14—Friday, March 1, 1974

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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activities in ociety

Council Backs Plan to Reach
Aged Disabled Eligible for Aid

Sports Beat

Former Flint residents Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bergman
of Hallandale, Fla., were honored at a surprise dinner
party and at a second dinner party at the Ambassador
Hotel in Palm Beach given by their family on the occasion
of their 60th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Wolfe hosted the surprise party. Detroiters attending the
family party at the Ambassador Hotel in Palm Beach in-
cluded the Dave Emermans, the Irving Greenstones, Robert
Greenstone, Laurie Emerman, the Robert Kasles. the
Donald Schmerins and former Detroiter, Abby Goldbaum
of Columbus.

Teen Night
to Go Israeli

An Israeli Night for all
high-school age youth will
be held 7:30 p.m. Sunday at
Cong. Beth Israel it was an-
nounced by Mrs. Peter Kro-
nick, youth activities chair-
man of the Flint Jewish
Community Council.
The evening will feature
Israeli music, food and danc-
ing. Israeli exchange stu-
dents Yael Tamir and Mor-
dechai Cohen, who are the
guests of the Flint Jewis' -
community, will be inti
duced, and two Flint stu-
dents, Barbara Failer and
Susan Mitchell, who have
just returned from extended
work/study programs in Is-
rael, will be honored.
Gail Feinstein is in charge
of arrangements. There is
no charge.

The Flint Jewish Commu-
nity Council men's basket-
Saul Gorne, chairman of mailed the first week in ball team took first place in
the family service committee January.
the YMCA Church League
of the Jewish Community
basketball division with a
Council, announced its co-
win over Greater Holy Tem-
operation with an American
ple, 62-60. The men's playoff
Red Cross community pro-
game will be vs. Metropoli-
gram to reach elderly, blind
tan 6 p.m. Saturday at the
How badly does Israel pleted and opened and their
and disabled persons eligible
YMCA.
want visitors?
interiors filled with smiling
for monthly U. S. govern-
Senior boys lost to St. Paul
A taxi driver in Tel Aviv visitors from all over the
ment checks under the new March 3—T w e en Bowling by a score of 66-46. Junior
summed up the mood in a world. This means that more
2:30 p.m., Tow n
Supplemental Security In-
and Country Lanes boys won 27-20 over Greek conversation with Flint Jour- than anything else, he wants
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—Teen Israeli Night Assumption. Playoff for jun- nal editorial writer Allen R. peace and stability for Israel
The volunteet. effort, Pdo-
7:30 p.m., Cong ior boys will be 6 p.m. Mon- Wilhelm, who spent two in the Middle East. In the
ject SSI-Alert, is part of a
day at Whittier Jr. High weeks touring Israel with a 25 years of its existence, it
Beth Israel.
nationwide effort to provide
School.
group of American jour- has known neither."
—"Wonderful Worl d
information about the new
nalists.
of
Israeli
Wines'
Wilhelm, who was in Israel
program to those in financial
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In the first in a series of in January, said the gloomy
wine-cheese
tasting
Purim.
Festivities
need who are 65 and over, or
Journal
reports
on
his
find-
party,
7:30
p.m.
a
t
weather, coupled with the
under 65 but blind or dis-
ings, Wilhelm said the driver postwar psychological gloom,
Cong. Beth Israel at Temple Beth El
abled. Virginia D. Close, local
Temple Beth El and its pointed to hotels going up was heartened only slightly
4—Israel Aliya Meet
project director for SSI-Alert,
ing, 8 p.m., hom e sisterhood will host a Megilla along the seashore, left un- by disengagement of troops
said Supplemental Security
of Mr. arid Mrs reading and Purim carnival, finished because of mobiliza- on the Egyptian front.
Gary David Steinman, who
Income payments will be
to which the community is tion. "He wonders if they
Benzion
Gotlib.
"While some voices loudly received his PhD at the Uni-
made automatically to those
5—Temple Sisterhood invited, 5:30 p.m. Thursday. ever will be finished, and if wadn not to trust the Egyp- versity of California in Berk-
who were receiving public
Board Meeting, A kosher hot dog dinner is there ever will be enough tians," Wilhelm wrote, "re- ley, then spent four years as
assistance as of December
tourists to fill them.
12:30 p.m. at Tem- planned.
action on the streets and in managing director of Ames-
1973. Others have to apply.
Barbara Lebster, sister-
" 'Maybe they will be like the government offices could Yissum (Miles Laboratories)
ple Beth El.
Persons wishing to volun-
—Cong. Beth Israel hood vice president, is being tombstones,' he mutters.
be characterized as an ur- in Jerusalem, returned to the
teer in some capacity or who
assisted by Nadine Foote and
"More than anything else, gent desire to trust in some- U. S. with his wife and two
Board
Meeting,
8
may be eligible for Supple-
p.m., at synagogue. Joyce Rosenthal in planning he wants the hotels corn- thing."
daughters and received his
mental Security Income may
—Bnai
Brith Men's the carnival, with games,
MD degree at the University
call the Project SSI-Alert
Meeting, 8 p.m., prizes and a white elephant
of Miami. He is a resident
office at one of the following
sale.
A
prize
will
be
award-
Howard Johnson's
physician at Jacobi Hospital.
numbers: Flint — 232-1176;
ed for the best costume.
East.
Albert Einstein School of
Lapeer — 664-9926; Owosso
Anyone
with
a "white ele-
6—Council Community
Medicine in the Bronx.
—723-2520. Organizations and
phant" to donate should con-
Relations
Commit-
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agencies not yet contacted
Celebration
of
the
seder
tact
Mrs.
Lebster,
767-8989.
got
to
get
there
if
you
tee Meeting, 8 p.m.
may call as well.
with
newly_
arrived
immi-
haven't
yet."
or
Mrs.
Foote,
767-4086.
Flint dentist Dr. Max Hart
Cong. Beth Israel.
grants in an absorption cen-
Payments will be made by
For information on the has been honored by the
7—P u r i m Carnival,
ter — will be a highlight of Passover mission, call Rich- Mott Community College
the Social Security Adminis-
5:30 - 8:30 p.m., Aliya Director
Passover in Israel, as ob- ard Krieger, Flint Jewish dental hygiene and dental
tration, but the program is
Temple Beth El.
separate from Social Secur-
—JWVA Regular to Answer Questions served ' by participants in a Community Council executive assistant programs by the
special Flint mission, April director, 767-5922.
ity. Clarence Mattson, man-
creation of a plaque on which
Meeting, 8:30 p.m.,
All who may be interested 4-15.
ager of the Social Security
the names of top students in
in
a
life
in Israel are invited
home of Mrs. Sid-
office in Flint, said his office
the programs will be in-
ney Witkow, 1221 by David Gotlib to an aliya
Other features of the mis- Israeli Student
and more than 600 other
scribed. Dr. Hart helped the
Eldorado,
program 8 p.m. Monday at sion wil be meetings with
Social Security district of-
college set up the two pro-
his home, 2017 Wabash.
military leaders, a visit to Discovers How
fices across the nation are
grams, and the award reads
the Golan Heights front, to Citrus Fruit Spoils
Gideon
Biran,
director
of
cooperating in Project SSI-
Jewish War Veterans Flint
"Dr. Max Hart Scholarship
Masada and Yad Vashem,
JERUSALEM—The reason Award." Hart has been presi-
Alert.
Auxiliary will elect officers the Israel Aliya Office in De- the memorial to the Six
troit,
will
deal
with
job
op-
for
processed
citrus
fruit
The U. S. government pay- at a meeting 8:30 p.m. portunities, the problems of Million.
dent of the Genesee County
segments' shredding and los- Council of Social Agencies,
ments assure that each eli- Thursday at the home of emigration and how to re-
The itinerary also includes ing their shape has been de- president of the Michigan
gible person has a monthly Mrs. Sidney Witkow, 1221 solve them, education and
time to walk through the termined by a Hebrew Uni- Dental Association and in
income of at least $140 and Eldorado. On March 14, Flint Israel's future.
Old City of Jerusalem (with versity doctoral student. His 1966 was named the associa-
each couple at least $205. Auxiliary will host the De-
prayer
at the Western Wall), discovery will eventually en- tion's Dentist Citizen of the
troit
Auxiliary
members
at
"Not every eligible person
and
visits
to the convalescing able Israel to greatly in- year.
Hebrew
Class
Slated
a
department
meeting.
will get payments in these
A new course in beginning veterans of the Yom Kippur crease its processed citrus
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amounts," Mattson said.
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production - and, subsequent-
conversational Hebrew taught War.
"Some will get less because
ly, its exports.
On Feb. 8, it was reported by Rabbi Gerald Schuster is
Mrs. Ron Aaronson is a
they have other income, such that Mrs. John Fleming was
Michael Melet, who recent-
With the aid of the trans-
as a small Social Security fund-raising vice president being offered by Temple ly returned from his first mission electron microscope participating artist in the
new chamber music group,
Beth El, beginning 8:30 p.m.
cheek."
of Bnai Brith Women of Wednesday. A reading knowl- mission to Israel, promised and the university's recently the Cameratas, which made
that
it
would
be
like
"going
The Supplemental Security Flint. Mrs. Fleming is mem-
acquired scanning electron its Flint debut at a concert
Income program was enact- bership vice president, and edge of Hebrew is not re- home." "It's incredible—the microscope, Ilan Shomer is last week at the DeWaters
quired.
For
information
and
ed by Congress in October Mrs. Benjamin Kaufman is registration, call the temple people, the land—you've just studying the influence of dif- Art Center.
1972. The first checks wede fund-raising vice president. office,
ferent methods of freezing
232-3138.
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and canning on citrus fruit
Radical Changes
segments.
Laura Livingston, Jo.*
Sought for Israel
He found that citrus fruits Hallem, Alvin Kentz ant..
NEW YORK (JTA)—Res. tend to disintegrate when Evelyn Goldenberg were
Gen. Meir Amit, president they are canned or frozen be- honored by the Genesee Fed-
of Koor Industries, Israel's cause the vesicles (juice eration for the Blind for
largest industrial enterprise sacs), which constitute each their work with visually im-
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,
owned by Histadrut, said segment of the fruit, break paired persons. Mrs. Living-
that "major radical changes apart from one another. The ston and Mrs. Hallem were
recognizing the staggering dimensions of human need in Israel,
must take place" among the citrus vesicles secrete a wax cited for their work with a
has resolved:
Israeli leadership. He ob- on the inside and outside radio program on WFBE,
served nonetheless that if which binds them to one an- "The VIP Hour," designed
That every member of its constituent organizations must make an
Defense Minister Moshe other. The wax acts as a wa- for visually impaired per-
immediate gift to the Israel Emergency Fund of the United Jewish
Dayan "will be fired" and ter repellent and hejps to sons, and Kentz for his work
"the system will not be protect the f r u i t. But it with a young adult visually
Appeal through the Jewish federation or welfare fund in his
changed" then nothing will melts at a temperature of impaired group. Kentz or-
50-70°C (123-158°F), which is ganized the young adult
home community.
be achieved.
lower than the temperatures group that began in August
Amit, who is here on a reached in the canning pro- 1973 and has grown to a
IN FLINT
speaking tour for the Israel cess. This is the reason, ac membership of 20. His
Histadrut campaign, contend- cording to Shomer, why mother, Julia Kentz, acts as
make your contributions to the
ed that Israel "needs more canned citrus tends to disin- chaperone at twice monthly_
1974 United Jewish Appeal-Israel Emergency Fund
and mare" sophisticated and tegrate. Now, Shomer said, events held by the group.
912 Sill Bldg., Flint, Mich. 48504
expensive equipment from ways can be sought to pre- Kentz was elected Federa-
the United States.
vent this disintegration.
tion sergeant at arms.

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Community
Calendar

Reporter Cites Need for Tourists

Cothings
and
Goings

Passover in Israel to Offer New
Experience on April Mission

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IN THE AFTERMATH
OF THE YOM KIPPUR WAR