Friday, Oct. 6, 1972-5
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
St. John Authors BBYO Booklet Erwin S. Simon' Natanya Building
for Overseas Buyers
onJewishEffortforSocialJustice Butzel Awardee NATANYA — Construction Cohn, Berris Head Bar-Ilan
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has begun on a Mediter-
WASHINGTON — What ber of the first Jewish
When United Community ranean seafront community Scholarship Solicitations
could be singled out as the colony in America petition-
Services,
the
budgeting
and
Jewish community's most ed the authorities for the
significant contribution to right to practice his religion,
America? Author Robert St. . until yesterday when some
John feels it is Jewish lead- young rabbi somewhere call-
ership in the struggle for ed on his congregation to
join in a local civil rights
social justice.
St. John, author of a re- campaign. '
cent biography of Abba Eban
From the Revolutionary
and 18 other volumes, makes War's Haym Salomon to the
this point in "Social Justice: contemporary era's Arthur
The Jewish Contribution to Goldberg, St. John empha-
America," published this sizes the achievements of
week by the Bnai Brith those he calls "fighters for
Youth Organization as part freedom. '
In biographical sketches of
of its Judaism pamphlet
more than 25 American
series.
The theme of the 64-page Jewish personalities, t h e
booklet is the Jewish role in ' author points up how each—
civil liberties and human in widely varied fields of en-
rights "from the day a mem- deavor—followed the Biblical
tradition to pursue justice.
Changes Mark
Syrian, Iraqi
Situations
These personalities include
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise,
abolitionist; Emma Lazarus,
"poetess of the masses";
Lillian Wald, suffragette and
a pacifist; Samuel Gompers,
Morris Hillquit, Sidney Hill-
man and David Dubinsky,
unionists; Supreme Court
justices Louis D. Brandeis,
Benjamin Cardozo and Felix
Frankfurter; Albert Einstein;
Herbert Lehman; and Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise.
allocations agency for the
United Foundation of Detroit,
restructured itself in 19'70 to
provide broader citizen in-
volvement in social planning
and community action, Simon
was named chairman of its
general planning committee.
He currently serves as vice
president of the board of di-
rectors of UCS and is a mem-
ber of the UCS assembly. He
has also been president of the
Michigan League for Human
Service in Lansing; formerly
known as Michigan. Welfare
League.
Business at the meeting
Wednesday will include the
election of nine members-at-
large to the board of gover-
nors of the Federation and
presentation of Schwartz's
year-end presidential report.
Providing entertainment for
the more than 300 people ex-
pected to attend to honor Si-
mon will be members of the
women's division singing en-
semble who will perform a
skit entitled "Federation
Needs You: Memories of the
'72 Campaign."
Reservations for the Wed-
nesday dinner are available
by calling the Federation of-
fice, WO 5-3939.
of homes and apartments for
foreign residents on the
southern outskirts of Na-
tanya.
The new 40-acre develop-
ment, called "Ramat Poleg,"
will offer 453 housing units
for permanent residence and
vacation homes, according to
ISRALOM, Israel Homes and
Real Estate Corp., the or-
ganization established to
serve overseas buyers in the
purchase of homes in Israel.
Total construction cost of
the project will exceed $20,-
000,000. Prices of the homes,
sold on a condominium basis,
range from $50,000 to $69,000,
with occupancy scheduled for
mid•I974.
Lewis Grossman, general
Bar-Ilan dinner chairman, an-
nounced that Irwin 1 Cohn
and David Berris will head
the scholarship committee of
Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan
University.
Max M. Fisher, honorary
chairman, will be the gust
speaker at the annual Bar-
Ilan dinner. Nov. 30.
A goal of 200 scholarships
was set for this year in order
to accommodate the enroll
ment of Russian students.
Phillip Stollman, who is
now attending the UJA mis-
sion in Israel, and .who is the
Bar-Lan chairman of (he
board, will report to the
university planning commit-
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SHANDELS
Iraq's present Jewish pop-
ulation totals about 1,000 as
compared with 250,000 before
World War II. The Baghdad
government discreetly au-
thorised the departure of
Jews wishing to leave the
country.
The Iraqi official journal
of Sept. 15 lists the dates and
duration of national holidays
for Christian, Jewish and oth-
er religious communities. One
day has been provided for,
Yom Kippur, two for Sukkot
and two for Passover.
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Con of Jews in the Arab
countries. He warned the
Syrian government to stop
persecuting its Jewish citi-
zens.
NAZARETH (ZINS) — The
few remaining Jews in Syria Israel-Liberia Pact
suffer from fear, harassment OKs Landing Rights
and hunger, it was reported
JERUSALEM (J TA) —
MARK KANDEL of Jean-
here by a tourist who recent- Israel and Liberia have
ly visited Syria on a business signed an agreement in which ette Ave., Southfield. will
trip.
each country grants the appear 11 a.m. Saturday on
He told how the Jews in other full landing rights in "Super Circus" over Channel
Damascus have been their airports. The agree- 7. Mark, 17, is a professional
squeezed into a ghetto no ment will enable El Al to ventriloquist. A student at
larger than one-quarter of a open a projected route to Southfield High, he is a
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kilometer. They are not even South America via Monro- member of the school's In-
allowed the privacy of their via, the capital of Liberia.
ternational Thespian Society
own dwellings, because the
The document was signed and a member of the Na-
Syrian authorities compel by the acting minister of tional Honor Society. He is
them to give accommoda- commerce and industry of the son of Fred and Beverly
tions to "Palestinian refu- Liberia and Pinhas Rodan, Kandel. Mark is represented
gees" who embitter their Israel's Ambassador to Mon- by the Seymour Schwartz
lives and compel them to rovia.
agency.
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.Nothing so needs reform-
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The traveler related an in-
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FACTORY EQUIP.
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point of doing his household
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PARIS (JTA) — Iraq has
decided to grant Jewish re-
ligious holidays the status of
official national holidays,
Radio Baghdad announced.
The Iraqi national radio,
monitored here, said that all
business will be suspended in
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