20—Friday, December 7, 1973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Habonim, Alumni Help on Kibutz Homefront

For 11 young Detroiters,
the Yom Kippur War has
been more than news reports.
Six of them, alumni of Habo-
nim, were among the first
American volunteers on Is-
rael's manpower-hungry home
front.
Already in Israel when the
war broke out were Habonim
Workshopers Beverly Salin-
ger, daughter of the Sy Sal-
ingers; Tamar Levy, daugh-
ter of the Ralph Levys; Judy
Silberg, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Dave Silberg; Michael
Stern, daughter of the Burton
Sterns; and Gail Pinski,
daughter of the Daniel Pin-
skis. They are participants in
the year-long Habonim Work-
shop work-study program.
The five were at Kibutz
Yotvata in the Negev, when
they were joined by volun-
teers Mike and Sam Levy,
Tamar's brothers; Mark
Linton, son of the Maurice
Lintons; Joel Milinsky, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Milin-
sky; Ron Michaels, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Al Michaels;
and Tom Gittlen, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Gittlen.
The volunteers who flew in
from Detroit were stationed
five kilometers from Yotvata,
at Kibutz Grofit. Several of
them previously had spent a
year in Israel on workshop
programs and now had left
school to volunteer their

The Americans and their
services, primarily helping
harvest Grofit's crop of mel- fellow volunteers from Swit-
zerland, England, Ireland and
ons.
Their experiences were de- France threw a masquerade
scribed in letters home to party, and Linton and Mi-
their parents, members of chael Levy, out of tribute to
Branch 11 of the Labor Zion- the kibutz's favorite product,
ist Alliance, which sponsors dressed up as a pair of mel-
the local workshopers.
ons.
Although they felt the sor-
Writing from Yotvata,
rows of war (a member of where a full 50 per cent of
Yotvata died of injuries in its members were called up
the Golan Heights battle), as to the front, Judy Silberg
well as its fears (bomb shel- wrote that the death of one
ters were an occasional ne- kibutznik brought all activity
cessity), the young Detroit- to a halt. "It was as if the
ers displayed characteristic whole kibutz was sitting shiva
American good humor.
for a week . . . Friday night
Wrote Mark Linton from was the strangest when we
Grofit: "After a week here walked into the hadar haohel
working 10 hours a day in (dining room) and everyone
the fields, I have resolved was silent. There was no
not to eat another melon for Kabala (Sabbath welcome),
the rest of my life. Unfortu- and we ate quickly and left.
nately, I break that resolu- This atmosphere will exist in
tion every day—they really the country for a long time.
are very good." The melons This was no glorious war,
for export to Europe are and no one is thankful for
packed "in nice thickly pad- anything."
ded cardboard boxes" while
For Beverly Salinger, a
those used in Israel "go in
the old scuffy crates," he ob- workshoper, the biggest thrill
was the sight of six Detroit
served.

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Chaim Gross Gift Spurs Emergency Fund Drive

NEW YORK — A colorful
poster with the message
"Share Hanuka with the
Children of Israel" is being
distributed through Jewish
Welfare Federations to reli-
gious schools, synagogues,
and community centers
throughout the c o u n t r y.
Chaim Gross, the noted artist
and sculptor contributed the
original design for this oc-
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to do this. I hope that I have
given them the opportunity
to participate in this way,"
said G r o s s. "Like the
original trials of the Macca-
bees, the people of Israel
have again had to assert
their right to live in free-
dom, so Hanuka should be
celebrated in a way which
suggests the unity of the
Jewish People."
Arabs, Jews Jam
Gross spent his childhood
Language Classes in an Hasidic environment in
the Carpathian mountains.
Set at Hebrew U.
JERUSALEM — On the His work reflects the vitality
same day that the Egyptian- and joyous exhiliration of the
Israeli prisoner of war ex_ Hasidim.
change got under way, some
230 Arab and Jewish inhabi-
tants of Jerusalem took up
studies of Hebrew and Arabic
under the auspices of the
Martin Buber Adult Educa-
tion Center of the Hebrew
University.
The opening marked the
seventh year of this teaching
program, begun shortly after
the Six-Day War. Since then,
a total of more than 3,000
Jerusalemites have attended
these language c our s e s.
which were begun at the Al
Rashidiya High School in
East Jerusalem and con-
tinued at the Ecce Homo
Convent on Via Dolorosa in
the Old City.
Initially planned solely as
a language teaching project,
the venture became a cul-
tural and social vehicle for
Arabs and Jews.

cards which have a contribu-
tion enclosure envelope, and
on a ceremonial booklet for
youngsters to use for home
candlelighting ceremonies.
"Children, too, want to ex-
press their feeling of oneness
with the children of Israel,
especially during this crisis
period. We must help them

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Egyptian POWs Take Plaint Right to Dayan

JERUSALEM — During a receiving proper medical
visit to the western (Egyp- care. "Just a little food is
tian) side of the Suez Canal, lacking," the Egyptian of-
Defense Minister Moshe ficer noted.
Dayan met a group of Egyp-
"If the fast of Ramadan-
fast observed during holy
tian prisoners of war.
The Egyptians recognized Muslim month of Ramadan
Dayan from afar and called — doesn't disturb you, you'll
out to him, "Mussa Dayan, get more food," the minister
Mussa Dayan!" He spoke promised.
with one of the prisoners, an
officer, who said he had no
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volunteers suddenly mater-
ializing, with packs on their
backs, "in the middle of a
desert, in the middle of a
war . . . just as natural as
can be.
"It was so neat later to be
sitting in Tamar's room look-
ing at the three Levys to-
gether and in Israel."
* * *
In Detroit, Habonim mem-
bers did their part, too. On
Halloween, trick - or - treaters
collected more than $1,200 to
help meet the Israel emer-
gency, reports Terry Mani-
ker.
The group then went out
on a Sunday morning and
raised another $70 for Israel
with a bake sale at Dexter-
Davison Market.
Terry decried the remark
made by a teacher at South-
field High School who said
that American Jews would do
better to give their money to
help solve America's prob-
lems—rather than "give away
everything they have to a
cause they might never see."

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as only when reason is against
' us. — Thomas Jefferson.

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