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VOL.66   NO. 34
AUGUST 25, 1988-ELUL 12
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Finland To Sell
Oil To Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) -Finland may soon begin selling
excess Soviet oil to Israel,
according to a recent report
in the Israeli daily Haaretz.
According to the paper, an
agreement to this effect has
already been signed between
the two countries, though the
subject is being blacked out
by both sides due to the
sensitivities involved.
Israel's Energy Minister
Moshe Shahal visited Finland last year and met with
his Finnish counterpart in
order to discuss the issue.
The paper wrote that a
commercial agreement has
how been signed between A newly elected slate of of-
Finland and the Soviet ficers and members of the
Union, by which Finland will Board 0f Trustees of the
obtain 4.5 million tons of Beth Jacob Congregation
Soviet oil in excess of its own were installed at a special
needs. The USSR will in turn ceremony conducted by
permit the Finns to sell the R^bi David stavsky on
excess oil on the free Aug. 10 in the main sane-
market, tuary. A reception followed
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Heading the slate of of-
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Classified 12 president. Beatrice Binsky is
Edrtotfal Features   2,3 recording secretary.  Hani
Here Aud There 14 Hara is financial secretary.
Marfct Place 18 Henry Schwarz is treasurer.
Obituarieu 12 Ronald Golden is chairman
Social News to, 11 of the board. Morris Weins-
Syiiflgogue Services...... 12 tock is Gabbai Rishon, and
'"    "  Bob Binsky, past president,
Arab Committee Putting Anti-Israel
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WASHINGTON - For the
next 30 days, the American-
Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee will be posting
two advertisements in Washington's Metro Rail subway
system, one of which asks
members of Congress to
"just say no" to unconditional U.S. aid to Israel.
The Jewish Community
Council of Greater Washington, which represents 215
synagogues and Jewish organizations, wrote the
Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority saying it was "anguished by the odious and
misleading nature" of the
advertisements, while respecting the Anti-Discrimination Committee's First
Amendment rights.
A poster entitled "Israel
Putting Your Tax Dollars to
New officers and members of the Board of Trustees
of Beth Jacob Congregation were installed on Aug. 10.
Jack Rubin Elected President
Of Beth Jacob Congregation
will serve as advisor.
Rubin, a native of Lancaster, is the son of Jeannette Rubin and the late
Harry Rubin. He attended
University High School and
then went on to Ohio State
University. Rubin enlisted in
the United States Air Force
and served at Samson Air
Force Base in New York. He
was discharged in 1952 and
entered in his late father's
business, Marco Records.
While at Ohio State University, he met Lois Wolff, and
they were married in 1955.
They have three sons. They
are the grandparents of six.
Rubin joined the Beth
Jacob Congregation in 1970
and has been an active member ever since. In 1978, he
was elected to the Board of
Trustees, and in 1985 he became recording secretary.
Rubin's paternal grandmother, Mrs. Roby Rubin,
came from one of the founding families of Beth Jacob
Congregation.
Rubin also serves as a
member of Heritage House
and is president of Paint
Products, Inc., and vice
president of Wood Delight.
His interests include playing
golf and photography.
Installed with Rubin were
the following officers, honorary board members, past
presidents: Bernard Ger-
son; Bernard Hirsch; Harold Tanenbaum; Dr. Charles
Young; Leonard Quinn;
Morris Weinstock; and
honorary trustee Joe Steinberg. Also installed were the
following board members:
Yehuda Bitton; Henrietta
Flox; Irv Flox; Irv Gutter;
Meyer Hoffman; Rita Hoffman; Dr. Bruce Kay; Dr.
Fred Kapetansky; Bary Leeman; Dr. Alan Levy; Moishe
Mizrachi; Joe Nichol; Dr.
Aaron Shaffer; Danny
Rosenberg; Marty Speert;
Michael Weisz; Dr. David
Yashon; Stuart Cole. Beth
Jacob Sisterhood representatives, Arlene Sapie and
Dora Kopp; Beth Jacob Representative, Marc Levison.
Rubin, said other board appointees will be announced.
Work!!" asks if "you know
that last year, American taxpayers gave Israel $1.8 billion in military aid? " as well
as $1.2 billion in economic
aid. "Only Congress can stop
this madness," the advertisement concluded.
The council responded by
arguing that the aid was
"not in form of cash but credits to be spent here" and
termed it an "economic
stimulus to America."
The other poster, lined the
rulers, cites the Soviet
Union, South Africa and Israel as constituting "1 Yardstick for Human Rights."
Both placards contain identical pictures of terrified
Palestinians confronting or
being confronted by Israeli
soldiers.
EARLY DEADLINE
Deadline For The Thursday, Sept. 8, Issue
Is Noon Thursday, Sept. 1
The OJC Office Will Be Closed
Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5
tegic Study Finds IDF Shows
mpfoms Of An Occupying Army
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
Israel Defense Force is beginning to exhibit psychological symptoms of being occupiers, a study in Israel on the
behavior* of occupying
armies in modern history indicates. ,
The study was conducted
over a four-year period by'
Dr. Yoram Peri of the Jaffee
Center for Strategic Studies
at Tel Aviv University. Its
purpose was to evaluate
what psychological effects
Israel's occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza Strip
has had on members of the
IDF.
During the course of the
four years, Peri researched
events in Israel and elsewhere, including Britain's
military involvement in
Northern Ireland. His study
will soon be published by
Westview Press of Boulder,
Colo.
Peri, who is also deputy
editor of the Israeli daily
Davar, determined a threefold process that occurs in
the occupier's psyche, beginning with development of a
"political-military doctrine"
within the army's ranks.
He found that this was followed by development of a
"self-image crisis" among
the soldiers, which finally
leads to a "crisis in civil-
military relations."
Peri found this last problem most pronounced in a
"citizen's army" where a
majority of citizens do military service.
The problem is exacerbated, he said, when there is
a division of opinion regarding the occupation, and the
subsequent resentment of
the army's actions by a segment of society.
Without general societal
support for the military, the
SloteOf Officers, Board Members
To Be Presented At Annual Meeting
Of Columbus Jewish Federation
Miriam Yenkin, Columbus
Jewish Federation's Nominating Committee chairwoman, announced that the
following slate of officers
and board members for the
1988-89 year will be presented to the membership at
the Federation's 62nd Annual Meeting on Sunday evening, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at
Beth Jacob Congregation.
President: B. Lee Skilken;
Vice Presidents: Melvin L.
Schottenstein, Ellen Siegel,
Benjamin L. Zox; Treasurer: Lawrence D. Schaf-
fer; Assistant Treasurer:
Nelson Genshaft; Secretary:
Gary Robins; Immediate
Past President: Miriam
Yenkin.
Nominated for a one-year
term on the board ending in
1989 are: Irving Barkan,
Robert Binsky, Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld, Rabbi Alan
Ciner, Henry Epstein, Peggy
Ginsburg, Herbert Glimcher, Tobi Gold, N. Victor
Goodman, Nathan Gordon,
Thomas Kaplin, Jr., Harry
Leibowitz, David Milenthal,
Jay Schottenstein, Melvin
Schottenstein, Robert H.
Schottenstein, Kenneth Warren, Alan Wasserstrom,
Raymond Wells, Leslie Wexner and Eleanore Yenkin.
Nominated for a three-
year term ending in 1991
are: Randall Arndt, Rita
Cohen, Dr> Judy Genshaft,
Sanford Goldston, Barry
Igdaloff, Marilyn Knable,
Bonnie Milenthal,  Karen
Moss, Jody Scheiman, Fred
Summer, Judith Swedlow,
Dr. Donald Sylvan, Dr. Jeffrey Tilson, Norman Traeger and Benjamin Zox.
Serving on the board for a
three-year term ending in
1989 are: Irving Baker,
Rabbi Harold Berman, Howard Burnett, William Fein,
Dr. Howard Fink, Carole
Genshaft, Nelson Genshaft,
Bradley Kastan, Dennis
Mellman, Neil Moss, Lawrence D. Schaffer, Ellen Siegel, Seyman Stern, Michael
Talis and Stanley Yenkin.
Serving on the board for a
three-year term ending in
1990 are: Ruth Ann Blank,
Margey Cheses, Diane Cummins, Edwin Ellman, Geral-
dine Ellman, Holly Kastan,
Victor Krupman, Dr. L. Robert Polster, Gary Robins,
Sylvia Schecter, B. Lee Skilken, Marilyn Skilken, Irving
Schottenstein, Rodney Wasserstrom and Gordon Zacks.
Serving on the board as
past presidents are: Sidney I. Blatt, Millard Cummins, Marvin L. Glassman,
William V. Kahn, Herman
M. Katz, Herbert S. Levy,
Norman Meizlisb, MyerW.
Mellman, Robert Mellman,
Herbert H. Schiff, Edward
Schlezinger, Harry
Schwartz, Ernest Stern,
Jack L. Wallick, Bernard K.
Yenkin, Fred Yenkin and
Miriam Yenkin.
Honorary board members
are Samuel M. Melton and
Eleanor Resler.	
army is compelled to take a
more extreme stand, which
aggravates the situation.
Peri described the potential for "severe clashes with
the government" when an
army begins to veer from the
government position following a long period of occupation, especially when confronted by rebellion within
the populace.
In its extreme, he said,
such tension between army
and government could lead
to a "full-fledged military
coup."
Peri analyzed the behavior
of individual soldiers in occupying armies and found
that lengthy occupation, in
situations of local opposition,
could produce demoralization and what he calls the
"pin-head syndrome," a tendency to" keep a low profile
and avoid responsibility.
One factor which was present prior to the uprising,
and which makes this occupation similar to other
occupations in the world, is
the presence of Israeli settlers within the territories,
forcing the military to become politicized, Peri reports. 7
But "20 years of relative
calm came to an end with the
outburst of the intifada, a
development which has influenced the whole military
structure in the territories.
"The Palestinian rebellion
resulted in an explosion of
controversy, which caused
some of the characteristics
of other occupying armies to
surface in the IDF."
Peri writes that the present situation of rebellion in
the territories demands anti-
subversive warfare measures, but that the implementation of such measures
is difficult. "
"Some of these measures,
e.g. 'the. beating policy,'
have been greatly opposed
by many citizens, and this
has led to a weakening of the
consensus," he said.
"Soldiers are experiencing
conflicts of conscience while
serving in the territories,
and the number of conscientious objectors is on the
rise."
He ends on a pessimistic
note. "It is certain that the
situation will never return to
what it was before December 1987 ... for the most
part, damaging effects will
or will not develop in the IDF
depending on the level of
subversive warfare, whether
the consensus remains
strong within Israeli society,
and most important, what
will be the political solution
to the crisis, advocated by
the government."