SO—Friday, Nov. 24, 1972

THE DETROIT JEWISN NEWS

It's Not Jewish, Nor About Sex
Nor About Cook ing, but It's Fun

The author recounts his ad-
Anyone who has ever tried
to raise wolves will under- ventures raising a timber
stand why Jack Douglas had wolf in respectable suburban
to call his book, "The Jewish- Connecticut. How he and his
Japanese Sex and Cook Book Japanese wife Reiko cope
and How to Raise Wolves." with the growing wolf family
Who would buy the book if —as well as their own, plus a
its title were "How to Raise 200-pound mountain lion, an
Alaskan malamute and a
Wolves"?
Since few works sell better Pomeranian appropriately
than sex and cook books — named Doggie — and how
particularly Jewish and they resolve the dilemma
Japanese cookbooks — and makes for interesting read-
since Jews buy books, Doug- ing.
His readers will learn noth-
las picked a winning title.
Will the book buyer feel ing about Jewish cooking, but
cheated? Possibly, but Doug- judging by Douglas' earlier
las is a master at sustaining literary successes, no one
interest with his already re- will hold it against him.
nowned humor ("My Brother
Was an Only Child").
Commerce Group

Award Is Offered
for Jewry Research

JERUSALEM — The He-
brew University is inviting
entries for the Israel Jefroy-
kin Award, endowed by the
Jewish National Fund, for
research on Eastern Euro-
pean Jewry.
The $2,000 award will be
made for the best scholarly
research work on any aspect
of Eastern European Jewry.
Papers published or writ-
ten within the last five years
in Yiddish, English, German,
Polish, French or Russian
are eligible.
Entry deadline is Dec. 31.
Papers should be sent to the
Academic Secretary, He-
brew University, Givat Barn
campus, Jerusalem.
The winning entry will be
announced in the spring.

HIAS Aids Jews,
Moslems, Hindus

NEW YORK • (JTA) — A
special event signifying in-
terfaith cooperation took
place when a flight from
Rome arrived Nov. 16 bring-
ing a total of 106 immigrants.
Of this total, 46 refugees—
Jews, Moslems and Hindus—
will be assisted by United
Hias Service. These new ar-
rivals consist of 20 Jewish
immigrants from Eastern
Europe and Libya and 26
stateless Asians expelled
from Uganda.
All will be assisted in their
resettlement by Jewish com-
munities throughout the coun-
try.

Theater Censorship

JERUSALEM—A group of
143 actors, directors, play-
wrights and theatrical per-
sonalities have petitioned the
government to abolish theater
censorship. The petition was
prompted by the refusal of
the censorship board to al-
low the public performance
of Amos Keinan's "Friends
Talk About Jesus," a play
mocking Israel's veneration
of its war dead.

Gross 'Hanuka Plate'

NEW YORK—The Judaic
Heritage Society is marking
Hanuka with a traditional
Hanuka Plate by Chaim
Gross, etched in solid ster-
ing silver and in 20 karat
gold.
Each commemorative plate,
eight inches in diameter, is
individually numbered. This
is the second of the Judaic
Heritage Society's Jewish
Festivals Series of limited-
edition plates.

Classifieds Get Quick Results

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to Honor 4 Leaders

CHICAGO — Members of
the American-Israel Cham-
ber of Commerce and Indus-
try will sponsor their "Indus-
trialists of the Year" award
dinner to be held Dec. 2 at
Palmer House here.
Selected to be honored at
the dinner are: Raymond N.
Carlen, Raymond Epstein,
Jack Hoffman and Martin
N. Sandler. Honorary chair-
man is Philip M. Klutznick.

Jerusalem's Sephardi Synagogues Restored After Desolation

A quarter of a century after their capture and de-
secration by Jordan's Arab Legion in Israel's War of
Independence the Sephardi synagogues in the ancient
Jewish quarter of Jerusalem were recently restored to
their ancient glory.
Sephardi denotes those Jews of Spanish and Oriental
origin who follow their own religious liturgy as differen-
tiated from Ashkenazi who originated in Western Europe.
After the liberation of Jerusalem in the Six-Day
War it took five more years of painstaking work to re-
construct the synagogues which had been completely
destroyed and used as stables or as repositories for
rubble. Only the shells of the four main synagogues re-
mained, unlike the Ashkenazi synagogues where recon-
struction work is still proceeding.
Funds for the reconstruction were contributed by the
James de Rothschild family from England, some of whose
members are of Sephardi origin, and by several Ameri-
can donors. Present at tre recently-held dedication cere-
mony were the president and premier of Israel and the
mayor of Jerusalem.
The largest and most elaborate of the recently-
restored Sephardi synagogues In Jerusalem's ancient
Jewish quarter is the Yohanan Ben Zakkai Synagogue,
shown in the upper photo. As in most Sephardi syna-
gogues the pulpit Is in the center of the congregation,
while the architecture shows a definite Oriental and
often Moorish influence.
The shell in the middle photo was all that remained
of the Yohanan Ben Zakkai Synagogue shortly after the
liberation of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War and before
the five-year-long labor of reconstruction began.
A week after the official opening of the restored
Yohanan Ben Zakkai Synagogue in Jerusalem's ancient
Jewish quarter celebrants are shown, in the bottom photo,
marking the Simhat Torah holiday with the traditional
dancing and Hakafot, carrying the scrolls of the Torah
aloft.

Photos from Keren Hayesoi—United

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Israel Appeal, Jerusalem.

Israel's Health Report • • Glowing

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Fi-
Israel has "nothing to be
nance Minister Pinhas Sapir ashamed of in the social
painted a picture of progress and economic spheres, Sapir
on all economic fronts in Is- said. But he warned against
rael in his annual economic increasing inflationary pres-
report to the cabinet Sunday sures.
and promised greater
During his 31/2 hour pre-
achievements in housing, sentation, Sapir expressed
education and welfare.
confidence that the housing

shortage for newly married
couples would be ended by
1975.
He said IL 150,000,000
and $150,000,000 have been
contributed toward health,
education and welfare pro-
jects by private sources;
6,500 hospital beds are being
built in new hospitals and
extensions of existing hos-
After All, What Does a Pigeon Know?
pitals; and that in four years
HAIFA—Under the excise conviction. The court stated a 10th grade education will
tax laws, farmers are not al- that it wasn't convinced the be made free and compul-
lowed to cut their own tobac- machine cut tobacco and that sory. At present, compulsory
co after harvesting and dry- it might very well be a home education ends in the ninth
ing. It must be weiged by for pigeons. ,
grade.
internal revenue inspectors
Sapir reported 108 strikes
and then processed in an au-
this year, 32 fewer than dur-
Out of the Mouths
thorized factory.
ing the corresponding period
Kassim Derwish Abu Sallah of Babes . . .
-
of last year.
grows tobacco in the Arab
He said the strikes caused
HAIFA — Fouad Hassoun
village of Sakhnim in the Gal- Halaby, a Druze contractor the loss of 162,000 work days
ilee.
in Daliat el-Carmel, paid against 165,000 work days
When the inspectors came IIA,500 ($1,125) to the Israel lost in the corresponding
to weigh his tobacco, they Electric Corp. in August 1971 period last year, and that
claimed they found a cutting to have his home wired for the number of strikes in the
machine in his cellar, minus electricity.
public sector dropped from
only the blade.
Every week he stopped in 80 last year to 50 this year.
Abu Sallah insisted that it at the company's office to
Other points made by Sapir
wasn't a cutting machine at find out when the work would were that IL 3,000,000,000
all but a dovecote for his pig- be done and each time was has been invested in building
eons. flue he was arrested
told "Another week or two." and that Israel's trade
and fined IL750 ($187).
On Feb. 8 he wrote a letter deficit will be $100,000,000.
He appealed to the District
According to the World
and received a reply that the
Court, which overturned kis
matter was being looked into. Bank, Israel's economy ranks
18th
of 122 countries with
Nothing happened.
Russia Extends War
Finally, he settled down at populations over 1,000,000
by Allowing Jews
the Electric Corp. office in and ranks 48th among na-
tions generally.
to Leave, China Says Haifa with his wife and nine
It compares favorably with
WASHINGTON (JTA) — children, the youngest, 6 the economy of Egypt, which
The New China News Agency months old, crying loudly.
Three days later the Hal- has 10 times Israel's popula-
charged in Hong Kong that
tion.
the "practice of Soviet revi- aby house had electricity.
sionism" in allowing Jews to
.
go to Israel "can only pro- Pincus to Quit Agency Now He Tells (i.e
long the state of war in the
BAT YAM—A masked man
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Lead-
Middle East."
ers of Israel's Labor Party with an Uzi submachine gun
This, the agency stated, is and the Jewish Agency are burst into a branch of Bank
because Soviet policy on this attempting to persuade Aryeh Leumi and shouted, "Don't
matter "is doing Arab coun- Pincus to continue as chair- move! I'll hurt you if you
tries considerable wrong."
man of the Jewish Agency get in the way."
He then went to the tel-
Executive, following Pincus'
decision to resign from his ler's counter and took all
Herzog Forest
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A post and become the next the money there, IL1,500 $375
forest in memory of the late chairman of the board of and drove off in a car which
later proved to be stolen.
Dr Yaacov Herzog director Bank Leumi.
Aharon Cohen, the bank
general of the prime minis-
A certain awkwardness manager, said that the Uzi
ter's office, was dedicated
by the Jewish National Fund marks the use of borrowed was old and rusty. "I could
near Mostiav Nehusha in the thoughts, but as soon as we have laid him flat in two
have learned what to do with seconds but I didn't want
Lahish region.
The forest will have more them, they become our own. to endanger the other people
—Ralph Waldo Emerson in the bank."
than 10,000 trees.

S. Africa's Governing Party
Leaders Assail Bicrot's
Remark
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JOHANNESBURG (JTA)— to ask Schwartz if he wa,
The governing National Jew and rejected Christ.
Party has repudiated auti-
Schwartz replied that he
Semitic canards expressed was a Jew and subscribed
by one of its members to the Jewish religion. His
against a Jewish leader of heckler then called out,
the opposition United Party South Africa lands in a war
during a recent bielection your sort will be In Israel."
meeting in Piet Retief, a
Schwartz retorted angrily,
country town.
The local National Party "If another war comes, you
leader apologized on the spot and your sort will again find
for his colleague's behavior, an excuse not to fight for
and the outburst was con- your country. I am a Jew
demned later by the National and a better South African
Party newspaper, Die Vader- than you are. Your leaders
will reject you."
land.
At that point, the local
The meeting, organized by
the United Party, was being National Party leader arose
to
apologize. He said the
addressed by Harry
Schwartz, the party's Trans- views expressed by the heck-
vaal leader, wnen a National ler were not those of his

Party .ntember..-InterrUpted PartY.

