THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Belfast Jewish Residents in Delicate Situation By MARK SEGAL class areas are so far free of this specter of atavistic A telling anecdote now hatreds and the Jews being mostly middle-class, man- going around in Belfast re- age to stay out. fates of a local Jew out for a The big question mark, stroll suddenly confronted however, hanging over a masked gunman everyone, and this of (whether of the Protestant course includes the Jews, or Catholic extremists is un- is whether, if the Northern clear). Ireland situation gets out The Belfast Jew heard the of hand altogether, the menacing voice querying middle-classes can main- • "Who are you, a Catholic or tain their relatively unin- P- :• He answered volved position. "Neither, I am As the president of the a Jew," to which the masked Belfast Hebrew Congrega- stranger responded impa- tion, Harold Smith, said: tiently, "OK, but which are "The Jews react to the •ou, a Protestant Jew or a environment in which they Catholic Jew? live. We do not accept the This anecdote, more than idea that the Jewish com- munity exists in a crossfire, anything else, sums up the for the Jewish community Delicate situation in which this tiny Jewish community as such has no position on finds itself since the out- this matter." Smith, and other mem- break of the civil strife in bers of his small community 1969. This city of churches and pubs is the focus of of 280 families, say they what has hecome the almost have no experience of pre- judice against Jews, intractable Irish Question. Smith stated that "all So far the Belfast Jewish sorts of well-meaning peo- community, as such, has ple, Jews and non-Jews, managed to stay out of the have asked us to be media- ,Tossfire between the Pro- tors but we decided that testants and Catholics: and we will not get involved 1 hey hope they can carry on and will not take sides." that way. The civil strife Most interestingly, mem- end sectarian hatred are bers of both Christian com- mainly a phenomenon of the munities are to he found on Protestant and Catholic social occasions at Jewish \vorking classes in Belfast. homes: especially those of the more leaders in the professions. . sedate middle- . (Copyright 1975. •TA, Inc.) Holiday Good Cheer Nen }ear Greeting . , CHRISALLE HAIR FASHIONS JOS. FRENKEL CO. Ha, I ininnz 17190 Livernois, 862-2337, 862-2338 122 1 Twelfth St. Irma McKenzie, prop. Detroit, Mich. Holiday Good cheer New Year Wishes CHARLES M. 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The present St. quarters of the Greater St. Louis Nazi unit is a splinter Louis National Socialist group of the party of a year White People's Party, is -ago. planning a public outdoor , The party is still involved "anti-Communist" rally in with two court cases re- September. maining from Nix's leader- The rally, according to Al- ship. len, will be the largest pub- The American Civil Lib- lic demonstration by the erties Union is handling a Nazi Party in the area. case against Southwestern "The rally will educate Bell Telephone Co. The the people and strengthen company discontinued the the party's local plans to eli- party's White Power Mes- minate all Marxist groups in sage service after only four the country," he said. hours of operation. Allen claims that the The ACLU is handling an- Nazi Party is "the only other case of four Nazi political party in the Party members arrested for United States with a distributing Nazi Party lit- proven record of having erature without a license. stopped communism." Allen says that the dis- Just about a year ago the ruption of the party last first St. Louis unit of the year has not affected party Nazi Party split, according membership. Athought Al- to news sources. Its unit len will not give a memher- leader, Dennis Nix, was ex- ship figure, news sources es- pelled from the party after a timate the membership at shooting incident. 200 persons. NEW YORK — Adolf Hitler was obsessed with the idea of destroying New Neu. ) ear Best II ishes York City in a fire storm of bombs as World War II was JEFFERSON STEEL CO. drawing to a close, accord- WAREHOUSE ing to a new hook by his 2325.0 SHERWOOD 539-3700 Warren, Michigan .wartime armaments minis- ter, Albert Speer. He adds that Hitler wanted to build a long- Iluppv \etc I ear To 4/I Our Friends range, four-engine bomber and Customer, to fly the Atlantic and exact SAMUEL BROS. I revenge for the destruction of Germany. CAFETERIA Speer's new hook, "Inside Eastern Market the Walls of Spandau — The Prison Diaries of Albert Holiday Goo(/ Cheer 1 Speer," to he published in February, is his recollection SERWER'S of 20 years of close associa- tion with Hitler. WHOLESALERS The book was conceived 4646 Michigan Ave. during his two decades of 894-3444 confinement in Spandau r I r Holiday Greetings SKY DIRT 1 SUNY Students Visit Hebrew U. SOIL For Every Need JERUSALEM — A total 1 of 40 students from the U.S. VE 7-9380 . J recently completed State University of New York's New Year Greetingi ninth summer seminar at Hebrew University here. The students, both Jewish Food Waste Disposer and non-Jewish, partici- pated in courses including. Manufacturing Co. archeology, history, geogra- 321 S. DOBSON phy, religion, politics and Westland, Mich. literature. Studies were 342-3252 preceded by a tour of the Meek M. Walker, District Sales Manager country. 115450 Schaefer, N. of Fenkell! IN-SINK-ERATOR - By MEIR WAGNER (Copyright 1975, .JTA, Inc.) The importance of the fact that Liliane Thorn of Luxembourg knows He- brew, has visited Israel, and has reported on the Jewish State in a special program on Radio Luxembourg, one of the most popular and in- fluential media in Europe, lies not in her status as the wife of the Luxembourg Prime Minister and the mother of his only son, but in her status as a famous journalist and radio com- mentator whose influence goes far beyond the confines of her own small country. St. Louis Nazi Party to Have Public 'Anti-Communist' Rally Aide Says Hitler Dreamed of Setting New York Afire - Liliane Thorn — Famous Reporter in Luxembourg This is irrespective of the specifics of local conditions, though naturally they ag- gravate things. Yet, even in Belfast, they are discussing aloud the possibility that their community may dwin- dle even further, and they are setting up a special trust fund in order to ensure the orderly operation of com- munal institutions should that unfortunate eventual- ity transpire. Southfield - at 13 Mile Rd. 646-8484 TU 4-3980 I The very nature of the lo- cal problems .makes for a more closely-knit Jewish community, with a higher rate of involvement in com- munal affairs than is known in larger communities which enjoy tranquil condi- tions in other parts of the United Kingdom. But the question mark of survival as a community hangs over them. Friday, September 5, 1975 73 Among the hooks lining the attractive lounge in her home are numerous vol- umes on various aspects of Judaism. On a table rests the Sarajevo Haggada. Mrs. Thorn was horn in Dodling- en, a small town in he country, right in the steel belt, where her father was an - engineer. She is a graduate of the Sorhonne, "but I never ceased learning things. Now she is studying Hebrew, despite a full schedule as a top rank journalist and broad- caster, the Prime Minis- ter's wife and hostess, the mother of a son of 12, and the president of the na- tional women's organiza- tion in her country. "My father took me to visit Israel when I was 16. He was a devout Christian, but took an interest in other faiths. A Dutch friend later advised me to learn the He. brew language, pointing out the many implications of Hebrew, _which is not -merely the language of -one country on the face of the earth." Mrs. Thorn also said she is now reading Sholem, Buher and other Jewish philosophers, albeit in En- glish, German or French. Mrs. Thorn's visit to Is- rael this spring was duly reported in her weekly peak-listening program on Radio Luxemhourg, which is a Sunday program deal- ing with foreign -(to Luxem- bourg- ) nations and places. 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