Nun to Build Bridges Between Jew and Catholic in Latin America
Rabbi Karasick Heads
NEW V+511K — The Rev. Jorge pansion of the council's work in ternational orders of nuns devoted
WJC American Section
to better understanding between
that area.
NEW YORK — The American
Section of the World Jewish Con-
gress has elected Rabbi Joseph
Karasick of New York, president
of the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America, as
chairman.
In his accept-
a nc e speech,
Rabbi Karasick
paid tribute to
his predecessor,
Mrs. Rose L.
Halprin, during
whose term of
office, he said,
t h e American
Section had ex-
perienced un-
precedented
Rabbi Karasick growth.
Rabbi Karasick said he be-
came an enthusiastic supporter
of the World Jewish Congress
when as a representative of the
Conference of Major American .
Jewish Organizations he at-
tended a meeting of the World
Jewish Congress Executive .in
1965.
The other officers are:
Vice chairmen: Rabbi Ira Eisen-
stein, Reconstructionist Founda-
tion; Jacob Katzman, Farband-
Labor Zionist; Rabbi Wolfe Kel-
man, Rabbinical Assembly; Will
Maslow, American Jewish Con-
gress; Earl Mores, Union Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations, and
Mrs. Fay Schenk, Hadassah; ad-
ministrative committee chairman:
Bernard Harkavy, Americans for
Progressive Israel; vice chairman
of administrative committee: Dr.
Bernard Bergman, Mizrachi; sec-
retary: Abram Salomon, ZOA; and
treasurer: Herman Quittman, Bnai
Zion.
Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, Dr. Max
Nussbaum and Dr. Joachim Prinz,
all former chairmen of the Ameri-
can Section, were elected honorary
chairmen.
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Mejia,' executive secretary of the
department for ecumenical rela-
tions of the Latin American Coun-
cil of Bishops, announced "a
major step forward in improving
Catholic-Jewish relations"—the ex-
Youth 'Rejection' Denied by Experts
BY BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1971, JTA, Inc.)
NEW YORK — A Long Island
Jewish communal expert h a s
strongly urged rejection of the
"myth" that young Jews "will not
relate to the adult community,"
adding his conviction that while
they may insist on relating "on
their own terms," they are also
"capable of compromise and
negotiation."
That view was expressed by
Percy Abrams, executive direc-
tor of the YM and YWHA of
Wantagh, in a review of services
being provided by the Jewish
community to Jewish students on
nine campuses in Nassau and Suf-
folk counties.
He presented his evaluation at
the first Nassau-Suffolk Jewish
Community Conference sponsored
by the commission on Synagogue
relations of the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies of New
York in cooperation with the Nas-
sau-Suffolk Association of Rabbis.
Abrams asserted also that young
Jews "will accept help" from the
adult community "but not dicta-
tion." He declared that "they are
conscious—as who is not—of the
generation gap but they also
know that there are people in
both generations who can work
together for the strengthening of
the Jewish community and who
can link up the generations."
He offered a number of propo-
sals to help bring Jewish youth
into programs aimed at their
eventual participation as adults in
Jewish communal life.
Abrams argued that the adult
Jewish community, "amorphous
as it may be, and through what-
ever organizations any one in-
dividual may wish to work
through," should decide that "it
must put resources into the
Jewish student community to
Rrtli Announcements
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Lawrence Jackier (Rochelle Ko-
mer), 19763 Cranbrook, a daugh-
ter, Ariana Beth.
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March 31—To Dr. and Mrs. Ar-
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Detroiters of Los Angeles, a son,
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March 26 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Norber ( Charlene Yol-
leck), 17000 Pennsylvania, South-
field, a son, Howard Steven.
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March 24 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Vann (Nancie Grace of
Detroit) of Mexico City, a son,
Lee Peter.
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The council's department of
Catholic-Jewish relations, headed
by the Rev. Luis Rivas, will now
have the full-time services of Sis-
ter Alda, a Sister of Sion, the in-
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March 17 — To Mr. and Mrs.
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March 16—To Mr. and Mrs. Lau-
rence Singal (Saundra Brown),
23145 Kipling, Oak Park, a son,
David Bernard.
March 13 — To Rabbi and Mrs.
Avrahm Hershoff (Bernice Apt),
former Detroiters of Brockton,
Mass., a daughter, Channah Mina.
March 11—To Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Rosenzweig (Judy Klurstein),
14631 LaBelle, Oak Park, a son,
Matthew Ian.
March 10—To Mr. and Mrs. Lou
Jacobs (Paulette Grant), 23401
Geoffrey, Oak Park, a son, Jeffrey
David.
stem the rift to assimilation and
disappearance."
He cited a memorandum of the
American Zionist Youth Founda-
tion of last February to the effect
that indigenous campus news-
papers had a combined circula-
tion of more than 100,000 and pro-
posed wider encouragement of
publication of such student news-
papers.
Another proposal he offered call-
ed for recognition that "there are
struggling groups on campus that
need help now. Students have
transiency of membership. Groups
die out and there is no continuity.
"No yoUth movement," he said,
"has long survived without moral
and financial support from an
adult group," adding that the adult
community "can provide the in-
strumentalities for continuity."
Peggy Mann's New
Biography, `Golda'
Due on April 29
Peggy Mann's new biography of
Golda Meir will be published by
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan on
April 29 — the anniversary of Is-
rael's independence.
Miss Mann's interest in Golda
and in Israel began some 14 years
ago when, in the course of a round-
the-world writing trip, she made
her first visit to the beleaguered
country. She has since returned
to Israel many times, finding the
blend of past, present and future
particularly intriguing. Each time
she returned, Miss Mann found
that the tiny country had changed
so much as to be almost unrecog-
nizable. She was most impressed
by the Israelis' knowledge of their
own country's intricate history and
staggered by the lack of knowledge
which American Jews seem to
have about their homeland — and
about Golda, whom Robert St. John
calls "the amazing woman who at
70 (and a grandmother) became
the head of a country with more
problems than it had people." The
author found, for example, that
Golda's American childhood has
been virtually unknown, due par-
tially to Mrs. Meir's reluctance
to discuss her private life, and to
the fact that only one other biog-
raphy of her (first published in
1963) has ever been written.
Miss Mann therefore began her
research by concentrating on
Golda's early life both in Pinsk,
Russia and in Milwaukee. Begin-
ning in American libraries and
archives, she went on to conduct
extensive interviews here with
Golda's younger sister, Clara
Stern, who helped her tremen-
dously by making available a rare
autobiography. Written in Hebrew
by their older sister, Shana Korn-
gold, the book covers the Mabo-
vitch early years in Russia, Amer-
ica and Palestine. Miss Mann also
spent considerable time with Gol-
da's son and daughter-in-law be-
fore returning once again to Israel,
where she met and spoke with
many of the people closest to Golda
both in her political and her pri-
vate lives. Among them were Mrs.
Meir's oldest friend, Reginia Med-
zini (who has known her since
the second grade), her personal
assistant Mrs. Lou Kaddar and
political adviser Simcha Dinitz,
and many government dignitaries
with whom Mrs. Meir consults
daily.
It took a million seller, their
recording of the theme from the
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Feb. 20 — To Dr. and Mrs. Mi-
chael B. Karbal, former Detroiters
of Long Beach, Calif., a daughter,
Miriam Amaris.
the two faiths.
In New York to consult with the
Latin American and intercultural
affairs departments of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith,
Fr. Mejia said Sister Alda will
work with Catholic parochial school
educators throughout Latin Amer-
ica to instill better knowledge of.
Jews and Judaism.
She also will build a system
of friendly relations with Latin
American Jewish communities
on issues of mutual concern.
Headquarters and activities will
be centered in Buenos Aires, Ar-
gentina, "a country with an
anti-Semitic past," Father Mejia
said.
According to Father Mejia, the
expansion has been in the works
since 1968 as the "logical out-
come" of the first continental
Catholic-Jewish Conference, which
was held in Bogota, Columbia, un-
der the auspices of the Bishops'
Counci 1, the Anti-Defamation
League and Bnai Brith District 23.
A major achievement of the con-
ference was the development of a
series of recommendations to bring
about revisions of textbooks to re:
move material considered to show
religious prejudice.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
48—Friday, April 9, 1971
8ngagements
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Katzman of
Victoria Ave., Windsor, announce
the engagement of their daughter
Nancy Beth to Thomas Bortnick,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bort-
nick , of Toronto.
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