THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
34—Friday, July 27, 1973
Arbitrator Picked
for Claim on Uganda
Monticello Restoration Is Credited to Emigre
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
Thomas Jefferson Randolplr. Three • hundred mortgage
A Russian Jewish immi- Kuper "had to call in 80 per
Swedish arbitrator recom-
bonds
were
printed
and
the
IV,
a
member
of
the
Virginia
Conservative Rabbis grant living in California cent of the signed promissory
mended by the International
played a major role in res- notes of those who had de- Bar and a descendant of cash, bonds and second Chamber of Commerce in
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mortgage
were
delivered
to
Thomas
Jefferson,
searched
clared
their
willingness
to
toration of the Thomas Jef-
Paris is expected to rule on
Perform Marriages
ferson memorial, Monticello, pay the difference between the title of 'Monticello. He 'Levy, who burst into tears Solel Boneh's $12,000,000
as
he
signed
the
deed
con-
the money raised and the presented the document to
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Re- in Charlottesville, Va.
veying to the foundation full claim against Uganda for
the foundation.
ligious Affairs Minister Ze-
Theodore Fred Kuper went needed $100,000."
houses the company built
title to the estate.
rach Warhaftig assured the to work as a fund raiser for
there before President Idi
Knesset Monday that Con- the Thomas Jefferson Me-
The first project of the Amin broke relations with
servative rabbis had not re- morial Foundation when it
foundation was to pay its Israel in March 1972.
ceived permits to perform was begun early in 1923 by
He reviewed Herzl's mile- $400,000 debt and manage
JERUSALEM ( J T A ) —
News of the possible settle-
marriage or divorce cere- Stuart Gibboney, its first Thousands of youth, from stones in creating the Zionist Monticello. Kuper and Levy's
ment of the claim emerged
monies in Israel.
caretaker,
Thomas
L.
president, and Judge Moses Israel and abroad, gathered movement and stressed
Replying to a question H. Grossman. The foundation Sunday on Mount Herzl com- Herzl's uniqueness in corn- Rhodes, decided on a 50 cent during a review of the activi-
ties of the Israeli Foreign
from Aguda's Yehuda Meir hoped to raise the $400,000 memorating the 69th anni- bining dream and action. admission charge.
Trade Risks Insurance Corp.
Abramovitz, Warhaftig said asking price to buy the man- versary of the death of the "Let us all fulfill Herzl's
To help defray the debt, presented to the Ministerial
the Chief Rabbinate Council sion owned at that time by father of the Zionist move- dream and Herzl's deeds,"
Kuper came up with the idea Economic Committee.
had investigated reports in Jefferson Monroe Levy. ment Dr. Theodor Herzl.
Katzir said.
of having Jefferson birthday
The corporation, operated
the press claiming some per- Levy was a descendant of
The ceremony was the cli- parties in the schools, at
T h e ceremony was at-
by the ministry of commerce
mits had been issued and Uriah Phillips Levy, who tended by President Ephraim max of a series of events
found them totally incorrect. bought the mansion in 1836 Katzir, 'Knesset Speaker Yis- commemorating 70 years which each child would give and industry and under-
a penny to save Monticello. written by the treasury, in-
To a question from the "for a song."
r a e 1 Yeshayahu, Supreme since the first Zionist council A penny deluge resulted from sured two-thirds of Solel
Free Center's Eliezer Shos-
Kuper, a New York law- Court Justice Shimon Agra- and 25 years of the Jewish
tak, Warhaftig said his min- yer, who made an unprofita- nat and leaders of the Zionist state. Besides youth move- sections of the country where Boneh's contract sales work
the day was proclaimed by in Uganda as well a
her
istry had been trying to no ble venture into the oil in- movement.
ments scores of tourists also state governors.
firms'
commercial
vt–rdres
avail since the Six-Day War dustry was given the job of
The president said the task attended.
Kuper drafted a bill to ob- there.
to dig up parts of the road creating a letterhead for the which Herzl began has ;,ot
In all, the insurance car-
serve the sesquicentennial of
over the Mount of Olives Foundation. According to been completed. "We must
American independence and rier owes $15,500,000 to pol-
which is thought to cover Smithsonian, t h e monthly continue and fulfill Herzl's
the centennial of Jefferson's icy holders who have not
Jewish graves.
publication of the Smithson- vision — ingathering of the
death. He added a small ap- received payrfient for the
The ministry had appealed ian Institution, "Kuper got exiles, exemplary society, a
propriation of $25,000 since goods they sold or the serv-
to the Jerusalem municipal- out several books on Thomas lasting peace and a spiritual
RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX he knew he was dealing with ices they rendered to Uganda
ity and to the transport min- Jefferson and came back with center for the Jewish peo- BY (Copyright
1973 JTA, Inc.)
a Republican administration. customers.
istry and suggested schemes a motto that is still in use by ple," Katzir said.
"Kidush Hashem" is tech- The bill passed when the ap-
for bypass roads, but for the Foundation: A I I my
nically translated as "the propriation w a s removed Classifieds Get Quick Results
financial and town planning wishes end where I hope my
sanctification of the name of from the draft.
reasons they were not ac- days will end—at Monticello. Torah Customs God."
Thomas Jefferson.' "
cepted.
Meanwhile, the foundation J. J. CLARKE STUDIO
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX
The expression is taken
Earlier this year, a group
However, Levy was mak-
received some unexpected
Portraiture of Distinction:
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from
the
Bible
(Levitious
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of religious zealots dug up ing trouble for the Founda-
help. A best seller, "Jeffer- Formals For
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Some
people
bring
the
22:32)
where
it
is
stated
one lane of the road, forcing tion by raising his price to
son
and
Hamilton,"
by
Claude
the municipality to divert all $500,000 cash. Gibboney and children over to kiss the in the name of the Almighty G. Bowers helped renew Jef-
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traffic to the other lane. This Grossman haggled with him, Torah when it is being re- "I will be sanctified among ferson's reputation among the
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the
children
of
Israel
.
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moved
from
or
returned
to
situation continues but it is and finally Levy signed an
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reading public. Jefferson's
The
usual
interpretation
of
the
ark.
believed there are graves option agreement which
descendants were asked to
This must have been a this concept is the one where- contribute original furniture,
under the other lane too.
would give the Foundation
the title to Monticello if they respected custom since it is by Jews are commanded to and an architectural scholar
Take time to think — and could raise $100,000 by Dec. mentioned in the law codes sacrifice their very lives to of the time, Fiske Kimball,
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honor the name of the Al-
above all try to reason right. 1, 1923.
(Orakh Chayyim, 149 — in
came
to
head
Monticello's
mighty '(Talmud Sanhedrin
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Levy created the least of the gloss of Rabbi Moses 74a). The rabbis (Sifra Emor restoration operation.
Isserles).
The
reason
for
the Foundation's problems.
Kuper was the director of
13) state that the exodus
Several tries to elicit funds this practice is thought to be from Egypt took place so the foundation until 1935,
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South and Midwest. In Texas, tradition tries to emphasize ery) and murder.
Kuper met the head of one the closeness of the Torah to
In times of religious perse-
of the Klan groups who liked Israel with love and attach- cution at the hands of a hos-
him so much that he invited meat.
tile government who would
Kuper to become an hon-
It is customary for any- try to abolish the Jewish re-
ak, th e uctigt
to td at the ,149111 puce
orary member.
one who sees a Torah fall ligion, a Jew is required to
on.
Kuper also made several to the ground to fast.
sacrifice his life before the
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