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. Larry Freedman Orchestra and Entertainment 647-2367 Art Pourrt Interesting Arts & Crafts Papier Tole Workshop Thurs., July 29 7 10 p.m. Number Limited call 352 6640 Tues. thru Fri. 10 4 Sat. 10-5 - 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 355-5962 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. 10 Mile & Greenfield (New Orleans Mall) Store The Israeli Navy, 13 years old, opened a new base at Haifa. Angering Premier Ben-Gurion, the Knesset reaffirmed the absolu- For more details see our ad in tion of ex-Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon in a 1954 "security mishap." Sunday's News & Free Press 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. - - HY HERMAN] Caricatures SAM FIELD 399-1320 Spectacular SALE! This Sunday Only 12-S the - PICKWICK Genocide Convention's Ratification Fought by Group in Washington fense of this country." The con- vention languished in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 10 years before being reported out 29455 Northwestern Hwy. favorably this year. It is scheduled Y2 Mile No. of 12 Mile group working for adequate de- for action some time this session 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. FURNITURE & UPHOLSTERING The convention was originally for- mulated in the shocked aftermath CUSTOM MADE FURNITURE—DRAPERIES of the Nazi holocaust. However, INTERIOR DECORATING according to the American SecUrity Council, the American government 273-1863 15335 W. 7 MILE 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- Session II — July 26 - August 20 move the word "political" from the definition of genocide, exempt- Summer Mother-toddler for 18 mos.-3 years ing acts which can be justified on Playland, Jr. **for preschoolers political grounds. The council also Playland *for kindergartners charges that the U. S. allows the Mini-Camp words "with the complicity of the *for lst-6th graders government" expunged as well to Funtime *for lst-3rd graders satisfy Soviet objections. Other Day Camp * 1st graders-101/2 yr. olds council objections to the conven- Safari, Jr. *101/2-12 yr. olds (fish, swim, boat & travel) tion are: It allows individuals to sue individuals, that harm to one Sports Skills Camp *for 5th, 6th & 7th grade boys person can constitute genocide, Camp of the Arts *for 6th-11th graders and most important, that the con- Safari, '71 *7th, 8th & 9th graders (a travel program)' vention would supercede the Amer- OPEN TO MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS ican Bill of Rights and the Con- stitution without giving a person charged under the convention ade- quate protection of his civil rights. Call DI 1-4200 — Group Services Division JTA Capitol Hill sources expect 'Home transportation provided to this area. the convention to be passed de- `Morning transportation provided. spite the recent American Security Registration closes for Session II on July 20, 1971. Council drive. - 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 SUMMER FUN FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER shop Anywhere GOING NORTH? Park West Galleries of Southfield announces the Grand Opening of it's Newest Date: Thursday, July 15, 197 Place: Petoskey, Mich. 0.31i94t 2V6trict 313 E. Lake St. 616/347-2347 Original lithographs, etchings, engravings, oil paintings, watercolors, posters, etc. Custom Framing—one week service or less As in our Southfield Gallery you will find many exceptional values in original art, as well as fine creative designs in custom framing.