Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1985-05-30

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VOL.63   NO.22
MAY30.1985-SIVAN10
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JCS Accepting
Registration For
Scout Retreat
The Jewish Committee on
Scouting (JCS) is how accepting-registration for the
Third Annual Jewish Scout
Retreat, to be held Friday,
June 5, to Sunday, June 7, at
Cartip Lazarus.
Jewish Boy and Girl
Scouts and adult leaders are'
invited to participate in this
week-end retreat. The $20
fee per person includes
transportation to and from
Camp Lazarus (pick-up at
the Jewish Center and Worthington Square); six kosher
meals (dinner Friday,
through lunch on Sunday)
and a specially designed
patch. Those attending the
Saturday only program will
pay a fee of $12, which includes lunch and dinner on
Saturday but no transportation.
Registration deadline is
Friday, May 31, and all interested adults and scouts
should contact Steve
Robeano, 237-7088; Jeff
Goldblatt, 475-1712, or Sandy
Lichtenstein, 231-2126.
The JCS sponsors annual
picnics, religious workshops
and other Jewish scouting
activities.  ',
B'nai B'rith International And
B'nai B'rith Women To Work
On 'Productive Partnership'
Pictured above are the incoming officers of Congregation Beth Tikvah (left to right) Carol Folkerth, past
president; Howard Fink, president; Evie Freeman,
secretary; Allan Samansky, vice president; Rabbi
Gary Huber; Neil Carron, treasurer. The new board is
in the bottom photo,
Beth Tikvah Elects Officers
At May 16 Annual Meeting
At its twenty-third Annual
Meeting, held on May 16,
Congregation Beth Tikvah
elected new officers and
members of its Board of Directors. These officers and
board  members  were  in-
Michele Levin To Receive
lettie R. Covel Scholarship
At Hebrew School Graduation
This year will mark the
twenty-second time the Bet-
tie R. Covel Scholarship will
be presented to a graduating
student of the Columbus Hebrew School. The winner for
this year-is Michele Levin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Levin: {
Established in 1963 by the .
Hebrew School PTA, with
the blessings of the family,
the award serves to memorialize a young woman who
worked for and dedicated
her life to the betterment of
Jewish education in Columbus and surrounding areas.
The award chosen to be
given in her name is a pair of
■ candlesticks, a major symbol in Jewish tradition.
The family maintains the
award to perpetuate the
memory of Mrs. Covel and
serve as a recognition to all
those who strive for a more
meaningful Jewish experience through the educational
process. The first recipient
in June, 1964, was Mitchell
Rofsky.
The award will be pre-,
sented by Gary'Af Covel, son
of the late Mrs. Covel, at the
graduation exercises which
will take place on Thursday,^
June 6, at-8.p.m., 2767 E.
Broad St., in the Agudas
Achim - Social  Hall.   Rela
tives, friends and the general community are invited
to attend.
Jewish Center Plans
'Happy Birthday' Lunch
For All Senior Adults
"Happy Birthday" to
senior adults born in the
month of June is the theme
for the Sunday lunch to be
held at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center on June 2.
In addition to a full deli
lunch, participants will have
the opportunity to honor
those persons having a birthday in June. Any senior in
the community is eligible to
be honored and families of
birthday celebrants are welcome to join in the festivities. A special Yiddish musical program will provide the
afternoon's entertainment.
Donations for lunch will be
accepted for those over 60
and the cost is $2.50 for per-,
sons under 60. Transportation is 50 cents. Contact
Rose Nayman for reservations and transportation arrangements or the N.I.CE.
-site. Interested persons are
encouraged  to  call  im-
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.vested at a special Installation Shabbat Torah Service
led by Rabbi Gary Huber. Its
theme was the message of
leadership found in the
Torah and commentaries.
Elected president was
Prof. Howard Fink of The
Ohio State University College of Law. Prof. Fink is
also a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Columbus
Jewish Federation and past
president of the Board of
Trustees of the Ohio State
University B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation.
Other officers will be:
Allan Samansky, vice president; Evie Freeman, secretary and Neil Carron,
treasurer. Board members
include: Carol Folkerth, immediate past president;
Rabbi Gary Huber; Don Sylvan; Herb Mirels; Bruce
Zwilling; Martha Kincheloe;
Patti Fertel; Lou Pomer-
antz; Ina Mayer; Steve
Feldman and Judith Nestel.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Agreement on a joint process by which B'nai B'rith
Women (BBW) and B'nai
B'rith International (BBI)
will seek means for a "productive partnership," announced last week, has apparently ended BBW plans to
quit BBI and set up an independent organization.
In a joint statement, Bev-
verly Davis, BBW president,
and Gerald Kraft, BBI president, said the two agencies
were starting a joint planning process "to explore alternatives that may be available for women and men in
.the B'nai B'rith family" to -
provide them the opportunity "for individual identity and agenda, and the
sharing of responsibility,
programs and projects."
The proposal had been approved by the BBI Board of
Governors and the BBW
Executive Board.
A lengthy series of charges
and counter-charges followed disclosure of plans by
the BBI to consider at its
next convention admission of
women presently mainly-
male chapters, which the
BBW treated as an attempt
to weaken the BBW and a
threat to its programs.
After meetings on_May 8
and May 9, officers of the
BBW and BBI agreed to
name a special joint committee to examine possibilities
of a relationship acceptable
to both groups. The committee will make a preliminary
report to the governing
bodies of BBW and BBI,by
next December, with a final
report by next February.
BBW said it had rescinded
a resolution calling for separation from BBI, cancelled
the rest of a series of "town
hall" meetings to explain the
impasse and postponed its
special delegate assembly,
scheduled for June, at which
the separation resolution
had been expected to be approved.
Robins Nominated To
Serve Second Term As
Heritage Village President
Sylvia C. Schecter, chairwoman of the Heritage Village Nominating Committee, announced that
Louis Robins had been nominated to serve a second term
as the president of Heritage
Village. The election and installation of the president,
all officers and members of.
the Boards of Heritage Village, Heritage Tower and
the Geriatric Service Organization will be held at the
24th Heritage Village Annual
Meeting on Sunday, June 23,
at 1:30 p.m.
Louis Robins
Keynote speaker for the'
Annual Meeting will be
84-year-old Congressman
Claude Pepper, the nation's
foremost advocate of the
rights of seniors.
Robins  has  served  as
Beth Shalom To Hold Dual Graduation
For Religious School, Soviet Children
On May 31 at 8 p.m., Temple Beth Shalom will hold a
dual graduation service for
students of the Beth Shalom
Religious School and for Soviet children of the same age
who are unable to practice
their faith.
The students in Marcie
Golden's sixth and seventh
grade class experienced a
taste of what Jews must go
through in order to leave the
U.S.S.R. They took part in a
simulation exercise called
"Exodus" which was
created by Elissa Blaser.
In this simulation, each
student had the identity of a
Soviet Jew. He or she then
had to go to the Visa office,
, the Moscow Bank, the Swedish Embassy, the.KJ-G.B.
and an underground Jewish
organization to try to leave.
Only one of the seven was
successful. The unanimous
' comment of the students following the simulation was,
"I was frustrated!"
The purpose of this
exercise was to develop
understanding of the plight
of Soviet Jews.
The following week, Alex
Zelner of Worthington (origi
nally from Moscow) spoke to
the class about his experiences in leaving the Soviet
Union six years ago.
The final program in this
.involvement with Soviet
Jewry is the proxy graduation. Each of the Beth Shalom students has been paired
with a Soviet Refusenik
youth for whom he or she
will graduate. Seth Wein-
baum will graduate for Yuri
Varnak of Kiev; Rebecca
Duvall will graduate for
Inna Leiderman of Kish-'
inev; Jason Dowell for Olga
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chairman or member of
every major committee of
the Heritage Village Board
of Trustees. As chairman of
the Robins Beverage Group,
he is also active in other_as-
pects of community life, including serving on the National Committee for ORT,
past president of ORT and
past advance gift chairman
for the United Jewish Fund.
He and his wife Sara have
three sons — Stanton, Gary
and Gregg—all of whom are
^active members of the Columbus Jewish community.
The importance of the "We
Are Their Children" Heritage House Expansion Program has been designated
Robins' top priority during
this previous year.
Nominated to serve as vice
presidents for Heritage Village are Sol Morton Isaac
and Elliott Grayson. Robert
Glick, Bella Wexner and
Harry Schwartz will continue in their current two-
year terms as vice presidents. Also nominated to
serve as^officers are Pearl
Polster as secretary, Shirlee
Levitin as assistant secretary, Alan Weiler as
treasurer and Irving Barkan
as associate treasurer.
Sanford Goldston has accepted the nomination to
continue as president of Heritage Tower for a second
two-year term. Goldston
played a vital role in the
original planning for Heritage Tower, its construction
and the award winning
programs that are now part
of the way of life for the
Tower's 115 residents.
Nominated to serve as vice
president for Heritage
Tower is Eleanor Resler",
with David Roth and David
Levison continuing their
current terms as vice presidents, Also nominated to
serve as officers for Heritage Tower for the next two-
year term is Sylvia Schecter
as treasurer and Alvin
Solove as associate treasurer. '
An • amendment to the
Heritage Village by-laws in-
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