Abba Eban, Shlomo Levin to Honor
Akiva Day School on Thursday
It also lauded Eban's . role
as principal speaker at the
award dinner.
Rabbi Joseph Shuchatowitz, center, and Mrs. David
Dombey are shown receiving the city of Southfield's Akiva
Day proclamation from Southfield City Councilman Stephen
Cooper. The proclamation, Thursday evening dinner and
other activities are marking the -10th anniversary of Akiva
Day School.
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. A meritorious citation of a Day School by the World
global nature and the visit of Zionist Organization for the
one of world Jewry's most program conducted by its
distinguished personalities twelfth-grade students in a
will lend significance to the year of study in Israel.
dinner meeting sponsored by
Israel Vice Consul Shlomo
Akiva Day School, to-be held
Thursday evening in the Beth Levin, who was instrumental
in consolidating the Akiva
Achim social hall.
Israel's former Foreign program with the Israel
Minister Abba Eban will be studies, will bring the cita-
the guest speaker, and the tion for presentation at the
citation . will be in the form dinner. Assigned to the Israel
of recognition given Akiva Consulate in New York, Lev-
in supervised preparations
for the highly acclaimed
Akiva program which won
Israel government and world
Zionist cooperation and rec-
ognition.
On the occasion of the Oct.
31 dinner, Mayor Donald
Fracassi declared Akiva Day
in Southfield. The proclama-
tion was presented to Rabbi
Joseph Shuchatowitz, princi-
pal of the schoOl.
The resolution congratu-
lated Rabbi Shuchatowitz and
Akiva for the award, and
commended their "dedicated
efforts to provide a good
SHLOMO LE VIN
education for our youth."
Thursday's dinner will
mark the 10th anniversary
of Akiva Day School.
Max M. Fisher, who will
introduce Eban at the dinner,
reiterated his support of the
day school idea in a state-
ment issued this week, which
appears in a full-page mes-
sage to the community pub-
lished in this issue.
Fisher recalls that as pres-
ident of the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds he strongly urged
maximum programming for
Jewish education and he re-
iterates his view in greeting
Akiva's celebration.
Jewish Communal
School Gives M.A.
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) —
The Hebrew Union College
School of Jewish Communal
Service, started in 1969 as a
double summer session to
provide students with certifi-
cation in Jewish communal
studies, has grown into a
year-around curriculum lead-
ing to master's degrees, ac-
cording to Prof. Gerald B.
Bubis, director of the school.
As the 1974 class held clos-
ing exercises Prof. Bubis
noted 39 of the 45 students
enrolled for the summer ses-
sion are continuing their
- studies to earn higher de-
grees. He said three are
studying for the rabbinate
and 36 more are studying for
a master of arts degree in
Jewish community studies.
Many are working at the
same time for a "double
master's" degree from the
nearby University of South-
ern California.
New Facilities
For Immigrants
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Jewish Agency absorp-
tion department has launched
separate ventures in Dimona
and Haifa to pioneer "ab-
sorption facilities for indi-
vidual professions."
In Dimona, an absorption
center opened catering sole-
ly to engineers, mostly from
the Soviet Union.
In Haifa, a pilot year-long
"social workers for Israel"
program has been under way
since August, attended by 13
American social workers, all
with masters degrees in soc-
ial work.
The Dimona center will
have an initial intake of
some 150 engineers and their
families. While their wives
and children study Hebrew
at the center's ulpan, the en-
gineers will go through a
four-stage absorption and
adaptation course. In the
first stage they will study
basic Hebrew.
Divided into groups of
metal engineers, electrical
and electronics engineers,
civil and construction engin-
eers, and chemical engineer,
they will be instructed by
experts on Western varia-
tions of their areas of exper-
tise which were not current
in the Soviet Union and on
the Hebrew nomenclature
and terminology in u-se.
This will be followed by
advanced courses in spec-
ialized Hebrew and, where
necessary, a fourth stage of
acclimatization to Israeli
conditions.
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Shehita Upheld by Supreme Court
Special JTA Report
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The U.S. Supreme Court has
upheld the rights of Jews to
slaughter animals according
to Jewish ritual law.
The high court affirmed
without opinion the decision
of a three-judge Federal Dis-
trict Court which had de-
clared that Jewish ritual
slaughter employing t h e
hoisting and shackling meth-
od for positioning an animal
prior to the "throat cut" was
a "humane" process and that
the provision of the Federal
Humane Slaughter Law per-
mitting' such procedure was
constitutional.
The complaint in the suit,
which was brought by three
organizations and nine indi--
viduals claiming to be con-
cerned with "humane" treat-
ment of animals, attacked a
1958 federal law prohibiting
government purchase of
meat that was slaughtered
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"inhumanely" and which per-
mitted purchases of meat
slaughtered by the hoisting
and shackling of - fully con-
scious animals prior to the
actual slaughter.
The complaint claimed that
since hoisting and shackling
was not permitted in non-
ritual situations unless the
animal was first rendered in-
sensible to pain the statute
violated the First Amend-
ment.
Although in recent years
there has been increasing use
of a pen for the positioning
of an animal prior to the
ritual throat-cut the suit pre-
sented a serious threat to the
Jewish community.
There was widespread ap-
prehension that a time-hon-
ored ritual practice should
be characterized as being
"inhumane."
Others feared an exemp-
tion on religious grounds
would- not be constitutionally
permitted and would have
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serious effect on the concept
of religious liberty in Amer-
ica.
The National Jewish Com-
mission on Law and Public
Affairs (COLPA) submitted
a comprehensive brief to the
District Court, prepared by
Nathan Lewin, a constitu-
tional lawyer and vice pres-,
ident of COLPA.
In the brief Lewin argued
that even if hoisting and
shackling preparatory to
Jewish ritual slaughter "..Vas
found to be an in-humane
procedure, accommodation
by Congress or local legis-
latures to the needs of a par-
ticular religious community
by the inclusion of exemp-
tions in laws of general ap-
plicability is a well estab-
lished practice."
Howard Rhine, COLPA
president, termed the Sup-
ren-ie Court decision "an im-
portant victory for the Jew-
ish community."
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