12—Friday, Jamary Israeli Raid Yields Guerrillas in a Lebanese Foray • nit 1971 DETROIT JEWISH elms DO NOT BE SILENT To the cry of your brethren behind the "Iron Curtain." Join in a Mass Protest Prayer Sun., Jan. 10, 1971— 8:30 p.m. place Congregation Mogen Abraham 15751 W. 10 Mile, Southfield COUNCIL OF ORTHODOX RABBIS OF DETROIT IN CONJUNCTION WITH Metropolitan Connell of Young Israel Mhzachi Organizatioa Agudath Israel Organization Akiva Hebrew Day School Beth Yehuda Schools Caribbean In a nightUme foray into Lebanon, this Israeli. raiding party attacked a_ guerrilla base at the vil- lage of Taster. Israel reported that "several terrorists" were killed. PASSOVER Chenoch Lieberman—Hasidic Rabbi, Painter By S. J. GOLDSMITH (Copyright 1971. ZIA, Inc.) LONDON—Chenoch Lieberman is a very fine painter, perha'Ps even a great painter. We have no valid yardstick to measure greatness actually. However, even great painters are not unique. Lieberman is unique because he also is an ordained rabbi, a strictly Ortho- dox Jew, a follower of Lubavitch, who describes Lubavitch as his spiritual home and the Rebbe as his guide on the personal level and not only his mentor as head cf the Lubavitch movement "Indeed," he said, "I would not hold an exhibition without the ap- proval of my Rebbe." Here was Chenoch Lieberman, rabbi and Hasid, with his flowing white beard, skull cap, and aura of a sage, expounding Jewish teachings and hasidic traditions in English, Yiddish and Russian, mainly Yiddish, in the midst of a lovely art exhibition in which he presented his paintings of different periods and different moods—like any other artist. ' "Let me tell you a story," he said to me. "One day I came to see the Rebbe. And he said to me: 'How is your art?' Of all things . . . I said I would like to hold an exhibition. And the Rebbe said: 'Yes, yes, of course, go and hold an exhibition. Eich man has his allotted task on this earth. You know our Shmuel. He teaches hasidism. You have to give your 20 Israelis Killed in Slide JERUSALEM (JTA) — Twenty young Israelis were killed when a rockslide crushed the dining hall at Neot Hakikar, a para-military settlement in the Jordan River valley south of the Dead Sea. The victims included a number of girls. Initial reports said that 10 per- sons were injured but later infor- mation indicated a much higher number. Neot Fakii..r established in the 1950s, is a settlement of the Nahal type in which youths cultivate the land and perform certain military duties. It is located in the Arava district, one of the most remote areal'of the Negev where several more Nahal settlements have sprung up since the Six-Day War. Neot Hakikar has been an occa- sional target of rocket attacks by talent. Whatever one can do to bring Jews nearer to Jewishness is a contribution and a blessing. In olden days, I would have thought that painting was not one of the ways. Because Jews were diffe- rent. Today it is. This is your way.' You see, the Rebbe encourages me and this is enough for me to answer your question, without my own personal rationalization." Thus, the rabbi who is a painter. Indeed, his exhibition in London took place in the Lubavitch Cen- ter. The hall is as good as any you can find in the metropolis for an exhibition of paintings. And the red dots on many of the exhibits bear witness to the fact that Luba- vitch is well and truly in the 20th Century art business — without yielding anything on the way .. . The exhibition also is astonish- ing in a different—and more im- portant—way than the venue. You have there Lieberman's Shtetl all right. But you also have a uni- versality, a breadth of vision and a depth of human sympathy and empathy which keeps the Shtetl in its place, as it were. It literally ranges from Seattle to Kamchatka, right across the globe. All this side by side with Kiddush Levana (the prayer on the renewal of the moon) and Havdala (the prayer at the end of the Sabbath.) The Shtetl appears in many varia tions: the heder, the home, the street, the synagogue. Somehow. there is a goat in the background in almost all the townscapes of the Shtetl. "Yes, one could say a great deal of the moon is in our tradi- tion. But for the mood of a Shtetl, it had more significance than the sun" . . A Paris townscape could have been painted by one of the cafe dwellers on the Left Bank and not by a rabbi. Still, it is miraculously a Lieberman. not survive the climate. He was at death's door several times, be says. Nowadays, when he can paint and draw, he feels fine. His eyes are lively, his movements agile at 70. "There is my friend Reb Getzl, bless him. Over there. He is not a model, though I like painting him. He is a fellow-Lubavitcher. We discuss the Torah as I go about my business of putting him on canvas" . . . on the air conditioned 'stabilized "Oh yes, I was among the Rus- sian partisans. They were friends, fellow human beings. Look at this one. This is how he was, on horse- back, embattled, but a man and a brother." It is the politicians who are so treacherous, it seems . . . Chenoch Lieberman, apart from his aesthetic impact, is a splendid vin- dication of the time-honored max- im: the more Jewish you are the more universal you are; only the assimilationists are carrying their Jewishness upon their sleeves ... luxury flagship 26,300 TONS Queen Anna l rid Space going last on these unique offerings. For a special brochure and reservations, call cl7 GREEK LINE 2552 First National Building, Detroit 48226 A real gentleman is at a big disadvantage these days. — Kin Hubbard. Out of town calls collec1—(313) 961-5230 • *I" it) "kt ■ 441 Nw t v - The Detroit Friends - ZEDEI St - of SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM will hold their His road was long and tragic. Lodz, Polotzk at the age of five, the Lubavitch Yeshiva, Moscow and the famous art schools of Russia, Siberia, Biro Bidjan, Khabarowsk, the Far East. Lieb- erman's wife and children were lost In the Holocaust. He is alone, except for Lubavitch . . . ANNUAL DINNER SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1971 - 6:30 P.M. Shiffman Hall, Jewish Community Center, 18100 Meyers Honoring A self-portrait in a desolate mood, sitting alone and without clothes, is a lament for those lost and for those surviving with their pain. "I was left with nothing, just a void" . . . Only friends sus- tained him, and not necessarily Jewish ones. Sergei Andreyevitch was not a Jew. Nor were some of the others. Portraits of the wife and daughters, tender renderings did not discuss them .. . Lieberman is now in New York. He paints and teaches. He would have loved to go to the Holy Land. But the doctors told him he could . Martinique, and Antigua. from PROF. HUGO MANDELBAUM Wayne State University ! in recognition of his significant con- guerrillas in Jordan. tributions to Jewish communal life in Geologists had no immediate ex- Detroit planation of the rockalide. The are included in the exhibition. We GUEST SPEAKER: settlement Is located in a mod- erate seismic zone that extends from Turkey, through the Jordan Valley to the Red Sea and East Africa. '395 11 Days—Leave New York April 8. 1971 To San Juan. St. Thomas, St. Maarten FABIAN SCHONFELD Rabbi Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, New York • MUSICAL PROGRAM: CANTOR HYMAN ADLER Congregation Bnal David Rabbi Jambe *mks, Freakiest Subscription Priam 06 Foe Couple Alex Raker, SacrekNY For Resenrationa Call: 5448412 -----------------------------------------------