THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Ashkenazic Women in U.S. Beth Achim Women Sponsor
`Have High Cancer Risk '
Adult Jewish Education Talks

By BEN GALLOB

can or European have al-

(Copyright 1975. JTA, Inc.)

most four times as much
breast cancer as women
from North Africa or
Asia."

Ashkenazic
Jewish
women — those mainly of
East European ancestry —
in the United States have
the highest risk of develop-
ing breast cancer, a situa-
tion for which there is no
known reason or means of
prevention, according to a
new study of the problem.
The data are reported in
detail in "Breast Cancer: A
Personal History and an
Investigative Report" (Har-
court Brace Jovanovich) by
Rose Kushner, Washington
correspondent for the Times
of Israel and a frequent con-
tributor to American Jew-
ish newspapers and maga-
zines.
She said all that such
Jewish women can do is to
know they are in the high-
risk category, make sure
that their doctors know of
the higher risk, and act ac-
cordingly, practicing breast
examination unfailingly ev-
ery month.

She reported that in a
study now going on Israel
comparing Sephardic and
Ashkenazic women on the
problem, the indications
are that those "whose
backgrounds are Ameri-

She said that, again for
unknown reasons, Yemeni
women have even fewer
breast cancers than women
from other Sephardic back-
grounds. She said a profes-
sor from the University of
Utrecht in Holland, Dr.
Fritz deWaard, is continu-
ing research at the Hadas-
sah Hospital in Jerusalem,
in cooperation with Israeli
investigators and the Na-
tional Cancer Registry.
She reported that "so far,
Dr. deWaard's top suspect is
nutrition, specifically ani-
mal fats and animal pro-
tein. The Sephardic diet is
primarily vegetable and
starches; they eat little
meat and use vegetable oil
for cooking and baking. This
is the major difference be-
tween the women."
Ms. Kushner started a
15-city tour this month to
promote her book. She said
in many of the cities, which
will include Detroit, Bnai
Brith is arranging meetings
at which she will report on
the problem for Jewish
women.

6th Volume in Judaica Series
Is Published by Yeshiva U.

NEW YORK — "Studies
in Jewish Thought," a series
of essays by Wisconsin spir-
itual leader Rabbi David S.
Shapiro, has been published
by Yeshiva University Press
as part of the Studies in
Judaica series, edited by Dr.
Leon D. Stitskin, professor
of Jewish philosophy, Yesh-
iva University. The volume
is the sixth in the series.
Rabbi Shapiro's mono-
graph deals with the inter-
pretation of Judaism, its
place in the modern world,
and its underlying bases of
faith and scholarship.
The articles in the book
have previously been pub-
lished in such scholarly
journals as Tradition, Juda-
ism, and Yavneh Studies.
The book is divided into
three parts: Imitatio Dei, or

the "image of G-d"; Biblical
Studies; and Thinkers and
Issues.

Rabbi Shapiro is spirit-
ual leader of Cong. Anshe
Sfard in Milwaukee,
Wise., and has previously
served pulpits in Savan-
nah, Ga. and Indianapolis,
Ind.

Ordained at the Hebrew
Theological College of Chi-
cago, he is the author of
three volumes in Hebrew,
an associate editor of Hada-
rom, a semi-annual schol-
arly journal published by
the Rabbinical Council of
America, a member of the
editorial board of Tradition,
and a member of the Com-
mittee for New Translation
of Bible of the Jewish Publi-
cation Society.

JDC Offers Health Facilities
to Israel to Train Physicians

NEW YORK — The Joint
Distribution Committee has
made available its extensive
health and welfare facilities
in Israel to the Israeli health
authorities for the training
of public health doctors.
Training will be provided
in four fields of specializa-
tion: public health adminis-
tration, care of the aged and
patients with long term di-
seases, community mental
health and family and com-
munity medicine.
Graduates of Israel's
school of public health who
had received one year of
training in the different
departments of the general
hospitals will become spe-
cialists in their respective

fields after completion of
two years of on-the-job
training.

Students of public
health administration will
work side by side with
trained hospital and com-
munity services profes-
sional staff. They will
learn to plan programs for
improvement of health
care, and study the needs
of all patients, from chil-
dren to the aged, in an
administrative setting.

Doctors working in corn-
munity mental health will
participate in a JDC/Mal-
ben plan to develop a nation-
wide system of extra-mural
community mental health
programs.

Cong. Beth Achim Sister-
hood will sponsor an Adult
Education Lecture Series
entitled, "Rabbi, I Would
Like To Know . . ." begin-
ning 10 a.m. Monday in the
youth lounge.
"Marriage and Divorce"
will be discussed by Rabbi
A. Irving Schnipper of Cong.
Beth Moses and Rabbi
Charles Rosenzveig.
Succeeding sessions will
be held as follows: Nov. 17,
"Adoption and Conversion";
Dec. 15, "Death and Mourn-
ing"; and Jan. 5, "The Fu-
ture — Our Children."

Continental breakfasts
will be served. Baby-sit-
ting service will be avail-
able upon requests in ad-
vance by calling Mrs.
Benjamin Friedman,
968-4558. There will be a
charge for each session for
non-members. The public
is welcome.

Argentine Rabbi
Will Not Attend
India Meeting

BUENOS AIRES (JTA)
— Rabbi Roberto Graetz,
spiritual adviser of the Re-
form Emanu-El Congrega-
tion, will not attend a meet-
ing to pay homage to
Mahatma Gandhi when he
became aware that the
event was organized by In-
dia's Embassy in Argentina.
The rabbi, who had pre-
viously accepted an invita-
tion, stated in a letter pub-
lished in several
newspapers, that it is incon-
sistent for the sponsors of
the event to honor non-vio-
lence when they do not prac-
tice it.
Rabbi Graetz said the
support by the Indian gov-
ernment of terrorist move-
ments devoted to the de-
struction of Israel is itself
an act of violence.

Miami Schools
Integrate Studies

MIAMI — Two Miami
area Jewish day schools
have been the testing
ground for a program aimed
at integrating general and
Judaic studies.
The experimental pro-
gram, which two Jewish
educational agencies have
formulated over the past
year with the Miami
schools, will have the U.S.
Bicentennial as its major fo-
cus.
While the emphasis will
be in social studies, the
program will also include
literature, music, art,
health and the natural
sciences from the general
studies curriculum, to-
gether with Bible, Israel,
prayer and Jewish holidays
from Judaic studies.
Materials and procedures
for the program have been
developed by the American
Association for Jewish Edu-
cation and the Greater
Miami Jewish Federation.

Youth is a wreath of
roses, white and red: old age
— a crown of thorns upon
the head.
—The Talmud

Over 45 Years

Of

Mesdames Simon Ber-
manis and Friedman are ad-
ult education co-chair-
women. Their committee is
comprised of Mesdames
Milton Arm, Larry Fox,
Sheldon Jacobs, Gerald
Lasher and Edward Rosen-
baum. Sisterhood president
is Mrs. Arthur Schussler.

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Couples to Have
Membership Affair

Adat Shalom Synagogue's
Married Couples Club will
have a Scandinavian Night
as its paid-up membership
affair 8:30 p.m. Saturday in
the synagogue youth
lounge.
Entertainment will be
provided by Scandinavian
dancers. An afterglow will
follow.

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