THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, February 21, 1969-33

Maccabian Games a Family Affair-

NEW YORK — Members of the

People Make News

Prof. JAMES C. HADEN, chair-
man of the department of philoso-
phy at Oakland University, spoke
on "Student Rebellion and the New
Morality" at the annual brother-
hood dinner sponsored by the men's
clubs of Temple Beth Jacob and the
First Congregational Church of
Pontiac.
* *

DR. LEONARD FEIN, associate
director of the MIT-Harvard Joint
Center of Urban Studies; DR.
ARNOLD PINS, director of the
National Council on Social Work
Education; and MRS. BURT
SIRIS, national United Jewish Ap-
peal leader are among the mem-
bers of the new board of trustees
of the American Zionist Youth
Foundation. Charles Bick, past
president of Mizrachi, was re-
elected chairman of the board.
• * *

NORMAN DRACHLER, who has
more than his share of headaches
as superintendent of the Detroit
Public Schools, reportedly turned
down the position of dean at the
University of Michigan School of
Education. The offer to Drachler
and his decision to stay here were
made even before Wilbur Cohen's
name came up.

Yemenite Feeds 23

on $115 a Month

TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Shalom
Sarfu is a 54-year-old immigrant
from Yemen. While in his native
land, he had married two wives (in
that country polygamy is a way of
life) who bore him 28 children, and
21 of them have survived.
The two women live in harmony.
One mothered 10 of the offspring
and the other 11, and both intend
to have more children.
The Israeli government humane-
ly recognized the marriages and
declared them to be legal. The en-
tire income of the family, Sarfu's
wages plus the government sub-
sidy for the children, amounts to
about 400 Israel pounds ($115) per
month. This sum is supposed to
feed and clothe 24 people. The re-
sult: unimaginable squalor, depri-
vation and poverty.
Ma'ariv, which published this
story, adds that this is not the only
case, and the newspaper poses the
question:

"Why? In all the years, why
hasn't someone done something
about alleviateing the misery and
suffering of this and similar un-
fortunate families? Is an oleh
from the United States or from
Europe more important to the
state than a family with 21 chil-
dren residing in Israel? And what
is most important: How do young
couples reading such stories in
the press feel about such callous
indifference?
"Will such incidents discourage

them from raising large families?
And all of the talk and the appeals
to raise the natural increase of the
Jewish population in Israel—is this
not a sheer waste of words?"

London Times Attacks
Hark Back to WW II

LONDON (ZINS)—A spokesman
for the office of the prime minister
of Israel denied charges that poor
public relations methods are re-
- sponsible for the escalated hate
campaign against Israel conducted
by the press in England.

To a remark by a journalist that

Israel's incompetent public rela-
tions methods are responsible for
her inability to influence the Eng-
lish press to publish the truth, the
spokesman for the prime minister's
office replied: "In the '30s the
London Times supported Hitler.
Had the newspaper then been un-
aware of the truth"?
•
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JULIUS CHAJES, conductor of
the Jewish Center Symphony Or-
chestra, was verbally applauded by
critics following a performance of
the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra,
for which he was guest conductor
recently. He conducted in the ab-
sence of Nathan Gordon, on tour
with his wife Marjorie. On the pro-
gram was a composition by Chajes,
Theme and Variations for String
Orchestra. Guest soloist was Cyn-
thia Raim, 17-year-old pianist, who
also was praised as a musician of
great promise.
* * *
The Israel Numismatic Society
of Pennsylvania will be inaugurated
at the Belleview Stratford Hotel,
Philadelphia, next Thursday. Judge
SIDNEY HOFFMAN, was elected
Judge of the Superior Court of
Pennsylvania, president of the so-
ciety, an affiliate of the American-
Israel Numismatic Association.
* *
Rabbi SHLOMO GOREN, chief
rabbi of Israel's armed forces, was
guest of the Air Force at Cape
Kennedy. He was greeted in a spe-
cial order of the day issues by the
commanding officer of the head-
quarters, eastern test range, Pat-
rick Air Force. The rabbi witness-
ed the launching of a Titan III
rocket.

* *

Bnai Brith announced this week
appointment of two men prominent
in its leadership to its Inter-
national Council. Judge DAVID
COLEMAN of Los Angeles and
HERMAN FINEBERG of Pitts-
burgh were named to three-year
terms on the 31-member council.
▪ *
The United Jewish Appeal of
Greater New York has elected in-
dustrialist MORRIS L. LEVINSON
as president; merchant CHARLES
C. BASSINE as chairman of the
board; and attorney ALBERT
PARKER as executive committee
chairman.
* * *
HERMAN R. SHERLINE, special
agent in the Prudential Insurance
Co.'s Northland ordinary agency,
has been named to the company
President's Club for the third year.
* * *
Mayor Mordechai Namir of Tel
Aviv, who has held the top office
in Israel's largest city for the past
nine years, an-
nounced that he
will resign and
will not stand for
reelection. Namir,
who is 70, was
partially disabled
from a stroke suf.
fered several
years ago. He
said "public and
personal reasons"
Namir
were responsible
for his decision. He is a member
of the Knesset (Parliament). A
new mayor will be elected within
a month to serve out Namir's term
which expires when national elec-
tions are held next October.
* *
State Rep. DANIEL S. COOPER
of Oak Park, vice-chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, will
chair a meeting of all district
judges in Oakland and Macomb
counties 9 a.m. March 3 at South-
field District Court, to discuss new
District Court legislation.
* * $
CLAIRE LANDES GROSBERG
has been elected a stockholder of
E. F. Hutton & Company Inc.,
New York Stock Exchange mem-
ber firm. She becomes the firm's
first woman stockholder. A native of
Philadelphia, she attended Wayne
State University, Utah State Uni-
versity and the University of Michi-
gan Extension. She is a member of
National Council of Jewish Women,
Workmens' Circle, Deborah Service
League and many other groups.
She resides with her husband and
two children in Farmington.

1969 United States Maccabia Team
should be issued a "famliy" tie as
part of their official uniforms.
When the 175-member squad
marches into Ramat Gan Stadium
in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, for the
opening ceremonies of the eighth
World Maccabia' Gaines July 27,
it's probable that many of the
American athletes will be related
to present or past competitors or
team officials.
Some 30 nations will participate
in the Maccabia's 20-sport Olympic-
type program. However, none of
the countries has been able to
match the United States in number
of relatives. Peru gave it a good
try in 1965. Its tiny squad consisted
of five brothers, and assorted cous-
ins, uncles, nephews and mish-
pa cha .
Take the Abramson family of
Jamaica Estates, N.Y. In 1957
Alan, of Colgate, represented the
United States in swimming at the
Maccabia Games. Brother David of
Harvard was the Abramson repre-
sentative in 1961. Four years later,
it was brother Richard of the Air
Force Academy.
All there won medals.
This year, as in the past, the
boys' parents will be deeply in-

the U.S. Olympic Committee and Her brother, Lee, swam on the 1965
directed the 1964 Olympic swim- squad.
There have been many father
ming, diving and water polo
trials, will serve as co-captain of and son combinations. Leland
the United States Maccabia Faust of Los Angeles was a mem-
Team. Ruth, the mother, is chair- ber of the gold medal-winning 1965
man of the women's swimming water polo team. His father, Joe,
is the current United States Mac-
squad.
The Abramson family tie goes cabia water polo chairman.

even deeper than that. Richard
married South African sprinter
Lorraine Lotzoff, a triple gold

medalist in the seventh Maccabia
Games. Under prevailing eligibility
rules, the new Mrs. Abramson is
qualified to represent the United
States in the games should she be
selected.
Several brother and sister com-
binations also have been prominent
on United States teams. Barbara
Chesneau of Philadelphia was a
swimming gold medalist in 1961.

FRANK PAUL

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Young Israel Gets Bid
to Train Minority Jobless

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Na-
tional Council of Young Israel re-
ported it had received a third con-
tract to provide job training for
hard-core jobless members of min-
ority groups and that it was return-
ing again to the Labor Department
a substantial amount of unused
federal funds allocated for the or-
ganization's second contract.
The first contract, for 1966-67,
required the Orthodox organization
to provide, on a non-sectarian
basis, training for 400 hard-core
unemployed persons. The contract
allocated to Young Israel a lump
sum of 400 placements, up to a
maximum outlay per trainee of
$400.
The second Young Israel con-
tract, for 1967-68, provided for 500
"slots." Scheduled to end in Octo-
ber 1968, the agreement was ex-
tended until February of this year,
without any additional federal
funds for the extension.
Ephraim Sturm, the project di-
rector for Young Israel, said the
third contract will cover the period
of February 1969 to February 1970.

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