Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1980 — Page 9

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Class Visit To Concentration Camps On TV

Ed Asner, star of the Lou Grant TV show, will narrate a poignant made-for-television program which ■Mp^MMchronicles the travels of 19 Cleveland Heights ^^Bstudents and their mentors to several Holo- , *J*^Bcaust countries last June. “Tomorrow Came ^^^BMuch Later" grew out of a high school class study of the literature of the Holocaust, and filmeci at Auschwitz, Biikenau and Maid- * ItJfr a nek. It ends with the group’s arrival in IsL Wf^Kracl. Mrs. Bertha Lautman. who survived v "^^^“Birkenau and who vowed to return there as a Asner free woman, serves as the catalyst for expressing reactions to the death camp experience and the miracle of her return with the students. The telecast is scheduled for April 16 on public broadcasting. • Indestructible Dorothy Fuldheim Nationally-prominent television personality and Cleveland’s Jewish newscaster, Dorothy Fuldheim, was hit in the face with a pie while addressing the Solon Citizens League. Police arrested two persons identified as members of the Revolutionary May Day Brigade, an organization dedicated to the establishment of a socialist society by whatever means necessary including revolution. The pie throwing came about because of Miss Fuldheim’s stand on Iran and what her assailants felt was her continued support for Washington against “the people”. Eighty-six year oW Miss Fuldheim, whose forthright commentaries on every conceivable subject have won her praise and awards and turned her into what many consider public property in the Cleveland area, appeared as usual the following day to report personally on the incident and demonstrate her own indestructibility. • New Owner, New Jewish Star Jules Cohen of Shaker Heights was introduced as the new owner of the Cleveland Cobras of the American Soccer League at a news conference in Cleveland. During the conference it was announced that Jacob Shanee, 25, a native of Israel who played last season for the Crystal Palace in English professional soccer, would be joining the Cobras as midfielder. Shanee was described as one of the finest midfielders in international competition and is hoped will become the spark of the Cobras defense force. • Reunion of Rivlins One of the world’s largest Jewish families will hold an anniversary reunion in Israel on June 11 whe?i the descendants of Rabbi Hillel Rivlin will gather at Convention Hall in Jerusalem to commemorate the Aliyah of their ancestor in 1809. Many distinguished leaders of modern Israel are members of the family, including the world chairman of the Jewish National Fund, Moshe Rivlin, Ambassador David Rivlin who represented Israel in Norway, Canada and New York City, and the late Professor Yosef Yoel Rivlin, Professor of Arabic at the Hebrew University, who was nominated for the presidency of Israel in 1957. The reunion in Jerusalem will bring Rivlins from many parts of the world to join their Israeli relatives. The reunion in the United States is being administered by Rabbi Aaron M. Wise, 5444 Ben Ave., North Hollywood, Calif. 91607, one of at least 20 American rabbis who are scions of the Rivlin family. • The Israel Lobbyist The man who founded the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in 1951, the one Israel lobby organization in Washington, celebrated his 75th birthday on March 7. He is I. L. Kenen, and his background includes president of the Cleveland Zionist District, public relations executive for the American Jewish Conference, director of information for the Jewish Agency UN delegation, and member of the first Israel delegation to the United Nations. The 1.1. is for Isaiah Leo, but he is best-known by his nickname “Si”, and explained to Albert Friedman in the Jewish Week of Washington that the practical reason for using the nickname or the initials was the printers always had difficulty with Isaiah. At one time, when being introduced by a rabbi, it was explained that the I. L. was for Israel Lobby. • The Born-Aoain Christian Admitting that he was once prejudiced against the Jews, retired U. S. astronaut Charles Duke who spent more than 71 hours on the moon during the Apollo mission in April, 1972, believes that the return of the Jews to Israel is God’s command. He pledged to work for Israel at a press conference in

OLYMPIC PROSPECT IS 14 — She’ll be 14 next month, but already Jamie Silverman is considered an Olympic diving prospect and has international ranking. She has been named the best diver in the world in her age group, according to Dr. Max M. Novich in The Jersey City Jewish Standard. Competing in the World Age Group Diving Championships in Shittgart, Germany, she won the gold in the one-meter springboard and a bronze in the three-meter. Jamie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Silverman, was bat mitzvah at Temple B’nai Jeshurun last April. Her eye is on the 1984 Olympics, and hardly anyone that knows her doubts that she’ll make waves there in more ways than one. t: ■ Jerusalem’s Diplomat Hotel and told the reporters that he became a born-again Christian two years ago. Abie Nathan’s Shirt Abie Nathan, the peace activist, doffed his black shirt and donned a brand-new white one at the Tel Aviv Hilton at a celebration attended by some 500 notables, including actors, authors, artists, politicians, editors and public figures marking the 14th anniversary of his first flight to Egypt. He had worn the black shirt in mourning for the state of war between Israel and the Arab nations. But his other apparrel is still black, and he told the gathering that it too would be discarded when “a Syrian ambassador arrives, maybe next year”. He announced that the hotel had donated the evening as it did similarly when he returned from his flight to Port Said — he wasn’t allowed to proceed to Cairo — when the hotel had given him the presidential suite for two weeks as its guest. « Sermon Of The Week Moses And Star Trek — Rabbi Cyrus Arfa, Sinai Temple, Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Quotation Of The Week We Jews do not give “charity.” Rather, we perform an act of justice or righteousness, and the word for it in the Jewish vocabulary is tsedakah. In the Jewish tradition, the poor and the unfortunate (like widows, orphans and the stranger in our midst) have the right — the legal right in Jewish law — to food, clothing and shelter. It is the obligation of every Jew to give tsedakah, that is, to perform an act of justice by giving help, not out of a momentary whim or sudden philanthropic impulse, but out of our religious duty. Some months ago, President Carter said “Life is sometimes unfair.” It certainly is. Indeed, precisely because life is unfair, the Jewish sages of 2,000 years ago and more made the giving of tsedakah obligatory, even for the person receiving tsedakah. Tsedakah is connected with other Hebrew words in our Jewish lexicon: tsedek, meaning “righteousness or justice;: and tsadik, the righteous person. Among Chasidim, the tsadik is a great and saintly leader. According to Jewish legend, there are 36 hidden tsadikim or righteous persons in every generation who sustain the world. Giving tsedakah is never a handout. It is the right thing for a Jew to do because tsedek, justice, demands it of us. — Bulletin of Congregation B’nai Israel, Galveston, Tx.

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BERT GOLD, American * Jewish Committee head, said: “Yes, there is a Jewish ® vote that is exhibited in ‘patterns’ of voting. Jews vote issues more than personalities. Jews, for example, rarely vote their pocketbook and have been mostly liberal. Gold, qualified, however, that even if Kennedy did not win the Jewish vote he would have won the primary id NY. In Conn, with few Jews, Kennedy won over Carter, he said.

Robert Abrams, Attorney General of New York State who was Chairman of the Jewish desk for Kennedy’s NY campaign, said: “I don’t think the Jewish vote is a “monolithic vote.” It is more a diverse vote, But there are times when issues are so fundamental, critical to Jews as Israel’s security, that they will vote dearly on what is perceived to be a Jewish plane.” Abrams, qualified, though, that the issue of the U.N. which punctured Carter, had its start way before, with the President’s questionable foreign policy that saw arms shipments to Saudi Arabia, desired the Soviet Union in peace discussions involving Israel and her neighbors, and continued with the Andy Young affair.

WHAT ALL agreed upon though was that the Jewish vote was not an automatic “ethnic loyalty” vote, but one based on issues that could be ethnic when as profound as the U.N. vote which highlighted miscalculated foreign policy. Meanwhile, at a Jewish Community Relations Conference at City Hall, George Klein, its vice president, told a TV newscaster, that “the liberal Jewish voters may just go Republican in November if Carter is the candidate.” He calculated that more than 50% of the Democratic Jewish vote would shift,” given a candidate as Republican Ronald Reagan with a solid support for Israel who has said that he’d place the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.” The Klein interview followed by a day in a NY Times column by William Safire which was a 100%. A rating for Reagan among Jewish leaders on his stand on Israel related issues.

Phosphates valued at 510 million are expected to be exported by Israel to Roumania this year.