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NCCJ's Year-Round Observances Reduce Role of Brotherhood Week
BY ALAN HITSKY
Brotherhood Week will be
celebrated throughout the
United States Feb 15-22,
but without the fanfare and
public observance of years
past. Its originator, the Na-
tional Conference of Chris-
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tians and Jews, for some
time now has been empha-
sizing its year-round work
rather than a one-week ob-
servance.
Detroit Round Table
President Alfred May and
Executive Director Charles
Benham stated recently
that Brotherhood Week ob-
servances are encouraged in
schools, churches and other
organizations. "The NCCJ
did such a good job with
Brotherhood Week," May
said, "that many groups
with no NCCJ- affiliation
now sponsor Brotherhood
Week programs."
While placing less empha-
sis on the role of a single
Brotherhood Week, the
NCCJ and its 70 Round Ta-
bles emphasize establishing
both inter-religious and sec-
ular dialogues on all types
of social problems on a year-
round basis.
May is concerned with anti-
Semitism. "Oil is a prob-
lem," he said. "There is a
tremendous amount of
money being spend on prop-
aganda, and that propa-
ganda message is beginning
to get through."
ALFRED MAY
•
The Detroit Round Table,
working from the old Siegel
mansion at 150 West Bos-
ton, sponsors monthly for-
ums for clergy of all faiths,
community meetings, a
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Milton Friedman, former
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
and Detroit Jewish News
Washington-White HoUse
correspondent, remains one
of the speech writers for
President Ford.
He and Patrick Butler are
retained in the shuffle of
the President's speech writ-
ing staff. Four writers left
for other administration
jobs.
President Ford was re-
portedly unhappy with the
performance of the speech
writers who served under
Robert T. Hartmann, coun-
Moked Curtails
Samaria Protest
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Moked ended its two-day
protest against the Gush
Emunim encampment at
the Kudun army base in the
Samarian hills last week.
Moked leader Meir Payil
announced at a rally that a
group of 50-odd Moked and
Mapam youths who estab-
lished their own campsite
near Kudun had been with-
drawn. They had said ear-
lier that they would not
leave until the authorities
removed the 30 Gush Emu-
nim families who have been
living there since November
under army protection.
Payil said the Moked-
sponsored "peace college"
would shift its activites to
the Golan Heights probably
within a few weeks when
weather conditions improve.
He indicated that the fight
against the government's
alleged acquiescence to the
Gush Emunim's illegal set-
tlement movement would be
continued in the Knesset.
CHARLES BENHAM
highly successful police-
community relations prd=
gram, college and youth
conferences, workshops for
school teachers and other
programs.
May said the Round Table
works closely with the pub-
lic and parochial school sys-
tems, and receives "100 per-
cent co-operation." In
November the Catholic
Archdiocese of Detroit
sponsored a day-long Jewish
Holocaust Seminar for 400
Catholic junior and senior
high school students, with
the help of the Jewish Com-
munity Council and the De-
troit Round Table.
May sees growing world
anti-Semistism as a major
May explained, "We
provide a forum, a cata-
lyst, a neutral ground
where people can meet,
learn about each other,
and discuss their prob-
lems."
There are equal number
of Jewish, Protestant and
Catholic directors on the
Detroit Round Table
board of directors. May
mentioned the late Rabbis
Leo Franklin of Temple
Beth El and Morris Adler
of Cong. Shaarey Zedek as
early supporters of the
National Conference of
Christians and Jews in
Detroit.
problem, and the Round
Table adopted a resolution
condemning the Nov. 10
United Nations resolution
equating Zionism with rac-
ism.
The organization began
on the national level in 1928
to combat the wave of bigo-
try and hatred that was ex-
pressed during Al Smith's
campaign for president, and
to combat anti-Catholicism
and racism preached by the
Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
The monthly clergy dia-
logue extended its discus-
sion of Zionism through
two sessions, which in-
cluded the participation of
several rabbis and Iman
Mohamad Jawad Chirri of
the Islamic Center of De-
troit.
JOE MILLER
and
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Benham, who was re-
cently named a vice presi-
dent for field development
of the NCCS, said he be-
lieves the urban vs. subur-
ban question, where differ-
ent communities see their
problems completely di-
corced from the other's, as a
major developing problem.
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White House correspond-
ence, Presidential messages
and research.
Robert Orben, former gag
writer for comedians Jack
Paar and Red Skelton, has
been put in charge of speech
writing operations under
the direction of Hartmann.
Warsaw Jewish
Cemetery to Stay?
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
International League for
the Repatriation of Russian
Jews has called upon the
Polish government to with-
draw its plans for uprooting
the Jewish cemetery in
Warsaw, replacing it with a
housing project, it was an-
nounced by Rabbi Benjamin
Blech, league president.
He reported that leaders
of the Warsaw Jewish com-
munity urged one of the
league's officers who was
recently there to carry the
message to the West.
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