Community
Slew;--
Parents Asked to Join
Propaganda Fight
To help counteract Arab pro-
paganda on campus, the Flint
Jewish Community Council
wants to send fact sheets to col-
lege students. Parents are ask-
ed to call in the names and
addresses of their children at-
tending college to the Council
office, 767-5922.
Ruth Winogron to Wed
Mark Magidson in Fall
Trainees to Host UJA Leader
The 1969-70 Young Leadership
Training Group of the Flint Jew-
ish Community Council will meet
7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home
of Dr. and Mrs. William Bernard.
Saul J. Freedman of Philadel-
phia, chairman of the missions
committee of the national UJA
Young Leadership Cabinet and im-
mediate past regional chairman
for Southern New Jersey and
Philadelphia, will speak on over-
seas needs.
Freedman is a member of the
board of trustees of the Federa-
tion of Jewish Agencies of
Greater Philadelphia and has
served as chairman of many
Bnai Brith in Party Mood
Bnai Brith men, women and
youth will hold their annual games
party 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Town
and Country Gold Attic Room.
The donation fee will include a
late supper. Grand prize is a
weekend for two at the Elmwood
Casino.
Committee workers for the
men's group are Sam Winston,
Carl Rittman and Chuck Silver-
man. On the women's committee
are Sybil Goldberg, Ann Gutter-
man, Lee Karsh, Rita Persky,
MISS RUTH WINOGRON
Sandy Wanetik, Eleanor Winston
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Winogron and Shirley Winston. BBYO com-
of Helber St. announce the en- mittee members are Larry Brav-
gagement of their daughter Ruth er, Shelly Apel and Sue Winston.
Ann to Mark Henry Magidson, son
For reservations, call 732-7693 or
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Magidson
of Bay City.
694-5113 no later than Monday.
Miss Winogron attends the school
of special education at Michigan
State University. Mr. Magidson is
a senior at Michigan State and
plans to enter law school. A Sep-
tember wedding is planned.
committees of the federation and
in the general community.
Freedman earned his bachelors
degree in electrical engineering
from the University of Pennsyl-
vania and is now president of
Penn Federal S & L Association.
He and his wife were on the UJA
Study Mission to Israel in 1967
and on the UJA Young Leadership
Missions in 1965 and September
1968.
Comings ...
and
... Goings
Saul Seigel, executive director
of the Greater Flint Downtown
Corporation, will address the Ala-
bama Press Association's 99th an-
nual convention
Feb. 12-14 at the
Hotel Stafford,
Tuscaloosa. He
w ill conduct a
session on brain-
storming, to
show members
and guests how
to solve problems
and stimulating
creative thinking
His brainstorm- Seigel
ing talk has been given to top
management classes at General
Motors Institute, to national sales
conferences and sales meetings
throughout the country, as well as
to numerous civic and community
organizations.
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Community
Calendar
Jan. 9-11—UJA Midwest Leader-
ship Institute, St. Louis
10—Temple Beth El Sister-
hood Torah Convocation,
10 a.m.
11—Forum '70 Cultural Scr-
ies—Dr. Milton Covensky,
8 p.m., Temple Beth El
12—Hadassah Board Meeting,
12:30 p.m., home of Mrs.
Jerome Arenson
—Council Community Rela-
tions Committee Meeting,
8:30 p.m., at Temple
Beth El
13—Council Young Leader-
ship Training Program,
7:30 p.m., home of Dr.
and Mrs. William Ber-
nard
—Bnai Brith Women Board
Meeting, 8:30 p.m.
14—Hadassah Study Group,
12:30 p.m.
15—Beth Israel Board of
Education Meeting, 8:30
p.m.
—JWVA Donor D i n n e r,
6:30 p.m., Country Squire
Restaurant
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Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary
231 will have its silver donor an-
niversary dinner 6:30 p.m. Thurs-
day at the Country Squire Restaur-
ant. Guests are welcome. For re-
servations, call Mrs. Ruben Wis-
nudel, 787-8362, or Bernadette Ma-
jor, 234-2509. Assisting Mrs. Alex
Kalmar are Mrs. Felix Schul-
meister, Mrs. Gordon Suber, Mrs.
Irwin Shapiro and Mrs. Joseph
Fishier.
Jan. 11—USY Board
—Grand Rapids Temple
Youth
—Temple Emanuel Men's
Club
—Jewish Cultural Commit-
tee Program
13—Ahavas Israel Sisterhood
Board
14—Temple Emanuel Sister-
hood
16—Cultural Series Service
16-18—Second Michigan State
Temple Youth Board
* * *
Steve Koss, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Koss, and Charles Wapner,
son of Mr. and Mrs. David Wap-
ner, are stationed in Vietnam.
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Ahavas Israel will hold an educa-
tion conference for parents and
teachers 8 p.m. Tuesday to "Tell It
Like It Is."
* * *
Seven Temple Emanuel women
journeyed to Lansing to express to
their representatives their convic-
tion that parochiaid would weaken
Michigan's public education sys-
tem. The seven are Mesdames
David Weiss, Sam Kravitz. Si Ro-
senbaum, Al Drasin, Alex Tauber,
Arthur Siegel and William Deutch.
* * *
•Ahavas Israel Sisterhood will
present a full day of programs
with noon buffet luncheon Wednes-
day. The morning program at 9:15
will feature a simulation game to
enable participants to learn some-
thing about social structures. It
will be directed by Rev. Raymond
Kretzchmer of the Grand Rapids
Youth Ministry. Following lunch-
eon, Mrs. Wadsworth Bissell will
present her collection of appliqued
wall hangings.
Sisterhood' will present a can-
tata, "Jeremiah—Prophet of Hope"
at the Torah Fund Luncheon Jan.
20. Directed by Dr. Eugene Cohen,
the choir members are Mesdames
Eugene Cohen, Sol Kleiman, Sid-
Michael Alan Levey, son of Mr. ney Mossman, Sidney Muskin, San-
and Mrs. Marvin Levey, will be ford Norian, Melvyn Rapoport,
called to the Torah as Bar Mitzva William Reines, Lewis Roth, Alan
Siegel and Jerome Subar.
Jan. 17 at Temple Beth EL
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Narration will be by Mrs. Leon-
ard Brenner and Mrs. Reuben
Turner. Cantor Rosenfeld will be
soloist. Co-chairmen are Mrs.
Harry Goldberg and Mrs. Philip
Rotenberg.
The Sisterhood Study Group will
meet at the home of Mrs. Victor
Levenburg at 1 p.m. Jan. 27. Rabbi
Chazin will lead a discussion on
"The College Student Today:
Where We Have Failed—What We
Can Do About It."
* * *
United Synagogue Youth will
hold a "Shu-In" Jan. 17 at the
synagogue. The all-night activity is
open to all Jewish youth in Grand
Rapids and all USY'ers in the
Central Region. There will be a
dance, creative peace service,
movie, two discussion groups, a
creative shaharit service and
breakfast. There will be adult
supervision the entire evening.
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Bnai Brith Women will host Dr.
Joseph Mann, director of labora-
tories at Butterworth Hospital, as
guest speaker Jan. 28 at Regency
House. Luncheon will be at 12:30.
Dr. Mann received the "Out-
standing Physician" award from
the Butterworth medical staff for
his service to patients, teaching
and extensive research.
In 1961, Dr. Mann was co-dis-
coverer of the Xg. Blood. Group
System, the first sex-linked blood
group found in man, which made
possible, for the first time, the
study of the linkage relationships
of Xg with other hereditary condi-
tions, such as hemophilia, muscu-
lar dystrophy and color blindness.
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Ten men of the Julius Houseman
Lodge of Bnai Brith pitched in to
assist East Grand Rapids police
over Christmas to give patrolmen
a breather during the holiday.
Police Chief Farrell Babcock said
he was grateful for the help over
what he termed "a quite 30 hours,"
which gave East Grand Rapids
policemen more time with their
families. The men from Bnai Brith
assisted as the "second man" in
patrol cars and as dispatchers.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 9, 1970 35
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National Emergency Meeting
of Jewish Leadership Called
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On Wednesday, a former Johnson
White House aide challenged
claims by the Nixon administra-
tion that policy changes on the
Middle East were necessary be-
cause the Johnson administration
had followed an "unbalanced" pro-
Israel policy.
Prof. John P. Roche, who func-
tioned in the White House as Pres-
ident Johnson's contact with the
intellectual and scientific commu-
nity, asserted instead that the
Johnson administration did noth-
ing to aid Israel militarily except
to help maintain a military equili-
brium.
In a nationally syndicated col-
umn, Dr. Roche pointed out that
the U.S. had refused to provide
arms to Israel before the Six-Day
War. "Following a careful ap -
proach designed to maintain mili-
tary equilibrium," he declared,
"we sold some arms to Israel and
to Jordan. Their hot equipment,
the Israelis bought from France
for cash. Only after the war, when
it became clear that the Russians
were setting the Arabs up with
brand new supersonic jets, did we
agree to sell the 50 Phantom jets."
Prof. Roche, now a member
of the Brandeis University facul-
ty, stressed that "Our policy in
short, was aimed at balance. We
did not charge Israel up, but
when the French refused to sell
Israel the Mirages (which were
bought and paid for) we did not
permit the Soviets to provide
their Arab clients with prepon-
derant air power.
"This can only be called "un-
balanced," if one accepts the po-
sition of Al Fatah that the way
to restore the balance of power in
the Middle East is to eliminate
Israel," he said.
Dr. Roche, a political scientist,
also challenged the contention that
restoration of the balance was nec-
essary because the Democrats had
been "pro-Zionist" and that the
Johnson administration had been
responsive to the "Jewish vote."
"The justification for Israel is
that it is there, a small interna-
tionally recognized, Democratic en-
Need for Reappraisal
of Policy on Soviet Jews
Seen by WJCongress
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An official
of the World Jewish Congress has
conceded that the organization's
efforts to secure full minority
rights for Soviet Jewry have failed
so far. Dr. Gerhart Riegner, gen-
eral secretary of the WJC, said
the time had come for a "profound
reappraisal of our policy toward
the Soviet authorities."
That is one of the main topics at
the current meeting • of the WJC's
executive. The Jewish communi-
ties in 65 countries are represent-
ed at the parley, including dele-
gations from Romania and Yugo-
slavia.
Other major topics are the
widening generation gap and Arab
propaganda activities which have
assumed not only an anti-Israel
but an anti-Jewish cast. Premier
Golda Meir was expected to par-
ticipate in the discussion of world
Jewry and its relationship to Is-
rael.
Previously, Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, president of the World Jew-
ish Congress, told Israeli editors
that large-scale emigration of Rus-
sian Jews to Israel might be the
most important and most desirable
solution. But, he said, of immediate
importance were demands that
Soviet Jews be given the right to
freedom of religion, freedom of
education and freedom to practice
their own culture.
Dr. Goldmann said he feared
that Jewish youth had no com-
mon language with the Jewish
establishment and may be lost to
Jewry.
clove in a hostile world," he de- •
dared.
"Though I understand the spe-
cial anguish of the Jews, if Israel
were populated by Armenians or
Kalmucks, I would defend its right
to survive with equal vigor. In
fact, I would even defend it if It
were populated by Vietnamese.'
The Johnson administration
did not have to cater to the Jew-
ish vote, he asserted, because
"any Democratic candidate for
President knows that the 'Jewish
vote', being predominantly lib-
eral, has nowhere else to go."
In broad national terms, he
pointed out, "the Jewish vote is
statistically trivial—perhaps 4 per
cent of the electorate."
Meanwhile, a State Department
spokesman said that the United
States was prepared to resume hi-
lateral talks with the Soviets on
the Middle East "whenever the
Russians wish" despite the Soviet
rejection of the last U.S. proposals.
The spokesman. Carl Bartell,
conceded that no talks were cur-
rently scheduled. He said the U.S.
had not yet responded to the So-
viet note of Dec. 23 but intended
to so so.
The ambassadors of the Four
Powers, who met in New York
last week, arranged for their
deputies to meet on Tuesday to
try to detail the points of agree-
ment in the Four Power talks to
date, the points on which agree-
ment appears to be fairly close
and those on which the Four
Powers remain wide apart. The
ambassadors will review the re-
sults at a meeting Tuesday.
Interviewed on NBC-TV's "To-
day" show last weekend, Ambas-
sador Itzhak Rabin of Israel called
on the United States and the So-
viet Union to declare a "morato-
rium" on involvement in the Arab-
Israel conflict. He said that the
people of the Middle East should
be allowed to solve their own
problems and asserted that if this
were done, nothing would. "drag"
the U.S. and the USSR into a Mid-
dle East confrontation.
Gen. Rabin voiced the hope that
"the proper circles" in this coun-
try would draw the "proper con-
clusions" from the latest Soviet re-
buff on American initiatives for
Mid-east peace. He said that the
results in 1969 demonstrated the
failure of efforts to solve the prob-
lem through the Soviet Union. The
Middle East situation would be re-
solved, he said, only when the
conflict entered into meaningful
negotiations.
Members of Congress disclosed
that they have been receiving a
barrage of mail and telegrams
from constituents protesting the
alleged erosion of United States
policy toward Israel and a Mid-
dle East settlement. When they
ask for clarification from the
State Department, these cong-
ressmen are told that there has
been no shift in U.S. policy
toward Israel, the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency learned.
Inquiries at the White House
and the State Department have
elicited administration responses
which ranged from insistence that
there is no change to hints that
there may be differences between
President Nixon and Secretary of
State Rogers. these congressmen
say. But one highly placed cong-
ressional source said that key ad-
ministration leaders were told at
a White House briefing that the
U.S. is taking steps to assure that
it does not become embroiled In
a Mid East war as Israel's partner
which could lead to a confronta-
tion with the Soviet Union.
Rep. Seymour Halpern. a New
York Republican who wrote to
Secretary of State lingers for a
clarification of his Dee. 9 speech
on the Mid East, said the reply
he received was "an obvious eva-
lion of the erosion of the U.S. po-
sition on Israel." The reply was
written by H. G. Torbert. Jr., act-
ing assistant secretary of state for
congressional 'reratiOns.