Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1989-06-29

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VOL.67   NO. 26
JUNE 29, 1989-SIVAN 26
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former Chairman Of NCSJ Opposes
Jackson-Vanik Amendment Waiver
Deadline for the July 6 Chronicle
was noon, Wednesday, June 28
Chronicle Office will be closed
Monday, July 3, and Tuesday, July 4
Poland To Remember First Shul Burned
After 1939 Nazi Invasion
NEW YORK (JTA) — The first synagogue in Poland
burned by the Nazis after they invaded that country in September 1939 was remembered there. A plaque was placed at
the former site of the main synagogue of Katowice; The idea
came from a group of Israelis originally from Katowice who
visited the city.
Israel Concludes Transport Deals
WithFra
PARIS (JTA) — Israel and France signed an agreement
last week for closer cooperation in the fields of transportation
and communications; It may result:in additional landing?
rights in France for Israel's national airline, El Al. J31 Al is
now allowed to land and pick up passengers in Paris and
Marseille. The right may be extended to Strasbourg or Lyon.
U.S. Rejects Austrian Request To Lift Waldheim
FromWatchUst
NEW YORK (JTA) The U.S. State Department has rejected a request from the Austrian Foreign Ministry to remove President Kurt Waldheim's name from the "watch
list" of persons barred from entering the United States, a
State Department official said last week.
PARIS (JTA) -Now is not
the time to call for a waiver
of Jackson-Vanik Amendment sanctions against the
Soviet Union, the immediate
past chairman of the National Conference on Soviet
Jewry said here last week.
"tt is premature to back a
waiver of the Jackson-Vanik
Amendment now," Morris
Abram told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an interview nine days after the National Conference decided to
back such a waiver if President Bush receives assurances in four key areas.
The Soviet Union has
made great strides forward,
but much still needs to be
done before the country can
be considered, a democracy,
said Abram, who is slated
next month,to become U.S.
ambassador to the European
headquarters of the United
Nations in Geneva.
Abram was chief U.S.
delegate to the 35-nation
Conference on Human
Dimensions, which met here
this month, v The meeting,
held under the auspices of
the Conference oh Security
and Cooperation in Europe,
was a continuation of the
process that produced the
1975 Helsinki human rights
accords. \        v
Summing up the Paris
meeting, Abram said, "What
is clear is that we got more
out of the Helsinki process
than the Soviets go out of it.
The very fact we got them
talking about human rights,
although we are not yet
satisfied with the range of
their applications, is already
a notable process."
On Jackson-Vanik, the
U.S. envoy pointed out that
the Soviets claim they have
prepared new legislation,
some 50 different laws, to
275-Pint Goal Established For
Jewish Community Blood Drive
senior citizens.
The goal is 275 pints. Type
O blood is especially in demand with O negative and 0
positive stock currently at a
one-to-two day level, according to the local Red Cross.
At times, it's been a challenge for the Red Cross to
maintain adequate supplies
of blood. Less blood is being
given at hospitals and an
increasing number of would-
be donors are turned away
for medical reasons.
The Jewish Community
Blood Donor Council, representing over 50 local Jewish
organizations, is a Columbus
Jewish Federation-funded
agency with additional support from corporate and private donations.
Local pollster Ira Gaffin
knows the value of blood and
ah organized blood drive.-
Just ask him;
The New York native, a
hemophiliac since his early
childhood, has been receiving blood or blood products
for over 40 years.
In New York, when a
member of his community
used a pint of blood, relatives or friends had to replace that pint. In Columbus,
thanks to the community's
efforts, that two for one
situation need not exist.
Gaffin and .countless
others are appreciative of efforts in the twice-yearly
Jewish 7 Community Blood
Donor 'Council drive. Last
year.Central Ohio gave over
350 pints in two drives.
On Wednesday, July 5, between 12:30 and 6:30 p.m.,
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center will be the site of the
Council's summer drive. To
be part of the drive make an
appointment to give. Call
Barbara Grundstein at
231-3696. Anyone 17 and over
may donate blood, including
Benita Zacks To Be Honored At City Of Hope Donor Event
Life member, Benita
Zacks, of Bexley, who is a
30-year member of the City
of Hope, will be honored at
the annual Donor-Luncheon,
Hi-Fashion Show on July 11
at noon at the Winding Hollow Country Club.
Zacks has presided over
the 242-member group three
terms as president. Proceeding that she filled many
other positions, becoming a
member of the Executive
Board as treasurer.
She has served in the B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization,
as well as serving on the
B'nai B'rith Board. She was
the coordinator of the Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio
B'nai B'rith Convention and
also chosen as advisor to the
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization. She served as advisor of
the ZIV Chapter of B.B.Y.O.
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Benita Zacks
She is-also active in all Berwick   "Fim  Frolics"  and
"BakerSales."
Eva Golden, Zack's
mother, is a founding member of the local chapter and
was honored for her service'
to the chapter many years
ago. Zacks will be further
honored with the special Hi-
Fashion Show of art-to-wear,
one-of-a-kind fashions, courtesy -of Vilma's Boutique,
Town and Country Shopping
Center.
Zacks has been married to
_ Arnold Zacks, Columbus attorney, for 33 years. They reside in Bexley. She is the
mother of four children:
Randy, Benjy, Sally and
Arinn. Three of her children
are married and. she has
three grandchildren: Jonathan, Jennifer and Rachel.
City of Hope is a pilot
medical center and research
hospital founded in 1913 in
Duarte, Calif. Janet
Leeman, chairwoman of the
Donor-Luncheon, stated that
all monies raised at this
special event will go directly
to the National City of Hope,
i which helps people with can-
cer, diabetes and AIDS,
Frank Diary Is
Authenticated
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
team of historians and forensic scientists working for the
Dutch government have
proved beyond a shadow of a
doubt that the diary of Anne
Frank was indeed the work
of the young author.
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Blood Day Is Wednesday, July 5
at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
12:30-6:30 p.m.      Call 231-3696 For Appointment
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Rare Judaica
Changes Hands
GENEVA (JTA) -
Judaica dealers and collectors from Europe, Canada
and the United States bid on
nearly a million and a half
dollars worth of Judaica
here last week, at an auction
organized by the Habsburg
Feidman house.
' But the item that was to
have been the highlight of
the auction, the 14th-century
Wolf Haggadah, did not go
up for sale, though the
manuscript was on display.
The Haggadah is in the
hands of a Swiss judge, who
has yet to sort, through competing claims of ownership
submitted by four separate
parties.
The Jewish communities
of East and West Berlin, the
Jewish Historical Institute of
Warsaw and an anonymous
private individual are all
claiming the Haggadah,
which is valued at about half
a million dollars.
The anonymous individual
is the private dealer who
brought it to the sale. According to a Habsburg Feld-
-• man spokesman, the dealer
had been unaware the Haggadah was stolen from the
Jewish Historical Institute of
Warsaw in 1987.
Judge Vladimir Stem-
berger says  he hopes  to
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cover such human Tights
issues' as freedom of emigration and religious practice.
"We have not yet seen
these new laws. I suggest
that we first see them and
get a chance to study them
before we make new concessions," Abram said. "As
long as the Soviet Union remains a one-party state,
with no real political opposition or a free press which
can reveal issues and rap the
government, all the recent
changes could be canceled at
a moment's notice," he said.
Emigres Promised Jobs
Make Aliyah To Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —An
offer of jobs convinced about
100 Soviet Jewish emigrants
waiting for U.S. visas in
Italy to come to Israel instead, the Jewish Agency for
Israel reported last week.
Their change of plans was
the first tangible result of a
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Manufacturers   Association
and  the Jewish  Agency's
Department of Immigration..
and Absorption.
Ron Fruchtman, director
of the association's industrial management department, recently spent eight
days with Soviet Jews in
transit in Italy...    ,„
He told a news conference
here that emigres who were
promised jobs in the textile
industry recruited, other
emigrant textile workers,
with whom the Israelis had
not made contact.
Altogether, 1,300 job offers
were made to the Russian
Jews. That figure raised eyebrows here, considering that
unemployment in Israel has
reached a new high of 120,000
people.^ * .
But apparently the jobs offered could hot have been
filled byv the existing labor
pool in Israel.
The manufacturers hope
Soviet Jews will replace foreign workers and Palestinians from the administered territories who
hold jobs in Israel.
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