THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12 April 9, 1976
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by
Buz Holzman
STUDIO
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CANDIDS • PORTRAITS • MOVIES
Phone Speech Signals Major
United-Jewish Appeal Effort
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The March 31 telephone
hookup between Jerusalem
and 151 American Jewish
Success
and
Best Wishes
To The Entire Jewish Community.
Cadillac Asphalt & Paving Co. &
Clawson Concrete Co.
subsidiaries of
Josef Fraenkel Volume
Records Jewish History
communities — the first ,
Josef Fraenkel, the distinguished London Jewish au-
such opefation by the .' thor, whose articles have appeared in The Jewish News, has
United Jewish Appeal — produced another significant compilation. The World Jew-
signalled a major effort to ish Congress London department has just released his
step up and speed up the "Every Day in Jewish History," a guide that will serve the
1976 campaign, UJA Gen- needs of historians and students of Jewish occurrences.
eral Chairman Frank R.
Not since the publication in 1931 of the late Dr. Cecil
Lautenberg said.
Roth's "The Jewish Book of Days" has anything like it been
Premier Yitzhak Rabin, available for students of Jewish history. (The Roth book
Jewish Agency Chacirman was reprinted by Hermon Press in 1965).
Yosef Almogi, Jewish
Fraenkel's compilation includes a four-page section of
Agency Board of Governors Hebrew dates listed for the Jewish calendar under Hebrew
Chairman Max Fisher, monthly designations. The day-by-day daily record appears
Council of Jewish Federa- in the informative brochure in 40 pages and there is a
tions and Welfare Funds 17-page index to the latter, enabling the student to trace the
President Jerold Hoffberger desired dates without difficulty.
and Lautenberg took part in
outstanding authority
the 18-minute broadcast on An
the
history of Zionism,
during which they ad-
has written a
dressed an estimated 15,000 Fraenkel
number
of
books
and mono-
Jewish leaders in the 151 graphs on the course
the
communities.
movement had taken since
The message was: acce- its
founding. He has aut-
lerate the current cam- hored
biographical sketches
paign to meet the national of Theodor
Herzl, Nordau
UJA closing date of June 6 and Nahum Sokolow
and a
— coinciding with the an- number of leaders in
the
niversary of the Six-Day Zionist movement in Great
War.
Britain.
According to a UJA
Fraenkel is the author of
spokesman in New York,
length historical works
Jewish leaders in Hartford, full
on
the
Jews in Austria and
Conn. and Hollywood, Fla. Czechoslovakia.
JOSEF FRAENKEL
declared a total mobiliza-
This sample provides an appreciation of Fraenkel's re-
tion although these cities
had already reached their searched labors:
1 Apr. 1279 — Arrest and torture of Jews of Northamp-
goals.
The 1976 Allied Jewish ton.
1 Apr. 1882 — Tisza-Eszlar Affair ("Blood Accusa-
Campaign-Israel Emer-
gency Fund drive continues tion").
1 Apr. 1933 — Anti-Jewish boycott in Germany. Jewish
'in Detroit through April 28.
ad hoc boycott organized against Germany. Jews in Ger-
The best way to keep your many forced to wear yellow badge.
3 Apr. 1949 — Israel's armistice agreement with
,friends is not to give them
Jordan.
away.
3 Apr. 1953 — Release of arrested Jewish doctors in
—Wilson Mizner
Soviet Russia.
3 Apr. 1970 — Avigdor Hameiri, Hebrew poet and nov-
elist, died.
4 Apr. 1862 — Leonid Pasternak, painter, born in
Moscow.
5 Apr. 1949 — Dr. Mordecai Eliash arrives in London
as first Israeli Minister.
5 Apr. 1970 — Israel Government against Nahum Gold-
mann's visit to Cairo to meet President Nasser.
6 Apr. 1875 —. Moses Hess, author of "Rome and Jeru-
salem", died in Paris.
The National Bank
of Detroit
best wishes for
I Extends
a happy and joyous
adoin
to all.
Rabbinic Assembly Rejects
Dissolution of Law Unit
GROSSINGER, N.Y.
(JTA) — The 76th annual
convention of the Rabbinical
Assembly overwhelmingly
rejected a resolution that
would have "dissolved and
replaced the Committee on
Jewish Law and Standards
with a new committee to
function on an advisory ba-
sis."
The decision, made after a
heated debate, was precipi-
tated by recent rulings on
the status of women in the
synagogue, particularly a
1973 decision that women
could be counted in a min-
yan.
The Law Committee,
which was established in its
present form in 1948, has
made policy rulings for the
guidance of Conservative
rabbis on such subjects as
marriage and divorce, Bat
Mitzva, kashrut, the aguna
problem and mixed seating,
as well as other aspects of
the place of women in Juda-
ism.
At the same time, Rabbi
Stanley Rabinowitz, who
was installed as president
of the 1,000-member Rab-
binical Assembly, said in a
statement on the need for
American Jewish support
of Israel in its dispute with
the Arab countries that
"Israel is as indispensable
to the vitality of Judaism
as Jesus is to the vitality of
Christianity."
He also made a plea for
the continuance of a united
Jerusalem as a part of Is-
rael, saying that "we de-
plore the implication that
the Holy City of Jerusalem
cannot be entrusted safely
to the Jewish people."
Noting that "for the first
time in 2,000 years, Jerusa-
lem is open to all faiths," he
added, "No Jewish holy
place is closed to Christians
or Moslems. The reverse is
not true. Too many places,
even in Jerusalem, are still
closed to Jews.
"We Rabbis must educate
our Christian counterparts
to understand the import-
ance of Jerusalem and Is-
rael to us and to America's
spiritual interests. Public
opinion is the forum that
may grant justice."