THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Flint Area News
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
Sunday — WA* Cam-
paign Workers' Wine and
Cheese Party, 8 p.m. at
Temple Beth El.
• Monday — Community
- -.L'_:clucation Committee meet-
ing, 8 p.m.at the home of
Ivah Kukler, 3319 Wolcott.
Tuesday — FJCC North-
ern Michigan Camping Trip.
Friday — FJCC Officers
Weekend.
Comings ...
I
and Goings ...
Pamela Young has been
selected Miss Deaf America
in a contest sponsored by
the National Association for
the Deaf. Miss Young,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Morrie Young, lives in At-
lanta where she is taking a
postgraduate course toward
a degree in deaf education.
Clifford Hart has been
elected president of the Ge-
nesee County Bar Associa-
tion, and second vice presi-
dent of the Michigan Trial
Lawyers Association.
Morton Leitson was
elected to the executive
board of the Michigan Trial
Lawyers Association.
Elliot Lande has been
elected president of the
young lawyers section of the
Genesee County Bar Asso-
ciation.
Michael A. Pelavin has
been appointed to the execu-
tive committee of the Na-
tional Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council.
Mrs. Ellis Warren was
elected secretary of the
hoard of trustees of the
Flint Institute of Arts.
Dr. Alfred C. Raphelson
was named to the executive
committee of the University
of Michigan — Flint. Dr.
Raphelson is a professor of
psychology.
Richard Krieger has
been appointed to the tech-
nical advisory committee of
the Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society.
Morris Leibov has been
elected vice president of the
hoard of Big Brothers of
Greater Flint. Robert
White was elected to the
hoard of directors.
Saul Seigel has been
named director of Ohio
State University's Develop-
ment Fund. Mr. and Mrs.
Seigel and their family will
be moving to Cincinnati.
Sidney Melet has been
named interim president of
Flint Area Conference, Inc.,
succeedinSeigel.
Andy Leavitt graduated
from Carman High School
with high honors.
Danny White graduated
from Northern High School
with high distinction. He
will attend the University of
Missouri School of Journal-
is m.
Larry Wolf graduated
with honors from Carman
High School.
Northern Trip,
Day Camp Set
The Flint Jewish Commu-
nity Council is sponsoring a
camping trip to Northern
Michigan, Tuesday through
July 25. Boys and girls, ages
12 to 15, will be led by Carl
and Stephanie Rittman.
The group will travel by
private bus, hold daily cook-
outs and night campauts,
and visit Sleeping Bear
Dunes, Ft. Mackinac, Sault
Ste. Marie and other sites.
Participants include Robert
Binder, Jason Engelman,
David Gaynor, Suzanne
Griffel, Miriam Labiner,
Cheri Rosenthal, Randy
Schafer, Robby Sills, and
Billy Wiseman.
Marilyn Megdell, chair-
man of the FJCC Day Camp
Committee, announces that
Camp Maccabee will be
open to campers for one-
week or two-week sessions
in addition to the three- and
four-week sessions already
planned. The short sessions
are set for July 14 through
August 8.
For information on the
Northern Michigan trip, or
day camp, call the Flint
Council office, 767-5922.
Party to Welcome
Traveler's Return
The Flint Jewish Commu-
nity Council will host a
Wine and Cheese Party for
all United Jewish Appeal
Campaign workers and
their spouses 8 p.m. Sunday
at Temple Beth El.
The party is to welcome
home Barbara and Leon
Rosky from their one-year
stay in Israel and Phoebe
and Jack Stanzler from
their two-month trip there.
Rabbi to Leave
Rabbi Victor Mirelman,
rabbi of Cong. Beth Israel
since February, will leave at
the end of July to become
rabbi of Cong. Bnai Israel in
Millburn, New Jersey.
[OBITUARIES
GEORGIA HOURVITZ,
1170 Briarcliffe, died July 2,
at the age of 52. Mrs. Hourv-
itz was horn in Centerville,
Iowa, and had lived in Flint
the last 30 years. She was a
member of Congregation
Beth Israel. She is survived
by her husband, David; a
(laughter, Libby Hartman
of Nashville, Ind.; a son,
Leonard; one sister and
three brothers.
Dignity
We don't consider manual
work as a curse, or a bitter
necessity, not even as a
means of making a living.
We consider it as a high
human function, as the ba-
sis of human life, the most
dignified thing in the life of
the human being, and which
ought to be free, creative.
Men ought to be proud of it.
—David Ben-Gurion
Friday, July 11, 1975 21
Jewish Holy Places in Israel
Although certain sites in
Israel are popularly consid-
ered to be holy and as such
are venerated and visited,
the Encyclopaedia Judaica
states that the notion is al-
most nonexistent in pri-
mary Jewish sources.
In the course of time,
however, and perhaps under
non-Jewish influences, Jews
came to regard some places
as being holy and prayer
offered there as more effica-
cious than at other places.
The most venerated of these
places is the Western Wall,
a relic of the Temple of
Herod.
With the reunification of
the city in 1967, the Wall be-
came the central attraction
for Jewish pilgrims. Prayer
'services are held there daily
from sunrise to nightfall
and people come at all times
for meditation. While there
is a popular custom of in-
serting slips of paper bear-
ing petitions in the cracks of
the Wall. some people re-
frain from even touching it
because of its holiness.
The other holy places
are all graves of biblical
figures or famous rabbis
and pious men from the
mishnaic period until to-
day.
The most important grave
is that of the patriarchs in
Hebron. This shrine, known
in the Bible as the cave of
the Machpelah, is housed in
a building with Herodian
walls which, says the Ency-
clopaedia Judaica, was con-
verted in its last phase into
a mosque and was therefore
inaccessible to both Jews
and Christians for centu-
ries.
"Infidels" were allowed to
ascend to the seventh step of
the entrance, but there is ev-
idence that in the late Mid-
dle Ages there was a syn-
agogue next to the mosque.
After 1967 this site became
a focus for pilgrimage and
special hours are set aside
for non-Muslim visitors.
French Minister
Praises Israelis
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Mrs. Simone Veil, Minister
of Public Health in the
French Cabinet, was the
guest speaker at the annual
assembly of the Alliance
Israelite Universelle in
Paris, it was reported here .
by the American Friends of
the Alliance.
Speaking about the role of
women in modern life she
told the gathering: "The des-
tiny of the women of Israel
who with a tool or a weapon
in hand contributed to the
building of their nation
foreshadows the wish of the
women of all countries. Ev-
erywhere in the world
w omen ask henceforth the
respect of their individual-
ity and the recognition of
their identity."
Mrs. Veil, who also spoke
at length about the condi-
tions and horrors of the
Nazi concentration camps of
which she had been an in-
mate, said that the voices of
those who died in them have
become silent only for those
who do not want to hear
them .
The traditional tomb of
Rachel is near Bethlehem,
while that of her son Joseph
is in Shechem. In Haifa the
cave of Elijah, where ac-
cording to tradition the
prophet hid, is considered
holy and a place for pilgri-
mage.
Most of the graves vis-
ited by pilgrims are in Gal-
ilee, because most of the
rabbis of the Talmud lived
and taught there. Particu-
larly important is the town
of Meron where Simeon b.
Yohai and his son Eleazar
are reputedly buried. Hil-
lel and Shammai, among
others, are also believed to
be buried in Meron.
Safed and Tiberias are
very important centers for
pilgrims to the graves of
famous scholars. In Safed
are the reputed graves of
Shemaiah and Avtalion,
Phinehas b. Jair, R. Joseph
Caro, the kabbalists Isaac
Luria, Moses Cordovero,
and Solomon Alkabez, as
well as many later scholars,
saints, and hasidic zaddi-
kim.
Tiberias was a center of
Strong Devotion
For the tens of centuries
spanned by the history of
the Jewish people, members
of the race have given to
mankind almost unbelieva-
ble examples of courageous
devotion to noble principles:
to justice, to liberty, to the
right of men to worship ac-
cording to the inner voice of
conscience. Such are the
principles which can now
give the only sure guide to
all men as they seek to es-
tablish true peace in the
world.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
FACIAL HAIR
ERMANENTL
REMOVED
rabbinic activity in talmudic
times, and the graves of the
tannaim Akiva, Meir, Jo-
hanan b. Zakkai, and Eli-
ezer b. Hyrcanus and those
of the amoraim Ammi and
Assi as well as of Maimon-
ides, and Isaish Horowitz
are frequently visited, the
Judaica concludes.
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