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VOL.62   NO. 19
MAY9.1985-IYAR18
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Columbus Jewish Federation Acknowledges
Formation Of New Afternoon Hebrew School
Father Edward Langlois, Newman Center; Rabbi
David Stavsky, Beth Jacob Synagogue; Dr. Ilan
Avisar, O.S.U. professor (1. to r.) were members of a
panel on the Holocaust which spoke at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center on April 16 as part of the Holocaust
commemoration sponsored by the Children of Holocaust Survivors: Dr. Sabine Himmelfarb (far left) was
the moderator. Photo by Lorn Spolter.
OSU President Officially Recognizes
April 18 Holocaust Commemoration
dormitories   and
For the first time in Ohio
State University's history,
the school's president,
Edward Jennings, officially
recognized a Holocaust Commemoration. He did not
attend the April 18 event but
sent his special assistant,
Herb Asher, to represent
him. .    ; f'(':. f,:'_'
The event was organized1
by the Children of Holocaust
Survivors, Campus Division,
through the Jewish Student
Activities Board and co-
sponsored by the Ohio-Drake
Union Activities Board. The
program also received the
support of the Campus
Ministries Association.
The evening featured Benson Wolman, director, Ohio
American Civil Liberties
Union, and Cantor Jack
Chomsky, Congregation
Tifereth Israel.^.'.,'
The previous evening was
marked by yahrzeit candles
being ljt around the campus
area. This effort was
supported by the Campus
Ministries Association and
Inter-Fraternity Council.
Over 100 candles were
handed out to be kindled in
memory of the Jewish
martyrs at Jewish and non-
Jewish fraternities and
sororities, campus area
churches, University build-
JNF To Form
Committee For
Planned Giving
Liz taffet, national
director for Major Gifts and
Planned Giving for the
Jewish National Fund of
America, will be in Columbus today, May 9, to discuss
the formation of a planned
giving committee for the
Columbus Council of the
Jewish National Fund..
Chairmen for this committee
are Hal Zeidman, and Ken
Blum.
The major gifts depart-
ings,
apartment windows.
According to Rabbi
Howard Alpert, director of
the B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation, "This year's
commemoration, and the
broad support that it
received was important to
the Jewish effort to ensure
that the six million will not
be forgotten and such
horrors will not happen
again."
May 21 Event
To Launch CTA
Annual Fund
Columbus Torah Academy
will launch its Annual Fund
at a special event on Tuesday, May 21, at 6 p.m., at the
new offices of Schottenstein,'
Zox and Dunn on the 26th
floor of the Huntington
Center.
Robert H. Schottenstein,
1985 chairman of development, notes, "Our goal is not
only to assist the school in
providing funds for current
programs, but more importantly, to give all those interested in Jewish education
and Columbus Torah
Academy an opportunity to
show their concern."
Chairwomen for the evening are Susan Diamond, Dee
Dee Glimcher, Ellen Siegel.
and Miriam Yenkin.
Serving on the Solicitation
Committee for the event are
Laurence G. Ruben, president of Columbus Torah
Academy; Irving: A. Baker;
Mark Ellman; "Steven C.
Goodman; Pearson Press;
Harlan Ruben; Gary D.
Schottenstein; Holly J.
Schottenstein; William J.
Schottenstein; Michael
Talis; Bernard K. Yenkin;
Eleanor Yenkin and Miriam
Yenkin.
Following cocktails and
hors d'oeuvres there will be
a brief program explaining
AnniiaJ Giving.    ;	
EDITOR'S NOTE: Representatives
of Columbus Hebrew School and the
new Kol Ami School are currently preparing additional Information which
will appear In future Issues of the
Chronicle.
On April 2, the Columbus
Jewish Federation acknowledged the formation of a
new community afternoon
Hebrew school, Kol-Ami
(Voice of our People). As a
major funding source for the
community's Jewish education, the Federation has received full assurances that
the new school will be open
to the entire community.
" "We are entering a new
phase in the organization of
community Hebrew education in Columbus," said Jack
. L. Wallick, Federation president, "one that is responsive
to congregational needs as
well as being jointly designed and fashioned by the
rabbis of Agudas Achim,
Beth Tikvah and Temple
Israel."
Events leading up to the
formation of the new schopl
'■■•'■ govback-to the spring of 1984
when Wallick, as president
of the Columbus Jewish
Federation, appointed
Miriam Yenkin to chair a
committee charged with
assessing communal afternoon Hebrew education. Two
consultants were cdmmis-
sioned, Dr. Avraham Etted-
gui of Minneapolis and Dr.
David Resnick of the Jewish
Education Service of North
America, and their report
became final in July, 1984.
From Sept., 1984 to Feb.,
1985, meetings were held by
Federation, Columbus
Hebrew School and congregational leadership in an attempt to' implement the
recommendations of the consultant's reports.
On March 21,1985, official
representatives of Agudas
Achim, Beth Tikvah and
Temple Israel met and decided jointly that their objectives for afternoon Hebrew
education could best be met
by establishing a new community afternoon school.
After approval by the boards
of directors of these three
congregations, the Columbus Jewish Federation was
asked to endorse the formation of the new school.
. .The formation of a new
community afternoon
Hebrew school, and the
endorsement by the Columbus Jewish Federation,
mark the end of a long-standing, Jewish educational
institution, the Columbus
Hebrew School.
For over 63 years, the
Columbus Hebrew School
has provided the community
with a foundation and philosophy toward afternoon Jewish education. As Dr. Marvin
Zuravsky, president of the
Columbus Hebrew School,
noted, "The school has been
.dedicated to the transmission of the great values and
ideas of our religious and
cultural heritage and to the
inculcation of a sense of belonging to the Jewish community and the Jewish
people. For over 60 years, it
has sought to build Jewish
literacy while transcending
individual ideology!"
Bernard Yenkin, past
president of the Federation,
is interim chairman of a
coordinating committee
which includes rabbis and
representatives of the three
congregations and is responsible for the formation of the
new school. "It is a moment
in time, where as a community we have the opportunity
to respond to changing needs
in the delivery of afternoon
Hebrew  education,"  said
Toronto Publisher Ordered Deported
TORONTO (JTA) — Ernst Zundel, an anti-Semitic Toronto
publisher convicted under Canada's anti-hate laws of spreading literature which claims the Holocaust was a Jewish hoax,
was ordered deported last week. He said he would fight the
order to the highest tribunal. But he told the Toronto Globe
and Mail that he would welcome deportation, to West Germany because he has a "power base" there.
Begun Sent To Chrlstopol Prison
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry and Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry reported
last week that Prisoner of Conscience Iosef Begun has been
transferred from the Perm labor camp to the Christopol
Prison. His wife Inna was informed that Begun was tried on
April 3, ev idently within the camp, and sent to Christopol four
days later. A letter from the prison administration gave no
other details.
Yenkin. "As a result of: a
fruitful dialogue that has
taken place between religious leaders, parents, synagogue and Federation
leadership, there is an overwhelming desire to move
forward with a system that
has the potential to serve as
a model not only for Columbus but for other communities with a demonstrated
commitment to community
afternoon education."
Reagan Visits Cemetery
Amid Storm Of Protest
A Chronicle Staff Report
President Reagan, amidst
a storm of protest from Jew-1
ish and veterans' groups,
proceeded with previosly announced plans and paid a
quick visit to Bitburg Cemetery, a German military
cemetery containing 49 Nazi
SS graves, on Sunday May 5.
Reagan began the day
with a surprise stop at the
grave of former West German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer V an anti-Nazi
imprisoned by Hitler during
World WarH.
The cemetery visit was fol
lowed by a tour of Bergen-
Belsen concentration camp,
where Reagan, his voice
catching, quoted from the
diary of Anne Frank and
later promised, "... we will
never forget."
The day was also marked
by a variety of demonstrations and protests here and
abroad including a ceremony at Arlington National
Cemetery honoring the
liberators of Nazi concentra-
' tion camps and a protest by
400 Holocaust survivors and
their .children in front of a
war memorial on theBoston
Common.
Leading Cause Of Infertility In
Ashkenazic Jews Disclosed
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
leading Talmudic scholar
who is an authority on medical ethics has disclosed an
appeal to his colleagues to
make known the recent disclosure of a leading cause of
infertility apparently affecting only Ashkenazic Jews
"which can be totally r&;
versed by means of pharmaceutical treatment."
Rabbi J. David Bleich, a
faculty member of both
Yeshiva University and its
Cardozo Law School, made
the disclosure and his appeal
in a letter to Rabbi Benjamin
Waif ish, executive vice
president of the Rabbinical
Council of America, a major
organization of orthodox
rabbis.
Bleich sent Walfish an
abstract of an article which
he wrote which would
appear in the 1985 annual
issue of The American
Journal of Human Genetics,
adding in his cover letter to
Walfish that the article was
"the product of research
which has identified a cause
of infertility which appears
to be present only in Ashkenazic Jews."
Bleich added: "More
significantly, since the cause
has been identified as a
steroid insufficiency, the
condition can be totally reversed by means of pharmaceutical treatment."
The abstract was of an
article describing the research of five experts in the
field from the United States,
Italy and Yugoslavia. One of
them was Dr. Maria New,
chief of pediatric endocrinology at New York Hospital
and chairwoman of the
Department of Pediatrics at
Cornell University at the
Cornell University Medical
School.
• The abstract was entitled
"Discovery of a New Genetic
Disease in Ashkenazic
Jews," which the researchers agreed was more
widespread than Tay-Sachs
Disease. The researchers
reported "extraordinarily
high frequency among
Ashkenazic Jews of a genetically transmitted hormonal disease called nonclassi-
cal adrenal hyperplatas.
This condition involving an
enzyme deficiency, results
in chronically elevated
androgenic (male) hormone
levels and consequent
impairment of fertility in
both males and females."
The researchers reported
that their preliminary
studies indicated that "as
many as one in every 30
individuals of Ashkenazi
Jewish descent may be
affected" with the disease
and that "one of every three
is a carrier of the trait."
They said the data was in
"stark and dramatic con-
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