THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, Dec. 28, 1973-9 `Bring Kin to Israel' JERUSALEM (JTA) — To boOst holiday tourism, the ministry of tourism is urg- ing every Israeli family to write to its relatives and friends abroad inviting them to come to Israel at this time. HARRY THOMAS1 Fine Clothes For Over 36 Years 24750 TELEGRAPH At 10 Mile Next to Dunkin' Donuts Open Daily to 6, Thursday to 8 SUNDAY 11 to 4 =NW IIHMISINNIMON111111.11N•11•11•IN ..1 Psychiatrist Exposes Abuses in 'Religion May Be Hazardous' For all its virtues, "reli- gion may be hazardous to your health," says an Ari- zona psychiatrist who wrote a book with that very title— paraphrasing the cigarette package warning. Dr. Eli S. Chesen argues, in this paperback published by Collier Books, that reli- gion too often is abused. He gives examples from all faith groups to illustrate his con- tention. "Once a rule or command- ment is handed down," says Chesen, "it tends to endure STILL THE WORLD'S LARGEST Free Loaners Come In NOW For the Best Deal I, still be salvaged in the name Jewish' is combined with a of tradition and thereby lose wish to become assimilated any meaning it might have by the Gentile world. Often had initially. the Jew discovers that total "For example, the Jewish acclimatization to the Gen- practice of keeping a kosher tile community is impossible; home is thought by most peo- he finds it difficult to estao- ple (including Jewish people) Nsh more than superficial to have originated as a health friendships in a world from precaution against the para- which he continues to feel sitic d i s e a s e trichinosis, separated. So m e find the which is harbored by pigs .. . dilemma so painful that they This is presumptuous think- proceed to . denounce their ing, however, in the context religion or convert from it." of what the Old Testament actually says; the practice of keeping a kosher home did not start as a health pre- caution. It began, rather, as a means of isolating an idendity for the J e wish people. PACKER • PONTIAC on the New "74's" long a f ter it can still be and stresses the need for I twice a year. Conversely, looked upon as serving a parents to build proper atti- there are parents who never miss services but whose daily purpose . . . If it becomes tudes. life r e f u t e s principles of possible to re-explain or ra- "In adulthood," he states, tionalize such a rule, it can "the fantasy of being 'non- morality. RED STOTSKY MILT LEVIN Call 863-9300. Call 863-9300 18650 LIVERNOIS, SOUTH OF SEVEN Chasen urged parents and teachers to keep in mind the age of a child when teaching him Bible stories and leg- ends. He himself recalled a story told to him in Hebrew school "about a martyred rabbi" (Akiba). "I do not recall the reasons just the "I do not question the val- gore . . . The Bible is filled idity of t h is intention. I with violence from Genesis merely point out that this to the end, and I would no custom is being folloWed by more expose my young chil- a multitude of Jewish people dren to this than I would subject them to a bullfight for the 'wrong' reason." or a public execution." Chasen touches upon the He chastises parents whose dilemmas that face Jewish own ambiguity about religion children living in a Christian is readily apparent. Their society — not the least of children are encouraged to which is the observance of have a Bar' Mitzva, but they Hanuka at Christmas time — themselves attend services Some of Chasen's views will win no friends among Bible scholars and clergy- men. "The Bible has wielded such strong authority that few ever give consideration to up- dating or discarding it. In- stead, an alternate and po- tentially dangerous course of action is taken. "The clergymen and asso- ciated scholars reinterpret the old passages in an at- tempt to apply them to mod- ern times. Eventually they are reinterpreting their own interpretations and injecting into them their own personal biases. And so the Bible is reread backward, forward, upside down and inside out, according to the whim of those select few who are in a position to do so . . . " "As this whole process is allowed to grow, the clergy- man himself, not the Bible, can become the sacred COW w i t h God-given authority. The Bible, then, is really used not as an authority, but as a vehicle with which a man can promote his own prejudices." —C.D. Bank Denies Loan Proves Arab Leaning CHICAGO (JTA)—Officials of the First National Bank of Chicago told a group of Jewish leaders that they fully disassociated themselves from a statement by a British banker that the Chicago bank had participated "on the Arab side" in a $200,000,000 loan to Abu Dhabi that had been syndicated and organ- ized by Morgan Grenfell and Co. of London. The local bank officials and Jewish leaders met last week after an article appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times on Dec. 13 by Bernard Nossiter from London stating that Douglas-Home, the Morgan Grenfell director for the Mid- dle East and son of Britain's Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, had told him that other leading U. S. banks — including the First National City Bank and Chase Manhattan—were invited to participate in the syndicate loan but turned the offer down as "too politically sensi- tive!' Nossiter wrote that Doug- las-Home told him, "They de- cided they were on the Jew- ish side of the fence. We are on the Arab. It was a com- mercial decision taken some time ago. There is more bus- iness to be done in the Arab world. It has 80,000,000 peo- ple, against 2,000,000 in Israel from Touro College and Stern Also, there is less competi- College in a noon-time cere- tion; Rothchild's can't lend mony. to the Arabs." A display, including pic- Robert Abboud, vice-chair- tures of atrocities committed man of the bank's board who against Israeli soldiers cap- flew in from London to par- tured during the Yom Kip- ticipate, issued a statement pur War, conditions in Soviet declaring that it was import- labor camps, and the recent ant to the bank that the state trials of Soviet Jews, was set of Israel continue to prosper up in the tent and viewed by and develop in security and hundreds of passers-by. !peace and reaffirmed the POW Photos in Times Sq. NEW YORK (JTA) — A large tent, surounded by large pictures of Israeli prisoners of war and Soviet Jewish prisoners of con- science was erected in Times Square in Manhattan. A joint project of the Greater New York Confer- ence on Soviet Jewry and the American Zionist Federation, the tent served as a focal point for a day-long demon- stration and distribution of informational materials on Is- rael and Soviet Jewry. The mothers of two Israelis now being held in Syria were joined by scores of students William Hugget, author of the novel "Body Count," and an authority on the treatment of American prisoners of war in Vietnam, spoke of the Syrian brutalities as the worst he has ever seen. eres a lot of good between Winston.. .::: bank's gratitude to the Jew- ish community of Chicago for its valuable contribution to the bank's growth. Abboud assailed Douglas- Home's statement as "highly offensive and inaccurate, es- pecially since they seem to associate the First National Bank of Chicago with them. We are proud of our relation- ship with Israel and nothing will change that." Abboud told the Jewish lea- ders that the loan to the Per- sian Gulf sheikdom was ini- tiated before the war and completed Nov. 7. There is a covenant in the loan agree- ment that prevents use of the funds for any war purposes, he said. Elderly to Get Meals Under Federal Grant Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. 0 1979' R.4 20 mg. lar.".1.3 mg. nicotine ay. per cigarette, FTC Repifit LOS ANGELES (JTA)—A multi-agency program, di- rected by the Jewish Federa- tion-Council, will provide hot kosher meals to the Jewish elderly under the recently ap- proved Title VII of the fed- eral Older Americans Act. Young Israel Synagogue has received a subcontract to provide 26,000 meals annually at the rate of 100 per day, five days a week, at a nom- inal fee. Development of the pro- gram will make possible ex- pansion and diversification of the kosher meat delivery project started with the year- old Meals-On-Wheels pro- gram of the JF-C which oper- ates in a limited geographical range. A project director named by the Jewish Family Service will conduct day-to- day management of the meal sites.