12 Friday, March 28, 1975 1 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. * * * 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. t ************* , 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 to assist in restoring human * 3500 Original * rights in Czechoslovakia. * Oil Paintings and Graphics * halal Gateeva * * * * By Leading American and European Artists ir __A _I" Featuring Original Graphics By k' 26001 COOLIDGE HWY. Norman Rockwell Ar _, and LeRoy Neiman 4. Open 7 Days Weekly Northland and Eastland Center ********-A-**-A-** FOR THE NEW MAN 54 3-3341• OAK PARK IN YOUR LIFE. 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