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May 31, 1968 - Image 48

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1968-05-31

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Novosti Paints Picture of Idyllic Life Among Jews

Stollnitans Gather for. Event
at Bar-Ilan; Shazar Honored

A special feature released to mill, who is writing a book about
the Tore, according to a subtitle).
The Jewish News by the informa- the settlement:
tion department of the Soviet Em-
The assistant head doctor of the
"Some fifty years ago, Kulashi
bassy in Washington deScribes life was just a demoted, little dusty Samtredi district which includes
RAMAT GAN, Israel—More than Stollman and Mr. and Mrs. Max
in "Kulashi — a Settlement of town providing shelter to 350 Jew- Kulashi, says that 242 Jewish 60 members of the Stollman family Stollman.
Georgian Jews." It was prepared ish families. No running water, no children were born in Kulashi in assembled here Wednesday for the
In addition to-the Max Stollmans'
by Novosti Press Agency (APN) sewerage and not a single doctor's 1967, and that the population of dedication of the Stollman Ad- son, Melvin, who has been working
ministration
Building
at
Bar-Ilan
the
settlement
doubled
over
the
and tells about this Georgian Jew- assistant in the whole borough.
in the Bar-Ilan library as a re-
ish community of 7,000. The total Most of its inhabitants were petty last 20 years. The doctor, Ilya University.
search associate, other members
Jewish population in Georgia is tradesmen and porters. No edu- Boterashvili, says that all the
The dedication was preceded by of the family who made the trip
52,000 while the general population cated people. All activities cen- physicians at the Kulashi poly- the formal presentation of an hon- to Israel and many foreign cow
is 4,500,000. In Kulashi, there are tered around the synagogue . . . clinic—some 16—are Jews.
orary doctorate to President Zal- tries were: Mr. and Mrs. Robe:
4,000 non-Jews.
According to the article, the man Shazar of Israel.
Greenstone, Mr. and Mrs. Bernaru
APN says that services today
Referring to Georgian historical are atended by "mostly the aged." Jews of Kulashi are healthy,
Stollman, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour
A
dinner
at
the
Tel
Aviv
Hilton
documents, the article, by Ivetta
All that remains of old Kulashi happy, well-housed and cared-for. Hotel concluded the day's events. Fang of New York and Mr. Fang's
Buachidze, in an English transla- is a Jewish cemetery, bathhouse,
mother, Mrs. Lillian Fang.
tion by P. Shikman, states that ritual slaughterhouse and bakery.
Dr. Joseph Lookstein, the uni-
Rabbi and Mrs. Isaac Stollman,
Jews setled in ancient Georgia in
versity's chancellor, presided, and former Detroiters, now Jerusalem
The
APN
article
goes
out
of
its
the First Century BCE, that they
the presentation of the new Stoll- resident were active participants
way to show that young Georgian
preserved their language, customs Jews
man building was made by Phillip in the ceremonies.
are
not
concerned
with
re-
and traditions.
ligion, and quotes one student as
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
Hebrew inscriptions found in ex-
that "young people who go
to The Jewish News)
cavations, the article states, date saying
to
the
synagogue
do
so
only
to
BONN—The
Israel Embassy here
back to the 5th and 7th centuries, spare the felings of their elders,
and "museums in Georgia boast and sometimes out of sheer took a serious view Tuesday of re-
ports, apparently true, that two
Hebrew manuscripts and a 10th curiosity."
West German industrial firms have
Century edition of the Pentateuch,
given in to Arab pressure and
The young daughter of a syna-
with a vocalization close to the
gogue teacher is depicted as hav- have renounced future business
Ben-Asher traditions."
deals with Israel.
ing abandoned Judaism for the
The Kulashi rabbi, Abram
atheistic Young Pioneers, and
The firms are Thyssen and Man-
Mikhelashvili, is quoted as say-
it is pointed out that young Jews nesmann, both of which had sought
ing: "There was no anti-Semi-
have "made Georgian their na-
and won contracts to supply Israel
tism in Georgia."
This article states that "the tive tongue", dismissing the old with steel pipes for the proposed
status of Jewish serfs in Georgia Jewish vernacular made up of Eilat-Ashdod pipeline.
in the late feudal period was deter- Aramaic, Hebrew and Georgian.
An embassy spokesman said that

mined by the general peasant
the matter was not only a com-
status of a feudal society. But when
mercial but a political issue.
Georgia was annexed to the Rus-
According to reports, the Thys-
sian Empire at the turn of the
sen and Mannesmann companies
19th Century, czarist autocracy,
came under heavy Arab pressure
following an anti-Semitic policy,
when the contracts were signed.
inaugurated a number of restric-
Both subsequently wrote to the
tions. The Jewish peasants were
Arab Boycott Office in Beirut, Leb-
divorced from the soil and forced
anon, agreeing to make no further
to live in segregated areas. "But
deals with Israel. T h e Thyssen
this policy did not leave a deep
company has already delivered 60
imprint on the Georgians."
per cent of its order to Israel, but
The release quotes a Jewish
it is uncertain whether it will ful-
historian, Herzel B a azov, who
fill the balance of the contract.
said there were no workers, artis-
Spokesmen of both firms declined
ans or intellectuals among Georg-
to comment.
ia's Jews and that they were
Earlier, an embargo on the ship-
it
4r
eir;
mostly peddlers who were ex-
kOr46 4
ment of West German arms to the
ploited by "a small group of "%tat
Middle East was affirmed here.
wealthy Jews."
Burck in the Chicago Sun•Times
Deputy Foreign Minister George
It is clear from the description
Duckwitz
said in an interview that
"The
Ovens
Are
Still
Smoldering"
contained in this article that the
it applied even to unarmed trans-
Soviet line of differentiating be-
port planes that Israel asked for
tween rich and poor, workers and
After a description of the in- last
November.
alleged exploiters, is pursued, and dustry that employes Jews— prim-
The foreign ministry official said
there is evidence of an anti- re- arily the weaving mill, but also
ligious sentiment injected in de- the settlement cooperative, local it was the Federal Republic's po-
scriptions of life among Georgian repair shops, railroad and auto licy to ban all arms shipments to
Jews.
transportation service—the article crisis areas. He denied rumors
of some 97 synagogues in the stresses the pide with which the that 54 M-48 tanks of West Ger-
Soviet Union (American Jewish Jews regard their intelligentsia: man origin had been delivered to
Year Book 1964), Georgia has a mathematician, a number of phy- Israel via Italy. He disclosed for
26. Three of these are in Kulashi, sicians, including the pro-rector the first time that the Israel gov-
according to the Novosti article, of the Orenburg Medical Institute, ernment last November sought to
order 20 German transport planes
and the central one is 250 years Kazimir Eligulashvili.
old.
Praise for the Soviet way of life but was turned down even though
According to Kulashi's "histor- is chanted throughout the article, the planes are unarmed and can
ian," Sholom Mildielashvili, head almost as frequently as mockery be used only for transport mis-
of the planning and financial de- of the Jewish religion. ("Long sions.
partment of the Kulashi weaving Hair, Little Sense' is a dictum of
The planes are of French-Ger-
man design and were recently put
into service by the Wset German
Air Force, Duckwitz said. He
added that if Israel should ask for
Lazaroff House "Alef" and "Beis" (center photograph) are the
the delivery of helicopters they
would also be refused. He said two dormitory buildings of the Kfar Chabad Vocational Schools in
the embargo applies to Arab coun- Israel, built with the generosity of a Detroit' family. Mrs. Emma
Schaver was in Israel recently for the dedication of the second, four-
tries as well as Israel.
story building built by the Lazaroff-Schaver family and is shown
Reliable sources here said Sun- (above) listening to Rabbi Shlomo Aaron Kazarnofsky, emissary of
day that Dr. Rolf Paul, the West the Lubavitcher Rebbe who flew from New York for the affair; and
German ambassador to Israel, (below) viewing the Kfar Chabad printing school with her aunt, Mrs.
would be recalled in a few months Riva Villard. Kfar Chabad is a Lubavitcher settlement near Tel Aviv
and assigned to a new diplomatic which includes schools, teacher-training academies and four ultra-
post. No name has yet been men- modern vocational schools for printing, carpentry, agriculture and
tioned as Dr. Paul's. successor in locksmithery. The Schavers have completed four projects there,
the
the Israeli post).
printing school and a synagogue, in addition to the two dormitories.

W. German Firms
Yield to Boycott

`Lazaroff House Beis' Is Dedicated;
Mrs. Schaver Attends Event in Israel

, 1 •

Paul Zuckermans Get JNF Welcome
in Israel Prior to Honors Here

Lubavitcher to Establish $3,000,000 Girls' Tow

NEW YORK — The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi
Menachem M. Schneerson, made known here through
his Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm
of the Lubavitcher movement, his plans to establish
a $3,000,000 Girls' Town complex which will be
situated adjacent to Kfar Chabad, the Lubavitcher
village near Tel Aviv.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Zuckerman were greeted at Keren Kayemet
The expansive complex will occupy about 20
LeIsrael (Jewish National Fund) world headquarters in Jerusalem
acres of land. In its first stage it will have 20 build-
last week and were honored for their labors in Israel's behalf. Wel-
ings, including the school buildings, dormitories,
coming them is the JNF executive Eliezer Argov (left), who pre- dining
halls, residences, a synagogue, a library, a
sents them with the Jerusalem coin commemorating Israel's 20th clinic, swimming pool and administrative facilities.
anniversary. Zuckerman will be honored in Detroit at the annual
The school will be called "Beth Rivka" and will
JNF dinner, June 13, at Cong. Shaarey Zedek.
be part of the world wide network of girls' schools
known by that name, established in recent years
48—Friday, May 31, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS by Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch.

The new facilities will accommodate 1,200girls
ranging in age from 12 to 20. It will offer them as
full curriculum of religious and secular studies on
the high school and seminary levels, as well as
various types of vocational training.
At present the school is located in Kfar Chabad
and has an enrollment of 450 girls who come from
62 different countries.
Rabbi Shmuel Chefer, the school's executive
director, said that the Israeli Ministry of Education
has hailed the Rebbe's new project as an important
milestone in the advancement of secondary educa-
tion for girls in Israel.
Ground for the new project will be broken during
the next few weeks.

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