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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12—Friday, Feb. 22, 1974
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19th Century
Kibutz Mourns Shelling V ictim, American Olah
old Druze policeman, Fuad
NEW YORK (JTA) — Mrs. cum laude, in 1967.
Special Israel Rabbinical Court Hebrew Weekly Esther Ben David, the 26- In 1968 she received a BA Abdullah, the father of five
year-old mother of three who from Queens College. During children.
Detroit
He was on his way to visit
was killed Feb. 11 when 1967-68 she was on the Jew-
May Allow Agunot to Remarry Lists
Nineteenth century East
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Hun-
dreds of Jewish women
whose husbands are missing
since the Yom Kippur War,
who are "agunot" in Jewish
religious law, may be free to
remarry as a result of a spe-
cial rabbinical court which
decides in what cases an
aguna may be considered a
widow.
Under religious law, an
'aguna may remarry only if
a rabbinical court decides
that her husband is dead and
that she is therefore a widow.
Out of 900 cases brought
to this court, which is headed
by Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,
243 have been resolved, court
officials said. Army Chief
Rabbi Mordechai Piron and
his deputy Rabbi Gad Navon,
also sit on the court, which
is expected to deal with all
900 cases by the end of this
year.
RabbiYosef said the prob-
lems of missing soldiers are
difficult to solve and special
halakhic solutions will have
to be found to free some of
their, wives from the aguna
status. He said that, for the
time being, the special court
will not deal with cases where
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doubt remains as to the mis-
sing husband's death.
Legal Aid Set
for Poor Aged
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NEW YORK — The Amer-
ican Jewish Congress has
launched a series of pilot
projects across the country
utilizing its legal skills in be-
half of poor and aged Jews.
The program includes in-
dividual counseling, publica-
tions and, where necessary,
help in filing complaints with
government agencies.
Other activities made pos-
sible by the grant include a
tenant relocation service, a
"reassurance call" program
under which lonely aged peo-
ple receive nightly telephone
calls, and a speaker's bureau
that sends trained persons to
old age homes and senior cit-
izens centers to provide in-
formation on the rights and
benefits of the old and pover-
ty-bound.
Recent studies have shown
that the Jewish poor fall
mainly into two categories—
aged persons 65 or over, and
observant Jews whose religi-
ous obligations and lifestyles
limit their employment pos-
sibilities, sometimes volun-
tarily, sometimes because of
discrimination.
The American Jewish Con-
gress antipoverty program is
aimed at meeting the needs
of both groups, according to
Naomi Levine, executive di-
rector.
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Prussian Jews knew some-
thing of their Detroit broth-
ers as a result of an article
by the Detroit community's
shohet contributed in 1867 to
Hamagid, the first Hebrew
weekly journal.
Irving I. Katz, executive
secretary of Temple Beth El,
said that Hamagid, a Zionist-
orient e d publication, was
founded in 1856 in Lyck, East
Prussia, by Eliezer Lipmann
Silbermann, a cantor and
shohet.
The Detroiter who con-
tributed the article to the
weekly, Louis Bloomgarden,
became a leader of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek in its early
days.
In his article, Bloomgarden
tells about the number of
Jews (320 families) living in
Detroit, about its location,
and briefly mentions the
founding of Temple Beth El.
The founding of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek is noted.
Bloomgarden notes that
among the newly founded
Cong. Shaarey Zedek, "There
are no rich ones among
them. Despite this circum-
stance, the members have
had no fear of finances and
every one of them willingly
and sacrifically contributed
beyond his financial ability
in order to build the small
holy sanctuary." Hiram
Kraushaar was elected presi-
dent of the congregation, and
he drafted the synagogue's
constitution.
With the rise of the syna-
gogue, a Bicur Cholera so-
ciety was started to visit the
sick, and a women's society
to care for widows and or-
phans was founded a few
years later.
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JERUSALEM ( JTA)—For
four hours, students and pro-
fessors of the Hebrew Uni-
versity met Feb. 13 at a
campus hall to discuss the
demonstration against De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan
by Capt. Mordehai Ashke-
nazi. The rally was opened
by Ashkenazi himself, a stu-
dent at the university, who
called his friends to join him
in a 48-hour hunger strike in
his demand for the resigna-
tion of Dayan.
One of the speakers, Dr.
Ehud Sprintzak, suggested
the establishment of a "Citi-
zens for Motti" group. Others
suggested cancellation of
studies Sunday to enable
students to join the mass
rally. But Ashkenazi himself
opposed institutionalizing the
effort, which up to now had
had a spontaneous effect-.
Prof. Yeshayahu Leibovitz
said: "The problem is not
that of the old growing play-
boy (Dayan) but the policy of
the entire regime." Moked
Knesseter Meir Payil said
Dayan was a symbol of the
loss of Zionist vision by the
Israeli leadership. A young
Likud Knesset member,
Ehud Olmert, supported Ash-
kenazi's demand for an in-
vestigation of ministerial re-
sponsibility in the war but
opposed his demand for
Dayan's resignation. Olmert
was booed.
Syrians shelled the Golan ish studies faculty of iver- relatives in Buquaata village
on the. Golan Heights when
Heights settlement of Ramat dale Day School.
A second fatality in the his jeep was hit by Syrian
Magshimim was an alumnus
of Yeshiva University and a Syrian attack was a 34-year- artillery fire.
former resident of Kew
Gardens, Queens.
She was racing to a
bomb shelter with her 2-year-
old child, Golan Akiva, when
she was felled by an explod-
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