Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1987-10-29

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OCTOBER 29,1987-CHESHVAN 6
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
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Women's league For Conservative Judaism
Warned About Administration's Social Agenda
Pictured (1. to r.) at the Wexner Major Gifts Event
are Norman L. Traeger, 1988 general campaign chairman; Leslie H. Wexner, Major Gifts Dinner host; Abba
Eban; and Alan Wasserstrom, 1988 associate
campaign chairman;
$4,800,000 Raised To Date
In '88 Federation Campaign
The 1988 Jewish Community Campaign of the Columbus Jewish Federation announced a historic Campaign total to date of
$4,800,000 at the close of the
annual Major Gifts Event on
Oct. 12, representing an 11
percent increase over the
same commitment's 1987
value.
The event was chaired by
community leader Leslie H.
Wexner, co-hosted with
Bella Wexner. The featured
speaker, U.N. Ambassador
Abba Eban, who is a political
leader, author and historian
and played a key diplomatic
role in the founding of the
State of Israel.
Norman L, Traeger,
general campaign chairman, and Alan Wasserstrom, associate general
campaign chairman, noted
that the Major Gifts Event is
one of many fundraising
events and activities
scheduled for the 1988 Jewish Community Campaign.
The 1988 Campaign goal is
$6,450,000.
Eban's remarks to the 90
people present focused on
the relationship between
Israel's development and
Diaspora Jewry's role in
shaping that development.
He noted that the partnership between the people and
the government of Israel and
world Jewry is a unique one
in modern world history —
one that is still in its developmental stages.
Eban indicated that
decisions that affect the very
nature of Israeli society
should involve input from
Jews throughout the world,
not only those in Israel. The
ultimate political decisions
must remain in the power of
the Knesset, but it would be
wrong to exclude Diaspora
Jews from expressing their
opinions and concerns,      ,
The 1988 Jewish Community Campaign of the Colum-
buS; Jewish Federation js the
primary instrument for raising funds which support
humanitarian programs and
social services in Columbus,
Israel and throughout the
'world.
For more information
about the Campaign call the
Federation at 237-7686.
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The Reagan administration
will try to push through by
executive action the "right
wing" social agenda it has
been unable to get Congress
to adopt, a Jewish spokesman warned last week.
Rabbi David Saperstein,
co-director and counsel of
the Religious Action Center
of Reform Judaism, told the
200 women attending the 20th
biennial World Affairs Conference of the Women's
League for Conservative
Judaism that the administration has given up on trying to achieve its goals
through legislative means.
"They will now turn to
executive fiat and administrative regulations to win
victories in such areas as
abortion, school prayer and
immigration, in which they
have the full support of the
nation's right wing forces,"
Saperstein said. As examples, he pointed to the continued reduction of federal
support for family planning
and the order to public
funded health facilities not to
provide information on abortion.
He urged the Women's
League members from
across the nation to "be ever
vigilant" to prevent this effort from succeeding.
The Women's League cited
its 1982 resolution opposing
any move to stop funds or
services oh abortion.
"Reverence for life is the
cornerstone of our Jewish
heritage," the resolution
said. "Since abortion in Jewish law is primarily for the
mother's physical or mental,
. welfare, we deplore the burgeoning casual use of abbr-;
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Plans
Nov. 8 Membership Recruitment Night
The B'nai B'rith Youth
Organization's (BBYO's)
Membership Recruitment
Night is planned for Nov. 8
from 5-8 p.m. at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center. The
evening will feature a boardwalk, including games,
prizes, food and fun.' The
night's highlight will be the
Arnett Howard's, Creole
Funk Band, playing reggae,
calypso and Jamaican
music.
"BBYOers are eagerly
awaiting the event for the
fun and friends it is sure to
bring," says Jenny Goldstein and Jeff Bornstein,
Membership Recruitment
Night chairpersons.
"But just what is BBYO?
Another boring youth group?
Adult run-and-planned programs? A purposeless youth
group? No!," they say. B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization is
made up of BBG (B'nai
B'rith Girls) and AZA
(Aleph Zadik Aleph), the
boys' division. Each division
is made up of chapters, and
currently Columbus has six
chapters (three , of each),
with a total of more than 150
members.
AZA and BBG have similar, but not identical,
"folds." The programming
goals of BBG are to plan programs regularly in six
"folds" or areas: Sisterhood, Creativity, Jewish
Heritage, Community Service, Social Action and
, Recreation.  The program-:
tion. Abortion should be legally available, but ethically
restricted ... and must not
be undertaken lightly."
, The two-day conference
opened with a call to the
Democratic and Republican
parties to launch an educational campaign to ensure
that women will have an
equal opportunity with men
to seek elective office, in-
Rabbi Klaperman To Speak
At Zion Lodge Installation
ming goals of AZA are
Brotherhood, Jewish Heritage, Community Service,
Recreation and Athletic.
Both AZA and BBG plan programs regularly, either as a
chapter, with another AZA
or BBG chapter or as a city,
inviting all six chapters. Upcoming programs include a
city-wide touch football
league, leaf raking as a fundraiser, sleepovers, community service projects,
challah baking and a "Polaroid Panic" program.
At BBYO's Membership
Recruitment Night, teens in
grades 9 through 12 will be
dancing to Arnett Howard's
Band, playing games on the
Boardwalk, learning a little
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The Zion Lodge #62 of the
B'nai B'rith announces the
election and installation of
officers for the 1987-88 year
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman
on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at the
Agudas Achim Synagogue at
7:30 p.m. The proposed slate
of officers is: president —
Lawrence A. Rubenstein;
vice president — Richard
Golden; Secretary —- Allen
Bornstein; treasurer — Marvin Horkin, and trustees —
Willard Bornstein, Judge
Harry Goldstein, Richard
Gurvitz, DVM, and Leo
Weinberg.
This meeting also presents
the I.W. Garek Memorial
Address, given this year by
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman,
who headed the delegation
that spoke with the Pope
earlier this year in Rome
concerning many issues important to all Jews. A brief
question and answer period'
will follow his address.
A dessert reception immediately follows the meeting and address. The general
public is invited. There will
be no solicitation or admission charge.
State Of Israel Bonds To Honor
Memory Of Alvin Schottenstein
"The State of Israel will
award the Jerusalem Medal
of Peace, posthumously, to
Alvin E. Schottenstein at an
Israel Bonds Community
Dinner on Sunday, Dec. 6, at
the Hyatt Regency Hotel,"
announced Harlan Ruben,
Dinner chairman and president of Central Ohio Division, State of Israel Bonds.
"The name of Alvin Schottenstein is synonymous with
Israel and Israel Bonds,"
added Tribute Chairman
Bernard R. Ruben. "As we
begin our preparations to
celebrate Israel's 40th Birthday this coming May, it is
only natural to think of Alvin
and his dreams for our people. It is fitting that as we
celebrate, we pay tribute to
those who showed us the
way."
The Israel Bond Organization is a major source of
development capital for Israel having provided over $8
billion since its inception to
help build every aspect of
the nation's eqoriqmy., Israel
Bonds' ^rocee'ds; channeled
through Israel's Development Budget, help to finance
industrial and agriculture
projects, the construction of
highways and harbors, the
expansion of communications and transport, the
building of new towns and
the development of new
sources of energy.
Alvin Schottenstein
For further information,
call Israel Bonds, 239-7212.
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eluding the presidency.
"We are deeply disturbed
by the American political
candidate selection process
which fails to exercise fair
consideration of female
candidates," Evelyn Auer-
bach, president of the
Women's League, said in letters to Frank Fahrenkopf,
chairman of the Republican
Party, and his Democratic
counterpart, Paul Kirk.
The letter read to the conference participants
stressed that women would
seek the presidency "if they
felt they would be given an
even chance by those who
choose candidates."
Dr. Dorothy Rubenstein
To M.C. Amit Women's
Annual Dinner, Nov. 8
Dr. Dorothy Rubenstein
will M.C. the annual Amit
Women fund raising dinner
on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 5:30
p.m. at Congregation
Ahavas Sholom, 2568- E.
Broad St.
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Amit Women has been a
federated organization since
1925. In the 62 years of its
existence, it has grown from '
heavy emphasis on agriculture to pioneering courses in
biotechnology and sophisticated electronics and community centers where young
working mothers can leave
their children and know that,
they will receive tender loving care.
Israel's Ministry of Education recognized the excellence of performance of this
organization and so designated Amit Women as its
official RESHET (Network)
for religious secondary technological education.
Through the years, Amit
Women (formerly Mizrachi
Women) accepted the challenge of meeting its responsibilities when it integrated
children from the Holocaust,
from the "Magic Carpet,"
escapees from oppression of
Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq and the
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