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VOL.58   NO. 15
APRIL 10,1980-NISAN 24
Yom Hashoa
Service Sunday
Mr. Ernest Stern and Mrs.
Joseph Summer, general
chairpersons of this year's
Yom Hashoa Memorial Program, encourage the entire
Jewish Community to worship at this special service,
which is being co-sponsored
by Beth Jacob, Agudas
Achim, Tifereth Israel, Beth
Tikvah, Beth Am, and Temple Israel on Sunday, April
13, at 7 p.m. at Temple Israel. '
The program, planned by
Rabbi Harvey S. Goldman,
president' of the Columbus
Board of Rabbis and Rabbi
•of Temple Israel, will include the participation of
rabbis from all the above
synagogues.
RabbiJIaskel Lookstein .
Also, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, of Congregation Ke-
hilath Jeshurun in New,
York, will speak on the topic
"Were American Jews Their
Brother's Keepers?"
Lighting the six yahrzeit
candles commemorating the
six million Jews who lost
. their lives during the Holocaust are Steven Black,
Agudas Achim; Seth Hoffman and Elizabeth Szames,
Beth Jacob; Cyndee Bloom,
Tifereth Israel; Emily
Spiegler and Beth Spiegler,
Temple Israel.   .
Sara Hartglass is
chairman of hostesses and
refreshments. Helping her
are Mrs. Gilbert Bloom and
Mrs. Emil Haas, Tifereth Israel; Mrs. William Goldsmith and Mrs. Max Tolpen,
Agudas, Achim; Mrs. Fred
Futerman and Mrs. Robert
Mayer, Beth Tikvah; Mrs.
Martii*^H6ffman and Mrs.
Irving: Szames, Beth Jacob.
Kurt Spiegler and Peter
Forchheimer-are chairmen
of ushers and greeters. They
will be assisted by Heinz •
Hoffman, Tifereth Israel;
Jerome Acks and Sol Derfler, Agudas" Achim; Carol
Folkerth, ,Beth Tikvah;
Irving Szames and Martin
Hoffman, Beth Jacob.
On the planning committee were the following persons:' Erika Blumenstefn
and Heinz Hoffman, Tifereth
Israel; William Goldsmith
and Morrey Ebner, Agudas
Achim; Henry Saeman, Beth
Tikvah; Rita Hoffman and
. Irving Szames, Beth Jacob;
''■ and Mike Broidy, Beth Am.
'Persecution, Suffering, And The Holocaust'
Subject Of April 13-14 Conference At OSU
Campaign Closing Reception
Over 120 Government employees attended the
second annual Government Division Campaign Closing
Reception held at the Governor's Mansion on March 20,
according to Barbara Roman and Larry Braverman,
Co-Chairpersons of the Government Division" of the
United Jewish Fund Campaign.!'
Dr. Arieh Plotkin, noted Israeli scholar and lecturer,
gave the keynote address at the Reception. In his
remarks, Dr. Plotkin emphasized the need' for a
clearer understanding of Middle East events,, and
stronger participation by Jews here and around the
world in Israeli and American Jewish activities. Dr.
Plotkin also discussed recent Iran and United Nations
activities.
Barb Roman, pictured above, noted "this year's
Government Reception was a tremendous success—
the number of contributions increased as well as the'
dollar amount raised.!' She added, "I'd like to thank
everyone who attended the Reception and those who
worked so diligently4n .making this ye-ir'^s Goverftment^
, Division a success."
"Persecution, Suffering,
and the Holocaust" is the
subject of a two-day conference sponsored by the Mel-'
ton Center for Jewish Studies to be held Sunday, April
13, and Monday, April 14, at
The Ohio State University. ■
The conference, which will
focus , upon responses to
catastrophe in the Bible, Hebrew, and Yiddish Literature, is to include distinguished scholars from
throughout the United States
and Israel.
A special keynote address
will be given by Dr. Arnpld
Band of UCLA, a world renowned expert on modern
Hebrew literature, on Sunday evening at the Hillel
Foundation, 46 E. 16th Ave.
The title of Dr. Band's ad-
dresss is "Eloquent Silence:
Reflections on the Demysti-
fication of Holocaust Literature.".   .
In addition to Dr. Band,
speakers at the two-day. conference include scholars
from the University of
Michigan, Queens College,
Indiana University, Columbia University, The Hebrew
.^TJXgrjjity^ of , J^rusajem,
The   Jewish' Theological
Seminary, Hebrew Union
College, arid McGill University, as well as Dr. Robert
Chazan and Dr. Arnold Shapiro of OSU.
The response to suffering
and persecution and, in particular, the Holocaust, in*He-
brew and Yiddish literature
covers a wide range of attitudes and stances, expressed
in nearly all the literary
genres. Topics that will be
discussed during the conference includejthe response to
the Holocausfof\modern Israeli and Yiddish writers,'
medieval Jewish views of
suffering, Biblical expressions of anguish in the books
of Lamentation and Daniel,
and some recent responses
to the Holocaust in American
fiction.
Miller Rolls 300 Game, 755 Series
What started as the 39th
Annual International B'nai
B'rith Sectional Bowling
tournament turned out to be
a gala affair, but also an almost impossible dream for
one Howard Miller.
Miller, who was subbing
Sunday morning for an ailing Chicago bowler for the.
Old Timers team, proved a
superior sub. In his first
game Miller rolled one of his
normal games, a 201. His
second game, he strung nine
straight strikes before the
-rest of the bowlers sensed
what was happening. Everybody in the alleys stopped
bowling and started congregating around Miller.
His next ball was a strike
in the tenth frame. Usually a
bowler at this stage is tense,
but not our boy Howard; he
just smacked the hands of
the men on his team as we
ordinarily do when we roll
one strike, got up to roll and
just nonchalantly threw the
ball. t -
As ,the ball- was released
from his-hand, the crowd
gave up a roaringcheer. One
could almost see it was a
perfect strike. What a man,
what a bowler. To prove his
300 . was no fluke, "Seller
started his third game with a
4-bagger. He ended the third
game with a torrid 254.
Howard's series of 755 included 28 strikes, 17 of them
in a row. He ended the first
game with a strike, then his
next game of 12, and the
third game started with four.
In ordinary league play
Miller carries a 194 average
and previous to this tournament had rolled six consecutive 600 series in our League
competition.
Miller is a Columbus man
who is working in Dayton at
the State Auditors office. He
comes home on weekends to
help in the family business,
"Mother Lode," at the
Westerville Mall. He is 31
and single. He graduated
from^Franklin University,
and in his spare . time
coaches the bowling team of
Sinclair Jr. .University "in
Dayton, He also does the recruiting for the team. All we
can say is Congratulations to
a deserving bowler.
Bruce Zoldan of Youngs-
town started off with a 278
game, then a 212, and fin-
Ashed with a 209, to total 699.
Normally this'would be very
hard to beat, but because of
game and series, Zoldan had
to take a back seat. But a 278
game, a 699 series together
with a handicap of 60 totaled
759, a very- heartbreaking
day for Bruce. But-we can
also congratulate Bruce for
a tremendous day of
bowling.
It appeared all. the 410
bowlers from out of town,
and the 50 bowlers from Columbus, went away with a
great, feeling: for our' men
from Columbus, and thank*
•' s ■
Howard Miller -
ful for what a superb job
they all did.
President of the league,
Randy Gold, worked very
hard and deserves a round of
applause for getting this all
together. The other committee' members who put in
numerous hours of work,
Jerry Friedman,- Howard
Lewinter and Ron Gurvis,
plus the members of the
league who' came forth to
help, should also be congratulated on a' -job well
done.  '-'•-.- '.
' The men alternated bowling at the Rainbow and-Lincoln Lanes, and there were
shifts of 42 and 40 teams on
each lane. Bus transportation was furnished at all
times. A Hospitality room
was open practically at all
times with food and cold
drinks..
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The conference will* begin
on Sunday, April 13, at 3:30
p.m. at the Hillel Foundation, and will continue until
9:20 p.m., with a break for
dinner between 6 and 7:30
p.m.
The second, day of the conference, Monday, April 14,
will begin at 10 a.m. at the _
Ohio Union, Buckeye Suites
B-G, 1739 N. High St., and
will continue through late
afternoon, with a lunch'
break from 12 noon to 1 p.m.
There is no charge for attendance at the conference
and the public is cordially invited to attend any or all of
the sessions.
For more information, call
the Melton Center for Jewish
Studies of The Ohio State
University at 422-0967.
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New Chief Rabbinate Law Attacked
NEW YORK (WNS)-The new Chief Rabbinate Law
adopted by the Knesset has been attacked here by the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA) and the Labor
ZiqnistAUiance (LZA).'ARZA called the new .law *>'a delib- -
erate affront to the more than three million Reform'and
Conservative Jews in Israel and throughout the world." LZA
expressed "deep disappointment" that its sister organization
in Israel, the Labor Party, supported "this retrogressive
legislation." The new law enshrines the exclusivity of Orthodox Judaism in Israel. In particular, it gives the authority to
issue marriage licenses to the Chief Rabbinate instead of the
Ministry of Religious Affairs, which issued them previously.
Censor Bans Book
TEL AVIV (WNS)—A book by two Israeli journalists
dealing with whether Israel has the atomic bomb has been
banned by the Israel government censor.
The authors, Eli Teicher, 37, and Ami Doron, 43, both
former members of the editorial staff of Haaretz, told a press
conference that they have also had to turn over to the censor
all their notes and other pertinent information and are
prohibited from divulging any details from the book.
The. two journalists said they have asked their attorney to
seek an injunction from the Supreme Court ordering the
censor to return the book so that they can try to get a show
cause order against the government.
The two authors noted that when CBS correspondent Dan
Raviv first reported on the book, the Defense Ministry said it
"contains nothing secret, it contains lies and untruths and it
can not harm the State security. Yet now the fact the book is
banned apparently means something else."
The censor, after holding the manuscript 45 days, ruled
that it cannot be published since it contains material harmful
to Israel's security.
The CBS correspondent avoided the censor by flying to
Rome to broadcast the story. His credentials were later lifted
by Israel. The CBS report said thaWsrael and South .Africa
jointly exploded a nuclear device. "This story is not included
in the book," Teicher and Doron stressed.
Peace Now Groiip Calls For Begin's Resignation
.JERUSALEM (WNS)—Thousands of Peace Now movement supporters lined the highway between Haifa ahd Jerusalem March 29 to call for the resignation of the government
of Premier Menachem Begin. The demonstrators used a
'section from the Passover Hagadah called "Dayenu" as
their theme, which they translated to mean "We had
enough." Peace Now leaders* issued a statement charging
that Begin's policy would lead to "perpetual war." But Likud
leaders called the demonstrations a threat to democracy.
iThey said a government does not resign because of highway
demonstrations but because it loses a vote in the Knesset.
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