THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 10, 1976 51 UJA Prime Minister's Mission Sees Record 1977 Pledges Five Detroiters were among more than 260 of e top Jewish leaders from throughout the ountry to participate in he United Jewish Appeal Prime Minister's Mission to Israel last week. Dr. eon Fill, 1976 Allied ewish Campaign — Is- ael Emergency Fund eneral chairman, co- hairman Daniel M. Hon- gman and associate airman Phillip Stoll - a accompanied by Edw. ._. C. Levy, Jr. and Sol Drachler, attended d-,h_ three-day mission. The mission was an op- nortunity for leaders of Jewish philanthropy to [ ee firsthand the needs of srael as the 1977 AJC- EF approaches. Honigman and Levy re among those who renewed their commit- ment to Israel at the clos- ing dinner sponsored by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Detroit dele- gation was joined at the dinner by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sloan and their two sons. The UJA Prime Minis- ter's Mission — vanguard fir "This Year in J WV ELI LEVIN AUXIL- IARY will have a mini- lffet dinner 7 p.m. Wed- esday at the Jewish War eterans Memorial ome. Prospective mem- ers are invited. * * * .BLOCH-ROSE AU- ILIARY will meet 8:15 Tuesday at the ewish War Veterans emorial Home. Pros- ective members are in- ited. For information, all the JWV office, 559- )680, or Gerry Feldman, ;98-8955, evenings. * * * resident Meets Nith JWV Leaders WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Ford held an nannounced 20-minute eeting at the White Muse with Dr. Robert ghor, of Los Angeles, 4ewly elected National commander of the Jewish yar Veterans of the Un- ted States, and Mrs. Rose 7oye, . of Quincy, Mass., resident of the JWV's Vomen's auxiliary. The --!.resident, who fist°, .;:i.ily greets new of veterans' or- 1 eaders , ariizations, posed for hotographs with Dr. hcrr and Mrs. Toye and hen invited them to re- nain with him in the Oval )ffice for a discussion of ssues. The two JWV leaders ,Luught with them copies f resolutions adopted at e 81st national conven- On of the JWV at Hol- 71,vood, Fla. These con- erned U.S. assistance for sraeli security, mea- ures to combat the Arab ,-;-cott of Israel, relief for oviet Jewry, improved m-tional defense, support Sr full employment and :refits for veterans. p HONIGMAN, LEVY Dr. Leon Fill, right, is shown during a visit of United Jewish Appeal leaders to a field hospital on the Israel-Lebanon border. * Jerusalem" — returned from Israel with a record- breaking $21.4 million pledged for the 1977 cam- paign. 30 percent above their 1976 pledges. "The spirit of Entebbe was .pervasive," said Frank R. Lautenberg, UJA general chairman. "You could feel, sense and see its impact. Entebbe has restored confidence that with courage and de : termination, the impossi- ble is attainable — if leadership will lead." The 1977 Prime Minis- ter's Mission engaged in a heavy schedule of in- depth briefings and field trips around Israel, pre- liminary to launching the 1977 UJA campaign. The participants in- clude men and women who set the pace for UJA campaigns in the United States and Canada, not only by the size of their individual gifts but by carrying the message of Israel's needs to Jewish communities throughout North America. All were invited personally by Premier Yitzhak Rabin to take part in the three-day mission. They were the vanguard of more than 4,000 Ameri- can Jews who will come to Jerusalem in October to Riegle, Esch Will Address Jewish Community Council Michigan U.S. Senate hopefuls Congressman Marvin L. Esch and Con- gressman Donald W. Riegle, Jr. have been in- vited to be principal speakers before the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit's first Delegate Assembly of the 1976-77 season 8 p.m. Oct. 19 at Cong. Shaarey Zedek. The community is in- vited. Congressman Riegle, winner of the August Democratic primary, has accepted the Council's in- vitation. Congressman Esch, the Republican primary winner, is also expected to attend. The candidates will present their views on foreign relations, economic affairs and ad- ditional topics of impor- tance to the Jewish com- munity. Hosts for the program include the Men's Club of Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Labor Zionist Alliance Council and Workmen's Circle Michigan District — all Council-affiliated organizations. Prior to the November election the Jewish Com- munity Council will send out questionnaires to Se- nate, Congress and Michigan House of Rep- resentative candidates eliciting their views on a variety of issues includ- ing the Middle East situ- ation, Soviet Jewry, the Arab boycott anci social and economic justice is- sues. The council also is preparing studies of Jewish voting patterns of the May and August Michigan primaries and - plans to compile results from the November elec- tion. Separation Case Filed in Michigan The Michigan Attorney General's office has filed suit in Hillsdale Circuit Court against the rural, one-school Camden- Frontier School District near the Michigan-Ohio- Indiana border. The suit seeks to halt Bible classes being con- ducted at the school by the Rural Bible Mission, a fundamentalist group, on the grounds that the clas- ses, conducted during school hours, violate the Michigan and U.S. con- stitutions and the state school code restrictions under the separation-of- church-and-state princi- ple. The once-per-month, 20-minute sessions are voluntary, and the state contends they are illegal as long as they are held on school property. attend the first UJA na- tional conference to be held in Israel. The mission members were received at an Air Force base by Chief of Staff Gen. Mordechai Gur. They attended a dinner at the Jerusalem Hilton Hotel where they were welcomed by Yosef Almogi, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization Executives. Almogi said that Israel's leaders were thankful for American Jewry's support of Israel. He stressed that the times are difficult, there are many more problems that Israel must face and therefore, "we need more" help. Following the dinner, the mission visited the Western Wall where a ceremonial service was conducted by the army's chief chaplain, Gen. Mor- dechai Piron. They boarded planes at Jerusalem's Atarot Air- port for a flight to Rosh Pina in Galilee from where they visited the Lebanese border and the "good fence" where Lebanese came for free medical treatment on the Israeli side. Later, the UJA leaders visited a de- velopment town. They re- turned to Jerusalem for ceremonies at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial where they were addressed by the Jewish Agency's director general Moshe Rivlin. They also met with Minister pf Commerce and Industry Haim Barley and with the directors general of the ministries of educa- tion, finance and welfare, and with Defense Minister - Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Navon, chairman of the tinesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. Premier Yitzhak Rabin told the group that he did not believe peace with Is- rael's Arab neighbors was at hand and warned that the struggle could last "one, two or three generations." Addressing a private dinner at the Knesset, Rabin described the Sinai interim agree- ment signed with Egypt just one year ago as a small step toward peace that has reduced the danger of war. He said he was pleased Births Aug. 30 — To Mr. and Mrs. Marty A. Burnstein (Barbara Finkelstein), 14281 Hart, Oak Park, a son, Scott Matthew. * * * Aug. 21 — To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kaye (Helen Schwartz), 2371 Dorches- ter, Troy, a daughter, Elyse Beth. that Egypt is rebuilding its towns on the Suez Canal. 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