over 30 years."
Another Agudat Israel
Knesset leader, Finance
Committee chairman
Shlomo Lorincz, urged the
government to resign because of defections within its
ranks. Education Minister
Zevulun Hammer of the National Religious Party, did
not rule out the possibility
that the election results
would impel the government
to resign. Although the NRP
is opposed to early elections,
Hammer said it could not
continue to object if the
political situation requires
it*
Herzog, 64, is a former
Ambassador to the United
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Rabbl Samuel Rubenstein
Rabbi Rubenstein
To Be Honored
At Tribute Dinner
Rabbi Samuel W. Rubenstein will be honored at a
Tribute Dinner on Sunday,
May 15, at the Agudas Achim
Synagogue at 6:30 p.m.
After having served the
Agudas Achim and the Columbus community since
June 1949, Rabbi Rubenstein
recently retired. The May 15
dinner will afford the congregation and the community the opportunity to recognize the accomplishments of
his 34 years of spiritual leadership
Invitations will be issued
shortly.