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VOL. 66   NO. 35
SEPTEMBER 1,1988-ELUL 19
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
JNF Announces
Increase In
Cost Of Trees
The Jewish National Fund
of America announces the
national increase in the cost
of planting individual trees
in Israel for all occasions
from $5 to $7 as of Oct. 1.
Hal Zeidman, Columbus
JNF Council president,
states, "To meet the ever
growing needs of Israel and
her forests, the Jewish
National Fund has no choice
but to make this small price
increase. Israel's current
fire season has caused over.
$40 million in damages to her
forests and pasturelands.
The cost of establishing and
maintaining forests and
parks in Israel has been
, steadily increasing while our
tree price has remained the
same since 1981."
However, the cost of establishing a tree project such as
a Garden (100 trees), Groves
(1,000 trees), Woodlands
(2,000 trees) or Forests
(10,000 trees) will remain the
same at $5 per tree.
To order individual trees,
tree projects or for more
information, call Jewish
National Fund, 231-1397.
Pro-Palestinian Terrorism Down,
State Department Study Reports
'Chronicle' New Year Edition,
Calendar Should Arrive Soon
The 5749 Ohio Jewish
Chronicle New Year Edition
and Jewish Community Calendar should arrive in subscribers' homes sometime
next week. Featured this
Martin's Celebrates Grand Opening
Of New Kosher Cafe, Deli, Bakery
Martin's, a Columbus
landmark for over 48 years,
officially greeted their customers Aug. 22 with a grand
opening to celebrate their
brand new look.
In addition to serving the
community with kosher products, Martin's has expanded its operation to include' a new kosher cafe,
gourmet market and deli
and an award-winning
bakery.
The new cafe is the largest
kosher restaurant in Columbus and serves both deli and
hot meals for breakfast,
lunch and dinner. "We're
very excited about our new
cafe," says manager, Mike
Singer. "In addition to eur
traditional kosher menu,
we'll be offering more
'nouveau' kosher menu
items from South of the
Border and the Orient... as
well as a special menu that is
completely cholesterol-free.
Customers can take advantage of our fast take out service or enjoy their meal in
the comfort of our newly designed cafe."
Along"with the cafe,
Martin's has also added an
all new kosher bakery, under
the supervision of award-
winning master baker John
Williams. "We're extremely
proud that John is1 now with
'' Martin's to serve the Colum-
'.bus community," continues
Singer. "He is a graduate of
the 'American School of Baking and Sugarwork' and has
an impressive list of credentials. In 1965, he was an
apprentice at New York's
famous Plaza Hotel, and
from 1965-197i, he was
pastry chef at the Hotel
American and the Mayflower in Washington, D.C.
While in Washington, John
also worked various state
dinners and charity affairs
with White House Chef
Henry Halter."
"John has , won various
first prizes and gold medals
in international competitions
and is considered one of the
experts in his field. In fact,"
says Singer, "we've already
had people from Indianapolis and Cincinnati making
the trip to Columbus to meet
John and place orders."
Martin's new gourmet deli
and meat department will
offer a large selection of
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year is a look at Israel during her fortieth year and a
report on how the central
Ohio Jewish community
celebrated this milestone
anniversary.
An expanded personal
greetings section, redesigned last year, allows community members to wish
each other a "Happy New
Year," while articles on
everything from the origins
of the Jewish calendar to
"Tips for a Low Cholesterol
Rosh Hashanah," promise to
inform and entertain.
Young winners of this
year's "Calendar Creations"
whose drawings illustrate
the pages of the OJC Community Calendar are: Victor
Katz, age 10, Columbus
Torah Academy; Monica
Khemsurov, age 9, Tifereth
Israel; Betsy Schwartz, age
8, Tifereth Israel; Andy
Scheinbach, age 11, Agudas
Achim; Rachel Bleefeld, age
7, Temple Israel; Mandy
Berlin, age 6, Torah
Academy; Eric Smiley, age
9, Temple Israel; Stephie
Romick, age 8, Tifereth
Israel; Tavi Wolf, age 12,
Torah Academy; Frank Lesser, age 8, Torah Academy;
Marc Simon, age 10, Torah
Academy; Jenny Shindel,
age 8, Torah Academy;
Naphtali Weisz, age 7, Torah
Academy.
Artwork by these youngs-
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Pro-Palestinian terrorists
killed 155 fewer people in
1987 than they did in 1986, the
State Department revealed
recently in its annual report
"Patterns of Global Terrorism."
The 70-page report said
that terrorists killed 295 people' and wounded 770 in 1987,
down from 450 deaths and
1,125 injuries in 1986.
But Israel, the West Bank
and Gaza Strip saw roughly
the same number of incidents between 1986 and 1987,
about 25 percent of the 1986
worldwide total of 774 incidents, and 1987 total of 832 attacks.
By contrast, the second
most popular venue for terrorist attacks was Pakistan,
site of 17 percent of the incidents.
"Israel remained the pri-
r mary target of Palestinian
terrorists in 1987," the report
said. It cited an April 1986 attack into northern Israel,
which killed two Israeli soldiers along with three terrorists linked to Al-Fatah,
the military wing of the
Palestine Liberation
Organization.
In December 1987, "in an
attempt probably designed
to exploit international Sympathy created by the Gaza
Strip and West Bank protests, three terrorists from
(Mohammed) Abul Abbas'
Palestine Liberation Front
penetrated Israel from Jordan. The three were captured shortly after their
incursion."
On terrorist acts committed by Jews, the report noted
that life sentences for three
Jewish settlers convicted of
murdering West Bank Arabs
were reduced in March 1987.
In October, the Knesset defeated a bill that would have
pardoned seven members of
Dr. Stephen Berk To Deliver
Abe Yenkin Memorial Address
At Federation Annual Meeting
Dr. Stephen M. Berk, professor of history, coordinator
of the Program in Judaic
Studies and chairman of the
Program on Comparative
Communist Studies at Union
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EARLY DEADLINE
Deadline For The Thursday, Sept. 15, Issue
Is Noon Wednesday, Sept. 7
The OJC Office Will Be Closed
Rosh Hashanah, Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 12& 13
Dr. Stephen Berk
College, Schenectady; N.Y.,
will deliver the Abe I. Yenkin Memorial Address at the
62nd Annual Meeting of the
Columbus Jewish Federation, Sunday evening, Sept.
18, at Beth Jacob Congregation.
Dr. Berk earned his Ph.D.
in history and a certificate
from the Russian Institute of
Columbia University. He received his M.A. in history
from! the University of Chicago and his bachelor of arts
in history, with honors, from
the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Berk, a nationally
recognized historian and university level professor since'
1967, has published extensively in the areas of Russian, Soviet Jewry and
Polish-Jewish relations, oral
history and anti-Semitism.
He has presented papers on
oral history and anti-Semitism; the American-Jewish
experience; Polish-Jewish
relations and Soviet Jewry.
Currently, he is working on a
book dealing with Polish-
Jewish relations during
World War II.
Dr. Berk has been commentator, writer and director of the radio program
"Communist Insight" on the
General Electric Radio Network, a weekly analysis of
developments in the Communist world, and a visiting
associate professor at Williams College, State University of New York —Albany
and Bennington College.
Dr. Berk's presentation
for the Abe I. Yenkin Memorial Address is "Israel:
The Fulfillment of the Zionist Dream?"
The Annual Meeting program will include the election of Federation board
members and officers, presentation of the Community
Award of Excellence, presentation of the Therese
Stern Kahn Young Leadership award and feature an
Anniversary Salute, a
special celebration of the ant
niversaries of local agencies
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the Jewish underground who
had been convicted of "terrorist crimes" against
Arabs.
Since 1985, the total number of incidents in the Middle
East has remained "fairly
constant" each year. For
example, 45 percent of
worldwide terrorist attacks
occurred in the Middle East
in 1987, down 1 percent from
1986.
The report warned that
"the potential for terrorist
activity remains high," Citing recent political developments such as the Palestinian uprising and "the
groundswell of Islamic
fundamentalism throughout
the Middle East."
Only nine percent of the
anti-U.S. terrorist incidents
occurred in the Middle East
in 1987, the report concluded.
By  contrast,  Latin
America was the site of 47
percent of 149 anti-U.S. incidents, followed by Western
Europe with 24 percent.
7 The report found that terrorist incidents outside the.
Middle  East  by   "radical
Palestinian  groups"   declined in 1987, but was offset,
by a slight rise in attacks
against targets in Israel and
the administered territories..
The report attributed, the
1987 decline in Mideast terrorism in Western Europe—
from 74 incidents in'85, to 43
incidents in '87 — to the
deterrent effect of terrorist
prosecutions  in  European
countries.
For example, in February
1986, Georges Ibrahim
Abdullah, head of the
Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction,. was sentenced to life imprisonment
in France for his role in the
assassination of U.S. and
Israeli diplomats in 1982.
Also in 1987, an Italian appeals court upheld the sentences of the PLF terrorists
convicted in the October 1985
Achille Lauro hijacking and
sentenced Abul Abbas in
absentia to life imprisonment.
But the report cautioned
against expecting a continued decline in Palestinian
terrorism outside the Middle
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