12 Friday, March 28, 1975
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Sapir Denounces
Lag in Building
Sports Beat
Participating in a YMCA
swim meet in East Grand
Rapids were Scott Kronick,
Rhonda Marky, Scuffy
Price and Andrea Wolf.
Andrea broke the state rec-
ord in the butterfly event.
Her relay team also broke a
record. Scott Kronick's re-
lay team placed third in the
field of 12.
The Price family was
within sixth place in all of
their events. Competing in
the ISA high diving cham-
pionship, Brian Kronick
placed 4th out of 21 and was
the only freshman competi-
tor.
Bill Green, at 105 pounds,
boosted his wrestling record
to 46-1. Martin Rittman,
wrestling coach of the Lin-
den team, had his heavy-
weight place first in the
state.
Carl Rittman bowled the
first 700 series in the his-
tory of Flint Bnai Brith
bowling, with scores of 223-,
225, 257 — totaling 705.
Participants in men's bas-
ketball were Ron Hartman,
Gary Hurand, Joel Kauf-
man, Norman Leavitt, Jon
Pines, Mike Pines, Dan Ritt-
man, Marty Rittman and
Barry Wax. Carl Rittman
was coach.
Flint Jewish Community News
Flint Groups •
Plan Meetings
Activities slated for this
week on the Flint Jewish
Community Council's calen-
dar are: •
A Council cultural com-
mittee meeting will be held
noon Monday at the Council
office. Temple Beth El will
have a board meeting 8 p.m.
Monday at the temple.
On Tuesday, the Council
nominating committee will
meet noon at the Council of-
fice. Temple Beth El Sister-
hood will have a board meet-
ing at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in
the temple.
Beth El to Have
Movie and Dinner
Temple Beth El will have
the third program in its
Sunday film series 6:30 p.m.
April 6 in the temple. "Bye
Bye Braverman" will be
shown.
Delicatessen dinner will
precede the movie. For res
ervations, call the temple,
232-3138.
Flint Women Pick Officers
Flint Chapter, Bnai Brith
Women, elected Sybil Gold-
berg president at its recent
election meeting:
Other officers are Shirley
Winston, Sharon Stein and
Mary Mitshkun, vice presi-
dents; Marsha Fleming,
Pearl Simen and Ilene Wise-
man, secretaries; and Har-
riet Freeman, treasurer.
Comings ..
•
and
. Goings
Dr. Merton Goode, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Ted Goode,
was graduated March 7
from Michigan State Uni-
versity's school of human
medicine. Dr. Goode will
intern at Beaumont Hospi-
tal in Royal Oak.
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Michael A. Pelavin has
been nominated for another
three-year term on the
board of directors of the He-
brew Immigrant Aid So-
ciety.
.
Lubavitch Reaching Students
Through Weekend Seminars
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
By BEN GALLOB
weekend with a Lubav-
itcher family in Crown
Heights.
A Lubavitcher rabbi has
estimated that about a third
of the approximately 3,000
Jewishly-uncommitted col-
lege students who have
come to the movement's
weekend seminars at its
world headquarters in
Brooklyn during the past 15
years have subsequently
become Lubavitcher Hasi-
dim.
The most recent "En-
counter With Chaba," a
Hebrew acronym for wis-
dom, understanidng and
knowledge, held the last
week in December, at-
tracted about 125 women
and 175 men, at separate
gatherings, according to
Rabbi Shmuel H. Butman,
Lubavitcher Youth Organi-
zation director.
The students come from
points as distant as Texas,
Rabbi Butman said. The Lu-
bavitcher organization as-
sists the students with
travel expenses as required,
he said, reporting that be-
tween $700 and $800 was
used for that purpose for
the December seminar par-
ticipants.
Each of the visitors was
assigned a guide — a stu-
dent from the Lubavitcher
Yeshiva for each male visi-
tor and a student from the
Machone Chana for each
woman visitor. Each visi-
tor was a guest for the
Rabbi Butman preferred
that visitors be guests of Lu-
bavitcher families so they
could experience at first
hand what a traditional
Sabbath was like. He said
the student visitors unani-
mously report that one of
the most impressive hap-
penings of their visit is their
witnessing and taking part
to some degree in such a
Sabbath observance.
The seminar program in
eludes discussions and dia-
logues on various aspects of
Judaism, concepts of the
Chabad-Lubavitcher philos-
ophy, exploration of tradi-
tional Judaism and its intel-
lectual approach and
relevance.
Similar seminars are held
regularly on a small scale in
Lubavitcher regional offices
throughout the country.
On Saturdays, the visitors
attend services in the morn-
ing, join in mid-day meals
at the homes of their host
families and then attend
programs at the Lubav-
itcher Youth Organization
library, in the synagogue or
in private homes.
Rabbi Butman said that
staff members and rabbis
in the Lubavitcher re-
gional offices were among
the sources of referrals. He
also said that invitations
are sent to every Hillel
rabbi for posting at Hillel
Foundations. Generally,
he reported, the college
students say they have
come in search for authen-
ticity.
He estimated that about
3,000 men and women col-
lege students had come to
the seminars in the 15 years
they have been held and
that about a third of the stu-
dents eventually have be-
come Lubavitcher Hasidim.
- He also reported that 15
to 20 of the students come
back, after their first semi-
nar visit, to spend one or
more Sabbaths with their
original host families.
Jewish Historical
Society Honored
WALTHAM, MASS. —
The American Jewish His-
torical Society has received
the coveted Avodah Award
from the Jewish Teachers
Association during the lat-
ter's 48th annual luncheon
held in New York City.
The Society was cited for
its efforts to collect, pre-
serve and disseminate infor-
mation relating to the his-
tory of the Jewish
experience in America.
Accepting the award was
Prof. Abraham J. Karp,
president of the society and
professor of history at the
University of Rochester.
Board members at large are
Lillian Apell, Molly Epstein,
Ruby Fisher, Nora Goulet
and Sheila Schafer.
The chapter will have its
donor luncheon noon April
20 at The Country Squire.
Persons interested in
making lap robes for senior
citizens through the Meals-
on-Wheels program may
call Jo Abramson, chair-
man, 742-4661.
The chapter presented the
story of Passover at the In-
ternational Institute on
March 15 and 16.
State Home Visited
by FJCC Group
The Lapeer Visitation
Committee of the Flint Jew-
ish Community Council vis-
ited the Jewish residents of
the home on Purim, bring-
ing them treats and gifts.
The committee was joined
by Bessie Ring, Clyde Rob-
bins and Ann Schlager. Eva
Fisher contributed supplies
for the party, according to
Mrs. Esther Harris, chair-
Diamond Exports
from Israel Up
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
serious lag in the construc-
tion of housing units for im-
migrants was denounced by
Jewish Agency executive
chairman Pinhas Sapir.
He urged the Housing
Ministry to take urgent
steps to close the gap be-
tween immigrant housing
requirements and the num-
ber of available flats.
The government, mean-
while, has acted on demands
by the Absorption Ministry
and Jewish Agency to free
new immigrants from the
requirement to identify
their tax-exempt cars by
placing the license plates in
a special white frame. The
measure was originally en-
acted to enable police to
identify such vehicles easily
because many newcomers
were abusing the privilege
by selling their tax-free cars
to non-immigrants.
Czech Appeals
Sadat Confirms
Getting Weapons
From USSR, France
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Anwar Sadat has
confirmed for the first time
that Egypt has received
highly sophisticated MIG-23
jet fighters and other weap-
ons from the Soviet Union
as well as 25 French-built
Mirage jets purchased for
Egypt by Saudi Arabia.
He did not say how many
of the MIG-23s Egypt has
gotten but Western intellig-
ence sources have said that
the first group of six was
ferried to Cairo earlier this
year. The MIG-23 is reputed
to be a higher flying and
faster combat aircraft than
any in the U.S. Air Force.
Sadat also revealed that
Saudi Arabia is footing the
bill for aircraft factories to
be built in Egypt by Brit-
ain's Hawker Siddeley firm,
manufacturer of the Hawk
training aircraft and the
Westlena Co. which makes
the Lynx helicopter.
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LONDON — Dr. F. Jan-
ouch, a leading physicist
who left Czechoslovakia in
1973 for an appointment at
the Nuclear Physics Insti-
tute of Copenhagen, called
on Amnesty International
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RAMAT GAN — Israel's
exports of polished dia-
monds took a significant
leap forward for the first
two months of 1975 with
overseas sales running 16.5
percent ahead of last year at
$94 million compared to
$80.7 million for January
and February 1974.
The volume of diamonds
exported was 30 percent
ahead of the same period
last year — 467,676 carats
compared to 358,000 carats
for the first two months of
1974. These exports were
net after returns — 11 per-
cent in carats and 15 per-
cent in dollar terms.
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