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The Detroit Jewish News, 1968-05-03

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Rejoices for Israel at 20th 'Birthday' Party

"I shall not die. but I shall live"
—the words of the psalmist quoted
at Saturday's midnight Yizkor
service for the Six Million—carried
over to Sunday evening, when De-
troit Jewry celebrated Israel's re-
birth.
Both communitywide observ-
ances were held at the Jewish Cen-
ter under the auspices of the Jew-
ish Community Council and the
latter program with the coopera-
tion of the Zionist Council of De-
troit.
Ambassador Moshe Leshem of
the Israeli Mission to the United
Nations, guest speaker at the Sun-
day gathering, pointed out that
"We are celebrating 20 years of
statehood, but 3,000 years of his-
', Cory
He outlined Israel's gains in
the past 20 years and stressed that
the state is in a much stronger
position today than it was on June
5, before the Six-Day War broke
out.
"We must keep the territories
now under Israeli control" he
said, until the Arabs "come to
terms with us .. In holding the
territory inhabited by Arabs, we
have a key to a positive rela-
tionship with the Arab people,
not with their governments.
"The Arabs don't love us or the
Israeli administration," Leshem
added, "but now they understand
what we stand for. There is a Jew-
ish nationalism with equal rights to
be recognized."
Recognition of Israel's rights
is not easy to come by in the
United Nations, Leshem said with
some heat. "Only yesterday, we
were sitting in the Security Coun-
cil, listening to the other nations
tell us where and how to celebrate
Independence Day . . . No other
country has had to listen to such
advice. We won't either." Leshem
was referring to Israel's firm in-
tention to hold the annual Inde-
pendence Day parade in Jerusa-
lem, despite the vocal opposition
of her Arab neighbors.
"We are here to express our
joy," said Leshem. "but it wouldn't
be in our tradition not to ponder
our problems. We had a brilliant
military victory yet the battle is
not over." At the same time, "We
have to continue our economic de-
velopment and progress."
"It is natural to get tired —
fighting, making sacrifices — but
we cannot return," said the envoy.
"We are still in the midst of an
emergency." He praised world
Jewry for its unceasing support to
Israel and commented, with ref-
erence to the current anti-Semitic
forces at work in Eastern Europe
and elsewhere, "If we stick to-
gether, the forces of evil, will not
prevail."
(Leshem, who was decorated
by the Czechoslovakian govern-
ment for his work with the un-
derground during World War II,

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Cleveland AJCommittee
Volunteers Finish Year of
Helping Negro Students

CLEVELAND (JTA)—A second
group of American Jewish Com-
mittee volunteers is working with
college-bound students in Glen-
ville high school, located in a
Cleveland slum area, in providing
"one-to-one" counseling to the Ne-
gro students. The project is part
of a wide-ranging program to aid
slum children under the general
sponsorship of the Jewish Com-
munity Federation.
The project, known as the
Scholars Club, has 55 students and
a like number of AJCommittee
volunteers, at the end of the first
year of the project. Students and
their parents met with the AJ-
Committee counselors at Glenville
high school last month to evaluate
the effectiveness of the program
and to develop plans for the corn-
ing school year.

The only social security our coun-
try's forefathers had in years past
was suspenders.

recently returned the decoration
hecuse of the Czech govern.
nient's anti-Israel policy.)
Morris Lieberman, chairman of
the Zionist Council of Detroit, pre-
sided at the celebration, and Dr.
Samuel Krohn, president of the
Jewish Community Council,
brought greetings on behalf of the
Council and the Jewish Welfare
Federation.
A delegation from the Jewish
War Veterans and another from
Hashomer Hatzair, Zionist youth
group, presented the American and
Israeli flags, respectively, at the
opening of the assembly.
Evelyn Orbach narrated a pro-
gram of song and dance, depicting
"the threads of the Jewish dream"
and "the fabric of a nation." Per-
formers were the Zamarim, an in-
strumental and vocal trio; the Is-
raeli Ensemble, three musicians;
and the Young Dancers Guild of
the Jewish Center, a sextet di-
rected by Harriet Berg, who per-
formed the dances of Israel from
traditional Yemenite to very con-
temporary rock 'n' roll.
The mood was a bright contrast
to the solemn Midnight Memorial
Vigil of less than 24 hours be-
fore. At the vigil, where six surviv-
ors of Nazi concentration camps
lit candles in memory of the Six
Million, Rabbi Irwin Groner re-

minded the assembly, "We have
an obligation to tell our children
and cause others to understand
. . . The Warsaw Ghetto teaches
us the meaning of courage."
Rabbi Groner, of Cong. Sha.
arey Zedek, made reference to
the "demonic scourge of anti-
Semitism" currently in Poland,
saying "None of us can be free
as long as any of our brethren
anywhere can still be under the
yoke of oppression . . We must
cry out." Also, "Soviet Jewry
faces spiritual strangulation. We
dare not be silent."
Cantor Hyman Adler of Cong.
David chanted the "El Mole Ra-
hamim" Yizkor prayer and led in
the singing of partisan songs, ac-
companied by pianist Bella Gold-
berg.
Dr. Krohn, who presided at the
memorial meeting. quoted from the
Psalms: "I shall not die, but I
shall live . I believe with perfect
faith in the coming of the Mes-
siah."
Later, in referring to that un-
swerving faith of the Warsaw he-
roes, Rabbi Groner said, "We shall
not surrender that faith. We re-
member their deeds, their sacri-
fices, their dignity, their triumph
even over death. May we carry
their banner . . . and win their
victory."

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
JTA Opens New Circuit
Friday, May 3, 1968-9
From Israel to the World

NEW YORK (JTA)—The Jewish
Society prepares the crime; the
Telephonic Agency began opera-
criminal
commits it.—Buckle.
tion Tuesday of its own leased
radioprinter circuits between Jer-
usalem and London for speedy
Now Showing .. •
transmission of news from Israel
to all parts of the world. The cir-
THE RAJ RAGE
cuits use facilities of the Israel
(Nehru Coat)
Postoffice and the British Post-
office. News transmitted on these
In any color desired.
circuits is relayed from London
Designed and Made in Our
to New York over cables leased
Own Shop by
from Press Wireless, Inc.
Operation of this circuit will
permit JTA to triple the volume
of its service from Israel without
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additional cost and will shorten
11 MILE & LAHSER
the time required for delivery of
Open: Thurs. to 9 P.M.
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