Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1989-01-12

              VOL. 67   NO. 2
JANUARY 12,1989-SHEVAT6
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
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the Friends of Hillel on March 6.
Friends Of Hillel To Feature
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
The Friends of Hillel will
host the eighth annual Leon
Schottenstein Memorial Reception at the Hillel Foundation on Monday, March 6, at
6:15 p.m. The cocktail buffet
reception will immediately
^precede the B p.m. perfor-
yriiance of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted
by Zubin Mehta in the Mer-
shon Auditorium of The Ohio
State University.
Friends of Hillel is the
community support organization for the B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation at The
Ohio State University. The
membership dues and donations it receives are a major
source of funding for Hillel
programming. The Leon
Schottenstein reception is at
the center of a campaign expected to raise one-half of
the funds needed for Hillel's
program efforts on behalf of
Jewish students at Ohio
State.
The tradition of the annual
Friends of Hillel event began
in 1982 with a reception
honoring Zubin Mehta and
the Israel Philharmonic. The
tradition continued with receptions and performances
of Vladimir Ashkenazy,
Eugenia Zukerman, Yehudi
Menuhin, .Pinchas Zukerman, the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Giora Feidman.
The 1989 reception will
allow friends and patrons to
socialize and enjoy a cocktail buffet before the concert
beginsr  7 :; 7 .
Gregg Robins, vice-president of fundraising, serves
as chairman for this year's
' Friends of Hillel Reception.
v. Serying With him on the committee are: Hannah Collin,
Barbara Greenberg, Janet
Kushkin, Ina' Rosenthal,
Suzie Rudolph and Stanley
Yenkin.
A Friends of Hillel membership is $30 per person ($50
per couple), and tickets to
the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra concert are available through Friends of Hillel for an additional $35 each.
Members of the community
are invited to become patrons of Hillel for $175. Patrons receive two memberships in the Friends of Hillel,
two tickets to the Leon Schottenstein Memorial Reception and two tickets to the
performance of the Israel
philharmonic following the
reception.
For further information,
call Gilda Abramson at
294-4797.
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NEW YORK (JTA) -
American Jewish organizations are getting involved on
both sides of the first case to
come before the U.S. Supreme Court that examines
the display of a Jewish reliT
gious symbol on public property.
The high court will probably hear Oral arguments
in the case during the spring
session, according to Samuel
Rabinove, legal director of
the American Jewish Committee.
Arguments in the case
almost certainly will be
heard .before the court recesses for the summer, he
told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
The plaintiffs in the
original case, the American
Civil Liberties Union and the
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith, are asking the
Supreme Court to affirm a
U.S. Court of Appeals decision barring public displays
of a Christmas nativity
scene  and  a  Chanukah
menorah on government
property in Pittsburgh
during the holiday season.
Friend-of-the-court briefs
in support of the plaintiffs
have been filed jointly by the
American Jewish Committee and the National Council
of Churches, as well as by
the American Jewish Congress on behalf of the National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory CouncU
and itself.
The Supreme Court in recent years has dealt with
complaints against the display of a nativity scene or
creche on public property,
but never a menorah or
other Jewish religious symbol.
The menorah in question
belongs to the Chabad-Luba-
vitch organization, a Hasidic
movement. The creche is the
property of the Holy Name
Society, a Roman Catholic
organization. Both are seeking to overturn the lower
court ruling.
Nathan Lewin, a Washing-
Jewish Center's Sports Hall Of Fame
To Induct Three At Jan. 15 Ceremony
Three Jewish athletes will
have their names added to
the list of Jewish Sports Hall
of Famers at a ceremony
and dessert buffet to be held
at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan.
15, at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, 1125 College Aye.
was an award-winning badminton player during the
1940s. He won singles championships in several tournaments, including the City
Badminton Tournament, the
Greater Columbus Badminton tournament (as an
OSU student), the Southwestern Ohio Badminton
Tournament and was, the
winner of the 1947 Central
Ohio Badminton Championship. He was also a member
of the 1941 Humphrey
Heaters, who Were the'
champions of the Schonthal
Basketball League that
year. In addition, Levinstein
was an accomplished tennis
player at OSU between 1946
and 1949. He and his partner,
, Levinstein, a Varsity-0
athlete, was also successful
in the business world at a
young age. In 1949 he
dropped out of OSU's School
of Journalism at the beginning of his senior year to sell
his "Joe College Jr."
sweaters. These sweaters,
which were miniature Ohio
State letter sweaters, were
such a hit that a successful
Arnold Levinstein
The 1988 inductees are Arnold Levinstein, Leonard
Schiff and Barry Zacks.
"The Center is' proud to be
celebrating the Hall of
Fame's 10th year by inducting these outstanding local
athletes," says David Valinsky, Jewish Sports Hall of
Fame Committee chairman.
"Their successful involvement in the athletic arena
distinguishes them as being
positive role models for our
community."
Levinstein, a former
Columbus resident who now
resides in Dania, Florida,
ton attorney, is representing
Chabad. Lewin is a vice
president of the National
Jewish Commission on Law
and Public Affairs, widely
known as COLPA.
COLPA informed JTA it,
too, has filed a friendiof-the-
Dr. Irving Fried
To Be Honored
On' Friday, Jan. 27, at
11:45 a.m., Columbus Torah
Academy officers, students
and friends will share in the
dedication of a sculpture in
honor of Dr. Irving Fried.
Leonard Schiff
Dr. Tom Williams, won the
City Doubles Championship
in 1949.
Barry Zacks
business corporation composed of Levinstein and two
others was eventually
formed.
Schiff played a variety, of
sports as a young man but
excelled iat tennis. In high
school, Schiff won three Central District tennis doubles
championships and as a Bexley High School senior, in
1945, was the State Tennis
Doubles champion. He and
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Dr. Irving Fried
The life-size sculpture by
Alfred Tibor is mounted in a
garden setting, conceived by
Larry Ruben, a former
president of Columbus Torah
Academy Board.
The sculpture will welcome students and visitors to
Torah Academy. It was commissioned by the school to
honor Dr. Fried, who served
as principal of Torah Academy for 28 years.
A small, identical sculpture was given to Dr. Fried.
Friends, parents and
members of the community
are invited to the dedication
at 11:45 a.m. If they wish to
remain to greet Dr. Fried, a
luncheon will be served at
noon at the school.
It is necessary to make' a
luncheon reservation' by •
confirming with Linda
Smith, Torah Academy,
864-0299, by Jan. 24.
Luncheon is $10 per person.
Community Shabbat
Set For Weekend
The seven congregations
of Columbus will be participating in the Community
Shabbat Jan. 13-14, sponsored in cooperation with the
Columbus Jewish Federation. This program is being
held by the congregations in
support of the annual Jewish
Community Campaign,
CommUNITY for the 90's,
which benefits individuals,
families, congregations and
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court brief on behalf of
several national Orthodox
Jewish organizations in support of the Chabad position.
The ADL, co-counsel with "
the ACLU in the case of
ACLU y. County of Allegheny (Pa.), represents
Malik Tunador, a Moslem.
He testified that as an Allegheny County taxpayer, he
felt excluded by the erection
of a menorah on the steps of
the Pittsburgh City-County
Building and the annual
placement of a creche in the
Allegheny County Courthouse.
The U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit in
Philadelphia ruled last
March 15 that the establishment clause of the U.S.
Constitution's First Amendment prohibits the display of
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Community College
To Open Semester
With Discussion
The Community College"
for Adult Jewish Studies,
housed at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, li25 College
Ave., will open its Winter
Semester with a panel discussion on: "Who is a Jew?"
at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,
Jan. 19, at the Center. The
discussion is free and open tp
the public.
. "A proposed amendment
to Israel's Law of Return has
caused a furor in the American Jewish community,"
says Judy Blair, Community
College chairwoman. "Join
us for a short presentation on
the history of the Law of Return, followed by a panel discussion with three area
rabbis, and form your own
opinion ... based on the
facts."
This opening program will
be moderated by Yehiel
Hayon, professor of Hebrew
Language and Israeli culture at the Ohio State
University. The panel will be
comprised of Rabbi Harold
Berman, Congregation
Tifereth Israel; Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld, Temple Israel,
and Rabbi David Stavsky,
Beth Jacob Congregation.
A reception with refreshments will follow the discussion.     *  :   ■  ■
The Community College
for Adult Jewish Studies is a
complete adult education
program sponsored by all ^
local synagogues and Jewish
educational institutions.
. For more information,
contact Reuven Spero at the
Jewish Center, 231-2731.
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