Break Ground Sunday for 15-Story Seniors' Apartment
Ground - breaking Ceremonies for the 15-stt)ry
apartment dwelling for senior citizens to rise
Oak
Park will be held 10 a.nl. Sunday at
in
the site, 15110 W. Ten Aide. just east of Green-
field, Joseph H. Jackier, president of Federation
Apartments, has announced.
Sponsored by the Jewish Welfare Federation
Of Detroit, the structure, which will contain 169
efficiency and one-bedroom units. will he limited
to residents who are at least 62 years of age and
With
modest incomes.
Lebanon's Role
as Neutral
In Middle East:
Also a Sufferer
From the Lie
and the Fantasy
Governor William Milliken will participate
in the ceremonies, along with officials of Federa-
tion and Oak Park civic leaders.
Among those expected to attend are mem-
bers of the Federation Apartments board of direc-
tors, including: Samuel Hechtman, vice president;
Jack 0. Lefton, vice president; Martin E. Citrin,
secretary; Leslie Rose, treasurer; and William
Avrunin. executive vice president of Federation;
Nelson Demhs; Edward I. Fleischman; Sol King;
Samuel Linden; Hyman Safran, president of Fed-
eration; Gilbert B. Silverman; Max Stollman; and
Samuel Cohen, assistant director of Federation
and acting administrator of Federation Apart-
ments.
Designed to provide independent living for
elderly people who are in good health, the apart-
ment house will charge modest rents and be self-
supporting. Nearly 2,000 inquiries have been re-
ceived at the Federation office since announce-
ment that the project was being developed, al-
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A Weekly Review
Commentary
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Detroit's
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An Election
With Serious
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Editorial
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Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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Soviet Union Injects 'Sinister
Aspect' Into Lebanese Crisis
7 Michigan Sisterhoods
Help Create Synagogue
Center for Israeli Youth
Proposed Temple for Ben-Shemen Youth Village
MIAMI BEACH — Reform Jewish women
will erect a synagogue as their building in Israel.
It will be a gift of the National Federation of
Temple Sisterhoods to 800 elementarj. school chil-
dren and teen-agers of Ben-Shemen Children's
Village near Lod, the 1,000 sisterhood members
from Reform temples in the l'nited States and
Canada were told by their president. Mrs. David
M. Levitt, of Great Neck, N.Y.
The plans are for the small house of worship
•
to contain a library of books of religious interest
and an assembly hall for discussions or as a
sanctuary. Ground for the projected building will
be broken in Israel next March and completed about
a year later. The synagogue will serve this youth
Community composed of orphans and under-
privileged or displaced young people from the
recent anti-Jewish outbursts such as in North
Africa..
"The desire for
a,
synago:uo came from the
children themselves," Mrs. Levitt
told the conven-
At
services or
the present time to conduct sabbath
monthly Bar or Bat \titica ceremonies
the youngsters must dismantle their dining hall.
convert the room into a sancturay and then return
to the facility the same evening for breakfast the
following morning. This seems hardly conducive
to creating the sabbath mood."
Mrs. Marshall Miller of Detroit, NFTS chair-
Man for the project, told the assembly, "There
tion.
grew a friendly relationship between both our
American Jewish youths and the Israeli youngsters.
Both are searching for spiritual identity."
Various sisterhoods, district . federations and
individuals have already made contributions towards
the NFTS Ben-Shemen synagogue building fund,
including the following from Mi‘•higan:
Temple Beth El and - Temple Israel. Detroit:
Temple Beth Emeth, Ann Arbor: Temple Beth El.
Benton Harbor; Temple Emanuel. Grand Rapids:
Temple Beth Israel, Jackson: Temple Bnai Israel.
Muskegon.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Fear is mounting in official circles here that the Lebanese crisis may
have opened the way for Russia to establish long-range political influence in Lebanon, the only Arab-
country with which the United States has been able to maintain close and cordial relations.
American diplomats are concerned over the apparent ease with which the Soviets have in-
jected themselves into inter-Arab efforts to mediate the conflict between the Beirut regime of President
Charles Helou and the Palestinian guerrillas and their supporters. The Soviet ambassador to Lebanon,
Sarvar A. Azimov, conferred with major figures in the dispute Monday. He reportedly spent 41/2 hours
with Rashid Karami, whose resignation as head of Lebanon's shaky caretaker government last week
was believed to have encouraged the guerrilla elements. Azimov reportedly emphasized that the Soviet
government would not intervene and would prevent others from intervening in Lebanese affairs.
But U.S. officials believe the Soviets have already intervened. They are aware that had the U.S.
ambassador in Beirut taken as active a role as the Soviet envoy, Arab anger would have been aroused
high
pitch. American policy makers consequently are shying away from any act or words that
to a
might be interpreted as favoring the Helou regime. _
At the same time, they are painfully aware —tirat----aay compromise favoring the commandos
would be a severe_ blow to U.S. policy which has supported the Lebanese government's efforts to re-
strain guerrilla activities on its soil against Israel. Such an outcome, in addition, would enhance the
prestige of the guerrillas, with whom Moscow
have contacts despite occasional criticism
Ilothschild Hank, L'Aurore does
of their more extreme elements.
London Daily Telegraph's correspon-
Attacked by Arabs, LeftiSts dent. (The
Eric Downton. reported from Beirut Tues-
PARIS (JTA)- — Young Arabs and leftwing student sup-
porters of El Fatah attacked the Rothschild Bank and the
offices of the newspaper L'Aurore Sunday night, smashing
windows and daubing anti-Israel slogans on the walls. Over
100 demonstrators took part in the assaults, which were appar-
ently well planned, and managed to evade police. One worker
at the newspaper office was injured by flying glass.
The attackers attempted to set fire to the bank. Earlier
in the day, El Fatah supporters tried to set fire to the private
residence of Baron Elie de Rothschild. president of the French
United Jewish Appeal. L'Aurore, mass circulation morning
newspaper, was a target apparently because of its editorial
support of Israel. The bank walls were defaced with such
slogans as "Fatah shall win" and Ben-Gurion is a Fascist."
The demonstrators carried Egyptian and El Fatah flags.
They used flagpoles as battering rams to break into the offices
of L'Aurare. Police said the attackers assembled at a central
point and moved on the bank and newspaper office in small
groups using side streets to avoid police. They left an Egyptian
and an El Fatah flag at the newspaper office.
Mapai Retains
Rule but Not
With Majority
By AMOS BENVERED
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The L a bor
government headed by Premier Golda
Meir dropped in strength, and a parallel
increase in strength by the right-wing
Gahal (Herut-Liberal alignment) emerg-
ed Wednesday with nearly all returns
counted in the election for the seventh
Knesset.
The Israel Labor Party failed to re-
gain the absolute majority of 63 seats it
has held in the 120-seat Knesset. it ap-
peared on the basis of a projections of
final returns made by computers. Still
to be counted are final results from
soldiers' and sailors' ballots.
While the Central Elections Committee
is not expected to announce final re-
sults until next week, the following pro-
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day that "the blatant Ole taken by the Soviet
ambassador to Lebanon" has added "a sinister
aspect" to the current crisis. "If any Western
ambassador, particularly American or British.
dared to inject his presence so blatantly into
the Lebanese crisis nowadays, there would be
wholesale howls of protest in every Arab capi-
tal," Downton wrote. He observed that chaotic
"Svrianization" of Lebanon would suit Moscow
and represent a considerable step forward in
Russia's massive penetration of the Middle
East.) •
Israel has not adopted any change in its
policy toward Lebanon "as it has been defined
for several years." the foreign min'stry said.
The foreign ministry has disavowed a state-
ment by Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon,
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AJCommittee Urges llove to Free
Hijacked Israelis:Welfare Syste
Reform Hailed at Sessions Ilere
More than 250 active leaders in the American Jewish Committee.
representing many states. at sessions here of the organization's national
executive committee, adopted a resolution urging speedy action to free the
two Israelis who are detained in Damascus since Aug. 26 when a TWA
plane was hijacked.
Expressing appreciation for the efforts of the U.S. government. TWA
and various international agencies to secure the release of the detainees,
the resolution also took note of the election of the guilty government-
Syria—as a member of the UN Security Council and expressed hope that*
Syria now will "give evidence that it is prepared to live up to its signatua?
on the l'N ('barter.''
The AJC conferences here approved a statement commending Presi-
dent Nixon's proposal to revamp the welfare system. The AJC statement
declares:
"In making these proposals, the President has initiated a much needed
national discussion, in the Congress and out, on how we must go about
making our welfare system more humane, more effective and more con-
structive.
"Poverty and dependency are always unsatisfactory, but are particu-
larly dangerous in the midst of affluence. Americans can and must take the
necessary steps to eliminate social and economic insecurity. America's
poor come front all groups: a majority of whites and a disproportionate
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