14 Friday, June 13, 1975 71Af THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Socotra Rememlet „ , THE DETROIT FRIENDS OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY 20TH ANNUAL DINNER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1975-6 P.M. at Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Southfield, Mich. Funds for 'The Forward' Appeal Issued by Smolar Boris Smolar, editor-in- chief emeritus of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has written this week about the financial problems of the only remaining Yiddish lan- guage daily newspaper in the United States, the For- ward — ctz . rriikt Guest Speaker: BERNARD KALB BORIS SMOLAR Smolar, himself a long- time contributor of Yiddish analytical essays and corn- mentaries on world affairs to the Forward, makes a State Department Correspondent For CBS TV and Radio Author of "Kissinger" Ashkelon Port Strike Ends Topic: "U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE-EAST" The 20th Annual Dinner of the Detroit Friends of Yeshiva University has the distinction of being among the University's very first major events in the nation's Bicentennial. In its 200th year, the nation looks forward to the fulfillment of its democratic heritage. Now entering its 90th year, Yeshiva University, in the framework of that democracy, looks forward to the fulfillment of its educational heritage in service to the Jewish com- munity and the nation. In the course of 90 years, many individuals have been honored for their leadership in the growth of Yeshiva University, and in the days to come many more will be so honored. In its past, present and future, the University is above all the continuing creation of its one and great en- dowment . . . the Jewish community . . . an endowment epitomized by the Detroit Friends of Yeshiva University, especially those honored as Science Fellows and Master Builders: Seuitud Edleot, President HONORING THE SCIENCE FELLOWS AND MASTER BUILDERS OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY SCIENCE FELLOWS NORMAN ALLAN ABRAHAM BORMAN IRWIN I. COHN DR. LEON FILL NATHAN I. GOLDIN NORMAN ALLAN ABRAHAM BORMAN TOM BORMAN IRWIN I. COHN HOWARD S. DANZIG DR. LEON FILL NATHAN FREEDLAND DAVID GOLDBERG NATHAN L. GOLDIN SAMUEL HECHTMAN Dinner Chairman SAMUEL HECHTMAN DANIEL A. LAVEN MAX STOLLMAN PHILLIP STOLLMAN MASTER BUILDERS MORRIS KARBAL DANIEL A. LAVEN EDW. C. LEVY JOHN E. LURIE DAVID POLLACK HAROLD SOBLE MAX STOLLMAN PHILLIP STOLLMAN Dinner Co-Chairmen DETROIT FRIENDS OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY Daniel A. Laven, Chairman Abraham Borman, Hon. Chairman Rabbi James I. Gordon, Treasurer DR. LEON FILL strong appeal for assistance in the drive to save the New York newspaper. An organization, Friends of the Forward, has been formed in an ef- fort to raise $250,000. Smolar said that declining circulation is attributed to a decline in Jewish immi- gration and rising printinr - costs. The Forward sold its land-mark building in New York a few years ago to help raise funds. The paper has a distin- guished 78-year history of helping its readers. Its "A Bintl Brief" — A Bundle of Letters — column in which readers' questions were an- swered was a mainstay. It also encouraged a number of Yiddish authors and championed socialist causes. HOWARD S. DANZIG DAVID B. HERMELIN YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED • MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW • Phone: 962-4272 Dinner Coordinator: Jack M. Levine CONTRIBUTION $100 Per Person (Tax Deductible) Dress: Informal TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Ashkelon oil port was re- opened Sunday, ending a 20-day strike by employes of the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline company's marine division that cost the government an estimated $2 million in waiting fees alone for tank- ers that were prevented from loading oil. Thirteen of the strikers, who had spent the past week in commandeered company boats outside Ash- kelon harbor, came ashore and gave themselves up to police. Jordan Fortifies East Bank Area TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Jordanian Army is speeding up its fortifications. along the east banks of the Jordan River facing Israel's Beisan Valley and in the area be- tween Beisan and Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee. Israel also is carrying out major fortification work on its side of the border in these re- gions and on the Golan Heights, it was reported. On the Golan Heights, a group of Russian Jews from the remote Tatai region of the southern Caucasus is employed building Israeli fortifications on the Golan Heights. They speak a special dialect of their re- gion which is located near the junction of the Russian, Turkish and Iranian bor- ders. Quebec Approves Hebrew Classes MONTREAL (JTA) — The Quebec education de- partment has approved, on an experimental basis, as credit courses the Hebrew language and literature classes given by Montreal Hebrew day schools in high school grades four and five. The courses will count for two credits each and will ap- pear on the student's sec- ondary certificate which is sent to Canadian colleges The strike began after the company engaged an out- side contractor to moor and service tankers in the Ash- kelon oil port and dismissed several marine division em- ployes and transferred oth- ers. Strikers took over com- pany motorboats and for- cibly prevented the con- tractor's crews from approaching the tankers. Their action at one point precipitated a clash with police escort boats, several of which were rammed by the strikers' boats. The pipeline company announced last week that it was shutting down opera- tions for the duration of the walkout. The strikers re- mained in the boats, receiv- ing supplies from fellow- strikers ashore until choppy seas forced them to abandon their blockade. * * * Israel Plans Port at Yamit TEL AVIV (JTA) — Transport Minister Gad Yaacobi disclosed that the government plans to built a third deep-water harbor on Israel's Mediterranean coast and that the 'best site is at Yamit in the Pithat Rafiah region between the Gaza Strip and northern Sinai. Yaacobi said the addi. tional harbor would be needed by the mid 1980's. He said it would taker three years to study and plan the project and eight years to built the harbor. Israel's present deep-wa- ter harbors are at Haifa and Ashkelon. The Rafiah area has been the subject of contro- versy since the army ap- propriated it several years ago as a security zone, forcing the relocation of Bedouin" tribes in the re- gion. Yaacobi stressed that the area will remain under Is- raeli control and in fact, has never entered into the de- bates over the future of the