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FEBRUARY 6,1986-SHEVAT 27
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Israel Bonds Offers
New IRA Program
The Columbus office of
State of Israel Bonds reports
a new program whereby
Israel's friends can contribute to their retirement
funds and give Israel financial assistance both at the
same time.
An IVRI (Individual Variable Rate Issue) Israel Bond
can be purchased for as little
as $2,000, or integral multiples of $2,000, for Individual
Retirement Accounts only
(IRA). It currently pays an
annual interest of 7% percent. It is hoped that this program will become an important source of substantial
amounts of new development capital for Israel in the
years ahead.
"It is now possible for hundreds of thousands of Israel's friends to invest in
Israel's  future,  and their
' own, in one stroke. It is providing an important way for
American Jews to participate in a historic effort to
stabilize Israel's economy
and help guarantee Its
future," stated Rena Failer,
.,, Bonds executive director^
The IVRI Bond annual
rate of interest is a minimum of 6 percent plus half
the difference to the prime
rate. It is adjusted twice a
year. More details and a prospectus are available by
calling the State of Israel
Bond Office. 239-7212.
First Jewish Woman In Space
Killed In Challenger Tragedy
Participating in Heritage Village's Martin Luther
King Program were Rev. Melvin Maughmer, Village
staff persons Frank Maughmer and Sandra Carter,
State Legislator Otto Beatty, Rev. Arthur Wiggins and
Gerald Cohn.
Heritage Village Celebrates
'Martin Luther King1 Day
^ Over 200 Heritage Village
residents, family members,
staff and volunteers joined
together on Jan. 20 to participate in the Village's first annual Martin Luther King
recognition program, held in
the Chapel and front lobby of
Heritage House.
Eleanor Resler extended
greeting on behalf of the
■ Board of Trustees to the honored guests and presented
each of them with a bouton-
niere.
Organized by the staff
members of many different
departments, the. program
symbolized the spirit of cooperation and mutual support evidenced  throughout
the Village between residents, staff and the community. Gerald N. Cohn,
executive vice president of
Heritage Village, welcomed
the "standing room only"
audience, noting: "Jews and
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CAPE CANAVERAL
(JTA) —The explosion of the
space shuttle Challenger
about a minute after launching here last week took the
lives of all seven aboard, including Dr. Judith Resnik,
the first Jewish woman
astronaut.
The victims of the worst
disaster in the history of the
American space program
were U.S. Navy Commander
Francis Scobee, commander
of the shuttle; Michael
Smith, pilot; Ellison Oni-
zuka, Ron McNair and Resnik, all mission specialists,
and GregMarvis, a specialist
of the Hughes Aircraft Co.
In addition, there was one
civilian passenger, Christa
McAuliffe, a New Hampshire public school teacher
who was to have broadcast
two 15-minute lessons to
school children all over the
U.S. and Canada while the
Challenger was in orbit.
The 100-ton, multi-million
dollar spacecraft lifted off at
11:38 a.m. local time Jan. 28
in what officials of the National Aeronautics and
Space Agency (NASA) said
was a "perfect launch."
About a minute later it burst
into a fireball, and smoking
debris plunged into the Atlantic about nine miles
downrange.
In June, 1984, Resnik, then
35,   became  the  second
woman to go into space. She
and five male crew members of the Orbiter Discovery were on a seven-day
scientific mission.' Born in
Cleveland, she grew up in
Akron, and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical
engineering at Carnegie-
Mellon University in 1970.
She was subsequently'employed as a design engineer
by RCA and in that capacity
worked on several NASA
projects.
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Community Invited To Attend
Campaign Closing Luncheon
"We are going to celebrate
a historic success," said
Dennis Mellman, 1986
General Campaign chairman, "and I want to personally invite you to help us
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Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein Appointed
Assistant to Touro College President
Rabbi Samuel W. Rubenstein, rabbi emeritus of
Agudas Achim Congregation, has been appointed
assistant to Dr. Bernard
Lander, president of Touro
.College in New York. He will
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Midwest Region, whose
office will be located in
Columbus.
Touro College is chartered
by the Board of Regents of
the University of the State of
New York and is accredited
by the Commission on
Higher Education of the
Middle States Association of
Colleges and Schools.
The College has grown
rapidly since its founding,
starting with an enrollment
of 36 students in 1970 to more
than 4500. It is now composed- of many divisions.
These include the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences,
the School of Career and
Urban Studies, the Division
of Health Sciences, the
Graduate School of Jewish
Studies, the Jewish Peoples
University of the Air, .the
Center- for Biomedical Education and the School of Law.
Through its Center for Biomedical education and. in
conjunction with the
Technion of Haifa, Istael, a
program has been arranged
that leads to the M.D.
degree.
Touro is headed by Dr.
Bernard Lander, who is the
founder and serves as its
- president. Dr, Lander is a
graduate of Yeshiva University, N. Y.C, He was ordained
by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanon
Theological Seminary of
Yeshiva University and has
a Ph.D. from Columbia University. After a career as a
pulpit rabbi, he joined the
faculty ol Hunter College,
Department of Sociology. He
served as director of the
Bernard Revel Graduate
School of Yeshiva University".
celebrate at our campaign
closing event on Feb. 19.
This year we have the strong
possibility of greatly surpassing our $5.4 million goal
— that is something for
which we, as a community,
can be extremely proud. We
can all share that pride of
achievement together on
Feb. 19."
The 1986 Columbus Jewish
Federation Campaign CIos-
Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein
The following words of Dr.
Lander best express the
aims of Touro: "It is an
urban institution of higher
and professional studies,
committed to instruction,
scholarship and research
with emphasis on the
relevance of the Jewish
heritage to the general culture "of western civilization.
Because Israel is central to
the Jewish heritage — past
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Dennis Mellman
ing Luncheon will be at 12
noon-l:30 p.m. at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center,
1125 College Ave. The
program will feature a slide
show, an award presentation
honoring all campaign
leaders and workers and a
ceremony revealing the 1986
campaign achievement. The
cost is $5 per person.
Mellman went on to
explain that even though.the
campaign has been a
tremendous success to date,
"we must all work doubly
hard in the remaining days
before the closing to reach
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Shcharansky May Be Freed
As of presstime, Tuesday, Feb. 4, wire service
reports indicated that American and Soviet negotiators
had. reached an agreement for a prisoner exchange
that would include the release of Soviet dissident
Anatoly Shcharansky. Details, according to the reports, were still being worked out.
Shcharansky, a 37-year-old Jewish activist, is serving a 13 year sentence in prison and labor cairips for
treason and espionage. During that time, frequent protests from the West have called for his release.
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