• 14—Friday, August 10, 1973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Ehrliclunan' s Orthodox Jewish. Grandfather Another myth has been shattered — the charge that "The Germans" dominated the Watergate clique. Now it appears that one of this group really stems from a Jewish background. A story in the New York Post reveals that John D. Ehrlichman's paternal grand- parents were Jews. While Ehrlichman report- edly pleaded that the story should not be published, the Post did print it. It re- veals that Ehrlichman's grandfather, Walter Ehrlich- man, a leading merchant, was one of the founders of the Seattle, Wash., Ortho- dox Bikur Cholim Congrega- tion; that upon his death his wife became a Christian Scientist, enrolling her four children into Christian Sci- ence, and that all of them PASSPORT PHOTOS 2 for Papertique 28635 Southfield 357-3266 Overnite Service INVITATIONS 20% OFF JOHN EHRLICHMAN married Christian Scientists. The Post also was told by Rabbi Moses Podinsky that after the conversion, John Ehrlichman's father. Rudolph Ehrlichman, and an uncle, still habitually attend- ed Holy Day services in a Jewish house of worship. Antoinette Walter and Gruen-Ehrlichman were Aus- trian Jews who settled in Seattle toward the close of the 19th Century. John's father, one of Wal- ter's two sons, died in a plane crash in 1939 while serviug as a Royal Canadian Alr Force pilot before the U.S. entered World War II. Lurinski, Moses Rabbi spiritual leader of the Bikur Cholim Machsike Hadass synagogue, told the Jewish Week of Washington, D.C., that in the congregation's original building, John's grandfather was memorial- ized by a wall plaque for his try came as a surprise, the efforts in raising funds. But more so because he had the plaque was not preserved been a member of UCLA's when the congregation erect- Kappa Sigma fraternity, which bars Jews from mem- ed a new building. Rabbi Ludinski said that bership. when the story of Ehrlich- The name Ehrlichman man's Orthodox J e w is h means "honest man" in Ger- grandfather broke in the man and Yiddish, the Jewish Seattle Post-Intelligencer, he Week points out. went to the Bikur Cholim cemetery to see if any Ehr- lichmans are buried there. Pincus Gets Final He found one Ehrlichman E u l ocry Hospital r+. grave but no records to in- grave dicate that the deceased was Project Is Named Walter or any of his descend- JERUSALEM (JTA)—The ents. Longtime Jewish residents deeds of a man are his tomb- of Seattle recalled that Wal- stones. With this ancient servation Yitzhak Navon, ob- the ter Ehrlichman took all of chairman of the Zionist Gen- his four children — including eral Council and Deputy John's father Rudolf—to Bi- Knesset Speaker, rounded kur Cholim synagogue. Ehrlichman's Jewish ances- off a eulogy Aug. 2 for Louis A. Pincus at his graveside end of the shiva period. Hearings Out to Ruin Nixon, Rabbi Says Knesset speaker Yisrael Yeshayahu and top Zionist leaders led a large contin- gent, and Pincus' sons, Allon and David, said kadish after NEW YORK (JTA) — A the service. Pincus died July Boston area rabbi who be- 26 at the age of 61. lieves most members of the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Senate Watergate commit- Jerusalem announced that tee are "hanging judges" out its South African friends had to destroy President Nixon decided to endow a "Louis is leading an effort to com- Pincus post-operative inten- bat "the lynch-mob mental- sive care project" in mem- ity now being fostered and ory of the Zionist leader. encouraged in our land." Dr. David Maier, hospital Rabbi Baruch Korff, listed director, said the new unit, as rabbi emeritus of Cong. to be included in the hos- Agudath Achim of Taunton, pital's new premises being Mass., is temporary chair- built in a Jerusalem suburb, man of an Ad Hoc Citizens would provide direct and Committee for Fairness to continuous supervision of pa- the Presidency, which spon- tients after surgery, severe sored a $5,722 advertisement in the New York Times, pro- trauma or poisoning. testing the Senate - commit- NICHOLAS A. VELIOTES, tee hearings and asking for contributions to publish the who has arrived in Israel to advertisement in other news- assume his duties as deputy papers. Another ad appeared chief of the U.S. Mission, will in the Christian Science Mon- serve as charge d'affaires pending arrival of the new itor. American ambassador, Ken- Among the signers of these neth Keating. 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