THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 28 Friday, May 6, 1977 UJA Walk-a-Thon Raises $2,500 SACRAMENTO. Calif.. (JTA)—Some 200 persons helped raise an estimated $2,500 for the United Jewish BACKGAMMON NITES .* WEEKENDS SOCIAL PLAYING 355-4948 851-1114 Appeal in a walk-a-thon sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Sacraments. The walk-a-thon was part of the national UJA Walk-a- thon which is being held across the country in most places on May 15. The De- troit Jewish Community Center will also sponsor a walk-a-thon. NEW CADILLAC? BUY OR LEASE FROM ANDY BLAU in BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC RES. 642-6836 CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM Al' s Foreign Car Service SPECIALIST IN VOLKSWAGEN AND PORSCHE CARS- CALL 548-3926 548-4160 541-9704 1018 W. 9 Mile Rd. Alfons G. Rehme FERNDALE MICH. Between Livernois 8 Pinehurst Historical Quarterly Explores German-U.S. Press and Nazism WALTHAM, Mass. — The Midwest German-American press from 1919 to 1933 re- flected many of the Nazi principles of anti-Semitism, racism and fear of foreign- ers thereby causing the gen- erally favorable attitudes of German-Americans toward Jews in the United States to change in the 1930's. Writing in the Spring issue of the American Jew- ish Historical Quarterly, Prof. David G. Singer, who has taught at Loyola Univer- sity and Spertus College. found that even before Hit- ler came into power, the midwestern German-Ameri- can press had expressed mtxed feelings towards Jews in Germany. Although approving of their contribution to Ger- man culture and science, the press begrudged the Jews' success and wealth regarding them as an alien element living in Germany precipitating anti-Semitism by their own social drive. 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If you have reached your 60th birthday - please call Mrs. Neville at 353-2810 to obtain information or arrange an interview. alism and became the ve- hicles for virulent attacks, especially on East Eu- ropean Jews. The Quarterly, published by the American Jewish Historical Society located on the campus of Brandeis University, includes articles by two other academicians. Doris Groshen Daniels, as- sociate professor of history and political science at Nas- sau Community College in an article entitled "Colonial Jewry Religious, Domestic and Social Relations;" notes that the single most important factor motivating and affecting Colonial New York Jewry was the Shear- ith Israel Congregation. Daniels concludes that such control was possible because the synagogue held a firm grip on such vital functions as birth, death, marriage. charity and diet- ary laws. However, en- croachments made by the Enlightenme it and liberal political thclight served to undermine the importance of the congregation. Once other synagogues, social and chiritable organiza- tions and institutions were founded. the exclusive con- trol and influence Shearith Israel wielded was forever lost. . "Mordecai Kaplan: Chal- lenges and Conflicts in the Twenties," is the subject of the final article by Melvin Scult, associate professor in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn Col- Israel Listed as a Leading Arms Producer, Exporter LONDON (JTA)—Among developing countries, only the People's Republic of China and India are ahead of Israel in the field of de- fense production. A table in the "Strategic Survey 1976" published by the Inter- national Institute for Strate- gic Studies puts Israel third in a list of 31 developing "countries which produce at least some of their own mili- tary equipment. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are also list- ed. According to the table. the Israeli defense in- dustries produce aircraft, missiles, armored fighting vehicles, warships, small arms, electronics and air- craft engines. Besides China and India, only South Africa and Brazil joined Is- rael in this categogy. Israel and China are also singled out as important arms suppliers to other Third World- states. In 1977, Israel's arms exports are expected to be worth $500 million, or double last year's estimated figure, ac- cording to the survey. Israel's indigenous capa- bilities, however, are not considered adequate in num- ber or skills to fulfill her de- fense requirements. The sur- vey comments that Israel's arms export trade has be- come an important means for expanding her own arms purchases. Moreover. "the depend- ence normally associated with arms transfers does not disappear with the es- tablishment of domestic de- fense industries." Egypt comes ninth in the table, with plans to -produce aircraft and missiles for the Arab military industries organization, launched two years ago with $1 billion by four Arab states. At pre- sent, Egypt and Saudi Arabia only produce small arms. Looking at the Middle East military balance, the survey writes that Israel's position was improved steadily by arms deliveries from the United States worth approximately $2.2 billion. These supplies "undoubt- edly put Israel in a strong- er position militarily than in October. - 1973, despite chronic manpower prob- lems. But it was at the cost of considerable financial strain." Canadians Support Famed Anti-Semite MONTREAL (SEA )—The opposition Progress Con- servative Party has defend- ed- the nomination of a no- torious anti-Semite, Roger Delorme, to be its candi- date for election in the Ter- rebonne district of Quebec province. The nomination Stirred angry protests from both Jews and non-Jews in Quebec and across Canada. Joe Clatt, president of the Progressive Conserva- tive Party, disavowed "any form of anti-Semitism" and claimed that Delorme agreed to abide 103,' the party's policy in that re- spect. Beyond that, he re- fused to interfere with the candidate. He said he "specifically discussed" party policy with regard to Israel and anti-Semitism with De- lorme and "Mr. Delorme as- sured me that he was pre- pared to support our party policy in these areas. It is not my view that a party leader should interfere in the riding (district) level process beyond a level of as- suring, that candidates seek- ing such nominations under- stand the basic policies of our party." Delorme, a. former radio and television com- mentator, has been leading a media campaign in re- cent years against Israel and Jews by equating Zion- ism with Nazism. Accord- ing to Delorme, the stcry of Anne Frank was a figment of Jewish imagination and the death of six million Jews in that Holocaust an "absurd exaggeration." Grant Implemented WASHINGTON (JTA )-- The Agency for Inter- national Development (AID) signed a contract im- plementing a grant of $750.000 for Hadassah's med- ical work in. Israel. lege. Scult maintains that for Kaplan and American Judaism the period of the 1920s were most seminal in Kaplan's formation of his rationale and concepts for the Reconstructionist Move- ment. Kaplan provided a new way of thinking which he characterized as .realistic rather than ideological, pragmatic rather than tradi- tion-oriented. He strongly asserted that religious ideas prove their validity by serving as means of _so- cial control and betterment and thus forcefully injected Ns) a new element into Ameri- can Jewish religious thought and life, according to Scult. New West Bank Unrest Reported JERUSALEM (JTA)— Serious disturbances were reported in several West Bank towns Wednesday fol- lowing clashes in which an Arab teenager and an Arab woman were shot to death by Israeli soldiers and six Israelis, including five sol- diers, were injured by en- raged mobs. Scores of arrests were made in Jenin Wednesday morning after military forces battled crowds in the streets. A curfew was im- posed on the old section in Nablus and riot police used tear gas and clubs to dis- burse student demonstra- tors in Ramallah. Israeli sources said that the soldiers involved had been in real and immediate danger. The latest eruption of vio- lence on the West Bank has been attributed to advertise- ments placed in Israeli newspapers by the Gush Emunim announcing that they intended to plant more Jewish settlements in the Arab-populated Samaria dis- trict. The mayor of Kaba- tiyeh has cabled the United Nations and other inter- national bodies protesting Israeli actions there. The military governor sum- moned the mayor to his of- fice and urged him to cool the atmosphere in his vil- lage. Himmler Adviser Won't Be Tried VIENNA (JTA)—Horst Bender, the legal adviser of Heinrich Himmler, who was the leader of the Nazi SS, will not face trial in West Germany although he advocated the thesis that the killing of Jews for politi- cal reasons was not a – crime. Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Jewish Documenta- tion Center in Vienna, said he was informed by West German authorities they cancelled investigation measures against Bender, who is currently a prac- ticing lawyer in Stuttgart, West Germany. German justice author- ities said evidence was not sufficient to continue legal proceedings.'