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Debbi Stein to be Bride
Hasidic Concert Features Music of Harvey Stybel in July
of 50 Singers, Dancers Dec. 27

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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IRWIN COHN

Jews Overestimate
Black Hatred,
Rep. Faxon Says

'!Jews' tend to overestimate and
overreact to' the perceived threat
of black anti-Semitism," State Rep.
Jack Faxon said at a sympoSium
on Jews and Blacks at Cong. Bnai
Moshe. a
He cited two reasons for the re-
action: "First, Jews have a tend-
ency of thinking along internation-
al lines; that is, they react to
whatever happens to Jews any-
where in the world and then draw
generalizations about a particular
group who interact with them .. .
"Yet, Blacks historically have re-
sponded to issues on a local level.
So for American Jewry to perceive
a tension between Blacks and Jews
in one area as a general sign of
black anti-Semitism, is to jump to
a false conclusion. For example,
Jews reacted to the Ocean Hills-
Brownsville school crisis as a gen-
eral black attack, where as blacks
in Detroit had no such involvement
with their New York counterparts.
For Detroit Jews to judge the at-
titude of Detroit Blacks on the
basis of the statements of New
York Blacks would have been in-
accurate," he said.
"Second, the number of Blacks
who are militant and anti-Semi-
tic is less than 2 per cent. Yet
Jews tend to react to that 2 per
cent as if it were a much greater
number.
"So if Jews relate to Blacks in
such a way that the 2 per cent are
encouraged, or given justification.
the 2 per cent will get larger—and
the Jews, not the mass of black
people, will be at fault for creating
a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Faxon stated:
"My experience is that Backs
behave much as any organized
political group. Blacks are inter-
ested in people who serve their in-
terests, which might incidentally
be served by other Blacks. They
might also be served by whites.
The fact that I am Jewish in no
way serves as a handicap in the
eyes of my black constituents."

Detroit friends of Chabad Luba-
vitch and Camp Gan Israel will
honor Irwin I. Cohn for his devo-
tion to the Chabad movement and
for his help in the establishment
of Camp Gan Israel in Fenton,
Mich. at a Hanuka Hasidic con-
cert at 2 p.m. Dec. 27, in Ford
Auditorium.
Mrs. Emma Scheyer, general
'chairman, said the concert will fea-
ture 50 Hasidic singers, musicians
and dancers, who have already
issued seven records of Hasidic
melodies. Accompanying them-
selves on instruments, they have
given concerts all over the United
States.
Soloist at the concert will be
Mischa Mischakoff, former con-
certmaster of the Detroit Sym-
phony Orchestra, who will play
Hasidic melodies.
Two teen-age members of the
Lubavitch Center Youth Omani-
ration will discuss "Jewish Youth
Today — Their Search for Au-
thentic Undiluted Judaism."
Cohn, an attorney who has spent
his entire life in Detroit, is secre-
tary of Sinai Hospital, vice presi-
dent of United Hebrew Schools and
member of the board of Hebrew
Free Loan Association of Detroit.
'For tickets and information, call
Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, 398-
2611.

New Jewish Center
Opens in Antwerp

ANTWERP (JTA) — The maw
Romi Goldmuntz Community Cen-
ter was dedicated and recently
opened here. A sizeable grant to
the Joint Distribution Committee
from the Conference on Jewish
Material Claims against Germany
provided the initial funds for the
center. The balance came from
the Antwerp community.
Major features are the banquet
hall, pre-school nursery room,
game rooms, art and photography
facilities, and radio and electronics
laboratory, all stocked with the
latest and best equipment. A large
area provided for a library, which
now has 2,000 volumes, will help
to develop the facility into one of
the most complete and largest on
the continent.
The Antwerp Center is working
on a program that will enable it
to serve all European Jewish com-
munities in training professional
staff and volunteers needed by Jew-
ish centers in all parts of Europe.

MISS DEBBI STEIN

Mr. and Mrs. Al Stein of Wood-
crest Ave., Southfield, announce
the engagement of their daughter
Debbi Lynne to Harvey Stybel,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Stybel
of Jlarden Cir., Southfield.
Miss Stein is a junior at Wayne
State University and was a mem-
ber of Sigma Delta Tau sorority
at Michigan State University. Her
fiance is a senior at WSU.
The wedding date will be in July.

Assimilation Posing Threat to Italian Jews

ROME (JTA)—Chief Rabbi Elio
Toaff of Italy told a conference of
European rabbis at Ostia near
here that Italian Jewry was threat-
ened by assimilation, and joined
his colleagues in urging an im-
provement and expansion of Jew-
ish education.
Rabbi Toaff said: "We have no
young rabbis. Our youth is being
attracted by secular ideologies,
non-Jewish as a rule."
He added, however, that, "despite
all of our difficulties, we have
2,400 pupils in Jewish day schools
in Rome and Milan alone."
The conference was addressed
by rabbis from several countries
and by Italian Jewish lay leaders.

Dr. Jacob Kaplan, chief rabbi
of France, said the Vatican
Council's Conciliar Statement on
the Jews five years ago has had
a positive influence. But be
maintained that ultimately, the
fight against anti-Semitism de-

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JERUSALEM (ZINS)—Jerusalem
Mayor Teddy Kollek announced at
a press conference that the State
Development Authority is now
working on a huge building plan
for Jerusalem, and that a number
of projects will soon be completed.
In the near future, 3,000 new
housing units will be erected in
the Old City to be occupied both
by Jewish and Arab residents.
Greater Jerusalem, said Kollek,
would be divided into municipal
zones modeled after the city of
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Romania said Romanian Jewry
is strongly attached to the Holy
Land as an article of faith. He
said the way to preserve Jewish
values is through sound Jewish
education.
A group of the rabbis conducted
a service in the remains of a 1st-
Century synagogue, the first Jew-
ish service conducted in Ostia in
1,700 years.

ARNOLD LEVITSKY

Iowa Jews Protest Using
Tax Funds for Yule Decor

IOWA CITY (JTA) — Members
of the Jewish community here are
protesting a city council grant
of $500 to the local chamber of
commerce for the hanging of
Christmas decorations throughout
the city.
The grant was defended by
Councilman J. Patrick White, who
called Christmas a "national holi-
day, so Jews should regard the
decorations as theirs, also."
Rabbi Leo Diamond, director of
the Hillel Foundation at the Uni-
versity of Iowa, voicing the objet
tion of the city's Jewish commu-
nity, called Christmas "a religious
and not a national holiday" adding
"as a member of an Iowa City
minority, I don't want my tax
money used for something not a
part of my tradition."
He said he did not object to
Christmas decorations "as long as
they are put up privately."

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