Plea for Peace, Protest Against Bias in Soviet Union Accompany Hanuka
PARKING HIS CAR at a loca
shopping center, Hy Lewis went in
to purchase a carton of cigarettes
among other items . . . While re-
turning to his car, he was amazed
to see police surrounding the ve-
hicle . . . As Hy approached them,
they asked for his identification
. r Puzzled over the situation, he
asked what was wrong and at the
same time, looking at the back seat
of his car, saw three pistols and a
rifle his grandson David left there
.. Of course, the police wouldn't
touch them until the owner was
present, but realized their embar-
rassment when they found the ar-
senal to be toys .. . The way they
are making them today, it is some-
times impossible to tell the differ-
ence from the real thing ..
FORMER DETROITERS Shirley
and Barry Lawson, now of Los
Angeles, recently won a 1968 Pon-
tiac LeMans Convertible on the
"Let's Make a Deal" TV program
. . . which will be re-broadcast
here on Jan. 8 at 1:30 p.m. . .
They have been married seven
years, and expectant grandparents-
to-be in February are Irene and
Morris Batchko and Estelle and
Jack Lawson . . all residing in
Detroit.
BUDDY NATHANSON, along
with president Charlie Hoptman,
are working on a Teen-Hope-Hop
to be held early in '68, with pro-
ceeds from the dance going to the
City of Hope Medical Center in
Duarte, Calif. . . . TEENS FOR
HOPE is a good slogan . . . It's
being done through the Mr. and
Mrs. Group of City of Hope.
SHIRLEY CHARMER, just back
R
from Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minn., is convalescing after a suc-
cessful surgery . . . and looking
forward to 36 holes of golf a day
with hubby Morey.
BIG PYTHIAN AFFAIR coming
to Carleton House, Feb. 4, will now
be a Joint Installation Dinner-
Dance, combining both the Knights
of Pythias Detroit Lodge No. 55
and Temple No. 152 of the Sisters
. A Life Membership Committee
has been appointed by the men for
participation in the program . . .
Dancing will be to the Hal Gordon
orchestra and the vocal stylings of
Sammy Woolf.
WHILE VISITING Roslyn and
Lou Meyers, Sid Marx overheard
his seven-year-old granddaughter,
Sue Meyers, repeating the alpha-
bet in an oddly reverent sort of
way . . . "What on earth are you
up to?" he asked her . . . "I'm
praying, grandpa. I can't think of
exactly the right words, so I'm
just saying the letters and God will
put them together for me, 'cause he
knows what I'm thinking.
NEW YORK (JTA)—A plea for
peace in the spirit of Hanuka,
"the first war for religious free-
dom in history," was issued by
Rabbi Levi A. Olan of Temple
Emanu-El, Dallas, who is presi-
dent of the Central Conference
of American Rabbis (Reform).
Terming the Maccabaean rebellion
"a necessary conflict for men to
rid themselves of oppression," and
noting that the technique neces-
sarily employed warfare, the Re-
form leader pointed out: "The time
has come to substitute law for
force." "Americans," he continued,
"proclaim themselves a society of
law and not of men. It is time to
end all wars and begin living as
a federation of nations under law."
The Hanuka observances in New
York included a torchlight parade
Tuesday evening in protest against
Soviet anti-Semitism.
A New York rabbi who re-
turned from a visit to the Soviet
Union two weeks ago, reported
that "in the entire city of Lenin-
grad, there now remains only
one synagogue to serve 300,000
Jews." He also said that the
last known private minyan
(prayer gathering), held as a
consequence of the synagogue
shutdowns, was forcibly closed
by Soviet authorities in Lenin-
grad a few months ago.
Rabbi Jacob Goldberg of the
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Fort Tryon Jewish Center made
these revelations at a mass rally
following the torchlight parade
through the streets of New York.
The parade and rally, one of 18
such demonstrations held in Ameri-
can cities from coast-to-coast on
the eve of Hanuka, was sponsored
here by the New York Jewish
Community Relations Council's Co-
ordinating Committee on Soviet
Jewry and the American Jewish
Conference on Soviet Jewry, an
organization embracing 25 national
Jewish organizations.
Rabbi Goldberg's report on the
restrictions on Jewish worship in
Leningrad bore out an earlier
charge by the conference that Trust Co. on Fifth Avenue, where
more than 450 synagogues in Rus- it will remain through the last day
sia have been systematically closed of Hanuka. The rare Jewish art
by Soviet officials over the last treasure, that once belonged to
10 years. Only 60 synagogues re- the Sargarez Synagogue in Hun-
main in the entire country to gary, is on loan to the' bank from
serve the Soviet Union's 3,000,000 the Jewish Museum.
Jews. The closing of the syna-
The menora, cast in brass in
gogues compelled the growth of
Poland about 1750, measures 6 feet
private prayer gatherings which
high and 31/2 feet wide. It has
are now being systematically re-
a spread-eagle ornament on top
pressed, the conference said.
and,underneath, the inscription in
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman Hebrew, "to kindle the lights of
of the conference, said that the Hanuka."
mass rallies and demonstrations
The American Bank and Trust
in the USA demanded that "the
USSR remove the disabilities and Co. is affiliated with the Swiss-
Israel
Trade Bank of Geneva and
inequities which block religious
and cultural development of Rus- the Foreign Trade Bank, Ltd. of
sian Jewry, and accord them the * Aviv. The lights on the bank's
necessary communal facilities menora add to the rest of the
available to other religious and decorations, featured along Fifth
cultural groups; to permit the re- Avenue by -all other establish-
union of families split by the holo- ments in observance of Christmas.
caust of World War II; and halt
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The next the virulent anti-Semitic campaign
World Zionist Congress, which was of intimidation carried on since THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
scheduled to open here in Febru- the Six-Day War."
Friday, December 29, 1967-31
ary, has been postponed until June
(Sixty-five members of the
9, after protracted discussions
"On
The Avenue of Fashions"
United Synagogue Youth move-
among Zionist officials here and
ment, who volunteered to act
abroad.
as couriers, arrived here from
The Jewish Agency executive
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Los Angeles to present petitions
met in plenary session here
tilurtV AND WIS SWIM'
protesting Soviet anti-Semitism
Wednesday Attending, among oth-
to the United Nations and the
ers, were Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
Soviet legation on the eve of
president of the World Zionist Or-
SPECIALIZING IN CUSTOM
Hanuka. The petitions, bearing
ganization, and members of the
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tural and religious expression in
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the Soviet Union.)
An 18th Century Hanuka me-
nora went on display in the win-
cii, plans were formulated to in- dow of the American Bank and
volve the children of each school
represented in a unified effort to
awaken the Jewish and non-Jewish
communities to Russian Jewry's
threatened extinction.
WOMEN'S
The educational project within
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the Jewish schools will culminate
in a series of full-page newspaper
ads calling on the Soviet govern-
ment to grant Jews full religious
and cultural freedom, including
the freedom to emigrate.
The Jewish Educators Council,
comprised of full-time professional
educators of the Jewish schools
in this area, includes Rabbi Aaron
Brander of Bnai David; Rabbi
Simon Murciano, Hillel Day School;
Rabbi Manfred Pick, Akiva He-
brew Day School; Rabbi Martin
Tatelbaum, Beth Abraham; Cantor
Arthur Asher, Temple Israel; Al-
bert Elazar, United He br ew
Schools? James Levbarg, Temple
Beth El; Sidney Selig, Beth Sha-
lom; and Joshua Weinstein,
Shaarey Zedek.
Officers are Sidney Selig, chair-
man; Joshua Weinstein, treasurer;
James Levbarg, secretary; and Ar-
thur Asher, publicity. Chairman of
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the Committee to Aid Soviet Jewry
is Sidney Selig.
WZ Congress
Set for June 9
COlff URE ANNE
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The plight of Russian Jewry will
be the focus of a citywide educa-
tional and informational program
now being organized by the Jewish
Educators Council of Metropolitan
Detroit.
At a recent meeting of the coun-
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Jan. 6 British Prayer Day
for Soviet Union's Jews
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON — Chief Rabbi Im-
manuel Jakobovits of the British
Commonwealth called on rabbis
and ministers Wednesday to ob-
serve Jan. 6 as a day of prayer and
intercession on behalf of Soviet
Jewry, which is denied religious
and cultural freedom.
The special prayers will be re-
cited following the regular prayers
for the Royal Family and the state
of Israel.
Rabbi Jakobovits noted that al-
though the chief rabbinate in
Jerusalem had proclaimed Dec. 25,
the 23rd of Kislev, as a day of
prayer for Soviet Jews, he con-
sidered it more appropriate for
British Jews to make the sabbath
of "Vayigash," Jan. 6, the occasion
for expressing their solidarity with
Soviet Jews through prayer.
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TV Series in NY to Deal
With Yiddish Language
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Jewish
Theological Seminary of America
announced it will present a four-
part television series on the Yid-
dish language and literature to be
carried in the metropolitan area
by ABC-TV - beginning Jan. 7.
The series, which will run
through Jan. 28, will commence
with an exploration of the Yiddish
language, its origins and how it
is spoken by Jewish communities
in different parts of the world.
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Jewish Educators Are Organizing
Citywide Project for Russian Jews
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