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THE -DETROIT JEWISH -NEWS
Red Magen David Expects Texan Jailed
Nazi Trial
to Join Red Cross Societies at BONN
— A Texas man,
NEW YORK (JTA) — Is-
rael is expecting a "positive
movement" on its request
that the Red Magen David
Society in Israel be admit-
ted into the League of Red
Cross Societies when the
issue comes up next April at
the diplomatic conference
on Reaffirmation of Hu-
manitarian Law in Geneva.
This optimistic outlook
was outlined by Ambassa-
dor Shabtai Rosenne, spe-
cial adviser to the executive
committee of the Red Ma-
gen David Society in Israel.
During a visit to the
U.S., Rosenne went to ma-
jor cities across the country
and also met with scores of
Jewish leaders to explain
the issue and its importance
to Israel.
The history of the Red
Magen David Society's
efforts to become a league
member began in the
spring of 1949, at the first
diplomatic conference out-
side of the United Nations
at which Israel was repre,
sented.
The society sought to
have the Red Magen David
recognized as a distinctive
emblem alongside the Red
Cross, the Red Crescent and
the Red Lion and Sun, the
symbol of Iran.
Israel's effort was re-
jected in Geneva that year
by a majority, of one•vote
Christian, Urges
`Hebrew Attitudes'
NEW YORK — A leading
Evangelical Christian
scholar urged his fellow
Christians to become
"Hebrewphiles," to develop
"Hebrew attitudes towards
life, and see life through He-
brew eyes." A Christian, he
said, should become aware
that the "biblical sense of
reality is profoundly He-
brew."
In an address to a na-
tional conference of Evan-
gelical Christians and Jews,
Dr. Marvin R. Wilson, pro-
fesSor of biblical and theo-
logical studies and chair-
man of department, Gordon
College, Wenham, Mass.,
recalled that "modern reli-
gious history painfully indi-
cates that Evangelical Pro-
testants and American Jews
have largely remained aloof
from one another."
Jewish Leftists
Escape Chile
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
A number of former leftist
leaders of Jewish origin in
Chile who occupied very
high positions in the Al-
lende regime have succeeded
in escaping before th new
authorities were able to
seize them.
These individuals, so
committed to a Communist
ideology, did not find a re-
fuge for themselves. One of
President Allende's closest
advisers found a haven, to-
gether with his entire fam-
ily, in an Israeli kibutz.
For these Jews who were
previously so far removed
from any national feelings
of Zionsim, Israel has be-
come the place of refuge.
and the Red Magen David
was not included in the list
of recognized emblems.
Nevertheless, later that
year, Israel signed the con-
ventions subject to the res-
ervation that it would use
the Red Magen David in Is-
rael as its emblem while
fully respecting all other
emblems. No objection is on
record to these reservations.
The Magen David So-
ciety is in the unsatisfac-
tory position of not being
able to gain admittance
into the League of Red
Cross Societies because a
current condition for ad-
mission is that the member
of a national society use
one of the recognized em-
blems and titles.
Last year, in Genva, Is-
rael put forward a formal
proposal requesting mem-
bership at the diplomatic
conference on Reaffirma-
tion of Humanitarian Law.
The three-year conference
will terminate next year.
Herzog and Dinitz
`Have Differences'
TEL AVIV (ZINS.) —
Mati Golan, the political
writer, reports that Israel's
Ambassador to the United
Nations, Chaim Herzog, is
at odds with Ambassador
Simha Dinitz in Washing-
ton.
Herzog prefers open and
strong Jewish reaction to
the anti-Zionist and anti-
Israel acts at the UN while
Dinitz favors quiet diplo-
macy in American govern-
ment bodies, Golan said.
Golan further reports that
mass demonstrations and
mass conferences can pro-
voke the American adminis-
tration.
Accordingly, Dinitz pre-
fers subdued activity in
Congress and in other gov-
ernniental bodies. He has
stubbornly refused to un-
derstand that the absence of
reactions by mass bodies of
Jews reduces the readiness
of the part of non-Jews to
protect Jewish rights in vi-
tal situations.
Arafat Awarded
Doublespeak Prize
SAN DIEGO — Palestine
Liberation Organization
leader Yasir Arafat was
named winner of the second
annual Public Doublespeak
award by the National
Council of Teachers of En-
glish.
Arafat was cited for
"misuse of public language"
for his answer to a charge
his organization wanted to
destroy Israel:
"They are wrong. We do
not want to destroy any peo-
ple. It is precisely because
we have been advocating
coexistence that we have
shed so much blood."
Chairman of the Commit-
tee on Public Doublespeak,
Daniel J. Dietrich of the
University of Illinois, called
the statement "the most elo-
quent expression of the phi-
losophy that 'love is hate'
and 'war is peace' " he ever
heard.
who demonstrated outside
the Dusseldorf trial of 15
former concentration camp
guards, has been given a
four-week jail sentence for
publicly disseminating Nazi
philosophies.
Jimmy Clendennen was
arrested after he hand-
cuffed himself to a fence
and shouted "Freedom for
all Nationalist Socialists" at
persons entering the court
building.
Hermine wa
Ryan, who was
s extradited
from the U.S. to Germany
for the trial, is one of 15
guards charged with mur-
dering inmates at Majdanek
concentration vamp in Po-
land.
BJE Prints Sheet
on Zionism Facts
NEW YORK — In re-
sponse-to the recent United
Nation's resolution brand-
ing Zionism as a form of
racism, the Board of Jewish
Education of Greater New
York has prepared a series
of "Fact Sheets on Zionism."
The fact sheets, geared to
the junior and senior high
school levels, provide stu-
dents, parents, and teachers
with information . concern-
ing\the historical roots of
Zionism, and its relation-
ship to modern Israel and
the Jewish people.
For information or copies
of the fact sheets, contact
Dr. Israel Lerner, chairman
of BJE's. Israel Committee,
Board of Jewish Education,
426 W. 58th St., New York,
N.Y. 10019; (212) 245-8200.
NY Man Tries
to Foster Smiles
NEW YORK— Hyman
Rosenblatt is not only a
man of good humor. He also
is a Good Humor man.
Rosenblatt specializes in
making children smile in
New York as he stands on
street corners and passes
out ice cream.
He was born 53 years ago
on the Lower East side to
parents who had recently
come from Russia. They
were divorced when he was
12 years old and he was sent
to a home for Jewish chil-
dren in the Bronx.
Rosenblatt now lives at a
Volunteers for America
home. During the holiday
season Rosenblatt poses as
Santa as he jingles a differ-
ent kind of bell while pass-
ing out ice cream.
Ali Is Opening
Company in Cairo
NEW YORK — World
heavyweight boxing cham-
pion Muhamad Ali is setting
up a $50-million company in
Cairo to sell farming and
building equipment in the
Middle East.
Donald J. Macdonald, vice
president of the Muhammad
Ali Trade Development
Corp.; said the firm will sell
fertilizers, tractors, cement,
steel building rods and
buses.
Israel, U.S. Hit
for UNRWA Debt
TEL AVIV — The Syrian
delegate to the United Na-
tions, Kakariah Subakhi,
told the General Assembly's
special political committee
Nov. 17 that Israel and the
United States should cover
the $7.2 million deficit accu-
mulated by the UN Relief
and Works Agency, which
cares for Palestinian Arab
refugees in Lebanon, Jor-
dan, Syrian and the Israel-
administered territories.
Israeli delegate Ya'acov
Doron said in rebuttal that
Israel's contribution of $1.12
million to UNRWA this
year was greater than most
the Arab states.
UNRWA Commissioner-
General Sir John Rennie
said in a report to the same
UN committee Nov. 11 that
the civil war in Lebanon has
"very seriously disrupted"
the operation of the agency
and that the situation was
worsening.
Moynihan Knocks
UN at Closing
UNITED NATIONS —
U.S. Ambassador Daniel P.
Moynihan admonished the
United Nations General
Assembly at its closing ses-
sion Wednesday evening
that the body had achieved
results the U.S. considered
"abominable."
Moynihan told the dele-
gates, "None will learn with
surprise that for the United
States, at the very least, the
30th General Assembly has
been a profound, even
alarming, disappointment."
U.S. sources listed the UN
resolution Nov. 10 equating
Zionism with racism as the
most offensive act of the
session, and mentioned
other anti-Zionist and anti-
Israel resolutions.
Hebrew College
Elects Chairman
NEW YORK — Dr. Jules
Backman of Scarsdale,
NY, was elected chairman
of the board at the fall
meeting of the board of gov-
ernors of Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion. The new chair-
man, who su c ceeds Judge
Theodore Tannenwald, Jr.,
will assume office on Jan. 1,
1976.
Dr. Backman, a nation-
ally known economist, au-
thor and educator, is re-
search professor emeritus of
economics at New York Uni-
versity's School of Business
where he has been a mem-
ber of the faculty since 1938.
Hebrew U. Cites
Musician Stern
JERUSALEM — Isaac
Stern was recently awarded
an honorary doctorate of
the Hebrew University at a
ceremony where the univer-
sity termed him "one of the
greatest virtuosos of the
violin in the 20th Century."
It was the second time
during the university's
golden anniversary year
Stern had been in focus —
the first was at its jubilee
concert in Jerusalem last
March when he played Men-
delsohn's violin concerto
with the Jerusalem Sym-
phony Orchestra.
Cantor Rubin Boyarsky, 90
Talmudic, Liturgical Scholar
Cantor Rubin Boyarsky, ea
liturgical musician and tal-
mudic scholar who held can-
torial posts abroad and in
the Detroit area, died Tues-
day at age 90.
Born in Poland, Cantor
Boyarsky held his first offi-
later served the Queen's
Park Synagogue of Glas-
gow, Scotland. In 1930, Can-
tor Boyarsky and his family
emigrated to the U.S. and
settled in Detroit, where he
became cantor at Cong.
Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikva.
Cantor Boyarsky was
guest cantor at Cong.
Shaarey Zedek, - Adat
Shalom Synagogue, Cong.
Bnai David and Cong.
Mishkan Israel Nusach
H'Ari, 'among others.
CANTOR BOYARSKY
cial post, chief cantor of
Suvalke, Poland, at age 22.
He traveled all throughout
Poland and Russia perform-
ing cantorial duties.
In 1921, he emigrated
with his wife and children
to Britain where he was
cantor at the Central Syn-
agogue of Manchester and
Cantor Boyarsky was an
active supporter of yeshivot
in the U.S. and Israel, ar
involved friends in effoi-,
for them.
He resided at 18657
George Washington, South-
field.
He is survived by two
sons, Caspar Boyar of
Brooklyn and Hyman
Boyer; a 'daughter, Mrs.'
Norman (Esther) Allan;
four brothers, Kalman ,
(Boyarsky) of Brooklyn,
Norman Bauer and Julius
(Boyarsky) of North Mianii,
Fla., and Sol Bauer of To-
ledo; a sister, Mrs. Louis
Shlansky of New York City;
five grandchildren and 10
great-grandchildren. Inter-
ment Israel.
Joseph Kazakoff,
Freed Soviet Jew
Maurice Edelman,
Labor Party MP
TORONTO (JTA) — Jo-
seph Kazakoff, 58, who was
allowed to emigrate from
the Soviet Union to Israel in
1971 after a strenuous cam-
paign by one of his sons,
Yasha, was killed last week
in an automobile accident
near here. His body was
sent to Israel for burial.
Yasha, now living in Is-
rael, staged a hunger strike
near the United Nations to
help obtain his father's de-
parture from the Soviet
Union.
A transport engineer in
the Soviet Union, Mr. Kaza-
koff ran into problems as a
settler in Israel in finding
work suited to his profes-
sional training and he left
Israel for Belgium and then
for Canada with his .other
son, Alexander.
His wife, mother, Yasha
and a daughter remained in
Israel. Alexander is a stu-
dent in Toronto where his
father had resided during
the past year.
NEW YORK — Maurice
Edelman, an author and
Labor Party Member of
Parliament since 1945, died
Monday at age 64.
Born in Cardiff, Wales,
Mr. Edelman wrote several
Jacob Parnes,
Brazil Editor
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)
— Jacob Parnes, editor of
the weekly Brazilianer Yid-
dishe Tzeitung, which he
founded here in 1952, died
Dec. 8 at age 74.
Born in Warsaw, Mr.
Parnes settled in Brazil in
the 1920s and since then
was active in the local Jew-
ish community life.
He who throws bread to
the ground and in his anger
squanders his money, will
not leave this world before
he is in need of the support
of strangers.
—The Talmud
A
MAURICE EDELMAN
novels in the political set-
tings with which he had be-
come familiar. He devoted
his energies to writing fol-
lowing a Labor Party defeat
in 1951.
Following graduation
from Cambridge University,
Mr. Edelman became a re-
search supervisor in the ap-
plication of plastics to the
aircraft industry for a Lon-
don concern. He represent ,
his company in the Sovi-,
Union in the year before the
war and wrote his first pol-
itical book in 1938, and aut-
hored a biography of David
Ben-Gurion.
From 1949 to 1951 and
from 1965 to 1970, he was a
delegate to the Consultative
Assembly of the Council of
Europe. From 1951 to 1967
he was vice chairman of the
British Council, a cultural
organization. He was presi-
dent in Britain of the Alli-
ance Francaise, and active
in Friends of Hebrew Uni-
versity.
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