THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS

Friday, August 21, 1970 - 11

Young U.S. Blacks on Israeli Tour

ST. LOUIS (JTA) — Fourteen
black students are spending 17
days in Israel studying its kibut-
zim and its educational and poli-
tical systems.
Their tour was organized and
sponsored by Howard B. Woods,
editor and publisher of the black-
oriented newspaper, The St. Louis
Sentinel, who last year spent 1G
days in Israel conferring with gov-
ernment leader s, speaking to
"plain" Israelis and interviewing
Arab citizens.
The tour is co-sponsored by the
Urban League of St. Louis and the
St. Louis World Affairs Council.
The 14 students were selected
from a group of more than 60 who
had been recommended by school
counselors and deans after being
interviewed by a special commit-
tee of educators and community
leaders.

Rockefeller to Speak
at Convention of ZOA

NEW YORK—Governor Nelson A.
Rockefeller of New York will ad-
dress the opening session of the
73rd national ZOA convention,
Sept. 3, in the Waldorf Astoria.
At the ZOA convention, the gov-
ernor will be introduced by Attor-
ney General of New York Louis J.
Lefkowitz.
At the opening session, Jacques
Torczyner, ZOA president, will
present his annual report, accord-
ing to the announcement by Dr.
Harry F. Wechsler, chairman of
the national convention committee.
Dr. Wechsler also announced
that Rabbi Irving Miller, past
president of the ZOA, will preside
at the opening session.
Among the Israeli leaders com-
ing here for the convention is Dr.
Elimelech Rimalt, former minister
of the Israel cabinet and promin-
ent General Zionist leader. Another
Israeli leader, besides Israel Am-
bassador Itzhak Rabon and Minis-
ter Shimon Peres who will address
the conclave, will be a member
of the Knesset, S. Z. Abramov of
Tel Aviv.
Speaking with Abramov at
the Sept. 4 session will be Prof.
Howard L. Adelson, chairman of
the department of history of the
City College of New York.
Joining Dr. Rimalt in a review
of the political situation in the
Middle East, Sept. 5, will be Dr.
Emanuel Neumann, chairman of
the Jewish Agency-American Sec-
tion and president of the World
Union of General Zionists, and
Herman L. Weisman, chairman of
the ZOA administrative board. Dr.
Max Nussbaum, past president of
the ZOA, will preside.

•

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The press. One piece of evidence in- the use of trotyl, an explosive that
Argentine military high command dicating that military personnel is in the hands of military units
is investigating an extremist right- were involved in the bombing was only.
wing organization within army
ranks said to be responsible for
the bombing of the Jewish center
building in La Plata last May 16.
A number of officers and non-
commissioned officers of the 7th
Regiment are reportedly under
detention pending completion of the
investigation. Col. Jorge Petronave,
commander of the 7th Regiment,
has been demoted as a result of
the incident, although he personal-
ly was not involved.
The matter has received consid-
erable attention in the Argentine

Dr. John Ervin, dean of -the
Washington University School of
Continuing Education here, is the
tour escort.
The purpose of the tour, ac-
cording to Woods, is to focus on
the young people "seeing, ex-
periencing and learning from this
important area in world culture."
They will live in Israeli homes,
meet with Arab and Jewish youths,
and hopefully share what they
learn with their fellow students.
They will visit the various pro-
grams involving African students
and observe the social develop-
Immigration to Israel jumped
ment of the country.
Student reactions to the tour from 31,000 new immigrants in
were expressed by Barbara Stew- 1968 to 40,000 in 1969, an increase
art, a graduate student in library of more than 29 per cent.
science at the University of Mis-
souri: "I feel Israel's system is the
best of all possible systems."
Seventeen-year-old Monica Mc-
Kinnie of Nerinx Hall said, "Ac-
cording to what I've read and
heard, there is a certain unity be-
tween the Israelis, something I
wish Blacks could have. In going
there, I hope to find the key to
unity in 17 short days and bring
back the answer."
Parents seem as excited about
the tour as their children. One
parent, Kenneth Billups, said he
believed the tour could help elim-
inate what anti-Semitism exists1
among Blacks.

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Sinai Water Drillers
Recall Moses' Rock

TEL AVIV—In the same Sinai
Desert area where Moses struck
the rock and produced sweet water
for the Israelites, a team of
Israelis and their Bedouin helpers
are sinking wells through the
granite.
Headed by hydrologist Dr. Avra-
ham Melamed, of the Tel Aviv
consultant engineering firm of
Tushia, the group sunk its first
well near the ancient monastery of
St. Catherine—traditionally identi-
fied at Mt. Sinai — which yields
3,200 cubic feet of fresh water a
day. Another well being completed
nearby will be six times as pro-
ductive.
Dr. Melamed is heading 15 simi-
lar strikes for fresh water in the
southern part of the Sinai Desert.
The Israeli government sponsor.
ed the surveys and drillings in the
barren wasteland where only
Bedouin used to roam.

In the past 12 months more than
2,000 American Jews participated
in flights to Israel under UJA aus-
pices to observe conditions in that
country.

Ha' Mevasser

Messenger of Good Tidings

Minus the white hat but armed
with convictions that cross party
lines, Republican Congr essman
Donald W. Riegle Jr. of Michigan
rode off to New York to help a
liberal Democrat, Rep. Allard K.
Lowenstein, get re-elected to the
House. "We've got to save the
good guys," remarked Riegle, who
like Lowenstein is against U.S. in-
volvement in the Vietnam War.
• • •
The complaints of two Seventh
Day Adventist nurses, who said
they were discharged from Lapeer
County General Hospital because

Argentine Army Rightists Are Probed for Possible Role in Center Bombing

they refused to work on Satur-
days, their Sabbath, have resulted
in a formal charge of religious
discrimination against the hospital
by the Michigan Civil Rights Com-
mission. The MCRC has issued
only one other charge in a case
of religious discrimination in its
six-year history. The two women
said they were hired with the
understanding that they- would not
have to work on Saturday. An
order directing Lapeer County
General Hospital to reinstate the
women and give them back pay,
is requested in the charge.

activities in Society

Out-of-town guests who were here for the wedding Sunday of Andrea
Marcy Wolf to David Saks at the Hotel Pontchartrain included Mr.
and Mrs. Jason Wolf, Mark and Jeffrey, of Newton, Mass.; Mr. and
Mrs. Arnold Wolf, Amy and Jonathon, of Lexington, Mass.; and Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Gross of Phoenix, Ariz.
Alan D. Kandel, director of social planning for the Jewish Welfare
Federation, has been elected to the board of directors of the National
Association of Social Workers. Prior to coming to Detroit, he was on
the executive staff of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
for 17 years. He resides on Kingsgate Way, Farmington.

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