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30--Fridley, Jan. 5, 1973

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

_Marcia I reneTureff _Senior Adults
Miss Linda- Pollack
Detroiter's Assignment in SE Asia to .1Iarry in August Invited to Series to Il'ed Hr. Levitin
Related With Humor, Perception
of Discussions

If the East remains in- precarious enough, without
scrutable at the close of being contacted by foreign-
Judith Laikin Elkin's delight- ers. Two weeks before my
ful memoir, it is not to be arrival, the bodies of two
blamed on the Detroit-born Jewish men were found
author. stuffed down a well. The
Such is the nature of Asia system of justice had not yet
that her best-informed stn- raised itself from the tribal
dents never quite fathom the level. But Jews do not par-
depths of her mystery. ticipate in Puktunwali, the
In "Krishna Smiled: As- tribal code by which Pathans
signment in Southeast Asia," extract an eye for an eye,
(Wayne State U. Press), the a life for a life. So there was
no one to avenge their deaths
nor apprehend their murder-
ers. The Jews just went
silently about their daily
lives, only more silently than
before."

The Jewish Center senior
- discussion
series headed by Prof. Sam-
uel Levin will continue into
the new year, with programs
scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday
at the 10 Mile branch.
Topics announced for Jan-
uary are "Lessons From Pro-
verbs," "The Economic
Order, an Interpretation,"
"Economic Ideals of Jewish
Life" and "Jewish Devotion
to Democracy."

adult lecture

MISS MARCIA TUREFF

Mr. and Mrs. Seymour L.
The Afghan Pathans be- Tureff of Rut land Ave.,
Southfield,
announce the en-
, lieve themselves to be the ,
lost tribes of Israel, said gagement of their daughter
Mrs. Elkin. "However, they Marcia Irene to Marc David
have been Moslems ever Manson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
since they stopped
being Sheldon Manson of Vaughan
Buddhists, which was some Ave.
An August wedding is
time in the 8th Century.
planned.
The Afghan ambassador to
India was well-versed in
Judaica. "We had whiled
away many a boring diplo-
JUDITH ELKIN
matic-do discussing the Ba-
(laughter of Benjamin and bylonian Talmud and Martin
the late Anna Laikin relates Buber, subjects he under-
The Women's Orthodox
with wit and perception her stood quite a bit better than
League and Mikva Israel, two
encounters with the people
groups dedicated to further-
and places of India, Burma,
If Mrs. Elkin can be fault-
Pakistan. Ceylon and Af- ed at all, it is for her some- ing education in the laws of
family purity and the main-
ghanistan — the locale of her times pretentious use of
tenance of the mikva in Oak
assignment as a U. S. For- native terms which she
Park, will hold their annual
eign Service officer 20 years doesn't always bother to ex-
banquet 6:30 p.m. Sunday at
ago.
plain, and her gentle mock- Shenandoah Country Club.
A graduate of Columbia ery of tourists who photo-
This is one of the first
University's school of inter- graph everything' in sight
national affairs, where she and snap up every available occasions at Shenandoah to
be
kosher catered under
majored in — what else? — souvenir in lieu of "experi-
the supervision of the Coun-
Latin American studies, the encing reality."
cil of Orthodox Rabbis,
21-year-old Miss Laikin was
No one would suggest that
Rabbi Samuel Stollman of
assigned by the foreign serv-
snapshots
are
an
adequate
Windsor will be guest sPeak-
ice to an unusual task: to
substitute
for
day-to-day
liv-
er,
and Ben-Zion Shenker,
procure books and periodi-
ing experiences. Still, how Hasidic singer, will provide
cals in Asia for American
many
tourists
are
afforded
entertainment.
libraries, including the Li-
the luxury — even if it is in
brary of Congress.
Proceeds will be used for
line of duty — of two years the upkeep and continued ex-
To accomplish what on the
in a foreign land? To some, pansion of the mikva (ritual-
face of k is
mickey a few weeks' souvenirs and
arium), which serves Wind-
mouse, but what is
any-
thing but, required both in- photos must last a lifetime. sor and Toledo, as well as
Mrs. Elkin, whose career metropolitan Detroit.
genuity and imagination, with
has ranged from a year as
The dinner committee from
which qualities the young
Midwest regional director for
Mikva Israel Includes Tzvi
woman appeared to be gen-
American Jewish Congress to
Silverstein, chairman Marvin
erously endowed.
a stint as political science
Today an assistant pro- teacher at Wayne State Uni- Seligson, Rabbi Joseph
fessor teaching Latin Ameri• versity and writer on foreign Hirsch, Sam Shoenig, Larry
can history at Albion Col- affairs ("Understanding Is- S'lngal and Shlomo Sperka.
The committee from the
lege, where her husband Sol
rael" was one of two books
chairs the teacher education to which she has contrib- Women's Orthodox League
Jacob
department, Mrs. Elkin com- uted ), offers considerable includes Mesdames
Kreitman and Leib Bakst, co-
bines the hindsight of a ma-
historical
insight
to
the
ture
chairmen,
Burton
Cohen,
observer of
Asian anomaly called Southeast
affairs with the sometimes Asia She skillfully conveys Samuel E o h n, Moishe
hapleis csperiences of a its mysterious beauty and its Fine, Meir Leiberson and
Solomon Rothenberg,
younger, and more impetu-

Dinner to help
Support Mikva

ous, self.

Something of the humor
with which she relates her

010 1 . 1,11(ie

Land, she visited — is con
vey•d di the chapter tit•s
"In which the President of
the I litte'l Ignite., sends int.
to Iii a b. - on tl for my rout)
try" "I fail to procure the
14Mb:a
telephone
directory,
but live to fulfill other in-
telligence missions": "I
spend a night in a Moslem
graveyard collecting epht ,
rnera for 'he I ittrary of Con
cress" and "I climb a
itirnala,a and miss a coup
it 'tats"

In a chapter that begins
'inatkpiciously, "one night,
as I was h
,11,: ha rf . f.Mt out
of Afghanistan's Desert of
Death ' Mrs Elkin
write, of the plight of Afghan

the mapy na
tionalittes represented in Ka-
bul Afgrmnistan's capital,
the author adds:
''There were
Jt•WS, loo:
but I took care not to 1111,t

them. Their situation

was

debilitating poverty, sustain-
ed by a social religious sys-
tem Mat. hinds men
and
On to rale, they believe
pro ard.oned.
In
many
respects,
the
S.ititheast Asia that Judith
Laikin Elkin knew is no
mule. But this is a fascinating
ai count of the sleepy sub-
'•tinttnent where Krishna
smiled at a young woman in ,
lost with hie --CD

(1-fici(rci(7)11',11

Mr. and Mr.
tt on I reed
man of C,, ".•iar , Bloom-
ft, Id l'wp atom t.ce Pl•• en

ga , :tonent 'f them daughter
Ilelene to Arthur Paul Cohen
son of Mr and Sirs. irs ing
then of Norfol... "a Miss
Friedman is a graduate of
t np.ersity of Si ishigun,
is here
:et et, ed her 13.1
and .NtS degree,
mathema
ties
SL r
III reCCI\
his BS degree in pnychole.:y
from Old 1>arnmon t ruler
srtc this tnorPh 1 lune wed
din.: is planned

Hillel Opera. Evening

Shirley Benyas, Annette
Chajes, Robert Angus and
Sidney Resnick will present
an evening of operatic
music, accompanied by Ju-
lius Chilies at the piano, 8:30
p.m. Tuesday at Hillel Day
School.

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INVITATIONS • ENTERTAINMENT

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A new activity is being
offered to senior adults at
the 10 Mile branch: readings
in and discussions of Jewish
literature.

cal Society of Michigan, has
just published.

ll contains artyeles on "The
Burton Historical Collection
and Its Jewish Archives – by
Bernice C. Sprenger; "Mor-
ris Garrett—a Great Commit,
city Leader" by Allen A
St . arsen: "The Early Sites
and lic4innings of
Cunt.
P,cth El" by Dr. Irving T.
Edgar, an! "Data on Dutih
Jewry In the U.S. "

The publication
also in-
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tion. historic .'.acumen's re-
•arding a state marker for
"at.
Lafayette St.
Ileth
Cemetery. a r•smw by psy
chiatitst. flenr , Brill, a copy
of the award of merit certifi-
cate Warsen received from
the Nliehigan Historical Soci-
ety and a photograpa at tie-
trait Labor-Zionists of 1918

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Senior adults in the vicin-
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take the shuttle bus leaving
at 11 a.m. for the 10 Mile
branch.

Prof. Levin, now retired, is
former head of the eco-
nomics department at Wayne
State University and was
professor of history and social
sciences at Wayne.

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