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VOL. 64   NO. 7
FEBRUARY 13,1986-ADAR14
Devoted to American
•md Jewish Ideals
Rabin: Israel Will Continue War Against
Terrorism Even If Mistakes Are Made
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, author, lecturer and television
personality, will be the guest of the Columbus Section,
NCJW on Tuesday, March 4, at 12:15 p.m. at the
Aladdin Shrine Temple, 3850 Stelzer Rd.
Council To Bring Dr. Ruth
To Columbus On March 4
the door will be $20 per
person, so members are encouraged to make reservations early. A one-hour ques-
' tion and answer period will
, follow Dr. Ruth's lecture.,
Reservations can be made
by sending a check or Visa or
Master Card number to the
National Council of Jewish
Women, Columbus Section
Office, 3667 E. Broad St., C<P
lumbus, Ohio, 43213, and
tickets will be mailed before
the meeting. Expiration date
must be included if paying
by Visa or M.C. Tickets may
also be obtained from
officers and board members
of Council. Door prizes will
be awarded.
"Dr. Ruth" is coming to
Columbus!
This news is spreading
rapidly throughout the community, and everyone —
members, non-members and
men — is invited to attend
this special program of the
Columbus Section, National
Council of Jewish Women, to
hear the popular sex
therapist on Tuesday, March
4, at 12:15 p.m. at the
Aladdin Shrine Temple, 3850
Stelzer Rd,
A mini-lunch will be
served'at 12:15 p.m. Charge
for the meeting is $15 for
members and $20 for non-
members. All admissions at
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel
will continue to take the initiative in its war against terrorism, Defense . Minister
Yitzhak Rabin promised last
week, even if it sometimes
makes mistakes, as happened recently when an intercepted private Libyan jet
turned out not to be carrying
the top terrorist leaders believed to have been aboard.
The war against terrorism
must be waged by daring,
unconventional means,
Rabin told a group of settlers
in northern Israel. "We have
to show initiative. We have
to be daring even if we do not
always achieve our objectives in full. Yesterday we
did not achieve our full aims,
maybe not even partially,"
he said. But the Defense
Minister stressed that terrorism cannot be defeated on
the basis only of retaliation
for specific acts.
He said the Arab countries
continue to finance .international'terrorism. They provide terrorist organizations
with funds and shelter, training bases and aid via diplomatic pouches. He accused
some governments in Europe of not joining the fight
against international terrorism and in fact distinguishing between "good" and
"bad" terrorists.
. Israel was Embarrassed -
Israel was clearly embarrassed by the incident which
indicated a serious failure of
Cantor Benjamin Maissner To Open
Cantorial Series At Temple Israel
Cantor Benjamin Maissner, cantor and music director of Holy Blossom Temple
in Toronto, Canada, will be
the opening artist in the
Temple Israel Cantorial
Series "Cantorial Music
Through the Ages." His program, entitled "The Validity
of Melody — An Overview,"
will be held Friday, Feb. 28,
at 8 p.m. in the sanctuary.
Cantor Maissner, who was
born in Israel, sang as a boy
cantor from the age of nine
under the direction of the
Hazzan Shlomo Ravitz. He
played the violin and completed his course of study at
the Tel Aviv Music Conservatory. Cantor Maissner
came to the United States in
1965 where he attended the
Hebrew Union College
School of Sacred Music. Following his graduation, he
studied and performed with
the Opera Workshop of the
Philadelphia Musical Academy and served as cantor for
the Germantown (Philadel
phia)   Jewish  Center.   He
joined Holy Blossom in 1979.
Cantor Benjamin Maissner
Cantor Maissner's performance experience is extensive having sung on radio
and TV and in private cantorial concerts around the
world. He has studied under
such well known cantors as
Leib Glantz, Moshe Gan-
choff and his uncle, Israel
Alter.
Canter Maissner has
served on the. Exeuctive
Board  of the  Cantors
intelligence and a high degree of cunning on the part of
terrorist leaders. Israeli intelligence had what it considered sufficient evidence that
such Palestinian terrorists
as George Habash and Abu
Nidal were passengers in the
Gulfstream executive jet
forced by the Israel Air
Force to land at an air base
in northern Israel.
The Libyan aircraft was
enroute from Benghazi,
.Libya, to Damascus with
nine passengers and three
crew. The passengers turned
out to be Syrian political figures returning to Damascus
from a conference of Arab
radicals in Tripoli, the Libyan capital. After a thorough
check of the identities of
those aboard, Israel released the plane four-and-a-
half hours after intercepting
it.
The two-day conference,
chaired by Libyan leader
Col,.JVluammar Qaddaf i, was
attended by delegates from
22 hard-line Arab movements, including Palestinian
terrorist groups opposed to
Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasir Arafat,
Habash, who heads the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, was among
them. He boasted that he had
foiled  Israel's  efforts  to
catch the "big fish."
Abu Nidal is the leader of
the terrorist gang held responsible for the Dec. 27 attacks at the Rome and
Vienna airports, which resulted in the deaths of 19 people. His group operates
under a variety of names
and while it is said to have no
more than a few hundred
members, its record of
assassinations — PLO officials as-well as Israelis —
makes it one of the most
dangerous terrorist organizations. It is supported by
Qaddafi and also, according
to Israel, by the Syrian
government.
Terrorists like Habash and
Nidal are wily. They rarely
sleep in the same building
twice and switch planes at
the last minute when they
travel. That apparently is
what they did when they left
Tripoli.
Jewish National Fund Establishes
Forest Of Trees In Israel To Honor
Memory Of Challenger Astronauts
In response to an outpour1
ing of sympathy around the
nation, the Jewish National
Fund has established a
forest of trees in Israel to
honor the memory of the
seven men and women who
died when the Challenger
space shuttle exploded.
- Among the seven was Dr.
Judith Resnik ' of Akron,
Ohio, the first Jewish woman
astronaut. The Challenger-
Forest will be located in the
American Independence
Park in Jerusalem, next to
the John F. Kennedy Memorial and Peace Forest.
The presence of teacher
Christa McAuliffe on this ill-
fated shuttle has deeply
affected school children
throughout the nation. Many
of these youngsters looked
forward to watching her
"class In space." Meyer
Hoffman, president of the
Columbus Council, states,
"It is with this in mind that a
letter was sent to all Columbus and surrounding area
religious schools, asking
them to participate in this
project. Plantingtrees in the
"Challenger Forest" symbolizes a meaningful and
lasting response by-students
and teachers."
All tree certificates will be
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 9)
Assembly of America and
presently serves as an
Executive Board member of
the American Conference of
Cantors and president of the
Toronto Council of Hazzanim.
The Temple Israel Cantorial Series Is a fiv^-part
program highlighting the
depth and variety of music
within Judaism. Five North
American Reform cantors
will be participating in the
series, which will be held
within the context of the 8
p.m. Friday evening Sabbath Services at the Temple.
Each cantor will participate
in the service and then present a musical program that
will conclude by 9:30 p.m.
The programs are open to
the entire community.,
Funding for the Cantorial
Series is provided by the
Temple Israel Operating
Budget, a grant from the
Ohio Arts Council and a
donation from Lester and
Barbara Weinberg.
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