vAmilmoomprrwripponwor- — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Rabbi Harold Gordon Dies, Board of Rabbis Executive NEW YORK—Rabbi Har- old H. Gordon, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis; died May 21 at age 69. Rabbi Gordon, who came to the Board of Rabbis in 1946 as general secretary and as the coordinator of chaplaincy, became the ex- , ecutive vice president in 1960. In April 1976 he was hon- ored on the occasion of his 30th anniversary of his exec- utive role with the organiza- tion. e attended the Hebrew logical College in Chi- and received his bach- elor's degree from the Uni- versity of Minnesota in 1929. Continuing his studies in Jerusalem, he was or- dained in 1934. He led a con- gregation in Waterloo, Iowa, from 1935 to 1942. During World War II he be- came a United Services Or- ganization director and then a chaplain at various military installations in Maryland. From 1943 to 1946 he was an Army Air Force chap- lain, rising to the rank of major and logging 250,000 miles in the air on regular visits to outlying bases of the North Atlantic Division of the Air Transport Com- mand from Iceland to the Azores. In his years with the board of rabbis he also trav- eled widely, organizing a de- legation that visited the So- viet Union and other East European countries in 1956. He returned to the Soviet Union twice in later years and also visited Jewish com- munities in many parts of South America on behalf of the board. Rabbi Gordon also trav- eled widely in the United States lecturing on the con- dition of Jews in the Soviet Union. He was a co-founder of the International Synagogue at Kennedy International Airport hee. Although not given to con- troversy, he made news in 1972 when he left the dais of a luncheon meeting of the Jewish Teachers Associ- ation during the speech of Rabbi Meir Kahane, head of the militant Jewish De- fense League. IV; - Israeli Diplomat Aviad Yaffa, 54 TEL AVIV -Aviad Yaffa, director general of the World Zionist Organiza- tion and its executive arm, the Jewish Agency for Is- rael, died May 19 at age 54, three months after assum- ing the two posts. Mr. Yaffa was Israeli con- . sul in New York between 1958 and 1962 in charge of Israeli information services in the U.S. He served under Prime Ministers Levi Esh- kol and Golda Meir. . Yaffa was chairman e Israeli Chess Feder- ation and organized the Chess Olympics held in Haifa last year. An accomplished fund- raiser with world-wide con- nections, Mr. Yaffa next went to work for Pinhas Sapir as manager of the "Sapir Fund" which is re- sponsible for many educa- tional and welfare projects in Israel. In 1972, he en- tered the Knesset and quick- ly gained respect and popu- larity there, becoming, under the Rabin govern- ment, faction whip of the Labor Aligment. RABBI HAROLD GORDON In 1968 he helped found the Brit Mila School for training practitioners of rit- ual circumcision in coopera- tion with Mount Sinai.Hospi- tal. He had served with many local and national interfaith organizations and received many honors, including hon- orary doctorates of Hebrew literature and of divinity from' the Jewish Theologi- cal Seminary of America. Meyer D. Stern Meyer 13. Stern, retired shoe executive, died May 25 at age 93. Born in Russia, Mr. Stern lived 72 years in Detroit. He owned Stern Shoes in Wyandotte from 1916 until 1951. He was a member of Bnai Brith, president and co-founder of Cong. Beth El in Wyandotte, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Adat Shalom Synagogue and Cong. Beth Israel of Ann Arbor. He resided at 3700 Miller Rd., Ann Arbor. He leaves a son, • Dr. Aaron of Arm, Arbor; a daughter, Mrs. Morton ( Dor- othy) Hochman; six grand- children and Six great- grandchildren. American ZOA Students in Israel . One of the school buildings on the ZOA's Kfar Silver campus near Ashkelon is shown above. More than 400 stu- dents are in classes at three high schools for Israelis and the Mollie Goodman, Academic High School for American students. Goodman students share dormitory space with Is- raeli students, and side by side with the Israeli stu- dents, join in the farm work which is a part of the campus life at Kfar Silver. The good-neighbor project is one of the new ideas brought to the campus by its young director, Eitan Paldi. It is an all-volunteer effort and is run by the stu- dents themselves. Early in Zionists 'Begin Petition Drive for U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem NEW YORK—A nation- wide petition campaign to . enlist support for the move of the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the capital of Is- rael, is being undertaken under the sponsorship of the Zionist Organization of America. According to Judge Al- fred H. Kleiman, chairman of the National Public Af- fairs Committee of the ZOA, the 10th anniversary of the unification of Jerusa- lem, "is a highly appropri- ate day for this campaign. It is particularly appropri- ate that this be organized by the 1204000 member ZOA, now celebrating its 80th anniversary." A petition being circu- - lated throughout the ZOA is addressed to President Jimmy Carter. It refers to the platform of the Demo- cratic Party, adopted in New York City on July 15, 1976, which reads in part: "We recognize and sup- port the established status of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, with free access Appeal Is Made for Victim's Family Lillian Landis, 82 NEW YORK—An appeal has been made for assist- ance for the family of an eight :year-old who was killed while resisting a child molester in New York. Nathan Scharf i was thrown from the root of an apartment building when he resisted the molester, a guard at the building. The parents of the victim, Rabbi and Mrs. Scharf, 731 Montauk Ct., Brooklyn, must pay $2,000 funeral ex- penses. Both are concentra- tion camp survivors and there are five children in the family. Rabbi Scharf earns $75 per week from a Brooklyn synagogue. J oin in Communal Work ASHKELON—A group of American and Israeli high school students at the Zion- ist Organization of America Kfar Silver Campus in Is- rael have joined in a good- neighbor project that serves to raise their own standards of social con- sciousness while helping the people of Ashkelon. The Americans are stu- dents at the Mollie Good- ma n Academic High School. Established in 1967 by the ZOA, it accepts stu- dents in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades and follows an American curriculum. It is not the American orienta- tion of the school, however; which makes the Mollie Goodman School such a unique learning experience. That is achieved by the fact that the Mollie Good- man Academic High' School shares its 520-acre Kfar Sil- ver campus with the Kfar Silver Agricultural High School and the Sylvia and Alexander Hassan Techni- cal High School, both of which are attended by Is- raeli students. The Mollie Lillian Landis, who with her late husband Albert owned and operated the Omena Inn near Traverse City from 1945 to 1959, died May 23 at age 82. Born in Russia, Mrs. Landis was an active mem- ber of Pioneer Women who honored her "for dedicated service" when she resided in Florida. She also was a member of the Sholem Alei- chem Institute for more than 50 years. She leaves a son, Harold; a daughter, Mrs. Robert L. (Shirley) Cohen; a sister, Mrs. Zalman (Balya) Fin- kelstein of Israel; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. , to all its holy places provid- ed to all • faiths. As a sym- bol of this stand, the U.S. Embassy should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusa- lem." The ZOA has invited the support of all interested Americans in its petition campaign. Other Jewish or- ganizations and Jewish youth groups are expected to join in the effort. The petitions will be gath- ered at ZOA House, 4 E. 34th St., New York, N.Y. 10016, for forwarding to President Carter. Nuclear Ban TORONTO (ZINS)—The United States, ,Canada and Australia are' working in concert to prevent sup- plying uranium to any coun- tries which refuse to agree not to produce atomic weap- ons. A spokesman for the Canadian Prime Minister declared that Canada is the- initiator of this cooperative effort, becauSe it believes "that it is her duty to pre- vent the destruction of hu- ma.nity." The Canadian press is pointing out that among the states which refuse to make a commitment not to pro- duce atomic weapons are: Brazil, India and Israel. The agreement between America, Canada and Aus- tralia is expected to have far reaching repercussions, since 70 percent of the world supply of uranium is concentrated in the three countries mentioned. Friday, May 27, 1977 53 the school year, they de- cided to devote at least one afternoon and one evening each week to tutor children in neighboring Ashkelon. Since beginning this proj- ect, they have also helped apartment house residents organize clean-up- com- mittees and have even con- verted an unused building into the beginnings of a community club house. Though the Mollie Good- man program conforms to the American curriculum, even to the point where Mol- lie Goodman students can take their American college entrance exams in Israel, there is also an enrichment program that covers a full range of Israel related sub- jects such as Zionism, Judaism, general knowl- edge of Israel, trips through- out Israel, seminars and, of course, Hebre-w. A program of Israel fos- ter families has also been established in order to in- volve the students even more fully in normal life in the country. The Zionist Organization of Detroit annually sends students to Kfar Silver on scholarships. The fund is augmented by the A.J. Cut- ler Fund. Applications for admis- sion for the 1977/78 academ- ic year are now being ac- cepted. For registration and scholarship information write the Zionist Organiza- tion of America, Dept. for High School Education in Is- rael, ZOA House, 4 E. 34th St., New York, N.Y. 10016. Latin Inter-Faith Meeting Praised _ NEW YORK—The Ameri- can Jewish Committee hailed the recent fifth Jew- ish-Catholic meeting held in San Jose, Costa Rica, as "an important event that holds great promise for fu- ture cooperation." Jacob Kovadloff, director of the American Jewish Committee's South Ameri- can office, reported to AJC headquarters that the meet- ing, sponsored by the Ecumenical Section of the Latin American Episcopal- ian Council and the Latin American Jewish Congress, benefited by the "suit- ability" of the site. He praised Costa Rica as one of the most democratic countries in Latin America. The appointment of Fa- ther Jorge Majia as secre- tary of the Vatican Com- mittee for Religious Rela- tions with the Jews, made public shortly before the be- ginning of the meeting pro- ved timely. "This created a special at- mosphere," Kovadloff stated, commenting that "the Argentine Jews, who for years worked together with Father Majia, wel- comed his appointment with great pleasure." He pointed out that Father Majia had frequently de- nounced Peronist anti-Semi- tism and Nazi publications. Children's Books Focus on History NEW YORK—Children's books that have been pub- lished in the last five years show increased concern with the desire to know one's heritage and history. In addition, greater atten- tion is being paid to serious social issues, such as inter- group tensions, poverty and war. This analysis is contained in an introduction by Ann G. Wolfe, program consult- ant for the American Jew- ish Committee, to the latest edition of the book, is the latest in a series which was begun in 1949. The new book, which was compiled after a review of more than 600 volumes pub- lished between 1972 and 1976 by a panel of 25 read- ers who are members of the AJC, was made possible through the assistance of Counterfeiting Hannah Hirschhorn Bau- mann, of Rye, N.Y. Mrs. RABAT (ZINS)—Egypt is Baumann, a member of the accusing Israel of floating AJCommittee's Board of counterfeit Egyptian bank- Governors and former chair- notes and Saudi Arabia man of its Westchester claims that Israel is dis- Women's Campaign Board, tributing false copies of the last year established a col- Koran in Africa and In- lection of more than 500 donesia. books and periodicals on American Jewish life, thought and history at- the Jerusalem office of the AJ- Committee. Among the subjects that Mrs. Wolfe lists as being treated with greater inter- est, concern and sensitivity in Fecent children's books are the Holocaust, inter- group- tensions and the struggles of minority people, and Jewish folklore and tradition. New Magazine for Kosher Homes NEW YORK — Kosher Home, a magazine geared to the kosher products con- sumer will premiere this fall with a projected circula- tion of 500,000. The first issue will contain a direc- tory of all products certi- fied as kosher. Kosher Home will circu- late free of charge, and members of synagogues whose membership rosters have been submitted to Kosher Home will qualify for free subscriptions. For information, write Kosher Home, 405 Lexing- ton Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.