34—Friday, April 24, 1970 j THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS `Guide to Israel Programs' Published by Jewish Agency A 60-page "Guide to Israel Pro- grams," listing 76 summer, six- month and year round programs in Israel open to Americans, has been published by the American section of the Jewish Agency for Israel. The third such compilation, it has been designed, according to Dr. Emanuel Neumann, chairman of the Agency's American section, vide in one directory a large num- organizations — particularly in the fields of youth education—to pro- vide in one director a large num- Yeshiva Pupils Send TVs for Amputees in Israel NEW YORK — The students of the Yeshiva of Flatbush High School in Brooklyn recently do- nated six TV sets to the amputee ward at the Government Hospital Tel Hashomer in Tel Aviv. Student government president Steven Schonfeld commented that students had made the donation in order to show their great apprecia- tion to the soldiers who are fight- ing and risking death daily to protect Israel from those who would destroy her. ber of the available programs for those visiting and studying Israel— from a month to a year." Nineteen different summer pro- grams of travel and study for high school students and five for college students are listed. Nine programs include living and working in Is- rael's unique kibutzim. Seven pro- grams, such as Sherut La'Am, offer the opportunity for youth to give service to Israel for periods from 10 weeks to a year; 11 pro- grams are directed to adults; 17 provide for study at one or another of Israel's universities, both grad- uate and undergraduate, and ranging from a summer through four years of academic life; 12 programs are of special interest to adult educators and community workers seeking to develop a bet- ter understanding of Israel as a part of their normal work in the United States. Three are leadership training programs for Zionist workers; eight are especially centred on Ulpan programs for the study of Hebrew; five are Yeshiva study nrograms; five programs offer a year's academic study in Israel for highd school students. Birth Announcements April 19 — To Mr. and Mrs. S. Robert Satz (Suzanne Cole), 27115 Selkirk, Southfield, a daughter, Rachel Lynn. • • • April 18—To Mr. and Mrs. Ken- neth C. Laker (Esther Bonnie Stern), 10151 Corning, Oak Park, a son, Jason Aaron. • • • April 18 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ar- nold M. Smith (Gail Landau), 30212 Fink, Farmington, a son, Kevin Daniel. • • • April 17—To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tarnow (Kathy Marton), 19841 Cherryhill, Southfield, a daughter, Robyn Eve. • • • April 17—To Mr. and Mrs. Alan Baron (Donna Radner), 19916 Fenton, a daughter, Aimee Lynne. • • • April 14 — To Dr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Miller (Susan Epstein of Flint), 19768 Beverly, Birming- ham, a daughter, Darby Ellen. • • • April 11—To Dr. and Mrs. Ar- zfigiiirAusH MONEL 341-1595 Rev. HERSHL ROTH Experienced Mohel Licensed - Certified 352-3186 Recommended by Physicians RABBI Leo Goldman Expert Mohel Homes LI 1-9769 Serving Hospitals and LI 2-4444 REV. GOLDMAN L. MARSHALL MOHEL 353-5444 nold J. Kollin (Sharyanne Winer) 16320 Harden, Southfield, a daugh ter. Leslie Ilise. • • • April 10 — To Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Rakotz (Lori Pantzer), 14520 Marlow, Oak Park, a daugh- ter, Adrienne Joanne. • • • April 9 — To Dr. and Mrs. Leon- ard Sudakin (Anita Foon), 29375 Sharon, Southfield, a son, Jeffrey Alan. • • • April 9—To former Detroiters Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Suber of Flint, a daughter, Cari Lynn. • • • April 8—To'-Lt. and Mrs. Richard Chinnock (Pam Marton), Detroit- ers now living in Columbus, Miss., a daughter, Laurie Beth. • • • April 7—To Dr. and Mrs. Reu- ben M. Baron (Joan Boykoff), 21633 Stratford, Oak Park, a son, Jonathan Avery. • • • April 6—To Mr. and Mrs. Sy Warshawsky (Geraldine Herman), 27665 Doreen, Farmington, a son, David Marc. • • • April 4—To Dr. and Mrs. Bur- ton A. Grossman of Chicago (Ste- phanie Kutzen of Ypsilanti), a son, Joel Mark. • • • April 3 — To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Guttenberg (Patricia Ann Roberts), 18935 Hilton, Southfield, a son, Gary Scott. • • • March 31—To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Serling (Hanle Roth), 27685 Pierce, Southfield, a son, Jeffrey Scott. • • • March 22 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Markowitz (Marcia Glick), 28740 Tavistock, Southfield, a son, Tod Jason. • • • March 28 — To Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Milgrom (Marilyn Schwartz), 24746 Rensselaer, Oak Park, a daughter, Michelle Ilene. • • • March 26 — To Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Starter (Shelley Leader- man), 28050 Glasgow, Southfield, a son, Michael David. • • • To Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gechter (Zelda Shuster), 23091 Gardner, Oak Park, an adopted daughter, Elise Suzanne. • • • To Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Lieber- man (Vivian Setter), 23820 Rock- ingham, Southfield, an adopted son, Jay Frederick. Lev's 'Jordan Patrol': One of Very Best Novels About Israel, Its People, the War An idealism unmatched inhuman experience is recorded in a novel about the Six-Day War—"Jordan Patrol" by Igal Lev, a veteran of Israel's three wars, now a corre- spondent for the Israel Hebrew daily Maariv. In a splendid translation into English from the Hebrew by Stan- ley A. Broza, published by Double- day, "Jordan Patrol" is much more than a novel: it is a record of reactions by young Jews to war, to the Arabs who are their ene- mies on the battlefront but whose welfare they do not shun, to the rejection, of atrocities, to adher- ence to the urge for peace in spite of the great odds against it. Characters who represent the youth of a nation, young people in search for love, for a share in their nation's daily life, are hurled into a cauldron of tragedy. They accept the duty of protecting the lives of their people, but they do it while passionately craving for normal- ity in an area that hed become embattled for more than two decades. As a novel "Jordan Patrol" has all the aspects of live. It is filled with adventure. It is marked by family interests and by reactions to the current conditions of the life in Israel. Primarily it is the individual—the group of individu- als—that is noteworthy in a great delineation of the men and wom- en involved here, in the emergence of the responses to the conditions of the time described here. Whether it is Rami as a heroic fighter whose actions are simply normal in a state of war that is a defense against threats of Jewry's extermination, or Alik—in every instance it is youth forced into a condition that is not craved but rejected, yet it is a state of com- pulsion. Alik is typical. He is success- ful in France. He has a love affair with Suzanne and is of- fered, noon his graduation from the university, an important Post in her father's business. But he leaves to fight in his country's defense. As a reservist he feels that obligation. He fills it. The war ends. He is ready to return to Paris. His actions, as part of a people, as a devotee to its needs, give emphasis to a loyalty steeped in a need to prevent calamity for his people. There is the story of the..lift that was given by the soldiers who were traveling on the way to Jerusalem to hooded figures. One of them, thoroughly exhausted huddled up to one of the figures. It proved to be Ziva who saw how tired he was. She embraced the soldier, comforted him and finally covered him thoroughly with a blanket as she left. Awaking, the soldier searched for her, only to learn that she stayed on. Although she was to get off at Beersheba, she alighted near Tel Aviv to seek a lift back to Beersheba—all out of compassion and fellowship for the tired fellow man. Then there is the scene of Rami's befriending an Arab girl fora few minutes. Rami paid the supreme penalty in the fight for freedom. The men in his battalion came to pay their respects to the survivors. There is this deeply moving conclusion to Lev's "Jordan Patrol": We stood there silently, five men all dressed in white shirts, near the door in Rami's house. His mother sat pale and silent, and only the quiet sobbing of the neighbors, the mourners, dis- turbed the silence, distracting us like a sudden summer rain shower. Rami's father was still in khaki uniform. He had been called from up north and had traveled through the night. He stood near the window, his back stooped, absent-mindedly pick- ing at an old scar on his arm. Only to the wound could he con- vey his grief, staring at it de- spondently. Rami's sister sat with her arm around her mother, giving her occasional sips from a glass of water. We stood there feeling un- comfortable. I drew near to the mother and saw that she recog- nized me. Only then, for the first time, did tears brim over her desolate eyes, as though released from depths of her heart. Then she screamed. Once. That scream haunted me ever since. "You!" she pointed at me. "Why did you not take care of him?" W. Germany in 1st Place With the Israeli People TEL AVIV (ZINS) — 1970's realities would have seemed to be an incredible anachronism in 1948, only 22 short years ago. The fol- lowing is a prime example: Germ- any today pre-empts the place pre- viously held by France in the hearts of countless Israelis. Con- tacts between Israel and Germany grow stronger from month to month. The German Embassy in Tel Aviv has become one of the liveliest centers in town, especially its cultural division. It contains a large German library patronized by thousands of local subscribers. Popular courses in the German language have multiplied, requir- ing some 14 separate classes, attended by hundreds of students. German films attract large au- diences. The cultural division of hte embassy alone has 55 employ- ees. Apart from this, Germany plays a very large role in every- day Israeli life. Approximately 9 percent of all Israeli exports are now consigned to Germany. German imports ac- count for 10 per cent of all goods coming into the country. In the year 1969 Israelis purchased 4,500 Volkswagens. Thousands of Is- raelis travel to Germany as tour- ists and a like number of Germans reciprocate with a visit to Israel. It is reported that in 1968 more than 10,000 German students vis- ited the Jewish State. Thousands of Israelis are expected to go to Germany in connection with the Sports Olympiad which is sched uled soon for Munich. Rehovot Visiting Fellows REHOVOT; Israel — At least a dozen different languages are rep- resented among the 115 visiting fellows from 15 countries doing re- search this year at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. But all are linked by the lingua franca of Sci- ence. The overseas visitors have come to Israel from institutions of high- er learning and research centers in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hol- land, Italy, Japan, Rumania, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. This year's contigent represents a considerable increase over 1968/ 69, when the Institute played host to 94 overseas scientists. The tears streamed in heavy drops down her pinched cheeks. She did not try to wipe them away. Suddenly she stood up and came toward me. She stroked my hand pleadingly: "Please forgive me. You are all little children. All my children . . ." I felt as though a lump of lead which had stuck in my throat had melted into tears. We stood there for some time, facing one another. A youngster burst into the room. He was the acting postman, relieving the regular man who had not yet come back from the war. The boy did not immediately grasp the significance of what was going on in the room, or the air of tragedy in the atmosphere. Suddenly he understood it. He muttered something, took a post- card out of his satchel, placed it on the table and ran out. It was a postcard from Rami. His father tried to hide .it, but his mother said in a determined voice: "Let me read it!" She took the card and raised it close to her eyes. From where I stood I could see only one line: "0, God, Ma, how I hate war. . . ." The entire theme is one of com- passion. Then there is the his- toric, like the reference to Jeru- salem, the transformation even of unbelievers of a dedication into what is "not in the bricks of the Wailing Wall, but in our own souls. Pathos mingles with adventure in this moving theme in which Lev wrote as much about people and their reactions as about the war— and the people emerge the human element craving for peace, hating war. There is no doubt — "Jordan Patrol" is one of the very best novels about the June 1967 war. Many works have been written on the subject: Lev's tops most of them. Have An Affair to Remember MORI LITTLE And Orchestra KE 4-5980 BAR MITZVAH and Sweet Sixteen Dance Parties Art Linkleiter's Corner 12 Mile & Evergreen Phone, 357-1215 or 588-0300 The famous Sault Ste. Marie Locks, which unite Lake Superior with the other four Great Lakes, rank high in navigational impor- tance. EXPECTING OUT OF TOWN GUESTS FOR A WEDDING OR A BAR MITZVA? Cranbrook House Motel 20500 JAMES COUZENS (8 Mile & Greenfield—Across from Northland) Call 342-3000 For the Finest Accommodations COMPLIMENTARY CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Try Our Barber Shop Dine at the SCOTCH & SIRLOIN RESTAURANT Airport Limousine Service Available