Zeev Ben-David Succeeds Brauner
as Head of Midwest Aliya Center
The Israel Aliya Center, Inc.,
announces the appointment of
Zeev Ben-David to the post of
Midwest director, with offices in
Cleveland.
Ben - David, 43, succeeds Zev
Brauner, who has held the post for
the past two years.
The Midwest, particularly Det-
roit, is described by Brauner as
Ben-David
Brauner
one of the most active areas in
the nation with respect to aliya,
or immigration to Israel. Last
year. there were 90 Detroiters
who made aliya. He explained that
Detroit is the.home of many skilled
Jewish Merchants to Stay
Open Sundays, Police Say
NEW YORK (JTA)—Police pro-
cedures to help insure that obser-
vant Jewish shopkeepers who do
business on Sundays in New York
City will -not be harassed or he
given summonses was announced
by Police Commissioner Howard
Leary.
The city's business law provid"s
that a person doing business on
Sunday is exempted from the Sun-
day closing law if he observes a
Sabbath on a day other than Sun-
day.
Under the new procedures, a
continuing survey will be con-
ducted in each police precinct of
those enterprises closed on Sat-
urday for religious reasons which
are open on Sunday, according
to Judan Dick, a vice president
of the National Jewish Commis-
sion on Law and Public Affairs,
• (COLPA) who worked with the
police department on the prob-
lem.
A record of such businesses will
be kept in each precinct. Police-
men are being instructed not to
give summonses on Sundays to
merchants who claim they are
closed Saturday or after determ-
ining from the precinct list that
the shop is on the list of stores
closed on Saturdays.
and semi-skilled workers who arc
much in demand in Israel.
Ben-David will follow Brauner's
practice of traveling back and forth
once a month to interview prospec-
tive immigrants at the Jewish
Center's Hebrew department. He
said he will add new emphasis to
hugei aliya (group aliya) and will
attempt to visit more smaller com-
munities in the four states under
his jurisdiction: Ohio, Kentucky,
Indiana and Michigan.
Ben-David, who with his family
was among the first 10 to settle
in the new development town of
Karmiel in 1964, owns an insurance
agency there and is on leave of
absence for the two years he will
be in the U.S.
Born in Hungary, Ben-David
emigrated to Israel in 1949 and
served in the Israel army. He met
his wife Offira at Kibutz Tel Yosef,
where they lived until 1955 when
he became director of the Tiberias
branch of Davar, Histadrut's daily
paper.
Ben-David. whose mother was
related to Henrietta Szold, is the
father of two girls, who wilj• be
coming to the U.S. with their
mother in July. They will take up
residence in Cleveland.
Branner, who is on his sabbati-
cal year from teaching, will return
to teaching in Jerusalem next year.
For information and appoint-
ments with Ben-David, call the
Jewish Center Hebrew department,
DI 1-4200.
Israelis at Bonn U. Hit
Polish Aide's 'Ignoring
of Crimes Against Jews'
Federations Give
Funds for Jewish
Youth Experiment
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
34—Friday, June 19, 1970
NEW YORK (JTA)—Two Jewish
federations have provided funds
for experimental programs for and
by Jewish youth, including a grant
to Jewish students at the Univer-
sity of California at Berkeley to
help finance establishment of a
havura, according to the Council
of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds.
The $3,000 allocation to a group
of 30 Jewish students for a co-
operative residence and Jewish
study program at the Berkeley
campus was approved by the Oak-
land Jewish Welfare Federation.
The CJF reported that the grant
was in addition to financial sup-
port by the federation to the Bil-
let program at Berkeley, the
Union of Jewish Students, a stu-
dent newspaper and an Israeli
representative program.
The federation also has allochted
S5.000 for incentive scholarships
for high school age students to
take part in a group slimmer
study program in Israel.
The Cleveland Jewish Com-
munity Federation allocated $10,-
000 from its endowment fund for
a discretionary fund to be made
available for new and innova-
tive programs at college cam-
puses in northeast Ohio, the CJF
reported.
The CJF said that the federation
also had made a grant of $14.275
to the Cleveland. Bureau of Jewish
Education to send Jewish youth
to Israel for study programs inte-
grated with its year-round Jewish
studies.
In a related development, the
CJF reported that the Portland,
Ore. Jewish Welfare Federation
had acted in support of a CJF re-
solution for the involvement of
college youth and faculty in deci-
sion-making bodies of federations.
The Portland Federation has
named to its board of directors
a college student, a professor, a
volunteer active in the creative
BONN (JTA)—Three Israeli stu-
dents at Bonn University have ac-
cused the Polish deputy foreign
minister, Joseph Winievicz, of
"i gn or in g" Poland's. "crimes
against Polish Jews."
In a cable to the minister, a copy
of which was sent to the German
press, the students objected to his
comment on a television interview
here that Poland would never for- arts and the assistant director
get that 6,000,000 Poles were vic- of the Jewish Center.
Hartford's Federation has creat-
tims of the Nazis.
The students wrote to Winie- ed a one-year pilot program on a
vicz: "What you failed to men- local college campus to promote
tion was that half of them were contact between Jewish students
Jews. You must also realize and the Jewish cothmunity.
The CJF also reported that the
what your regime is doing today
—they are conducting an official Associated Jewish Charities and
anti-Semitic campaign. You con- Jewish Welfare Fund of Baltimore
demn the deeds committed by was the first federation to respond
the Nazis but you ignore your to a recommendation of the CJF
own crimes against Polish Jews." to send students to the next _CJF
The students further stated: "We General Assembly, scheduled for
strip you of the right to make Kansas City, Nov. 11-15.
poltical gain in the name of
martyred Polish Jews.
College Correspondents
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
G
ERALD LIEBERMAN nominates as the shortest cam-
paign speech on record one made by a gubernatorial
candidate in Massachusetts. It consisted of eight words —
and the speaker was
elected by a landslide.
S A L- 0 0 14
"Fellow citizens," he pro-
claimed. "Follow me to
yonder liquor saloon."
• • •
To become a reigning
star on Broadway or in
Hollywood, you must not
only have talent — you've
got to . get a break! Henry
Luhrman points out: 1. Bar-
bra Streisand was not the
first choice for the show
that catapulted her to the
top, "Funny Girl." Mary
6-6
Martin, then Anne Bancroft
had prior whacks at the
part. 2, Miss Martin also turned down the role of Liza Doolittle
M "My Fair Lady." Enter Julie Andrews! 3. When Ethel Merman
said "no" to "Hello, Dolly," Carol Channing got the job. 4. It was
only when Jean Arthur became ill during the try-outs that a
virtual unknown, Judy Holliday got the opportunity of a lifetime
in "Born Yesterday." And there are countless other stories of
aspiring young actors and actresses who happened to be avail-
able and chosen at just the right time for just the right spots!
Back from an economic parley in Paris a banker from Missouri
was asked if he had had any difficulty with his French while he
was there. "No," he asserted, "but the French did."
0 IWO, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
to Meet; Lower Rates
Announced for Summer
Correspondents to the Reporter
of the Michigan Association of
Jewish College Students will meet
7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Jewish
Center.
They will go over current pro-
jects, as well as ideas for the next
Reporter. The last issue came out
in June and can be obtained by
students upon request. Executive
editor is David Bale, a student
from Michigan State University.
In response to a request by
Michigan Association students, the
Jewish Center has lowered its
usual summer membership rates
for college students.
The new, reduced rate, covering
program and athletic privileges, is
now available for collegians who
present a university identification
card. For information, call Joel
Verbin, coordinator, DI 1-4200.
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A tribute to Walter Reuther and
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Sunday at the Sholem Aleichem
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the Jewish Labor Committee, Pio-
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