54 Friday, November 5, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Dash Reveals Watergate - Facts
Senator Sam Ervin who
headed the Watergate in-
vestigations, and Samuel
Dash, the committee's
chief attorney were
worlds apart. Yet they la-
bored together to.. expose
the century's most sensa-
tional American tragedy.
Sen. Ervin is a Bible
student and a Southerner
and Dash a devout
synagogue member.
Their labors emerge in in-
teresting light in Dash's
"Chief Counsel: Inside
the Ervin Committee —
the Untold Story of
Watergate," just pub-
lished by Random House.
TEL AVIV — The
stand Watergate. It re-
flected his insensitivity to World Federation of
the concepts of equal jus- Jewish Journalists will
tice . . . it concealed, for hold a world meeting of
his own political pur- Jewish journalists Jan.
poses, his desire to rid 11, 1977 in Jerusalem.
himself and the public of
It is expected that some
the constant reminder of 60 journalists from 15
Nixon's Watergate."
countries will participate
It was Nixon's "arrog- in the four-day confer-
ant perception of his ence.
Speaking to the assem-
power," writes Dash,
"that enabled him to be- bly will be various Israeli
lieve that no one could political figures, includ-
ever force him to release ing Prime Minister Yit-
the tapes." It also made zhak Rabin. A number of
him believe that "he was Israeli journalists will
a sovereign who had the chair sessions and Moshe
authority to act above the Ron, special Israeli cor-
law." And this, says Dash, respondent -to The De-
is what produced Water- troit Jewish News, will
give a report as general
gate.
secretary of the federa-
tion.
Wisconsin Offers
Judaica Course
MADISON, Wis. -7-- The
University of Wis-
consin-Extension is offer-
ing a new course in its
Semitic studies program,
"Sefarad — The History
and Culture of Spanish
Jewry."
SAM ERVIN
In his account of his ex-
perience as chief counsel
of Sen. Ervin's Watergate
committee, Dash reveals
that Sen. Howard Baker,
the ranking Republican
member of the commit-
tee, was in contact with
the White House not only
to try to change the
strategy of the hearings
but to counteract tes-
timony ahead of time.
Dash tells of Sen.
Baker's early secret meet-
ing with Nixon for "gui-
dance" on how best to re-
strict the committee's ac-
tivities in order to protect
the White House, and the
strategies he used to
stymie the work of the
committee.
Jewish Journalists
Set Israel Parley
The UWEX offers more
than 16 correspondence
courses in its Hebrew de-
partment. For informa-
tion, write to the Advisor
to Students, Independent
Study, University of
Wisconsin-Extension, 432
N. Lake St., Madison,
Wis., 53706.
Notre Dame Gets
Judaica Funds
NOTRE DAME, Ind. —
A gift to the University of
Notre Dame has endowed
a collection in its library
for the furtherance of
Judaic studies within the
department of theology.
The Alfred R. and Lee
Abrams Collection in
Hebrew and Jewish
Studies has been estab-
lished in honor of a 1921
Notre Dame alumnus and
his wife who founded a di-
versified industrial firm
with headquarters now in
Atlanta, Ga.
Jewish Soldiers
NEW YORK (ZINS) —
"Batfutzot" (in the Dias-
pora), published by the
World Jewish Congress,
detailed the service of
Jews as soldiers in World
War II. The total number
of Jewish soldiers on all
fronts was 1,525,000, in-
cluding 550,000 served in
the Soviet army; 500,000
in the U.S. army; 200,000
in the Canadian forces
and in the armies of
South Africa, Australia,
and New Zealand.
There were 100,000
fighting with the French,
and 75,000 with the
British armies. Some
30,000 soldiers came from
Palestine under the ban-
ner of the Jewish
Brigade. There were
20,000 Jews in the Yugos-
lavian army and 50,000
who fought in the under-
ground and with the par-
tisans in various Euro-
pean countries. '
Arab Emigration
JERUSALEM (ZINS)
— About 19,000 Arabs
have departed from the
administered territories
in the past year to go to
Jordan and other Arab
countries, according to a
report issued by the
Labor Ministry.
Dutch State Research Claims
Jew Collaborated With Nazis
SAMUEL DASH
Dash also reveals his
crisis with special pro-
secutor Archibald Cox,
who wanted Dash to shut
down the public hearings
because they would dup-
licate and therefore dam-
age his own investiga-
tions — an incident Dash
saw as an "unparalleled
display of arrogance."
Writing about Ford's
pardon of Nixon, an ac-
tion, says Dash, which
Ford knew would receive
no protest from Leon
Jaworski, he says that
this "demonstrated more
than a failure to under-
AMSTERDAM — Re-
search by Holland's State
Institute for War
Documentation asserts
that Dr. Friedrich Wein-
reb, 66, a Jewish author
now living in Switzer-
land, betrayed Dutch
Jews to the Nazis during
World War II, according
to an article in the British
paper, the Jewish Chroni-
cle.
Lvov-born Weinreb,
who had lived in Holland
since the age of six, was
freed after serving three
and a half years of a six-
year sentence imposed by
a Dutch court in 1948 on
charges of collaborating
with the Nazi occupiers.
The State Institute's
report stated that Wein-
reb was responsible for
the arrest of 118 people,
70 of whom were killed.
The report also said that
he placed thousands of
Jews on "Weinreb lists,"
for which he was paid,
with the promise that this
would lead to their ex-
change and arrival in
neutral countries. In-
stead, the Jews on the
lists were deported to
Nazi concentration
camps.
Weinreb has main-
tained his claims of inno-
cence, saying that he had
in fact hoodwinked the
Nazis, thereby saving
hundreds of Jews. He
wrote his memoirs in 1969
in his defense. Weinreb
left Holland to live in
Zurich seven years ago.
He said that the report
was "all defamation.",
Miami Elderly
Get Free Meals
MIAMI (JTA) — The
seventh site in Miami of
the Jewish Vocational
Service nutritional pro-
ject for the elderly has
started operations, pro-
viding needy and isolated.,
elderly Jews with hot
kosher free meals five
days a week, plus sup-
porting social services.
The project will serve
1,317 meals daily and de-
livering 200 meals to
homebound elderly Jews,
officials of the Greater
Miami Jewish Federation
said.
The program includes
health information coun-
seling from a geriatric
nurse, shopping help and
recreation.
Arab Volunteers
TEL AVIV — Shmuel
Toledano, minority af-
fairs adviser to Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin,
says Arabs of the Maro-
nite and Greek Catholic
religions have begun vol-
unteering for the Israeli
army, apparently in re-
sponse to Israel's support
of the Maronite Christ-
ians in the Lebanese civil
war.
Philanthropist Philip Lown
Aided U.S., Israeli Schools
NEW YORK — Philan-
thropist and shoe man-
ufacturer Philip Lown
died Nov. 1 at age 85.
Born in Lithuania, Mr.
Lown was a major con-
tributor to schools in the
U.S. and Israel. In 1966,
contributions he made to
,Brandeis University en-
abled the university to
establish the Lown
School of Near Eastern
and Judaic. Studies and
the Lown Graduate
Center for Contemporary
Jewish Studies.
At Harvard University
Medical School, he estab-
lished the Anna K. Lown
Fund in memory of his
first wife. The fund sup-
ports research in heart
disease.
He established the
Philip W. Lown division
of education in 1972 at
Hebrew College in Brook-
line, Mass., where he was a
trustee, president and
chairman of the board.
In Jerusalem, he un-
derwrote three projects:
Katzir, Wilson
Get WJC Prize
NEW YORK — Israel
Pregident Ephraim Kat-
zir and former British
Prime Minister Harold
Wilson will be presented
with the Nahum
Goldmann Medal of the
World Jewish Congress at
its governing board meet-
ing in November.
The WJC is celebrating
its 40th anniversary.
Herzl Camp Assn.
Appoints Director
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The
Herzl Camp. Association
board of directors has
announced the appoint-
ment of Joshua Arnold as
executive director.
The appointment sig-
nals the start of Arnold's
second year with the or-
ganization which oper-
ates Herzl Camp in Webs-
ter, Wis.
Opinion Changing
TUNIS (ZINS) — Arabs
have changed their at-
titude towards the Pales-
tinian problem, reports
the Cairo weekly "Roz-
Al-Yusef," which claims
for its source a transcript
of a secret Syrian gov-
ernment meeting at
which Syrian president
Assad allegedly reported
that during his visits to
France and Yugoslavia,
their respective govern-
ment officials deprecated
the activities of the
Palestinian terrorist
groups.
Election Debate
JERUSALEM (ZINS)
— Premier Yitzhak Rabin
and Menachem Begin are
preparing to 'conduct a
The State Institute's televised discussion of
report of nearly 1,700 problems affecting the
pages encompassed six country. Begin proposed
years of inquiries, during the idea and Rabin ac-
which 600 witnesses were cepted it. The debate will
questioned in Holland, take place on the eve of
Israel, the United States the Knesset election
campaign.
and elsewhere.
the Lown Community
Health Center, the lib-
rary of the School of Edu-
cation at Hebrew Univer-
sity on whose board of
governors he served, and
a special Hadassah prog-
ram to aid immigrants
from North Africa.
He was active in the
Jewish Publication Soci-
ety and the American
Jewish Historical Society.
For two decades, Mr.
Lown was active in t 1
national leadership of t
Hillel Foundation aria
treasurer of the. Bnai
Brith Hillel commission.
His other activities in-
cluded assistance in the
establishment of the Un-
ited Jewish Appeal in New
England and State of Is-
rael Bonds in that region.
The University of
Maine awarded him an-
honorary doctor of laws
degree in 1954, and he re-
ceived Hebrew College's
first medallion for leader-
ship in 1971. He also was a
trustee at Brandeis.
Yiddish Singer Merna Barry
NEW YORK -- Merna
Barry Pine, who became
famous as one of the
Yiddish-singing Barry
Sisters, died Oct. 31 at age
51.
Mrs. Pine, and her sis-
ter, Claire, began their
singing careers at age 7
and 9, respectively, when
their mother sent in a box
top to a radio station and
won them an audition.
They made several re-
cordings in Yiddish and
appeared numerous
times on the old Ed Sulli-
van Show. They joined
him in 1960 for the na-
tion's first cultural ex-
change tour of the Soviet
Union.
which later became a hit
for the Andrews Sisters.
Their stage apprearances
included songs in foreign
languages.
Mrs. Pine and her sister
were the first American
entertainers asked to
perform for Israeli troops
after the outbreak of the
Yom Kippur War in 1973.
William B. Daskal
William B. Daskal, an
insurance agent with the
John Hancock Life In-
surance Co. for more than
25 years, died Oct. 30 at
age 68.
Born in Peoria, Ill., Mr._
Daskal had been retired
for the past two years. He
Known originally as the leaves his wife, Mary; two
Bagelman Sisters, they daughters, Mrs. David
changed their name to the (Lynne) Wettlaufer and
Barry Sisters in the early Mrs. Marvin '(Nanci)
1940s. They introduced Cooper; four brothers,
"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," Sam of Florida, Albert of
Cleveland, Dr. David and
Herman; three sisters,
Mrs. Joe (Jenny) Fein-
Zionism Study
berg of Florida, Mrs. John
Leuchtrnan of
Nearly Complete (Molly)
Florida and Mrs. Frances
WALTHAM, Mass. Rubin; and two grand-
(JTA) — A Brandeis Uni- sons.
versity scholar has re-
ported that a major new
history of American Eliyahu Dobkin,
Zionism is nearing com- Israeli Pioneer
pletion based on research
JERUSALEM (JTA`'
from a four-year project
shared by students at Eliyahu Dobkin, a I
Brandeis and Columbia time member of the Woria
University. The project, Zionist Organization and
supported mainly by the Jewish Agency Execu-
World Zionist Organiza- tives, died Oct. 26 at age
tion, is under the joint di- 78.
Dobkin was born in Po-
rection of Professor Ben-
jamin Halpern of the land and was one of the
Brandeis Near Eastern leading activists in the
and Judaic Studies De- chalutz and aliya move-
partment, and Prof. Ar- ment in that country.
He came to Palestine in
thur Hertzberg of Corn-
umbia's history depart- 1932 and served as head
of the WZO's youth and
ment.
Halpern said "nothing chalutz department and
on this scale has ever of the aliya department
been done before" and during the period of il-
that the history, to be is- legal immigration before
sued in two volumes, "will the establishment of Is-
contribute to a better un- rael's independence.
He also served for many
derstanding of the part
American Zionism took to years as chairman of the
help create the State of Keren Hayesod directo-
rate.
Israel."