Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1988-03-03

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VOL.66   NO. 9
MARCH 3,1988-ADAR 14
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Tickets Selling Out
For Feidman Concert
Tickets are selling out for
the March 7 performance of
the Giora Feidman Trio at
Agudas Achim Synagogue.
The concert sponsored by
the Jewish Student Activities
Board of the OSU Hillel
Foundation, is expected to
draw over 600 people. The
concert will begin at 8 p.m.
at Agudas Achim Synagogue, 2767 E. Broad St.
Feidman enjoys an international reputation as spearheading a large scale international revival of klezmer or "Jewish soul music."
The Miami Herald calls him
"a world class musician, an
accomplished showman ...
also recognized as the leading authority on Jewish folk
music. For a non-Jewish audience, the closest equivalent would probably be the
Preservation Hall Jazz
Band."
Dan Newman, student
chairman for this event, expressed great enthusiasm
for the concert. "It will be
1 the highlight of the Columbus Jewish community's
arts calendar this year.
Feidman is incredible," he
noted.
Tickets to the concert are
$12.50 for members of the
community and $7.50 for students and senior citizens.
Tickets are available by
Visa/MC at 294-4797 and also
on sale directly at Agudas
Achim, Beth Jacob, Beth
Shalom, Beth Tikvah, Temple Israel, Tifereth Israel,
Bexley Kosher Market,
Martin's Kosher Foods, Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center,
Columbus Jewish Federation, and the B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation (46 E. 16th
Ave. on the OSU campus).
ANNOUNCED AT CELEBRATION LUNCHEON
$6,400,000 Projected Final Achievement
Of 1988 Jewish Community Campaign
Young Hadassah Patients
Share In Joy Of Purim
Volunteers at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical
Center's Pediatrics Department serve hamantaschen,
traditional pastries, to a young patient during a special
observance of Purim for ailing children. Costumes,
masks and performances of the story of Esther —,
"Hadassah" in Hebrew — by noted Israeli performers
contribute to the festivities.
Norman L. Traeger, 1988
General Campaign chairman, announced a projected
final achievement $6,400,000
for the 1988 Jewish Community Campaign before a
crowd of 160 community
leaders at the celebration
luncheon \ on February 23.
Traeger, along with Campaign Associate Chairman
Alan Wasserstrom, presented a four by eight foot
replica of a check to Columbus Jewish Federation
President B. Lee Skilken.
The Campaign Celebration
Luncheon featured testimonials of how programs
and services supported by
the Campaign have touched
the lives of community
members and also honored
the cdmmitment over the
past months by workers and
leadership of the 1988 Campaign. The afternoon culminated with a presentation to
Norman L. Traeger for his
dedicated leadership as general chairman for the past
two campaign years.
Skilken congratulated
Traeger and the entire '88
Campaign team and noted,
"During the two years of
leadership that you have
given our community as
Campaign chairman, we
have seen tremendous
growth and success. You
have set a standard of
leadership—of intense commitment to building this
Jewish community and to
strengthening Jewish life
worldwide..."
In addition, Campaign
volunteer workers and
leadership  were  given
special awards. Another
highlight of the celebration
includedVthe, announcement
of Alan Wasserstrom as the
1989 Columbus Jewish Community Campaign General
Chairman.
The Campaign is the primary instrument for raising
funds which support humanitarian programs and social
services in Columbus, Israel
and throughout the world. In.
addition, funding is provided
for Central Ohio educational
programs.
The Columbus Jewish
Federation is the central
fundraising, community
relations, leadership development, planning and
budgeting organization of
the Columbus Jewish community. For additional information, call 237-7686.
INSIDE ISRAEL
Israeli Jews, Arabs Favor Opposite, Radical Solutions
By Hugh Orgel
.    (© 1988, JTA, Inc.)
Israeli Jews and Palestinians tend to favor opposite
radical solutions to their conflict, according to a 1985
study just released by two
leading Israeli sociologists.
Nearly 43 percent of the
Jews agree that annexing
the West Bank and Gaza
Strip and expelling their
Arab population was an acceptable resolution to the
conflict, the study found.
It also disclosed that
Arabs within Israel and on
the West Bank are strongly
Center Designates March
'Aquatics Mitzvah Month'
March, designated as
"Aquatics Mitzvah Month",
will enable swimmers at the
Leo Yassenoff JewishCenter
to swim for themselves and
help others at the same time,
according to Polly True,
Aquatics" Director.
Opportunities include the
Harold Monett Swim Marathon all month and the 13th
Annual Swim-For-Diabetes
March 6. In addition, swimmers with disabilities who
are in the Center's Red Cross
Adapted Aquatics Program
will take part in an Adapted
Swim for Diabetes which
will be held today, Thursday,
March 3, to raise funds for
the Central Ohio Diabetes
Association. This program is
free and open to the public.
The Harold Monett Swim
Marathon enables lap swimmers to keep track of the
mileage they swim at the
Jewish Center during the
mohth. For a $15 fee, "all
participants will be winners" with T-shirts, certificates and an awards brunch
in April. To register, or for
more information, contact
the Recreation and Wellness
Department.
American Red Cross
"Swim & Stay Fit" offers
members the opportunity to
realize their progress.
Participants aim for 50 miles
and record mileage on the
pool chart to earn an American Red Cross certificate.
The program is open to all
ages.
Center members can join
„ the L'Chaim Club, the
newest Center club, to chart
mileage when they swim,
walk (or jog) and bike,
(Swim 180 miles, walk or jog
360 miles or bike 720 miles
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united in favor of an independent Palestinian state, while
most Israelis deeply oppose
it. "'>'. '   -7
These are some of the
main conclusions of research by Professor
Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar,
dean of the faculty of social
sciences at Tel Aviv University, and Professor Michael
Inbar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The authors point out that
this was the first study directly to compare the views
of the Israeli Arab, West
Bank Arab and Israeli Jewish populations.
Some 1,800 Israelis—about
two-thirds Jewish and one-
third Arab and representing
all segments of the adult
population — were interviewed for the survey.
Because of budgetary constraints, the West Bank
sample was limited to 200
young, urban males—on the
principle that they represent
the most politically aware
group in the population.
All interviewees were presented with ten possible solutions to the problem of the
West Bank and Gaza Strip:
• A Palestinian state that
would expel the Jews.
• A bi-national state with
equal. rights, for Jews and
Palestinians.
.> An independent Palestinian state within pre-1967
borders.
• A Jordanian-Palestinian
state within pre-1967 borders.
• An independent Palestinian state with border
modifications in accordance
with Israel's security needs.
■" • A Jordanian-Palestinian
state, with border modifications.
• Full autonomy to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
• Continuation of the status
quo.
• Annexation of the occupied territories to Israel,
without expulsion of the
Palestinians. ;
• Participants in the study
were asked to choose their
"ideal" solution to the conflict and then an "acceptable" solution.
After surveying the views
of Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs
and West Bank Palestinians,
the study found that West
Bankers would accept no solution that falls short of an
independent Palestinian
state—preferably one which
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replaces Israel. A minority
was willing to accept a
Palestinian state alongside
Israel.
Among the Jews, opinion
was so fragmented that no
solution was able to muster a
simple majority. The solution that gained most favor
as acceptable—43 percent-
was annexation of the administered territories and
expulsion of, the Palestinians.
That solution was found to
be ideal by 30 percent of the
Jews questioned.
Thirty-five percent of West
Bank Palestinians favored
replacing Israel with a
Palestinian state and expelling the Jewish population
while 53 percent found such a
solution acceptable.
Israeli Arabs were more
moderate than either Jews
or West Bankers. Eleven
percent found desirable the
establishment of a Palestinian state that would expel its
Jewish residents, while 23
percent said this would be
acceptable.
Among Jews, the second-
place idea in acceptability
was the Jordanian-Palestinian state with modified borders, which mustered 37.6
percent. But Palestinians
generally rejected this
notion — 12.9 percent of
Palestinians and 20.7 percent of Israeli Arabs found
the idea acceptable.
The West Bank Palestinians and Israeli Arabs—in
contrast to the deeply divided Jews — were strongly
united. A majority of West
Bankers, as well as 78 percent of Israeli Arabs, said
they would accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Almost any solution involving some kind of independent state was found acceptable by West Bank Palestinians, with 64 percent saying
they could support a bi-national democratic state, 54
percent a Palestinian state
on the West Bank and Gaza
and 45 percent a Palestinian
state with modified borders.
This last proposal was ac-
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PURIM
SPIRIT
Purim — the happy
noisem'aker among all
holy days — is a joyous
festival celebrating the
deliverance from
Hainan's plot to destroy
the Jewish people in the
days of the Babylonian
exile. It is celebrated on
the 14th day of Adar,
this year the evening of
March 2 and on March 3.
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