MOVIE
GUIDE
Zionist Leader Elected
Tarbut Foundation Head
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 17, 1966-31
NEW YORK (ZINS) — Zionist
organization of America's Abra-
ham Goodman of New York, vet-
Grand Circus Park
eran Zionist leader and national ADAMS
chairman of the committee for WO 1-8525
Israel projects, was elected presi- Academy Award Winner LEE MARVIN
"SHIP OF FOOLS"
dent of the Tarbut Foundation for
plus Rod Steiger in
the Advancement of Hebrew Cul-
"THE PAWNBROKER"
ture in America. He succeeds Dr.
Wed. Ladies Matinee 50c
Emanuel Neumann, who was elect-
at Miller Road
ed honorary president.
CAMELO1 W. Warren
581-5040
In his report to the annual meet-
Air Cooled by Refrigeration
Debbie Reynolds in
ing of the Tarbut Foundation, Dr.
"THE SINGING NUN"
Neumann reviewed the v a r i o u s
Tues., Wed., Open 6:15, Shown
projects undertaken by the schools Mon.,
6:45, 10:30. Sat. and Sun., 3:25, 7:10,
throughout the country; publication 11:00—
"UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN"
of the "Modern Hebrew Classics"
Mon., Tues., Wed., Thur., 8:30 only.
series, Hebrew monthly for chil- Sat.
and Sun. Open 1:00 Shown 1:25,
dren, and many other projects con- 5:10, 9:00.
SEEING THE PICTURE, "Cast
cerned with the propagation of He-
brew among youth and the adult FOX . . . 2211 Woodward—WO 1-9494 A Giant Shadow" with Kirk Doug-
Held Over 2nd Big Week
las, reminded us of the time during
community.
"FASTER, PUSSY CAT! KILL! KILL!" the war of liberation in Israel,
Tura Satara & Haji also
there weren't enough guns and am-
Rollicking, Hillarious, featuring the
star of "What's Up Front" Tommy munition to go around — let alone
DEADLY... DANGEROUS...
Holden in
uniforms . . . An American volun-
THE GAME IS...
"TICKLED PINK"
teer tried to join the Israeli Army
BLINDFOLDL-
Doors Open 10:45 a.m. Free Parking
. . . He passed his medical with
LATE SHOW Friday and Saturday
lqw
For schedule information call
flying
colors, but when he asked
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for his uniform, he was told, "We
ROCK HUDSON - CLAUDIA CARDINALE
WED. LADIES DAY, 50c
are a poor country. We cannot af-
Grand Circus
71 illiniVLD TE G HNICOLOR•
s/
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GRAND CIRCUS At
Park. WO 1-3240
ford uniforms" . . . Whereupon the
Open Daily 10:45
American said he would try the
FRI., MON., TUES. Open 6:45, shown
(Air Cooled by Refrigeration)
7:00, 10:35. SAT. EVE. re-open 7:00
Air Force . . . He then asked
"DUEL
AT
DIABLO"
"Blindfold" 7:15, 10:50, SUN. open
11:05, 2:50, 6:40, 10:30
couldn't he at least have a cap or
1:00. "Blindfold," 3:25, 7:00, 10:35.
"VIVA MARIA"
insignia . . . He again was told no
JEAN SEBERG
12:50, 4:40, 8:25
uniforms — this request also could
Wed., Ladies' Matinee, 50c
HONOR BLACKMAN
not be fulfilled . . . So he decided
MAI KAI
SEAN GARRISON J.
to join the Navy where a uniform
Plymouth Rd. at Farmington Rd.
is not important on a ship .. .when
Mervyn LeRoy's ond.e.
GA 7-0400 & KE 4-6400
(Air Cooled by Refrigeration)
he was being interviewed, he was
"DUEL AT DIABLO"
asked if he could swim, whereupon
Mon., Tues., Wed., Thur., Open 6:15, he got up and screeched, "My God,
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
Shown 6:45, 10:30. Fri., Open 5:00,
Shown 7:15, 11:05. Sat.-Sun., Open don't you even have ships here?"
FRI., MON., TUES. 8:50 only. SAT.
1:00, Shown 3:15, 7:05, 10:50.
EVE., 9:05. SUN. 1:30, 5:05, 8:40.
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"VIVA MARIA"
"...00Warolataa.0%.,0044.00
Israel's Railroad *System Expanding
Danny Raskin's
LISTENING
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
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SAT., SPEC. MATINEE OPEN 1:00
' Starts 1:20 over 4:30
"BOY 10' TALL" and BAT -MAN in
"MARA OF THE WILDERNESS"
Mon: Thur., 8:35; Sat.-Sun., 1:25, 5:10,
8:55.
JOE SHULMAN, barrister candi-
date for Traffic Court judge, no-
ticed a young man standing on the
sidewalk, yelling nervously at a-
IBKFIK LEY FIIHVAITIRE
girl in an old car . .. "Shift into
12
AT COOLIDGE
second!" he screamed. - "Now let
"TIKO AND THE SHARK"
out the clutch! Pull the wheel to
Plus
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"WHEN THE BOYS MEET THE GIRLS" the left, QUICK! Now, let in your
clutch and shift into high! DON'T
STRIP THE GEARS'! I said let in
the CLUTCH! NOW shift into high.
NOT SO FAST! GET YOUR FOOT
OFF THAT GAS!" . . . As the car
"A truly adult live story!
disappeared,
he relaxed . . . Then
It is a beautiful film,
the car came around the block
finely made!"
again . . . "Clutch and brake in, he
—Judith Crist.
ZE[ A Sipa 111 Release
yelled. "Now, into neutral!" . . .
N. Y. Herald Tribune
Joe asked if he couldn't teach her
better by being in the car with her
) Q
. . and the fellow replied, "ME?
Get in the same car with my
WIFE? Listen brother, that car is
ACRES OF FREE PARKING !
insured, I AIN'T!"
Greenfield north of 8•151de LI 2.8827
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MAIN
Royal Oak—Main St. at
11 Mile Rd.
LI 2-0180
Open daily 6:30. Sat. & Sun. 12:30
A Young Islander Who Tamed
A Man-Killer Shark!
STUDIO.8
Hurry .. . Final Days !
ACADEMY 'AWARD WINNER
"VERY FUNNY AND VERY
SAO-WHO CAN ASK FOR
MORE FROM A FILM?"
—The New Yorker
STUDIO. I
the SHOP .
on MAIN
STREET
FREE PARKING NEXT DOOR 1
Livernois at Davison WE 3-0070
NOW SHOWING!
...Beach Blankets it hasn't
...James Bond it isn't
But Laughs? DON'T ASK!
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ISRAEL'S
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WINNING
FILM
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WOODWARD AT 9 MILE
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TOTIE FIELDS, won d er f ul
comedienne who'll be featured at
the Daylight Masonic dinner-dance,
June 26, at Elmwood Casino, re-
calls a resident of the fashionable
Nob Hill section of San Francisco
who hired a new Chinese houseboy,
but found his name too difficult
for everyday use . . . "I can't go
around calling you Fu Yu Ling
Tsein Mei all the time," she ex-
plained, "so I'll just label you Rus-
sell, if you don't mind" . . . "O.K.,
lady," beamed the Chinese lad,
"but please to tell me your name
again" . . . "I," said the lady
loftily, "am Mrs. Eustace Tewks-
bury Foppingham" . . . "You're
too damlong too," decided the lad.
"I just call you Charlie" .. . For
reservations to the Daylight affair,
Call Harry at BR 3-1731.
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WHILE IN CHICAGO at the
Furniture Mart, Sammy Woolf will
visit a couple now living there that
he hasn't seen since their marriage
30 years ago in Passaic, N.J. . .
Sammy recalls attending a party
for the then bride and groom just
back from their honeymoon . . .
She called Sammy aside and said,
"Just look at all our gifts. Towels
marked HIS and HERS, wash
cloths marked HIS and HERS, and
a lot of other personalized gifts!
But this is the one I like best be-
cause its so intimate. It's the per-
sonalized blanket you gave us,
Sammy" ... Then she held up a
blanket that Sammy had picked up
at a Surplus Army Supply Store
... Across the center of the blanket
were the initials, US.
Israel's railway system, whose construction is being aided by
Israel Bonds, is of decisive importance in opening up new settlement
areas in the south of the country. Immigrants from many different
lands are employed on the railroad, as in the group above. Shown
below is a typical train now running between Beersheba and the
development town of Dimona. Israel Bond funds are being utilized
to extend the railroad southward toward Elath to keep pace with
the exploitation of the natural resources of the Negev.
A Dialogue
With God
BY NATHAN ZIPRIN
(A Seven Arts Feature)
Elie Wiesel, whose latest novel
—"The Gates of the Forest"—
stamps him as an artist of high
stature in contemporary literature,
is a young man who has come from
the pastures of the Baal Shem
Toy and has seemnigly inherited
the tzaddik's capacity for reaching
out to heaven with word and sil-
ence.
Wiesel is of the generation who
perished even though he sur-
vived the holocaust. And that is
the tale of "The Gates of the For-
est," even as it is of his earlier
masterful novelettes. But his is
more than the mere story of the
afflication that came upon our peo-
ple and the world in the black
days of the unmentionables. Hav-
ing witnessed the debacle with the
eyes of a child and of a youth, it
is still with him. And having been
brought up in the faith that God
and his judgment are right, he is
ever puzzled by the meaning of his
fate and of divine justice.
God owes us an answer and Eli
Wiesel cannot, will not, be silent
until it comes. That is the essence
of his probing and that is the moti-
vation for his creativity.
With roots deep in a civiliza-
tion, Hasidism, that knew how
to encounter God in crisis with
word, entreaty and admonition,
Wiesel has the unique capacity
of reaching out to God in com-
plaint without blasphemy. His
posture is the word, silence,
raising of eyebrow and shirking
of shoulder. But it is as an
artist that he poses the problem
. . not as a philosopher or
logician with steel shield against
reply. It is as a contemplative
that he posed the problem, less
in lamentation than in bewilder-
ment and in sadness. He ques-
tions God, yet he seems to be
holding on to the faith. The
world has been destroyed for
Wiesel, perhaps irretrievably,
but if God is no more all is dead,
and Wiesel is weary of death.
The purpose of Wiesel's latest
novel, it seems, is not to have us
share his lacerations, his agony,
but to join him in his striving
to understand the echo of the
silenced voices, particularly of the
silenced who thrice daily sang
praise to Him who deserted them
when the searing flames were
upon them. Wiesel's striving then
is for link between word and its
echo, between the voice and its
source.
It is said of Rabbi Israel Baal
Shem Tov that when evil days
came upon Jews he would go off
to the solitude of the forest to
plead for divine intercession. Later
it was his celebrated disciple the
Magid of Mezrich who would inter-
cede with heaven. Still later it was
Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sosov who
was able to accomplish the mir-
acle. Then the task fell on the
shoulders of Rabbi Israel of Ryzhin.
Each of these tzaddikim was able
to reach out to God in meditation
in forest and over sacred tome.
Could the black decree of our own
generation have been diverted if
tzaddikim were still in our 'midst?
Or were it perhaps 'vest not to ask
the question out of remembrance
that "God made man because he
loves stories."
To Wiesel it seems, as to all of
us, that God might have had an-
other ending to the story of our
generation. And this is not blas-
phemy. For let it be remembered
that the radiant Rabbi Levi Itzhak
of Berdichev rose perhaps to his
greatest height when he told God
that he had erred—and heaven lis-
tened.
Elie Wiesel, in "The Gates of
the Forest," published by Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, has written
a novel of unique literary distinc-
tion..But what is perhaps more, he
has given us a meaningful insight
into the heart of the victim who,
unlike Isaac, was not touched in
rescue by angel's hand.
ORT
Aide Met in Poland
LONDON (JTA)—Vladimir Hal-
pern, Geneva director of the World
ORT Union, was cordially received
in Warsaw by Poland's minister of
health and social security, Rutke-
wicz, according to a dispatch
received from the Polish capital.
Halpern is in Warsaw for a short
visit in connection with ORT's
activities in that country.