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VOL. XI MARCH 1988 NO. 2

DR. ILSA SCHUSTER
TO SPEAK AT CKJF FORCE",
MARCH 29TH

The second production of the 1987—88
CKJF Forum Cultural and Entertainment
Series will take place, Sunday, March 80th
at 8:00 p.m. at Ohavay Zion Synagogue,
2048 Edgewater Court.

Specializing in economic development,
social change, and aggression in Africa
and Israel, where she has conducted
extensive research, Dr. Ilsa Schuster is a
columnist for KIDMA, the Israel Journal of
Development, and lectures at the Golda
Meir Mount Carmel Training Center. She is
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
State University of New York, Stony Brook;
she authored The New Homen of Lusaka,
numerous articles, and co-edited Culture
and Aggression.

Dr. Schuster will speak on “Wither
Survival? Israel and the Diaspora.”

Arrangements for Dr. Schuster were made
through the Jewish Welfare Board Lecture
Bureau.

 

 

 

 

If you do not already hold Series or
Patron tickets, tickets for this program
are $10 each and may be purchased at the
door. School age children of Patron and
Series ticket holders are admitted free.
Tickets for students (with valid I.D.> are
$5 each.

***********

. Hsa Schuster

The CKJF Forum Series is one of the
ongoing programs of this Federation made
possible by community support of the
annual CKJF—UJA fund raising campaign.

 

  

LEXlHC—TDE‘ JEWR‘I’

The next Temple Adath Israel Sisterhood
meeting will be Wednesday, March 16th, at
12:00 p.m. There will be a discussion on
“Lexington Jewry when I Got There — And
How It’s Changed!” The panel will include
Helen Goldfarb, Rose Rita Nurmser, Marge
Lerner, Sally Kocen and Susie Johnson.

Lunch will be served and babysitting is
available. Make reservations by calling
the Temple office at 869—2979.

YOUNG JUDAEA CONVENTION
iniuexington

A regional convention of Young Judaea
will be held Friday, March 18th (4 p.m.)

until Sunday, March 20th (11 a.m.) at the
Ohavay Zion Synagogue. The conventioneers
will hail from the southern half of
Hadassah’s Central States Region

(Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Lexington and environs).

The convention is open to any Jewish
child in the 3rd through 7th grades. The
weekend’s theme is ”Destination Israel.”
Led by teenage Young Judaea members with
adult supervisions, activities will
include Shabbat observance, singing,
dancing and games. This is a fantastic
opportunity for our younger children to
experience a local, in—depth educational,
cultural, and fun-filled weekend in a
totally Jewish environment.

The cost is $30 per conventioneer
$10 dues, if not already paid).

For additional information, please
contact Charlotte Baer, Hadassah Chairper—
son for Lexington Young Judaea (277-3078)
or Miriam Aronovsky, Regional Director at
1185 South College Avenue, Columbus, Ohio,
43809.

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while unrest and violence spread
through Israel’s occupied territories, two
doctors and a nurse worked in surgery
thousands of miles from their homes in
Lexington, Kentucky.

Dr. Richard Sadove, a plastic surgeon
at U.K.; Dr. J. william McRoberts, a UK
urologist; and Dori Cucinotta, an operat—

ing room registered nurse, spent two weeks
in the Middle East donating their time and
talent to Arab hospitals.

The doctors set up shop in Ramallah
Hospital and performed a few operations at
Mt. David Orthopedic Hospital for Children
in Bethlehem.

Dr. Sadove will talk about his experi-
ences in the tension-filled Middle East
Tuesday, March 89th at 8 p.m. at Ohavay
Zion Synagogue. Co—sponsored by the CKJF
Community Relations Committee and Ohavay
Zion Synagogue, the program is open to the
public and free of charge.

CAMP SHALOM

Camp Shalom will have another exciting
3—week session this summer from June 6—89.
The campsite will be the same 36 acre
farmsite as last year. The Director will
again be Mark Scarr who will be assisted
by an excellent staff including Sandy
Adland as one of the senior counselors.

There will be both a half day program
for A and 5 year olds at a cost of $90 and
a full day program for 6-8 year olds
costing $135 for the entire three weeks.
Camperships are available through CKJF.

The theme of this year’s session will

be ”Cycles of Life“ with many special
activities being planned.
A brochure describing the CKJF

sponsored camp, along with an application,
will be sent to all CKJF members.

For further information regarding camp
or positions as counsellors contact either
Cheri Rose (866“9548) or CKJF (258—7622).

INC.

333 Waller Avenue, Lexington, KY 40504 (606) 252—7623
*** BULLETIN ***

Gail R. Cohen, President
Charlotte Levy, Editor

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CKJF salutes those people who have paid in full
their pleoges to the 1987 C‘UF— UJF‘: Campaign
and who permit us to publish their gifts oy girtoa categor‘.

We express deep appreciation to all those people who
supported the 1987 CKJF-UJA Campaign.

MEN'S DIVISION

$85,000 and above
Steven Caller

$12,000 - $84,999
$ 8,000 - $11,999

$ 6,000 — $ 7,999
Maurice Hymson

Irving Rosenstein
Arthur Salomon

$ 4,000 — $ 5,999
Michael Ades

$ 8,800 - $ 3,999
Leon Cooper

Stephen Edelstein
Halley Faust

Marvin Frank

Alvin Goldman

Steven Goldstein

Erle Levy

Morris Rozen

Allan Slovin

Larry and Brad Nolken

$ 8,000 — $ 8,799
Robert Baumann

‘ Louis Dubilier
‘ Leon Ravvin

$ 1,800 - $ 1,999
Robert Belin

Bruce Broudy

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Phil Hoffman
Avram Levine
Tomas Milch

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Louis Ades
Michael Baer
Hans Gesund
Martin Kaplan
Leonard Lerner
David Paritz
Hyman Shraberg
Joseph Nile
Myron Zuckerman

350 - $ 699

Alan Brock

Henry Darmstadter
Sheldon Hymson
James Levenson
William Levy
Albert Lichaa
David Miller

Sam Smargon

H.D. Uriel Smith
Jesse Neil

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Hilliard Aberson
Leon Amster
Martin Barr
Philip Berger
Alan & Irene Bloomfield
Austin Cantor
David Feinberg
David Fine
Arthur Frank

Ted Friedman
Lawrence Goodman
Kenneth Graulich
John Harrison
Max Kovinow
Robert Levine
David Liebschutz
Elliott Marcus
Emanuel Mason
David Osser

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Allen Paritz
Igor Rayevsky
Corwin Robison
John Rosenberg
Richard Sadove
Jeffrey Schloss
Joel Sokoloff
David Nachtel
Ed Hides

$ 1 - $ 99

Ben Baer

Matthew Barrett
Martin & Rolene Berk
Abe Cohen

Robert Deckelbaum
Leonard Dintenfass
Sidney Edelstein
Louis Elvove

Dan Frank

Aron Friedman

Dan Fulks

Norman Gilinsky

Myer Godhelff

Doug Goldman

Jake Green

Jeff Heller

Lloyd Hughes

Gil Johnson

Paul Kaufman

Simon Levy

James Dean Liebman
William & Ranelle Mackey
Morris and Sophie Moser
Tom Myers

Mark Plavin

Joel Roitman

Alan Rubin

Dale & Elaine Schermer
Jack Sharer

Dan Sosin

Charles Spiegel

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LEXINGTON .TEWR‘I’ . . . .

The next Temple Adath Israel Sisterhood
meeting will be Wednesday, March 16th; at
18:00 p.m. There will be a discussion on
”Lexington Jewry When I Got There — And
How It’s Changed!” The panel will include
Helen Goldfarb, Rose Rita wurmser, Marge
Lerner, Sally Kocen and Susie Johnson.

Lunch will be served and babysitting is
available. Make reservations by calling
the Temple office at 869-8979.

YOUNG JUDAEA CONVENTION
in Lexington

A regional convention of Young Judaea
will be held Friday, March 18th (4 p.m.)
until Sunday, March 80th (11 a.m.) at the
Ohavay Zion Synagogue. The conventioneers
will hail from the southern half of
Hadassah’s Central States Region
(Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Lexington and environs).

The convention is open to any Jewish
child in the 3rd through 7th grades. The
weekend’s theme is ”Destination Israel."
Led by teenage Young Judaea members with
adult supervisions, activities will
include Shabbat observance, singing,
dancing and games. This is a fantastic
opportunity for our younger children to
experience a local, in—depth educational,
cultural, and fun—filled weekend in a
totally Jewish environment.

The cost is $30 per conventioneer (plus
$10 dues, if not already paid).
For additional information, please

contact Charlotte Baer, Hadassah Chairper-
son for Lexington Young Judaea (877—3078)
or Miriam Aronovsky, Regional Director at
1185 South College Avenue, Columbus, Ohio,
43809.

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to speak. at DZS

While unrest and violence spread
through Israel’s occupied territories, two
doctors and a nurse worked in surgery
thousands of miles from their homes in
Lexington, Kentucky.

Dr. Richard Sadove, a plastic surgeon
at U.K.; Dr. J. Nilliam McRoberts, a UK
urologist; and Dori Cucinotta, an operat—

ing room registered nurse, spent two weeks
in the Middle East donating their time and
talent to Arab hospitals.

The doctors set up shop in Ramallah
Hospital and performed a few operations at
Mt. David Orthopedic Hospital for Children
in Bethlehem.

Dr. Sadove will talk about his
ences in the tension—filled Middle
Tuesday, March 89th at B p.m. at
Zion Synagogue. Co~sponsored by the CKJF
Community Relations Committee and Dhavay
Zion Synagogue, the program is open to the
public and free of charge.

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CAMP SHALOM

Camp Shalom will have another exciting
3—week session this summer from June 6—84.

The campsite will be the same 36 acre
farmsite as last year. The Director will
again be Mark Scarr who will be assisted

by an excellent staff including Sandy
Adland as one of the senior counselors.
There will be both a half day program
for A and 5 year olds at a cost of $90 and
a full day program for 6—8 year olds
costing $135 for the entire three weeks.
Camperships are available through CKJF.

The theme of this year’s session will
be ”Cycles of Life“ with many special
activities being planned.

A brochure describing the CKJF

sponsored camp, along with an application,
will be sent to all CKJF members.

For further information regarding camp
or positions as counsellors contact either
Cheri Rose (866"9548) or CKJF (858-7688).

INC.

333 Heller Avenue, Lexington, KY #0504 (606) 858-7688
*** BULLETIN ***

Gail R. Cohen, President
Charlotte Levy, Editor

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Linda Ravvin, Administrator
Beth Altenkirch, Office Manager

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and who permit us to publish their gifts by girl. :tegory.

We express

deep appreciation to all those

people who

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MEN’S DIVISION

$85,000 and above
Steven Caller

$12,000 - $89,999
$ 82000 - $11,999

$ 62000 — $ 7,999
Maurice Hymson

Irving Rosenstein
Arthur Salomon

$ 42000 — $ 5,999
Michael Ades

$ 22800 — $ 3,999
Leon Cooper

Stephen Edelstein
Halley Faust

Marvin Frank

Alvin Goldman

Steven Goldstein

Erle Levy

Morris Rozen

Allan Slovin

Larry and Brad Nolken

$ 8,000 — $ 22799
Robert Baumann

Louis Dubilier
Leon Ravvin

$ 1,800 — $ 12999
Robert Belin

Bruce Broudy
Irwin Cohen
Phil Hoffman
Avram Levine
Tomas Milch
Raymond Miller
Stanley Saxe

_ 700 — $1,193

Louis Ades
Michael Baer
Hans Gesund
Martin Kaplan
Leonard Lerner
David Paritz
Hyman Shraberg
Joseph Nile
Myron Zuckerman

350 - $ 699

Alan Brock

Henry Darmstadter
Sheldon Hymson
James Levenson
William Levy
Albert Lichaa
David Miller

Sam Smargon

H.D. Uriel Smith
Jesse Neil

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Hilliard Aberson
Leon Amster
Martin Barr
Philip Berger
Alan & Irene Bloomfield
Austin Cantor
David Feinberg
David Fine
Arthur Frank

Ted Friedman
Lawrence Goodman
Kenneth Graulich
John Harrison
Max Kovinow
Robert Levine
David Liebschutz
Elliott Marcus
Emanuel Mason
David Dsser

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Allen Paritz
Igor Rayevsky
Corwin Robison
John Rosenberg
Richard Sadove
Jeffrey Schloss
Joel Sokoloff
David Hachtel
Ed Hides

—$99

Ben Baer

Matthew Barrett
Martin & Rolene Berk
Abe Cohen

Robert Deckelbaum
Leonard Dintenfass
Sidney Edelstein
Louis Elvove

Dan Frank

Aron Friedman

Dan Fulks

Norman Gilinsky

Myer Godhelff

Doug Goldman

Jake Green

Jeff Heller

Lloyd Hughes

Gil Johnson

Paul Kaufman

Simon Levy

James Dean Liebman
Nilliam & Ranelle Mackey
Morris and Sophie Moser
Tom Myers

Mark Plavin

Joel Roitman

Alan Rubin

Dale & Elaine Schermer
Jack Sharer

Dan Sosin

Charles Spiegel

J.w. Nurmser

 

  

WOMEN’S DIVISION

$ 52500 and above
Susan Caller

5 4,000 - $ 5,499
Penny Miller

Phyllis Scher

$ 82250 — $ 3,999
Evelyn Hymson

$ 12500 - $ 82849

$ 1,000 — $ 1,499
Zelda Gall

Ellie Goldman
Sari Levin

Sara Ann Levy
Marilyn Moosnick
Harriett Rose
Ricki Rosenberg
Simone Salomon

$ 500 - $ 999
Janice Brock
Gail Cohen
Harriet Cooper
Vinnie Dubilier
Karen Edelstein
Edith Frankel
Alberta Gerson
Susan Goldstein
Nancy Hoffman
Judith Levine
Judy Miller
Linda Ravvin
Cheri Rose
Judith Saxe
Nancy Scher
Hortense Wolf

ONE PEOPLE,
()NE D BSTINY

$ 300 - $ 499

Judith Baumann
Harriet & Rose Brazin
Adalin Moskowitz

$ 150 - $ 299

Charlotte Baer
Barbara Barr
Jo Belin

Lila Boyarsky
Elizabeth Broudy
Aida Fine
Joanne Frank
Ada Gail

Jane Hart
Renee Hymson
Gloria Katz
Ruth Kessler
Evelyn Kossoff-Goodman
Laurie Lichaa
Alice Mickler
Jo Mink

Ethel Paritz
Helen Paritz
Dora Pollack
Rozalyn Rozen
Judith Sandler
Ethel Schwartz
Mary Nenneker
Carole Nilson

$ 50 - $ 1A9

Hilda Abraham
Sandy Berger

Elsa Black

Sylvia Boggs

Amy & David Brandon
Jill Caller

Diana Clewett
Faith Miller-Cole
Rose Darmstadter
Cindy Derer
Michele & Richard Freed
Lois Germain
Donna Gershman
Elissa Golin
Estelle Hamburg
Paula Harrison
Suzie Johnson
Mindy Kovinow
Marjorie Lerner
Helen Levy
Elizabeth Marek
Esther Moskovitz
Lynn Cooper-Myers
Ruth Dsser

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Sadie Osser
Michele Peck

Dee Peretz
Pauline Rayevsky
Selma Rosenberg
Eileen Scherl
Roberta Shain
Sharyn Sharer
Marilyn Swan
Janet Tamaren
Judith Norell
Georgia Zuckerman

— $ 49

Adele Aberson
Carolyn & Cyrus Bayer
Marcia Blacker
Sharon Breault

Carol Busch

Susan Cantor

Fred and Kathleen Nhalen-Cohen
Debbie Joffe Davidson
Ellen Dubilier
Michele Erdmann
Yudis Exler

Kathy Feinberg
Vivian Frank

Janet Friedell

Fay Friedman

lrmgard Gesund

Candy and Leon Gould
Sylvia Green

Flora Guter

Dawn Haber—Jacobs
Teri Harper

Mindy Heller

Nancy Kaufman

Felice Kaufmann
Charlotte Levy

Donna Lowenthal
Elise Mandel

Annette Milch

Alison Murray

Anne O’Brien

Leonore Pappas
Amanda Robison
Lillian Rosenberg
Beth Schumacher
Frieda and Ben Shraberg
Jacquelyn Sosin
Leanne Stomski

Laura Szekely

Bonnie Walker
Madelyn Weinberg
Rosalind Heisenberg
Rose Rita Wurmser
Miriam Zuckerman

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 THE DYBBUK

comes to Eerea College

The Tony Award-winning National Theatre
of the Deaf will be celebrating its 80th

Anniversary season with the production,
”Between Two Worlds: The Dybbuk" by S.
Ansky. The troupe of deaf and hearing
actors will present this haunting love

story in Sign Language and spoken English,
a unique style which enables audiences to
hear and see every word. The play has
earned the Company its well-deserved
international reputation.

The Dybbuk, a soul—stirring drama about
a great human love which fails, until
heaven intervenes, is set in that twilight
zone where heaven and earth not only meet,

but collide. On the earthly side are two
young lovers from an Eastern Europe
village during the past century. Their
marriage is shortchanged by a greedy, but
loving father who wants a more profitable
match for his daughter. The distraught

sorry path of so
and dies from a

young man follows the
many star—crossed lovers

broken heart. But heaven steps in and
transforms the young lover into an unin-
vited wedding ghost (dybbuk) at his
beloved’s marriage to another man. The
audience than becomes witness to the most
dramatic struggle ever waged between two
worlds on stage.

Presented at Berea College’s
Phelps—Stokes Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on
Thursday, March 24th, the production is
open to the public and free of charge.

The Berea College Convocation Series
has been supported by a nominal gift from

the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation.

TA} Adult Education
Temple Adath Israel’s Spring Adult
Education program will focus on Reform
Judaism:
April 13 - Reform Judaism 1860-1880,

Dr. Marc Raphael

April 20 - Reform Judaism’s Platforms:
1885, 1936, 1975 and Today, Rabbi Adland

April 27 — What Do We Believe?, Rabbi
Adland

May A — Issues of Conflict in
Judaism, Rabbi Adland
All session begin at 7:30 p.m.
held at Temple Adath Israel.

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Enjoy all the features of a UJA Family
Mission with adult members of the Central
Kentucky Jewish community by taking part
in the CKJF Mission to Israel, planned to
coincide with the UJA Summer Family
Mission June 26 to July 6, 1988.

Final details for the Federation
mission, also under the auspices of UJA,
are being worked out by Mission leaders
Steven and Susan Caller.

You can join them atop Masada, travel

from Tel Aviv to the Golan and on to
Jerusalem, attend Oneg Shabbat at the
Western Wall, and meet face—to—face with
Sabras.

Approximate cost for the trip will be
$8000 with arrangements for a four-day
extension either in Israel or a European
capital possible at slight additional
expense.

For further information contact Steve
and Susan at 266—1314 or CKJF Administra—
tor Linda Ravvin at 858-7688.

 

Sheila and Steven DeKosky
cordially invite you to join them
as their daughter

Allison Sheryl

is called to the Torah
as a Bat Mitzvah
Saturday, the Both of March
nineteen hundred and eighty-eight
at ten o’clock in the morning
at Ohavay Zion Synagogue
2048 Edgewater Court.

Kiddush and luncheon following services.
Friday evening services at eight.

 

  

ATTENTION SINGLES:

1988 National Summer Singles
Missions (l-latikva]

Due to their popularity, UJA is hosting
two singles missions this summer, Mission
I, July 17-87 and Mission II, July 31 -
August 10. Both will have a pre—mission
to Poland for repeaters only.

With a minimum gift requirement of $500
for Israel only participants and $1000 for
those participants in the pre-missions,
the missions are open to all singles, ages
85-90.

The deadline for registration, includ—
ing $500 deposit, is 30 days prior to its
departure date.

The cost involved for an Israel only
mission is $8100 based on double occupancy
($319 single supplement); for a Poland and
Israel mission it is $8800 with a $494
single supplement.

Meet with professionals, kibbutzniks,
soldiers, government officials; see the
achievements of Israel’s high technology
research; witness ancient and contemporary
history as they come together; and share
the success of Project Renewal neighbor-
hoods and absorption centers.

For more information on the missions
and possible CKJF subsidy contact CKJF
Administrator Linda Ravvin today
(606—852—7688).

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The second annual Singles Weekend
sponsored by The Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center in Columbus, Ohio will take place
March 25-87. For more information call
Jeanie at 61A-831-8731 or write her c/o
The Leo Yasenoff Jewish Center, 1185
S. College Avenue, Columbus, OH 43809.

 

Soviet Life Exhibit

A cultural exhibit about life in the
Soviet Union is taking place the month of
March at Cincinnati’s Union Terminal. it
is designed to increase understanding
between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. For
further information contact the Jewish
Community Relations Council at
513-841-5680.

 

 

 

Cincinnati Sets
‘I’om H’Atzmaut Schedule

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
will be celebrating Israel’s 40th Anniver—
sary with a variety of programs including
an Israel Film Festival.

”Noa at 17” will be presented Monday,
April 18th at 7:30 p.m. at Hebrew Union
College Chapel, 3101 Clifton Avenue at a
cost of $1.50. At the same location,
"Hill 84 Doesn’t Answer“ will be shown on
Monday, April 85th at 7:30 p.m.
”Kazablan” is scheduled for Monday, May
8nd; and ”My Michael” can be seen on
Monday, May 9th.

On Sunday, April 84th, beginning at
11:00 a.m. a Salute to Israel Parade will
assemble at Swifton Commons and proceed to
the JCC on Summit Road. The parade will
be followed by ”Israel: One People — 100
Faces,“ performed by Jewish Religious and
Day School students of Cincinnati at the
JCC Auditorium.

That same day from 1:00 — 5:00 p.m. a
”Walk Through Israel” involving hands on
taste and touch of Israel through activi—
ties and booths for children and adults
will take place at the JCC.

The day concludes with a performance of
"Life Begins at 40", a gala performance
direct from Israel featuring singers and
dancers. The program begins at 7:30 p.m.
at the Rockdale Temple Auditorium, 8501
Ridge Road. Admission is $6 at the door.

For more information on any of the
Cincinnati Federation’s programming call
CKJF Administrator Linda Ravvin.

ANYTDWN, KENTUCKY

Anytown, Kentucky, sponsored by the
National Conference of Christians and
Jews, is a week—long leadership workshop,
June 18—18, 1988.

The camp setting offers sports, recrea-
tion and hiking in addition to its program
for the development of cultural awareness,
communication skills, an enhanced self
image, and positive race relations.

Interested incoming high school juniors
and seniors should contact CKJF for
application forms. Fees for the week are
$185, including meals, transportation and
housing. Partial camperships are avail-
able to those requiring financial aid
through CKJF.

 I Will Not Apologize
by Elie Wiesel

Editor’s Note: The following was provided
to us by UJA.

How should a Jewish author relate to
what is currently happening in Israel?
Night after night television pictures show
us Israeli soldiers chasing Arab young-
sters. They tell us about the oppression,
anger, hopelessness, and futility of the
young Palestinians, almost to the point of
justifying their violence.

Then they ask us, ”How can you, the
Jewish intellectuals, live with this?”

It happens in the United States, in
France, and almost everywhere throughout
the western world. In the Communist
world, and those aligned with it, the
response is far stronger, of course.
There, the answers are given before the
questions are asked, and the answer is
always the same:

"Israel is guilty.“
”Of what?”

”It doesn’t matter;
whatever reason happens to be in season.

What is important is that the Jewish world
must make excuses, apologize and defend."

In the 1982 Lebanon war, especially at
the beginning, the world wanted to believe
that, ”Yesterday’s victim has become
today’s hangman.” I repeat this quota-
tion, as it was very popular at the time.
Moreover, it gave pleasure to left-wing
groups who were then able to criticize the

Jewish people — through Israel - quite
legitimately.

Now the situation is similar. There is
hardly a discussion without the

Israel-Arab conflict being at the center
with Israel being put—down or insulted.
In short, Israel is experiencing bad
press. Of late, it is far more popular to
denounce her.

 

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Clearly, my popularity in certain
circles has declined. The reason is very
simple - I refuse to blame Israel. I have
always refused. As a man living in the
Diaspora, I believe I owe something to
Israel; to stand at her side and identify
with her. Always.

There are those who do not like this.
Let it be. Every man has a right to his
“quirk.“ My “quirk” is loyalty to Israel.

Since the current disturbances in the
Nest Bank and Gaza, newspapers and televi-
sion stations have tried to get me to
denounce Israel’s policies. This is what
I answer, ”Of course I follow the events
with anxiety, but I have faith in Israel
because I have faith in her humanity.”

On French television I declared,
”Compared to other countries, Israel need
not be ashamed, and she is not in need of
lessons from anyone. After all, who is
judging her? France, with her Algerian
past? Britain, with her colonial policy?
The U.S.A., whom we all remember in
Vietnam? Russia, still occupying a number
of conquered nations?”

I raise this because I want my views to
be clear. I love Israel far too much to
hide my position. Does this mean that all
Jews in the Diaspora should adopt this
position? I give advice to no one and
speak in no one’s name. I speak only for
myself.

with my background and experiences I
cannot, from afar, begin to judge Israel
and tell her what to do. I can only share
her hopes as I share her difficulties.

I do not know what the solution to the
Palestinian problem is. I do not think
anyone knows.

How to compromise between Israel’s need
for security and the Palestinian desire
for independence?

How to defend Israel’s life and honor
without being apathetic to the Palestinian
anguish?

Difficult questions, without an immedi—
ate solution. Still, we cannot lose hope.
Ne do not have the right.

(Yediot Ahronot)

 

  

 

Temple Administrator
Assumes Post

The Federation’s officers and board of
directors extend a hearty welcome to the
new Temple Adath Israel Administrator
Stanley May and his wife, Helen.

Mr. May has been involved in
congregational and communal work for

Jewish

more
than thirty years and has worked at the
United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis,

Missouri, Beth Emet The Free Synagogue in
Evenston, Illinois, and Jewish Federation
in Peoria, Illinois.

He has served on the National Board of
the National Association of Temple Admin-
istrators, having been editor of the
organization’s Quarterly and was President
of the Regional Association of Congrega—
tion Administrators in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. May joins Temple Adath Israel as
they celebrate their 85th year.

UJA/CJ’F Midwest Small
Cities Conference

UJA has announced that DRUT HASHCHUNA
will perform at the Midwest Small Cities
Conference, sponsored by CJF and UJA, in
Springfield, Illinois, April 29 - May 1,
1988.

Celebrate the spirit of Israel and the
American-Israeli love affair that has come

from Project Renewal with this exciting
and young entertainment troupe. The
18 youths come from Project Renewal

neighborhoods throughout Israel.

This AOth Anniversary entertainment is
only part of the exciting agenda address-
ing issues and concerns of the American

Jewish community. The conference includes
a youth weekend, ”Youth Celebrates Isra~
el’s 40th," for youth in grades 8 to 8.

 

Call CKJF Administrator Linda Ravvin
today for more information.
AIPAC ConPerenoe
The American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) announces its 89th

Annual Policy Conference, May 15—17, 1988.

Held at the Sheraton Washington Hotel in
washington, D.C., the conference is
entitled ”The Forty—Year Partnership:
Shaping the Future Agenda.“

At last year’s conference over 350
members of Congress and Administration

officials participated in the Policy
Conference and featured speakers such as
U.S. Secretary of State, George Shultz and
Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister, State of
Israel.

This year’s conference
even more exciting as it
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agenda for the next
demonstrates the
pro—Israel
Congress.

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Registration for all events is $250
($195 for students). For more
information, contact CKJF at 852—7622.
When next in New York

The Jewish Museum, in association with l

the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, is
presenting three exhibits from now through
mid-June.

A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of
Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the

 

 

Present will be on display through June
19.

Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish
Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art,

 

1918—1988 will
30.

A Russian Impressionist: Paintings and
Drawings by Leonid Pasternak, 1890—1945 is
featured through May 88.

The Jewish Museum is located on Fifth
Avenue at 92nd Street in New York City.

be displayed through May

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by Jeane Kirkpatrick

Editor’s Note: The following is reprinted
from The washin ton Post, Jan. 18, 1988

Palestinians
throw stones,

Day after
assemble to burn tires,
threaten motorists, and not—so-young
Israelis finally resort to live ammuni—
tion. More than 30 Palestinians have
already died. The price for Israel is
also high in terms of international
disapproval of its policies.

It is a classic late-20th century
confrontation between not~so-civil disobe—
dience and a not~so-iron fist. Each time
Israel uses lethal force to fight off
stone throwers (in this region where
stoning is a mode of execution), Israel
loses, and the demonstrators know it. The
media make the difference, and the media
know it. It has already gone on for more
than five weeks. The end is not in sight.

"It needs time,” Israel’s defense
minister, Yitzhak Rabin, explains. Some
of Rabin’s colleagues in Israel’s divided
Cabinet complain that the government only
reacts, that it is not in charge. Rabin
is forced to agree. The problem is more
difficult than anyone originally believed,
he avows. The hostility of the Arab
population is more widespread than most
Israelis understood.

”Nhat benefit is there in being saddled
with a huge subject population who hate
our guts, knife our soldiers, throw rocks
at our vehicles, and force our troops to
shoot at them, thus acquiring a halo of
martyrdom which arouses sympathy all over
the Middle East and all over the world?“,
wrote David Krivine of the Jerusalem Post.

day, young

He poses a question arising in the minds
of more and more Israelis.

The longer a problem lasts the harder
it is to remember what it is about. Since

the so—called Arab-Israeli problem is now
40 years old, it is hard for Americans and
others to remember that Israel’s Arab
neighbors still refuse to accept Israel’s
existence.

It seems incredible that many Arab
diplomats still will not speak the name
Israel. It seems incredible that Arab
states do not show Israel on their maps

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a world map that included Israel. It
seems incredible that, as punishment for
making peace with Israel, Egypt was the

subject of a
the Arab world
this year).

It seems incredible that two Arab-heads
of state —~ Anwar Sadat and Bashir Gemayel
—— were assassinated for the crime of
making peace, and incredible that
Palestinians in and out of the PLD have
been murdered for speaking about speaking
with Israeli officials. But all these
things are true.

It is important now, when Israel is
being reproached on all sides for 80 years
of military occupation of the west Bank
and Gaza, to recall that this occupation

total diplomatic boycott by
(a boycott that ended only

did not begin with Israeli aggression but
with aggression against Israel. Who
remembers that from 1948 to 1967, Egypt

was responsible for the administration of
Gaza and proposed no constructive solu—
tions? Or that Israel’s occupation of the
territories came in 1967 after Israel’s
Arab neighbors had, for the second time,
launched a war designed to eliminate the
new State from the region as well as from
its maps?
who remembers that

continued ever since
neighbors have doggedly refused to enter
negotiations that would provide secure
borders for all -- as called for by U.S.
Security Council Resolutions 842 and 338
(passed in 1967 and 1973