THE State'Nelfare - Reform-Coalition , This summer, - leaders in sev- eral local organizations, includ- ing Council, sent telegrams to Gov. Milliken and state repre- sentatives, urging support for significant increases in public assistance grants and for the the recommendations 'of the Michigan Welfare Study Com- mission. Organizations and individuals interested in arranging educational programs, obtaining literature, or learning how they may. help in other ways on the issue of welfare reform, may call Council office, 962-1880. Criterion Club for single adults will bold "open house" 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bonanza Sir- loin Pit, 11 Mile at Greenfield. The public is invited at no charge. Consumer advocate Lee Wen- okur will conduct a forum on self- protection from rackets. Also on the program is "A House- wife's Plan for Peace in the Middle East," a detailed and copyrighted proposal to be presented for dis- cussion by Mrs. Suraj N. Gupta, who has already seen the adoption of many of her suggestions for peace in Vietnam. Born in Simla, India, and mar- ried now to Dr. Suraj N. Gupta, professor of physics at Wayne State University, Mrs. Gupta has received for her Middle East plan expressions of appreciation from Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir's office and from the Royal Palace in Amman. For information, call Betty Weinberg, president, 547-2565, or Pearl Greenstein, 399-3718. , American- Firm Relates Interest in Israel Bank NEW YORK—An. agreement in principle, has been reached for the organization of a new bank in Is- rael, to be formed by the merger of two existing Israeli banks and the acquisition of two others. The new _bank, tentatively to be known.** First International Bank of Israel:: Would have 58 offices in Israel and be-Owned by a holding company. in which First Pennsyl- vania Corp. and the Israeli govern- ment would each have a substan- tial interest.. Shareholders of one of the ex- isting banks and certain other foreign and.United States interests would Man the balance. The new bank WM be active in international as well as industrial finance. Friday, October 15, 1971-41 NCRAC Urges Strong Sta. The-lesVish -.CommunitY: - Council of Metropolitan -Detroit, has - joined the Michigan ' Welfare - • Reform Coalition, it was, announced, by Hu- bert J. - Sidlow, Council.president, and John' H. -Shepherd, chairman of the - community relations cona- mittee. - - The coalition; . composed of re- ligious, 'labor, .-civic and welfare- related organizations, provides a coordinated network of education and social action efforts in support of a more - equitable, just. and hu- mane system of public assistance. Council's participation in the coali- tion represents the latest in a series of activities on behalf of welfare reform.- • Within the past year, Council adopted and disseminated a state- ment on welfare reform, organized a community_ conference, joined the _ongoing Detroit-area 'Leader ship --Conference - for Welfare Re- form and produced - a four-part television series, "The MO Price of - ProvertY,". for program Consumer Defender Due at Criterion Open House DETROIT JEWISH NEWS THE 'NATIONAL DANCERS' DE MEXICO, a company of 50 dan- cers; instrumentalists and singers from the Mexican province of Aztlan,,,visits the. Masonic. -Audi- torium 8:20 p.m. Nov. 6. Tickets town and all J. L. Hudson ticket centers. * A film, "The -Greatest Adven- ture," and 'a panel discussion on fasting and - ietetarian_ diets. will are available at the Masonic_ box 'be presented ; by the DETROIT office, Grinnell's downtown and NATURAL HYGIENE, SOCIETY all J. L. Hudson ticket centers. GUY LOMBARDO, who is cred- ited with introducing over 600 hit songs to the North 'American pub- lic brings -, his Royal Canadians to the Masonic. Auditorium 8:20 p.m. Nov. 13. Tickets are at the Masonic box office, Grinnell's downtown and all Hudson's ticket centers. • • = FRED. WARING AND THE PENNSYLVANIANS, coming to the Masonic Auditorium 8:20 p.m. Nov. 5, will play everything from popular standards and contem- porary songs to Broadway show- tunes, chorales and folksongs. Tickets are available at the Ma-. sonic box office, Grinnell's down- Israel Is Well Liked by French Students PARIS (JTA)—French students, reputedly- leftists and anti-Israel, are far less negative toward the Jewish state than has been be- lieved, according to the - results of a poll by the highly respected French Institute for Public Opin- ion published in Le Figaro. The vast majority of the students polled coosidered Israel a demo- cratic state and thought that its ex- istence "is a good thing." A ma- jority also believed, however, that "Israel is an artificial state" that can be sustained only by constant help from the Western world and diaspora Jews. They expressed the belief that the Big Powers wanted peace in the Middle East but felt that Is- rael "cannot and should not trust their guarantees or any which the United Nations might extend." 7:30 p.ra-._ ,Oct. '23 at:, Nor Northland Concourse, auditorium. Refresh- ments wili be- Served. The-coMmitteefor the CLASS OF 1962 MUMFORD HIGH SCHOOL reunion:needs help in locating classmates.- - These persons- should call master-, list chairman „Shelly (Goldstein) Weintraub, 535-2609. (Gordon) 'Chairman is Peggy (Gordon) Sandier. • • Mrs. Nora Peisner will moder- ate a panel discussing "FINAN- CIAL CRISIS IN PUBLIC EDU- CATION: HOW YOUR TAX DOL- LAR IS SPENT" when Oakland Branch of the American Associa- tion of University Women meets 1 p.m. Monday at the' YWCA, Clawson. Mrs. Peisner, a. member of the Berkley Board of Education, is former chairman of the Oakland County Tax Reform Committee. The Detroit Institute of Arts Youtheater's "SO METHING EV- ERY SATURDAY" lineup will fea- ture a mini-season of five shows selected especially for a teen au- dience. Programing includes ev- erything from night club-type for- mats to a folk musical to a puppet show. Performances are 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. Saturdays, with season tickets, individual tickets and group rates available. The African Ishangi Dancers will appear Sat- urday. NEW YORK (JTA)—American separate activities,- which will be Jews are being asked to take a. coordinated for maximum timeli- strong public stand on a wide vari- ness and impact. ety of domestic issues, among (See Story in Column 1) them welfare reform, opposition to government harassment of dis- senters, strict separation of church Candy Centerpieces and state and ,measures to reverse the deterioration of the cities. Personalized Party These and other subjects are dealt with in the annual Joint Mementos Program Plan for Jewish Com- Invitations and Party Ac- munity Relations Advisory Conn- cil, in consultation with its nine cessories for all occasions. national organizations and 90 --- community relations councils. According to NCRAC Execu- tive Vice Chairman Isaiah Minkoff, the plan, advisory but not binding 646-6138 on the participating organizations, will be widely reflected in their MARCIA MASSERMAN Gonik's Kosher Meat, Fish & Poultry The Best Meat at 'The Best Prices CLOSED FOR VACATION WILL RE-OPEN OCT. 24th WATCH FOR BIG SALES Free Delivery 255 - 3777 20215 W. 7 Mikr HANDBAGS Choose From Thousands—AN Famous Makers GET THE BEST, FOR LESS! CHARLOTTE'S ANA 9 Mile at Coolidge, Oak Park 11 Mile at Lahser, Harvard Row (this store closed Sunday) 12% Mile at Southfield, Southfield Plaza OPEN SUNDAY 12 TO 5 P.M. Art Linklatter has fun with some of the dance students from a tinklattor Totten School The most severe point of criti- cism of Israel by the students was what they considered an overem- phasis on the military and religious aspects. Forty-nine per cent of the stu- dents believed that the army plays too important a role in Israel and that the country is a theocratic state. But 68 per cent thought that Frenchmen felt closer to Israel than to the Arab states. Only 11 per cent expressed the opposite vievi. The Ritual of Study As Religious Exercise By Maurice Samuel, in "The Professor and The Fossil" The most important part of the ritual is study: and the difference between Jewish and other study is clarified once for all when we remember that for oters a knowl- ede of the history of their people is a civic duty, while for Jews it is a sacred duty. It is considered God's will not only that we shall be good, but that we shall know what lie did to us 'and what we did about Him. The view is that we cannot, in fact, know what He wants us to do without that knowl- edge of what happened between Elm and us, between Rim and the world, and among all three of =- There is a sense in which Jews consider all knowledge sacred, and :all -study—unless it leads toward apostasy—a religious exercise. Biography Old books, as you well know, are Read no history, nothing but books of the world's youth, and biography, for that is life with- new books are fruits of its age. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. out theory. —Benjamin Disraeli. NEW!. NOW OPEN! CHILDREN'S 'DANCE CLASSES! Just 3 Wee Left to Enroll Coll Us Now 511-0300 or 357-1215 , ART LIN KLETTER TOTTEN Dance Studios for Children 134111.E and MAIN ROYAL OAK Send Your Children Free Transportation - ill US On Our Bus! - 12-MILE and EVERGREEN SOLITHRELD '