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Arthur Goldberg Dies
NEW YORK (JTA) - Former US. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, who
died of cardiac arrest Jan. 19
at his residence in Washington, was active in numerous
issues'of importance to the
Jewish people and Israel.
Goldberg, who was 81, also
served as secretary of labor
in the Kennedy administration, after years of influential work as a labor lawyer.
His most controversial
career move came in 1965,
when he left his lifetime appointment to the Supreme*
Court, after only three
years, to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at the behest of President Lyndon Johnson.
Although many, including
Goldberg himself, said the
decision had 'probably not
been a wise one, his time at
the U.N. overlapped the
momentous period that surrounded the Six-Day War.
Goldberg was instrumental in drafting the text of
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 of November 1967,
which remains the cornerstone of Middle East peace
negotiations to this day.
Goldberg later chaired the
U.S. delegation to international talks in Belgrade,
aimed at monitoring a 35-na-
tion human rights accord
concluded in Helsinki in 1975.
At the time, he strongly criticized Soviet bloc nations for
their human rights violations.
His law clerk while on the
bench, Harvard Professor
Alan Dershowitz, said Goldberg had proposed just days
before his death a monitoring committee of international human rights experts
to assure that the current
tide of change in Eastern
-Europe did not allow extremist forms of nationalism
and anti-Semitism to flourish.
Rising Anti-Semitism Driving Jews
Out Of Soviet Union, Say Activists
Tamara (seated), believed to have been killed in the
war, is the first wife of Herman Broder (center), who
has since married Yadwiga (far left), in Paul Mazur-
sky's new film, "Enemies, A Love Story," basedon the
novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Issac Bachevis
Singer.
'Chronicle/ Martin's To Sponsor
Advance Screening Of 'Enemies'
The "Ohio Jewish Chronicle" and Martin's Foods,
3685 E. Broad St., will present a special advance
screening of the new film,
"Enemies, A Love Story,'" at
the Drexel Theatre, 2254 E.
Main St., on Wednesday,
Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m.
The "Chronicle" and Martin's will offer 100 pairs of
free tickets to "Chronicle"
readers starting Thursday,
Feb. 1, at Martin's. Tickets
can be obtained by clipping
the "Enemies, A Love
Story" ad in this issue and
bringing it to Martin's. Tickets will be,given away on a
first come, first served
basis, one pair per person.
"Enemies, A Love Story"
stars Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston, Tony
- Award winner Ron Silver,
Lena Olin, Margaret Stein
and Alan King. The film was
directed by Paul Mazursky
and was adapted from the
novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis
Singer.
"Enemies" is the story of
Herman Broder (played by
Silver), a man living in New
York City in the years immediately following World
War II, who becomes emotionally involved with three
women: his second wife
(Stein), whom he married
because she saved his life;-'
the woman he loves (Olin),
who has become his mistress, and his first wife (Hus?
ton), believed to have been
killed in the War, who reenters his life as if risen
from the dead..
"Enemies" will open for a
regular engagement at the
Drexel starting Friday, Feb.
9.
Feb. 10 Proclaimed JNF Sabbath
The Jewish National Fund
has proclaimed Tu B'shevat
5750, which falls on Shabbat
Shira, Feb. 10, as the Jewish
National Fund Shabbat or
Shabbat Haaretz.
"JNF Shabbat is not only a*
celebration of Tu B'shevat;
it is also a response to the attacks of arson against
Israel's forests over the past
two years, particularly the
recent loss of over 1,200
acres at the Mt. Carmel nature reserve, near Haifa.
Celebrating JNF Shabbat
symbolizes our determination to restore life to the land
' our enemies are trying to
destroy," states Dr. Joseph
P, Sternstein, Jewish National Fund of America past
. national president,
"So far this year, there
have been almost 1000 fires
in the forests of Israel. In the
NEW YORK (JTA) - Rising anti-Semitism and ethnic
strife are rapidly driving
Jews out of the Soviet Union,
according to Michael Chlev-
6n and Natan Sharansky.'
Chlenov, co-president of-
the Va'ad, the federation of
Soviet Jewish communities
founded in Moscow in December made his observation during two days of meet-.
ings here of the World Jewish Congress.
Chlenov and Co-President
Samuel Zilberg of Riga were
the first Soviet Jews ever to
attend executive committee
meetings of the WJC.
Sharansky made his re-,
marks to a packed audience
at the McGill University
Law School in Montreal,
where a lectureship has been
established in his name in
recognition of his contributions to human rights.
Sharansky, who spent nine
years in prisons and labor
camps before he was allowed togo to Israel in 1986,
makes no secret of his abiding hatred of the Soviet system; ■•■.'■.=
The only positive result of
glasnost, Sharansky said, is
that the anti-Semitism that
surfaced with the new openness "will lead to an exodus
Dr. J. Gorfinkel, Jackie Yenkin
To Co-chair Campaign Closing
Alan Wasserstrom,, chairman of the Columbus Jewish
Federation's 1990 Jewish
CommUNITY Campaign,
announces the appointment
of Dr. Joel Gorfinkel and
Jackie Yenkin as co-chairs
for the Campaign Closing
Event.
last twp years, a million and
a half trees have been destroyed by these fires, most of
which have been caused by
arson," statesJoyce Bloch,
JNF Columbus Council President.
"Congregations throughout the community will be
celebrating Tu B'shevat on
the JNF Shabbat, Feb. 9 and
10. Members of all houses of
worship are encouraged to
attend and support the redemption of the Land" by
planting trees. We must send ,
a strong message to those^
that wish to destroy the roots
in the Land of Israel," explained Bloch.
The following is the formal'
proclamation made by the
Jewish National Fund of
America:
Whereas the Jewish Na-
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ful resettlement of Soviet
Jews and volunteers.
According to Wasserstrom, both Dr. Gorfinkel
and Yenkin are veteran
campaign volunteers. Dr.
Gorfinkle has participated in
several Federation sponsored missions to Israel,
most recently this past September on the Kehillah Mission.
Yenkin has long been active in Federation and agency activities, particularly
Heritage Village, and is -a
past chair of the Jewish
CommUNITY Campaign's
Women's Division.
Jackie Yenkin
The celebration has been
set for noon (luncheon) on
Wednesday, March 7, at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, Plans are currently
underway for an afternoon
designed to recognize the
community's achievements
in-many important areas;
record breaking fund raising, services by Federation
affiliated agencies, success
or. Joel Gorfinkel
"The Campaign Closing is
our  special  time  to  say
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of 500,000 to 1 million Jews to
Israel."
Chlenov, who would also
like to see Soviet Jews transplanted to Israel, sees anti-
Semitism as a "Boiling pot
that hasn't yet exploded" but
still "may explode."
the long-expected exodus
of Soviet Jewry "has truly
started," he said, as a result
of "panic and hysteria."
Tens of thousands of Jews
are now leaving the Soviet
Union, but it "is an aliyah
which is mainly driven by
fear, frustration and hate,
rather than the desire to be
reunited with the Jewish
people," Chlenov said.
There are "a lot of those
who remained true to Yid-
dishkeit," he said, but "an
even bigger number who
don't know anything about
Judaism."
Chlenov said the Va'ad intends to prepare Jews not only for aliyah but for absorption iij Israel as well, and
that the new organization
will "try to work together
with the State of Israel" to
create a "siddur mukdam,"
a committee to prepare emigres.
It will be one of several
groups formed to deal with
pressing Jewish problems,
including the development of
organized Jewish life in the
Soviet Union, anti-Semitism
and reunification with world
Jewry.
Sharansky, speaking in
Montreal, said that "Rus;
sian traditional anti-Semitism has been made worse
by 70 years of the Soviet regime and domination.
"Many Soviet citizens are
now looking for a scapegoat
for the bankruptcy of their
country, and they are trying
to pin on the Jews the suffering (which) Communism
brought to the Soviet
Union," he said.
As an example of scape-
goating, Sharansky cited
propaganda circulated by
Pamyat, which' he identified
as "an extreme right-wing,
nationalistic, Slavophile and
overtly anti-Semitic organization whose ranks are
growing daily."
Pamyat holds jews respon-
sible for the December 1983
earthquake which devastated Soviet Armenia.
It claims that the seismologists, who happened to
be Jewish, kept the secret of
the' coming catastrophe under wraps.
"This sort of thing ex-'
plains why 2,000 Jews daily
request the riglrt to emigrate," Sharansky "said, adding that "1 million Jews are
candidates for immigration."
According to Chlenov and
Zilberg,  anti-Semitism , is
much more prevalent in
Russia than in the Central
Asian republics.
Photographer Vishniac
Dead Of Cancer At 92
NEW YORK (JTA) - Photographer Roman Vishniac,
whose photographs of Jewish life in Europe before the
Holocaust immortalized a
vanished world, was called
"the greatest in the field" by
his friend Elie Wiesel.
Vishniac died in his Man-
hatten apartment Jan. 22 of
colon cancer, at age 92.
The Nobel Peace laureate,
who wrote the preface to
Vishniac's book "A Vanished
World," cited the storytelling ability of the photographer, saying Vishniac had an
uncanny ability to read the
minds of his subjects.
Vishniac "wrote the subtitles for every picture,"
said Wiesel. "He had a story
for every picture, an exquisite memory - rich, colorful
and precise. He knew exactly what the object of his picture not only did, but what he
thought."
Vishniac was born in St.
Petersburg (now Leningrad),
Russia, in 1897. Trained as a
biologist, he was known in
the world of science and photography as a microphotog-
rapher, taking pictures of
microscopic form of life.
But it was his work as the
.Jewish photographer par excellence that garnered him a
lasting place in the pantheon
of chronicles of Jewish life in
Eastern Europe, before it
was decimated by the Holo-
caust.
Sisterhood To Host
Prayer Breakfast
Mary Ann Marlin, president of the Tiferth Israel '
Sisterhood, announces that
the Sisterhood will host a
Prayer Breakfast on Sunday, Feb. 11. John Lauritsen,
the director of Outreach Services of The Campus, will be
the speaker. The Campus is
an in-patient treatment
facility for adolescents.
Lauritsen's talk will be on
substance abuse within the
Jewish community.
"We cordially invite
members of the congregation to join us for this special
program," stated Marlin.
"Unfortunately, substance
abuse is a concern of more
and more of us as our children reach the competitive
high school age. I am sure
that this will be a valuable
program for everyone who
has the time to attend."
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