28—Friday, July 16, 1971
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
This Week in Jewish History
(From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
5 Young Detroiters
Join Sherut La'am
A group of 140 American and
Canadian college graduates, in-
cluding two Detroiters, are ex-
pected to leave Tuesday for Israel
to spend one year there as teach-
ers, social workers and instructors,
through the Sherut La'am pro-
gram.
Another three Detroiters are
among the more than 50 who will
depart July 28 to spend a year
working on kibutzim Shaar Hago-
lan and Magal.
At least 150 more college and
high school graduates will leave
for Israel in September and Octo-
ber.
Together with the first group
which left for Israel in January
the number of Sherut La'am par-
ticipants in 1971 will total 400.
In Israel they will spend the
first three months in the Kiryat
Shmona language workshop where
they will study Hebrew and will
prepare for their work in the sub-
Isequent nine months. Most of
them will be placed in development
towns throughout Israel.
The local young adults taking
part are Paul Matlen and Diane
Shapiro, both of Southfield, leav-
ing Tuesday; and Sheila Alter of
Oak Park, Susan Lane of Oak
Park and Laurence Gunsberg of
Southfield, leaving July 28.
Virtue is too often merely local.
—Samuel Johnson.
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40 Years Ago: 1931
A candlelight march for Soviet motorcade, ending at the area be-
Jewry will be held the evening of hind Cabo Hall. There will be ex-
Tisha b'Av, 9:30 p.m. July 31, at hibits this evening, Saturday and
Sunday.
Cong. Shaarey Zedek.
From the hillside on the syna-
(The Action Committee will sell
gogue grounds, the participants pins and distribute literature
will enter the synagogue for a about the situation of Soviet Jew-
talk by Dr. Herbert Paper, pro- 1 7)•
fessor of linguistics at the Univers
ity of Michigan. Prof. Paper
played an important part in the
hAUSIC TO PLEASE
successful efforts to release Prof.
Mikhail Zand, Russian Jewish
scholar who recently arrived with
and his Orchestra
his family in Israel.
The emphasis of the prograin
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sponsored by the Detroit Action
Committee for Soviet Jewry, will
be on programs of action for So-
Niet Jews, including circulation of
petitions and other projects. The
3,000th signature to one set of pe-
titions will be collected that eve-
ning and sent on to the SoViet Em-
for your party
bassy in Washington.
The entire community is invited
to the march, and those who wish
BY
to volunteer their services may
call Fred Rose at the Jewish Cen-
ter, DI 1-4200.
(The Action Committee will
take part in a Captive Nations
10 Years Ago: 1961
Call
The U.S., which agreed to sell meteorological rockets to the Festival downtown this weekend,
United Arab Republic, was disclosed to have refused for two years when various groups will exhibit
literature from Communist satel-
to sell them to Israel.
Adolf Eichmann admitted he had known the nature of the "final lite countries.
(The festival will start with a
solution" and said it was "the gravest crime in human history." But
he said he himself was not legally guilty because "I never ordered any
killing." As an order-taker, he explained, he would have had to kill
his own father if told to.
SPECIAL NOTICE!
Louis Caplan, Pittsburgh lawyer, moved up to the presidency of
the American Jewish Committee, replacing the late Frederick F.
Greenman.
The World Bank agreed to loan the Israeli Dead Sea Works $25,-
000,000 toward its $70,000,000 expansion at Sodom.
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The Israeli Navy, 13 years old, opened a new base at Haifa.
Angering Premier Ben-Gurion, the Knesset reaffirmed the absolu-
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tion of ex-Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon in a 1954 "security mishap."
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West Germany agreed to pay Italian Jewry $1,125,000 compensa-
tion for HO pounds of gold and 70,000 books taken by the Nazis for
a false pledge of "protection."
WORTH
Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor sang in Hebrew to U.S. serv-
icemen in Moscow.
The Trip
Dr. Nahum Goldmann reported that 13 Soviet synagogues had
and
that
there
had
been
"no
signs
year
been closed in the preceding
From
of improvement" of Soviet Jews' status.
The Latvian government said Yiddish was spoken by 83 per cent
of the republic's 96,000 Jews and by .001 per cent of its 1,800,000
non-Jews.
The Zionist Organization of America reported that $225,000,000
in Jewish capital—$192,000,000 privately, $33,000,000 through Zion-
ist funds—had been sent to Palestine during the first decade after
World War I.
British immigration officials barred a Russian rabbi because
"there are plenty of rabbis already in Palestine."
The Zionist Congress, by 123-103, voted no confidence in the resign-
ing Dr. Chaim Weizmann. It replaced him as World Zionist Organization
president with Nahum Sokolow, 70, chairman of the executive for 11
years.
Lt. Gen. Arthur Grenfell Wauchope was appointed high commis-
sioner of Palestine and Transjordania, succeeding Sir John Chancellor,
who was thought to have wanted to quit since the 1929 Arab riots.
Morris Abraham Cohen, former bodyguard of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, was
named a brigadier general in the Cantonese Army.
The 25-year-old Great Synagogue of Harbin, Manchuria, was
destroyed by an electrical fire, but most of its contents were saved.
Rabbi Noach "Lider" Zaludowski, chief cantor of the Kalisz,
Poland, synagogue for four decades, died in Detroit at 72.
Dr. Drummond Shiels, British undersecretary for the Colonies,
admitted that neither Zionists or Arabs had been consulted on the
naming of Gen. Arthur Grenfell Wauchope as high commissioner for
Palestine.
The Arthur Jaffes, prominent Berlin couple, committed suicide
together when their life savings were lost in the closing of the
Darmstaedter and National Bank. Next day the 126-year-old Jacob
Isaac Weiler Bank of Frankfurt closed; three days later manager Emil
Weiler took his life.
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Fought by Group in Washington
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of Congress.
The convention makes it a crime
tryable in international court to
"cause serious bodily or mental
harm to members" of any national,
ethnic, racial or religious group.
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compromised on so many vital
points that the convention would
be more trouble than it is worth.
According to the council the
Americans, because of vehement
Soviet objections, agreed to re-
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move the word "political" from
the definition of genocide, exempt-
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words "with the complicity of the
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the convention to be passed de-
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spite the recent American Security
Registration closes for Session II on July 20, 1971.
Council drive.
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Candlelight March for Soviet Jewry
to Be Held on Tisha b'Av Night
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A new
offensive against ratification of
the Genocide Convention was
mounted here by the American
Security Council, "a nonpartisan
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