54 October 24, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Inter-Faith Body Will Have
Special Thanksgiving Rites
Rabbi Moses Lehrman of
Cong. Bnai Moshe and
chairman of the Rabbinical
Commission of the Jewish
Community Council will be
among religious leaders who
will participate in a Bicen-
tennial-inter-faith Thanks-
giving service to take place 4
p.m. Nov. 23 at Metropolitan
Methodist Church, 8000
Woodward.
The Thanksgiving service
is one of several cooperative
celebrations for the Bicen-
tennial planned by the De-
troit Round Table of the Na-
tional Conference of
,Christians and Jews, Inc.
Detroit; Dr. Frederick
Sampson, pastor of Taber-
nacle Baptist Church; Imam
Mohamad Jawad Chirri, Is-
lamic Center of Detroit; and
Dr. Robert Kincheloe, exec-
utive secretary of the Metro-
politan Detroit Council of
Churches.
Other celebrations in-
clude a six-month coopera-
tive seminar with the theme
"The Role of Religion in
Achieving a Depolarized
Metropolitan Community"
and the publication of a
booklet "The Heritage of
Faith — The Story of De-
troit's Religious Commu-
nity." Among the contribu-
tors is Irving I. Katz, execu-
tive director of Temple Beth
El.
Also participating are His
Eminence John Cardinal
Dearden, Archdiocese of
Robert St. John Will Address BB Gold Gifts Lunch Thursday
Robert St. John, noted au-
thor, correspondent and lec-
turer on the Middle East,
will be the guest speaker at
the Golden Gifts Luncheon
to be given by the Bnai Brith
Women's Council of Metro-
politan Detroit noon Thurs-
day at the Knollwood Coun-
try Club. (An error in last
week's Jewish News inad-
vertently stated that he
would speak Oct. 20.)
The luncheon will climax
the special gifts campaign
conducted by the women's
council in conjunction with
the Bnai Brith Youth and
Services Appeal. This an-
nual ,fund raising, a com-
bined effort by the Detroit
area Bnai Brith Men's and
Women's Councils, has a
$350,000 goal this year.
Funds raised during the
.
Arab Building Boom Near Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA)
When Israelis boast of the
unprecedented growth in
the Jewish population in
Jerusalem, they ignore a
significant demographic
factor—that the Jerusalem
Arab population increased
at a higher proportion and
at a faster rate.
Of the 344,000 people liv-
ing in Jerusalem at the end
of 1974, 92,000 were Gen-
tiles. Since 1967, the num-
ber of Jews in Jerusalem
has risen from 199,000 to
252,000—an increase of, 27
percent at a yearly rate of
3.5 percent.
• But during the same pe-
riod, the Gentile—mainly
Arab—population of the
city rose from 68,000 to 92,-
000—an increase of 35 per-
cent at a yearly rate of 4.5
percent. Although the Is-
raeli government is con-
stantly building new Jewish
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keeping a ratio of three
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Greater Jerusalem, this bal-
ance now seems to be
threatened.
The Arab population of
Jerusalem is growing con-
tinuously, partly natural
Programs include kosher
lunches served daily, a li-
brary on Judaica for be-
tween-class studying and
counseling by Rabbis Max
Kapustin and William
Blank and their staff.
ROBERT ST. JOHN
appeal are used to support
the Bnai Brith youth serv-
ices programs here and in
Israel, including the Chil-
dren's Home in Israel, Hillel
Foundations and the Anti-
Defamation League and the
Arab-Jewish Project in Is-
rael.
Hillel Foundations bene-
fitting from the program
are those at the University
of Michigan, Michigan
State University and
Wayne State University.
Rabbi Blasts Fear
of Dropping Aliya
growth and partly a result
of internal "immigration"
from the West Bank—
mainly from the surround-
ings of the large Arab city
of Hebron, 30 miles south
of Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV, (JTA) —
Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of
Romania warned that pub= -
lic expressions of alarm over
the state of aliya from Ro-
mania only hinder the de-
parture of Jews from that
This sort of immigration country. He said Romanian
is illegal, because it means Jews will continue to emi-
that residents of the occu- grate to Israel, but those
pied territories are Moving who want aliya to continue
into Israel proper. (East Je- had best work for it quietly.
rusalem and the neighbor-
Rabbi Rosen made the
ing villages were officially
annexed to Israel after the statement at the end of a
visit here during which he
Six-Day War.)
concluded an agreement
However, the authorities of mutual cooperation with
find this phenomenon diffi- the Ministry of Religious
cult to cope with. It is an Affairs.
age-old process, going back
It calls for the ministry to
further than the Six-Day send rabbis and ritual
War. Moreover, the authori- slaughterers to Romania
ties only recently became where there is an acute
aware of its scope.
shortage of such functionar-
The Arabs, unaccustomed ies for the Jewish commu-
to large apartment complex- nity. Romania in return will
es—shikunim, so common send Israel large numbers of
in Israel—live in spread-out Torah scrolls from Roman-
villages, with one family per ian synagogues that have
house. Some 1,000 new closed down as the Jewish
houses have been built in population dwindled.
the villages around Jerusa-
lem, almost all of them
Vatican-Jewish
without a legal permit.
Of the 24,000 new Arab
residents of Greater Jeru-
salem since 1967, 11,500
live in these outlying, ille-
gal village homes.
Deputy Mayor Meron
Benvinisti said he was in no
way perturbed by the in-
crease in Jerusalem's Arab
population. In fact, he con-
tended, the number of
homes built does not meet
requirements, and many
newcomers are forced to live
in slum conditions.
The nature of the Arab
expansion does, however,
alarm some residents of the
newly built Jewish quarters
on the outskirts of the city.
As the Arab villages ex--_
panded, they stretched out
towards the new Jewish
quarter, drawing an Arab
chain around the Jewish
housing projects.
Meetings in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Members of the Vatican's
Secretariat on Jewish Af-
fairs will come to Jerusalem
next February, it has been
reliably learned, to hold dis-
cussions here with Jewish
theologians and reprsenta-,
tives of international Jewish
organizations. This is the
first time such talks will be
held in Jeruslaem.
The Jewish organizations
to be represented at the
parley include the World
Jewish Congress, the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee,
Bnai Brith and the Syn-
agogue Council of America.
Later in February the same
Jewish groups will hold
talks — also in Jerusalem
for the first time — with
members of the (Protestant)
World Council of Churches
Commission on Judaism.
St. John, the featured
luncheon speaker, is known
as a Middle East specialist
who has covered the Arab-
Israeli Wars of 1948, 1956,
and 1967, has broadcast
from both Israel and Arab
countries, and- has written
nine books on people and
places in the Middle East.
He is the biographer of Nas-
ser, Ben-Gurion, Eliezer
Ben-Yehuda and Abba
Eban.
Mrs. Robert Ellis, wom-
en's council president, has
appointed Mrs. Joseph Rod-
man as Golden Gifts chair-
man.
Assisting Mrs. Rodman
are Mesdames Paul New-
man, youth and service ap-
_ peal chairman, and Gordon
Fruitman, adviser; Irving
Isaacs and Henry Schore,
decorations; L Theodore
Coden, publicity; Maynard
Kalef, public relations; Alan
Nathan, adviser to fund
raising; and Allen Weitz-
man, consultant to women's
council.
Members of the council's
youth and service appeal
committee, include Mes-
dames Ralph Cohen, Frank
Wolff, Avery Fisher, Julius
Ruda and Miss Pearl Nus-
baum.
Bernard Parel,
Local Pharmacist
Bernard Parel, a pharma-
cist and co-owner of the
C.R. Johnson and Son drug
store in Detroit, died Oct. 20
at age 48.
A native Detroiter, Mr.
Parel was a 1948 graduate
of the Detroit Institute of
Technology. He was a mem-
ber of Brotherhood Lodge of
Bnai Brith and Alpha Zeta
Omega pharmaceutical fra-
ternity. He resided at 25520
Catalina, Southfield.
Mr. Parel leaves his wife,
Fylis; two sons, Douglas
and Richard; two datighters,
Elyse and Joan; his father,
Samuel; two brothers, Sid-
ney and Louis; and a sister,
Fannie.
Abe Zeff, 87
Abe Zeff, owner of Zeff's
Department Store and later
operator of Arden's Chil-
dren's Store, died Oct. 16 at
age 87.
Born in Russia, Mr. Zeff
started Zeff's on Gratiot
Ave. in 1915. He oper'ated
Arden's until 1965. He was a
life member of Mosaic
Lodge of the Masons and the
International Order of Odd
Fellows, and a member of
the Detroit Consistory of
the Moslem Temple and the
Retired Businessmen's Club
,of the Jewish Community
Center.
He leaves a son, Bernard
of Hollywood, Fla.; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ben H. (Ida)
Bader; a brother, Sam; five
grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
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Attendance at the lunch-
eon is by pledge of $50 or
more to the Youth and
Services Appeal drive.
Contributors of $100 or
more Will be presented
with an engraved menora
plaque or a "jewel light'
for a branch of their men-
ora, if they have already
received the plaque.
For reservations, contact
individual Bnai Brith Wom-
en's chapters, or call the
Bnai Brith Youth and Serv-
ices Appeal office, 354-6106.
Temple to Have
Rummage Sale
Temple Kol Ami will
sponsor a rummage sale 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday ark:,
Monday at the temple.
Among the items on sale
are clothing, household
goods, books and "white ele-
phants."
Canadian Appeal
Ahead of '74 Pace
TORONTO (JTA) — Pi ll
Granovsky of Toronto has
been elected president of the
United Israel Appeal of
Canada, succeeding Thoma9
0. Hecht of Montreal, who
was elected chairman of the
board of directors. In his
presidential report, Hecl;'
said that campaign receipts
in the 1975 drive, both in
pledges and cash, were run-
ning far ahead of the 1974
drive.
Mary Richman, 75
Mary Richman, an active
member of Jewish com-
munal societies, died Oct. 21
at age 75.
Born . in Russia, Mrs
Richman lived 51 years in
Detroit before retiring t
Miami Beach where she
lived at the time of hi'‘i
death. She was an active
member of the Pinsker
Chodokover and Brith
Shalom Societies, City c
Hope and the Hebrew Be-
nevolent Society.
She is survived by her
husband, David; a son, Paul
three daughters, Mrs. Phil
(Dorothy) Moss, Mrs. Morry
(Sylvia) Wasserman anc
Mrs. Herb (Ruthye) Har_
lik; one brother, one sister
14 grandchildren and 1,
great-grandchildren. Inter.
ment Detroit.
,
:
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Abe Leib, 65
Abe Leib, co-owne
Leib Brothers Clothing,
Oct. 21 at age 65.
Born in Detroit, Mr. L4-it
also was the secretary of the
clothing firm, of which
there are two stores, one in
Livonia, and the other i:
Lincoln Park. He was a
member of the Jewish Wai
Veterans. Mr. Leib resided
at 30382 Southfield, South-
field.
He leaves his wife, Re-
becca; three sons, Elliot of
San Diego, Calif., Allen am.,
Mark of LaPorte, Ind.; a
daughter, Dyan; three
brothers, Nathan, Simon o'
Flint and Joseph; a sister,
Mrs. Ann Feldman; and
three grandchildren