THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jewry 22, 1971
Govt. Plan for Jerusalem 'Satellite'
Draws Ire From Israelis and Arabs
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The gov-
ernment's plan to build a so-called
"satellite city" in the former Jor-
danian sector east of Jerusalem
has come under heavy fire from
both Israeli and Arab quarters.
The master plan was denounced
for aesthetic reasons by a spokes-
man for the Jerusalem landscape
improvement council, who charged
the government with high-handed
methods.
Earlier, the East Jerusalem
Moslem Council issued a state-
ment accusing Israeli authorities
of trying "to obliterate the Arab
character of Jerusalem." The
ip council, which is composed of
about 40 politicians, most of them
once part of Jordanian adminis-
tration, was sharply rebuked by
the 'Jerusalem police commandant
for using "intemperate and inflam-
matory language."
The government's plan calls for
the construction of an arc of Jew-
ish suburbs around the eastern
half of Jerusalem, eventually to
house a population of about 200,-
000. The plans include the con-
struction of high-rise apartment
houses.
Yehnda Ezrachi. an author
and playwright who spoke for
council, charged the housing
the landscape improvement
• ministry with concealing its
building plans from the public
and "deceiving the public." He
said its methods might be justi-
fied on political grounds and the
need to populate underdeveloped
areas but that construction which
would "dis-figure Jerusalem's
uniane beauty" could not be
justified.
Ezrachi demanded on behalf of
his group that the government end
its secrecy, cancel plans for high
rise buildings where they would
interfere with the view of the Old
City and maintain ancient build-
ings. He urged that future plan-
ning sessions be held in public
and the plans be exhibited in
public halls.
The master plan for East Jerus-
alem was sharply criticized re-
cently by a distinguished panel of
international architects which was
set up as a'tonsulting body. Many
city council members agreed with
,
their opinion that the plans would
alter the timeless character of an-
cient Jerusalem.
The Moslem Council charac-
terized the plans as one of "the
crimes of the occupying authori-
ties." The Arab criticism was
clearly political, but many Israelis
within and outside of the city
council as well as friendly obser-
vers abroad, have expressed con-
cern over the political implica-
tions of the entire project.
Israeli leaders have made no
secret of their intent to create
"facts" that would permanently
consolidate Israel's annexation
of East Jerusalem, an area of
which the old walled city repre-
sent only a tiny segment. Op-
ponents of the plan believe that
such a fait accompli should not
be undertaken at a time when
Israel is engaged in peace talks
under the auspices of the United
Nations.
Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusa-
lem has withdrawn part of the plan
for review by a committee of
architects. Kollek however is less
than enthusiastic over the project
which would create a suburb of
Jerusalem largely dependant on
the city but not under the control
of the Jerusalem municipality.
The forceful rebuke to the Mos-
lem Council by the police chief re-
flected concern that the council
may finally have come upon an
issue that will arouse the senti-
ments of other East Jerusalem
Arabs.
The Moslem Council is a self-
appointed secular body set up after
the Six-Day War to represent
Arabs in the occupied zone. It was
never recognized by Israeli author-
ities but is tolerated by them al-
though the council has never con-
cealed its extremist anti Israel
views.
West Bank Arabs by and large
do not recognize the council as
their representative and maintain
liaison with Israeli authorities
through their respective mayors
and the military governors. In
East Jerusalem too, the extent of
the council's authority is question-
able. but so far it has not been
challenged.
This Week in Jewish History
(From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
40 Years Ago This Week: 1931
Nahum Sokolow, chairman of the Zionist Executive and author of
"History of Zionism," celebrated his '70th birthday.
Rabbi Israel Goldstein of Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, New York,
said nearly half of American Jewry "acknowledges no point of view,
avows' no sympathy and has no philosophy of Jewish life," adding:
'It is these unattached Jews who constitute the real challenge and
""the real opportunity . . . They represent an inestimable potential
power in Jewish life gone to :waste."
German National Socialists abandoned plans to expel all Jews
to ease food shortages, but proposed they lose citizenship rights any-
way.
The Warsaw rabbinate ruled that a woman there could not marry
a man in the U.S. by cablegram.
10 Years Ago This Week: 1961
The cabinet phase of the Ben-Gurion-Lavon dispute over a 1954
"security mishap" was ended as the premier, who had called a
ministerial clearing of the former defense minister a "miscarriage of
justice," said he would nevertheless accept it as "the last word."
Former Gestapo officer Franz Nowak, arrested in Vienna,
admitted he had been Adolf Eichmann's "right hand." West Germany's
top court ruled that physicians involved in Nazi "euthanasia" programs
for killing mental defectives "for the purity of the race" could not
claim "existing laws" as an excuse.
Herbert Ehrmann, president of the American Jewish Committee,
declared that "Contrary to prophecies that integration of Jews into
American life would eventually lead to the disappearance of Judaism,
both Judaism and Jewish organizational life have flourished in the
United States."
Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American Zionist Council,
scored Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Con
gress, for advocating the cessation of Zionism. The Ben-Gurion-Prinz
plan for an American-Israeli link was a "fatuous notion," he said.
Ws. Clare Booth Luce, former U.S. ambassador to Italy, said
Vice President Nixon might have been elected President if he had
picked a Jewish running-mate.
A Scarsdale, N.Y., club that had barred an Episcopalian because
his father was Jewish announced after protests that all restrictions
were being dropped.
For the first time in UN history, the Soviet Union took a defensive
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Posture regarding anti-Semitism, denying that it existed in the USSR.
The New York Board of Rabbis urged the liberalization of the
state's divorce law beyond the sole ground of adultery.
Joseph Schlossberg, Pioneer Labor
Leader, Active for Labor Israel, 95
Joseph Schlossberg, one of the
world's most distinguished labor
leaders, a pioneer in efforts to
assist the Histadrut and for many
years the secretary-treasurer of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work-
ers of America, died in New York
last Friday at the age of 95.
Mr. Schlossberg, who served for
a number of years as chairman of
the National Committee for Labor
Israel (Histadrut), was born in
Russia, in 1875. He arrived in this
country as a young boy and began
to make his own way in life as a
worker in the needle trades at
the age of 14.
At the time the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America was
founded in December 1914, Mr.
Schlossberg was secretary-treas-
urer of the New York board of
United Brotherhood of Tailors. He
was elected general secretary-
treasurer of Amalgamated, an
office he held for more than a
quarter of a century.
Philip Kleinfeld,
N. Y. Court Justice
NEW YORK—Philip M. Klein-
feld, a former justice of the appel-
late division of the State Supreme
Court, died here Jan. 11. He was
76.
Mr. Kleinfeld, who was born on
the Lower East Side, served in the
assembly in 1922, and in the senate
from 1923 until his appointment to
the bench in 1941—the first sena-
tor ever nominated to a judicial
post while in office. Re was active
in Orthodox circles.
A supporter of Democratic gov-
ernors Alfred E. Smith, Herbert
H. Lehman and Franklin Roose-
velt, Mr. Kleinfeld cooperated in
the enactment of state legislation
in harmony with the New Deal of
President Roosevelt.
He was the author of a bill to
give women the right to serve on
juries and others to regulate the
sale and control of alcoholic bev-
erages. As a justice, Mr. Kleinfeld
aided in tenant rights.
Horace J. Haber, 63;
Wyandotte Jeweler-
Horace J. Haber, president of
Erlich's Jewelry Co., Wyandotte,
for 26 years, died Jan. 14 at age 63.
Mr. Haber, 16198 Oxley, South-
field, was past president of the
Wyandotte Businessmen's Associa-
tion and of Montefiore Lodge, Free
Sons of Israel. He also belonged to
the Southern Wayne County Cham-
ber of Commerce, Temple Beth El
and the Fresh Air Society board of
directors. He attended Vanderbilt
University. Born in Nashville, he
lived in the Detroit area 26 years.
He ws a certified gemologist.
Surviving are his wife, Lillian;
two sons, Jonathon and Michael of
Kalamazoo; a sister, Mrs. Henry
(Polly) Franklin of Arlington; and
three grandchildren.
Morris Sklar, 78
Morris Sklar, founder of Stand-
ard Glass Co., 2021 Gratiot, 40
years ago, died Jan. 14 at age 78.
He was retired for the past 20
years.
Mr. Sklar, 20465 Cheyenne, was
a former member
of Pisgah Lodge
of Bnai Brith,
Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit
and the Jewish
Center. Born in
Russia, be lived
in the United
tea since 1912.
He served in the
U.S. Army dur-
ing the First
Sklar
World War.
JOSEPH SCHLOSSBERG
British Leader
Lavy Bakstansky ,
'LONDON (JTA)—Lavy Bakstan-
sky, secretary general of the Brit-
ish Zionist Federation since 1940
and a former close aide to the late
Dr. Chaim WeizmaPn, first presi-
dent of Israel, died here Monday
at age 66.
Mr. Bakstansky was a member
of the Board of Deputies of British
Jews, a director of the Joint Pales-
tine Appeal and a founder of the
British section of the World Jewish
Congress.
Born in Slonim in Czarist Rus-
sia, he was educated in Tel Aviv
and later at the London School of
Economics, where he became the
first Jewish chairman of the stu-
dent union.
As secretary general of the
Britigh Zionist Federation he ex-
ercised a decisive influence and
transformed the organization
from a base for Dr. Weizmann's
political activity into an instru-
ment of Zionist partnership with
the Jewish state and a major
promulgator of Jewish educa-
tion.
Messages of condolence and tri-
bute were received from Dr. Israel
Goldstein, chairman of Keren Haye.
In 1920 Mr. Schlossberg was a
delegate to the Congress of the
International Clothing Workers'
Federation, held in Copenhagen.
At that time the Histadrut was
founded in Palestine and Mr.
Schlossberg was among the first
American Jewish labor leaders
to take an interest in it.
He took a prominent part in the
formation of the National Commit-
tee for Labor Israel in 1923. In
1930, he acted as its delegate to the
World Congress for Labor Palestine
held in Berlin, which was attended
by delegates from 24 countries.
That year he paid his first visit to
Palestine and saw for himself the
work and achievement of the
Histadrut.
In 1934, he was elected chairman
of the National Committee for La-
bor Israel and two years later was
a member of the Trade Union dele-
gation sent officially by the Na-
tional Labor Committee to the
Histadrut.
It was at the suggestion of Mr.
Schlossberg that Dr. Israel Gold-
stein undertook to acquire the
Waltham, Mass., college area for
what was to become Brandeis Uni-
versity and he could therefore well
be called one of the founders of
Brandeis University.
LAW BAKSTANSKY
sod; Louis A. Pincus, chairman
of the Jewish Agency; Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, president of the World
Jewish Congress; Michael 34. Sach-
er, chairman of the Joint Palestine
Appeal; Rose L. Halprin, co-chair-
man or the World Confederation
of General Zionist, and others.
Philip L. Rosenthal, 77, Educator,
Zionist, Volunteer in Braille Work
Philip L. Rosenthal, of 13311
Rosemary, Oak Park, an eminent
educator and community figure
here for nearly 50 years, died
Sunday at the age of 77. Funeral
services were held Monday at
Kaufman Chapel.
Surviving are his wife, Esther,
a prominent Detroit violinist; three
eons, Avram, Arnold and Aaron;
a brother, Dr. L. Hudson Rosen-
thal; three sisters, Ethel, Mrs.
Charles (Betty) Goldstein and Mrs.
Hiram (Belle) Popkin and six
grandchildren.
' A brother, -Albert, passed away
less than a week before his death,
on Jan. 13. Another brother, Roy;
who was in partnership with Al-
bert in the Royal Pharmacy, died
May 7, 1970.
Philip L. Rosenthal had the dis-
tinction of having taught at the
old Central High School on Cass
before the school building , was
transformed into Wayne State Uni-
versity. He then headed the for-
eign language department of Mack-
enzie High School for many years
before his retirement in 1956.
- An expert in Spanish and
Portuguese, Mr. Rosenthal wrote
extensively In both languages
and was the translator from
them into English of valuable
documents. He was deeply inter-
ested in the life of Jews in com-
munities where the two languag-
es were spoken.
A lifelong Zionist, he had been
active in the Zionist Organization
Surviving are his wife, Mae; • a
daughter, Mrs. William (Annette)
Liberson; two brothers, Ben and of Detroit.
His students were encouraged
Arthur Gladstone of South Caro-
to join Jewish youth movements,
lina; and three grandchildren.
commencing with the Young Ju-
daea activities here more than
50 years ago.
As director of religious edu-
cation at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek, he assisted the late Rabbi
A. M. Hershman in the forma-
tion of special classes. He also
assisted in the expansion of the
Shaarey Zedek Library. _
After his retirement from ac-
tive teaching, Mr. Rosenthal, in
addition to his writing in Spanish
and Portuguese, became active in
Braille work and assisted the
Shaarey Zedek and Temple Beth
El groups in thes efforts. The
only male in these activities con-
ducted by women's groups, he
became an expert in transcribing
into Braille important Jewish
works, and he assisted the blind
in various services rendered in
this community.
Joseph Schwartz, 68;
Former Store Officer
Joseph Schwartz, former traffic
director for Davidson Bros. Inc.,
operators of Federal Depatment
Stores, died Jan. 14 in Miami
Beach, where be had been living
for the past two years since his
retirement.. A native of Brooklyn,
he wan
He was a member of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek and Perfection
Lodge ci the Masons.
,
Mr. Schwartz leaves his wife,
gfary; a son, Charles of Youngs-
town, O.; . daughter, Mrs. Donald
(Rita) Un - or of Detroit; a brother,
Maurice; and six grandchildren.
Interment Letroit.