Rally to Open ilistadriit Campaign
The opening rally of the 1968-69
campaign of Histadrut will take
place 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the
Labor Zionist Institute.
Principal speaker will be Zeev
Haring, head of Histadrut's inter-
national relations department.
He served on the secretariat of
Menai for three years and studied
the field of public administration
at the London School of Econom-
ics. In addition to his adminisra- ture Genla Zohar, who is making
tive responsibilities in Histadrut, a return visit to Detroit with a
he lectures at the Tel Aviv College program of Israeli and interna-
tional folk songs. The program
of Law and Economics.
The goal of the Histadrut Cam- will end with a social hour and
paign in the United States for 1968- refreshments. There will be no
69 is $5,000,000, which is raised on admission char g e. Supervised
behalf of the essential health, edu- parking faciltities are being pro-
cational and welfare programs of vided.
Histadrut in Israel.
Campaign volunteers who re-
The opening rally also will fea- ceived assignments a month ago
are asked to cover as many cards
as possible before the opening
Cabinet Declines to Rule on Issue
rally. The Histadrut staff will ac-
cept pledges and cash payments.
of Nationality, Leaves It to Court
For information, call the Hista-
drut office, UN 4-7094.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The cabi- versial case. Justice Shimon Agra-
net decided after a brief discussion nat, Supreme Court president, pro-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Sunday not to act on a suggestion posed legislation deleting "nation-
by Israel's Supreme Court that it ality" from the national registry. 8—Friday, November 29, 1968
sponsor legislation to delete ref- said that it would bring Israel in
erences to "nationality" from the line with most Western nations
national population registry and where nationality and citizenship
personal identification papers.
are equated. Israel's practice is
The apparent consensus was that similar to that of Soviet Russia
because of other pressing problems and other Eastern European coun-
the time was not ripe to become tries which base nationality on
involved in an issue as basic and ethnic origin regardless of citizen-
as controversial as the definition ship.
of who is a Jew.
In a related development, the
Religious Orthodoxy in Israel presidents
of the Beit Din—rab-
claims that Jewish nationality and binical
courts—met here Nov. 20
religion are inseparable. Israeli and adopted
a resolution protesting
law complies with that view by
Supreme Court's intervention
permitting registration of one's na- the
in
cases
which
they claim are the
tionality as Jewish although the
domain of rabbinical courts. The
registrant may be an Israeli citi- case
of Commander Shalit which
zen. Before the cabinet met, Minis-
to determine "who is a Jew"
ter of Social Welfare Joseph Burg, seeks
was
given
one example in the
who belongs to the Orthodox Na- resolution. as Another
was a recent
tional Religious Party, said it
Supreme
Court
ruling that a rab-
should walk out of the coalition binical court could
not
determine
government if the cabinet went
along with the Supreme Court's the amount of support payable to
the
child
of
a
separated
couple.
proposal.
The meeting of rabbinical court
Two cabinet members, Moshe presidents was presided over by
Kol of the Independent Liberal the Sephardic Chief Rabbi Itzhak
Party,
who is minister
tourism of Nissim. The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
and
development,
and of
Minister
Housing Mordecai Bentov of Ma- Isser Untermann is not a member
of the Beit Din because he has
pa m, abstained from voting,
As a result of the cabinet's passed the statutory age limit.
withdrawal from the issues, the
court will have to rule in the Religious Sector Prevents
case of Lt. Commander Benja-
min Shalit of the Israel Navy, Israel Heart Transplants
who is suing to have his Israel-
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Only the
born children registered as Jew- opposition of the religious sector
ish by nationality.
prevents heart transplants from
The ministry of interior, headed being jr...rformed in Israel, it was
by Moshe Shapiro of the National stated at a conference of surgeons
Religious Party, refused to take in Jerusalem. Other speakers point-
such action on grounds that their ed out that surgery in Israel is on
mother is not Jewish even though so high a level of development that
she professes no other religion. heart transplants would be no less
The court has sought to avoid the successful there than in other
necessity of ruling in the contro- lands.
Foundation to Advance Use of Standard Yiddish
NEW YORK—A special founda-
tion "to further the development
and utilization of standard Yid-
dish" has been initiated under
direction of lovers of Yiddish.
The "Benyumen Shekhter Foun-
dation for the Advancement of
Standard Yiddish" will finance re-
search and development projects
dealing with the grammar, style,
terminology and orthography of
the cultivated or standard Yiddish
employed by the best writers, tea-
chers and scholars.
The foundation also plans to sub-
sidize courses in standard Yiddish,
as well as to support institutions
and projects which further its use.
Named after Benyumen Shekh-
ter, a Romanian Yiddishist who
perished in a Soviet labor camp,
the foundation lists four major
published sources as currently de-
fining the rules of standard Yid-
dish: "Rules of Yiddish Spelling"
(first issued in Volno, Poland,
1937); N. Stutchkoff's "Thesaurus
of the Yiddish Language" (New
York, 1950), the "Guide to the
Standardized Yiddish Ortho-
graphy ' (New York, 1961), and
Uriel Weinreich's "M1o9d 6ern by Eng-
lish-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Die-
tionary," released in 1968
Gr
Inquiries
uiri
ffill
es, and contributions may
be addressed to Benyumen Shekh-
ter Foundation for the Advance-
ment of Standard Yiddish, 3328
Bainbridge, Bronx, New York
10467.
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DETROIT ISRAEL HISTADRUT
Cordially invites you to attend its
1968-69 OPENING RALLY
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1968
8:30 P.M.
Presenting an exciting program
International folk songs.
Morris L Mayer Auditorium
19161 Schaefer Highway
HEAD OF HISTADRUT'S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
DEPARTMENT
Admission Free — Everyone Welcome
Supervised Parking Facilities Are Being Provided