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.