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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Emanuel Perrin, Aided Efforts of Jewish Welfare Federation

Emanuel Anatol Perrin
(Paperno), a former De-
troiter who was active on
Jewish Welfare. Federa-
tion committees and
among the early planners
for Sinai Hospital of De-
troit, died Feb. 11 at age
88.
Born in Y-usovka, Uk-
raine, Mr. Perrin was a
resident of Takoma Park,

Sheldon M. Klein

. Sheldon M. Klein, a
pharmacist and owner of
Shelly Drugs in Detroit
for the past 26 years, died
Feb. 12 at age 51.
A native Detroiter, Mr.
Klein was a member of
Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
Michigan Pharmacy As-
sociation and the Aes-
culapian Pharmaceutical
Society.
He leaves his wife,
Edythe; two sons,
Michael and Howard; a
daughter, Marsha; his
mother, Mrs. David (Ann)
Garber; and a sister, Mrs.
Reta Stern. •

Md., at the time of his
death. While in Detroit in
the 1920s, he was the
Midwest organizer for
the Poale Zion and was
principal of the Yiddishe
Folks Shul. He was in-
volved in the protest
movements against the
Kishinev pogroms and
helped organize a Detroit
protest march.

Mr. Perrin was a civil Washington from 1947 to
engineer in Detroit from 1962.
1918 to 1926. He earned a
In Europe he was ac-
law degree and practiced tive in the Joint Distribu-
law until 1930 when he tion Committee.- In Mary-
became legal adviser to land he was director of
the Wayne County trea- the adult education prog-
surer and- then chief de- ram of -a conservative
puty Wayne County trea- congregation in Mt.
surer, a post he held until Rainer, Md.
• He is survived by two
1944.
He worked for the De- sons, Dr. Eugene of De-
troit Ordnance District for troit and David of Fair-
the U.S. War Department fax, Va.;. and five grand-
Rose Sherer, 52
for three years. He worked children. Interment De-
Rose Sherer, founder_ in a family business in troit.
and president for the last
12 years of the Detroit,
Socialites singles organi-
zation, died Feb. 16 at age
52.
Born . in Russia _ , Mrs.
Tribute was paid this active for many years in
Sherer liVed 46 years in
Detroit. She also was the week to the memory of the Christian Zionist
vice president of the Clara Van Auken, a lead- movement that
Business and Profes- ing Detroit Christian functioned under the
sional Chapter of Bnai Zionist who died Sunday name of the American
Brith. She resided at morning. Christian Zionist Com-
In his eulogy Tuesday, mittee.
18539 Edinborough.
Mrs. Sherer is survived_ at the final rites for the
Detroit Zionists who
by her husband, Ab- deceased, the Rev. Allan
raham Jack; and a sister, A. Zaun of the Jefferson worked with Mrs. Van
Mrs. Samuel (Tillie) Avenue Presbyterian Auken in the movement
Church described Mrs. for the re-establishment
Burnstein.
Van Auken as a believer of Israel expressed
in Prophecy, as one who, gratitude for her labors
with her late husband, for the movement in spe-
Howell Van Auken, was cial tributes to her.

Zionists Honor the Memory
of Friend, Clara Van Auken

New Zio'nist Monthly Issued

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
A "think" periodic-al is
not likely to garner mass
circulation, but it cer-
tainly engenders con-
troversy. That is why
editing the Zionist quar-
terly "Forum" is no easy
task, according to editor
Zvi Yaron, who immig-
rated to Israel from Bri-
tain in 1950. But Yaron, a
member of Kibbutz Lavi
in lower Galilee. goes at it

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work.
The only publication of
its kind, the' "Guide" con-
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Outrage at the recent
ethnic slur directed at
Ralph Nader by Federal
Trade Commissioner
Paul R. Dixon was ex-
pressed by . Jewish Com-
munity Council president
John H. Shepherd and
Community Relations
- Committee chairman
Mrs. Matilda Rubin in a
letter to President Jimmy
Carter.
A copy of the letter was
sent to Calvin J. Collier,
chairman of the Federal
Trade Commission.

with gusto and is per-
forming an -important
service in the- realm of
ideas. -
"Forum" deals, by de-
finition, with "the Jewish
people, Zionism and Is-
rael," a very broad area
that allows a wide spec-
trum of viewpoints. The
magazine is a continua-
tion of "Dispersion and
Unity," a periodiCal that
appeared for many years,
though not on a regular
basis
"Forum" will _appear
regularly. Its first two edi-
tions were out On schedule
and the third, the winter
edition, will be ready
shortly, if the budget and
the printing plant allow.
Yaron is the author of a
book on the philosophy of
the lateRabbi Kook, pub-
lished last year by the
World Zionist Organiza-
tion's Torah, Education
Department. He also
wrote the study of relig-
ion in Israel that ap-
peared in the 1976 Ameri-
can Jewish Yearbook.

Rabbi Proposes
Law Revision

NEW YORK (JTA) — A

proposal by:a New York
Conservative rabbi that
children of mixed mar-
riages whose mothers are
not Jewish be accepted as
Jews is now before the
steering committee of the
Committee on Jewish'
Law and Standards of the
Rabbinical Assembly, the
association of Conserva-
tive rabbis, according to
Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, RA
executive vice president.
The proposal was made
by the late Rabbi Sol-
omon D. Goldfarb, an
American who settled in
Israel on retirement' as
rabbi of Temple Israel -in
Long Beach, and who
died in Jerusalem in Feb-
ruary, 1976. Rabbi
Goldfarb made the prop-
osal in an article in "Con-
servative Judaism."

Hebrew U. Uses Math in Medicine

JERUSALEM —A new
application of mathemat-
ics now being develciped
at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem will soon

Haifa Theater
Will Tour U.S.

TEL AVIV (JTA)— The
Haifa Municipal Theater
will bring to the Ameri-
can and Canadian Jewish
and non-Jewish public a
four-part program in En-
glish, "Voices from Is-
rael," reflecting the
moods of modern Israel.
The theater will con-
duct a six-week tour of 4-3
U.S. cities and university
campuses beginning Feb.
27 in the YMHA in Clif-
ton, N.J.
Community. centers to
be visited by the theater
include New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut,
MasSachusetts, Ohio,
Michigan, (in March); Il-,
linois; Wisconsin, Iowa,
Oklahoma, Texas., Ten-
nessee, Alabama,
Florida, South and North
Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Ottawa and Toronto.
The tour of the Haifa
Theater in the U.S. is
sponsored by the Ameri-
can Zionist Youth Foun-
dation and the World
Zionist Organization. .

Tel Aviv Gives
Land to Hospital

NEW YORK — Mrs.
Rosi Michael, president of
Women's Social Service
for Israel, the American
arm -of Sheruth Nashim
Soziale in support of Is-
rael's aged, announced
that Tel Aviv has pre-
sented the Lichtenstaed-
ter Hospital, a WSSI in-
stallation-, with enough
land to expand its
facilities by 50 beds.
The new building will
house its: administrative
facilities, its laboratory
and a central kitchen to
serve the hospital and the
various feeding plans
that are part of the
Sheruth Nashim Soziale
program.
The Women's Social
Service for Israel is the
sole support arm of
Sheruth Nashim Soziale
in the United States. Its
concern is housing, clo-
thing, -feeding and caring
for the illnesses of Is-
rael's elderly citizens.

Canadian Jews
Approve Budget

NEW YORK = A
budget of $2.3 million has
been approved by the Na-
tional Budgeting Confer-
ence of Canadian Jewry
(NBC) for immigrant re-
lief services for 1977, pro-
vided by the Jewish Im-
migrant Aid Society and
the United Jewish Relief
Agencies, at the NBC
Annual Plenary meetings
in Toronto last week. In
1976, $2.4 million was al-
located for the same ser-
vices.
In addition, a $1.3 mill-
ion budget received NBC
approval for the cultural,
educational and inter-
group programs of the
Canadian Jewish Con-
gress in 1977, compared
with last year's figure of
$1.2 million. -

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enable heart surgeons
employing a procedure
known as the saphenous .-
Vein bypass to signific-
antly improve their diag-
nostic skills and surgical
methods. -
Under the direction of
Professor Samuel Mos-
kowitz, head of the
Applied Mathematics Di=
vision of the Graduate
School of Applied Science
and Technology, a team of
mathematicians has de-
veloped a mathematical
model which simulates
conditions found in the
hearts of patients requir-
ing this specific type of
surgery.
he
The purpose
mathematical mo , a
series of equations which
simulates this specific
medical situation, is to
recommend to surgeons-
certain guidelines which
would significantly de-
crease the possibility of
subsequent embolism
(clotting) in the affected
coronary arteries, a seri-
ous problem in surgery of
this kind.

Holiday Goodies
for Soviet Jews

NEW YORK — The Al
Tidom Association is dis-
tributing copies of the_
Megillat Esther complete
with a translation into
Russian and a guide to
the laws and customs of
Purim in Russian to make
the coming festival of
Purim more meaningful
for'. newly-arrived Rus-
sian Jews.
The Al Tidom Associa-
tion is making the megil-
lot available free of
charge to organizations
and synagogues and to
individual Russian Jews
in the New York area and
throughout the United
States and Canada.
The association also
has begun its "Operation
Passover," an annual
program of sending pac-
kages of Pesah provisions
.to Jews in the Soviet
Union and other Eastern-
_European countries.
As in past years, special
packages are being sent
to imprisoned Jews and
their families and to the
refuSeniks.

'Holocaust Was
Christian Tragedy'

SPOKANE, Wash.
(JTA) — ,The wartime
murder of six million _
Jews by the Nazis is "the
greatest tragedy" to be-
fall Christians "since the
_Crucifixion" a Mideast--
scholar has asserted in
arguing that iild
" as
Christians need
. e-
g of
mand that the me
what we did, of our perse-
cution, must remain
vivid" among Christians.
Dr. Harry Caragas, pro- .
fessor of English at Webs-
ter Groves College, also
urged greater study by
Christians as to how the
Holocaust could have oc-
curred in a "nominally
Christian Europe." His
observations appeared in_
the current issue of
"Communio," an interna-'-
tional Catholic review
published at Conzaga
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