Council's 'Isaac Levr TV Opera .
Wins National Catholic Award
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Time: Noon Sunday
Station: Channel 7
Feature: "Footnotes on Jewish
Music" stars Theodore Bikel and
is written by Marc Siegel. In com-
memoration of Directions' 10th
year, the performer returns to
serve as host and participant in
this program, written a decade
ago as one of the pilot shows for
the then new series.
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THE LUBAV1TCH JEWISH HOUR
Time: 8 a.m. Sunday
Station: WKNR
Feature: "Higher Than Nature—
Part 2" is the second in a series
of talks on the significance of the
sabbatical year. In the series,
"From Days Gone By" of stories
from Jewish folklore, the story
"Too Late" is featured.
ETERNAL LIGHT
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday
Station: WWJ
Feature: "The War Years" is
the first of a four-program series
The Catholic Broadcasters Asso- a refugee from Europe whose par- entitled "Tales of Survival" with
ciation presented to the Jewish ents were killed, embarrasses the Elie Wiesel, in which this renown-
Community Council of Metropoli- shaken Levi by his acceptance of ed teller of tales and witness to
tan Detroit and WXYZ-TV the cov- death and his desire to be Bar
the Holocaust, tells of the experi-
eted Gabriel Award May 7 at a Mitzvaed.
ence which led to his first novel,
special banquet in New Orleans.
The special was directed by "Night." (see story.)
Evelyn Orbach, who produced Mason Weaver of Channel 7.
the program for Council, accepted
Another program produced by
RE-VIEW
the award with Arno Marcaccio • Mrs. Orbach for Council, "T h e
Time: 5:45 p.m. Thursday
executive producer for WXYZ-TV. Copper Menora," was submitted
Station: Channel 56
The one-act opera, "Isaac Levi • " for judging by WWJ-TV.
Feature: William T. Patrick, Jr.,
seen locally on Channel 7 last Sep-
president of New Detroit, Inc. will
tember, was aired on the eve of
be
the host and moderator of a
Yom Kippur to commemorate the
series on "Equal Opportunity."
beginning of the Jewish High Hol-
The first program deals with hous-
idays. It was based on sketches in
ing and features Prof. John Mogk
the life of Isaac Levi of Berdit-
of Wayne State Law School and
chev (1740-1809) and inspired by
William Hawkins, director of com-
Morton Wishengrad's radio play,
munity and social development of
"The Song of Berditchev."
the Metropolitan Detroit Citizens
"Isaac Levi" is 2 modern day
Rubin Cesspool
of Obscenities
Gets Published
version of a folk tale that tells
of a rabbi whose faith, lost when
he witnessed the cruel oppres-
sion of his people in Russia, is
restored after a conversation
with God. The 20th-Century Levi
is an army chaplain who suffers
the same loss during the horror
of the Second World War. He
shocks his congregation, w h o
have been waiting five years for
his return, by announcing he can
no longer pray.
Levi's faith is restored by t h e
simple piety of a young boy about
to reach his Bar Mitzva. The boy,
Elie Wiesel Stars
on Eternal bolt
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Elie Wiesel, author and personal
witness of Jewry's tragedies and
triumphs in our time, discusses
the events which have shaped his
life and art in four special Eternal
Light radio programs entitled
"T ales of Sur-
vival," beginning
on Sunday and
continuing on
three consecutive
Sunday broa d-
casts.
In the first in-
stallment of his
spiritual bio-
graphy, Wie s e I
tells of his im•
pressions and
experiences dur-
ing the H o I o-
Elie Wiesel caust, culminat-
ing in his first full-length work,
"Night." On May 31, he speaks
of his return to his home town of
Development Authority.
HEAR OUR VOICE
Time: 11:30 p.m. Sunday
Station: WCAR
Feature: Continuing the series,
"Songs of Israel," Tsadok Savir,
As one of the "Chicago 7" Jerry
Rubin was ordered by the Cook
County (Illinois) Jail superin-
tendent to have his hair cut.
Here he is before and after the
'haircut.
found it during the Six-Day War
and reads from his recent best-
selling novel,. "Beggar in Jer.u:
salem."
a young Israeli performer, sings a
collection of his favorite Israeli
songs with Cantor Harold Orbach
as host.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Pharaohs," a musical piece by con-
temporary composer Gershon
Kingsley is based on the corres-
pondence of Boris Kochubiyevsky.
a Jew living in the Soviet Union
who desires to migrate to the land '
of Israel.
Larry Freedman
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Mementos
Invitations and Party Ac-
cessories for all occasions.
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Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday
Station: WJR
"Do It," is the cry of Jerry
Feature: Man and religion are
Rubin, in a book so entitled in his placed "in contact."
presentation of "Scenarios of the
r
Revolution."
HIGHLIGHTS
With Eldridge Cleaver resorting
Time: 9:45 a.m. Sunday
to f ... and s four-letter terms
Station: Channel 2
to emphasize his introduction, and
Feature: "A Letter to the Soviet
Rubi., himself spouting forth un-
reservedly in this cesspool of ob-
scenities, the Simon and Schuster
volume insists on spelling Amerika
with a k, it derides the opposition
as pigs, it calls for the revolt.
"Capitalism is stealing" and
Walter Shapero, president of the
cliches such as "Amerika will be- Detroit Chapter, American Jew-
come free only when the dollar ish Committee, reports that Dr.
bill becomes worthless" abound in William Haber of the University
the 254-page paperback.
of Michigan will be guest speaker
There are many puzzling things at the chapter annual dinner June
here, such as "Money is violence" 1 at the Mauna Loa.
and: "Kids should steal money
His topic will be "The Univer-
from their parents, because that sity in the '70s—Will the Quota
is true liberation from the money System Return?"
ethic: true family."
Dr. Haber was chairman of the
department of economics before
Daley is hated (of course), Chi-
he was appointed dean of the
cago is "Czechago" and one chap-
college of literature, science and
ter is headed "Sirhan Sirhan is a
Yippie."
the arts at U. of M. In 1968, the
board of regents appointed Dr.
Rubin wants a "vanguard in ac-
Haber special adviser to the
tion" and in his glorification of
Cuba and the Viet Kong he tells
executive officers of the univer-
sity.
his readers:
Dr. Haber to Speak
at AJC Dinner
Sighet, now in Romania, after the
war (the subject of his book of
"The world laughs at Amerika's
tales, "Legends of Our Time."
clumsy, bully attempt to defeat
On June 7, he describes the fer- peasant warriors called Viet Kong
vor of the celebration of Simhat in a never-never land called Viet-
Torah as he witnessed it at the nam. And in Amerika we are all
Great Synagogue in Moscow in learning how to become Viet
1967 (and later wrote of it in his Kong."
"Jews of Silence"). In the final
And in this hated Amerika which
program, on June 14, he relates is f ed all over the book, Rubin
his impressions of Jerusalem as he has his freedom: there was nothing
the Att-
34—Friday, May 22, 1970
This Week's Radio and Television Programs
DIRECTIONS 1970
WXYZ-TV executive director Arno Marcaccio and Mrs. Evelyn
Orbach of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit,
accept the Catholic Broadcasters Association's Gabriel Award at a
special banquet held in New Orleans. WXYZ-TV, working in coop-
eration with Council, produced an opera in one act, "Isaac Levi,"
seen locally on Channel 7 last September. The program was aired on
the eve of Yom Kippur and was of Isaac Levi of Berditchev and
inspired by Morton Wishengrad's radio play, "The Song of Berdit-
chev."
I'
He has been a long-time member
of the Bnai Brith National Hillel
Commission and is now honorary
chairman.
Since 1950 he has been president
of the American ORT Federation,
chairman of the academic affairs
advisory council of Hebrew Univer-
sity as well as serving on the
board of governors. Dr. Haber has
to stop his book from being pub- had a long association with AJC,
lished!
serving on the advisory committee
What a glorious land, AmeriCa, for the Michigan area and on the
after all!
—P.S. national executive board.
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