THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 13, 197C-17 ? ? ? Jewish 'Bad Manners' ? ? ? I voted for Richard Nixon and • by • LOUIS L. WELNER Newspapers across the country on balance have been satisfied. carried articles and editorials However, to me his slip is showing echoing President Nixon's - "bad in making the "bad manners" planners" charge against the Jew- charge; especially since these ish- demonstrators during President demonstrations were generally peaceful and certainly not to be OeOrges Pompidou's visit. compared with the variety of vio- I participated in the Detroit lence, riots, burnings and destruc- deinonitration which appeared to tion which the United States has be a spontaneous expression of experienced in recent years. the Jewish people as an entity Unfortunately, the Jewish people and not only of the demonstrators. I believe basic to the bad manners have not expressed sufficient "bad charge is anti-Jewish feeling con- manners" in the past. An example ' pled with resentment at the Jew- —during World War II a boat load- ish people raising its collective ed with pitiful Jewish refugees was head after 2,000 years of subser- turned away. from New York har- bor by President Roosevelt. Had vience. our people then demonstrated, had Who are they who look down our leaders been less timid, more their noses at our "bad manners?" of these and other of our brethren They who have continually, century would be alive this day. after century, murdered, brutal- With so much Jew-hatred just , ized, robbed and tortured our peo- pie: Have they exhibited "good below the surface, it surely would behoove all Jews to have less in- manners?" ternecine conflict. The Talmud tells A couple of years ago in Detroit, us the Holy Temple in Jerusalem Israel Minister Menahem Begin I was destroyed because of "Sinat stated that our people would today Hinom," hatred by Jews among number in the hundreds of millions themselves for no reason. We must as the Chinese and Indians do if ' attempt to overcome today's Sinat not for our destruction throughout Hinom, for in the last analysis we the centuries by the peoples of the can count mainly upon ourselves world. Was this destruction brought and our strength, and limited as it about by "good manners?" is, it must not be dissipated. EHUD AVRIEL, chairman of the Zionist Actions Committee, will arrive from Israel today for a rative for his slides. Coffee and cake will be served speaking tour on behalf of ZOA. following each lecture and discus. Avriel has served as Israel am- bassador to Italy, Hungary, Ro- sion. For information call the syna- mania and several countries in Africa. gogue office, UN 4-7474. Heinl to Speak at Adas Shalom Adas Shalom Synagogue will host Col. Robert D. Heinl Jr., military analyst of the Detroit News, 8:15 p.m. Thursday at Fairview School, Farmington. The public is invited to hear Col. Heinl discuss "Crisis in the Middle East." Back from an extensive visit to that area, Col. Heinl has written many columns describing his ex- periences and insights. A native of Washington D.C., he has had a long career in military service and won many honors and medals. Be- sides numerous articles that have been published, he has written several books. The series of lecture-discussions which began in Novenmber, will continue at Fairview March 24, wheriDr. 2vi Ankori of the Hebrew University, an Israeli historian and photographer, will speak on "Arab and Jew: Can They Live Peacefully Together? Dr. Ankori is making a return visit to Adas Shalom, having presented two lec- tures during previous adult study institutes. Dr. Ankri is a visiting professor at Ohio State University. To conclude the series, Rabbi Jacob E. Segal will present the final illustrated lecture in a series based on his experiences during a six month sabbatical in Israel. Rabbi Segal will provide the nar- CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK'S CULTURAL COMMISSION Presents Final .of three-part Spring Lecture Series on "Dimensions of Jewish Existence Today"- Noted Author ELIE WIESEL Tuesday, March 17 8•30 p.m., Morris Adler Hall Topic: "Jews of Silence; Soviet Jewry Revisited" (chronicling plight of Jewish people in Russia) . Wiesel's latest novel, "A Beggar in Jerusalem,' Is based on the Six-Day or, impact on world Jewry Admission Gratis Public Invited 27375 BELL ROAD SOUTHFIELD CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK Broomfield Speaks to ZOD Thursday Congressman William S. Broom- field will address a public affairs meeting of the Zionist Organization of Detroit, 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zionist Cultural Center. He will speak on "Analysis of Recent United States Policy in the Middle East—Progress or Revers- aL" Congressman Broomfield, who is serving his seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives, is on the House foreign affairs corn- Monument at silo of Columbus' lending on San Salvador Island, Bahamas l "I saw so many islands that I could not decide to which I would go first." REP. WILLIAM BROOMFIELD inittee at this time and has served as a U.S. delegate to the United ations. He visited Israel in 1967 mediately after the Six-Day.War Louis Panush, ZOD president, and Richard B. Kramer, its public Affairs chairman, .extended an in- tiritation to the community to hear Rep. Broomfield. There is no ad- ission charge. Refreshments will e served. 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