Frank Gervasi
to Address
Bond Event

Frank Gervasi, journalist and
author, will be guest speaker at
the Shaarit Haplaytah Purim Din-
ner-Dance, celebrating 23 years of
Israel's statehood, 8:30 p.m.,
March 13 at Cong. Bnai David.

FRANK GERVASI
Ilka Raveh, Israeli folk singer,
will be guest star at this affair on
behalf of Israel Bonds. Gervasi,
author of "The Case for Israel,"
ibas a foreign correspondent dur-
ing World War II. He was associate
editor of Collier's and served the
U.S. State Department as chief of
information in Rome for the Mar-
shall Plan. Gervasi has written TV
documentaries such as NBC's
"Khrushcbev in Exile" and contrib-
uted to leading magazines. His
other books include "War Has
Seven Faces," "To Whom Pales-
tine" and "But Soldiers Wondered
Why." For reservations, call the
Israel Bond office, 352-6770.

Savings Bonds Drive
Launched in Detroit

Detroit is one of 25 major in-
dustrial centers throughout the na-
tion in which intensive savings
bonds campaigns are scheduled for
1971. The local campaign area cov-
ers Wayne, Oakland and Macomb
counties.
During the current Detroit Take-
Stock-in-America Campaign, em-
ployers throughout the tri-county
area will be urged to conduct
person-to-person canvasses of their
employes to step up systematic
purchases of U.S. savings bonds
via the payroll savings plan. Those
employes already enrolled will be
encouraged to increase their bond
investments.
Bond purchases in the three
counties since inception of the
program 30 years ago have amount-
ed to more than $5,500,000 — equiv-
alent to almost 65 per cent of the
Michigan total.
The 19'71 dollar goal for the tri-
county area is 5198,701,000.

Plan to Restore Cemetery
in Barbados Under Way

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (JTA)
—Plans are being made for the
restoration of the Jewish cemetery
here, one of the earliest Sephardi
burial grounds in the New World.
Rabbi Isidoro Aizenberg of Cara-
cas, Venezuela, who was instru-
mental in the recent restoration of
%he Jewish cemetery in Coro. visit-
ed the island in order to help the
local Jewish community draw up
a project to save this historic mon-
ument from its present state of
decay.
He met Prime Minister Errol
Barrow, who expressed his gov-
ernment's interest in this endeavor
as well as in any future work on
the old synagogue building, now
used for offices.
The oldest identifiable stone in
the Barbadian cemetery dates from
1660 and belongs to Aaron de
Mercado, a Portuguese Jew, like
most of the 350 people buried
there. The cemetery is located at
the site of the original synagogue,
Nidhe Israel, built in 1679.

Mink 5, 1971

IMITSOIT MON NEWS

Chaplains Observe 34--Pri4vi,
25th Anniversary Bellow Wins National Book Award

NEW YORK — The presentation
of citations to charter members
of the Association of Jewish Chap-
lains of the Armed Forces and a
symposium led by two prominent
rabbis will be featured events of
the association's silver jubilee,
March 16. Founded in 1946, the
association advances the common
interests of active Jewish military
chaplains and those who formerly
served as rabbis in uniform.
Rabbi Abraham Avrech, presi-
dent of the association, who is
director of ,alumni activities at
Yeshiva University, New York,
and a lieutenant colonel in the
U.S. Army Reserve, announced
that the 25th anniversary celebra-
tion will be highlighted at the as-
sociation's annual meeting. 'when
an afternoon session will be held
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and
an evening session at the Espla-
nade Hotel.
Friday night. March 12, and
Saturday, March 13 have been des-
ignated as "Chaplaincy Sabbath,"
when services in commemoration
of the association's 25th anniver-
stary will be observed at many
synagogues in various parts of
the United States.
At the "Chaplaincy Sabbath" at
Park Avenue Synagogue, New
York, Friday evening, the sermon
will be given by Rabbi Philip S.
Bernstein of Rochester, N.Y., who
was the first professional director
of the commission on Jewish
chaplaincy of the National Jewish
Welfare Board (JWB).
"How Can American Rabbis
Best Influence the Jewish Com-
munity?" is the subject of a sym-
posium to be held on the after-
noon of March 16. Dr. Bertram
W. Korn, senior rabbi of Cong.
Kenesseth Israel, Wyncote, Pa.,
and Rabbi Israel Miller, vice presi-
dent for student affairs of Yeshiva
University, will present papers on
this theme.

NEW YORK (JTA)—A Reform
rabbi who has lectured widely on
literature praised Wednesday the
awarding of the 1970 National Book
Award for fiction Tuesday to Saul
Bellow for "Mr. Sammler's
Planet"
Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, profes-
sor of Jewish religious thought at
Hebrew Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion here, described
Bellow to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency as "one of the most pro-
found and thoughtful Jewish think-
ers I know, even one of the most
significant Jewish religious think-
ers of our time."
Bellow, continued Rabbi Boro-
witz, has "extended the Jewish
view of God and man into the con-
temporary human situation" in an
approach that is "fundamentally
religious and deeply human."
Comparing Below's three NBA-
winning novels over the past 17
years, Rabbi Borowitz said "The_
Adventures of Angie March"
(1954) while not Jewish in theme,
demonstrated Bellow's "human-
ism"; "Herzog (1964) spotlighted
the "personal and inner side" of
an individual's "collapse;" and
the newest novel "extended that
vision of that collapse to the
social scene: what do we do
about our civilization?"
Bellow's other novels include
"Dangling Man," "The Victim,"
"Seize the Day." "Henderson and
the Rain King" and "The Upper
Depths." His play, "The Last
Analysis," w a s presented on
Broadway a few seasons back. He
edited "Great Jewish Short
Stories" in 1963.
"Mr. Sammler's Planet" was
a unanimous winner in the NBA
fiction category. The five judges
said the story about an elderly
Pole "in the chaos and dangers
of New York's Upper West Side,"
displayed "superb" characteriza-

Experts Say Israel Air Strength Could
Win Against Egypt if War Renewed

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Should re-
newal of warfare with Egypt occur
when the present cease fire exten-
sion expires Sunday, most experts
agree Israel's air force would be
capable of destroying Egypt's
dense, Soviet-built anti-aircraft de-
fense system.
The experts attribute the in-
creased strength of the Israeli
air arm to the heavy infusion of
American electronic equipment
and other sophisticated devices
in addition to the deliveries of
more U.S. Phantom and Skyhawk
jets.
The equipment supplied to Israel
by the U.S. includes drones and
pilotless retrievable aircraft and
Shrike missiles. Moreover, the
Israelis have had time to assimilate
the function of this equipment and
train their personnel to operate it,
the experts note.
They observed that in the event
of a new outbreak of war, Israel
will employ a strategy of move-
ment in order to end the Conflict
in the shortest possible time. It will
not confine itself to the front chosen
by Egypt but will strike at the
softest spots of the Egyptian de-
fense.
The experts agree, however, that
a new Middle East war would be
on a larger scale than any hither-
to because of the massive build-up
of Egyptian artillery, armor and
troop concentrations.
One Israeli officer on the Suez
front recalled a recent remark by
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan:
"I do not know if the Egyptians
will or will not open fire on
March 7, but if they do, I know
what will happen on March 8."
The most formidable weapons
facing Israel's Bar-Lev line across
the canal are massed Soviet artil-
lery and Frog-7 ground-to-ground
missiles. Israeli intelligence places
at 1,000 the number of artillery
pieces deployed along the water-
way, including the huge Soviet 203-
mm cannon.

The Frog-7 is known to have
deadly accuracy. It can hurl a half-
ton missile almost 60 miles with a
range of error of less than 500
yards. Israelis consider the intro-
duction of the Frogs to be an es-
calation in military deployment
along the canal.
Israelis expect continued over-
flights of their positions by Egyp-
tian reconnaisance planes. One
source noted that the Egyptian air
force engaged in intensive recon-
naissance during this week leading
up to the last cease-fire deadline
on Feb. 5. The Egyptians were
seen working on their defenses but
soldiers continued to walk freely
along the canal; some went swim-
ming and others fished.

Medi-Cal Cuts May Hurt
Care of Poor in California

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) —
Three California Jewish health
and social service institutions have
reported that the projected cuts in
the state's Medi-Cal program re-
quired by Gov. Reagan's austerity
budget will create severe prob-
lems in their care for the poor
programs.
The cutbacks could cost Mount
Zion Hospital and Medical Center
between $175,000 and $250,000 a
year to maintain present health
care services for poverty patients,
according to Joseph Sloss, Jr.,
president.
William Lowenberg, president
of the Jewish Home for the
Aged here, told the San Fran-
cisco Jewish Bulletin that the
cutbacks would seriously hurt
the institution's income and in-
crease its "already substantial
deficit."
Milton Klegman, executive dir-
ector of the Home for Jewish Par-
ents in Oakland, said the reduced
income from residents receiving
Medi-Cal aid would increase the
institution's annual deficit by about
$20,000.

tion and "a strain of speculation,
both daring and serene, on the
future of life."

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