Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1960-04-15

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FRIDAY, APRIL 15, I960
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Farblia Players To Appear Here
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The Agudas Achlm Brother hood Is again .sponsoring the pre¬ sentation of Farband Players of New York on Saturday, April 10, at 8:80 p.m., in the social hall of Agudas Achlm Synagogue.
The Caravan Players are a quintette of musical comedy per¬ formers of the New York Jewish Art Theatre. They are Lilly Lllllana, Leon Liebgoid, Dora Kalinova, Joe Barash and their creative director, Ben Bonus.
Last year, when this company appeared in Columbus, the aud¬ ience was enthusiastic and de¬ lighted with the brilliant per¬ formance. This year, the Caravan win present an entirely new pro¬ gram of folklore and humor from our "well ot wit and . wisdom," along with condensed acts of classical plays.
In keeping with the 100th anni¬ versary of the birth of the great humorist, Sholem Aleichem, the director has included one of his well-known comedies.
This year's production has been entitled "Boishlnkes Mit Mandlen" (Raislnsi and Almonds) and, true to its name, it Is a program full of theatrical entertainment.
Tickets for this promised out¬ standing stag«-o-raraa are ob¬ tainable at the door for $1.50 each. Any profit derived from the affair will go to the Brother¬ hood's Minyonairc Fund.
Don't miss the "Chance of a Laugh time."
May 16 Is *B^ Day; Mobile At Center
Home For The Aged Annual Meeting Set
"Planning for the Future" will be the theme of the annual meet¬ ing of the Columbus Jewish Home for the Aged on Sunday, April 24, at 2 p.m. at the Jewish Center.
Abe A. Wolman, president of the organization, will give the an¬ nual report, at the short business meeting. Elmll Wasserstropi, chair¬ man of the nominating commit¬ tee, will present the report of his committee for officers and mem¬ bers of the board for the 1960-61 year of activity.
An Important feature .of the afternoon will be an address by Dr. Ralph Dwork, director of the Ohio Department of Health.
Robert L. Mellman and Mrs. Jack Resler are co-chalnnen of the planning committee for the annual, meeting. Members of their committee Include Mrs. Noiftnan Fagin, Mrs. Simon Lazarus, Mrs. Isaac Nutis, Mrs. Sherman Shar¬¬ well, Mrs. Joseph Schecter, Mrs. Cody Zelizer, Miss Helen Nutis, Don Brkia, Dr. Milton L. Good¬ man, Sam Melton, Leon Schotten¬ steln and Abe Wolman.
Abe Wolman, president of the organization, asks that members of the community attend this an¬ nual meeting.
MOSS HART PLAY ON GALLERY PLAYERS AGENDA IN MAY
Gallery Players will bring one of Its most successful seasons to a close with a true extravaganza, a Hollywood -type production, which win involve over 100 peo¬ ple. The show is a revival of Moss Hart's "Once In A Lifetime," about which he wrote at great length in his recent best-selling autobiography  "Act  One."
Harold M. Eisenstein, Gallery Players director, has asked EMdie Kaye to assist in the direction of this hllarous satire. Kaye is well remembered for his performances in "Tender Trap" and the most recent "A Hole In The Head." A comparative newcomer to the Columbus scene, he brings with him a wealth of experience as a performer and director.
Joe Altman and "Eutch" Mey¬ ers are teamed as stage managers for this production whlc^ will open a six night run at the Jew¬ ish Center on May 12. Abe Green is directing a vocal chorus whloh will set the mood for the nostalgic era of the first sound movies to come out of Hollywood.
In addition to the regular pro¬ duction crew. Gallery Players Is securing the services of some stars of the silent movies and early days of sound, now living in Columbua who will act as techni¬ cal advisors. These stars will be honored guests at a special per¬ formance night of th© show.
*Hats Off Da/
Preparing for "Hats Off Day," shown at the home of Mrs, Aaron Horowitz, are several memberB of ihe Decoration Commit¬ tee malctng final preparations for tlie affair. This affair will be heid on Thursday, April 21, as the closing fnnotion tor the Women's Division of the United Jewish Fund and Council. It will be a salute day for the many women in the oonununity who liave worked on the 1960 campaign. Left to right are: Mrs. Aaron HoTowite, Mrs. Lou Oertner, Mrs. Ben Friedman. Also serving on the committee, but not present are: Mrs. Julius Wasserstrom, Mrs. Joseph Zox, Mrs. Frank Hauftman, Mrs. Jule Mark and Mrs. Max Olassman.
Rabbi Seymour Fox Is Banquet Speaker
Rabbi Seymour Fox, associate dean of the Teachers Institute, Seminary College of Jewish Stud¬ ies of the Jewish Theological Sem¬ inary of America, will be guest speaker at Temple Tifereth Is¬ rael's Installation Banquet honor¬ ing the newly elected and outgo¬ ing officers and members of the board of trustees of the congrega¬ tion on Sunday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m.,  in  the temple social hall.
Rabbi Fox was appointed to his position as associate dean of Teachers Institute following his two years of service as assistant to Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chan-, cellor of the Seminary.
BORN IN CHICAGO, Rabbi Fox received his Bachelor's De¬ gree at the University of Illinois, Master's Degree at the University of Chicago, Bachelor of Hebrew Letters Degree from Hebrew Theological College and a teach¬ er's certificate from the College of Jewish Studies. In 1956, he was ordained by the Jewish Theologi¬ cal Seminary of America.
He Is currently completing a doctoral dissertation on the Phil¬ osophy of Education. During the periods of his formal training, Rabbi Fox was simultaneously active as a teacher and leader. He was educational director of the West Suburban Temple, Chicago, trom 1947-1952, director of the Young People's League Summer Institute in 19S1, assistant direc¬ tor of Camp Ramah, Wisconsin, in  1952-1953, and  director of the
Israeli Secretary Is Persona Non Gratti
LONDON, (JTA) — The Ru¬ manian News Agency, Agerpress, announced that Yochanan Erez, third secretary of the Israel Le¬ gation In Bucharest, had been declared persona non grata.
The news agency said that the Rumanian Foreign Ministry had told Siimuel Bendor, the Israel Minister to Rumania, that Erez had for some time carried on "activity Incompatible with dip¬ lomatic rules."
Rabbi Seymour Fox
camp  during the 19B1 and  1955 seatons.
Rabbi Fox will report on the progress ot the "Esther and Sam¬ uel M. Melton Research Founda¬ tion in Jewiah Education." He wlU explain the Impact of the Founda¬ tion not only as it applies to Tem¬ ple Tifereth Israel's Religious Schools, but to the entire nation.
THE KESEARCU Center will inaugurate a nationwide program which, will bring about more ef¬ fective methods of transmitting to young students a better knowl¬ edge of Jewish culture and tradi¬ tion. The Foundation will encom-
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EDUCATION HEAD RESIGNS IN FACE OF SCHOOL CRISIS
TEL AVTV, (JTA) — The long- smoldering secondary school crisis In Israel was ended here by the personal Intervention of Prime Minister David Ben Gur¬ ion. ITie issue brought about the resignation of Zalman Aranne as Minister of Education, a resigna¬ tion which still bas not been ac¬ cepted by the Israel Cabinet
The controversy began when the Ugh school teachers, con¬ tending that their problems were unlike those of the government- supported primary schools. Par¬ ticularly on wage Issues, formed an independent organization. The Histadrut-sponsored Teachers Or¬ ganization reacted with strong opposition.
After weeks of futile discus¬ sions, the high school teachers decided on a policy of non-cooper- ation with Government education¬ al officials and with school sup¬ erintendents. When Minister Aranne tried to reconcile the dis¬ pute, he rEui into stiff opposition from Ben Gurion's Mapai Party, of which he Is a member, and later from the Histadrut which opposed any agreement with an "independent" organization. Aran¬ ne thereupon submitted his resig¬ nation.
The high school teachers ac¬ cepted the Prime Minister's per¬ sonal plea for a truce based on the understanding that any solu. tion would be accepted by all parties without compulsion and that they would retain their In. dependent organization. Pupils left for their Passover vacation without their quarterly report cards -which had l>een withheld by til© high school teachers in their non-cooperation    campaign.
"B" Day will be held on May 16 at the Jewiah Center. Dona¬ tions of blood are needed and ap¬ pointments will be made In ad¬ vance. The bloodmobile will be operating from noon to 6 p.m. on that day. The telephone calls will be made this coming week. Please say "yes" when you are called.
The semi-annual blood drive is sponsored by the Jewish Blood Donor (Ikiuncll. There are 21 local organizations working on this <3ouncll, supplying telephone workers, ohalrjhen emd othe? supervisory  personnel.
THB PRESENT Council Is ah outgrowth of an organization of Individuals which bad Its begin¬ ning as a committee under B'nai B'rlth. They began during the war seeking blood for emergency use.
Following the war the group was sponsored by the Jewish 0>mmunlty (Council. Ah agree¬ ment was drawn up with the American Red Ooss to furnish 500 pints of blood per year for which the Red Cross would agree to furnish any member of the Jewish faith, living in Franklin CJounty, with blood whenever it was needed for emergency use, at no charge.
Again this year, 500 pints of blood  are ne<Mied.
RECENT CASES have shown the importance of this drive. Not long ago a relative of a local fam¬ ily,- who were contributors, need¬ ed blood in a Massachusetts hos¬ pital. The Council transferred the blood to Massachusetts.
The (Council has also transferred blood to California to help cure a Leukemia patient—the niece of a local blood donor.
These and many other examples show why the blood drive Is so significant and why it is a good Insurance policy,
Blood Donor Council president Is Bemie Kaplan. Drive chairman is Bernard Friedman, Drive Ma¬ jors are Leonard Quinn, Bennett Bosenwaser, Sanford Fishman and Rudy Stem.
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Israeli Students Visit Russia
BY  MICHAEL  SHASHAR
(Copyright, I960, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
EJDrrOK'S NOTE: Michael Shashar, an Israeli student now visiting the United States, made a visit to the Soviet Union in the company of two other Israeli students. During their stay In Rus¬ sia, they always wore Jerusalem scull-caps, identifying them as Israelis. The reaction of Russian Jews and non-Jews to them^— as well as their experiences In the Soviet Union—will be told in a series of articles written by Mr. Shashar for the Jewish Tele¬ graphic Agency. Here are the first two articles of this series.)
"I trust you will have a pleasant stay In the U.S.SII." With these words the Russian CJonsui In Tel Aviv handed us our passports, stamped with a 10-day tourist visa. We were three Israelis, stu¬ dents of the Hebrew University and members of the Religious Students Association. It was our summer vacation and Soviet Pre¬ mier Khrushchev was then visit¬ ing the United States.
Our route took us across Europe to Helsinki, where we boarded a Soviet plane for Leningrad. The flight was made memorable for no other reason than that we were the only passengers. Our airline hostess only added to our feeling of Isolation. She was rather shab¬ bily dressed, spoke only Russian and had never heard of Israel.
TWO HOURS later we landed on Russian soil. We were met by a policeman who requested our passports and who then conduct¬ ed us to the Customs house. Around us was the windswept tarmac upon which stood a varie¬ ty of two-engined planes which were dwarfed into toy-like pro¬ portions by the single Soviet jet parked by the runway.
Russian C u s t o m s procedure proved to be most perfunctory. The' usual forms were completed, a quick rummaging through the cases—and then Ivanov arrived. Ivsnov, young, soft spoken and wearing a magnificent overcoat, introduced himself as an official Intourist guide.
Our common language was Englisli, richly accented but nev¬ ertheless coherent. He directed us to a taxi where we sat exchanging views about the weather while waiting for the porters with our luggage. A quarter of an hour passed with still no sign of our baggage, but Ivanov assured us that the delay was due to some technical hitch. Forty minutes later two burly porters came panting along to the accompani¬ ment of profuse apologies.
THB HALF hour route from the airport to tbe hotel led us through well farmed countryside, acre upon acre of ploughed land which eventually gave way to scattered buildings l>orderlng up. on massive housing projects. These, Ivanov explained, were the outskirts of Leningrad, newly rebuilt  after  the   terrible  havoc
of the war.
It was late morning when we drove Into the city. As Israelis accustomed to blue skies, we found It difficult to adjust our eyes to the solemn greyness which seemed to pervade everywhere. One looked for some relieving brightness. But even the clothes of the passers by, many of them simply and often poorly dressed, were a somber variation of blacks and greys. We drove along roads so wide that the traffic, which Was never dense, appeared ri¬ diculously sparse.
Most of the cars had a vintage look about them, even by Israeli standards, while grey stone build¬ ings, reminiscent of Imperial Russia, created' a setting of sol¬ emn solidity. The "Hotel Europe," where we finally alighted, was an integral part of this backclpth. The interior, with its guilt doors, regal hangings and period furni¬ ture completed the total impres¬ sion of decayed arlstocraoy^an echo of a bygone age. We were welcomed by a number of hotel clerks whose brisk efficiency seemed quite Incongruous in this setting.
THUS INSTALLED find having dined and rested, we awaited our apeclal guide for a conilucted tour of Russia's second largest metro¬ polis. This turned out to be Slma, a young, efficient-looking woman and an Ideal type for instilling' a sense of purposefulness Into care¬ free Westernized tourists. ~ We drove tiirougb the town and were again struck, by the glaat (Oontinned on pace <>