Sabbath Observer Compensated After Dismissal by Post Office
A young Sabbath observer bout with the U.S. Post Office lion after he was fired for re-
from Oak Park has won a in his demand for compensa- fusing to work on the Sab-
bath.
Ronald Schreiber, 19, a
pre-med and religion student
at the University of Michi-
gan, won an out-of-court set-
tlement from the Post Office
after taking his case through
several grievance levels.
The son of Dr. and Mrs.
Leonard Schreiber of Raine
At Somerset Inn, it's a lot nicer than you think it
Ave., Oak Park, Ronald was
might be, just because we have so much to take
employed in a summer job at
your mind off all the things that bother you all
the Seven-Oaks station of the
week long. A luxuriously comfortable room, for
Post Office.
instance. Troy's finest dining at our L'Auberge and
He was fired after refusing
carefree hours in our Golden Grape. There's a
to fill a Saturday work assign-
four seasons pool for your use, and a double
ment, his superiors contend-
cinema right on the premises. And just across
ing that it was impossible to
allow for such a deviation
the lane, the 38 fine 5th Avenue shops of famed
from the normal work rules.
Somerset Mall. It can be a gas, even if your
Ironically, because of his
tank is empty. Call us now for reservations,
religious observance Ronald
won't you?
had been permitted to take
the federal civil service exam
—which he successfully com-
pleted—on a Tuesday instead
Big Beaver Rd., east of Coolidge, Troy, Mich. 48084
of the usual Saturday exam
Phone (313) 643-7800
day.
Ronald's father, who re-
lated the details of the case,
said that they were assisted
in their appeal by local at-
torney Abraham Selesny, rep-
resenting COLPA, the New
York-based legal association
that aids Sabbath observ-
ers.
Selesny was credited by
Dr. Schreiber with seeing the
case through to its successful
conclusion. He charged no
fee to the plaintiffs, suggest-
ing only a donation to
COLPA, Dr. Schreiber said.
The equal employment op-
portunities commission with-
in the Post Office Department
had investigated the case,
which twice was rejected.
Selensy persisted - until the
Post Office agreed to settle
out of court. Also assisting
in the case were the Jewish
Community Council and
American Jewish Congress.
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Pius Defended
by,Pope Paul
Friday, March 15, 1974-15
Magen David Adorn Cites Aim
in Light of Yom Kippur War
BY MAXA SALTIEL
(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)
(Editor's note: Mrs. Maxa
Saltiel, an Israeli temporarily
residing in New York is di-
rector of public relations at
American Red Magen David
for Israel (ARMD). Born in
Egypt, she went to Israel in
1949' and joined the Israel
Defense Force , where she
served in the medical corps.)
The Mideast conflict has
spotlighted the role of Magen
David Adorn, Israel's Emer-
gency Medical Service
(MDA), bringing a renewal
of world-wide awareness and
voluntary commitments to
the organization.
During a recent trip to Is-
rael, I visited the various
ROME (JTA) — Pope Paul MDA facilities. On election
VI Sunday defended Pope day, when all places of busi-
Pius XII, recently accused ness were closed to enable
of failing to intervene and the population to go to the
prevent Nazi reprisals in polls, the Col. David Marcus
Rome 30 years ago.
Central Blood Bank and Frac-
Pope Paul VI told a crowd tionation Center in Jaffa was
of 8,000 gathered for the reg- opened for business as usual.
ular Sunday benediction at
Dr. Shulamit Bar Shany,
St. Peter's that Pope Pius director of the Blood Bank,
showed me around the premi-
ses and introduced me to her
staff, who were busy taking
blood from donors and work-
ing in the laboratories.
Sharon Cohen, 21, an
American 1 a b technician
working for Magen David
Adorn, left her New York job
last year to spend her sum-
mer vacation in Israel. She
loved the country and the
people but found it hard to
communicate in Hebrew and
decided to extend her stay
for six months to study the
language. She joined a kibutz
ulpan near the Golan Heights.
Impatient to help when
war broke out, went to Tel
Aviv to work on the assemb-
POPE PIUS XII
ly line of an electronics fac-
XII had always done his ut- tory and volunteered her
most to prevent inhuman spare time to MDA. Later,
acts. Pope Pius XII never re- Dr. Bar Shany offered her
frained from intervening a full-time job as a lab tech-
"winthin the framework of nician. She plans to continue
his rights, when human life her studies and get a degree
and liberty were in danger in her field.
•
Receiving a transfusion at
the blood center was Avi
Loya, a 16-year-old sabra of
Bulgarian descent.
Avi, who suffers from hem-
ophilia, a hereditary blood
disease, depends fully on
MDA for his twice-a-week
transfusions. He goes to vo-
cational school for lab tech-
nicians, and his ambition is
to become a biologist in the
MDA laboratory and helped
in the blood distribution to
hospitals.
The Israeli man in the
street supports MDA by con-
POPE. PAUL VI
tributions, buying MDA lot-
. . . He always tried cour- tery tickets, taking part in
ageously to prevent all in- the blood donor insurance
program and joining a first-
justice," said the Pope.
In his book, "Massacre in aid instruction course. Others
Rome," Robert Katz asserts
that Pope Pius XII had fore- Shmura Matzo Baked
knowledge of Nazi reprisal
projects which ultimately at Manischewitz
cost 335 lives, but did not
NEW YORK—The annual
intervene. Katz's lawyers last baking of shmura matzo was
• week asked the Pope to furn- held recently, with the board
ish 'material proving the con- of rabbis and the officers of
• trary.
Katz and film producer the company present.
• Carol Ponti are accused of Immediately after the bak-
• having dishonored the mem- ing, Rabbi Siegal handed the
of Pope Pius XII, who kashrut certificate to Ber-
• ory
was a -close friend of the nard Manischewitz, president
present Pope.
of the B. Manischewitz Co.
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Shirt Man"
Ronald's original complaint
contained three demands:
That the post office comply
with federal regulations bar-
ring discrimination against
employes because of religion;
that there be no discrimina-
tion should he ever be em-
ployed by the government
in the future; and that the
Post Office provide remun-
eration for the earnings de-
nied Schreiber after being
fired.
The Post Office agreed to
comply with all three points
and settled for $1,000.
Although the case was set-
tled out of court, Dr. Schrei-
ber said his son was dealing
with a principle and "was
ready to go to federal court."
THE DETROIT JEWISH. NEWS
tell of being transported in
labor to the hospital, or res-
cued by MDA life guards, or
being saved by a cardiac res-
cue team. The home accident
victim and the survivor of
a tragic road accident also
get prompt MDA assistance.
Prof.- Moshe Many, execu-
tive chairman of MDA, said
that in the aftermath of the
Yom Kipour War , MDA's
goal is to improve its emer-
gency medical service and
meet the country's ever-grow-
ing needs.
MDA is working in close
cooperation with the minis-
tries of health and transporta-
tion to • upgrade ambulance
and _health station service so
as to alleviate the burden
to hospitals and minimize
the heavy death tolls of ac-
cident victims and cardiac
patients.
Station Raps
JTA Story on
Heller's Firing
NEW YORK (JTA) —
WBAI-FM has accused the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
of having "blown up out of
all proportion" the listener-
sponsored station's dismissal
of a broadcaster who criti-
cized black basketball play-
ers on the Rochester Univer-
sity team who boycotted a
game with the Israeli basket-
ball team.
Peter Heller, who worked
for the station as an unpaid
sportscaster was fired Feb.
8 and his broadcast on the
game was scrapped several
hours after it was taped.
Heller, sports producer for
ABC-TV, had contended on
the taped broadcast that the
black athletes had bowed to
Arab pressure.
Larry Cox, _ WBAI news
director, said then that Hell-
er was dismissed because
"we did not like his work
generally" and that the
broadcast was cancelled be-
cause -if had injected politics
and was "a personal com-
mentary."
He asserted that Heller
had been asked to contrib-
ute on a trial basis a series
of snorts reports and that
the series was discontinued
"because of the generally
unsatisfactory quality of his
work."
Cox said the series were
"a rather superficial presen-
tation of material which was
often a rehash of items used
on the ABC network news
show where Heller is em-
e d "
.
Cox insisted that "the de-
cision to end the series had
absolutely nothing to do with
any commentary that Heller
did concerning Israel. The
dicision was based on his
two previous broadcasts and
a discussion I had person-
ally with Heller concerning
an item which we considered
sexist and which he did not."
The commentary on Israel,
which he said he had not
heard, "was simply one of
a number of items in his last
program."
He said that WBAI was
"proud to be giving what we
consider to be the very best
coverage of Israel in the
New York area."