Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1986-08-07

              * toff*
l !
Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years
LianAKY,   OHIO   HISTORICAL
19QE  VELM.\   AVC«
COL3.   Or     43211
soo^ri^
EX.CH
VOL.64   NO. 33
AUGUST7.1986-AV2
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals
Mew Jewish Chaplains Council Organized
NEW YORK (WNS) -A new'body,''to be known as the
JWB/Jewish Chaplains Council, has been organized by
representatives of the three major rabbinic groups in American Jewish life. The newly-established Council will serve
Jewish chaplains in the U.S. military and Veterans Administration and Jewish military personnel and patients in
VA hospitals. Each of the three rabbinic groups may endorse
its own candidates for chaplaincy service.
Israel Feels More Secure, Confident
Following Vice President Bush's Visit
Israeli-Made Radiation Detector
Selling Well In Europe
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli-made pocket-
sized radiation detector is selling well in Europe as a
result of fears following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. There have been so many orders for the $140 detector that the Amcor Company has had to add extra
shifts to meet demand which -has increased ten-fold
since Chernobyl. The "gamma alert device," the
smallest and cheapest personal radiation detector on
the market, beeps and flashes when radiation reaches
five times the usual level.
I Israeli Wins
Mediterranean Chess Championship
MARSEILLES (WNS) — Israeli chess player Boris Goulka
recently won the Mediterranean chess championship at
which over a dozen countries, including five from Eastern
Europe," took part, Goulka won with six match points followed by players from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, France and
Yugoslavia:1Hejwas-allowed to leave the Soviet Union earlier
this year after a long wait. He was a grand master in the So-
viet Union and his wife was also a noted chess player. Upon
their arrival in Israel, both volunteered to start playing at
once and represent Israel at international games.
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israel as a whole had a
markedly more secure and
confident feeling last week,
after Vice President George
Bush's visit here.
The man who may well be
the next U.S. President and
leader of the free world had
been regarded here with a
certain sense of distance,
even trepidation.
Some of the media, and
some pundits, had written
that Bush, while not unfriendly, was less friendly
"than other American leaders
— and other Presidential
hopefuls—towards the Jewish State. At best, they said,
he was uncaring, indifferent
to the unique features of the
Jewish historical experience.
Now, after stripping away
all the pap and pizzaz inevitably present in a Vice Presidential visit, and in Vice
Presidential rhetoric, most
Israelis are left with a comfortable feeling that Bush
follows what is by now a
mainstream tradition in
■^mferican-^governmentrof regarding Israel as both a
strategic ally and a moral
mainstay for the United
States.
Statements Leave A Glow
His declaration that the
two countries were "allies in
every sense of the word" and
his statement that "many in
tangible, and in a sense spiritual, ties" have developed
"a multitude of wbrdly
bonds" between the U.S. and
Israel, seemed to leave a
G. Zacks Accompanies
George Bush To Israel
WASHINGTON  (JTA)  -
Eight prominent American
Jews   accompanied  Vice
President George Bush to
Israel. All were people Bush
consulted in planning his trip
to the Jewish State, accord-.'.
ing to Gayle Fisher, ah assistant press secretary to the
Vice President. She Said that
all eight paid their own way
for a one-way trip to Israel.
The eight are all members
of the National Jewish Coalition  and  included Gordon
Zacks, national cochairper-
son of,, the Coalition from
Columbus, and Jacob Stein,
President Reagan's first liaison  to  the  Jewish  com^
munity. However, they were,
•not accompany ing~ Bush -of.
Coalition;members but^.as-
independent advisors.   P
Observers here believe
that Bush used his visit to
Israel to help him iri his
Pictured above (left) are the members of Gideon Lodge B'nai B'rith, a new chapter
formed from the northside of Columbus. Pictured (right 1. to r.) are Michael Sanders,
president pro-.temp, Gideon Lodge and Richard Handler, president of Zion Lodge and a
member of the District II Board of Governors.
Gideon B'nai B'rith Men Form Lodge
A new B'nai B'rith Lodge
has been formed in Columbus. Thirteen men from the
northside of Columbus have
become the nucleus of'
Gideon Lodge. These new
Ben B'rith were inducted on
July 29 at Beth Tikva.
Richard Handler, president of Zion Lodge and member of the District II Board of
Governors, welcomed the
new lodge into the District.
Suzanne Andisman, District
II membership director, presented an educational program on B'nai B'rith.
Leo Weinberg of Zion
Lodge, a leader in District II
for many years, and John
Skuller of MaCcabbee Lodge,
District II Community
Volunteer Service chairman,
conducted the traditional
B'nai B'rith induction ceremony, which included lighting a candle on the menorah
for each of B'nai B'rith's
tenets. Each new member of
Gideon Lodge was presented
with his membership pin by
Leo Weinberg.
David Goldstein, president
of Maccabbee Lodge, spoke
to Gideon's new brothers on
the importance of service in
B'nai B'rith life, and challenged them to create a
unique service project of
their own.;Richard Handler
then called upon Gideon to
elect a president. Michael
Sanders was unanimously
elected president pro-temp,
and announced a goal of 100
members for Gideon by the
end of September.
, Sanders cited the need for
Jewish networking and fellowship on the northside,
which has had a large increase of young Jewish professionals. Sanders' expressed the hope that Gideon
Lodge would provide an
impetus for more leadership
and participation in the Jewish community by north-
siders.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 6)
forthcoming campaign for
the Republican nomination
■foi'the Presidency.
Two of Bush's potential
rivals, Rep. Jack Kemp (R.
NY) and Senate Majority
leader Robert "Dole (R.
Kans.), are known for their
strong support of Israel.
Zacks is considered one of
the persons, closest to Bush
in the Jewish community
and has frequently intro:
duced the Vice President to
Jewish audiences.
In addition to Zacks and
Stein, Fisher identified those
accompanying Bu§h ; as:
Ivan Novick, Pittsburgh, former president o£ the Zionist
Organization of America;
• •Paul Borman; of Detroit;
Joseph Gildenhorn, of Washington, DC;, Barbara Gold,
of Chicago; Richard Goldman, of San Francisco; and
Jay Kislak,.of Miami,
glow here. And Israeli leaders, particularly Deputy
Premier Yitzhak Shamir,
had made a point of emphasizing Bush's personal
involvement in the rescue of
Ethiopian Jewry and his „
long-time interest in the
cause of Soviet Jewry.
Bush for his part visited a
Russian immigrant family
and an Ethiopian absorption
center in his packed, much
photographed and filmed
four-day itinerary here —
thereby stressing those
same points.
Peres Assesses
Hassan Meeting
NEW   YORK   (JTA)  -
Israeli  Premier  Shimon
Peres told a group of ethnic
leaders and journalists from
the United States that his
meeting with King Hassan of
• Morocco will enhance the
prospects for a more normalized   peace  between
Egypt and Israel, it was reported by Lester- Pollack,
president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of
New York, who with Malcolm Hoenlein, JCRC execu-
.■   (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6)
Sidney Blatt Named To Be Chairman Of
Federation Annual Meeting, Sept. 28
"Sidney Blatt, past president of the Columbus Jewish
Federation, will be the chairman of the Federation's Annual Meeting," announced
Miriam Yenkin, Federation
president. "This year we are
celebrating Federation's
60th Anniversary and Sidney
is the kind of individual that
will help to make this milestone a very special occasion," she said.
- The Annual Meeting will
be held on Sunday evening,
Sept. .28, at Temple Israel.
The program will include an
election of board members,
a presentation of the Therese
Stern Kahn Yiung Leadership Award and the Community Award of Excellence, a
special tribute to past presidents and campaign chairmen, and the Abe I. Yenkin
Memorial Address.
In addition to his Federation involvement over the
past two decades, Blatt has
been a member of the boards
of Heritage House and the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center; He is a past president of
Temple Israel Foundation.
His community activities include membership on the
United Way Campaign Cabinet, member of the Presi-
),
dents Association and the
National Association of Industrial and Office Parks.
He has received a number
of honors and awards —
named Ohio Small Businessman of the Year (1970) ;| ORT
Centennial Man of the Year
(1980); Temple Israel Man
of the Year (1979).
Sidney Blatt
A businessman, Blatt is
the President of Columbus
Steel Drum Company He is
married to Sally arid they
are the parents of three
daughters, Meredith Gail
Blatt, Cynthia Paine and
Laura Jo Paul and the
grandparents of eight.
"The evening will provide
a sertse of community history and pay tribute to the
role that the Federation's
workers and leaders have
played in the growth of the
Columbus Jewish commu-
nity,".said Blatt.
"The entire community is •
invited to attend. The 60th
Annual Meeting is an opportunityto  celebrate,"   he
added.
For further information,
phone the Columbus Jewish
Federation, 237-7686.
Restrictive Clause
Uncovered In Deed
To Rehnquist Home
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice William Rehnquist said last week that the
deed to his summer home in
Greensboro, Vt., contains a
clause forbidding it from
being leased or sold "to any
member of the Hebrew
, race."
But Rehnquist, who has
been nominated by President Reagan to become
Chief Justice of the United
States, maintained that he
did not know the restrictive
covenant existed until this
week,  although' he had
(CONTINUED ON PAGE «)
'<  t
U\