THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
40—Friday, January 3, 1975
Students Use Skills
in Israeli Army
KFAR SILVER (ZINS) —
Kfar Silver students are ef-
fectively using their special-
ized educational programs
on behalf of Israel's national
effort..
Shmuel Hirschfeld, direc-
tor of the Kfar Silver campus
reports that a group of 18
third-year students just com-
pleted a month's work in an
Israel Defense Forces ar-
mored maintenance base as
part of their Gadna (para-
military program for high
school youth) training.
The boys, all students at
Kfar Silver Technical School,
worked principally on the
maintenance and repair of
tanks, in a first time pro-
gram to use Gadna high
school pupils in such military
maintenance work.
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Authoritative Studies of Jewish Factors in Heredity
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
"The time has not yet
come when a 'how to' book
on genetics can promise you
a child that would paint like
Picasso, swim like Spitz, and
think like Einstein. But if you
are among the millions whose
families are touched by he-
reditary diseases, you can
now be given new hope and
reassurance." These are the
opening sentences of "Hered-
ity and You" (C o w a r d,
McGann & Geoghegan; Fore-
word by Dr. Leon Rosen-
berg) by Augusta Greenblatt.
Indeed, tremendous prog-
ress has been made the last
fifty years in unraveling the
mystery of heredity.
However, not so long ago,
scientists believed that the
female egg contained a fully
developed child. Other scien-
tists disagreed. They claimed
that the male sperm was the
habitat of the child, and from
'there it was "injected into
the egg at conception."
Then in 1865. Gregor Men-
del, who had difficulties pass-
ing school examinations, pub-
lished his great scientific
discovery which revolution-
ized the study of genetics
and solved the enigma—why
normal parents oftentimes
produce defective children. It
also led to the discovery of
many of the causes of
people's hereditary diseases.
The Tay-Sachs was such a
disease.
Why is it called Tay-
Sachs?
It bears this name because
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Dr. Bernard Sachs were the Critics of the Church of Eng-
first to describe its syn- land moralized that 'painless
drome. However, they did childbirth is a defiance of
not know the cause of the Scripture," and the charge
disease. It remained a mys- was that the prince's illness
tery until five years ago was in punishment of that
when it was learned that the defiance."
Tay-Sachs child was defi-
It should be noted that in
cient in the chemical element recent years great strides
hex - A (hexosa - minidase), have been made in combat-
which the normal child has ing hemophilia; but much
in its blood.
still remains to find a com-
Soon medical researchers plete cure.
began to look for ways and
means to detect the Tay-
Sickle cell, an inherited
Sachs symptoms in the un- abnormality, not an inherited
born child. Luckily, they disease, affects the physical
found the clue. It was located but not the mental develop-
in the amniotic fluid which ment of nearly 50,000 Ameri-
shields the fetus during its cans, mostly black.
development. By sampling it,
Sickle cell -first appeared
doctors now can tell whether in East Africa. From there it
a child has Tay-Sachs symp- spread to the continent's
toms. This discovery led to western shores, the origin of
the development of a tech- most of the black population
nique of detecting Tay-Sachs of the U.S.
symptoms in adults. Again
The cause of the sickle cell
by sampling adults' blood, disease, like the ones of Tay-
doctors can tell whether the Sachs and hemophilia, has
adults are carriers of the been unknown until quite re-
disease.
cently. It . was Dr. . Linus
It is significant to note Pauling who in 1946 was the
that the Tay-Sachs disease first to suspect that the dis-
afflicts mostly Jewish -chil- ease was caused by an ab-
dren: mainly those who par- normal hemoglobin. A few
ents came from northeastern years later, it was learned
Poland, southern Lithuania that only the globin, a pro-
and certain areas of Bye- tein, and not the "heme, the
chemical that gives blood its
lorussia.
The disease is unknown color," caused the illness.
among the oriental Jews now Still later, it was realized
living in Israel.
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Hemophilia, another hered-
itary disease, was known to
the sages of the Talmud, the
authors of the "Halakha,"
JERUSALEM — Convicted
the talmudic laws. According gunrunner Archbishop Hillar-
to these laws "a woman who ion Capucci has ended his
lost two sons presumably two week "partial" hunger
from the effects of circum- strike. The Greek Catholic
cision . . . her third son Archbishop of East Jerusa-
should not be circumcised lem, who was convicted last
Likewise if the sons of month of smuggling guns to
'
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two sisters had died from the Arab terrorists, ended his
effect of circumcision, the personal ban on solid food.
sons of the other sisters
Throughout the two week
should not be circumcised."
period, the prelate drank a
The sages "not only recog-
glass of food concentrate
nized the presence of an in-
born bleeding disorder, but, twice each day.
with uncanny insight, also
perceived that it was trans-
Students to Hold
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women in her family as
NEW YORK — More than
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The conclusions of the 300 Jewish students from
"Halakha" were "independ- North, South and Central
enity confirmed in the America will participate in
eleventh and twelfth century the first Pan American Jew-
by other Jewish and Arab ; ish Students Conference, Jan.
5-9 at Camp Ocala, Fla.
scholars."
Sponsored by the North
What is hemophilia?
American Jewish Students'
It is an illness caused by Network, the umbrella or-
the hemophilic bleeder's de-
ganization for all Jewish stu-
ficiency in the blood sub-
dent groups across the Unit-
stances "Hemopilia A," or
ed States and Canada, the
"Hemiphilia B," also known conference will include work-
as Christmas disease.
shops led by student, reli-
Why is hemophilia a seri- . gious and lay leaders, as well
ous illness?
as major sessions Ted by
It is serious because it Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, Dr.
causes internal bleeding Allan Pollack and Dr. Jose
which may result in bone Iziksohn,
and muscle damage; and if
Sessions will include "The
the bleeding reaches the Quality of Jewish Life in the
brain and other vital bodily Americas," "Images and
organs — death may result. stereotypes
the
between
Hemophilia as it is well Jews of North and Latin
known, attacks not only com- America," "Alternative Life-
moners, but also royalty. Styles for the Jewish People
When Leopold Queen Vic- in the Americas " and "The
toria's eighth offspring, was Relationships between Israel
born, he was so sick that his and the American Jewish
baptism had to be postponed. Communities."
Consequently, "Much contro-
The North American Jew-
versy arose about the cause ish Students' Network is
of the infant prince's illness. the regional affiliate of the
It was public knowledge that World Union of Jewish Stu-
the queen had been adminis- dents (WUJS).
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that only one of the 574
animo acid the globin is
composed of, is the culprit.
What are the prospects for
helping relieve the pain and
suffering of the sickle cell
victims? Hopeful. It is hoped
that the use of cyanate, still
in the experimental stage,
may be the answer. Should
this prove effective, the vic-
tim of sickle cell, if not
cured, will be helped the
same way diabetics are
helped by insulin.
*
At this point, I should re-
mark that to comment on all
hereditary disorders describ-
ed in "Heredity and You"
would be ,an impossibility.
Nevertheless, I will comment
briefly on the I.Q. (intelli-
gence quotient) concept:
First, no I.Q. test has as
yet succeeded in accurately
measuring native intelli-
gence.
Second, the I.Q. changes
with age and circumstances.
Third, I.Q. does not indi-
cate racial inferiority or
superiority.
Finally, Jewish children,
though they score higher
than Christian children on
I.Q. tests, even when their
parents' socio-economic sta-
tus is the same, still few
people will "conclude that
Jews are genetically superior
to Christians." Harvard Prof.
Christopher Jencks, in his
1972 book "Inequality: A Re-
assessment of the Effect of
Family and School in Amer-
ica," contends that Jewish
children do well on mental
tests because "Jews treat
their children differently from
Christians even when their
occupations, income, and ed-
ucation are the same." „
"Heredity and You" is
written with deftness and
clarity, and portrays the dra-
matic strides that had been
made, and the efforts being
made to ameliorate, prevent
and cure man's centuries-old
genetic afflictions.
Augusta Greenblatt is a
clinical laboratory scientist
and the author of "Why DO
I Feel This Way?"
g3irtAs
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Howard Ranen (Gayle Bgr-
ak), 1769 Klingensmith, Pon-
tine, a son, Richard Gary.
* *
Dec. 13—To Dr. and Mrs.
David Harold (Susan Klai-
man), of Ann Arbor, a son,
Daniel Eli.
Dec. 4—To Mr. and Mrs.
Leland Beckton (Marlene
Zeldes of Oak Park), of Ann
Arbor, a daughter, Jessica
Erin.
Nov. 10—To Mr. and M
Yaakov Klein (Elaine I
chak of Detroit), of Jerusa-
lem, Israel, a son, Menachem
Hanech.
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