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VOL.63   N0.4G
NOVEMBER 7,1985-CHESHVAN 23
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals
Court Orders Alleged Former Nazi
Extradited To Israel To Stand Trial
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to r.) look on as Geb Johnson (Sheridan Whiteside) listens in on mating cockroaches. Roach City is one of the
"many exotic, gifts that are bestowed on the healing
Whiteside. The Man Who Came to Dinner, Gallery
Players' season opener, continues in the Roth/Resler
Theatre through Nov. 17.       .   -
'Man Who Came To Dinner1
Currently Running At Center
Gallery Players' "Tiie
Man Who Came to Dinner"
is currently running in the
Roth/Resler Theatre at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Cen-
i ter. This hit comedy by Moss
Hart and George S. Kaufman, directed by Harold
Eisenstein, will run through
Nov. if.
* The comedy's plot revolves around a sharp-
tongued, egotistical radio
celebrity, Sheridan Whiteside, who is marooned in a
( small town in Ohio. He rules
the household and his career
from his wheelchair, resulting in^tter chaos complete
with famous friends and
fabulous gifts.
' Gallery Players veterans,"
Linda Katz, Sid Silvian and
Alex Kushkin, all play important roles in Whiteside's
encampment. Katz plays
Maggie, his loyal secretary
who dares to fall in love with
a local journalist. Silvian is
Whiteside's crazy friend,
Professor Metz, who brings
a roach city to amuse Whiteside back to health. Kushkin
is th,e thinly "disguised Harpo
Marx character who spends
his time chasing the nurse
around the house.
Performances run every
Wednesday, Thursday," Saturday and Sunday through
Nov.'17, with a special matinee on Sunday, Nov. 10, at
2 p.m. For more information
on this classic comedy, call
231-2731, ext. 248.
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
federal appeals court in Cincinnati last week ordered
that alleged former Nazi
death camp guard John
Demjanjuk be extradited to
Israel to stand trial for
crimes committed during
the Holocaust. It was not immediately clear whether an
appeal will be filed with the
Supreme Court.
The court's ruling affirmed a lower court decision reached last April by
U.S. District Court Judge
Frank Battisti. Israel has issued a formal extradition request for Demjanjuk, though
a final decision on extradition must be made by Secretary of State George Shultz.
Neal Sher, director of the
Justice Department's Office
of Special Investigations
(OSI), told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Washington that the Department
"will move as expeditiously
as possible" to extradite
. Demjanjuk to Israel. Without setting any timetable,
Sher said, *'it could Be done
very quickly."
The 65-year-old retired
automobile worker allegedly
served as a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp
in Poland in 1942-43, according to charges filed by the
OSI. His sadistic behavior
there earned him the name
"Ivan the terrible" by prison
CJF Board Of Trustees
Ratifies Campaign Goal
The Board of Trustees of
the Columbus Jewish Federation at its opening meeting
ratified the Campaign goal
for 1986 proposed by rJennis
Mellman, general chairman,
and the 1986 Campaign Cabinet.
After presenting a campaign up-date on the activities and the campaign divisions' achievements,. Mellman asked the board to approve the recommendations
of the Campaign leadership
and executive committee —
$5,400,000 — for vitally
needed services for Jews in
Columbus, Israel and 33 nations around the world. An
additional goal of" $200,000
was set for Project Renewal,
the social, cultural and physical rehabilitation program
for Jesse Cohen in Holon, Israel — Columbus' twinned
neighborhood.
Final Preparations Made For
November 10 Safam Concert
The Concert Committee of
individuals representing the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, Agudas Achim Congregation and Congregation
Tifereth Israel met at the
Jewish Center 'recently - to
discuss final plans for the upcoming concert by Safam
this Sunday, Nov. 10, > at
7 p.m. at Congregation
Tifereth Israel. ',
The contemporary Jewish-
American music ensemble
will present a concert of Hebrew and English favorite's.
Tickets, for this community
event are priced at $8 for
adults, $5 for students and
seniors and $3 for children 12
and under. Patron tickets
are also available at $18 per
seat, entitling the bearer to a
special reserved seating section and listing in the concert
program. Tickets are available at the. Jewish Center,
1125 College Ave., 231-2731;
Agudas Achim Congregation, 2737 E, Broad St.,
237-2747, and Congregation
Tifereth Israel, 1354 E.
Broad St., 253-8523. Tickets
will be available at the door
the evening of the concert.
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inmates.
Demjanjuk is accused of
having run the gas chambers
at Treblinka. Tens of thousands of Jews were killed at
Treblinka. Demjanjuk maintains that he was not a prison
guard at the death camp but
that he was captured by the
Germans and held as a-prisoner of war. He denied aiding the Nazis.
Israel Has Sought
Extradition
Israel has sought extradition from the United States
of war criminals living in the
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SPECIAL TO THE JTA
Anti-Semitic Sect Members On Trial
SEATTLE (JTA) — Ten
members of The Order, a
violent anti-Semitic northwest-based sect, are on trial
at the federal courthouse
here for carrying out 67
racketeering acts — including two murders, three armored car robberies and
counterfeiting — as part of
their plot to kill Jews, deport
nonwhites and overthrow the
federal > government. The
trial, which began last
month, is expected to conclude by the end of next
month and a verdict.handed
down toward the end of
December.
Prosecutors have chosen
to charge the group with violating   the   broadly-written
racketeering law, under
which they must prove that
each of the accused committed at least two crimes as
part of the conspiracy.
Charges for specific crimes^
may be filed later by state
officials.
Former members of The
.Order have taken the witness stand under plea-bargain agreements. Eleven
members have pleaded
guilty, one faces murder
charges in Missouri and an-
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Dr. Norman Linzer To Speak
At Forum On Jewish Family
There is a general consensus that the American Jew-,
ish family is changing. As
Jews become more accul-
turated and adopt the'Values
and life-styles of contemporary society, they experience stresses and strains in
their efforts to retain some
traditional forms and patterns of family life while
integrating new ones.
Dr. Norman Linzer will
discuss the dimensions of
this social change and its impact on Jewish family life in
his keynote address "Modern Challenges to the Jewish
Family: Bridging Contemporary Issues with the Tradition."
Gorbachev Asks France To Fly Jews
From USSR To Israel
PARIS (JTA) — Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has
asked France to fly several thousand Soviet Jews from the
USSR to Israel on a special airlift originally planned to precede his upcoming summit'meeting with President Reagan
in Geneva Nov. 19. The plan, which Gorbachev discussed
with President Francois Mitterrand during his visit to Paris
earlier this month, has been dropped or delayed for the time
being. Meanwhile, French experts are studying its practical
aspects.
Dennis Mellman
"We have a fabulous campaign team," says Mellman,
"and I know that we will be
able to reach our goal. We
have had excellent participation on the part of the
great number of concerned
community members and
our achievement to date puts
us well on our way to meeting this ambitious goal."
The Federation's annual
United Jewish Fund Campaign supports more than 50
agencies and programs that
benefit the young, families
and the elderly. "As Jews,
we are obligated tohelp our
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Jewish Candidate Elected To
Poland's Parliament
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The one lone Jew elected recently to Poland's Sejm (Parliament), 67-year-old Shimon
Szurmiej, was the first since 1950 whose Jewish background
was mentioned during the campaign! Szurmiej is the director
of the Warsaw Yiddish State Theatre and head of the Cultural
Association of the Jews in Poland — the representative body
of Polish Jewry. He has visited Israel twice.
Kirkpatrick, Operation Moses Share
Jabotinsky Award
NEW YORK (JTA) — Former U.S. Ambassador to. the
United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Operation Moses, the
rescue mission that brought 10,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel,
were co-recipients last week of the 1985 $100,000 Jabotinsky
Award at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies. The award, established in 1983, is
given for extraordinary efforts in "defense of the rights of the
Jewish people." Eryk Spektor, chairman of the Jabotinsky
Foundation, announced that the $50,000 part of the award
given to Operation Moses'will be used to create 50 Jabotinsky
scholarships at Israeli, institutions of higher education for
young Ethiopian Jews in Israel.. •      •
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Dr. Norman Linzer
Dr. Linzer's address will
be part of a special forum,
Challenges to the Jewish
Family, co-sponsored by
Jewish Family Service and
the Adult Department of the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center. The forum will take
place on Sunday, Nov. 17, at
the Jewish Center.
Dr. Linzer is.the author of
several books on the Jewish
family, including The Jewish
Family, and his latest work
The Jewish Family: Authority and Tradition in
Modern Perspective. He is
professor of social work at
the Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University. He received his B.A,
and rabbinic ordination from
Yeshiva University and his
Ph.D. in sociology from the
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