54 Friday, November 26, 1976 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Rabbi Yosef
Imposes Ban
Physicist Named
NEW YORK — Prof.
Fred H. Pollak, an inter-
nationally renowned
physicist, has been ap-
pointed director of the
Maxwell R. Maybaum In-
stitute at Yeshiva Uni-
versity's Belfer Graduate
School of Science.
Prof. Pollak has been
long active in Jewish life.
He is past national
chairman of the Commit-
tee of Concerned Scien-
tists, an organization
working on behalf of
Soviet Jewish scientists
and engineers.
JERUSALEM (ZINS)
— The Sephardi Chief
Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef, has proc-
laimed that Cohanim are
forbidden to enter the
Cave of Machpelah, the
tomb of Rachel and other
such graves.
Rabbi Yosef based his
pronouncement on quo-
tations from Halakha.
which state that Cohanim
are not allowed to visit
cemeteries because
graves are ritually unc-
lean. Several months ago
Rabbi Yosef proclaimed
that Halakha forbids as Israeli Overdose
cent to the Temple
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — A
Mount.
study made by Histad-
rut's Kupat-Cholim medi-
cal researchers indicates
Retirees Focus that
among 11 developed
of UAHC Parley countries Israel occupies
first place in the volume
NEW YORK — The of medications consumed.
first National Conference Israel's annual consump-
on Gerontology bringing tion is 24 drugs per per-
together rabbis, physi- son; Austria, 13.3; Fr-
cians and academic spe- ance, 12; Italy, 11; Bel-
cialists has been or- gium, 7.1; West Germany,
ganized by the Union of 6.5; New Zealand, 6.4;
American Hebrew Con- Holland, 6.2; England,
gregations, Dec. 12-16 in 5.4; United States, 4.7;
Freeport, Grand Bahama Sweden, 3.9.
Island.
The meeting repre-
sents the first stage in Bellow to Deliver
training congregational
team" specialists enabl- Special Lecture
ing local synagogues to
NEW YORK — Saul
develop programs to meet Bellow, winner of the
the needs of their retired 1976 Nobel Prize in litera-
older members.
ture and the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction, has been
chosen to deliver the 1977
British Jew
Jefferson lecture of the
Sells to Arab
National Endowment for
LONDON (ZINS) — the Humanities.
The lecture, which car-
Jewish woman Deputy of
Parliament, Sally Op- ries a $10,000 stipend, will
penheim, has sold her be delivered in two parts
house to an Arab sheik for next March — one in
Washington, the other in
600,000 Pounds Sterling.
Reacting to the storm Chicago. Mr. Bellow's
raised by Jews as a result theme will be the "Ameri-
of the transaction, Op- can Writer and his Mate-
penheim said, "We had to rial."
sell the house because of
the great cost of upkeep.
We are not able to live Torczyner Gets
above our economic ZOA Appointment
means."
NEW YORK (ZINS) —
Jacques Torczyner, a past
Valero Is Named
president of the Zionist
Organization of America
to Technion Chair
and member of the
HAIFA — Prof. Aaron Executive Board of the
Valero, associate dean of World Zionist Organiza-
the Technion's school of tion has been appointed
medicine, has been chairman of the 80th Na-
named incumbent of the tional Convention Com-
Rebecca and Herman mittee of the Zionist Or-
Fineberg chair in geriat- ganization of America.
rics established at the
The convention will be
Technion — Israel Insti- held in Israel, July 6-13,
tute of Technology, by the 1977. The appointment
Pittsburgh Chapter of the was announced by Dr.
American Technion Soci- Joseph P. Sternstein,
ety.
ZOA president.
Born in Jerusalem,
Prof. Valero was edu-
cated in England and has Airlines Apply
served on the staffs of for Israel Charter
hospitals in England and
WASHINGTON — A
Israel.
total of 11 airlines have
applied to operate char-
PLO to Negotiate?
ters to the Israeli resort
NEW YORK (ZINS) — complex at Eilat, accord-
Yasir Arafat declared at ing to a recent article in
a meeting with his ad-
Aviation Week and Space
visors that his organiza-
Technology magazine.
tion must adjust to the
Israel has moved to
new conditions that have
relax foreign policy re-
been created by its de-
strictions which were
feats in Lebanon, and
originally aimed at pro-
that he must prepare to
tecting El Al.
Most of the applications
negotiate with Israel
about the establishment
have come from Scan-
of a Palestinian state. dinavia and West Ger-
The Baltimore Sun pub- many, where Israel tours
lished the story.
have long been popular.
HIAS Unit Head
Named NY Judge
NEW YORK — Mrs.
Betty Weinberg Ellerin,
president of the HIAS
Women's Division, has
been elected a judge of
the Civil Court of New
York County. Mrs. Elle-
rin also is a vice president
and member of the board
of directors of HIAS.
Mrs. Ellerin is a former
president of the New
York Women's Bar As-
sociation and is still a di-
rector. A graduate of New
York University Law
School, she is also a
member of the League of
Women Voters.
Mrs. Ellerin has toured
and spoken extensively
on behalf of HIAS.
Peirez Memorial
Dedicated in Israel
Record Tourism,
But Hotels Slump
Brezhnev Cancels
Visit to London
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
LONDON (ZINS) —
More than 800,000 The local press an-
tourists will visit Israel nounced that the Soviet
by the end of 1976, a re- leader, Leonid Breshnev,
cord number for one year. will cancel his visit to
But, according to London which was to
Ha'aretz, the owners of have taken place at the
the largest hotels say beginning of next year.
that four years ago, about
Brezhnev's decision re-
727,000 tourists came and sulted from the demonst-
were accommodated in rations
against Boris
16,000 rooms.
Ponamereiev, the direc-
In 1975 there were tor
of the Political De7
25,000 hotel rooms but partment
of the Soviet
only 620,000 tourists. Communist
who
Today there are 27,00.0 was on a visit Party,
to
London.
hotel rooms, but many
tourists stay at kibutzim Czech . :emetery
or with relatives.
•
Facing Bulldozers
LONDON — Part of the
cemetery of Komarno,
one of the largest Slovak
Jewish communities, will
be razed as part of a town
plannirig program, ac-
cording to the Interna-
tional Council of Jews
from Czechoslovakia.
It is the sixth Jewish
cemetery in Czechos-
lovakia to be partially or
totally removed for a pub-
lic building project this
year.
Kibutz Lavi
Has U.S. Office
NEW YORK — Kibutz
Lavi, a religious settle-
ment founded by Jews
from English-speaking
countries, has for the past
16 years specialized in the
production of synagogue
furniture.
The kibutz has estab-
lished a representative
office in the U.S. For in-
formation or catalogues,
write Solwood Inc., 415
Madison Ave., New York,
N.Y. 10017.
JERUSALEM — The
"Lawrence Peirez Memo-
rial Grove" — some 1,000
trees planted on A hillside
overlooking Jerusalem —
was dedicated in
Jerusalem by the Anti-
Defamation League of
Bnai Brith in memory of
the ADL leader.
Mr. Peirez, who died
Oct. 15 at age 61, was
chairman of ADL's na-
tional civil rights com-
mittee, a member of the JDC to Hold
ADL's national commis- Annual Meeting
sion, and international
vice president of Bnai
NEW YORK — The
Brith.
62nd annual meeting of
The grove honoring Mr. the Joint Distribution
Peirez is in an area of the Committee will be held on
Jerusalem Forest desig- _Dec. 8 at the New York
nated as the Bicentennial Hilton it was announced
Year Region and com- by Jack D. Weiler, JDC
memorating 200 years of chairman.
American democracy.
More than 400 Jewish
community leaders from
the United . States and
Habonim Aliya
Canada who are expected
to attend will also act on a
Group is Formed
proposed budget for 1977
NEW YORK — A total and elect officers for the
of 65 college-age Ameri- coming year,
can youths, members of
Habonim, Labor Zionist
Peres to Address
youth, have formed a new
1977 UJA Dinner
aliya group called
Mizgeret Aliya.
NEW YORK — The
Most of the members
opening of the fastest-
who joined Mizgeret paced campaign in
Aliya participated in last
American Jewish fun-
year's Habonim_ Youth
draising history will
Workshop in Israel, a
climax on Dec. 9, when Is-
program founded in 195.1
raeli Defense Minister
in which American
Shimon Peres addresses
youths work and study
the 1977 UJA Leadership
for a year on a kibbutz in
Dinner, General Chair-
Israel.
man Frank R. Lauten-
The new aliya unit will
berg announced.
be - settling in Israel dur-
Latenberg said the
ing 1980-81. Some mem- dinner would mark the
bers will settle in kibbutz culmination of a national,
Gezer and others in Kib- advanced-gifts campaign
butz Grofit, cooperative phase that began' before
agriculture settlements the Entebbe raid last
of Habonim.
summer and reached a
high point in October dur-
ing "This Year in
Soviet Emigrants
Jerusalem," the 3,000
Seek Jewish Link
strong UJA national con-
VIENNA (ZINS) — ference held in Israel.
Soviet emigrants say
Russians try very hard to
buy into or discover a lin- Arab Majority
kage to Jewish family
NEW YORK (ZINS) —
lineage. Identities as In the absence of a mass
"Jews," they hope, would migration to Israel, the
give them a better chance Arabs will exceed the
to leave the Soviet Union. number of Jews within
Some young Russians, the old borders a hundred
propelled by the drive to years from now. If Israel
emigrate, marry Jewish should remain in the ad-
girls.
ministered territories,
Meanwhile,
some the Arabs will exceed the
Soviet Jews in Vienna are number of Jews within 65
seeking "Aryan papers" years according to a
to secure a permit to set- study published by the
tle in West Germany.
U.S. Library of Congress.
'
Eleanor Schwartz
Elected tb,NFTS
NEW YORK — Eleanor
Schwartz has been
named as the new execu-
tive director of the Na-
tional Federation of
Temple Sisterhoods, the
women's agency of Re-
form Judaism, represent-
ing more than 100,000
women in over 630 Sis-
terhoods throughout the
United -States, Canada
and 13 other countries.
NCSJ Appoints
Wallach to Capitol
NEW YORK — The Na-
tional Conference on
Soviet Jewry has ap-
pointed Marina Wallach
as its new Washington
representative.
A graduate of Bryn
Mawr University Wal-
lach replaces Jon Roten-
berg who will resume his
studies at Harvard Uni-
versity.
DOM
Trade With Arabs
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
Leading Israeli
economists claim that a
large number of Jews in
the United States trade
with Arab countries, con-
tinuing to support Israel
while transfering knowl-
edge and development to
Arab lands.
Some of these Jews are
sure that their trade with
Arab lands will ulti-
mately lessen the Arab's
hatred of Israel.
Czech Relatioi
With PLO Seen
LONDON — The Inter-
national Council of Jews
from Czechoslovakia
(ICJC) says the Palestine
Liberation Organization
may be given diplomatic
recognition by the Czech
government.
The ICJC says the
Czechs signed a protocol
in September allowing a
PLO mission in Czechos-
lovakia and that 'a PLO
office has been operating
in Prague for more than
two years.
Propaganda War
TUNISIA (ZINS) — In
an interview with the
Jordanian newspaper,
El-Rae, Egyptian profes-
sor, Ebed Muhammed ex-
pressed concern over the
Arab programs transmit-
ted by Israel Radio. He
designated them as a
"dangerous propaganda
instrument in the hands
of the Zionists who spread
defeatism in the Arab
lands."
North Sea Oil
BRUSSELS (ZINS) —
British Minister of
Energy Wedgewood Ben
emphasized that by the
end of 1977, England
would pump about half a
million barrels of oil a day
from the North Sea oil
wells. This will improve
the energy situation of
Western Europe, but not
reduce its dependence on
oil from the Mediterra-
nean oil wells, the minis-
ter said.
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