Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1992-12-10

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The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
Serving Columbus and the Central Ohio
Jewish Community since 1933
VOLUME 70
NUMBER 51
DECEMBER 10, 1992
15 KISLEV 5753
DEVOTED TO AMERICAN AND JEWISH IDEALS
Jewish vote made the
difference for Clinton
page 2
Israeli arts and crafts
to be displayed, Dec. 13-15
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latkes just in time
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Holiday season and
interfaith dilemma
page 3
Long term care insurance
focus of Dec. 13 program
page 5
Roe v. Wade attorney
to speak at NCJW lunch
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COMP
COMMUNITY FEATURE
Israel 992 mission-goers agree with CJF mandate:
'Send every Jewish child to IsraeV
By Ina Horwitz
What vision does Jewish
would leader Charles R. Bronfman, UJA Executive Vice President Rabbi Brian Lurie and
Montreal Foundation Israel
Program leader Peter Geffen
share with Israel '92 Columbus Jewish Federation mission-goers Bonnie Milenthal,
Stan Stein and Joe Snider-
man?
Each one of them would like
to see every Jewish child by
age 21 have the opportunity to
visit the State of Israel. At the
61st General Assembly of the
Council of Jewish Federations
(CJF), Bronfman, who chairs
the CRB Foundation, announced this mandate to 3,000
delegates attending the meeting. The initial program will
provide grants to up to 12
communities that agree to
match the money and make
Israel trips a community priority.
"We believe that this goal
can be accomplished by the
end of the decade" (from the
current 8,000 a year to at least
50,000 annually), he added.
"We also believe that it is going to require a tremendous
amount of work and organization."
Stated Bronfman, "There's
no question that walking the
land, meeting the people and
experiencing the culture have
a deep and crucial effect that
can change the lives of our
youth ... it can enable young
people to form lasting friendships with their peers in Israel,
to have intensive social and
cultural interactions — to
strengthen the bonds linking
Israeli and Diaspora Jews and
to create the unified Jewish
people."
He concluded, "It is one of
those seemingly small ideas
that, if nurtured, cultivated
and built'upon for the long
term, can help transform the
ble educational vehicle,"
which could have "an enormous impact on personal identity and key decisions made
later in life."
When   Columbus  participants returned from their mis-
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Jewish world."
Rabbi Lurie has for some
time called  for all Jewish
youths to see Israel, and Geffen feels a trip for every youth.
could be a "powerful and via-
sion in September, they too
recognized the importance of
Jewish children visiting Israel.
Stein, Milenthal and Snider-
man had already sent their
children on a "Let's Go Israel
'92" mission last summer.
They had seen its impact on
their children. And it later impacted their own trip.
"Knowing our footsteps were
where our children's footsteps
had been, brought everything
full circle in terms of family
and community," Milenthal
said. "Going to the wall was a
moving experience, realizing,
as we did, that our children
have been there, standing up as
Jews. It is a genetic memory as
we become aware that centuries of our ancestors had been
there before us."
Milenthal believes that getting Jewish children to Israel is
an essential ingredient in maintaining Jewish identity and in
understanding what Israel will
be like for "our children's children." She noted that sending
youth to Israel must be seen as
more than a luxury, since
many individuals can't afford
such trips.
''The CJF mandate sends a
critical message to our community," she said, "for it demonstrates how we (the Federation) will best serve the needs
of the community for thefu-
ture."
Stein, whose daughters, Laura, 21, and Mamie, 18, have
both visited Israel, stated that
although his children already
had significant Jewish identity, their Israeli experiences
did more to instill a greater
sense of Jewish pride than
they had ever had before.
Stein agreed with Milenthal
that sending Jewish children
to Israel is "a terrific investment" for the Jewish community to make in its future.
"Subsidizing kids to go is the
see MANDATE pg. 4
SUPER SUMP AY Is December 13