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March 19, 1971 - Image 32

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1971-03-19

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Fifty Japanese Pray
at Wall for Soviet Jews

Technion Friends Plan
Parley on Environment

Church-Religion Issue. Confronts Israeli Laborites

NEW YORK — "Environmental
would be a separation of religion
At the approaching Israel Labor poses to separate religion from from state, where today. the Rab- Pollution Control: The Outlook for
Party conference, 2,935 delegates the state, proposes actually to binate controls religious life ac- the Next Decade" is the subject
are expected. David Ben-Gurion is separate the state of Israel from cording to a Knesset law.
of the 13th annual Conference on
Jewish people, he said.
being invited to return to party the "Mafdal
"The general-secretary of the Science and Technology spon-
leader S. Shragai said
activities as an honorary guest. that if the labor conference would Labor Party A 'ye Eliav, told mor soled try the American Society for
Moshe Ron, Jewish News special discuss this matter, a sharp crisis that both _,als have no chance Technion-Israel Institute of Tech-
correspondent in Israel, comments
of being accepted at the Con- nology, to be held March 28 at
might break out.
on the conference plans:
"Menahem Hacohen, who is an ference. They would get 25 or 30 the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here.
per cent maximum of the votes.
The dinner address will be de-
"A proposal was put forward orthodox rabbi, belongs to the The majority of the delegates
to put an end to the custom of young intellectual religious think- would not be interested in creat- livered by Fitzhugh Green, as-
one-third of the party's representa- ers, who believe that a separation ing a religious crisis at this hour. sociate administrator of the newly
tives to the Knesset, Histadrut, between religion and the state• is
"The Chief Rabbis of Israel have established Environmental Pro-
Jewish Agency, municipal coun- in the interests of religion and in become nervous about these pro- tection Agency in Washington. He
cils, etc., being nominated by the accordance with Jewish law. Their posals and Rabbis Unterman and will speak on "Protecting Our
executive committee, and that point of view is that religious Nissim and the Chief Rabbi of the Global Biosphere."
Jews should not becompelled to
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS such representatives should not submit to certain actions accord- army, Rabbi Goren, demand the
Moderator of the afternoon panel
fill his post for more than three
quick confirmation• of the Vienna session will be Commissioner
32—Friday, March 19, 1971
ing
to
law,
in
which
they
do
not
terms. The conference will adopt
conversions in order not to create
statutes on how the party would believe. It would be much better a crisis about repeating these con- Maurice M. Feldman, head of
1 Day Service
elect its candidates for the pre- if religious ceremonies would not versions in Israel. The Chief Rab- New York City's department of
miership, government, general sec- be an outcome of hypocrisy. Reli- binate will most probably send a water resources.
Glasses Repaired
retary of Histadrut and members gious leaders should convince re- permanent delegate to Vienna to
of the Jewish Agency executive. ligious people of the importance
of religious life and religious prin- carry through and control conver-
"A sharp debate is expected ciples out of their own free will. sions of new olim. from Eastern
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religion from the state. If such
SIZES 12-18
a proposal will be adopted, it
means that civil marriage would
be allowed in Israel. The proposal
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was discussed in a sub-committee,
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Rabbi, Menahem Hacohen. A mem-
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posed this proposal and advocated
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and is vice president of both the
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Mount Clemens Jewish Commu-
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of orthodox, conservative and re-
nity Council and Cong. Beth Te-
form rabbis in Israel. The discus-
philath Moses. A leader in the
sion
in
the
Labor
Party
has
caused
For an Evening of
Israel Bond Campaign for many
a
storm
of
anger
in
the
Mafdal
Superb Entertainment . . .
years, he served as Mount Clem-
(National
Religious
Party),
which
ens Israel Bond chairman last
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is represented in the coalition gov-
year and this. Together with his
Weddings, etc. . . .
ernment.
wife Bernice, he attended the
MORI LITTLE
Israel Bond conference in Jerusa-
Minister for Religious Affairs,
lem last August.
AND HIS
Zerah Warhaftig has already op-
posed this proposal. Who pro-
Litvin, vice president and mar-
ORCHESTRA
keting manager of the Macomb
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nated Structures, served a year
EMANUEL LITVIN
as president and for seven ytars
Emanuel (Manny) Litvin, Mount as secretary-treasurer of the
Clemens civic and communal lead- Detroit Hoo-Iloo Club (Fraternal
er, is the new state chairman of Order of Lumbermen), and also
the Michigan State of Israel Bond was a member of the interna-
committee.
tional board of directors for two
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He will head an intensive 1971 years.
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The Litvins have three children
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Michigan, outside the Detroit met- —Jeanne, a graduate of the Chi-
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cago Hebrew Academy and Stern
Litvin also will serve as general College, who is married to Rabbi
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Israel Bond dinner to be held there who attended Yeshiva University,
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May 23.
graduated from the University of
13720 W. 9 Mile
Litvin was born in Detroit and Michigan and is now completing
his MA. studies in marketing at
New York University; and Bruce,
who attended the Hebrew Academy
in Chicago and Eastern Michigan
Dr. Judah Nadich, rabbi of
University, and recently joined the
the Park Avenue Synagogue,
quar-
JERUSALEM (JTA)—"A
family business.
So Good, It's Wrapped in Gold
New York City, and head of the ter of a million Jews in Israel,
LADIES—MEN
Rabbinical Assembly (Conserva- mostly recent immigrants from
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It is absurd to divide people into
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newly elected president of the Pincus, chairman of the Jewish
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potentially dangerous social and
educational gap within Israel's
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He stated that only 15 per cent
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vantaged sector of Israeli society
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graduate high school, and only
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3 per cent go to a university.
One valuable way that the UJA
assists in reversing this situation
is by sponsoring much needed
pre-kindergartens, especially in de-
velopment towns, he said.
El
The 105-member mission, led
by Michael A. Pelavin of Flint,
has visited kibutzim and settle-
ments along the Beit Shean val-
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At a moving visit to the Western
Wall, the members of the mission
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witnessed a swearing-in ceremony
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They also visited Jenin, Nablus
and Ramallah.
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JERUSALEM—A group of 50
Japanese descended a Boeing 707
singing the song, "Heveinu Sha-
lom Aleichem." They were part
of the 50,000-member Japanese
Makoya sect who "fervently pe-
lieve that post-1967 Israel was
what God promised our Father
Abraham."
They were greeted at the air-
port by 20 Japanese in Israel and
offered a prayer for Soviet Jewry
at the Western Wall. The Pilgrims
studied Hebrew at the Hevtziba
Kibutz.

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