THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, January 25, 1963 — 6
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Sobeloff Outlines Quarter-Century
Local Changes at Council Assembly
Chilean Piosecutor
Advises Court Not to
Extradite Ex-Nazi
JFK's Foreign Aid Director Hopes
to End Aid to Israel in Few Years
SANTIAGO, Chile (JTA) —
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In sidered Israel among nations
tors in 1937 to more than Chilean Prosecutor Urbano Ma- its outlook for the next • few with a rapid rate of growth. He
20,000 in 1962, Sobeloff said rin advised the Supreme Court years, the United States Gov- explained to the committee that
campaigns have grown in this
the government plans to concen-
quarter century from $250,000 here that it should not grant ernment hopes aid to Israel can trate American assistance where
be
terminated,
it
was
revealed
a
request
by
West
Germany
for
in 1937 to $4,860,000 in 1962.
the extradition of Walter Rauff, by President Kennedy's new it is most urgently needed and
The increased scope of De- a Nazi war criminal said to be Foreign Aid Director, David E. where "we can achieve real and
troit's thinking and development the killer of many Jews and Bell, in testimony before the lasting results."
in the areas of Jewish educa-
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
persons.
tion, recreational facilities, and other
In 1950 Camp Tamarack, at
M a r i n told the court that
medical care has been due Chile's statute of limitations mittee.
Ortonville, Michigan, a site of
Bell singled out Israel for over 700 acres, was acquired by
largely to changes within the barred any action against Rauff.
mention, along with Taiwan, the Jewish Welfare Federation.
community brought about by such
historical developments as: "the The Chilean statute of limita- Greece and Libya, as countries
European tragedy; the establish- tions is 15 years while West where economies are improving
ment of Israel; the growing pro- Germany has a 20-year limita- and a gradual phasing out of
portion of native born Ameri- tion.
American aid is foreseen by
R a u f f, who has been de- U.S. experts.
APPLICATIONS FOR
can Jews; material prosperity;
cultural assimilation; an indiffer- scribed as one of Adolf Eich-
Bell
told
the
committee
that
ence to Jewish values; changing mann's pricipal aides in the the United States hopes to con-
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role of the synagogue; fragmen- mass slaughter of European tinue a shift in emphasis from
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tation of Jewish life; role of the Jews and whom Eichmann him- outright economic grants to
Federation; and a growing sense self identified as having oper- more loans repayable in dollars.
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But the government envisages
land
and
elsewhere,
was
arrested
The shifting emphasis in com-
higher
interest
rates
on
low
or
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munity relations that we now last month in Puntas Arenas in non-interest loans to countries
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He
insisted
see, Sobeloff stated, is toward
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strengthening the Jewish com- at his arraignment that he had said.
only
obeyed
the
orders
of
the
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munity itself. "The role of corn-
Prize of Italy Goes
He made it clear that he con;
munity relations becomes that of Nazi generals.
to Israeli for Oratorio interpreting to the general com-
munity and serving as the instru-
of Yemenite Prayers
ment through which the views
Recently an Israeli composer, and efforts of the Jewish com-
Mordecai Seter, who for years munity are shared with the gen-
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had been interested in Yemen- eral community on matters of
ite liturgy, suddenly moved into common concern." He acknowl-
the limelight of international edged the Council's recognition
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its
abandonment
of
the
"defen-
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by the Kol Israel Choir under our community for the last quar-
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ter of a century.
the baton of Gary Bertini.
Walter E. Klein, executive di-
Seter has long been fasci-
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nated by the theme of "Tikkun rector of the Council, presented
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Hatzot," the traditional mid- a summary report on current
night prayers for the restora- Council activities in open occu-
tion of the Temple and Israel. pancy in housing, legislative
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Seter's composition is based prospects for strengthening civil
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proved
intergroup
relations,
and music, and on a libretto
by the well-known Yemenite changing patterns of race rela-
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Judge James I. Ellmann, past
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Published
"PARALLEL QUEST"—
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of
the
Council,
re-
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ends dealing with the Destruc-
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Three choirs participate in
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torio. The large choir repre- Jewish Congress was chairman
of
the
hostess
committee
for
the
sents the people while one of
the two smaller choirs serves social hour which followed the
as an echo to events, and the assembly. Other hostesses were
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bolizing the legend. A baritone Gossman, Walter E. Klein, Ju-
Amitmli maimifignagmaggiommalin
soloist takes the part of the lius Ring, and Allan Weston.
praying character who sings the
Tikkun Hatzot, and serves as a
link between the various parts
of the musical work, as the
symphonic orchestra accom-
panies the action and explains
it. The oratorio is a string of
loosely connected images, cen-
tered around a dialogue be-
tween God and His people.
The Israeli critics were unan-
imous in their praise of Ovadia
Tuvia, a Yemenite singer, who
appears in the role of the pray-
ing character. But the highest
accolades went to the composer
who succeeded in elevating a
string of Yemenite prayer songs
of the level of a musical lan-
guage with great force and
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clarity, melodic and spiritual
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alike, and of a three-dimensional
tonality.,
Comparing changes in De-
troit's community organizations
and social services since the
founding of the Council 25 years
ago with the present status of
the local Jewish community
services, Isidore Sobeloff, execu-
tive vice-president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation, in an ad-
dress at the midwinter delegate
assembly of the Council, last
week, pointed out that the loca-
tion of social service agencies
"mirrored" the local Jewish
population's neighborhood move-
ments.
He noted that "all of the
visible physical assets of our
organized community of today
represent relatively recent
growth and are the expression
of the comparatively new com-
munity."
Observing that Detroit's or-
ganized philanthropic e f f or t
has grown from 6,000 cOntribu-
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U.S. Names Lubin
Envoy to UN Parley
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Dr.
Isador Lubin, prominent econ-
omist and economic consultant
to the Jewish Agency for Israel,
Inc., has been appointed United
States delegate to the United
Nations conference on the Ap-
plication of Science and Tech-
nology for the Benefit of Less
Developed Areas to be held in
Geneva next month. •
Lubin, who also serves as eco-
nomic consultant to the Twen-
tieth Century Fund, left for
Israel for consultations in con-
nection with the Jewish Agency
budget for the coming year and
will proceed from there to
Geneva for the opening of the
UN conference on Feb. 4.
MARJORIE GORDON
Detroit Operatic Singer
DR. JOSEPH P. STERNSTEIN
National Director of the JNF
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