Friday, April 18, 1975 39 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS The Labor Party Loses Liberal Eliav Funeral Director's Lively Art—Making Miniatures What kind of hobby would a funeral director ,have? Making doll furniture, of course. Harold Goldman of Oak Park, funeral director at Ira Kaufman Chapel in South- field, has been creating doll- house size copies of period c-furniture in his basement for. the past eight months. Among the items he has created so far are Queen -Anne chairs, bonnet-top high-boys, a three-inch cello - with strings made of thread a,--L-1 stereopticon viewer as a real view. 'working with walnut or cherry wood, Goldman creates his miniature mas- terpieces with jeweler's _tools and some tiny chisels which he created himself. Pieces are glued • and pegged with steel pins. Finished pieces are rubbed with oil. Prior to building the pieces, Goldman measures and photographs the origi- nals in museums or copies photographs of them from books. He often displays his creations at the Doll Hospi- tal in Berkley, and he has received orders from all over the world for the minia- tures. - ACLU Branch to Have Meeting The Metropolitan Detroit Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union will have its annual meeting 9 a.m. Saturday at the South- field Civic Center, Parks and Recreation Building, Room 115. Michigan's new mental health code will be dis- cussed by Judge Joseph Per- nick of the Wayne County Probate Court, Larry Owen, legislative Service Bureau, state of Michigan; and Peter Alter, ACLU cooperating attorney. Adrienne James, chairperson of the ACLU branch committee on men- tal health laws and proce- dures, will be moderator. Refreshments will be served, and the public is in- vited at no charge. Students in Israel for Bible Contest IT'S BRICKER'S FUR STORAGE TIME FOR ALL YOUR PRECIOUS — GARMENTS! NEW YORK — Six Bible students, first and second prize winners of last'year's National Bible Contest here are in Israel to take part in the International Bible Con- test held annually in Jerusa- lem as part of the Yom Ha'atzmaut — Independ- ence Day — celebrations. The students will spend- a week in study at a special Bible camp in Israel in prep- aration for the contest which is sponsored by the World Jewish Bible Society of Israel. ORT Programs Our cold, cold vaults maintain the correct •temperature and humidity balance to protect against heat and moths. And our 24-hour service guards against fire, and theft. We also provide fast ut service and do cleaning, repairs and restyling. CALL 968-8070 OR STOP IN TODAY FOR'SERVICE .. . We're located in the LINCOLN CENTER 101/2 at Greenfield Oak Park Hours: Monday thru Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. NEW YORK — In 1950 ORT taught carpentry, au- to-mechanics, • electricity and machine shop. In 1975, automation, architectural and industrial drafting, in- dustrial and medical labora- tory techniques, computer programming, air condi- tioning, data processing, te- lecommunications, aviation and business management skills are being offered. Workmen's Circle Observes Warsaw 32nd Anniversary The Workmen's Circle Center will hold an observ- ance of the 32nd anniver- sary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The memorial will feature ghetto songs and folklore, a candlelighting, recitations, speakers and musical selec- tions. There is no admission charge. By UZI BENZIMAN (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) JERUSALEM — Aryeh Eliav, who ended his 30-year career in the Labor Party by resigning in March, is a Zionist idealist of the old school who believes that public figures — especially those in a Labor govern- ment — should roll up their sleeves at least once a week and join in physical labor alongside the people they represent. He himself devotes.thred days a week to duties as an unpaid hospital orderly. He recalls that 25 years ago, Cabinet ministers, many of them kibutz members, considered it a matter of self-respect to go home pe- riodically to work on the soil. Why shouldn't the Wel- - fare Minister work one day a week at a welfare center in a slum quarter he asks? Why shouldn't the Defense Minister go on guard duty once a week — without presence of TV cameras? It is a commentary on the changes wrought in Israeli society over the past quarter century that for these views — and other unorthodox opinions in the political and social spheres — Eliav has been labeled a "maverick." He quit the Labor Party in disgust — at age 54 — over what he considers in- competence and political confusion on the part of its leadership. He claims that the party and the govern- ment is isolated from the realities of social problems and the social-ethnic gap in Israel; that in foreign af- fairs its policy is one of con- tinuing procrastination -- "deciding not to decide." Eliav, a former secretary general of the Labor Party, a deputy Cabinet minister in the government of the late Premier Levi Eshkol and a member of the Knes- set since 1965, retains his Knesset seat. He now com- prises a one-man indepen- dent faction — a phenome- non not uncommon in Israel's 120-member parlia- ment. Born in Moscow in 1921, Eliav was raised in a Zion- ist family milieu. In 1924 his parents immigrated to Pa- lestine. He spent his youth in the Hagana (the Mapai- oriented para-military or- ganization formed to pro- tect the Jewish population from the Arabs, which later executed the Jewish Agen- cy's "activist" policy against the British Mandatory ad- ministration). As a Hagana member Eliav was imbued with Socialist ideas and in- tense patriotic feelings. These two qualities molded his subsequent life and pol- itical career. He,was a devoted mem- ber of the Labor move- ment. In its various politi- cal metamorphoses he always remained a faithful member of its pre-state- . hood spiritual and organi-, zational core. Eliav was one of the "darlings" of the veteran La- bor leadership. He worked under Levi Eshkol at the Jewish Agency when Eshkol . ARYEH ELIAV headed the absorption de- partment in the State's early years and then fol- lowed Eshkol to the Trea- sury. In 1953 Eliav went to the Negev to instruct newly ar- rived Cochin (Indian) Jews. A year later he was chosen to head the team which set up the Lachish region (a large and highly successful settlement project in the northern Negev which built up some 40 settlements and the town of Kiryat Gat). During the 1956 Sinai campaign he participated in a secret operation aimed at evacuating the Jews of Port Said. Two years later Eliav- became first secretary in the Israeli Embassy in Moscow, where he dealt mostly with Jewish af- fairs. In 1961 he returned to Israel to head a team which established the Arad Regional Project — another notable success in rural-urban development. Eliav began to play a role in Israel politics in 1964 when he became a leading supporter of Levi Eshkol in his struggle with David Ben- Gurion over the premiership and over . , the notorious "Lavon Affair." Following Eshkol's vic- tory, Eliav was appointed head of Mapai's organiza- tion department. In 1965 he was elected to the Knesset and later held two deputy ministerships — commerce and immigrant absorption. After the Six-Day War, • ' Eliav submitted a plan for the rehabilitation of the Arab refugees in the admin- istered territories. Moshe Dayan, the then Minister of Defense, rejected the pro- posals. Next he wrote a dov- ish policy platform, called "New Goals for Israel," but none of his party's leaders paid much attention to it. In 1970 Eliav was e _ lected secretary general of the Labor Party — a powerful post usually leading to a ministerial appointment. But he resigned after 18 months, dedicating him- self to writing his famous book "Eretz Hatzvi". (Land of the Heart). Long before Eliav's . resig- nation • from the -Labor -Party, he called for an Is- raeli readiness to discuss Middle East problems with everyone — including the Palestine Liberation Organ- ization, on condition that the PLO recognize Israel, renounced its resolve to de- stroy the Jewish State and ceased all terror activity. Jewish Population in United States Three percent, or six mil- lion people in the United States are Jewish. Jews are represented far beyond their number in such serv-• ice-related professions as law, science, teaching and medicine. 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