'1111111111.11111111 OD • 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 _,- jottoto gluttons= = A fresh idea for your party = Pins, keychains and mirrors = , el( GARY KARP - 353-9617 REPAIR In Our Store "Your Something Special Shoppe" • Oak Park Center 9 Mile & Coolidge 545-1399 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. *** 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- •cused in Washington on _ Moscow and threatened Land.- KrItmens I. 1. Bs Haquil COTB0p11:11 BOIS I voter! •■ 7 7,- , csri5x tri; rrpriz K ne6ot R some. 2. Ho aemax 6wia r‘Vril 3 i t nyvra x necTpofifia, H Tbbia 6e3- Ir,r11 cirm . A : • t • A11010, a Arc% Boatiii4 Haws Baits BoAolo. Designer Bags Included B bl T I E I. 1 v: that Inv ba 3. 2676 COOLIDGE, BERKLEY - •JT T : , H caa3a.ls Bors: Aa 6y,iters atm, CTaJIS CBITS 5 . 4. H yBxxt.rh Bor& .118 'ITO OAS xopoms, H oTAtims A CBITS, 10-4:30 Mon.-Sat. i‘l ir Bet.1111/ 12 Mile Rd. . .398-351 • r-*ri CNrii7$ I.P4/1 3 ecNT-T • T /.• : ' tfl* 1 nir71.:1 nimn-n$ citric* • • M. • The opening paragraph from the book of, Bereshit (Genesis) is shown, with the accompanying Russian translation. Rabbi Gamze Earns Honorary Doctorate UP TO A BIG *Mt OFF ON SELECTED SOFAS CHAIRS LOVESEATS FROM FLAIR Sh last 2 days sale ends april 9 r • •- • • • - 6.) . finopirni0, 0 — od los TEL-TA El.% E SI %El. 331-90M) • a f PROFESSIONAL INTERIOR DESIGNERS * " — 45 yi - 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- #' ♦ 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: - • • • • -••