Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1986-11-20

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Temple Leaders
Recently Elected
To UAHC Board
Ernest Stern, past president of Temple Israel and a
leader in the Jewish and general community, was elected
to the Union of American He-
brew Congregations
(UAHC) National Board of
Trustees at the recently concluded UAHC Regional Biennial held in Detroit.
U.S. Arms-To-lran Disclosures
To Alter Case Against Israelis
MEW YORK (JTA) - The
Justice Department will review the case of four Israelis
charged here with conspiracy to sell American
weapons to Iran to determine if their action was part
of a covert operation by the
U.S. government, a spokesman said.
The Department, which is
prosecuting the case, will
prepare arguments that will
incorporate the recent revelations about the U.S. government's role in arms sales
to Iran, according to John
Russell, a Justice Depart-,
ment spokesman.
The four were indicted in
April on charges of conspiracy to resell to Iran
some $2.5 billion worth of
surplus American military
Ernest Stern
Stern follows Sidney Blatt',
also past president of Temple Israel, who served on the
UAHC National Board for
two three-year terms and
who remains on the Regional
Board.
Also at the meeting, two
more Temple Israel leaders
were elected to the UAHC
Regional Board. Ray Wells,
immediate past president of
the Temple, was elected to
the UAHC Regional Board of
Trustees and Bunny Cowall,
past president of the Temple's Sisterhood and a member of the Board of the National Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods, was re-elected
totheboard,
UAHC is the central
organization serving nearly
800 Reform congregations in
North America.
Columbus Jewish Foundation Awards Grants
William L. Glick, chairman of the Columbus Jewish
Foundation's Grant Commit:
tee, has announced the approval, on Oct. 14, of three
grants requests. Recipients
of these special allocations
are: .
• House of Tradition-Purchase of a Van: To be located
in and around The Ohio State
University, providing programs and materials leading
to contacts with Jewish students. This van will also be
made available to the Ohio
State University Hillel Foundation and other organiza-
tins.' . • ,.;.
The Foundation grant will
help enable this vehicle to be
purchased. Matching funds
and other grant sources will
'New Blood1 Necessary To Keep
Jewish Community Drive Going
"New blood" is needed to
keep the Jewish Community
Blood Drive going. The percentage of donors in the 21-40
age group is the lowest
among all the blood drives in
central Ohio. This season's
drive is on Dec. 24, from 12-6
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According to the American
Red Cross,.healthy persons
between the ages of 17^5 and
weighing over 110 pounds
are eligible to give blood.
The need for blood has never
been greater, according to
the Central Ohio Chapter of
the Red Cross,
The Jewish Community
Drive is being coordinated
by the B'nai B'rith Zion
Lodge, with the help of the
Capital Post #122 of the Jewish War Veterans, Maccabee
Lodge, the Columbus Jewish
Federation, the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, the Young
Professionals group of the
Federation and others.
The Red Cross and the
Jewish Community Blood
Qouhcil are committed ltp)
also be utilized.
• Jewish Family Service-
Shalom .House: The Shalom
House, a home for the
developmentally disabled, is
currently under construction
on the College Ave. communal campus. Medicaid
covers construction costs
and approximately 85 percent of the operating budget.
This grant will enable the
operating budget to include
special Jewish oriented services and programming for
which Medicaid funds are
not available.
• Hillel Foundation at Ohio
University-Visiting Professorship: To provide funds
enabling a visiting professorship from February to the
summer of 1987. This program will provide; on the
campus, an effective Jewish
presence and an effort to
combat anti-Semitism and
anti-Israel activities, particularly on the part of Arab
students and propagandists.
Currently there is no rabbi
on The Ohio University
campus directing Hillel affairs.
The Columbus Jewish
Foundation, a division of the
Columbus Jewish Federation, provides funds for
emergencies, capital expenditures, studies and research programs, innovative
and experimental programs
and special needs of organizations. Grant applicants do
not have to be affiliated with
the Federation in order to. be
considered.
The Foundation does not
conduct an annual campaign
for funds. Donors are encouraged to set up special
funds, administered and disbursed by the Foundation's
lay committees and profes
tion's goal is to meet the
ever-changing needs of the
community by providing for
special and unusual projects
and planning for future and
unforeseen needs.
William Glick
For further information
about the Foundation, contact its executive director,
Ben M. Mandelkorn, at
237-7686.
hardware, part of which was
already in Israel.
Defense attorneys in the
case have made numerous
counterclaims in which they
contend top U.S. officials including Vice President
George Bush, Marine Corps
Commandant General P.X.
Kelley and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger approved the arms deal under
dispute in this case.
All the government parties
have denied their involvement, and the U.S. attorney's office has filed papers
claiming the U.S. government has not sold arms to
Iran in recent years. But last
week, President Reagan acknowledged that such sales
took place within the past
year.
New Light Shed
The recently disclosed
evidence that the American
government cooperated with
Israel and international
arms dealers such as the defendants in the case shed
new light "on the attorneys'
counterclaims.
In yet another related
development, Elliot Richardson, former U.S. Attorney General?'told the press
that he arranged a contact
between American officials
and an "influential Iranian
expatriate" named Cyrus
Hashemi last year in efforts
to free American hostages in
Lebanon.
Hashemi, who died in July,
was the government's key
witness in the case against
the Israeli arms dealers.
Hashemi posed as an arms
procurement agent for the
Iranian government but
actually was recording
phone conversations and
meetings with the defendants to help the U.S. Cus-
toms ■ Service and the U.S.
Attorney's office gather
evidence for their April indictment.
A defense attorney said
that Richardson, who served
as Attorney General during
the Nixon Administration,
represented Hashemi during
1983-84 after he was indicted
in the U.S. for selling American weapons to Iran.
Israelis Said to Have
Sought Exchange
Arms in exchange for
hostages also played a role
in this case. According to
defense papers, the Israeli
defendants presented Hashemi with names of three
Israeli prisoners of war
being held in Lebanon and
tried to negotiate an arms-
for hostages trade.
"This just shows that the
Israeli authorities were
thinking along the same
lines as the Americans," one
defense attorney said.
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Hirschhorn Brunch
Open To Community
On Sunday, Nov. 23v at
1 p.m., cantor, singer and
songwriter Linda Hirschhorn will be at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center for a
brunch as part of an "Always on Sunday" adventure.
Local Israel Bonds Women's Division
Earns Campaign Achievement Award
Susan Weikers, National
chairwoman, State of Israel
Susan Weikers
Bonds, will present the State
of Israel Bonds Campaign
to the Columbus Women's
Division at the 1986 Woman
of the Year Champagne .
Brunch, Sunday, Nov. 23, at
noon at the Radisson Hotel
North. Bunny Putchat
Cowall will be honored as the ,
1986 Woman of the Year.
"I am pleased to be able to
present this award to such
an active vital community,"
stated Weikers.
Professionally, Weikers is
an insurance representative
who' is a member of that
industry's Million Dollar
Roundtable. A leader in Israel Bonds for over a decade, she has been instrumental in introducing the
concept of the working woman as a vital participant in
Linda Hirschhorn
"Linda sings the songs of
struggle and joy that refuel
our daily lives and proudly
brings her Jewish heritage
to her work," says Holly
Near. The program is sponsored by the Columbus
Jewish Singles and the New
Jewish Agenda, and there
will be a raffle during the
brunch for a pair of tickets to
Hirschhorn's concert later
on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Hillel Foundation at OSU.
Artistic signing for the
hearing impaired will be
provided by Laura Kolb.
The cost of the brunch is $3
for Center members and
New Jewish Agenda members and $4.50 for non-
members. For reservations
and information, call Jeanie
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