44 Friday, July 8, 1977 THE DETROIT 'JEWISH NEWS Births June 29—To Mr. and Mrs. Isaacs), 25426 Leestock, Lee Lasser (Edene Ogoros- Farmington Hills, a daugh- kin), 5508 Tamerlane, West ter, Stephanie Beth. * * * Bloomfield, a son, David An- drew. June 18—To Mr_ and Mrs. * * * Jerry Sabbota (Linda June 27—To Dr. and Mrs. Dreyfus), 16325, Addison, Henry Hirsch (Caryn Southfield, a son. Michael ler), 25241 Kingshire, South- Justin. * * * field, a daughter, Stacey Beth. June 18—To Dr.' and Mrs. * * * ' James L. Ecker of Grand June 23—To Mr. and Mrs. Rapids, (Joan Marks of Allan Lovinger (Karen Farmington Hills), a son, Philip Marks. * * * RABBI DR. LEO June 6—To Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Radzinski (Pam Arm- strong), 5305 Hollow Dr., Bloomfield Hills, a daugh- Expert Mohel ter, Lisa Helene. Serving Hospitals and Homes Michael Berke, Alan Kandel Named to Federation Posts Two members of the pro- fessional staff of the Jewish Welfare Federation have been appointed assistant di- rectors of Detroit's central community organization, it was announced by Feder- ation President Martin E. Citrin and Executive Direc- tor Sol Drachler. GOLDMAN L12-4444 547-8555. Cantor Sidney Zim May Avoid Calls at Djibouti RUBE PARIS (JTA)—The Elm Lines, Israel's national ship- ping company, is planning 358-1426 or 357-5544 to re-route its vessels serv- ing East African ports to Cantor SAMUEL avoid calls at Djibouti if that newly established Mos- GREENBAUM lem state bans Israel-flag Certified • ships. Djibouti, formerly French Serving Homes & Hospitals Somaliland, became inde- 399-7194 — 547-7970 pendent and immediately applied for and was admit- ' REV. HERSHIL ted to membership in the Arab League which adminis- ters the boycott of Israel. Certified Mohel MOHEL ROTH' Certified Mahe! S5770888 557-7629 RABBI S. ZACHARIASH Specialized MOHEL In Home or Hospital 557-9666 Although there was no im- mediate notification that Djibouti will close its har- bor to Israeli shipping, the leaders of the new Arabic- speaking republic have hin- ted strongly that they would. Zim closed its office there and the last Israeli personnel have departed by sea. proudly announces (Well known in the area) a. Has Joined Our Professional Staff Come in for a Paper Nail Wrap • or try one of sour many services; • • • • • • • • • Nail Wrap (paper & liquid) Manicures Extended Nails Pedicures Arches Facials Eyelashes Make-up Consultation Gentlemen's Manicures 25882 Orchard Lake Rd. at 11 Mile Rd. suite 203 Farmington Hills 478-7272 Kandel Berke They are Alan D. Kandel, who has been the director of social planning and budg- eting, and Michael E. Berke, whose previous posi- tion of administrative assist- ant was primarily in the conduct of the Allied Jew- ish Campaign-Israel Emer- gency Fund. Kandel, who has been with the local Federation since 1968, formerly was an executive of Cleveland's Jewish Community Feder- ation, serving as its direc- tor of community relations. Kandel has been vice president of the Association of Jewish Community Rela- tion Workers and a board member of the National As- sociation of Social Workers. He is a member of the program committees of both the American Section of the International Confer- ence of Jewish Communal Service and the National Conference of Jewish Com- munal Service, and he is vice president of the Associ- ation of Jewish Community Organization Personnel. Berke, who has been on the Federation staff for five years, was director of the Food and Mercantile divi- sions of the AJC-IEF, Fed- eration liaison with the United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Cabinet and secretary of the Nation- al Agencies budget and plan- ning division. He is former executive director of Hillel Day School. Gadna Youth Corps Members Learn How to Defend Israel By MOSHE RON The Jewish News Special Israel Correspondent TEL AVIV—During sum- mer vacation the Gadna (military exercises for school children) intends to set up six batallions which will be prepared for aux- iliary service near their homes, we were told by the Gadna commander, Briga- dier Hillel Ben-Meir. In each batallion there will be 100 members of the Gadna. They will be under the command of the local area. All members of the battalions will be volun- teers. All Israel youngsters, boys and girls from the age of 16 until their enlistment into Zahal, are in Gadna. The Gadna Command each year holds military exer- cises for tens of thousands of youngsters. It includes the youngsters in all educa- tional institutions and also those who are out of school. Youngsters are taken out from schools for a certain period for trips to learn about the country. The Gadna penetrated youth gangs and tries to prepare them for service in Zahal. The Gadna Command keeps buses for military exercises. The youngsters stay from one week to 10 days in them and get their first military training. They learn how to shoot in daylight and at night. The Gadna sees, as Briga- dier Ben-Meir explains, one of its main tasks in pre- paring youngsters for volun- teering for special combat units like parachuting, pilot- ing, U-boat commanding. During the summer there are special courses for sni- pers and sea-divers. Mem- bers of the Gadna are also taken to the bases of the Ordnance Corps for prac- tical work, in order to learn the composition of arms. Youngsters, who know Arab- ic, get special courses in this language in order to use them in the Intelligence Service of the Army. Gadna youngsters are em- ployed in Army bases and in the Civil Guard. Jewish Woman Gunman's Victim NEW YORK (JTA)—Mrs. Nettie Blassberg, the 57- year-old woman killed by a hijacker of a bus July 4, was an active member of Temple Israel in Green- field, Mass., where she lived. Rabbi Kalman Newfield, the temple's spiritual lead- er, said she was active in the sisterhood and formerly its chaplain and sang in the temple choir. Mrs. Blass- berg was also a member of Hadassah. Funeral services were held Wednesday. Mrs. Blassberg and her husband, David, who oper- ates a newsstand and lunch counter at the courthouse in Greenfield, were returning from a visit to their daugh- ter in Washington when a gunman seized a Vermont transit bus after it left New York's Port Authority bus terminal and forced it to go to Kennedy International Airport. At the airport, the gun- man, identified later as Luis Robinson, 26, shot Mrs. Blassberg because,eg- cording to others on the bus, he wanted to show po- lice he was serious about his demands. When the bus driver, Normaif Bozwick, lunged at the gunman he also was fatally shot. The gunman then ordered Blass- bergo drive the bus, but he said "I can't drive, I'm legally blind." The gunman ran toward the back of the bus and Blassberg escaped. If you harden your heart with pride, you soften your brain with it too. Jewish Schools May Benefit from Supreme Court Ruling NEW YORK (JTA)—The ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on state aid for paro- chial schools will "hope- fully" mean that Jewish day school pupils can re- ceive state-funded diagnos- tic and therapeutic speech and hearing services, ac- cording to an official of Torah Umesorah. Rabbi Bernard ' Gold- enberg, director of school organization for Torah Umesorah, said that the court, ruling last month said that states may finance therapeutic, remedial and guidance counseling serv- ices to parochial school chil- dren as long as they are on a neutral site. He said this neutral site could be a van that is pulled up alongside the day school. However, Goldenberg said that each state must now pass the enabling legis- lation which would provide the service to the parochial schools. He said since the New York State legislature is near adjournment there is no chance that the aid will come in time for the 1977-78 school year in New York which has the largest number of Torah Umesorah schools. The court said that diag- nostic services such as for speech and hearing could be provided directly at the school. The court also said that the state may provide paro- chial schools with stand- ardized tests and test scor- ing achievements and reaf- firmed an earlier ruling that textbooks may be lent to parochial school chil- dren. But it said the state cannot lend parochial school children such stand- ard classroom equipment as wall charts and slide pro- jectors. Goldenberg stressed the hearing and speech service because a 1975 ruling by the Supreme Court invalidated a Pennsylvania program providing diagnostic hear- ing and speech service for parochial school children. At that time, Goldenberg said, the ruling was a "dis- aster" for Jewish day schools. He said since then only the schools which had ) enough money were ablE continue therapeutic se,--; ice. `Jews of Russia' BoOk Is Available NEW YORK—An 80-page booklet, "The Jews of Rus- sia; Their History in Maps and Photographs" by Mar- tin Gilbert, and published by the National Council for Soviet Jewry of the United Kingdom and Ireland, is now available in the United States. For information on order- ing the books, write Jewry, 11 W. 42nd St., New York, N.Y., 10036. k JS d ri k 11 1 \ 1, 216 6 645 0973 869 West Long lake Road • / //XX X/ X/ //X./ //xi:1% `.111•••••• SALE scve go-) v ..np# MO V P 11,6) .11 141 W. 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