THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 22, 1974-1S Hungary Jews Pick Leaders BUDAPEST (JTA) — Hun- garian Jewry has recently elected its community offi- cials and results show an in- creased number of men from public life and science as- suming leadership posts, es- pecially in the community af- 1.- . IF YOU TURN THE V . S . fl .. UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T FIND A FINER WINE THAN fairs section. Elected to the section were two university professors of medicine, Istvan Kunos and Pal Weinstein; a literature professor, Aladar Komlos; two writers, Imre Keszi and Tamas Ungvari; and Dr. Sandor Scheiber. Scheiber is the director of the Budapest Jewish Seminary and the on- ly rabbi elected to this sec- tion. Geza Seifert was once again elected as chairman of the national organization of Hungarian Jews. For the first time a young man, Hermann Fixler, has assumed the chairmanship of religious affairs. LEASING ALL MAKES order your '74 NOW! 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They were extremely im- pressed that night by the ora- tion of one of our young men for whom everyone predicted a brilliant future because of the clarity of his thought, the beauty of his diction and the earnestness of his per- sonality. The orator in question was my good friend, Charles C. Simons, who was destined to be a state senator, Circuit Court commissioner, District Court judge, and finally. judge of the United States Court of Appeals. The next move for a YMHA was made on the eve of the entrance of the United States into the World War. Nobody had any idea that we were about to enter. Sol Goldsmith of the Jewish American of Detroit, who had come here from Louis- ville, urged the movement, and Sam Sarasohn and Morry Friedenberg were very en- there was no money in re- up and the Jewish centers smeer ny tes. to make further pay- became one of the resultant parts. Many years were to elapse (Next Week: before the UJC was broken The First UJA Drive) CCAR Agrees to Seek Dialogue With Other Denominations JUDGE CHARLES SIMONS ergetic. A few thousand dol- lars was collected and at the urgent insistence of Mr. Sarasohn was used as a down payment on a large lot. A propaganda meeting was called at the S'haarey Zedek, on the corner of Willis and Brush, and a great deal of enthusiasm was stirred up. Within the two weeks, how- ever, most of our young men were in training camps. The money raised was lost, as Veterans Health Care A new Veterans Adminis- tration health care program covers spouses and children of veterans with service con- nected total, permanent dis- abilities, and widows or widowers a n d children of veterans whose deaths re- sulted from service connected causes. JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Central Conference of Amer- ican Rabbis resolved Monday to review conversion proced- ures by Reform rabbis and to seek a dialogue on the sub- ject with the other Jewish denominations. A resolution to that effect was adopted at the 85th an- nual convention of the CCAR, attended by some 350 of the group's 1,100 rabbis and over 1,000 lay leaders of the Re- form movement., Rabbi Robert I. Kahn of Houston, CCAR president, who initiated the plan, told the Jewish Telegraphic Ag- ency that the committee ap- pointed to study the conver- sion procedures would report back to the CCAR executive committee in June. Rabbi Kahn had suggested as a model solution the "To- ronto arrangement" of mixed tripartite conversion panels. He said that if such a system were adopted. the Reform movement would be guided by Halakha in performing conversions. Rabbi Kahn warned, how- ever, that the Reform move- ment would not tolerate as- persions cast on persons con- verted to Judaism in the past by Reform rabbis who did not follow the halakhic rules. kibutz in Israel. They said that several sites were under consideration, particularly in the Arava region in the south. They said the scheme had been evolving over four years and that Reform temple youth in the U. S. was being canvassed. Premier Golda Meir de- clared earlier that the unity of the Jewish people was par- amount in finding a solution to the Who is a Jew issue. She noted that the special ministerial committee her co- alition government will estab- lish to find a solution would consult with scholars and. lea- ders of all branches of Juda- ism and would seek "the best advice of the best minds in Jewish life on all sides." She cautioned, however, that a solution to this long- term problem could not be expected overnight. Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, called upon Israel to take "concrete steps to recognize the legitimacy" of Jews in determining their own Jewishness. "All evidence of the Dias- pora's response to the Yom Kippur War indicates that the notion of Jewish people- bood , should be inclusive ra- ther than exclusive. In such a conception, the legitimacy of Jewish diversity must be recognized," he said. "We Reform Jews recog- nize our responsibility to pro- vide aliya, but not on the terms of having our olim questioned as to whether they are really Jews," he said. "Their act of personal com- mitment through aliya should speak for itself." 111,4 Hosted 3,000 on Missions -Since War: Zuckerman, RABBI SCHINDLER • e • •••••• ....... ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. The CCAR convention heard from Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, who lashed out at certain American Jews who, he said, "sought to sup- press all free discussion re- lating to any policies or problems of Israel." Rabbi Schindler said pres- sures for silence came "not from Israel as much as from her self-appointed minions, with American passports, mi- nor functionaries strutting about as guardians of the Jewish State's security." Declaring that "dissent should never be equated with disloyalty," Rabbi Schindler asked, "Must I applaud this government's every act to demonstrate my love for Is- rael'? Why should I not be able to say what Israelis themselves are free to say in their own land?" Rabbis Allan Levine and Henry Skirball, Israel-based Reform rabbis, reported on plans to establish a Reform NEW YORK — Since the Yom Kippur War, more than 3,000 men and women have participated in UJA-spon- r e d "People-to-People" missions to Israel, UJA Gen- eral Chairman Paul Zucker-' man announced. "The outstanding response to this program by American Jews from almost every community in the U.S. dem- onstrates in the most con- crete terms their overwhelm- ing support for their brothers and sisters in Israel," Zuck- erman said. As of March 15, 32 missions have visited Israel since the program began following the end of the war. An additional 28 missions are scheduled to leave before June 30, with approximately 2,600 participants, Zucker- man stated. He pointed out that People- to-People mission program is an ongoing project, and that additional missions already are being planned for the summer and fall months, under the direction of Louis S. Goldman, UJA national chairman of the missions pro4 •• (cram.