- Book Fair Filled With Information, Entertainment
Miss Rockland
Mrs. Schaeffer
Speakers on every imagin-
able topic pertaining to Jew-
ish life will crowd the pro-
gram of the 22nd annual
Jewish Book Fair Nov. 10-18
at the Jewish Center.
Opening with an address
on "The Middle East Power
Struggle" by David Schoen-
brun, 8:30 p.m. Nov. 10, the
fair will continue the follow-
ing day with a talk by
humorist Sam Levenson at 8
p.m., cosponsored by the
synagogue and temple men's
clubs. Schoenbrun is the
author of "The New Is-
raelis, - and Levenson wrote
"In One Era — and Out the
Other."
All events are free to the
public, unless otherwise indi.
cated. Theater and dance
presentations will be fea-
tured, and thousands of
books will be for sale.
Mae Rockland, an author-
ity on needlework who wrote
"The Work of Our Hands,"
will appear on Sisterhood
Day 10 a.m. Nov. 12 to speak
on "Let Your Fingers Do
the Talking." After her ad-
dress, which will relate how
she weaves her Jewish heri-
tage into her work, there will
be a luncheon, for which
reservations are required.
Smith
Nov. 12 by Ida Kaminska,
Yiddish actress who wrote
"My Life, My Theater," was
canceled following an auto
accident in which she was
injured. Plans for another
program cosponsored by the
Center Yiddish Committee
will be announced.)
Robert
Author - humorist
Kimmel Smith, who wrote
"Sadie Shapiro's Knitting
Book," will tell "How I
Found a Novel in a Bowl of
Won-Ton Soup," 10 a.m. Nov.
13. This event, part of Ha-
dassah Education Day, will
precede a noon luncheon, for
which reservations are re-
quired. Ken Hurwitz will
speak at 1 p.m. on "Will
This Generation Find Its
Way Out of the Melting
Pot?" Hurwitz, who was a
political activist while a
Harvard undergraduate, is
the author of "In the Line of
David," the story of a
second-generation American
Jew.
Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz,
author of "The Mask Jews
Wear," will speak at 8 p.m.
Nov. 13 on "The Jew and
America — the New Ten-
sion," cosponsored by the
American Jewish Committee,
American Jewish Congress
and Anti-Defamation League.
Rabbi Borowitz is professor
of Jewish thought at the He-
brew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in New
York.
"Work of Our Hands: Jew-
ish Needlework for Today"
by Mae Shaffer Rockland
was reviewed in The Jewish
News June 1 (Page 48). Her
book, published by Schocken
Books, now has as co-pub-
On Nov. 14, Dr. Theodore
lisher the Jewish Publication L. Gross, who wrote "The
Society of America.
Literature of American
Also taking part in Sister- Jews," will speak on "The
hood Day, which is cospon- Minority That Made It — the
sored by synagogue and Jew's Contribution to Life
temple sisterhoods, will be and Letters," at a 10 a.m.
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, session cosponsored by Bran-
author of "Falling." Her deis National Women's Com-
topic at 1 p.m. will be mittee, Michigan Region
"Suicide — the Role of the Women's American ORT and
Family." She is associate National Council of Jewish
professor of English at Women. Continental break-
fast will be served at 9:30,
Brooklyn College.
(A scheduled performance preceding the talk by Dr.
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Margalit Oved, artist-in-residence at the Jewish Center,
will teach a series of workshops in Yemenite-Israeli dance
during her week-long residency in Detroit, Nov. 19-25. The
workshops will meet Nov. 19, 20 and 21 for all folk dance
enthusiasts who want to learn new dances in a distinctive
style. During her stay she will present a program for young
people at 2 p.m. and a concert for adults at 8:30 p.m. Nov.
18 at the Center. She will be guest artist at the sixth annual
Family Dance Weekend at Camp Tamarack Nov. 23-25 and
will choreograph a dance especially for the Festival Dancers
of the Jewish Center. Her residncy was made possible
through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Michigan Council for the Arts. Miss Oved immi-
grated to Israel, where she became the leading dancer with
the Inbal Company. Since coming to America, she has been
both teacher and performer and is on the faculty at UCLA.
56—Friday, November 2, 1973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Rabbi Borowitz
Gross, dean of humanities
and former chairman of the
department of English at
City College of New York.
The film "Golda" will be
shown at 2 p.m. Nov. 14, and
at 4:15 that afternoon the
Jewish Center Young Peo-
ple's Theater will present
the Young Actors Guild in
"What Would You Do — If
You Knew What Sammy
Knew?" There is a charge.
Famed Nazi hunter Simon
Wiesenthal, author of "Sails
of Hope," will speak on
"Secret Missions," 8 p.m.
Nov. 14. Cosponsors are the
Jewish National Fund and
Zionist Organization of De-
troit. Wiesenthal is perhaps
best known for his pursuit of
Adolph Eichmann but also
has been responsible for the
capture of more than 1,000
other Nazi war criminals.
Wiesenthal, head of the
Documentation Center in
Vienna, developed in his
book the theory that the dis-
covery of America actually
Gross
was an attempt by Spanish
Jews to find India, where
Israel's original tribes were
thought to have settled.
On Nov. 15, Harold Kauf-
man, author of "Now You
Know," will address a ses-
sion 'cosponsored by Friends
of Akiva Day School, Friends
of Hillel Day School and the
Woman's Auxiliary of the
United Hebrew Schools. Kauf-
man, an attorney with the
U. S. Office of General
Counsel in the Navy Depart-
ment, wrote a kind of bibli-
cal believe-it-or-not. His talk
will be preceded by a con-
tinental breakfast at 9:30,
for which there is a charge.
After a noon luncheon Nov.
15, Pioneer Women's Greater
Detroit Council will cospon-
sor a talk by Inge Trachten-
Wiesenthal
Kaufman
berg on "Why—Thirty Years
Later?" Author of "So Slow
the Dawning," an auto-
biographical n o v e 1, Miss
Trachtenberg will provide a
fresh perspective on the
German attempt to exter-
minate European Jewry.
Luncheon reservations are
required.
Dr. William Korey, author
of 'The Soviet Cage," will
speak on "Soviet Jewry —
Today and Tomorrow," co-
sponsored by Bnai Brith
Men's and Women's Councils
8 p.m. Nov. 15.
The closing weekend of the
Book Fair will include a
Yiddish theater evening Nov.
17, featuring Chayele Ash
and Company in sketches and
songs, cosponsored by the
Center Yiddish Committee.
Miss Trachtenberg
There is a charge.
On Nov. 18, there will be
children's programs, includ-
ing a play, book reviews and
other programs from 10
a.m. to noon. A book review
panel, cosponsored by the
Jewish Parents Institute, will
take place at 10:30. - m..
with Dan Miron spea
Israeli dancer Mai gali,
Oved will present a special
dance concert for young
people at 2 p.m. Nov. 18.
That evening, she will pre-
sent a total media theater
dance concert at 8:30. There
is a charge for both con-
certs. (See caption below).
Also that evening, Dan Miron
will speak in Hebrew on
`The Writings of Bialik," co-
sponsored by the Hebrew de-
partment of the Center.
Zionism Defined for the World:
Tekoah's Reply to Hatred at t N
Espoused by Arabian Spokesman
Major Funds Join
to Combine Effort
Vile language, reconstruction of the filthiest lies ever exposed on a public plat-
form, marked the ene-hour speech at the UN Security Council on Oct. 21. There wasn't
a single protest from any member of the UN, including the Western power. Yosef Tekoah
NEW YORK (JTA) — In alone, speaking as Israel's representative, condemned the distortion of fact and history.
response to the current Tekoah bore up to the ordeal bravely and responded to the vilification of Zionism with
emergency in Israel and to the following definition of the Jewish libertarian cause:
meet local health, educa-
tional and social needs, New
York's two major Jewish
philanthropic organizations
are undertaking their first
joint fund-raising effort.
A $280,000,000 drive in New
York City, Long Island and
Westchester was announced
at a news conference Thurs-
day at the United Jewish
Apneas headquarters.
Mayor John V. Lindsay
joined Laurence A. Tisch,
president of the UJA of
Greater New York, and Law-
rence B. Buttenwieser, presi-
dent of the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies as they
outlined plans for a coor-
dinated campaign to raise
$250,000,000 for the UJA-
Israel Emergency Fund plus
$30,000,000 to sustain Feder-
ation-financed services to
1,500,000 New Yorkers.
The campaign will he
known as the "Israel Emerg-
ency Fund and Coordinated
Campaigns"of the two
agencies.
Tisch said the $250,000,000
was more than three times
as much as the largest
amount ever raised by the
New York UJA. Buttenwieser
said that the federation was
suspending its fund-raising
for building and capital pur-
poses for the duration of the
emergency.
They said that coordination
of the two campaigns was an
important step in mobilizing
philanthropic resources of the
Jewish community.
Party Nets Funds
The Florence Hochberg
Social Club, comprised of 15
women who aid retarded
children, recently raised $500
for the Israel Emergency
Fund at a games party. The
women also sent $200 to a
children's school in Israel.
He (the representative of Saudi Arabia)
insulted heads of states, including perma-
nent members of the Security Council. He
slandered nations. He abused civilizations
and religions. He extolled Hitler and anti-
Semitism. Yet no one except me tried to
call him to order. His falsifications and
calumnies do not deserve any response.
I should, however, like to refer to one
point in his speech; his attack against Zion-
ism — because he is not the only one who
resorts to these perfidious views and ex-
pressions.
Zionism is the love of Zion. Zionism is
the Jewish people's liberation movement,
the quest for freedom, for equality with
other nations. Yet in an organization in
which liberation movements are hailed and
supported, the Jewish people's struggle to
restore its independence and sovereignty is
maligned and slandered in an endless spate
of malice and venom.
In his drive to annihilate the Jewish
people, Hitler began by distorting the image
of the Jew, by rewriting Jewish history, by
fabricating some of the most odious historic
and racial theories. The Arab governments,
in their campaign to complete Hitler's
crimes against the Jewish people and de-
stroy the Jewish state, have adopted the
same method of falsifying Jewish history,
and in particular the meaning of the Zion-
ist movement and the significance of its
ideals.
What is Zionism?
When the Jews, exiled from their land
in the 7th Century before the Christian
era, sat by rivers of Babylon and wept, but
also prayed and sought ways to go home,
that was already Zionism.
When in a mass revolt against their
exile they returned and rebuilt the Temple
and re-established their state, that was
Zionism.
When they were the last people in the
entire Mediterranean basin to resist the
forces of the Roman Empire and to struggle
for independency, that was Zionism.
When for centuries after the Roman con-
quest they refused to surrender and rebelled
again and again against the invaders, that
was Zionism.
When, uprooted from their land by the
conquerors and dispersed by them all over
the world, they continued to dream and to
strive to return to Israel, that was Zionism.
When, during the long succession of for-
eign invaders, they tried repeatedly to re-
gain sovereignty at least in part of their
homeland, that was Zionism.
When they volunteered from Palestine
and from all over the world to establish
Jewish armies that fought on the side of the
Allies in the First World War and helped
to end Ottoman subjugation, that was Zion-
ism.
When they formed the Jewish Brigade
in the Second World War to fight Hitler,
while Arab leaders supported him, that was
Zionism.
When Jews went to gas chambers with
the name of Jerusalem on their lips, that
was Zionism.
When, in the forests of Russia and the
Ukraine and other parts of East Europe,
Jewish partisans battled the Germans and
song of the land where palms are growing,
that was Zionism.
When Jews fought British colonialism
while the Arabs of Palestine and the neigh-
boring Arab states were being helped by it,
that was Zionism.
Zionism is one of the world's oldest anti-
imperialist movements. It aims at securing
for the Jewish people the rights possessed
by other nations. It harbors malice toward
none. It seeks co-operation and under Tid-
ing with the Arab peoples and wit sir
national movements.
Zionism is as sacred to the Jewish peo-
ple as the national liberation movements
are to the nations of Africa and Asia. Even
if the Arab states are locked today in con-
flict with the Jewish national liberation
movement, they must not stoop in their at-
titude toward it to the fanaticism and bar-
barism of the Nazis. If there is to be hope
for peace in the Middle East, there must be
between Israel and the Arab states mutual
respect for each other's sacred national val-
ues—not distortion and abuse.
Zionism was not born in the Jewish ghet-
toes of Europe, but on the battlefield against
imperialism in ancient Israel. It is not an
out-moded nationalistic revival but an un-
paralleled epic of centuries of resistance
to force and bondage. Those who attack it
attack the fundamental principles and pro-
visions of the Uniteti•Nations Charter.