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JANUARY 4, 1990-TEVET 7
Dnvotcd lo American
and Jewish ideals
Super Sunday Funday Set For
January 21 At Jewish Center
The Columbus Jewish Federation's Super Sunday Fun-
day and Super Sunday Telethons will take place on
Super Sunday, Jan. 21.
Super Sunday Family .Fun-
day will be held from 12-3
p.m. at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, 1125 College
Ave. The telethon will also
take place on Super Sunday
and throughout the following
two-weeks, Jan. 22 through
Feb. 1. All phone calls will be
made from the Esther C.
Melton Community Services
Building, 1175 College Ave.
Super Sunday Funday will
be a family day with as-,
sorted activities* open to the
entire community free  of
charge.
The main "Big Top'? at-
. traction at Super Sunday
Funday will be Hetzi-Hetzi,
from 2:15-3 p.m. Hetzi-Hetzi,
which is Hebrew for Half and
Half, is a program of entertainment combining the arts
of mime and music.
.   Activities for Super Sunday
Funday will also include:
games, crafts, music and
stories specifically geared for
children.
The Jewish Community
Campaign Super Sunday
telethon needs volunteers to
man the phones.
Volunteers are asked to
participate for two or more
hours in the following telephone sessions on Super Sunday, Jan. 21: 9-11:30 a.m., 11
a.m.-l:30 p.m. and 6:30-9:30
p.m.
In addition,  phone calls
will also be made on the
following evenings, from 7-9
p.m.: Jan. 22, 23, 24, 25, 29,
' 30, 31, and February 1.,
During the Community
Phase over 2,500 members of
the community are contacted by phone for their 1390
Campaign gift. Over 300 volunteers will be needed to
accomplish this project.
For more information on
Super Sunday events or to
volunteer, contact the Federation office, at 237-7686.
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Court Decisions Settle Little
On Holiday Display Issue
heritage.
, "The. Immigrant" provides a study of human conflicts and affection through
themes of repaying charity,
of different people living together and of holding on and
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JC Gallery Players To Present
'The Immigrant' January 17-28
Gallery Players of the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center
announces the Central Ohio
premiere of its second play
this ; season entitled "The
Immigrant." This play runs
from Jan. 17-28, with ticket
prices ranging from $9-$ll.
Gallery Players' ~"The
Immigr4nt" is part of.the
Jewish Center's Celebration
of Life event which this year
showcases and. celebrates
th,e lives of immigrants.
" 'The Immigrant' is a
beautiful reminder of our
heritage, its traditions and
the invaluable impact they
have on each of us 'as individuals in a society,of ever
changing values, adapting to
new influences while continuing to embrace the es-
sence.of our past," said Lil
Strouss, Theatre Committee
chairwoman and director of
the show. '-'-'The Immigrant'
is about four people who led
quiet", undramatic lives
fraught only with the trials
of the heart."
Temple Israel Religious School
Gives New Americans Menorahs
The children of Temple Israel Religious School, in a
gesture of welcome, presented Chanukah menorahs to
15 new American families at the Temple Israel
Brotherhood's Annual Chanukah Dinner on Dec. 17. In
addition to the menorahs, each family received a
booklet of Chanukah wishes and drawings from the
children of the Religious School andj a box of Chanukah
candles. The new American families were the guests of
. Temple Israel Sisterhood and Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld
at the dinner which included brisket and potato latkes
prepared and served by Temple Israel Brotherhood.
The evening included a menorah service led by Rabbi
Bleefeld, Rabbi Steven Engel, and Cantor Vicki Axe
and entertainment presented by Muriel Gunder-
sheimer. In addition to the. menorahs presented .that
• evening, menorahs were mailed to 29 other-families
that have recently arrived in Columbus from the Soviet
Union. The menorahs were all purchased with funds
collected from the Temple Israel Religious School
children. The chairwomen of this welcoming project of
Temple Israel Sisterhood Religious School Liaison
Committee are Joanne Crair and Holly Somogyi (pictured above). They were assisted by Sisterhood Presi-
■ dent Bev Shafran and Vice-President Tussy Shnider
and by Religious School Committee Chairwoman Barbara Seeder. ■ 	
NEW YORK (JTA) -- 'Tis
the season for menorahs and
creches, arid that means
Jewish groups and municipal authorities across the
country are once again entangled in the debate over
the constitutionality of religious displays on public
property.
Lined up on one side of the
controversy is the Chabad-
Lubavitch movement, which
sponsors large menorahs
displayed on public grounds
in locations around the
world.
Opposing the menorah displays along with civil liberties groups are a number of
Jewish organizations who
object to any religious display on government property. They include the American Jewish Congress, the
Anti-jDefamation League of
B'nai B'rith and the Reform
movement of Judaism.
At the center of the controversy in the Jewish world is
the issue of whether a
menorah is a religious symbol or.if it has enough non-
religious connotations to be
considered a secular symbol.
"Chabad has always maintained that the menorah is a
religious symbol but with
secular connotations," explained Rabbi Yehuda Krin-
sky, a Chabad spokesman.
"In its symbolism of the
Soviet Jewish Va'ad Established; First Umbrella Group In USSR
JERUSALEM (JTA) --
Soviet Jewry achieved a historic milestone Dec. 21,
when  its  representatives
voted in Moscow to establish
the Soviet Jewish Va'ad, an
umbrella body that will coordinate activities of Jewish
The play is based on the
. true story of author Mark
Harelik's grandfather Haskell, a young Russian i Jew
who immigrated to the small
Texas town of Hamilton, and
his struggle to-build a new
life in a strange and lonely
land. ,    .
' It is-a play for those who
yearn for a return of -warm .
personal family drama. This
play with four, actors is a
testament'to Harelik's.love
for his grandfather' and
wealth of. family love and
Envoy To Hungary Presents Credentials
VIENNA, (JTA) --" Shlomo Marom, Israel's first ambassador to Budapest in more than 22 years, presented his
credentials recently, to Hungarian President Matyas Szuris.
Diplomatic relations between the two countries, broken by
Hungary at the time of the 1967 Six-Day War, wererestored
in full on Sept, 18. At the time, Marom headed an Israeli consular mission in Budapest that had been established in 1987.
The '60-year-old Israeli diplomat was born in Hungary,"
received a Jewish education in Budapest and settled in Israel
in 1949.
Israel Reopens Its Ethiopian Embassy
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israel, .without fanfare,, re-opened'
its embassy in Addis Ababa recently, signaling the restoration of diplomatic relations after 16 years. The event was confirmed by a Foreign Ministry official, after a story in the.
French daily Le Figarosaid it was imminent: No, explanation
was given for the extremely low-key nature of this development/Nor would officials comment on recent foreign reports
that Israel is providing weapons and training for the Ethio-
' pia'ns against Eritrean rebels, or that Israelis would man an.
intelligence-gathering station on the Ethiopian coast.
organizations all over the
Soviet Union. It is the first
such  institution  in  Soviet'
Jewish history.
The Va'ad fulfills the primary goal of the founding
conference of the Congress
of Jewish Organizations and
Communities of the USSR,
which was to establish an independent confederation of
Soviet Jewish organizations
that would develop a consensus on the priorities and
objectives of their constit-,
uents.
Simcha Dinitz, chairman
of the World Zionist Organization- and Jewish Agency
executive, promised the new
body the full support of the
"Israeli government and the
agency in all of its endeavors
and activities.
Dinitz,  speaking  in Hebrew, urged the Va'ad to
make Israel the center of its .
cultural activities.'
Va'ad is the Hebrew word
for committee. Mikhail
Chlenov, the conference
organizer who heads the
' Jewish Cultural Association,
was elected its chairman. •
' The conference was attended by, some 700 delegates from 75 cities; and
towns
Union.
across   the" Soviet
'Evening With Ladies'
To Welcome local
New American Women
The Sisterhoods of Ahavas
Sholom, Agudas Achim and
-Beth Jacob are planning an
"Evening with the Ladies"
to welcome the new American women who are now living in Columbus.
The program will take
place Jan. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Beth Jacob social, hall.
Following A dessert reception, the entertainment for
the evening will be singing
and dancing with an international theme. Everyone
will be encouraged to join in
with the professionals.
The planning committee
from the- Sisterhoods includes: Linda Stern; Marilyn
'Cole, Sue Rosen, Whitney
Miryis, Simcha Henfield and
Barbara Dlott. Further in*
- formation may be obtained
by calling Stern, 235-2440, or
Dlott, 236-6021.
victory of the Jewish people
over its adversaries in the
time of the Second Temple."
said Krinsky, the menorah
"inherently symbolizes a
universal message of freedom, of right over might, the
miracle of victory of the few
over the many, and the
righteous over the wicked."
But Albert Vorspan, senior
vice president of the" Reform
.movement's Union of American Hebrew Congregations,
believes that such a view
"belittles" the Chanukah N
menorah's religious significance.
"Most Jewish groups have
opposed Lubavitch, arguing
that the menorah is one of
the most important and historic of Jewish religious
symbols," he said in a recent
statement.
Cities find themselves in
the middle of this debate
when Chabad asks permission to put up a menorah
and other Jewish groups
urge that such permission be
denied. Whether cities allow
the menorah displays or forbid them, they run an equal
risk of finding themselves in
court.
This year,  Chabad filed
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Holocaust Victim IDs
Needed By Museums
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
Museum of Jewish Heritage, v
which opens in New York in
1992, and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem have begun tocom-
pile pages of testimony
which they hope will contain
the name, photograph and
biographical information of
each of the 6 million Jews
who perished in the Holocaust.
The pages of testimony
will be included in a,computerized - program the
museum is developing, titled
"These Do We Remember."
It will be exhibited near
the museum's memorial to
the victims of the Holocaust,
in an area where visit&rs can
view the pages and research
individual names and family
members.    .
. The Museum of Jewish
Heritage, New York's principal public memorial to the
Holocaust victims, is being
established under the auspices of the New York Holocaust Memorial' Commission.
Additional information
and forms for the pages of
testimony can be obtained
from'Fay Schreibman, project coordinator, Museum of
Jewish Heritage, 342
Madison Ave,, Suite ,717,
■New York, N.Y. 10173, or call
(212)687-9141.   "
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