Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1990-07-19

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VOL.68 NO. 29
JULY 19,1090-TAMMUZ 26, 5750
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
1 Holocaust Council
Seeks Friends Of
Shoah Rescuer
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The United States Holocaust
» Memorial Council seeks
"•■Holocaust survivors from
Budapest who survived the
war with help from Giorgio
Perlasca, an Italian national
who saved Jews as the Spanish Charge D'Affairs in late
1944.
Perlasca will be honored
by the Holocaust Council on
Sept. 6, when he will be
awarded the U.S. Medal of
Remembrance.
Contact Naomi Paiss at
the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council, 2000 L St.
NW, Suite 588, Wash., D.C.
20036. The phone number is
(202) 653-9220, and the fax is
(202) 653-7154.
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Mazon's Allocations
Exceed $1 Million
NEW YORK (JTA) --
Mazon, a group founded to
help the hungry and the
homeless in the United
States and abroad, has for
the first time exceeded the $1
million mark in its annual allocations.
Representing a 57 percent
increase over the $700,000
dollars allocated in 1989, this
year's grants included
awards to Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion in New York, for its
feeding the homeless program, and the Southern California Interfaith Hunger
Coalition for Los Angeles, to
publish Spanish-language
copies of the Coalition's
"People's Guide to Welfare
and Other Services," designed to help needy people
obtain food assistance and
other basic services.
Mazon also provides
grants to the Institute for the
Advancement of Education
of Jaffa, Israel, for its feeding prograinat day care centers-serving* Arab and Jewish pre-school children; the
North American Conference
on Ethiopian Jewry, which
helps feed thousands of
Ethiopian Jews driven from
theii1' homes by war and famine; and the Menorah Park
Housing Corp. of St. Louis
Park, Minn., to support the
hot meals program sponsored by this low income
housing project for elderly
Jews.
Mazon, the Hebrew word
for food, was founded in
October 1985.; Its income
comes primarily from a self-
imposed "tax" amounting to
3 percent of the cost of joyous events such as weddings
and Bar Mitzvahs.
More than 600 synagogues
across the country have
signed on as Mazon partners
encouraging their members
to contribute to Mazon in this
way.
Tifereth Israel Tisha B'Av Observance
To Focus On Plight Of Poor, Homeless
'nai B'rith Zion Lodge
To Sponsor Children's Home Day
B'nai B'rith Zion Lodge #62 will sponsor its twenty-
fifth annual Children's Home Day at the Ohio State
Fair on Wednesday, Aug: 8. Started in 1965, Children's
.Home Day provides the financial and physical suport
to assist nearly 4,000 children from group and foster
homes in the State of Ohio who might otherwise be
unable to attend the Ohio State Fair. In 1965, the first
year of the event, 750 children participated; with this
year's total the event is one of the largest volunteer
undertakings in the state. The children are brought to
the Fair, provided entrance, some spending money,
food and adult supervision and friendship. If anyone
would like to help with a donation or to volunteer services or if they would like more information, they
should contact Al Bornstein at, 238-6749.
Congregation Tifereth Israel will have a full day of
programming to observe
Tisha B'Av on Monday, July
30, and Tuesday, July 31. The
day is being used to focus on
the plight of the poor and
homeless in Columbus. The,
activities are being coordinated by Cantor Jack Chomsky, who will lead the services as well.
Observance begins with
the reading of Eicha on Monday evening, July 30, at 7:30
• p.m. As always, this will be
conducted by the light of
Yahrzeit candles, a reminder of the destruction of the
First and Second Temple
and of the many other trager
dies which have occurred on
this date throughout history.
Special readings will be included which will highlight
the connection between the
ancient text* which mourns
the destruction of the Temple in 586 BCE, and the
events of today.
On Tuesday morning, July
31, following the 7:15 a.m.
Shacharit service, a special
tour will take place called
' 'Beyond the Freeway. "The
tour, coordinated by Call-
VAC, will take in various locations in the Columbus area
■■'■■ and help participants better
understand the services
available to the poor in Columbus and what it means to
be poor. There is no charge
for this tour, which will leave
at8:30 a.m. and return to the
synagogue by noon, but res-
NEWS ANALYSIS
Poll On U.S. Attitudes Toward Israel
Contains Few Surprises, Mixed Results
NEW YORK (JTA) - Few
American Jewish leaders
have expressed surprise at
the findings of the latest poll
to conclude that support for
Israel, among the American
public is declining and that
sympathy for the Palestinian cause is on the rise.
They say that a "New York
Times'VCBS News Poll taken
last month and released last
week is but the latest of
several public opinion surveys
to show that American support for Israel, while still
solid, is not as deep as it once
was,
While Jewish leaders are
not surprised by the general
findings of the poll, they
question its long-term value
and significance.
"Polls over the years have
shown a good deal of
fluidity," said David Harris,
director of the American
Jewish Committee's Office
of Government and International Affairs in Washington
"There has always been ebb
and flow in American support for Israel."
"We don't react from poll
to poll," said Martin Raffel,
director of the Israel Task
Force at the National Jewish
Community Relations Advisory Council.
"There are periods when
support for Israel is higher
and periods when it is lower.
A lot has to do with how a
question is phrased in terms
of the answer you get," he
said.';.
The Times/CBS poll found
that more Americans feel
sympathetic to the Palestinian cause than they felt two
years ago; that Americans
are less eager to sustain or
increase levels of aid to Israel than they were last year,
and that more Americans
than last year are in favor of
giving the Palestinians a
homeland in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
"I think this poll is another
ervations are necessary.
Reservations may be made
by calling the synagogue at
253-8523.
Following the regular
weekday Mincha service
which begins at 5:30 p.m.,
volunteers will bring a dinner prepared at 'the synagogue to the Friends of the
Homeless Shelter, serving
approximately 70 people.
Volunteers are needed both
to prepare the meal (beginning at 5 p.m.) and to transport and serve it (beginning
at 6:30 p.m.). The dinner is
made possible by the Tifereth Israel Men's Club
through contributions received in response to its Yom
HaShoah Candle Project.
"I am very excited about
these plans to mark Tisha
B'Av," commented Cantor
Chomsky. "One cannot help
but be moved by the many
disturbing references to poverty, hunger and homeless-
ness contained within the
text of Eicha itself, which we
read on Tisha B'Av. I cannot
think of any better way to respond to the historical tragedy of this day than to serve
others in our community and
to  learn  about  the  lives
which they lead."
"The Yom HaShoah Candle Project attracted a
strong response," remarked
Men's Club President Steven
Lesser. "We are proud to remember in a life-affirming
way our brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents
and great-grandparents who
were cruelly slaughtered at
the hands of the Nazis. Serving food to the homeless on
Tisha B'Av also reminds us
that this is one of the few
days in the year on which we
go hungry. For them, however, the fear of hunger is
part of their daily life."
Rabbi Harold Berman
added, "We hope that this
special commemoration will
transform Tisha B'Av from
a day of mourning into a day
full oi learning and accomplishment; that it will be a
day which will enable us to
understand what we can contribute to our community."
For further information or
to sign up for one of the day's
events, call Cantor Jack
Chomsky at Congregation
Tifereth Israel, 253-8523.
indication of a continued
slow decline in support for
Israel," said Harris. But he
also pointed out that the results "were not uniformly
negative."
He said it is noteworthy
that even in an era of growing preoccupation with domestic issues and intense
pressure to reduce the
federal deficit, 61 percent of
the respondents said aid to
Israel should remain at the
same level.
In fact, a close look at the
"Times'VCBS poll shows that
the results are a "mixed bag,"
said Harris.
For instance; when respondents were asked
whether, they were more
sympathetic to Israel or to
the Arab states, 40 percent
sided with Israel, a 4 percent
increase from a poll conducted last year.,
Support for the Arab states
also grew, from 13 percent in
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Israel Approves Greek Ambassador
ATHENS (JTA) - The Israel government has formally approved Greece's choice of its first ambassador to the Jewish
state. He is Konstantine Tsokos, an experienced diplomat
whose most recent assignment was in Kuwait, an Arab
League member state which is technically at war with Israel.
France Gets First Female Rabbi
PARIS (JTA) - France has its first woman rabbi. Pauline
Bebe, a 26-year-old mother of two, will assume rabbinical
duties at the Liberal movement synagogue here on Sept. 1,
shortly before the High Holidays. The congregation of some
1,200 families is an island of Liberal Judaism in a city where
affiliated Jews are overwhelmingly Orthodox. Bebe, who
comes from a traditional family, completed her studies at the
Leo Baeck College in London, the only rabbinical seminary in
Europe teit admits women. She was ordained theraon July 8.