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January 24, 1969 - Image 14

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1969-01-24

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14—Friday, January 24, 1969

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Freed Jewish Crewmen of Pueblo

It Was A Date To Remember

OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS

The CARIBE MOTEL

A Girl, Chairlift and Jewish Law

Court. She testified as the state
to The Jewish News)
I sought to recover damages award-
ALBANY — Five years ago a ed to her by a lower court.
Jewish girl from Brooklyn, then 16
The State was required to pay
$35,000 for her injuries and
years old, found herself and a date
halted on a state-operated Catskill S2,231 to her father for medical
expenses. She said she suffered
Mountain chair lift with the pros-
pect of spending the night in it
a fractured nose and face cuts
when she jumped to the ground
together.
to avoid spending the night aloft
Lift attendants thought there
with Jack Katz, then 19.
were no riders on the moving
She and a rabbi attested to a
chairs, used as a summer tourist
attraction, so they shut off the religious law in question.
In the court of claims, she tes-
power at 5:30 p.m. and went home
tified that her religious training
The girl, now Mrs. Ruth Fried- motivated the action.
man Elder, jumped 25 feet to the
A spokesman for the Jewish
ground at the ski area, rather than
disobey a dictate of Jewish law Theological Seminary of America
which says an unmarried girl can- (Conservative) in New York coin-
not remain with a male in a place mented that there were several
not accessible to a third person. references in the Talmud to such
a prohibiton, adding that the cir-
The story was revealed in court cumstances governing its applica-
testimony here Tuesday. Mrs. El- tion were a matter of rabbinical
der, then Ruth Friedman, told of debate.
the dilemma that she said she had
faced, as a 16-year old girl, in the
appellate division of State Supreme
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Upon their return to the U.S. after liberation from captivity in
North Korea, the two Jewish crewmen of the USS Pueblo, Techni-
cian Steven J. Robin (left) and Seaman Steven Ellis (right) attended
special Hanuka candlelighting ceremonies conducted for them in the
San Diego, Calif., Naval Chapel by Chaplain Garson Goodman
(center). In meeting the seamen's first request, which was for mezu-
zot, and in conducting the Festival of Lights ceremonies, Chaplain
Goodman used religious supplies provided by the commission
on Jewish chaplaincy of the National Jewish Welfare Board.

Israeli Cotton Mills See Boom in Export Business

RAMAT-GAN—The production of r $1,500,000 anticipated for the cur-
sophisticated fabrics for dress rent year.
manufacturers in Western coun-, Among Texport's chief markets
tries is marking the growth of one is South Africa, where it is a re-
of Israel's major cotton fabric source for several of the important
production mills. I dress manufacturers, as well as
The Texport-Arigim network of I Australia, England, Switzerland
Ramat-Gan reported that exports; and Denmark. It operates through
of its fashion piece goods reached 12 exclusive agents throughout the
$1,250,000 in 1968, with a rise to, world.

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Romania Chief Rabbi
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BUCHAREST — Chief Rabbi,
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ed office in Romanian legislatures I
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candidate for the National Assem-1
bly (parliament) in the next elec-
tions, to be held March 2. Rabbi
Rosen, president of the Federa-
tion of Jewish Communities of
Romania, will run from a district
of Bucharest.
The chief rabbi joined with
Romanian officials and Israel's
minister Eliezer Doron to honor a
Latin American visitor, Dr. Tobias
Kameszian, president of the Fed-
eration of Jewish Communities of
Argentina. Dr. Kameszian and his
wife are reciprocating a visit paid
to Argentina by Rabbi Rosen last
year. They attended services at
Bucharest's Choral Synagogue, a
dinner in their honor tendered by
the federation of Jewish com-
munities of Romania, a reception
by Doron and a performance at
the Jewish State Theater. Dr.
Kameszian also met with Prof.
Dumitru Dogaru, secretary gen-
eral of the state department of I

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