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30 Friday, April 8, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Soviets to Import Hebrew-Russian Humashim
Riegle Dinner Will Establish
Israel Histadrut Scholarship
The proceeds of the Hista-
drut tribute dinner honoring
Sen. Donald W. Riegle Jr.
will be used to establish a
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NEW YORK—The Soviet
government has granted
scholarship fund at Hista- permission to an interfaith
drut's Vocational High organization to print and
ship 10,000 copies of the Hu-
School at Ramle, Israel.
The dinner will be held mash (Pentateuch) to Mos-
cow as a gift to the Soviet
May 5 at Cobo Hall.
The school is one of a net- Jewish community, accord-
work of 30 Amal schools ing to George Dugan in the
supported by Histadrut, New York Times.
Permission came after
training Jewish and Arab
youngsters, many of Orien- two years of negotiation be-
tween the New York-based
tal background.
The Ramle school, near Appeal of Conscience Foun-
Tel Aviv, has 500 students , dation and Viktor Titov,
taking courses in econom- deputy chairman, Council
Religious Affairs of the
ics, mechanics, business . for
Soviet Government.
management, secretarial
According to Rabbi Arthur
skills and laboratory work.
Schneier, president of the
For information about the foundation, no Hebrew reli-
dinner, call Histadrut, 851- gious books have been pub-
0606.
lished in Russia since 1914.
The 10,000 copies of the
Humash will be printed in
photo-offset in New York
and His ORCHESTRA and shipped by air to the
Moscow Synagogue for dis-
"Music and entertainment at
tribution to Kiev, Lenin-
its Best for Your Guests"
grad, Odessa, Riga and
other cities,
557-7986
Rabbi Schneier estimated
the cost of printing and ship-
ping to be about $40,000.
Copies will be made from
a volume published in Vilna
(now Vilnius) in 1914. The
rare book was found by
Rabbi Schneier and Francis
E. Dorn, secretary of the
foundation, in this country.
It was printed in Hebrew
with an accompanying Rus-
sian translation by Joshua
Steinberg, then director of
the faculty, of Jewish stud-
ies at the University of
Vilna, at that time a major
Jewish center.
The two officers of the
foundation took the book
with them on a trip to Rus-
sia and left it there for the
perusal of Soviet author-
ities.
In an interview last week,
FRANK PAUL
On
Entire
Inventory
,
Rabbi Schneier said that by
granting permission to ship
the Pentateuch to Moscow
for distribution to syna-
gogues in various parts of
Russia, "the Soviet Govern-
ment has shown a recogni-
tion of a basic requirement
for Jewish religious wor-
ship."
He expressed the hope
that the shipment would
reach Moscow and be dis-
tributed in time for Shaout,
May 23 and 24.
Rabbi Schneier said that
.
several years ago per- 2 while the foundation sup-
mission to pring the Torah ported the right of emigra-
in' the Soviet Union had tion, it worked primarily to-
failed to materialize be- ward freedom for all reli-
Cause of a lack of funds on gions in the Soviet Union.
Angier Biddle Duke is
the part of the Moscow
chairman of the founda-
Synagogue.
tion's board of trustees; the
Making the Humash avail-
Rev. Thurston N. Davis, a
able to Jews in the Soviet Jesuit priest, and the Rev.
Union conforms with the ob- David H. DC. Read, a Pres-
jectives of the Appeal of byterian minister, are vice
Conscience Foundation to presidents.
"strengthen religious life
Board members' include
for Jews and other denomi-` Roman Catholic, Protes-
nations," he said.
tant, Jewish and Eastern
The rabbi pointed out that
Orthodox leaders.
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Pesah Services Called 'Sop' by Soviet Jews
NEW YORK (JTA )— June 12, prior to the NCSJ with charges of treason a,
national leadership assem- espionage.
Some 500 Jews took part in
The Rev. Robert- Patter-
Passover services at the bly.
In Baltimore last week, son, of Baltimore's Church
Moscow Central Synagogue,
according to reports from Sen. Frank Church (D- of the Redeemer, presented
the Soviet capital. How- Idaho•) said that the Soviet a "Call to Religious Con-
Union must be held to the science" signed by leaders
ever, many of the city's mil-
Helsinki agreement which of various Christian denomi-
itant Jews refushed to at-
provides for the free move- nations here expressing
tend the officially sanc-
ment of people and the Christian support of the
tioned services which some
right of all people to emi- right of Soviet Jews to emi-
termed a sop by the govern-
grate. -
ment in an effort to deflect - grate,.
Speaking to more than
criticism by Jews in the So-
Members of the Detroit
800 delegates at the first Committee for Soviet
viet Union and abroad re-
Baltimore Conference on So- Jewry reported receiving a
garding the oppression of
viet Jewry, Church empha- letter from Moscow Jewish
Soviet Jews. -
sized the importance of the dissident Alexander Lerner.
A Soviet television crew
filmed the service which-- U.S. government striking a
Lerner thanked the group
balance between pragmat-
was attended mostly by old
for
a March letter that he
ism and principle in foreign
men. The television direc-
policy. He said that with received and write, "We
tor said the film was in-
the support of President are of course disturbed by
tended for , transmission
events, but we are
Carter, this country was recent
abroad but would not be
not
discouraged.
We do
once again embarking on a trust in your support,
shown on Soviet television.
in in-
policy based on the ideals ternational solidarity and
Meanwhile, Eugene Gold,
in
of
American
society.
chairman of the National
the predestination of the
The conference, which fate of Jewish people...
Conference on Soviet
Jewry, announced some of _ was called by the Balti-
"I hope the coming Pass-
more Jewish Council, heard
the plans for Solidarity
Avital (Natalia) Sharansky over will bring for us
Month (May 1 - Jurie 12).
make an appeal on behalf exodus as well as for our an-
New York will have a sol-
of her husband, Anatoly Sha- cestors and we will be able
idarity day May 1_and the
ransky, who was recently to join our people and our
"month" will close with a
arrested by the KGB in relatives in our Holy
national solidarity day. fo-
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Rabbi Gamze Earns Honorary Doctorate
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- Rabbi Noah M. Gamze,
spiritual leader of the Down-
town Synagogue, will re-
ceive the Doctor of Divinity
degree, honoris causa, at a
special academic con-
vocation of The Jewish The-
ological Seminary of Amer-
ica during the Rabbinical
Assembly Convention May
1 at Grossinger's.
A graduate of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, Rabbi
Gamze served at Temple
Sinai in Tacoma, Wash.,
the Loop Synagogue in Chi-
cago and has been spiritual
leader at the Detroit syna-
gogue for the past 14 years.
At the convocation, Rabbi
Gamze will be joined by
other Conservative rabbis
who will celebrate the 75th
anniversary of the arrival
in the' U.S. of Solomon
Schechter, second president
of the seminary and the
10th anniversary of the
reunification of Jerusalem.
The convocation also will
feature the presentation of
a cantata, "Jerusalem—
City of Vision and Prayer."
Rabbi Irwin Groner, spir-
itual leader of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek and conven-
tion chairman, announced
three panel discussions on
American Jewry's right of
dissent on Israeli policy,
the significance of revela-
tion in Jewish tradition an.
talmudic influence on cur-
rent Jewish ethical practice
will take place.
Deadline Nearing for Linden Award
The April 15 deadline for
the Jewish Community Cen-
ter's Samuel Linden Schol-
arship is nearly here, and
applicants are urged to file
their applications as soon
as possible.
The scholarship fund pro-
vides a study trip to Israel
for a student who has com-
pleted 111th grade or is in un-
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dergraduate school, and has
completed one year of the
Center Ulpan or its equiva-
lent.
Resumes of the appli-
cant's educational mial-
ifications, interests and ac-
tivities may be sent to Sam-
uel Linden Scholarship
Fund, Jewish Community
Center, 6600 W. Maple,
West 1319,4rrifviel0f6 ,48033:
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