Oct.
3111 13,
1972
Measure Hails
Philharmonic
Co-sponsored by Senators
Daniel Cooper and Jack Fax-
on, the Michigan State Sen-
ate adopted a resolution
greeting the appearance here
of the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra, its 106 musicians
and its director, Zubin Meh-
ta, and commended the Zion-
ist Organization purposes of
"promoting support for Is-
rael, assistance to the high
school in Kfar Silver, the
Zionist House in Tel Aviv
and Israel-American cultural
relationships.
The resolution concludes
with commendations of the
work of ZOD by stating:
"The Senate commends the
Zionist Organization of De-
troit for its unique and valu-
able contributions to the cul-
tural life of Michigan, and
its untiring efforts in foster-
ing good will and under-
standing between Israel and
the United States."
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"Anti-Semitism and Ang/o-
phobia revived easily in
France. They may lie dorm-
ant, but it takes only some
event to bring them to life
again" — Pierre Mendes-
France in "The Sorrow and
the Pity."
"The Sorrow and the Pity"
is not a movie to hold the
viewer spellbound. It is too
quiet — as the stories of lit-
tle people caught up in a war
not of their making are quiet.
It is probably too long — 41/2
art/is
Oct. 7 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Gary M. Goodfriend (Judy
Covensky), 21321 Kenosha,
Oak Park, a daughter,
Deborah Ruth.
• • •
Oct. 6 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Feldman (Maggie
Zeiger), 26100 Marlowe, Oak
Park, ,a son, Brian Evan.
• • •
Oct. 6 — To Mr. and Mrs.
David Elbinger (Rochelle
Greenberg), 24675 Rensse-
laer, Oak Park, a son, Kevin
Michael.
• • •
Oct. 2 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Sima (Judy Mosbach),
24690 Lakeland, Farmington,
a daughter, Jennifer Pauline.
• • •
Sept. 26—To Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Loomer (Rita Rudick),
31626 Fonville, Livonia, twin
sons, Marc Franklin and
Darren Matthew.
•
•
Sept. 24 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Grant (Iris Rosen),
23104 Webster, Oak Park, a
son, Brian Sanford.
• • •
Sept. 23—To Mr. and Mrs.
Dennis Kayes (Linda Lep-
ler), 22525 Ivanhoe, South-
field, a son, David Jonathan.
• • •
Sept. 12—To Mr. and Mrs.
Burton Shaffer (Annette
Spinner), 26190 Harding,
Oak Park, a son, Brian Jef-
frey.
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hours—and too talky for pop-
ular tastes. Yet, the film( now
showing at the Studio 8 the-
ater), a painstaking examin-
ation of how men confront—
or avoid — the reality of
war, is not to be missed.
Interviews, old newsreels
and broadcasts were utilized
by Marcel Ophuls to produce
a chronicle of Clermont-Fer-
rand, a village in France
during World War II.
Gently probing, never ac-
cusing, the interviewer ex-
poses France's heroes and its
collaborators, but mostly its
"good citizens" who saw but
were silent.
One of its heroes was Pier-
re Mendes-France, a Jew,
who one day would rise to
the premiership. A member
of parliament and an air
force lieutenant, he attempt-
ed to join forces fighting the
Germans in North Africa.
Instead, he was brought to
trial as a "deserter" by the
collaborationist Vichy gov-
ernment.
"Anti-Semitism was setting
in," he now recalled. "Peo-
ple wouldn't have dared to
express it before," but now
it was respectable. "Anti-
Semitism represented a bond
between certain French ele-
ments and certain German
elements." There were few
traitors, he said, "but the at-
titude 'Better Hitler than Le-
on Blum and the Socialists'
gained popularity among the
French bourgeoisie."
Before a hostile court-
room, packed with carefully
selected spectators who
would have liked to see him
hang, Mendes-France said in
his own defense, "I am a
Jew and a Freemason, but
not a deserter."
When the prosecutor de-
manded a six-year, prison
Dinner to Cap
Tri-City Effort
for Israel Bonds
The anniversary of Israel's
statehood will be celebrated
at a banquet honoring Dr.
Milton J. Miller 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 22 at the Bay City Coun-
try Club.
Sponsor is the Tri-City
Committee (Bay City, Sagi-
naw and Midland) for the
State of Israel Bond Drive.
Mark Jaffe and Jack Wirt
will head the drive as co-
chairmen. On the Bay City
honor committee is Joseph C.
Hirschfield, and dinner chair-
man is Mrs. M. Hertzenberg.
The Bay City committee
consists of Dr. Raymond
Cook, Milton Feig, Robert
Hirschfield, Mrs. • Max Jac-
oby, Robert Jaffe, Abe Kahn,
Mrs. Alex Kahn, Rabbi Jos-
sef Kratzenstein, Mrs. Jossef
Kratzenstein, Dr. Milton J.
Miller, Karl Mono, Albert
Rogers and Robert Sherman.
Dr. Emanuel Goldberger,
DeVere Kostoff and Dr. Dav-
id Levinsohn will comprise
the committee for Saginaw,
and working on the Midland
committee are Mr. and Mrs.
Julius Grosberg and Mr. and
Mrs. William Surath. Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Goldberg
are on the Gladwin commit-
tee.
Guest speakers will be
Shaul Ramati, consul general
of Israel for the Midwest,
and Lou Mason, night club
and television comedian.
For information, contact
Mrs. Hertzenberg, 892-2338.
sentence and won, Mendes-
France s a i d, "I imagine
You'll get your Iron Cross.
You've done very well."
Mendes-France soon es-
caped from prison. Disguised
with moustache and hair
parted down the middle, he
managed to elude his pursu-
ers and make his way to
England and Gen. Charles
DeGaulle.
Others in the film are not
so illustrious — like the
Catholic storekeeper whose
Jewish-sounding name forced
him to place an ad in the
newspaper to set his custom-
ers straight. "I've never
been racist," he told his in-
terviewer. "If a man did his
duty, I considered him
French." Still, there was the
ad.
Or the school principal
who recalled trying to "help"
a Jewish student by finding
a private tutor. Could the
teachers have submitted a
mass resignation against the
unjust Nazi occupation?
"Are you joking?" the inter-
viewer was told.
One of the most interesting
segments of the film relates
to the Nazi propaganda effort
that had more than a willing
assist from the meek govern-
ment of Marshal Petain. The
movie "The Jew Suss," pre-
s e n t e d as French-made,
would have made Julius
Streicher proud. Such films
were largely avoided by all
but the collaborators and the
diehard movie goers. Still,
Jewish names were erased
from all film credits. And
there was photographic ex-
hibition by Edouard Drumont,
the "French expert on the
Jewish problem," which
showed how to tell a Jew
from a Frenchman.
One veteran of the Maqis
(French resistance) now said
he agreed to be interviewed
because "I believe there is
a new Nazism in the world—
or maybe a new nazism un-
der a new name."
"What amazes me," he
mused, "is how many people
who supported Petain tell me
what they did in the Resist-
ance."
Diane Yapko Theds
Norman Pomerance
Danny Raskin's
LISTENING
POST
SAM DRYMAN didn't know
what struck him . . after
wife Frieda got through
celebrating his 55th birthday
. . . Was a big surprise
shindig at the Raleigh House
with more than 2e0 folks at-
tending the whoopee affair
. . . Sam came in from Chi-
cago to supposedly attend a
Soviet Dancers
Welcomed Here
With an Appeal
A letter of "welcome" to
the USSR's Beryozka Dance
Company advising the troupe
of Americans' concern for
the fate of .Soviet Jewry,
was sent this week to the
company, which performs
Sunday at the Masonic
Temple.
OVERHEARD AT . . .
Signed by Hubert J. Sid-
low, president of the Council, Shenandoah Golf and Coun-
try
Club . . . One girl golfer
the letter starts with a greet-
ing: "Your reputation as out- to another, "The nearest I
standing performers precedes ever came to a hole-in-one
you, and we applaud all ef- was an eight."
forts which promote friend-
GAL ON THE SPOT Yom
ship and good will between Kippur day at Cong. Adas
our two great nations."
Shalom, was Tobye Bindes,
The letter continues: "But 21-year-old daughter of Lou
we want to bring to your at- and Ceil Bindes ... a medi-
tention our concern and ap- cal technician at the Redford
prehension about a facet of Medical Center . . . Two
Soviet life which threatens rows in front, insurance
that good will — namely the man Ben Magid had sudden-
treatment accorded to the ly keeled over . . . Tobye
rushed to his aid, discovered
Jews of the Soviet Union.
After recounting rights de- that he had no pulse, and
nied to Jews, Sidlow adds: gave him heart massage ...
"Most ominous is the exit fee with a doctor rushing over
which has recently been im- to perform mouth-to-mouth
posed on those wishing to resuscitation . . , Between
leave the USSR. These exor- the two, Ben's life was saved
bitant fees are aimed at . . . That evening, Tobye
Jewish citizens. They are said to Lou and Cell, "1
contrary to all basic rights started off the New Year the
and represent, in effect, a best way I know how — by
form of ransom. To put a saving someone's life."
price on Jewish heads is cal-
lous blackmail and hardly be-
fitting a great nation.
"Please tell your govern-
ment leaders when you re-
turn to your homeland that
the world knows of the re-
pression of the Jewish min-
ority in the Soviet Union. We
hope that you will carry back
our message that the exit
fees be eliminated and that
those who wish to leave the
USSR should be granted the
basic human rights of emi-
gration."
John Riccardo Named
Round Table Honoree
MRS. N. POMERANCE
Diane
Linda Yapko
and
Norman Jerome Pomerance
recently were married at
Cong. Adas Shalom.
The bride is the daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Yapko of Avon Ln., South-
field, and the bridegroom is
the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Pomerance of Mid-
way Rd., Southfield.
After a honeymoon in Eu-
rope, the couple is living in
Ann Arbor.
party being given for his best
friend, Harry Eisenshtadt of
Phillip's Shoes, by wife Sybil
. . . Started out as a nice
dinner party, but the walls
opened up into a most unique
carnival - atmosphere whiz
bang . . . complete with
candy apples, ice cream, pop
corn, gaming booths, prizes,
fortune tellers, etc.... Guys
'n gals saw folks they hadn't
seen in 30 or 40 years . . .
and even Sam's old gang,
The Commodores from the
old Jewish Community Cen-
ter on Woodward Ave., had
a 30-year reunion . . . Sam,
Val Dryman, William Feld-
man, Jules Fayne, Charles
Blair, Rubin Wolnez, Phil
Moss and Morrie Mermell
. . . Nephew David Barsky,
son of Frieda's brother, Phil,
hitch-hiked from California to
help Uncle Sam celebrate.
John J. Riccardo, president
of Chrysler Corp., has been
chosen as honored guest and
speaker at the 1972 anni-
versary banquet of the De-
troit Round Table, National
Conference of Christians and
Jews, Nov. 29 at Cobo Hall.
Riccardo will be cited as
an outstanding industrial and
civic leader in furthering the
welfare of the metropolitan
Detroit community and its
citizens.
Some 2,000 business and
community leaders are ex-
pected to attend the event,
which will raise funds for the
Round Table's education pro-
gram to build understanding
and cooperation among resi-
dents of different religious
and racial backgrounds.
SEEING SIGNS . . by
Allan Hober in a small town
near Los Angeles . . . "We
use radar to protect you
from speeding drivers."
INTERESTING SPEAKER
PROGRAM is set for first
man-and-wife dinner meeting
in eight-year existence of
Maurice Zeiger Bnai Brith
Lodge . . . Oct. 19, at Town
and Country Club.
THEY CALL themselves
the "Thursday Mahj Girls"
. . . celebrating their 25th
anniversary . . . Met through
the former Beth Aaron Sis-
terhood (now Beth Achim)
. . . and found time for their
"big night" throughout the
diaper years, marriages of
their children and now the
grandmother stages .
Gerry Weingarden organized
and taught them the maid
fundamentals . . . Dorothy
Srom, Rose Cohen, Sylvia
Benson and Selda Loeb.
AS AL KALINE caught the
final out to put the Detroit
Tigers atop the eastern di-
vision race, Max Lessen
stood up to applaud ... Who-
ever wanted souveniers
didn't waste time .. . Max's
box seat was gone!
SO THESE HOLLYWOOD
kiddies were playing house
. . . Said one, "We're going
to have a big family — I
want three fathers and three
mothers."