Detroit Salutes Israel on 21st Birthday
Community to Celebrate Anniversary at Two ,Special
Functions Scheduled for This and Following Sunday
Jewish Center, Israeli Students
Join in Plans for Celebration
THE JEWISH
JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
Vol. LV., No. 5
of Jewish Events
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Detroit 48235 April 18, 1969
Big 4 Solution Could Lead
To Disaster, Experts Warn
Detroit's major community organizations have joined in
sponsoring several events to celebrate Israel's 21st anni-
versary, the major ones being this Sunday and the following
Sunday.
Two important events have been arranged—one Sunday evening
at the Jewish Center and a community-wide demonstration at 2:30
p.m. April 27, on the grounds of the Jewish Center.
Plans for the outdoor rally were announced by Isadore Shrodeck,
chairman of the joint planning committee of the Zionist Council and
Jewish Community Council. Ehud Lador, Israel consul for cultural
affairs for the Midwest region, will be the guest speaker. Cantor
Harold Orbach will lead in the singing of the anthems, and represen-
tatives from the Jewish War Veterans and Jewish Youth Council will
participate in the presentation of the colors.
There will be singing and dancing for the youth at the outdoor
event, plus a special Israeli dance festival and refreshments for youth
groups. Students from Jewish day and afternoon schools also will
be participating in the 21st anniversary of Israel Independence Day.
As a special feature of Israel Independence Week, April 19-27,
the Ayalons, Israeli singing comedy quartet, will appear 8 p.m. Sun-
day in the Aaron DeRoy Theater of the Jewish Center. The program
will be cosponsored by Center and Israeli Students Organization.
The Ayalons present comedy, satire and impressions. They sing,
dance and poke fun at famous figures. They have appeared on tele-
vision and on stage across the United States.
Three members of the group—Mordechai Yaron, Eiton Lev and
Baruch Nadov, are eabras—native Israelis. The fourth member, Gad
Mann, was born in Berlin. All four have musical and theatrical
backgrounds.
Preceding the Ayalons' performance, Dr. Leah Bronner,
scholar and lecturer from South Africa, will speak on "The Drama
41 Jerusalem"—illustrated with slides. Following, there will be
dancing and refreshments in Shiffman Bait.
The Center and the Israel Students Organization invite the entire
COMMunity, for a nominal charge. For information, call the Center,
3414200, ext. 292.
Dr. Bronner, senior lecturer in the department of Hebrew studies
the Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, and at the only
Hebrew teachers training college in South Africa, plays a leading
role in the cultural life of South Africa and Rho-
desia, where she lectures to Jewish and non-Jew-
ish organizations. She has lectured in Israel and
the United States, where she is presently spend-
ing her sabbatical leave.
Dr. Bronner received her early education in
the Jewish day schools of New York and her
higher education in South Africa, where she set-
tled after her marriage. She writes regularly for
at
Jewish and Hebrew pariodicals and has published
several books, the latest of which, "Gateways to
Jewish Life," will appear shortly. Dr. Bronner
Dr. Bremner
serves on the executive boards of the leading Jewish organizations
in South Africa.
. The Center will present the Franco-Israeli film, "Impossible
se Saturday" 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Aaron DeRoy Theater.
- This satire of modern-day manners and morals was filmed main-
It in Israel and stars Robert Hirsch of the Comedie Francaise in
Seim' roles. Tickets are available at the Center.
Bnai Brith's Metropolitan Detroit Council will cosponsor with
the Center a talk by Ted Berkman, author and lecturer, on "Israel
and America—Contrasting Responses to the Challenges of a Chang-
ing World," 8 p.m. Thursday.
Berkman, a veteran Middle East observer, is the author of the
best selling "Cast a Giant Shadow," "biography of Colonel Mickey
*team,. which became the basis for a major film. His most recent
noyek "Sabra," is the story of the Six Day War and its effect on
the-Israeli people.
There will be no charge. The public is invited.
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Gift to Israel Marked
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Julian Amery, former British minister of aviation, told a
leadership meeting of the Zionist Organization of America in connection with the Big
Four talks, that the Western world "should avoid a Middle East Yalta."
Amery, a Conservative Party leader who opposed British withdrawal from Egypt in
1956, declared that "If the Soviets wish to disengage from the Mid East, then the Big Four
talks may be fruitful. But if, as I fear, they intend to maintain a quasi-colonial position in
Egypt and Syria, then it would be quite wrong for the West to ask Israel to make any
concessions with respect to the Sinai and the Golan Heights." He noted that Jordan, as
a Western-oriented state, "has more to fear from an extension of Soviet power than from
Israel."
Amery said he did not believe that the world would ever agree to the division of
Jerusalem. He said "There must be free access to the city for all and free access to the city
for all means freedom to come and go and freedom to trade between Israel and Jordan."
Theodore Sorensen, one-time adviser to the late President John F. Kennedy, declared
here that the initiative of President Richard M. Nixon in pushing for a Big Power solution
to the Arab-Israel conflict might produce a peace package which "could be the path to
disaster." Speaking at the Derech Emuno synagogue here, Sorenson also said that "The
worst foreign policy mistake of President Nixon's first year on his own in the White
House may well be his effort to Americanize the pursuit of peace in the Middle East."
He declared that the Nixon administration had been "more energetic about trying to
settle someone else's war" than in settling its own — the Vietnam conflict. He asserted
that the United States could be helpful in the Middle East "not by helping to prepare
a Big Four package — for two of the four are not really so 'big' and their package has
more liabilities than assets — but by working primarily with the Soviet Union, the one
real power in the area whose interest cannot be excluded even while we hope to mini-
mize her presence, to help the parties to settle (the conflict) themselves."
He proposed four steps by which, he contended, the Nixon administration could help
to bring about more tranquil conditions in the Middle East while concentrating on the
task of settling the Vietnam war. He said the United States should improve the atmos-
phere for direct Arab-Israel talks, encouraging the two sides "to meet and negotiate on
a realistic basis with each other instead of nurturing the notion that our talks will make
theirs unnecessary."
Sorensen said the U.S. should urge "our Arab friends" to engage in such talks by
making it clear to them there was nothing to be gained by waiting and by offering to help
them economically and otherwise through the domestic difficulties "they will then face."
A third step, he said, would be to provide both resources and opportunities for settlement
of the Arab refugees. He said their number was "in fact small compared to the number
of refugees resettled after wars in world history. Most importantly," he added, "we can
stop the supply of outside arms to the Middle East." He said that if the Soviet Union
really wanted peace in the Middle East, "these are the steps to peace."
As part of his refugee proposal, he proposed that the U.S. open its doors to a number
of the Arab refugees "and at the same time invite the immigration of all those Jews now
existing as prisoners or hostages in Arab lands." He added it was "inhumane" for the U.S.
not to help the exodus of all Jews still
in Arab states who want to leave.
As one of his objections to the Big
Four talks at the UN, he said the U.S.
was meeting with two nations — the
Soviet Union and France — who have
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
been consistently pro-Arab and anti-
to The Jewish News)
Israel and one nation, Britain, likely to
JERUSALEM — The El Fatah radio station in
yield
to any compromise re-opening the
Cairo voiced an implicit threat against King Hussein
Suez Canal and "safeguarding the flow
of Jordan Monday in connection with the six-point
of Arab oil." He said out of such talks
Mid East peace plan proposed by the monarch in
was likely to come a settlement prepared
Washington last week. The El Fatah broadcast did
not mention the king by name but warned that "the
by outsiders which will again trade away
Palestinian people will know how to deal with any-
Israel's security, and that again, Israel,
one who is ready to recognize Israel." The El Fatah
as in 1957, will be asked to do "what
spokesman said the "Palestine revolution will never
Arab forces could never do—return to
be abandoned until our entire country is liberated."
boundaries that have proved to be
(The London Daily Telegraph reported from
wholly insecure and rely on UN forces
Amman Monday that Arab guerrilla leaders have
and outside guarantees that have proven
rejected King Hussein's Washington proposals. They
to be sadly ineffective." He added that
said "Our policy is clear. We are determined to lib-
there was a strong possibility that all
erate the whole of Palestine, and no agreement
the
hopes and expectations aroused by
short of this reached by Arab rulers will deter us
from the struggle," the Telegraph reported.)
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El Fatah Broadcast
Threatens Hussein
Partnership With Kinsmen Reaches
Highest Note in Year's Noteworthy
Responses to Urgent Needs . . . Large
Increase Reported in Contributions
Through the current Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund, Detroit is sending an impressive message
of a generous anniversary gift to Israel, on the state's 21st
anniversary, with the announcement of vast increases in
contributions to uphold Israel's hands in its task to raise
the cultural and health standards of the country and to
enable Israelis to welcome new immigrants.
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