54 Friday, October 1, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Argentinian Anti-Semitism Protest
Acclaim for Freeman Novel
on American Jewish Family
WASHINGTON (JTA) that Videla himself had
— Fifty-six members of "expressed opposition to
Bea Feinberg, a San renounces his Judaism, the House of Representa- these actions. •
In a related action, a
Francisco housewife who changes his name to Reid tives have signed a letter
writes under the and cuts his family ties, calling on President group concerned with civil
pseudonym Cynthia despite his wife Katie's Jorge Rafael Videla of liberties in Latin America
Argentina "to make lodged a protest last Fri-
Freeman, is receiving opposition.
David's wealth and every effort to end anti- day. in New York with the
acclaim for her first
novel, "A World Full of power grow and the more Semitic terrorism in your Argentine Ambassador to
the United Nations against
successful he becomes, country."
Strangers."
The letter, initiated by what the) termed the
the more he begins to re-
Published as a paper-
sent Katie, who serves as Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman Argentine government's
back by Bantam Books,
an ever-present reminder (D-NY), was signed by 49 inaction in 'countering
this novel depicts a fami- of his previous life.
Democrats and six Re- anti-Semitic assaults:
ly's search for the Ameri-
The delegation was led
The problems in their publicans and others may
can dream.•
marriage grow, until sign it before it is actually by Prof. Richard Falk of
the Institute of Interna-
their son goes away to col- transmitted.
"A World Full of Stran
lege and falls in love with
Expressing their "deep tional Affairs at Prince-
gers, - follows three gen- a Jewish girl. He fears the concern" about the ton University, and Peter
erations of a Jewish- wrath of his father, but "shootings and bombings Weiss, a New York civil
American family from the then accidentally discov- of Jewish institutions and liberties attorney.
early 1930s to the 1960s.
Following the meeting
ers his own Jewish herit- businesses in Argentina"
Determined to get ahead age and embraces it as and the kidnapping of with the Argentine Am-
in life and feeling his eagerly as David had dis- several prominent Jews, bassador, the delegation
owned it many years be- the letter says that these met with Marc Schreiber,
heritage is holding, him
"incidents of violent director of the Human
back, David Rezinetsky fore.
anti-Semitism - are "re- Rights Division of the UN
pugnant to Americans Secretariat.
Isolation of Israel Is on the Decrease
In the latest . of a series
and people of good will
JERUSALEM (ZINS) the Executive of the everywhere. - It noted of attacks on Jewish in-
— In recent months, ac- World Chess Association
cording to political obser- which, over the violent
Anti-Israel Bombing
vers, the wall if isolation objections and
surrounding Israel has threatened boycott of the
been broken at a number Arab-communist bloc,
ROME — An Italian- wrote notes to Rome news
Confirmed Israel as its Israeli irrigation ,com- media proclaiming
of points.
The most dramatic in- choice to host the, forth- pany and several other "Death to Zionism - and
stance was the spectacu- coming Chess World Rome businesses were "Victory with the Pales-
lar rescue mission at 100 1YmPies.
bombed Sunday. A group , tinian people and the
Thousands of vic- claiming responsibility 'Arab proletariat. -
Uganda's Entebbe air-
port, which electrified the timized Lebanese made
world and enhanced Is- their way to Israel's .bor-
rael's prestige even der for aid. And the Por-
among her foes. Soon tuguese government in
thereafter an Israeli girl Lisbon is reported • as
was crowned winner of being ready to establish
the Miss Universe full diplomatic relations
with Israel, and it is pos-
pageant in Hong Kong.
sible that Spain will fol-
Even more significant low suit in the very near
was the action taken by future.
Friends of Israel BBB Organized
TEL AVIV — Forma-
tion of "Friends of the
Better Business Bureau
of Israel" was announced
by A. Shani, head of the
Better Business Bureau
of Tel Aviv acting as
spokesman for all Better
Business Bureau offices
iii Israel. Rubin R. Dobin,
of Lawrence, N.Y. was
named as chairman of the
new group. Offices have
been established at 1 E.
42nd St., New York City
10017.
In announcing the new
organization Shani, who
is director general of the
Israeli Pazgaz Corp.,
explained that because
the scope of activity of the
B en-Shachar:
End Controls
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
Professor Haim Ben-
Schachar, president of
Tel Aviv University and
one of Israel's foremost
economists, has called for
an end to government
control of foreign cur-
rency. The professor ar-
gues that the cost of en-
forcing control and the
retention of a large
bureaucracy is far more
expensive than any gall,.
Furthermore, he says,
the stringent currency
controls produce a
number of problems and
difficulties. They do not
help to increase the gov-
ernment's foreign cur-
rancy reserves but rather
strengthen the black
market. He believes that
the currency control laws
are simply not realistic.
Israel Better Business
Bureaus have expanded
at such a rapid rate it was
felt that a group of in-
terested friends in the
United States could as-
sist in many ways to de-
velop new directions to
help the many programs
now being conducted by
the BBB in Israel.
Dobin will undertake to
develop a new national
committee of American
businessmen who will
seek new ways to help the
Israel BBB expand its
services to the consumer
and business community
in a more effective man-
ner.
THE
JEWISH NEWS
American Occupies
Technion Chair
HAIFA — Professor
Neal Rothman, a
mathematician from the
University of Illinois is
the first occupant of the
Sidney Wolberg Chair at
the Technion-Israel In-
stitute of Technology. He
will serve in the Techn-
ion's department of
mathematics for the
academic year beginning
October, 1976.
Rothman has beRn a
Senior Mathematician
with the computor group
of the Burroughs Corpo-
ration. He joined the Uni-
versity of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in
1962, and was appointed a
full professor there in
1972.
The Sidney Wolberg
Chair was created for
visiting professors in the
major fields of study at
the Technion.
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stitutions in Buenos
Aires, a bomb exploded in
front of the Hebraica
Theater. The blast shat-
tered six glass swinging
doors but caused no
casualties, officials re-
ported.
In a related develop-
ment, Dr. Nehemias Res-
nizky, president of the
DAIA, the central rep-
resentative agency of
Argentine Jewry, said that
the recent decree banning
some Nazi publications
and shutting down the
Milicia Publishing House,
a frequent publisher of
material defaming Jews,
was not as sweeping as the
DAIA had hoped for.
President Videla sent a
Rosh Hashanah message
to Dr. Resnizky, stating
in part: "I send you and
the religious community
you represent my warm-
est congratulations and
wishes for prosperity on
this Jewish New Year,
with special wishes for
peace and well-being in
this noble Argentine
land. -
Meanwhile, in Jerusa-
lem, President Ephraim
Katzir received the cre-
dentials of the new
Argentine Ambassador,
Enrique Jorge Ros.
Electrical Induitry
to Support Bonds
Perry T. Shilts, 1976
chairman of the newly
formed Michigan area
Electrical Industry Divi-
sion of State of Israel
Bonds, announced the di-
viSion's first annual in-
dustry tribute dinner on
behalf of State of Israel
Bonds will be held Nov. 10
at the Sheraton-
Southfield Hotel. Honor-
ary chairman is Jack U.
Klarr.
The dinner is a state-
wide industry effort to
support, through Israel
Bonds, the industrial de-
velopment of Israel.
• Shilts said persons in-
eligible for the 5 1/2 per-
cent . bond issue may
purchase individual 4
perdent Reconstruction
and Development Issue
Israel Bonds at the tri-
bute dinner.
Hebrew U. Friends
to Hear Harman
NEW YORK— Dr. Max.
M. Kampelman, presi-
dent of the American
Friends of the Hebrew
University, announced
that Dr. Abraham Har-
man, president of the He-
brew University of
Jerusalem, will be the
guest speaker at the
AFHU's Scopus Salute
Dinner Saturday at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
The dinner is in honor
of Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld, Dr.
Zbigniew Brzezinski,
foreign policy adviser to
Democratic Presidential
candidate Jimmy Carter,
and William Wishnick,
chairman of Witco Chem-
ical Corp. "for their ef-
forts on behalf of the
State of Israel. - Met-
ropolitan Opera star
Roberta Peters will also
be a special guest.
Bar-Ilan Program
a Triple Success
RAMAT GAN — After a
one-year trial period, reg-
istration has already tri-
pled for a unique program
in Israel, initiated by
Bar-Ilan 'University, to
enable overseas mid-term
high school seniors to
start their studies in Is-
rael immediately without
losing a half year or more
of university studies.
Under the new prog-
ram, overseas high school
seniors who want to study
in Israel can begin their
university studies at .
Bar-Ilan in mid-winter,
continue through sum-
mer school and end up
with a full year's credits.
Thus, in the ensuing
fall term, when they
would have ordinarily
begun their first year of
college studies, they can
_already begin their sec-
ond year.
The program is de-
signed mainly for stu-
dents at Hebrew-
language high schools
and Talmudei Torah ab-
road. Not having a lan-
guage problem they can
commence their studies
in Israel immediately.
'Roots' Assured
of Selling Record
recon-
is
History
structed dramatically
during the Bicentennial,
Year.
Alex Haley, in his en-
cyclopedic and highly ex-
tensively documented
novel, "Roots: The Saga
of an American Family"
(Doubleday), recon-
structs a fascinating ac-
count of the role of blacks
traced from 1750 onward.
It is Haley's family
tree, his record of the his-
tory of seven generations
of enslaved blacks who
were brought from Af-
rica, their roles in bon-
' dage, the struggles from
oppression to the era of
emancipation.
This volume, an enrich-
ment of the library dealing
with the race issue, is
among tJie powerful per-
sonal documents in which
facts predoininate and an
historical record affirms
the experiences of the
generations.
With a 200,000 initial
printing and a million
paperback copies intro-
ducing the novel, and an
assurance of its filming,
"Roots" is destined for
one of the longest runs
ever enjoyed by best sel--
lers.
Rose Named
by Technion
YORK — David
Rose, a prominent buil-
der, has been named
chairman of the Ameri-
can Technion Society's
National Dinner to be
held Oct. 10, at the Hotel
Pierre in New York City.
The dinner, which is
held to support the
Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology, will be
highlighted by an address
by Joseph J. Sisco, and the
appearance of this year's
Miss Universe, Israel's
Rina Messinger.