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." RABBI S. Specializ.1 ZACHARIASH PAOHEl In Homo or Hospital 557-9666 UV. SIDNEY RUBE Mohel 358-1426 or 357-5544 RABBI LEO GOLDMAN Fever( Mohel Serving Hospitals and Homes LI 1-9769 LI 2-4444 ent IndiCtrn .- s in WW II France of Silent Has "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. Say it most impressively with ... so much more to say "Get Well" with a beautifully arranged basket of carefully selected, health-giving fresh fruits, with assorted sweets and snacks A treat to eat that can be shared with others ........priced from $12.50 It means DAILY DELIVERY to all hospitals ler Ramos) Business associates and ...teener, will else appreciate Call 862-6800 Gift Dept. 3205 W. McNichols Rd. Detroit, Mich. 48221 sift baskets. /*AV. Zartai 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."