THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
34—Friday, January 22, 1971
Rabin Coining to Pre-Campaign Dinner:
St. John at Women's Rally on Wednesday 300 Egyptian Jews Take Refuge
Israel Ambassador to the United campaign chairman. Mrs. Norman one of the best books written on in France After Govt. Intervention
States Itzhak Rabin and Mrs. Rabin H. Rosenfeld is chairman of the Israel by a non-Jew.
will be honored guests at the pre-
ca mpaign dinner of the 1971 Allied
'ewis h' Campaign-Israel Emer-
gency Fund, 7:30p.m. Feb. 9, at
Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Southfield.
_ This traditional black tie affair
for contributors of $1,000 and over
is one of the major events of this
year's fund-raising efforts.
Major General Rabin is a sabre
who spent his youth preparing for
a career in pioneer farming. After
graduating with honors from agri-
culture school, he joined the Pal-
mach to fulfill his military obliga-
tion. His enlistment lasted 27 years
as he rose from underground fight-
er to chief of staff of the Israel
defense forces. During the Six-Day
War in 1967, Ambassador Rabin
won the admiration and respect of
military leaders throughout the
world for his daring and success-
ful strategies.
Pre - campaign chairmen are
Lewis S. Grossman and David S.
Mondry. Aiding in arrangements
for the dinner are the pre-cam-
paign vice chairmen, Paul Bor-
man, Warren D. Greenstone,
Daniel M. Honigman, Harold S.
Victor and George M. Zeltzer.
A reception will be held at 6:20
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p.m. prior to the dinner.
Meyer M. Fishman and Max M.
Shaye. 1971 campaign chairmen.
said that many divisions of the
drive are already well organized
and beginning the job of assign-
ments of prospects while planning
their participation in the pre-cam-
paign dinner.
Among the division and lection
meetings scheduled for the next
two weeks are:
Pace-Setters.
St. John has spent the major
portion of the past three decades
traveling about Europe, Africa and
the Middle East, gaining knowl-
edge of the people and customs of
ROBERT ST. JOHN
each area and gathering informa-
tion which he translates into prize-
winning books. A long-time sup-
porter of Israel, the author-report-
er first visited Palestine in 1948,
arriving as the new state of Israel
was born. After witnessing the
battles for independence and the
uneasy peace which followed, St.
John wrote "Shalom Means
Peace," which many critics called
Real Estate and Building Trades
Division will have its workers
orientation meeting, 9 a.m. Sunday
at Rascal House. Irving Seligman,
chairman. Richard Sloan, associate
chairman, will speak on his recent
Israel visit. -
Treasury Gifts Section of the
Metropolitan Division .will meet 10
a.m. Sunday at the Jewish Center.
Robert Kasle, a member of the
recent United Jewish Appeal Op-
eration Israel Mission, will report
on his experiences in Israel.
Industrial and Automotive Divi-
sion assignment meeting will be
8 p.m. Monday at the Rascal
House, reports Phillip T. Warren,
chairman.
Women's Wear Section of the
Mercantile Division will meet 9:30
a.m., Sunday at the Jewish Center.
Medical Physicians Section meets
8 p.m. Tuesday at the Rascal
House, for its assignment and or-
ientation rally, according to Dr.
Lloyd J. Paul, chairman. Lewis S.
Grossman, member of Operation
Israel 1971, will address the group.
Food Division will meet 9:30 a.m.
Jan. 31, at the Jewish Center.
Pre-Campaign Cabinet will meet
for a brunch meeting 10 a.m.
Jan. 31, at the Jewish Center
Special Gifts Section of the Met
ropolitan Division will meet 10 a.m.
Sunday, at the Jewish.
Center, according to Morris Asher,
chairman. Lewis S. Grossman will
speak on "Crisis Israel: What
Will Be the End?"
Junior Division will hold an as-
signment and orientation meeting,
11:30 a.m. Jan. 31, in Kirts Com-
munity House of Somerset Apart-
ments, Troy. Robert G. Slatkin,
division chairman, reports that the
guest will be Hyman Safran, im-
These photos show Detrolters and
mediate past president of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation and chair- guests at fmsd-raising functions
held
last week.
man of its Federation executive
In the upper photo, Louis Berry
committee.
is
conversing
with Joseph Feld-
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man at the meeting that was ad-
dressed by Israel Minister
Pace-Setters to Hear
of Communications and Posts
Author Robert St. John
Shimon Peres.
Robert St. John, noted author
Middle photo shows Samuel Hab-
and lecturer, will speak at tha er, executive vice president of the
Women's Division Pace-Setters Joint Distribution Committee, with
meeting of the Allied Jewish Cam- Mrs. Max Stoliman, president of
paign noon Wednesday, at the the women's division.
home of Mrs. David Emerman,
Bottom photo shows Nathan
Franklin.
King conversing with Isidore Win-
Mrs. Morris J. Brandwine is kelman.
Among his other books related to
Israel are "Ben-Gurion, the Biog-
raphy of an Extraordinary Man,"
"They Came From Everywhere"
and "Tongue of the Prophets," a
biography of Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
Because of his particular rapport
and intimate knowledge of Israel,
Life Magazine commissioned St.
John to write the definitive volume
on that country for its Life World
Library. He was recently commis-
sioned to write an authorized biog-
raphy on Israel's Foreign Minister
Abbe Eban.
The women's division first fund-
raising event was held last week
when -they met for their pre-
campaign luncheon at the Great
Lakes Club.
The women present pledged a
total of $630,279, an increase of 23
per cent over 1970 from the same
women of $127,054.
Samuel Haber, executive vice
chairman of the Joint Distribution
Committee, told the women at the
meeting that "our gifts, our con-
tributions and our involvement
concern the very life of Israel."
"Israel represents the centrality
of Jewish life," he said. "I cannot
conceive of its destruction. If ever
there was a year to say to
ourselves 'sacrifice a little,' this
is it." "If you don't sacrifice and
you don't hurt yourselves then you
are not doing enough. And these
things must be done now — in a
year of crisis."
Mrs. Melvin Kolbert, pre-cam
paign chairman, said that the
"response of our women was beau-
tiful. They doubled and redoubled
their gifts of last year. Our women
in Detroit understand the crisis
which faces Israel and at the same
time, understand the needs of our
community services here at home."
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St. John's Ben-Gurion
Biography is Expanded
Announcement was made this
week by the publishers of Robert
St. John, Doubleday & Co., that
his biography of David Ben-Gurion
will be issued in a new edition.
St. John's "Ben-Gurion, the Bio-
graphy of an Extraordinary Man,"
was translated into eight languages
and has gone through 10 editions
in the United States. Now a new
edition is to be published by Dou-
bleday with additional chapters
bringing the story up to date and
adding some of the former Prime
Minister's predictions for the fu-
ture.
St. John and his wife, Ruth, spent
considerable time with Israel's
elder statesman at his Sde Boker
home last autumn, making tape
recordings and taking notes for
these additional chapters.
The revised Ben-Gurion book will
be out in August. Meanwhile,
Greenwood Press will within the
next few weeks put out a new edi-
tion of "The Tongue of the Proph-
ets," St. John's biography of Elie-
zer Ben-Yehuda, the father pf the
modern Hebrew language which
has been out of print for several
years. Many critics consider this
book, which reads almost like a
novel, the best that has come
from St. John's typewriter.
Afro-Asian Bloc at UN
in Anti-Israel Camp
UNITED NATIONS (ZINS) —
Despite Israel's intensive diploma-
tic effort to gain influence among
the Afro-Asian bloc by extending
technical and material aid, the re-
sults in winning friends have been
almost zero.
Observers note that some Afro-
Asian countries have even com-
mented that if Israel demands a
political price for her aid, they
will do without it.
Furthermore, in the view of
these observers, there is little hope
-that the situation might change.
They feel new resolutions to be in-
troduced in the UN by the Arab
contingents and their allies will be
even more extreme and that the
expected support from the Afro-
Asian bloc will not diminish.
riziwoL bohnU
PARIS (JTA) — Three hundred
Egyptian Jews have arrived in
France and been taken under the
wing of the welfare service of the
Fond Sociale Juif Unifie, the ma-
jor central Jewish communal or-
ganization in France.
The refugees left Egypt with
travel documents delivered to
Cairo authorities by the French
consular officials there as part of
a diplomatic intervention on the
Jews' behalf by the French Foreign
Ministry.
Last July, it was reported that
the last 73 Jewish prisoners in
Egypt and 36 nonprisoners had
been permitted to leave the coun-
try secretly with French pass-
ports. It was reported then that
1,800 Jews had left Egypt since
the Six-Day War through the
diplomatic intervention of the
French and Spanish govern.
ments.
Last July, there were believed to
be 900-1,000 Jews in Egypt. The
FSJU welfare bureau now said
that a total of some 2,000 North
African Jews had reached France
during the first 10 months of 1970,
plus 120 refugees from Eastern
Europe, mainly Poland. Most of
them are stateless and have been
supplied with travel documents
and identification, papers by the
French High Commission for
Refugees.
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