I1 Grand Rapids News Notes Feb. 14—USY Sabbath 15—Grand Rapids Temple Youth Meeting 17—Ahavas Israel Sisterhood 18—Women's Bnai Brith Board 19—Hadassah Board 20—Temple Emanuel Inter- faith Service • • • Temple Emanuel youth will join the Muskegon temple youth for a skiing, social weekend Saturday and Sunday. • • • Woodland Mall will feature an "Israel Week" in cooperation with the Israel Government Tourist office Feb. 23-28. Two photographic displays to be on exhibit are "Land of the Bible" and "Second Look at the Israelis." An "Evening in Is- rael" will be held 7 p.m. Feb. 26 in the auditorium of the mall. Gideon Sde-Or, assistant Midwest director of the Israel Government Tourist office, will deliver a brief lecture, show a new film and answer ques- tions. Admission is free. • • • Ahavas Israel Youth joined United Synagogue Youth members from four cities in Kalamazoo for the Quad-City ICinnus. The conven- tion drew USYers from Kalamazoo, Benton Harbor, Flint and Grand Rapids. Lansing Dateline I Cong. Shaarey Zedek will hold a board meeting 8 p.m. Tuesday at the synagogue. • • • Lansing Chapter of Hadassah will meet 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at Cong. Shaarey Zedek, it was an- nounced by Mrs. Donald Baron, president. Guests and prospective members are invited. A program is planned. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shanker of Glenmoor Rd., East Lansing, an- nounce the engagement of their daughter Sally Ann to Jeffrey I. Grossman, son of Dr. and Mrs. Louis Grossman of Tempe, Ariz. Miss Shanker attended Eastern Michigan University and expects to continue her studies at Mich- igan State University. Her fiance attended the University of Arizona State. The couple plans to marry Aug. 16. • • • Cantor Bruce Wetzler of Cong. Shaarey Zedek sang and lectured on Jewish liturgical music at a meeting of the Federated Music Club of America at Eaton Rapids, Mich. Folk and Israeli selections also were on his program. Cantor Wetzler has been re-elected to his sixth term as chaplain of the Lans- ing Council of Veterans Organiza- tions. He also serves as chaplain of the Jewish War Veterans' Har- vey Dater Post, of which Bernard Friedland is commander. Buffalo Federation Elects First Woman President BUFFALO (JTA) — Mrs. Milton Kahn, a vice president of the United Jewish Federation of Buf- falo from 1960 to 1968, has been elected the federation's first wom- an president. She is also vice president of the United Fund of Buffalo and Erie County, and a member of the boards of the Buffalo chapter of the American Red Cross; the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, the State Communities Aid Association of New York and other organizations. E. S.C.M., I.B.M., Rem., Victor, Etc. OFFICE MACHINES • Calculators • Typewriters • Copiers • Duplicators • Adding Machines WHOLESALE LOWEST RATES Trade-ins Taken RENTALS ADD-n-TYPE SHOPS, INC. Det. & No. Subs. 342.7800 Birm. & Troy 75 1-1 1 1 1 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Fiiday, February 13, 1970 Fund to Honor Richards; His Works to Be Published Israel's Ties With S. Africa Limited, - 17 Black Newsmen Assured by Official Bernard G. Richards, is shown being honored on his 90th birthday by the presentation of a check representing a fund to finance the pub- lication of his works. Shown with the guest of honor as the check was presented are Samuel Rothberg (right), national campaign chairman of the Israel Bond Organization, who served as chairman of the sponsoring committee, and Joseph Brainin (left). Brainin died of a heart attack two days later. (See obituary, Page 47). • NEW YORK—Bernard G. Rich- ards, foremost personality in the American Jewish community for more than half a century, was hon- ored on his 90th birthday Feb. 5 by a group of intimate friends at a luncheon at the Plaza Hotel here. Richards, widely recognized as the dean of American Jewish writers and communal" leaders, is head of the Jewish Information Bureau. He has played a key role in Jewish affairs for many years, and led the American Jewish dele- gation to the peace conference fol- lowing World War I. In honor of his birthday, a fund Dr. Horace Kallen Ends Half Century at New School NEW YORK—Prof. Horace Mey- er Kallen, who joined the New School for Social Research at its founding in 1919, taught his last class there Feb. 4, ending a half- century as teacher of philosophy. Dr. Kallen, 87, whose outspoken views on such issues as the Sacco- Vanzetti case earned him his share of notoriety, is a long-time Zionist —a result, he said, of a Yankee's influence. The son of a strict Orthodox rabbi in Boston, the German-born Kallen almost cast aside his Jew i s h identity. However, his pro- fessor of English literature at Har- vard University, Bar r e t Wendell, showed him how the Old Test a- ment had affect- ed the Puritan Prof. Kallen mind and traced the role of the Hebraic tradition in the develop- ment of the American character. Wendell "naturalized" Kallen in the Old Testament, and the younger man later turned Zionist, about 1902. Dr. Kallen was brought to this country at age 5 and was graduated from Harvard magna cum laude, getting a PhD five years later. Because of his habit of speaking his mind, he was re- jected for a regular faculty appointment at Harvard, and he was dismissed from the Prince- ton and University of Wisconsin faculties. He found his element at the New School and stayed 50 years. Dr. Kallen has some 30 books to his credit, and is preparing an- other on "Creativity, Imagination and Logic." He said he will con- tinue teaching "every chance I get." • • is being presented to Richards to finance the publication of his works, which deal with many as- pects of Jewish affairs. Samuel Rothberg, national cam- paign chairman of the Israel Bond Organization and chairman of the board of governors of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was chair- man of the luncheon and of the sponsoring committee. The secre- tary of the sponsoring committee was Joseph Brainin, prominent newspaperman and columnist and former executive vice president of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute, whose death occurred Feb. 7. Among those taking part in the luncheon honoring Richards w e r e Maurice Samuel, noted writer; Jacob Glatstein, famous Yiddish poet; Prof. Moshe Davis and Nathan Rotenstreich of the Hebrew University; Rabbi Ira Eisenstein, president of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation and Dr. Menahem Schmelzer, chief librarian of the Jewish Theological Seminary. NEW YORK (JTA) — Israel's policies of aid to the emerging nations of black Africa and the "sticky question" of its relations with the republic of South Africa, were explained in detail to a group of visiting American Negro jour- nalists in Jerusalem recently. An almost verbatim report of the briefing given the American group by Mordechai Lador of the Israel foreign ministry, was pub- lished in the New York Amster- dam News, the largest black weekly newspaper in America. The account was given by Dick Edwards, a columnist for the Amsterdam News, in the second part of his series "Black Man in Israel." Edwards was one of 10 black newsmen from all over the United States invited on a fact-finding tour of Israel. The tour was or- ganized by the Bnai Brith Anti- Defamation League and was con- ducted by the Israel government. Quoting Lador on. Israel's pro- gram of technical aid to black African countries, Edwards wrote: "We find that in many of these countries, the Israeli experience is close to the African people. For instance, if they came to Amer- ica . . . and went to the Ford Motor Co., it is so huge that, go- ing back to African countries, it is completely irrelevant to local African situations. The chances of establishing a Ford company in Liberia, or even Ghana, are remote. Here (in Israel) we have smaller plants, people get to know each other and logically speaking, plants here are more relevant to local African conditions." Edwards reported that the Israeli official "fielded the sticky question on why the Israelis did business with racist South Africa with the following explanation: 'We have limited relations with South Africa in order to express the displeasure of Israelis with their apartheid policies. We don't diplomatic mission is headed by a charge d'affaires. By CARS TO BE DRIVEN To any state. 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Traffic Israel's Big Killer It is absurd to talk of the ignor- ance of youth. The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much TRAVELING Anywhere 12 Loaves for Sabbath Some people bake 12 ballot for the Sabbath. Hasidim have been known to follow this practice to commemor- ate the 12 loaves of bread which were put on a special table in the Temple as prescribed by the Bible (Lev. 25:5). Since fresh loaves were put there before every Sab- bath (the loaves that had been there previously were eaten sub- sequently by the priests) the housewife prepared 12 loaves for her Sabbath table. This represent- ed the noble ideal which consider- ed the Jewish home to be a sanc- tuary; its caretaker, the wife, a high priest, and its table a Holy table of dedication and sanctity. It also impressed the family that they were not eating just ordinary morsels, but rather eating from the holy bread provided by the Almighty for man's sustenance. 'We have in the United Nations supported all moves, mainly those initiated by the African countries, to impress South Africa that their apartheid policies are repugnant to the conscience of all mankind . . . In South Africa there is a Jewish community of over 100,000 and we are fearful lest the attitude which brings apartheid may de- generate into very unpleasant anti-Semitism." Edwards, in the first part of his series, said that initially he was suspicious of Israeli propaganda intentions, but was favorably im- pressed by. the candid manner in which the Israeli spokesman an- swered the group's questions about relations with the Arabs and Israel's policies in the occupied territories. (See related story Page 32). SPECIAL ISRAEL TOURS AVAILABLE 353-6750 Eve. 862-0963 IN TROUBLE? ARE YOU GROUNDED? 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