THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

35—Friday, Nov. 17, 1972

Jewish Student Co-Op Succeeds
After Year on Madison Campus

They've managed to work
out house rules, allocation of
responsibilities for various
aspects of communal life
and determination of meth-
ods of enforcement of the
rules, Norich said.
Nonmembers who want
kosher meals ate regular
guests. In the first year of
the Kibutz, an average of
10 to 15 outside students
Jewish rules established at
the beginning. Smoking is
forbidden on the Sabbath in
the public areas of the house.

BY BEN GALLOB

(Copyright 1972, JTA. Inc.)

NEW YORK — The Kib-
utz, a cooperative living
house for Jewish students on
the Madison campus of the
University of Wisconsin has
survived its first year of
trial and error and is ef-
fectively meeting both the
housing and Jewish needs of
its second-year membership
of 18 women and 13 men.

Sam Norich, a graduate
student who was a vice pres-
ident of the cooperative in
its first year reported on the
problems and initial success
of the co-op in an interview
with the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
The Kibutz, located in a
rented building near cam-
pus has a waiting list of 10
students. The problem is
money, and the local Jewish
establishment — with the
exception of the Madison
Hebrew Free Loan Society
— has displayed little in-
terest in the Jewish co-op,
according to Norich.
Organized as a nonprofit
corporation under Wisconsin
state law, the kibbutz started
operations in September
1971.

Students may bring non-
kosher food to their rooms
or smoke on the Sabbath in
their rooms; the rules were
developed to assure the sen-
sibilities of the more obser-
vant members were not of-
fended and to prevent prob-
lems developing about the
kashrut of the kitchen and
joined the members each
night at the communal din-
ners. Kashrut was one of the
the storage and cooking fa-
cilities.
Services are held each Fri-
day night in the house, un-
der direction of members.
On Saturday mornings, about
half of the members walk to
the Hillel House a half block
away to participate in ser-
vices there.
Sessions on Jewish lore
are held Saturday after-
noons in the house. The com-
munal dinner is held six
nights a week. On Shabat
there is no warming or cook-
ing of foods.
University faculty mem-
bers are invited to come to
the Kibutz to lead discus-
sions or give talks and do
so regularly, Norich said.
Norich said 10 or 11 of
the first-year members had
settled in Israel, another
seven or eight had graduated
and another similar number
were living elsewhere.
He described the Jewish-
ness of the members as "all
along the range" of identi-
fication, with about half
classifiable as obse r v ant
Jews. The members have in-
cluded a couple of Radical
Zionists and two Jewish De-
fense League adherents.

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Weizmann's Humanist Concern Recalled 20 Years After Death

This was the reason for historic insult was character-
is means more in the long
run than what he does. The his overriding concern with istic of him. He did not fume
the launching of intellectual nor shout. He fell back on
same is true of nations.
life in IsraeL It goes without Jewish folklore. He likened
It was the qualitative char-
saying that the creation of himself to the shadhan, the
acter of this state which con-
an economically viable com- machmaker of Pinsk, who
cerned him most during the
munity had a certain fateful took a long time arranging
last years of his life—those
By MEYER W. WEISGAL
priority.
But a viable econ- for a match, was exhausted
months when, exhausted and
(copyright 1972, JTA. Inc.)
in the end, and the young
his omy was a meaningless
spent,
he
lay
chained
to
Without question, the life
couple got impatient and
bed in the high room of his phrase to him if it did not
of modern Israel is the real
eloped. The shadhan then be-
Rehovot home overlooking the represent a community with
expression of Dr. Chaim
wailed his fate: "The least
Jude an hills he loved so high spiritual standards.
Weizmann's astonishing gift
Weizmann's
name
is
not
they
could have done was ac-
much.
for creation. Perhaps more
included among those who cord me one blessing under
When I saw him then,
than any other statesman of
signed the Declaration of In-
the hupah."
our time, he succeeded in ef- shortly before he died, his depence of the Jewish state.
fecting an organic fusion be- dual concern remained na- Maybe, after all, David Ben-
tional
morality
and
the
uni-
tween the abstractions of the
Gurion was right when he
versal scope of science. I
said, "Weizmann doesn't need
had the feeling that through
and his
it." I said to him, more in
me he was pleading with the
anger than in sorrow, "But
Jewish people not to abandon
the truth needs it, Jewish his-
its prophetic values or its
story needs it, integrity needs
standards of morality.
it." But apparently, Ben-Gur-
Now it occurs to me that ion needed the absence of
he never said Israel or the Weizrnann's name from the
Israelis; that he spoke only Declaration of Independence.
of the Jewish people. This,
Weizmann's reaction to this
too, was characteristic of his
philosophy. To him, world
Satisfied Customer Is
Jewry and the Jewish state
Our First Concern
were an integral entity. Fun-
damentally, Zionism repre-
CHAIM WEIZMANN
sented a synthesis of the cre-
mind and the practical activ- ative energies of the entire
ities demanded by man's Jewish people.
These energies were to
physical existence.
This fusion is reflected in function harmoniously both
in
the one center where Jews
the very core of life in Israel
today. It is part of the flavor controlled their own fortunes
SAUL RABINS
of Israel's politics, part of directly and in the numerous
the cacaphony of its unflag- centers outside Israel where
ging discussions, of its intel- Jews were bound to remain
lectual posture, of its argu- subject to Diaspora influ-
mentativeness, of Its addition ences.
Deal with a mon that stands behind all his work
In Weizmann's view these
to theoretical formulae, and
and products.
different centers, both within
its adoration of dedication.
Israel and beyond its bor-
In all these, one recognizes
ders, would inevitably be
easily two major and famili-
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est emotional and intellec-
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ulence of pre-revolutionary
tual identification.
Russia, and, perfectly paral-
lel with it, the basic values
of Anglo-Saxon democracy.

(Editor's note: Meyer Welsgal,
chancellor of Weizmann Institute,
was Dr. Chaim webanann a ad-
visor and aide over many years.
The Webanann Institute Is his
Rte's work. In an earlier period,
he was a sure sssss I Journalist and
editor.)
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Just as these were the twin
paths along which W e I z-
mann's political concept de-
veloped. with no disharmony
or clash evef interrupting
their growth, so Israel itself
is an organic coalescence of
both types of social organiza-
tion.

We've had it
with bad drivers!

I would not like to be mis-
understocd. There is much
about contemporary Israel
that Weizmann would cer-
tainly have disapproved of.
or that in any case would
have distressed him.

He would have been af-
fronted, by the overwhelming
predonderance of sectarian
and partisan influence. He
himself represented a Jewish
nationalism that was always
global;-„his dislike for dogma
and narrow allegiances was
deep-rooted and basic.

tie Would have disliked ev-
in the state that is
parochial, a n d everything
that is tolerant of expediency.

erything

The basic tenet of Weiz-
mann's political and moral
beliefs was his conviction that
thitecharacter of a human be-
ing or, for that matter, of a
nation, mattered more than
anything else. In all his
important statements, this
theme 'reappears, implicitly
or explicitly: "What a man

Men's Clubs

AERCULAPIAN PHARMA-
CEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
will meet 9 p.m. Monday at
Whitehall Apts. club house.
The ladies' auxiliary will

serve refreshments.

"Books are good enough in
their own way, but they are
a mighty bloodless substitute
for life."—Robert Louis Ste-

On

Last year,

If you think our cops am tough,
radii you meet our judges.

had drivers cost us 189 lives,

16,000 Injuries and
8169,000,000.

Hare's what we're doing about it.

Our cops are going to get tough
But getting tough is only part of our strategy
We've come up with one of the most compre-
hensive. innovative traffic law enforcement
programs ever devised
Our police will have complete computer
information on high accident areas They'll know
where accidents occur most frequently. what
time they occur. how severe they are and what
violations are at fault
Those are the areas they'll be watching
So they'll be very selective with their tickets
We re also encouraging greater un , formity
of enforcement from community to community
And were emphasizing a crackdown on
drinking driver violations

arc

Our courts are going to get tough, too.
And were helping. By providing instant
Onver record information to spot repeat violators.
By conducting traffic law seminars for
fudges and prosecutors.
By promoting increased communication
Between court districts. And between courts
and police .

Wel be glad to let you off wtth a
warning. This Is It.

Oakland County is traveled daily by thousands
of people who dorrt care about our community
it were going to save lives and money, we
nave to make them care
So don't expect leniency.
Ours is a pilot program which may
eventually be used all across the country. And
we re determined to make it work.
Let's lace it Nobody can afford to be soft
on bad drivers
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