Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1985-08-22

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VOL.63   NO.34
AUGUST 22,1985-ELUL 5
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Education Secretary Urged To Abandon
His 'Efforts To Subvert' Separation Of
Church, State In American Education
Federation Leadership Attends
Regional Conference In Chicago
r Columbus Jewish Federation leadership attended a
recent UJA Region II Women's Division conference
held in Chicago. Pictured (1. to r.) are: Jacki Yenkin,
1985 Womens Division campaign chairwoman; Rena
Failer, staff associate for Womens Division; Gordon
Zacks, keynote speaker; Judith Swedlow, Region II
chairwoman; Diane Cummins, Region II Major Gifts "
chairwoman; Ina Sue Rosenthal, 1986 Womens Division campaign chairwoman.
NEW YORK (JTA)-Edu-
cation Secretary William
Bennett was urged last week
to abandon "efforts to subvert" the separation of
church and state in American education and to cease
attempts to inject religious
values into public schools
that "will convert our
schools and communities
into religious battlegrounds." ■
The American Jewish Congress, in a statement issued
here, said that only when
strict neutrality, uTconstitu-
tional  terms,   is  Enforced
B'nai B'rith Women Accepting Reservations
For Advanced Gifts Dinner At The Mansion
B'nai B'rith Women of Columbus announce that their
plans-are completed and that
reservations are being accepted for "An Evening At
The Mansion," advanced
gifts dinner for the B'nai
B'rith Women Children's
Home in Israel. The Mansion
at Bryn Du in Granville will
be the setting for the evening
on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at
6:30 p.m.'
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, The
Mansion at Bryn Du is
steeped in history and lore.
It was built in the" mid-nineteenth century and extensively remodeled and enlarged in the late 1920s. The _
three-story, pillared home
set ina wooded area has re-
Farm Crisis Blamed
On'Communist'Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) - "International Communi&t
Jews" and the owners of
"false money systems" are
being blamed by rightwing
extremists and pseudo-
ministers'preachmg the gospel of the radical'right for
the crisis afflicting farmers
in the Midwest plains states.
"You wonder why you're
losing your farms and your
. ranches and businesses out
there,." an unidentified
"preacher" tells farmers on
ABC News. "20/20" segment.
"Because your minister has
lied to you concerning a
bunch of international Communist Jews that have
stripped your wealth . and
your land.'''
According to correspondent Geraldo Rivera, farm
protests have until recently
"carried no particular ideological or political labels."
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cently undergone complete
restoration and renovation
of both its interior and exterior. Bryn Du is about two
miles east of the Granville
town square. Car pools from
the eastside of Columbus will
be available and valet park
ing will be provided at the
Mansion.
B'nai B'rith Women attending "An Evening At The
Mansion" will be securing
the future, of. another very
special home. The Children's
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Portman Installed President
Of Heritage Village Auxiliary
Debbie Portman was unanimously elected president
of the Heritage Village Aux'
iliary for. a second term at
membership vice president;
Jeanette Cohen, ways "and
means vice president, and
Tudi Krupnick, volunteer
vice president.
Serving as recording secretary is Helen Silberstein;
Min Schwartz as corresponding secretary and Evelyn
Solomon as treasurer.
Financial secretaries for
the upcoming year are Min
Brenner, Gloria Levy, Marion Soomsky and Rosella
Weiner. Caryl Solove will
serve as auditor, with Barbara Mickler as parliamentarian.
Debbie Portman
the Auxiliary's Installation
and Volunteer Recognition
ceremony held yesterday at
Winding Holjow Country
Club. Boots Nutis and Faye
Shkolnik served as co-chairwomen for the event.
The afternoon program
which followed the luncheon
incorporated the "Academy
Award" theme of the day,
"with presentations made in-
song parodies to outstanding
.Village volunteers and new
Auxiliary officers and board
members. -.,.. •
Newly installed Auxiliary
officers   include:   Carolyn
~Katz,- administrative  vice
president; Shirley Abrams,'
Violet Shinbach
Chairpersons for the following standing committees
of the Auxiliary are: Harriet
Bogart, publicity; Terri Con-
ison, volunteer times and
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"can religious schools erijoy
the necessary independence
to fulfill their religious mission. And only with neutrality can public institutions
provide an atmosphere.,
free of subtle coercion and
feelings of religious isolation."
.The AJC was responding
to remarks by Bennett and
Attorney General Edwin
Meese in separate speeches
in Washington recently to
the Supreme Council of the
Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic society for
men.
Both Meese and; Bennett
assailed' recent Supreme
Court decisions involving the
separation of church and >
state.' Bennett focused specifically on the July 1 Supreme Court decision invalidating public school programs that sent public
school teachers into parochial schools — and yeshivas
■'—' to provide remedial instructions.
The court ruled, in its decision striking down a program in the New York City
school system and another
similar program in Grand
Rapids, Mich., that sbch programs forge "a symbolic
union of government and religion" that is forbidden by
ihe Constitution.
The loss of the federally financed- program in New
York was described as devastating" to Jewish schools,
and the court's decision was
assailed by Orthodox
groups. However, the AJC
filed friend of the court
briefs in the case urging the
court' to rule the programs^
unconstitutional.    *
Bennett Slams Supreme
Court's Decision
Bennett, in his remarks,
' said the Supreme Court's decision last July and others in
the past years seeking to
separate church from state
had been "misguided attempts to apply neutrality to
religion." He said the court
failed to "reflect sufficiently
on the relationship between
our faith and our political
order."
That relationship, he
added, is "our values as a
free people and the central
value of the Judaeo;Chris-
tian tradition are flesh of the
flesh and blood of the blood."
According to the Education
Secretary, in other remarks,
religious intolerance had
now given way to a "new
aversion to religion", manifested "in the gujse of Constitutional interpretation."
Bennett declared:   "The
same Constitution that had
protected the rights of religious  parents,   and  under
whose aegis a host of religions had found happy accommodation, now became,
in the hands of aggressive
-plaintiffs' and  beguiled
judges, the instrument for
nothing less than a kind, of
ghettoizing of religion."
Hints That Court Threatens
Religious Freedom
Meese, meanwhile, in^ remarks to the same group
earlier in the day, did not
mention  specifically  the
•court's decisions, described
as severe setbacks for the
Administration and its policies. He did suggest that religious freedom in American
society has been threatened
by the court.
. "In its application, the
principle of neutrality toward all religions has been
transformed by some into,
hostility toward anything
that is religious," he said.
"In order to protect the religious liberty of the Ameri
can people, this Administration has argued against the
idea of religious nihilism as
a principle of government."
Theodore Mann, president
of the AJC, said it regretted
the statements by Meese and
Bennett, and hailed the
court's affirmation of
church-state separation. The
AJC, Mann asserted, remains convinced that efforts
to inject either the Jewish or
Protestant or Catholic religious values into the schools
will not only deeply offend
the numerous other religious
groups .-.. but will convert
our schools and communities
into religious battle-"
grounds."
The AJC said that while it
supported the right of religious schools to receive publicly-funded remedial education, it did so only as long as
it takes place off the prern-
■ ises of religious schools. Local chapters of the AJC are
currently engaged in efforts
to aid local school districts to
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Beth Jacob Announces Appointment
Of New York Cantor For Holy Days
Morris Weinstock, chairman of the Cantorial Rabbinic Committee at the Beth
Jacob Synagogue, announced the appointment of
Cantor Merwin Shapiro of
Lawrence, N.Y., to serve as
the cantor for the Beth Jacob
Congregation for the forthcoming High Holy Days.
Cantor Merwin Shapiro
Cantor Shapiro is a gradu;
ate of the Mesivta Torah Va-
dooth and of Yeshiva University. He studied at the Rabbi
Isaac Elchanon Theological
Seminary and holds a doctorate in psychology.
Cantor Shapiro received
his cantorial and voice training from Cantor Joshua
Weiser, Dr. Karl Adler and
Cantor Eliyah Ravner. He
served as a cantor in Congregation Poale Zedek .of Pittsburgh, Congregation Anshe
Shalom B'nai Israel of Chicago and Agudas Achim of
New Orleans. He was selected to be a member of the
Jewish Ministers of America
Cantorial Choir to sing at the
Jobatansky Centennial
honoring Prime Minister
Menachem Begin. He is an
active' associate of the Can-
• torial School of Yeshivah
University.
^ The son of a cantor, Cantor
Merwin Shapiro also studied
violin with Professor Viliom
Simek of Prague Conservatory and played first violin
under Maestro Alexander
Petruska who conducted the
Yeshiva University-
Orchestra. '    ■ ■'
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