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VOL.62 .NO. 16
APRIL19.1984-NISAN17
Devoted to American
And Jewish ideals
freshmen Members
Of U.S. House Urge
Soviets To Allow
Jews To Emigrate
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Freshmen members of the
House have urged Soviet
leader Konstantin Chernen-
ko to allow Jews and others
to emigrate as a positive gesture for the beginning of his
tenure in office.
"As members of the 98th
Congressional Class for Soviet Jewry, we are writing to
urge that you begin your
tenure in office with an important humanitarian gesture: reversing the Soviet
policy of repression and harassment of Soviet Jews and
iall other-minorities and allowing those who want to
emigrate to do so," the Congressmen said in a letter to.
Chernenko.
"We hope that under the
new Soviet leadership,
U.S.-Soviet relations will enter a new period of trust," the
letter said.
Rep. Mel Levine (D.
Calif.), co-chairman of the
group made up of 77 of the 81
first term members of the
House, said he hoped the
change of leadership in the
USSR would bring about a
change- of policy toward
Jews.
Black Muslim Leader Extols Hitler
Morris Skilken, president of Heritage Village, and
the Village's first lady, Eleanor Resler, are holding the
Eleanor and Jack Resler "Life With Dignity" Award
plaque.
Nominations Being Accepted
For Annual Heritage Village
'Life With Dignity' Award
"Nominations for Heritage Village's most prestigious honor—the Eleanor
and Jack Resler 'Life With
Dignity' ■ Award—are now
being accepted." says Dr.
Dorothy Rubenstein, chairwoman of this year's
Eleanor and  Jack  Resler
Dr. Jeremy Cohen To Speak
At Yom HaShoah Service
29 At Tifereth Israel
April
A memorial service dedicated to the remembrance of
all victims of the Holocaust
will be held at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, April 29, at Congregation Tifereth Israel, 1354 E.
Broad St. The service is
planned to coincide with Yom
Hashoah day, which is
marked in communities
across the nation as a time to
remember Holocaust victims.
Dr. Jeremy Cohen, Samuel and Esther Melton Chair
of Jewish History and Jewish Studies and associate
professor of history at Ohio
State University, will be the
keynote speaker, Dr, Cohen
will address "Conquering
the Moment of Tragedy," an
explanation of how Jews
have historically withstood
catastrophic experience to
emerge looking forward to
the future.
Dr. Cohen is the recipient
of numerous fellowships and
awards. He was graduated
as valedictorian from Columbia College of Columbia
University and he holds M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees in history
from Cornell University. Dr.
Cohen was a John Jay National. Scholar and a New
York State, Regents' Scholar.
while an undergraduate. In
1983, he won the National
Jewish .Book Award for a
work of scholarship.
"Life With Dignity" Award
Selection Committee. Louis
Robins is serving as co-
chairman of the committee.
-Presentation of the award -
will be a highlight of this
year's Heritage Village
Annual Meeting.
Dr. Rubenstein explained
that the award, named for
the major benefactors of
Heritage House, was created
in 1977 to annually recognize
outstanding individuals of
the community who demonstrate exemplary commitment and concern for the
residents of Heritage
Village. Previous recipients
of the award include Sylvia
Schecter, Don Erkis, Sol
Morton Isaac, Morris Skilken, Sol Zell and Charlotte
Mentser.
Written nominations may
be forwarded to Dr. Rubenstein at Heritage House, 1151
College Ave. The deadline
for receipt of all nominations
is Friday, April 27.
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Controversy boiled anew last
week over Black Muslim
leader Louis Farrakhan, a
leading supporter of Rev.
Jesse Jackson, who confirmed that he had acclaimed Hitler as a "very
great man" who "rose Germany up from nothing."
Farrakhan, who heads the
Nation of Islam group,
offered his assessment of the
Fuhrer in a March 11 nationwide radio broadcast. It was
largely overlooked then because in the same broadcast
he urged Blacks to ostracize
a Black reporter, Milton
Coleman, who disclosed in
The Washington Post that
Jackson had referred to
Jews as "Hymies" and to
New York City as "Hymie-
town."
"Hitler Was a Very Great.
Man"
The Chicago Tribune
quoted Farrakhan, in. his
March 11 broadcast as saying: "Here, the Jews don't
like Farrakhan, so they call
him Hitler. Well, that's a
good name.  Hitler was  a
very great man. He wasn't
great for me as a Black person, but he was a great German, and he rose Germany
up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of
Europe and America after
the first world war.
"Now, I'm not proud of
Hitler's evils against the
Jewish people. But that's a
matter of record. He rose
Germany up from nothing.
Well, in a sense you -could
say there's a similarity in
that we're rising our people
up from nothing. But don't
compare me with your
wicked killers."
Subsequent threats
against Jews if they harmed
Jackson and against the
physical safety of Coleman
and his family, propelled
Farrakhan into national
prominence because of his
close association with Jackson's campaign for the
Democratic Presidential
nomination. Jackson has dissociated himself from Far-
rakhan's remarks but has
refused to reject his support.
Two Jewish  leaders  de-
Local Hospitals Visited By
Beth Jacob Mitzvah Mobile
Pictured above are members of the Beth Jacob
Youth Group N.C.S.Y. Central East Region as they
prepare for visiting the local hospitals bringing matzoh
to Jewish patients. Left to right are Liz Szames, president; Sheri Vinar; Lawrence Bihsky; Cheryl Goldmeier; Susie Kent; Brent Levison; Mary Mager; Staci
Gutter and Penina Capland.
Arens Accuses Egypt Of Preparing To Violate Israeli-Egyptian Treaty
Dr. Jeremy Cohen
The memorial service is
sponsored, under the leadership of Columbus Board of
Rabbis President David
Stavsky, by: Agudas Achim,
Ahavas Sholom, Beth' Am,
Beth Jacob, Beth Shalom,
Beth Tikvah, Ohio State University Hillel, Tifereth Israel
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TEL AVIV (JTA) —Israel
Defense Minister Moshe
Arens accused Egypt last
week of preparing to violate
the military terms of the
Israeli-Egyptian peace
treaty. He claimed in a radio
interview that Egypt is
building a military infrastructure in Sinai sufficient
for an entire field army.
Arens said that while the
military annex to the 1979
peace treaty does not define
the limits of the infrastruc
ture Egypt can build in
SinaiN it limits Egyptian
troop * deployment on the
peninsula to a single division. According to Arens, the
Egyptians are building facilities for an army of at least
four divisions.
He said Israel feared that
Egypt would soon be capable
of the rapid deployment of
more troops than are
allowed in Sinai under the
treaty. Arens, who opposed
both   the  Camp  David
accords and the peace treaty
with Egypt when he was, at
the time, chairman of the
Knesset's Foreign Affairs
and Security Committee,
complained about the state
of Egypt's relations with
Israel.
Israel did not give up the
entire Sinai "merely to have
an Egyptian Ambassador in
Tel Aviv for only three
years, up to when he was
"withdrawn ih 1982," the
Defense   Minister  said.
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HAPPY PASSOVER
from the Ohio Jewish Chronicle '
nounced the Black Muslim .
leader for extolling Hitler
and urged Jackson again to
repudiate Farrakhan. Rabbi
Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations,
said, "Mr. Farrakhan has
placed a storm cloud over
Jesse Jackson's rainbow
coalition, and the result is a
dark and deeply disturbing
shadow over the American :
political scene."
Schindler added, "I pray
that Rev. Jackson will use
this latest wild and irresponsible statement by his supporter, Louis Farrakhan to
at last publicly dissociate
himself from Mr. Farrakhan
and the dangerous demagogy he represents."
Julius Berman, chairman
of the Conference of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations; said:
"If Mr. Farrakhan plans to
do for the Black people what
Hitler did for the German
people, he is an even greater
menace to our country, to
American Blacks and to the
cause of racial justice and
racial amity than he has already shown himself to be.
"Calling Hitler a 'great
man'   —  even   'wickedly
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Governor Celeste
To Participate In
May 3 Ceremony
Governor Richard F.
Celeste will participate in
the 1984. Ohio Days of
Remembrance Ceremony, to
memorialize the victims of
the Holocaust, at noon,
Thursday, May 3, in the
Statehouse Rotunda,
The ecumenical program
will be convened by the
Youngstown Area Jewish
Federation. It will include a
proclamation presentation
by the governor and a
memorial candlelighting
ceremony by children and
grandchildren of Holocaust
victims.
Rep. Lee Fisher will
moderate the program.
Representatives of Jewish
community organizations
' across Ohio are scheduled to
participate.
The week of April 29-May 5
has been proclaimed by
Governor Celeste as "Days
of Remembrance" in Ohio.
Actor Ben Bonus
Dead At Age 63
NEW YORK (JTA)-Ben
Bonus, who made his reputation in the Yiddish theater as .
an actor and a producer,
died recently in Miami at the
age of 63. Death was at-
. tributed to a, heart attack.