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VOL.63   NO. 11
MARCH 14,1985-ADAR 21
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Reagan Administration Continues To Demand
ubstansive Economic Reforms From Israel
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Jewish Center will sponsor a Matzoh Bakery beginning
Sunday, March 24. Pictured above is Levi Capland, son
of Rabbi and Mrs. Chaim Capland.
Matzoh Bakery At Jewish Center
To Teach All Ages About Passover
The Israel/Judaic Department of the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center will be sponsoring a unique and fun way
to learn about Passover:
Matzoh Bakery.
Matzoh Bakery is designed
for people of all ages and is
an opportunity for everyone
to learn about how guarded
ishmurah) matzoh is made.
Not only will everyone learn
about this special type of
matzoh, everyone will be
able to eat a piece of matzoh
that they have made.
Chana   Capland,   chair
woman of the Matzoh
Bakery, has arranged for
two special bakers: one from
Miami and one from. New
York, to help people make
their matzoh.
Matzoh Bakery begins on
Sunday, March 24, and runs
through Friday, March 29. It
is open from 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 1
to 5 p.m. Friday. Group appointments are recommended. For more information,
" call Mindy Rose at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center,
231-2731.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
After meeting with Israeli
Finance Minister Yitzhak
Modai last week, Secretary
of State George Shultz reiterated the Reagan Administra-
tion's. position against
recommending economic aid
to Israel until it adopts further substantive economic
reforms.
Modai reportedly told
Shultz at their meeting that
Israel faced political constraints and had done all it
could to reform its economy
by introducing budget cuts
and instituting other austerity measures. But Shultz requested another meeting
with the Finance Minister.
An Israel Embassy official
said he expected this meeting would be an important
one.
Meanwhile, the Secretary
of State, in his testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said the Administration intends to hold back on
recommending a specific
level of economic aid "pending further discussion with
Israel and further evolution
of its stabilization program." The Administration,
Shultz said, had indicated its
"willingness to provide
extraordinary assistance in
support of a comprehensive
Israeli economic program
that deals effectively with
the fundamental imbalances
in the Israeli, economy."
Without such a program,
"additional U.S. assistance
would not resolve Israel's
economic problems but
merely help perpetuate
them," he said.
„   More Military Aid
Recommended
TheAdministration has recommended that Congress
approve $1.8 billion in military aid for Israel, an. increase of $400 million over
the amounts requested and
received from Congress last
year. But the Administration
has held back on submitting
a figure for economic aid for
the fiscal year 1986 budget.
Israel has requested $4.05
billion in aid altogether, as
well as an additional $800
million in emergency financing to be tacked on the budget for fiscal year 1985.
All in all, it has requested
emergency aid of $1.5 billion
that would extend over a
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Maceabiah Games
To Open July 15
TEL AVIV (WNS) - More
than 4,000 .Jewish athletes
will compete in 30 different
sports at the 12th Maceabiah
Games due to open at the
Ramat Gan Stadium on July
15, according to an announcement by the International Committee for the
Maccabi Games!
Some 3,400 of the record
4,200 participants will be
coming from abroad, one-
third of them from Latin
America. The U.S. contingent is expected to number
550, up from 372 at the last
games, and Australia, up
from 193 to about 300. New
entries this year will be from
Bermuda, Gibraltar and
Monaco.
Two new sports will be introduced at this international Jewish sports meet —
rugby football and high
diving. Other games which
were not included in the Los
Angeles Olympics will be
cricket, badminton, field
hockey, squash .and golf. - . .
Pictured at the Feb. 27 luncheon honoring Dr. B.B.
Caplan are (1. to r.) Rabbi Alan Ciner, Dr. Caplan, Bill
Goldsmith, Jimmy Crum and Gayle Caplan.
Dr. 61. Caplan Receives Eastside
Community Public Service Award
Dr. B.B. Caplan received
the First Annual Eastside
Community Public Service
Award at a luncheon at the
Athletic Club on Feb. 27.
The luncheon was sponsored by the eastside business community to recognize
individuals and businesses
which have" provided outstanding public service to
youth, according to Mark
< Herman,- co-chairman nf the
event. Proceeds from the
luncheon will benefit the Tri-
Creek District of the Central
Ohio Council Boy,Scouts of
America, which serves the
eastside community.
Dr, Caplan was selected
for the award because he has
devoted much of his life to
helping youth on both a local
and international basis, Herman explained.
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period of two years. All of
the Israeli aid is a grant.
Modai was to meet with
members of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee's
Subcommittee on Europe
and the Middle East. The
committee was expected to
begin consideration of the
annual foreign aid bill in one
week and the Administration
said it hopes to submit
precise figures for requested
economic aid to Israel before
then.
Mubarak Asks More Funds
The Congressional subcommittee hearings took
place less than a week before
President Hosni Mubarak of
Egypt arrived in Washington
with his own foreign aid requests. The Egyptian President has asked for a $1 billion economic aid package
for the 1985 fiscal year.
In his testimony, Shultz
referred only to the Adminis
tration's recommendation
for an .increase in Egyptian
military aid. He also maintained that the military aid
level requested for Israel
would help it keep its "qualitative edge over potential
adversaries in the region."
Summer To Chair
Temple Israel's
Annual Meeting
Raymond Wells, president
of Temple Israel, recently
announced that Fred Summer has been appointed
chairman of the 139th Annual Meeting of Temple Israel to be held Friday,
April 26.
Controversey Heats Up Over
Need For Conversion Ritual
For Ethiopian Jews In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The controversy over
whether the thousands of
Ethiopian Jews who have
just immigrated to Israel
must undergo "Lehumra" —
a form of conversion ritual—
was heightened recently
when Ashkenazic Chief
Rabbi Avraham Shapiro
sharply criticized two
former Chief Rabbis for
maintaining it was not
required. Shapiro said in an
interview published in the
religious daily Hatzofe that
he could not understand why
former Chief Rabbis Shlomo
Goren (Ashkenazic) and
Ovadia Yosef (Sephardic)
have reversed what he
claimed was their own longstanding positions on the
issue.
halacha — religious law.
The Council agreed that
the males need not undergo
bloodletting, symbolic of circumcision, inasmuch as all
Ethiopian Jews have been
circumcized. Goren and
Yosef, citing rabbinic sages
of the past, declared that the
Ethiopians are fully Jewish
and require no conversion,
symbolic or otherwise.
"As far as I know," Shapiro said, "the entire Torah
world is shocked by (Goren's
and Yosef's reversal) and
their determination that (the
"Ethiopians) are full Jews
without the need for any process whatsoever..."
The immigrants themselves say that having suffered so much in their native
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Fred Summer
In accepting the position,
Summer stated, "It is truly
an honor to chair Temple Israel's Annual Meeting given
that this year represents the
25th year in our present location. I expect our meeting to
be a very special one for all
involved."
Summer, a native of
Columbus, received his B.A.
from Harvard University
and his J.D. from the University of Michigan. He is
presently .an attorney in the
firm of Murphy, Young and
Smith.
Long active at the Temple,
Summer has served on the
Religious, Membership, He-
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According to Shapiro,, the
conversion requirement for
Ethiopian Jews was upheld
by all past Chief Rabbis of
Israel and is the universal
view of Torah scholars
abroad.
• Goren and Yosef, in separate public statements, have
disagreed with a recent
ruling by the ten-man Chief
Rabbinate Council which has
caused anger and distress
among the Ethiopian
emigres. The Council,' meeting under the chairmanship
of Shapiro and Sephardic
Chief Rabbi Mordechai
Eliahu, held that the newly
arrived Ethiopian Jews
must undergo ritual immersion and swear a formal
undertaking. to. abs.er.ve
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Activist Leaves USSR
NEW YORK (JTA) — Inna Brukchuun, virtually the only
Soviet Jewish activist to have received an exit visa in recent
months, arrived in Vienna last week, according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. She arrived with her husband
Dimitry Khazkin. Both were unofficial teachers of Judaism
in Moscow.      	
Festival Marking 225th Anniversary
Of British Jews To Begin This Month
LONDON (WNS) — A four-month festival marking the
225th anniversary of the founding of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews will begin this month. It will have a program of
about 60 events in London and in 12 other centers throughout
Britain and will culminate on June 4 at a reception at Hampton Court Palace to honor the Prince and Princess of Wales.
A major theme of the festival will be the 40th anniversary of
the ending of World War II.  .>
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