THE DETROIT JEWSH NEWS
Friday, October 5, 1973-29

Grand Rapids News

Among the officers in-
stalled at the Michigan State
Podiatry Association annual
conference were Drs. SAN-
FORD ROSENFELD of Tren-
ton, vice president; and Earl
Spectrum '74, the eighth
G. Kaplan and Robert Wein- annual series of cultural
stock, delegates to the Amer- events sponsored by the Jew-
ican Podiatry Association.
ish Cultural Council of Grand
Rapids, will open 8 p.m. Oct.
14 with a talk by Rabbi
YOUR CANDID COLOR
Jossef J. Kratzenstein on
"Confrontation With Baruch
Spinoza 300 Years Later" at
Cong. Ahavas Israel.
Rabbi Kratzenstein, of
WILL BE
Temple Israel, Bay City, will
explore the question of Spin-
oza's excommunication and
whether it is time to revoke
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Elon, who will highlight the
Israel Independence Day ob-
servance April 28 at Ahavas
Israel.

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Maurice Glaser,
Cantor at Emanuel

Maurice Glaser, cantor at
Temple Emanuel for 33
years, died Sept. 25 at age
62.
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Bnai Brith and the temple
men's club.
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Mrs. Aaron (Ida) Stolorow;
and four grandchildren.

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Grand Rapids Family of 16 to Be
Reunited in New Home in Israel

Aliya. It started with one
boy's dream, and this week,
three years after his death,
it is being realized by his
family. All 16 of them.
The family, of Grand Rap-
ids, consists of Joseph E.
Lemay, 47, his wife Shirley,
41, their 13 children and Shir-
ley's 19-year-old brother. Ac-
tually, it was a group of 12
that left for Israel on Mon-
day, four of the young people
having made aliya earlier.
The children range in age
from 21 to 6.
Gidon Biran, director of
the Israel Aliya Center in
Detroit, who helped the Le-
mays with arrangements,
guessed that this is the larg-
est f amily group ever to
make aliya from this country.

The decision was not sud-
den. Rather, it came as the
culmination of a series of
events going back to 1970
when the Lemays' eldest son,
Remy, decided to quit school
and earn the money for pas-
sage to Israel. It was some
time after the Lemays, as-
sisted by Rabbi Fred Eisen-
berg of Temple Emanu-el,
had converted from Catholi-
cism to Judaism.

Lemay, a printer for the
Grand Rapids Press for 17
years, described to The Jew-
ish News how it all came
about: "Early in 1970, our
oldest son Remy decided to
quit school and earn the
money to go to Israel, where
he wished to settle on a Id-
butz. A friend, Nor man
Kravitz, made contact with a
kibutz where he had formerly
lived, and an OK was given
for Remy to come to the
kibutz.
"In August of the same
year, Remy died suddenly in
a swimming accident."
Sometime later, during a
visit with Rabbi Eisenberg
in the Lemay home, the fami-
ly was helped to resolve a
problem: what to do with the
money banked by Remy for
his passage to Israel.
Rabbi Eisenberg suggested
that one of the other children
use the money to go in
Remy's place. And so it was
agreed.
The Lemay's oldest daugh-
ter, Marie, now 21, quit
college to work as a teachers'
aide, and Der cousin, Paul
Farhat, now 19, dropped out
of high school to take odd
jobs and earn the additional
money.

Rabbi Eisenberg, .upon re-
turning from a visit to Israel,
advised Marie and Paul to
contact the Israel Aliya Cen-
ter, at that time in Cleveland,
and to join the Kibutz Ulpan
Program. Z e e v Ben-David,
then director of the center,
interviewed the Lemays at
the Detroit Jewish Center.
Once the processing was
completed, Paul and Marie
set off for Israel in summer
1971.

Paul, now serving with the
Israeli paratroopers, was ac-
cepted by Kibutz Shefayim
near Tel Aviv, and Marie
presently is a member of
Kibutz Merom HaGolan, a
Nahal kibutz on the Syrian
border.
That summer of 1971, Tom,
now 18, also was in Israel,
with his temple confirmation
class. He returned home, re-
luctantly, but set about earn-
ing the passage money for
the Kibutz Ulpan Program.
T h e following summer, he
joined Paul at Shefayim. He
will enter the army in Novem-
ber.

Joseph and Shirley Lemay of Grand Rapids are sur-
rounded by 10 of their children who will be reunited with
three brothers and a cousin in one of the largest family
aliyot yet arranged from the U.S. With the senior Lemays
are, clockwise from left, top, Veronique, Orianne, Claudia,
Jeanne, Darya, Francesca, Dimitri and young Shirley, held
on her mother's+ap. In the center are Anna and Eugene. In
Israel, they will join Marie, Paul, Lise and Tom, who made
aliya earlier.

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*

Lise, now 19, dropped out
of high school to earn the
required funds, and in April
1972 set off for Israel. She
completed high school at
Kibutz Hama'apil and has
just joined the Nahal to per-
form her service with the
Israel armed forces.
It was the young people's
letters home that prompted
the next—and bigger—move.
The letters, filled with en-
thusiasm for their new coun-
try, suggested that their par-
ents "close up shop here
and come to Israel before my
wife and I were too old," said
Lemay. "Sending one child
a year for the next 10 years
seemed too slow a process."
Deciding that they had
nothing to lose by looking
into the possibility of aliya,
the Lemays met the new Is-
rael Aliya Center director,
Biran, in fall of 1972; And
they began the lengthy pro-
cess of filling out applications
and other forms.
Finding a kibutz to accom-
modate a dozen persons
seemed a remote possibility,
at best, but Biron insisted on
trying, rather than break up
the family.
Amotz and N u r i t Peleg,
who were then shlikhim to
the Ha b o n i m movement,
went to Grand Rapids to in-
terview the Lemays and fin-
ally told them that a kibutz,
Sarid, was interested. In the
meantime, the Israeli "con-
tingent" of the Lemay family
visited Sarid for an interview
on their end.

On Aug. 3 of this year, the
Lemays received a letter
from the Kibutz Aliya Desk
in New York advising them
that they had been accepted
by Sarid.

"You can imagine our ex-
citement," said Lemay. "It
was almost too good to be-
lieve." He credited Rabbi
Eisenberg and Biran with
helping make the impossible
a reality.
Assisted with an Israel gov-
ernment loan for their flight
and shipping costs, the Le-
mays left Grand Rapids early
Monday morning and were to

*

arrive in Israel the following
morning.
"We aren't sure what type
of work we will be doing
other than farm work," said
Lemay. "Most of the first
six months will be devoted
to learning Hebrew either at
the ulpan on the kibutz or
privately."
Last Friday, they were
honored at a special Shabat
service and oneg Shabat at
Temple Emanuel.

Drinan Expresses
Soviet Jewry Views
at ADA Dinner Here

Congressman Robert Dri-
nan (D., Mass.), who ad-
dressed the 26th Roosevelt
Day Dinner of the Metropoli-
tan Detroit Americans for
Democratic Action, devoted a
considerable portion of his
talk to Soviet Jewry.
He expressed his support
for the Jackson/Mills-Vanik
Amendment and recalled his
efforts for the past 10 years
on behalf of Soviet Jews.
Fr. Drinan added that in a
conversation with Israel For-
eign Minister Abba Eban last
year in Israel, the congress-
man suggested that Gentiles
throughout the world have
their own "Brussels Confer-
ence," at which they would
pledge that "we cannot allow
anything approximating
another Holocaust in Russia.
And that, sharing our guilt
over the Holocaust in Ger-
many and 6,000,000 people in-
cinerated, we'll say that we
will give freedom and liberty
to the 3,000,000 Soviet Jews."
Drinan said Eban was en-
thusiastic at the idea and
would bring it before the
Pope.

Noted trial lawyer and
best-selling author LOUIS
NIZER will serve as chair-
man of the national dinner
of the American Technion
Society, Nov. 19, at the New
York Americana Hotel, cele-
brating the 50th anniversary
of Technion, the Israel Insti-
tute of Technology.

