Dayan Intervention May Bring Delay in Rabbis'. Election
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan has inter-
twened unexpectedly in preparations
for the forthcoming election of
Israel's chief rabbinate. As a re-
sult, the elections may be delayed
beyond the expiration of the pres-
ent chief rabbis' terms at the end
of next month.
Gen. Dayan, who' does not nor-
mally involve himself in religious
affairs, sent a letter to Premier
Golda Meir last week in which he
stated his view that there is no
need for two chief rabbis, one
Ashkenazie and the other Sephar-
dic.
The bill was unanimously ap-
proved by a ministerial subcom-
mittee on laws and bills and under
those circumstances could be sub-
mitted directly to the Knesset for
approval without discussion by the
full cabinet. But Dayan's interven-
tion is likely to bring the whole
issue before the government, de-
laying the elections.
• In that event, Minister of Religi-
ous Affairs Zerach Warhaftig
would have to ask the Knesset to
temporarily extend the terms of
the incumbent chief rabbis.
Dayan has said on previous
occasions that he believes the
time has come to end the divi-
sion of the chief rabbinate into
Ashkenazie and Sephardic
branches. Bit his West action
was 'believed to have been
prompted by the Army chief
chaplain, Rabbi Shlomo Goren,
who shares his opinion that one
chief rabbi Is sufficient.
Rabbi Goren, who holds the rank
of general, was elected Ashkena-
zic chief rabbi of Tel Aviv two
years ago but has yet to take up
that post. Sephardic circles in the
religious parties are upset by the
Dayan move. They insist on the
dual rabbinate because they fear
that Ashkenazic rabbis would
otherwise take over all rabbinical
institutions.
The incumbent Ashkenazic
chief rabbi is Itzhak Unterman,
and his Sephardic counterpart is
Chief Rabbi Itzhak Unterman.
The chief rabbis are not elected
by popular vote but are chosen
KIRYAT SHEMONA — A road
He praised the courage of the
by delegates selected by the reli-
ascending the western slope of Mt.
JNF road building team, four
gious councils in each Israeli
Hermon is the second to be con- of whom were wounded, which
township.
structed up Israel's highest moun-
worked most of the time under
Gen. Dayan advised the premier tain by the Jewish National Fund
fire.
that he had specific objections to since the Six-Day War.' Both were
Simcha Soloveitchik, JNF di-
a rabbinical election bill drafted undertaken at the request of the rector of land development for
by the ministry for religious af- defense forces.
the northern region and head of
fairs and the -ministry of justice.
The road begins at the . edge the project, explained that much
Mt. Hermon Road to Combat Fatah
Czech Gov't. Halts
Lawyers' Harassment
of Jews Who Fled
LONDON (JTA) — Czechoslova-
kian authorities have ordered a
halt to the practice of some
lawyers to solicit fees from Czech
refugees against whom criminal
proceedings have been brought for
"illegal sojourn abroad." Gustav
Husak, leader of the Czechoslova-
kian Communist Party, said that
neither he nor Premier Lubomir
Strougal had been aware of the
practice.
A spokesman for the Council of
Jews from Czechoslovakia dis-
closed here Tuesday that a num-
ber of Czech Jews 'who fled to
Israel following the Warsaw Pact
invasion of their country in 1968
had received notices of criminal
proceedings, along with a demand
for fees for "defense counsel" to
be paid in foreign currency.
Czech refugees in many other
countries have received similar
notices and demands for money.
The spokesman said the notifica-
tions came from the refugees'
former home towns and intimated
their relatives still in Czechoslova-
kia would be approached for
money if the fee was not paid.
Profumo Gal Operates
Night Club in Tel Aviv
of the Dan region and climbs
along. the Lebanese border and the
area formerly known as "Fatah-
land," from where Arab terrorists
attacked the town of Kiryat She-
mona, Metulla and other settle-
ments. It connects with the road
built by the JNF two years ago on
the eastern side of Mt. Hermon.
According to a senior army offi-
cer, the road, which strengthened
Israeli presence on the mountain,
has played a major role in almost
completely eradicating terrorist
activity from "Fatahland." He
said Lebanese farmers who had
abandoned' their villages on the
border out of fear of the terrorists
are beginning to return.
Architects Protest
Over Jerusalem Plans
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A team of
architects has complained to Hous-
ing Minister Zeev Sharef that his
ministry was forcing them to draft
plans for a new Jerusalem. suburb
against their professiOnal -judg-
ment.
They also complained to Mayor
Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem.
Sharei is reportedly studying the
protest but has made no comment
so far.
The architects said they 'were
compelled to draw up plans for a
complex of four-story buildings to
house.50,000 persons while the orig-
inal plans for Nebi Samwil in
northwest Jerusalem called for
small buildings to house no more
than 2,000. The housing ministry is
not subject to Jerusalem's muni-
cipal zoning laws.
The architects' revolt coincided
with recent sharp criticism of a
master plan for rebuilding East
Jerusalem. The plan has been
shelved pending. review by a 'com-
mittee of experts. .
Meanwhile a town planner who
had been employed* on a housing
ministry project in a Jerusalem
suburb disclosed that be resigned
two_ months ago. because of pro-
fessional - objectioni-to the plan the
_ministry , insisted on - following.
According to Pierre Bugod, the
ininistry . dennindecl highrise apart-
ment dwellings, for the
'flat Ter-Ariv area but not for the
billy sites around Jerusalem.
Delivery
—Egyptian Style
Even in Egypt, the mail must go
through—unless it's .to Israel. But
every rule has its exception, as
Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek re-
Mandy ;lake-Davies, who fig-
ured- prominently in the British
sex scandal int he early 1960s,
now - *was a Tel Aviv night
Sbe is shown here in Lon-
don jpitit.liter daughter, Dana, 2,
daring a three-week visit with
her mother.
Kollek received a picture post-
card.of-the_Aswan High Dam, on
tile other side of which was writ-
ten; in German: "If -Ahmed (a
common Egyptian name) will not
notice, you will receive this card.
Shalom and Lehitraot."..
The unsigned card got past the
Egyptian censors with the' address:
"Teddy -,,Kollelr„. Mayor of Jeru-
salem, Meat], Main Post Office,
Nicosia, Cyprus."
of the road had to be built in
a "hopscotch" fashion because of
the security situation. Approxi-
mately 160 workers, half of them
Druze from the villages on the
Golan Heights, built it. Soloveit-
chik said that the establishment
of settlements along its route is
being explored.
Quebec Is Asked to Pass
Anti-Bias Legislation
MONTREAL (JTA)—The Cana-
dian Jewish Congress asked the
Quebec government for new anti-
discrimination legislation and urged
the adoption of a provincial bill
of rights and the establishment
of a human rights commission.
A brief submitted by CJC Presi-
dent Monrcie Abbey to Quebec's
Premier Robert Bourassa, said
the organization considered exist-
ing anti-discrimination legislation
to be 'fragmentary, incomplete and
lacking in clarity."
In its submission, the CJC re-
ferred to the existing deprivation
of franchise for Jewish citizens in
the election of local Protestant
school boards created by an or-
der-in-council In several Montreal
suburbs as "a most glaring ex-
ample of discrimination."
The brief also called on the
Quebec premier to see to it that
"all Quebecers be deemed as equal
in status and that no distinction
be made between residents both
in Quebec and those who settled
in Quebec or arrived before or
after a certain date."
Eisendrath to Congress:
Disengage From SE Asia
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions has called upon Congress to
"disenthrall itself and exercise
its constitutional and moral re-
sponsibilities" to bring an early
end to the 'festering and futile con-
flict" in Indochina.
A statement issued by UAHC
President Rabbi Maurice N. Eisen-
drath stressed that "in the light
of the proxy 'ovation of Laos"
it is "utter blindness to ignore the
reality that the seemingly end-
less war is tearing the fabric of
American life to shreds," frustrat-
ing every - Program to deal with
urgent social problems in the ur-
ban centers and the nation, "build-
ing dangerous tensions and foster-
ing a sense of hopelessness and
despair."
Rabbi Eisendrath stated further
that it has now become a matter
of "urgent national survival" for
Congress to bring this "devasting
and increasingly dangerous con-
flict to an orderly, planned but
definite and early termination."
TIIE.,DETROIT JEWISH li,E19$
46—Friday, Fairway 19, 1971 •
Max Krolik, 42, Math -Teacher,' Dies
Former Detroiter Max Krolik, Brussels after 'Crystal Night,' the
10-year-old joined other boys in a
Jewish orphan home until May
1941, when the Germans invaded
Belgium. According to a close
friend, Detroit attorney Fred Find-
ling, who had been with that group -
of 100 boys, they commandeered a
freight train to southern France the ,
night before the Nazis arrived in
Brussels. -
Until summer of' that year, they
assistant professor of mathematics
at St. John's University, New York,
died Feb. 7 at age 42. Mr. Krolik,
who had been with St. John's for
the past 10 years, was voted by
the students as the most popular
teacher of 1970.
A PhD candidate at New York
University at the time of his death,
Mr. Krolik was a graduate of Cen-
tral High School in 1948. As a fresh-
man scholarship student at Wayne
State University, the young man
was considered so outstanding, he
was permitted to teach high school
math. He also taught at Wayne,
where he received both bachelors
and masters degrees.
Born in Berlin, Mr. Krolik was
orphaned in the war. Escaping to
9,000 Olim From
U.S., Canada Settle
in Israel in 1970
lived with the Moods under-
ground in-the Pyrenees. Amer;--
can Jews enabled the group to
get to 'the United States, via
Spain, Portugal and North Africa.
It was the last boat to get to
America before the U.S. entered
the war, said Findling.
In Detroit, young Krolik lived
for several years with an aunt,
Mrs. Julius Ring. Also surviving
Are a brother, Maurice of New
York; and a sister, Mrs. Morton
(Rosa) Spatz of Philadelphia._
Findling, who.described his
friend as "a man 'who neret car-
ried a chip on his shoulder and
was loved by all„" hopes to start
a memorial fund in his name in
Israel. Those interested in -setting
up such a fund may write Findling
NEW YORK—Final Figures re-
leased indicated that out of over
9,000 Americans and Canadians
who settled in Israel during 1970,
about 7,700 were processed through
the Israel Aliya Center.
at 3005
"The alba from the United 48226.
States and Canada during '1970
was over 22 per cent of the world
total of 41,000," said CoL Nahum
Golan, director of the Israel Aliya
Center in North America.
The Israel Aliya Center is a
service organization which offers
information and guidance to per-
sons interested in settling in Israel
and helps process those who decide
to become olim (settlers). The Cen-
ter maintains 13 offices through-
out the U.S. and Canada: New
York, Queens, Atlanta, Boston,
Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles,
Montreal, Philadelphia, San Fran-
cisco St. Louis, Toronto and Wash-
ington, D.C.
Congressional Record
Reprints JTA Analysis
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An edi-
torial on the signifiCance of the
Leningrad trial by Murray Zuckoff,
news editor of the JTA Daily News
Bulletin, has been placed in the
Congressional Record by Rep. Ber-
tram L. Podell.
The editorial, "Soviet Trial Is
Warning to All Opponents of the
Reginie," appeared in the Dec.
18 JTA Bulletin as a "Special
News Analysis."
Podell placed it in the Congres-
sional Record of Feb. '4 "to demon-
strate that their (Soviet Jews')
plight has grown more serious."
Cemetery Plot Prices Dip
NEW YORK (JTA)—In the face
of rapidly rising costs for -both
cemetery plots and their mainte-
nance, the board of truiteetr ,of
Kehillatb Jeshurun congregatiiiii;
a leading Orthodox' congregation,
has voted unanimously a tempo-
rary reduction in the current price
of plots in the two cemeteries. it
owns.
One is at Mount Carinei in
Queens and one at Beth-El Ceme-
tery in New Jersey..The purpose
of the policy "is to make it possi-
ble for members of _the congrega-
ti
tion
and the community to acquire
a plot more reasonably' anti, in
that way, to plan intelligently for
the future." •
`Jewish Medals' Written
by Daniel Friedenberg
The first, definitive study of its
kind, "Jewish Medals from the
Renaissance to the Fall of Napo-
leon (1503-1815)" has been written
by Daniel M. Friedenberg, curator
of coins and medals of the Jewish
Museum„ • New York.
The. .
the . period
'
front' the firit appearance ot'a Jew-
Shagar.Greets Nixon
ish medal in 1503 to the year 1815
on Apollo Flight .Sticcess- when,:Napoleon /ell 'from -power
JERUSALEM• (JTAi4PresWeet; ancl,' , with tba- deielcipment. of -a
Zalman Sharer Cabled congratula- modern nitionallit 'stile; the en-
tions to President Nadi on the trance .of - Jews into-.Western and
successful completion - of. the cputraF.European culture. Publish-
Apollo 14 Moon mission. - er is Clarkson N. Potter.
Cadillac Tower, Detroit
Boycott Non-Union
Lettuce,- Orthodox
Rabbi AppeaIS
NEW YORK (JTA) The asso-
ciate rabbi of one of the nation's
largest Orthodox synagogues has
urged his congregants to support
the campaign by Cesar Mayer to
organize lettuce workers in Cali-
fornia by refusing to purchase any
lettuce picked by nonunion help.
The appeal was madi by Rabbi
Haskell Lookstein- of "Kehillath
Jeshurun congregation, who cited
rabbinic sources for a description
of products made - by 'exploited
workers as nonkosher.
Writing in the congregation bul-
letin, Rabbi Lookstein mentioned
the successful boycott of grapes
picked in California which was a
major factor in bringing about a
contract for grape-pickers-
Declaring it was possible to buy
lettuce with a union label and that
about 25 per cent of the lettuce on
the market is so labeled, he sug-
gested that congregants ask for
union-labeled lettuce, describing it
as kosher lettuce.
—
Sampson Goldberg;
Oirner of Coal Co.
years
ir d the
own
for g , 40
l oaGloldber
SamPso
irood cl
Co-
his retirement 10 years ago, died
Monday at age 78.
Mr. Goldberg, 2200 Berkley,
Berkley, was a member of Farband
Branch 79 and Cong. Beth Achim
As a lifetime Labor Ziordst he
was a vohmteer for Histadrut and
major Israel calms. Born in Po-
land,; he'llied in the Detroit area
58 year's.- •
wai-a member of the Jewish
War Veterans 'and of the Hannah
- Survivors *
-wife; "-Revs;
and a son, Efrem_ Ira of Allston,
•
_
Mass.
_JNF Inaugurates Forest
Named lot Martiu Buber
HAZOREA---Members of Martin
Buber's..famay,- as well as the first
conusselor of the-West German em-
bassy, leaders of the Hashorner
Hatzair movement and friends and
pupils of the late philosopher were
among the, guests at the inaugura-
tion of 'thellfartin" Bober Forest
near Eibiztfittzorea in the'Jezreel
"Jicob'Aitur, chairman Of the
sager from the president of the
West German. Republic and -the
president of _Israel. Dr. Gertrud
Lochner, Who had come from ,Ger-
many especially to attend the cer-
ent0Mr., read. tbe appeal 'for the
planting of the Buber Forest.-