12 Friday, April 18, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
r Community Calendar
Flint Jewish Community News
Dr. Sniderman, 71
Longtime Physician
,
Dr. Benjamin Sniderman,
a longtime physician, died
April 8 at age 71.
Born in Toronto, Dr. Sni-
derman lived 48 years in
Flint. He was a member of
Temple Beth El and the
Genesee County Medical
Society, American Medical
Society, American Procto
logical Association and a
fellow in the International
College of Surgeons. He re-
sided at 915 E. Court.
He is survived by his wife,
Rose; two sons, Dr. Stephen
and Dr. James, both of Chi-
cago; and seven grandchil-
dren.
Independence Day
Ceremony Slated
The Flint Jewish commu-
nity will have a special Is-
rael Independence Day cere-
mony conducted by Rabbis
Gerald Schuster and Victor
,Mirelman 7:30 p.m. Sunday
at Temple Beth El. The
Film, "L'Chaim — to Life,"
will be shown.
The rabbis will read from
a - specially prepared Hag-
gada for the ceremony. The
film will be shown under
the sponsorship of the Flint
Jewish Community Council
and Women's American
ORT. Refreshments will be
served and the public is in-
vited.
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Comings . • •
and
... Goings
Flint Begins UJA Campaign
Saul Syde, chairman of
the Flint United Jewish
Appeal Campaign, an-
nounces Flint will kick off
its UJA drive 9 a.m. Sunday
and April 27 when cam-
paign workers will meet at
the qouncil office for break-
fast and briefings. Current
information about condi-
tions in Israel will be given
to the men by top Israeli
and American -leaders via
telephone from New York.
_ The workers, in pairs, will
then go out to visit members
of the Flint Jewish commu-
nity. Syde said he is hopeful
that most of the campaign .
will be completed on these
two Sundays.
Louis Epstein, Malcolm
Isaacs and Leo Seide,
' Nursery Will Take
Fall Applications
Registration is now being
accepted by the. Cong. Beth
Israel Nursery School for
the 1975-76 school year.
Anyone interested in ob-
taining information call
Carole at the synagogue,
732-6312, after noon. Lois
Stanley is nursery school
coordinator.
Sunday, April 20
Temple Beth El
7:30 P.M.
THE COMMUNITY IS IN-
VITED TO A SPECIAL ISRAEL
INDEPENDENCE DAY CERE-
MONY AT TEMPLE BETH EL,
LED BY RABBI GERALD
SCHUSTER OF THE TEMPLE,
AND RABBI VICTOR MIREL-
MAN OF CONG. BETH IS-
RAEL.
FOLLOWED BY
"L'CHAIM — TO LIFE"
Sunday, April 20 8
P.m.
At Temple Beth El.
Syde reports that pre-
Campaign solicitation was
successful. "It is appro-
priate that our campaign of-
ficially open on the 27th
anniversary of Israel's inde-
pendence. In these 27 years,
Israel has overcome hard-
ships and difficulties which
could have crushed the in-
fant state in the very proc-
ess of its being born." •
Youth
News
Jerome Feldman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Feld-
man, was a third place .win-
ner in the recent state com-
petition of the Distributive
Education Clubs of Amer-
ica. Jerome attends South-
western High School.
BB Women Plan
Mah Jong Night
Bnai Brith Women will
host a Mah Jong Night 7:30
p.m. May -20 at the River
Forest club house. Marsha
Fleming, chairman, an-
nounces that 36 seats are
available.
There will be prizes and
refreshments, and there is a•
charge. For reservations,
call Mrs. Fleming, 239-5510,
or Noel Lande, 733-0756.
23—Flint
Jewish
Community
Council board of
governors and
open community
meeting, 7:30
p.m., Temple
Beth 81.
24--"Imagine," 6:30
p.m., WFBE-FM
(95.1).
25—Flint
Jewish
Community
Council commit-
tee on Jewish so-
cial service, noon,
Council office.
Women Set Auction
Beth Israel Sisterhood
Will hold its annual art auc-
tion 8 p.m. April 27 at the
synagogue. There will be a
preview at 7. Albert Scag-
lione of Park West Galleries
of Detroit will conduct the
auction.
Co-chairmen are Shirley
Marder. and Tobye Weiss.
Other chairmen are: invita-
tions, Beverly Bikoff and
Betty Indianer; publicity,
Pat Fauer; refreshments,
Sharon Schreiber. There is a
charge.
1 Bar Mitzva
Michelle
Goldman,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Goldman, will be-
come Bat Mitzva 9:30 a.m.
April 26 at Cong. Beth Is-
rael.
Michael Stanley, son of
D. and Mrs. Morton Stan-
ley, will become Bar Mitzva
11 a.m. April 26 at Temple
Beth El.
Cooling-Off
TEL AVIV (JTA) — De-
fense Minister Shimon
Peres revealed that Israel's
position during the recent
bilateral negotiations with
Egypt called for a 7-10-year
"cooling-off" period if Egyp-
tian President Anwar Sadat
felt he was incapable of con-
cluding a substantive peace
settlement with Israel at
this time.
He also said that the rea-
son the talks, conducted by
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger, collapsed was
because they turned out to
be attempts on both sides
gain American good wiry
rather than negotiations
between,Israel and Egypt.
Peres said that what
Sadat offered Israel was at
best a deferment of hostili-
ties for several months. "We
argued that if Sadat was
incapable of making peace
at once, he should be able to
promise a cooling off period
of 7-10 years, but he re-
fused," Peres said.
He also said that Sadat
wanted to involve Syria
and the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization in the
process "but we cannot
discuss the future with
parties who simply declare
they want our destruc-
tion."
Peres predicted that this
summer would be a decisive
time for the Middle East.
He said the key to stability
and the choice between
peace and hostility was
Egypt's. If Egypt chooses a
peaceful approach and re-
opens the Suez Canal, it
may be sure that Israel will
not interfere, he stated.
U. S. Foreign Policy in the Mideast is 'Unchanged'
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Ford's reference
to the Arab-Israeli conflict
in his "State of the World"
address to a joint session of
Congress has drawn little
The Genesee County Med- comment and is generally
ical Society Auxiliary will seen as indicating no
hold its "MD Appreciation" changes in the commonly
Dinner on Wednesday. Lo- understood U.S, position.
cal physicians who grad- -
uated from medical school
Of the sparce comment
between 1930 and 1934 will heard from the Congress,
be honored. They include most of it dealt with com-
Drs. Lawrence Bateman, parisons and reasons for
Bernard Dickstein, Theo- U.S. aid to South Vietnam
dore Finkelstein, H. M.
and Israel with the majority
Golden, Benton Schiff and of those talking about that
Samuel Sorkin.
comparison taking note that
the circumstances are dis-
ISRAEL
INDEPENDENCE DAY
CEREMONY & FILM
campaign vice chairmen,
are helping to organize the
Campaign Sundays. Other
members of the Campaign
Cabinet who are assisting
are Ira Marder, Michael
Pelavin and Jack Stan-
zler.
April 20—Bnai
Brith
Women Donor
Luncheon, noon,
Country Squire.
—Tween Bowling,.
2:30 p.m., Town
and
Country
Lanes.
—"L'Chaim — to
Life," movie, 8
p.m.,
Temple
Beth El.
21—Flint • Jewish
Community
Council executive
committee, noon,
Council office.
—Temple Beth El
board and board
of
education
meeting, 8 p.m.,
temple.
22—Joint board of
education and
Jewish education
commission
meeting, noon,
Council office.
—Cong. Beth Israel
Board and Board
of education
meeting, 8 p.m.,
synagogue.
' Egypt Refused
similar since Israel is fight-
ing external forces seeking
to destroy her and is a
united and democratic na-
tion.
During the discussions on
television of Ford's address,
three senators took differ-
ent views on linking mili-
tary aid to South Vietnam
with aid to Israel. On CBS-
Ty, Sen. James Buckley (C-
R, NY) said that the U.S.
should provide South Viet-
nam with aid to help reverse
the Viet Cong attack just as
the U.S. aided Israel during
the Yom Kippur War. How-
ever, Senators George Mc-
Govern (D-SD) and Frank
Church (D-Idaho) took is-
sue, noting that Israel was
not like South Vietnam.
They noted that Israel was a
demoeracy, fought its own
wars and won them, and
had a good army capable of
achieving victories.
In a related develop-
ment, the Rabbinical
Council of America, in a
letter to President Ford,
expressed disappointment
that Ford said nothing in
his brief reference to the
Middle East in his "State
of the World" address
"that would reassure the
people of Israel of the con-
tinued friendship and sup-
port for them by the
United States.
The letter, signed by
Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld,
president of the Council,
added:
"I believe a great opportu-
nity was missed to restore
the confidence of the people
of Israel in America's com-
mitment to its security. The
statement that you did
make seemed to convey a
rather detached attitude to
the real fears of the people
of Israel that there is an ero-
sion in the policy of your
Administration regarding
the security of the state of
Israel."
Ford touched only briefly
on the Midwast during his
hour-long address to the
joint session of Congress.
He said the U.S. would not
be "discouraged" by the col-
lapse of the second-stage
Sinai talks, asserted that
the "momentum toward -
peace . . . must and will be
maintained," rioted that the
U.S. had agreed "in princi-
ple" to a renewal of the Ge-
neva peace talks and that
the U.S. was "ready to ex-
plore other forums," and
stressed that the U.S. would
not accept "stagnation or
stalemate" in the Mideast.
Meanwhile, Sen RUssell
Long (D-La.) said that the
American people would not
support U.S. military inter-
vention in the Middle East
even if Israel's security was
threatened because they
were tired of this country
trying to be the world's pol-
iceman. They would support
intervention only if Ameri-
ca's security was directly
threatened, the senator
said.
Long, chairman of the
Senate Finance Commit-
tee, is a member of the
southern conservative
wing of the Democratic
Party that has always sup-
ported a strong U.S. mili-
tary presence overseas.
In other developments,
union leaders here and in
New York assailed the reas-
sessment of American pol-
icy in the Middle East or-
dered last month by
President Ford and pledged
continued support for Is-
rael.
Patrick Gorman, interna-
tional secretary-treasurer
of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butchers Work-
man Union, said that the
union members strongly
opposed the reassessment.
The meeting here, under
the joint auspices of Chica-
go's Israel Histadrut and
the Amalgamated Union,
was a testimonial dinner
honoring Joseph Belsky, the
union's international presi-
dent, who presented a check
for $150,000 to Histadrut
executive director Lazar
Shupakevitz. Gorman an-
nounced that a medical cen-
ter will- be built in Jerusa-
lem bearing the name of
Belsky and the Amalga-
mated Union.
In New York, two labor
leaders representing
nearly 900,000 trade union- .
ists warned that the lib-
eral and progressive ele-
ments of America will not
sit by idly and watch Is-
rael extinguished.
In Washington, top trade
union officials declared con-
tinuing full support for the
State of Israel "come what
may' and urged that Presi-
dent Ford's "reassessment"
of U.S. Middle East 'policy
be extended to include the
Soviet-American detente.
AFL-CIO
President
George Meany said that Is-
rael is "unique" in that "it is
the only nation I know that
is the creation of a free
trade union — the Histad-
rut, or Israeli Federation of
Labor — formed more than
50 years ago by David Ben-
Gurion.
Speaking of detente,
Meany said that perhaps the
most disastrous policy sold
to the American people" by
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger and former Presi-
dent Nixon "was this thing
called detente" and that
"nowhere in the world is the
policy of detente exposed as
a fraud to any greater de-
gree than in the Middle
East."
"When we -talk of in-
transigence of lack of flex-
ibility on the part of the Is-
raelis, we should do so in
the light of Israel's his-
tory," Meany said.
"We should keep in mind
the one over-riding desire of
the Israelis — the - determi-
nation to retain their sover-
eignty — in other words,
their simple determination
to stay alive — to resist ex-
termination. In return for
the right to live, the Israelis,
I am sure, are willing today
— have been willing all
along — to make real,
meaningful concessions."
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