Canadian Zionists Will 'Adopt' Kiryat Shemona, Exchange Due
TEL AVIV (JTA) -- The
Canadian Zionist Federation
will "adopt" K i r y at She-
mona, it was reported here.
Dr. M. Kronitz, chairman of
the federation which has its
headquarters in Montreal,
disclosed the plan to Moshe
Gilboa, information director
of the World Zionist Organi-
zation and associate director
general of the J e wish
Agency's organization a n d
information department, who
returned recently f r o m a
visit to North America.
According to Gilboa, the
CZF will encourage contacts
between Canadian Zionists
and Kiryat Shemona resi-
dents, the ex change of
school children and an ex-
change of visits b et ween
Canadian Zionists and people
of Kiryat Shemona. Material
aid to the hard-pressed town
is also under consideration,
Gilboa said.
He said a central informa-
tion office will be set up in
Canada and lecturers from
Israel will pay frequent visits
to Canadian Jewish commun-
ities as part of an informa-
tion drive to be coordinated
by a special committee of
the CZF.
Gilboa also reported that
a Zionist information center
will be established in Chi-
cago. He said he reached an
agreement with Reform
bodies in the U.S. that af-
filiated withe WZO this year
for an extensive information
drive in their communities.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, October 11, 1974-15
New Translated Yiddish Novel
Describes E. Eu rope Heritage
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)
The increasing number of
Yiddish works being trans-
lated into English helps as-
sure that this rich Jewish
heritage will not be lost. It
is important that the children
You are cordially invited to attend the presentation of the
WALKER L. CISLER
Chairman Detroit Edison
NATIONAL B'NAI B'RITH
HUMANITARIAN AWARD
TO
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Distinguished President of Chrysler Corporation
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"For -distinguished and enduring contributions
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Rabbi' Milton Arm
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Chairman; Chrysler Corp.
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John D. Hegarty
Honorable Hubert H. Humphrey
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Philip Cohen
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'Committee in Process of formation
and grandchildren of East
European immigrants, who
cannot read Yiddish, will be
able to learn something of
the world from which they
are descended, a world that
no longer exists.
The world Chaim Grade
describes in "The Agunah"
(Bobbs-Merrill) is that of
Vilna, the city once. known
as the "Jerusalem of Lith-
uania." Grade was born in
Vilna in 1910 and was a prod-
uct of its yeshivot.
In "The Agunah" Grade
seeks to encompass all of
Vilna's Jewish society. An
aguna, according to halakha,
is a woman whose husband
has disappeared either
through accident or deser-
tion and cannot remarry
since Jewish law considers
the husband alive until a wit-
ness can testify that the hus-
band has died. .
In Grade's novel, the
aguna is - Merl, a young
woman whose husband has
not returned from World
War I.
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In order to be allowed to
be married under Jewish
law, Merl and a man she
met 15 years later had to
receive permission from the
Vilna rabbinic council's ap-
pointed authority over
agunas, Reb. - Levi Hurwitz.
Reb Levi is a strict interpre-
ter of the law and refuses.
But the couple gain permis-
sion from a poor rabbi who
is outside the rabbinic estab-
lishment in Vilna.
The problem of the aguna
is only the frame upon which -
Grade builds his main theme
—the classic struggle be-
tween a strict dogmatic in-
terpreter of the law and one
who believes the law should
be interpreted with compas-
sion.
The contest between the
two rabbis and the problems
of the aguna involves the en-
tire town, and the reader
gets a good picture of Jew-
ish life in Vilna between the
two wars.
Above all, Grade provides
in "The Agunah," a -good
story that is enjoyable to
read.
Kennedy, Dinitz
Speak to Zionists
NEW YORK — American
Israeli public officials, in-
cluding Senator Edward Ken-
nedy and Israel Ambassador
to the U.S. Simcha Dinitz,
will address the third nation-
al convention of the Ameri-
can Zionist Federation, to be
held Oct. 26-28 in Boston.
Tallks will also be deliver-
ed by Dr. Marver Bernstein,
president of Brandeis Uni-
versity and by Rabbi Israel
Miller, president of the
American Zionist Federation.
Both Senator Kennedy and
Ambassador Dinitz are ex-
pected to discuss the Middle
East situation, developments
at the U.N. affecting Mideast
peace, and comment on the
status of diplomatic negotia-
tions and discussions if king
place in the major capitals
of the world.
More than 600 delegates
are expected to attend the
convention.
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