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VOL. 67   NO. 12
MARCH 23,1989-ADARII16
Dovofed fo American
. and Jewish Ideals.
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e. Cohn Named
To Task Force
Gerald N. Cohn, executive
vice president of Heritage
Village, has been named to
the Blue Ribbon Task Force
of the combined North
American Association of
Jewish Homes and Housing
for the Aging (NAJHHA)
and Council of Jewish Federations.
\.
Gerald Cohn
The appointment was
made by Dennis Magid,
president of NAJHHA, at the
association's recent annual
conference in San Francisco.
"I know of the great and
urgent pressures and problems facing Jewish Federations, communities and
homes at the moment,"
stated Herbert Shore, Ed.D.,
executive vice president of
NAJHHA, "and we must not
delay addressing these
issues."
Cohn said, "I was pleased
to be asked to serve on the
Blue Ribbon task force. I
believe that the needs of
Jewish frail elderly are
among the highest priorities
of the Jewish community
today and in the future."
Jack Hanna will be among the special "guest auctioneers" at Passport '89 at the Jewish Center on April
1. Other guest auctioneers are sportscaster Barry Katz
and John Frank of the San Francisco'49ers.
Celebrity Auctioneers Announced
For Center's April 1 Passport '89
The Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center's third annual social
gala, •'Passport '89: Travel
Through Time," will feature
both silent > and live auctions
and special appearances by
three celebrities. Joining the
festivities as "guest auctioneers" will be Columbus Zoo
Director Jack Hanna,
WBNS-TV Sports Anchor
Barry Katz of Channel 10
and San Francisco '49er
John Frank, who plays tight
end for the Super Bowl
champs.
"We are excited that these
great  celebrities  will  be
JFS Resettlement Committee
Holds First Meeting March 2
Thursday evening, March
2, marked the first meeting
of Jewish Family Services'
Resettlement Committee,'
with Miriam Yenkin reporting on the national and international status of the resettlement effort. Yenkin had
just returned from Vienna,
Rome and Israel,
Committee chairs, Rabbi
Harold Berman and Holly
Kastan, presented the committee with its charge.
Rabbi Berman stated, "We
are not here to debate the
complex theoretical issues of
resettlement. We are here to
create a concrete plan to
care for our people from the
Soviet Union who are joining
us to make a life in our community."
Kastan explained that in
order to be successful, the
resettlement plan must address not only the physical
needs of the New Americans
(former Soviet Jews  now
living in Columbus), but
must consist of a concerted
effort to bring them into the
Columbus Jewish community lives and homes.
The Columbus plan will
have two cornerstones.
Karen Milenthal, Sharon
Goodman and Rhona GUI,
chairwomen for the "Family
Ties" family adoption pro-
. gram are heading the effort
to match a minimum of two
Columbus families with each
New American family.
Rabbi Steven Engel, chair
of the Education Committee,
explained that substantive
Jewish education will be a
significant component of the
English as a Second Language Program (ESL). The
education process provides a
critical opportunity for a
people who have been denied
access to Jewish religious
culture and traditions.
The New Americans com-
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joining us for what promises
to be the social event of the
year," says Carol Lujjer,
Passport '89 chairperson.
"We are expecting hundreds
of Center members and
friends to join us for an
evening of fun, food and frolicking. The entire community is invited to 'Travel
Through Time'with us I"
A certified auctioneer will
also be present to award
dozens of goods, services,
vacation getaways and "fantasies" to the highest bidders. All proceeds will support Jewish Center programs and services.
Passport '89 will be held
Saturday evening, April 1,
beginning at 8:30 p.m. at the
Center, and features dinner
delicacies, an open bar,
casino activities, dancing,
desserts and wonderful decorations in accordance with
the "Travel Through Time"
theme. Tickets are still
available during the next
few days at the Center's
front desk.
Arens Warns U.S. Jewish Leaders
ail In S
Tr
f Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Speaking in almost apocalyptic terms last week
Israeli Foreign Minister
Moshe Arens warned leaders
of American Jewry not to
allow the world to" drive a
wedge between them and
Israel.
"During the Holocaust, it
is agreed that the American
Jewish leadership did not do
everything it could have
done or should have done,"
said Arens. "Let that be an
object lesson that we never
again fail to live up to our
responsibilities."
Arens delivered his warning to the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
after meeting with President
Bush and his top foreign policy advisers.
During Arens' meetings
with Bush and Secretary of
State James Baker, the
Americans were said to be
exploring immediate steps
to improve the atmosphere
between Israelis and Palestinians. These were reported
to include reductions in the
Israeli troop presence in the
territories and a Palestinian
moratorium on violent
demonstrations there.
Arens said his government
is proceeding on a "three-
track program": trying to
bring Jordan's King Hussein
„ to the peace table, finding
Palestinian "interlocutors"
with whom to tdlk and urging other Arab countries to
follow Egypt's lead in making peace.
He called Israel's struggles in the Middle East "a
battle between civilizations,
between cultures."
The Palestinian uprising,
he conceded, is based on
legitimate grievances and
aspirations. "But over arid
above those desires and
aspirations, and the squalor
of the refugee camps, is an
element of fanaticism, brutality, Islamic fundamental-
Majority Of U.S. Jews Favor Talks With PLO
NEW YORK (JTA)-A 58
percent majority of American Jews say Israel should
be willing to (talk with the
Palestine Liberation Organization, as long as it recognizes Israel and renounces
terrorism, a new study
reports.
But only 14 percent of
American Jews think Israel
should talk with the PLO
without these conditions and-
nearly nine out of ten still
regard the PLO as a terrorist organization.
The study also shows that
despite discomfort over the
Palestinian uprising, and
even more anguish over the
"Who Is a Jew" issue,
American Jewish support
for Israel remains virtually
unchanged since 1986.
The study lays to rest
impressions that recent
events in the Middle East
have led American Jews to
distance themselves from
Israel, said Steven Cohen,
the Queens College sociology
professor who conducted the
survey on behalf of the
American Jewish Committee's Institute on American
Jewish—Israeli Relations.
ism and Palestinian radicalism so characteristic of the
region in Which we live," he
said.
Arens reproached Jews
who see the conflict in anything less than those terms.
His listeners applauded each
time he criticized American
Jews and Israelis who have
met with members of the
Palestine Liberation Orga
nization, which he accused of
"some of the worst atrocities
since World War II."
Arens said he "couldn't
understand" the five American Jews who met with PLO
leader Yasir Arafat in Stockholm in December. "Why
any Jew, or any self-respecting person, would want to do
that, I have no answer," he
said.
Federation Encourages
Support For Legislation
To Aid Soviet Jews
During the past year,
there has been a new exodus
of Jews allowed to emigrate
from the Soviet Union,
spurred perhaps by the outpouring of some 250,000 people demonstrating in Washington, D.C, during Premier
Gorbachev's December 1987
visit. From 896 Jews allowed
to leave in 1986, the Soviet
Union has permitted approximately 18,000 Jews to
emigrate in 1988.
There are many Soviet
Jews still not allowed to emigrate because they are
deemed to allegedly,have
"knowledge of secret information."
However, Soviet Jews now
face the barrier of quotas
imposed by law. and implemented by the immigration
policy of the United States
government: There are some
7,500 Soviet Jews now in
Rome and surrounding communities awaiting processing and status determination
to the preferred category of
refugee. An emigrant classified as "refugee" is eligible
for immediate government
benefits and does not need
family to enter the U.S.
A number of Soviet Jews
have been classified by representatives of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS) as immigrants with "no well founded
fear of persecution" despite
the pogroms and anti-Sem-
tism experienced throughout
Russian history.
A bill has been introduced
by Senator Robert Kasten
(R-Wisconsin), Senator Ted
Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)
and Representative Howard
Berman (D-California) to
double the number of refugee "slots" for Soviet emigrants to 50,000 and provide
an additional $150 million to
pay for processing and resettlement.
The Community Relations
Council (CRC) of the Columbus Jewish  Federation' is
encouraging community
members to write- or.,,'.call
their representatives and
senators. "Let the legislators know that the Columbus
Jewish community supports
this legislation and would
like their support in passing
the bill," states Bonnie
Milenthal, CRC chairwoman. ■.-„..■'
Local legislators, are:
Representative John R.
Kasich, (202) 225-5355, 1133
Longworth, Washington, D.
C7 20515; Representative
Chalmers P. Wylie, (202)
225-2015, 2310 Rayburn,
Washington, D. C. 20515;
Senator John H. Glenn, (202)
224-3121, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C. 20510;
Senator Howard Metzenbaum, (202) 224-3121, Senate
Office Building, Washington,
DC. 20510.
Letters or telephone contacts with senators or representatives can note the following:
• After the many difficulties faced by Soviet Jews in
leaving the Soviet Union
there are now additional hurdles in their path while being
processed through Rome.
Not only are additional refugee slots needed, but the process should be streamlined.
• For every dollar of
Federal support, the Jewish
community expends considerable resources in resettling Soviet Jews in the community. This effort is a real
partnership.
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