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VOL. 66   NO. 33
AUGUST 18, 1988-ELUL 5
Devoted fo American
and Jewish Ideals.
mpaign Launched
Julius and Roselyn Margulies
Israel Bonds Dinner To Honor
Roselyn And Julius Margulies
"Roselyn and Julius Margulies will be honored by
State of Israel Bonds at a
Community Dinner Oct. 18 at
the Hyatt Regency Hotel,"
announced Steven Heiser,
Community Division chairman. "The dinner committee has been meeting and
plans are being finalized
now" added Mel Kent, dinner chairman.
The Margulies have been
active in the Israel Bonds organization since its inception. Presently Roselyn is on
the Board of Women's Division and Julius serves as co-
chairman of the Corporate
Division and is a member of
the Executive Cabinet.
Both Roselyn and Julius
are natives of Columbus and
attended Ohio State University. They are active in
Congregation TifereUT Israel. Julius is a third generation member and Roselyn
taught Hebrew at Tifereth
Israel for 25 years. She was
one of three graduates of the
first Hebrew, High School
Class there.'
"Every aspect of Jewish
community life has been enriched by the Margulies,"
stated Dr. Norman Shub, Israel Bonds general chairman. "Beside their deep and
active involvement in their
synagogue, Roselyn is a life,
member of Hadassah and
Heritage House as well as
past president of the Jewish
War Veteirans Auxiliary. Julius has served on the Board
of ttie: Columbus .Jewish
Federation, has been a division chairman of many
United Jewish Fund campaigns and is ''..currently,
secretary of the Columbus
Jewish Historical Society.
The economic strength and
development of theState of
Israel has been a high priority of theirs for a long time,"
he continued.
"One of Julius' other loves
is BalletMet. He is presently
a member of the Board and
co-chairman of the 1988 Indi
viduals Fund Drive. In 1985
he was named BalletMet
'Man of the Year' and this
year he was named 'Ambassador of BalletMet', the first
ever," stated Kent who has
worked closely with Julius
for the Ballet.
The Margulies have three
daughters, two sons and 11
grandchildren.
"We know that the entire
Jewish community will want
to join us in paying tribute to
a most deserving couple,"
cited Heiser.
For information concerning'the dinner, call 239-7212.
The Israel Bond Organization is a major source of development capital for Israel
haying provided over $8.7
billion since its inception to
help build every aspect of
the nation's economy.
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
Israeli Ministry of Tourism,
El Al Israel AirJines and the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations announced a
campaign last week to
encourage U.S. citizens to
visit Israel during the coming Hebrew year 5749.
At a news conference here,
Moshe Shosham, Israel's
North American1 commissioner for tourism, said the
number of U.S. tourists visiting Israel was down 8 percent during the first seven
months of 1988, compared
with the same period in 1987.
Before the beginning of the
Palestinian uprising last December, El Al, which flies
about 55 percent of U.S. visitors to Israel, planned to offer 20,000 additional seats to
U.S. tourists this year.
To spur U.S. Jews to visit
Israel, Rabbi Joseph Sternstein, who chairs the Committee on Tourism of the
Conference of Presidents,
said his group is forwarding
"pledge cards'" to synagogues for distribution at Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur
services in hundreds of synagogues. Sternstein is president of the Jewish National
Fund.
Those who sign the card,
addressed to Israeli President Chaim Herzog, pledge
that they will visit Israel
during5749.
The conference is also distributing a "Guide to Israel
(An American Selihot Service'
To Be Held At Tifereth Israel
Congregation Tifereth Israel will celebrate Selihot
with the "American Selihot
Service" on Saturday night,
Sept. 3. The midnight service
will be preceded by coffee
and learning (with Rabbi
Leonard Gordon) at li p.m.
"An American Selihot Service," commissioned by Tifereth Israel in 1985, presents the traditional penitential prayers of Selihot in a
contemporary setting; The
recipient of the Milton Parker Community Award for
Excellence, the service" is
performed / every year by a
wider array of congregations throughout the country.
The work was created and
scored by award-winning
composer Gary William
Friedman, who collaborated
closely with Tifereth Israel's
Cantor Jack Chomsky on the
project.    7
The Service is scored for
cantor and choir and a Ismail
ensemble comprised of violin, cello, string bass, clari
net, harp and vibes and percussion. The musicians
participating include members of the Columbus Symphony and Pro Musica
Chamber Orchestra as well
as recitalists.
■" 'An American Selihot
Service' is one of the very
special accomplishments of
our congregations in recent
years," said Dr. L. Robert
Polster, president of the congregation! "We have become
well known in our community for our Selihot programming. Prior to the commissioning of the Friedman
work, we twice presented
'Light for the Heart's Dark
Places,' a dramatic musical
piece which preceded the
service. This will mark the
sixth 'consecutive year in
which we have had a major
musical presentation as an
inherent part of our Selihot
service; In this time, we
have come to expect hundreds of people to join us for
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Tourism Resources," which
includes telephone numbers
for Israel Government
Tourism Offices and El Al
district offices throughout
the United States.
The Conference of Presidents also has set up a hot
line designed to provide up-
to-date information on
tourism and special events
in Israel.
Israel's Tourism Ministry
will begin a new U.S. advertising campaign in September, highlighting the theme
"See Israel: See For Yourself."
The advertisements are
being targeted to Jewish audiences and such trade publications as "Golf Digest,"
which is being asked to run
an ad with the teaser, "1,000
Columbus Jewish Foundation officers pictured are
(1. to r.) William L. Glick, Herbert H. Schiff, Melvin L.
Schottenstein, Myer Mellman, Irving Schottenstein
and Ernest Stern (not shown—Stanley Schwartz, Jr.).
Columbus Jewish Foundation
Announces Officers And Board
The Columbus Jewish
Foundation formally announced its 1988-1989 Officers and Board of Trustees
at .the Foundation's Annual
Meeting held Monday, July
25, at the Hyatt Regency.
Re-elected for another
term as officers were: chairman of the board, Herbert V.
Schiff; president, Irving
Schottenstein; vice presidents, Myer Mellman, Melvin L. Schottenstein and Ernest Stern; treasurer, Stanley Schwartz, Jr., and secretary, William L. Glick.
Serving on the Board of
Trustees will be Robert
Aronson; Irving Baker;
James Feibel; Jules Garel;
Donald Garlikov; Elliott
Grayson; Tom Kaplin, Jr.;
Bradley Kastan; David
Milenthal; Karen Moss; Sig-
mund Munster; Eleanor
Resler; David B. Roth; William Schottenstein; Charles
Shenk; Morris Skilken; Judith Swedjow; Jack Wallick;
Leslie. Wexner; Eleanore
Yenkin, and Fred Yenkin.
Sidney Blatt, Millard Cummins, Dr. Milton Levitin,
Norman Traeger and Miriam Yenkin will serve on the
Board as presidential appointees. Ex-officio members of the Board of Trustees
are B. Lee Skilken, president
of  the  Columbus  Jewish
Federation, and Alan Gill,
executive director of the Columbus Jewish Federation.
Also serving on the board
as past leadership are the
following: Edwin Ellman,
Marvin L. Glassman, William V. Kahn, Herbert S.
Levy, Norman Meizlish,
Samuel M. Melton and Edward Schlezinger.
In a keynote address to the
220 Annual Meeting guests,
Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn
stressed that, "The young of
tomorrow will be the inheritors of what the Columbus
Jewish Foundation is seeking to accomplish. Key, crucial, central to the goals of
the Foundation is to pass a
sense of responsibility on to
the future leaders of the new
generation. Together we
plant the seeds of a better
tomorrow."
The Columbus Jewish
Foundation is a community-
based organization which
provides grants for innovative, creative programs.
These grants can be for
local, non-local, overseas
and non-sectarian needs.
The Foundation also provides a means for donors to
select various instruments
and arrangements to express their philanthropic interests based on their own
needs	
Americans will play golf in
Israel next month."
But supporters of the
campaign rejected criticism
that the advertisements do
not address the issue of
safety for travelers.
Richard Cohen, who
handles publicity for the
Conference of Presidents,
said the campaign would not
be effective if it took a defensive posture to "convince
you that it's safe" to visit
Israel. . ' 7 ./ '
183 Palestinians
Die In 'Infifida'
TEL AVIV (JTA) —At the
eight-month anniversary of
the Palestinian "intifada,"
the Israeli Defense Force announced that 183 Palestinians had been killed and
about 2,100 wounded by IDF
gunfire in approximately
13,750 uprising-related incidents.
The casualty figures reported by, Palestinian....
sources in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip are higher,
but according to the; IDF, the
Palestinians'. totals include
deaths found not to have resulted from army action.
The IDF said a number of
Palestinians were shot and
killed by Jewish settlers in
the territories.
According to the IDF,
some 5,500 Palestinians have
been jailed, of whom over
3,000 are said to be detained
without trial under administrative orders.
The IDF said that 456 soldiers and 282 Jewish civilians
have been injured in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip
since the uprising began
Dec. 9. Most of the soldiers
were struck by stones, while
others were burned by
bombs,
Twelve U.S. Olympians
Are Maccabiah Veterans
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)
—The U.S. team traveling to
Seoul, South Korea, next
month for the Olympics will
include eight athletes and
four coached who previously
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