Official to Investigate
Old City Apartments

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The
state comptroller announced
recently he was looking into
the activities of the company
responsible for the recon-
struction of the Jewish quar-
ter of the Old City.
The announcement came a
day after Uzi Benziman of
Haaretz came out with a long
story suggesting irregulari-
ties in the way apartments
in the quarter were allo-
cated.
The story had it that some
apartments were sold under
market prices to officials' of
the company and the minis-
try of housing.
Benziman is also the Jew-
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the theater. All too often,
the public underestimates its
own intellect concluding that
the omniscient critics' "zap-
ping" a play is just reason
for not attending.
The case in point is
"Othello," the Stratford, Ont.
production starring Nachum
Buchman in the lead role
and Douglas Rain as lago.
Too bad you super-sophisti-
cates did not attend the per-
formance on Friday, July 13.
Othello did not burst out
with "Vat's noose boyess?"
— rather, "What is the
Nye•s, boys." Nor, in ad-
dition, were there any
sequences that might have
r e c al le d the Maurice
Schwartz. Boris Tomashev-
sky, Adler, Menashe Shkul-
nik, etc., Yiddish actors of
New York's nostalgic epic
years of Yiddish Theater
(which by the way, present-
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Molly Picon with her beloved
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Letters to Editor

Head of Israeli Sephardi Council
Says Chief Rabbi Situation Was
Misrepresented; Moshe Ron Replies

Editor, The Jewish News:
Belatedly, the article by
Moshe Ron in your issue of
Feb. 16, "The Battle of the
Rabbis in Israel" came to
my knowledge. I am very
much surprised that you
were so misled by your cor-
respondent.

pation in elections to our in-
"And if he is not aware
stitutions, until a better sys- of it, then I hereby enclose
tem of elections, which most an item which confirms my
of the people in Israel want, statements in the aforemen-
namely majoritarian, terri- tioned articles:
torial and personal — thus
MEETING OF RABBINATE
"BREAKS UP"
linking the electorate by con-
(A heated argument in connec-
stituencies with their rep- tion
with the inclusion of the
resentatives at the Knesset paragraph dealing with the sal-
for a general administrator
and every other authority. ary
for the chief rabbinate of Is-
The problem of two chief Only then may we hope to rael
led to a breaking up of
rabbis is an old one which do away with all discrimina- the meeting of the chief rabbin-
ate
last
week in Tel Aviv. Par-
unfortunately exists not only tion, whether "de jure" or ticulars pertaining
to this became
in Israel but practically "de facto."
known in spite of the internal
decision not to publicize the ar-
wherever Ashkenazim and
Long before the indepen. gument.
Sephardim reside, provided
(As a result, during the pro-
dence
of Israel, I had sug- ceedings, Chief Rabbi Ovadia
both communities are suffi-
Yosef, together with a group
gested
as
a
first
step
to
unite
ciently important.
rabbis, left the
the chief rabbinate to adopt of additional
all this took place after
Two thousand years of liv- a system of rotation between meeting;
they were taken by surprise by
ing separately have created the two communities. My sug. the demand of Rabbi Goren to
the grade of salary and func-
so many different "minha- gestion came when Chief tion
of a general manager • for
gim," customs, idioms, ways Rabbi Amiel of Tel Aviv- the council, which was consider.
an affront to the general
of life and in many cases Yaffo passed away and Chief ed
secretary of the chief rabbinate
traditions, in daily life as Rabbi B, Z. Ouziel, who was who has served in this position
more than 10 years. . . .
well as in religious practices accepted by all and sundry, for
(The attempts of some of the
that it will require consider- remained alone for a while. members of the council to calm
excitement and to bring to
able time and good will to But is was the Ashkenazim the
the meeting those who lett suc-
unite us in every respect as who turned down my sugges- ceeded after promisAng that the
matter would be removed from
the "One People" which we tion.
the agenda.)"
are.
This same suggestion I
Only in Israel is there a have repeated on the eve
GREVILLE JANNER,
hope that such a united peo- of the recent elections to the MP, and HARRY LANDY,
ple will eventually, sooner chief rabbinate. The minister former treasurer, were elect-
than later, become a fact.
of justice, Mr. Yaacov Sha- ed as the two new vice presi-
Had Moshe Ron honestly piro, mentioned my sugges- dents of the Board of Depu-
Jewish Center President described the situation in tion from the rostrum of the ties of British Jews. The new
Richard L. Kux announces the rabbinate, he would have Knesset; but again it was treasurer is ERIC NABAR-
that Emanuel Allon of Israel mentioned the fact that out rejected.
RO.
has joined the Center staff of 70 "dayanim," only 16 are
Very sincerely yours,
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
as shaliakh in charge of He- Sephardim, while over 60
ELIE ELIACHAR
brew classes.
Friday, August 3, 1973-29
per cent of the Jewish pop-
President,
Allon was graduated from ulation in Israel are Sep-
Council
of
the
Sephardi
Tel Aviv University, where hardi and Oriental Jews,
and Oriental communities
he majored in Hebrew lan- most of whom are practicing
JOE MiCLEJI
Jerusalem
-
and
guage and Bible. He earned Jews.
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*
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Seminary and has taught He- Knesset, where out of 120 is the reply to Eliachar's let
brew in Tel Aviv and Jewish members, only 18 — rep- ter from correspondent Ron:
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resenting all political parties
Agency-sponsored ulpans.
"The
article
published
on
Allon was born in Romania —are Sephardim. The posi- Feb. 16, on the situation in
in 1948 and emigrated to Is- tion is not much better in the rabbinate in Israel was
rael in 1950. He served in most local authorities.
based on facts as they ac-
Tap, Ballet, Acrobatic
The fact that the 129 ex- tually were. It seems to me
the Israeli army for three
Ages 3 thru High School
rears as a front-line para- perts of a special committee that even Mr. Eliachar,
or
medic, seeing action in the appointed by Prime Minis- president of the Federation
A LEARNING
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ago to investigate the com- Communities, will admit to
Ages 3 thru 5
Allon and his wife Karny munal gaps, have now re- that. He also emphasized that
Art
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reside in Oak Park.
ported that no less than he worked at that time. and
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accent, the 'Ws" for "Us,"
waiting to hear the giggling
of the audience and to see
the squirm of boredom amid
the "sold-out" performance
of 2,000 people. There was
none!!
Is Nachum Buchman, as a
Moor, expected to speak the
King's English? Even faith-
ful followers at Stratford's
Shakespearean Festival have
to attune our ears to "Olde
English," and sometimes we
can't always hear or under-
stand much of the dialogue.
But, if Othello was delivered
in Zulu, one could under-
stand. After all, "Othello,"
the opera by Verdi, is sung
in Italian!
Buchman's performance,
stage presence and knowl-
edge of Shakespeare was de-
meaned by superficial critics
and unjust suggestions that
perhaps the directors of the
festival should seek a re-
placement for this actor.
Most unfortunate of all is
that critics review plays too
soon! It may b.:‘ well for
them to go back to Stratford
at mid-season and again re-
view a performance which
they unjustly "panned."
(See Purely Commentary,
June 29).
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