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SHOCK ELECTRIC
New & Old
Commercial &
Residential repairs
Licensed Electrician
Joey Gitler
355-4565 or 546-6484
METRO CARPET
& FLOOR SERVICE
Carpet steam cleanihg,
wood-vinyl floor service. Up-
holstery cleaning.
Free Estimates.
541-0278
EXTERIOR
& INTERIOR
PAINTING
At reasonable
prices.
967-4016
JULIUS ROSS
MOVING CO., INC.
Custom work, household moving,
offices, packing, piano and appli-
ances. Local and State of Michigan.
357-2674
E. LARKINS
MOVERS
Referral service,
personalized since 1946
822-3417
MOVING?
COLLEGE STUDENTS
With furniture van will move
you expertly at economy
rates.
549-5116
Insured
288-4055
TEPELI
CUSTOM
HOUSE PAINTING
Interior -Exterior
Small repairs
Call 541-4326 after 4 pm
METRO WINDOW
CLEANING AND
HOME CARE
Experts on aluminum storms,
carpet, floor, furniture clean.:
ing. Wall washing, custom
painting, interior-exterior.
541-0278 -
HANDY MAN
HOME REPAIRS
Experienced
No job too small
Reasonable
353-3336 or 357-0241
PAINTING
EXTERIOR-INTERIOR
Exterior special
for ranches —$125
547-3944 and 968-7942
HANDYMAN
9 years Experience
__Electrical, plumbing, humidi-
',.s, shelving, doors, etc.
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THE HANDYMAN
559-1747
Quality at Reasonable Rates
For Free Estimate
CALL 588-1324
ASsunnvview
Window Cleaning
— COMPLETE —
HOME WINDOW CARE
RESIDENTIAL SPECIALIST
COMMERCIAL
Gutters & Screens Cleaned
painting
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OAK PARK PLUMBING
& HEATING
Licensed Master Plumber
& Sewer Cleaning
967-3010 or 967-3026
PETER FRIEDMAN
Wet, (damp, leaky basements
made dry. Guaranteed 18
years. Experienced — lowest
price.
FRANK'S WATERPROOFING
559-7398
EXCELLENT PAINTING
& DECORATING
GUARANTEED.
Interior -exterior.
Reasonable. Free estimates.
559-6578
TEPELI
CUSTOM
HOUSE PAINTING
I nterior-Exterior
Small repairs
Call 541-4326 after 4 pm
ROOF
LEAKS??
Commercial & Residential
Roofing. Aluminum Siding &
Trim. Gutters & General Re-
pair. GUARANTEED MATE-
RIALS & WORKMANSHIP.
546-0050
DRAIN -RITE
SEWER & DRAIN
CLEANING
$22.50
531-0726
F. W. STEWART
'MOVING CO.
"THE MOVING MEN"
Professional courteous service.
Insured low rates. Excellent ref-
erences.
588-2418
1C.C. KIRBY CONST. CO ,
Brick block, stone, cement.
All size jobs.
Free Estimates
Reasonable
_ 398-6876
THE FIX IT MAN
Today's work at yesterday's
prices. Fence work -Roofing --
Painting. Work is guaranteed.
Free Estimates
399-1077 after 6 pm
PROFESSIONAL
'PAPER HANGING
Will hang almost anything!
at $8.00 a roll
Foils $9.00 a roll
Also interior & exterior painting
CALL AL ,
967-1295
51 — MISCELLANEOUS
MOVING electrical chair-lift. Ex-
cellent condition. 851-2481.
53 -- ENTERTAINMENT
FREDDY SHEYER -Famous or-
chestra. Music for all occas-
sions. 398-2462.
Belgian Premier
to Attend Dinner
BRUSSELS (JTA)—
Prime Minister Leo Tinde-
mans will attend a dinner
Sept. 29 organized by the
Coordinating Committee of
Jewish Organizations in Bel-
gium nd the World Jewish
Congress.
The Proselyte's Tale
By PHILLIP APPLEBAUM
The reasons some Gen-
tiles embrace Judaism has
always proved interesting,
and in "So Strange My
Path" (Bloch), author Abra-
ham Cannel gives a highly
detailed, deeply personal ac-
count of his "spiritual pilgri-
mage" from Christianity to
Judaism.
Born Kenneth Cox, of
Scottish ancestry in Eng-
land, and reared in the
Church of England, Carmel
at an early age found dis-
satisfaction with the Angli-
can brand of Christianity,
and sought spiritual succor
through the investigation of
other beliefs, including
Judaism, Hinduism, Buddh-
ism and Islam, to no avail.
Examining other Chris-
tian denominations, Carmel
finally seized upon Catholi-
cism as a sort of "spiritual
insurance policy" through
which he believed he could'
calm his yearnings with con-
fession of sins and hope for
a glorious afterlife. So
taken was he with his new
faith, Carmel contirued his
study of Catholicism well
beyond the elementary
stage to eventually be or-
dained as a priest in the
church.
Realizing later that his
earlier attraction to the
Catholic Church was based
more upon emotional crisis
rather than a reasoned,
careful choice, Carmel
began to lose faith in his re-
ligion and performed his
duties and ceremonies per-
functorily, and began to
think of Catholicism in high-
ly critical terms, especially
the concept of trans-
ubstantiation.
During this unfolding peri-
od of doubt, Carmel began
to look outside Christianity.
As he puts it, "I managed
to extend my reading on
comparative religion, and
the writings of...Jewish au-
thors on the origins of Chris-
tianity were slowly but
surely persuading me that
Judaism, handed down to
the children of Israel from
Sinai, represented the truly
ideal way of life."
As he discovered the Ju-
daic origins of Christianity,
he came to realize that his
chosen religion was not for
him, and he was "turning
his steps in the direction of
the synagogue." A full
break with Christianity
came with a severe clash
with the church hierarchy
over the issue of Carmel's
work with deprived young-
sters. His conversion to
Judaism followed a few
years later.
Although Cannel's re-
spect for Judaism, "with its
pure, unsullied monoth-
seems sincere
eism,'*
enough, his constant refer-
rals to Jesus as a "prac-
tising Jew" and his habit of
capitalizing personal pro-
nouns referring to Jesus,
led one to speculate that
Carmel may have been at-
tracted to Judiasm as much
out of faith in Jesus as a
theological rationale. Per-
, haps such is to be expected
from a former Catholic
priest.
Carmel tells us early on
in his book that from his
childhood he delighted in
preaching, and indeed his
narrative is as much sermo-
nization as it is hin?rnnhy.
There is scarcely an epi-
sode in his life of which Cak-
mel does not have some-
thing about which to moral-
ize. One wishes he would
have written from the desk
and not the pulpit. Carmel_
is indeed an opinionated
man, but it draws much
from his personal history
when we are sidetracked
with discourses on educa-
tion, social mores, and so
on.
Although the meticulous-
ness of his memory is to be
admired, one would also
wish that Cannel had not in-
cluded quite so many de-
tails of his life. A number
of episodes which had little
bearing on his move to con-
version could have been
eliminated without detract-
ing from the continuity of
the biography.
In all, "So Strange My
Path" gives us rare insight
into the mind of a man who
made a total change in his
life and beliefs, and points
out the strange at-
traction Judaism still holds
for doubtful Christians.
Bnai Brith Opens
Camp for Retarded
MIAMI—The Bnai Brith
Youth Organization has es-
tablished here a summer
day camp for members of
Chaverim, a BBYO pilot
unit designed especially for
mentally retarded youth.
The camp, which opened
June 20 at the Michael-Ann
Russell Jewish Community
Center in North Miami
Beach, will operate three
full days a week until Aug.
12.
The camp program includ-
es swimming, arts and
crafts. dramatics, games,
trips and a variety of
sports. There are also activ-
ities intended to heighten
the Jewish consciousness of
the mildly retarded boys
and girls.
Many of the children
come from families with
limited incomes, and BBYO
has set up carpools to pro-
vide transportation. .The
camp is funded by Bnai
Brith and a special grant
from the Greater Miami
Jewish Federation.
Jewish Youth
Get Counseling
NEW YORK (JTA)—A
special summer program of
short-term counseling is
being offered for a third
year to college students and
other young people by the
Jewish Community Services
of Long Island. The sum-
mer program is a seasonal
phase of the agency's year-
around "Project: College
Youth."
Irving Reier, president of
the agency, said the pro-
gram is designed to help
young people with problems
of school, socialization, rela-
tionships with parents and
peers, and planning for the
future.
If an ignorant man is
pious, do not dwell in his
house.
—The Talmud
Friday, July 22, 1977 45
Hasidim Deny
Black Charges
ORT Sees Jewish
Poverty Up in U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The
Crown Heights Jewish Com-
munity Council held a press
conference July 13 to deny
allegations by the black
community that Jewish
crime-prevention patrols in
the neighborhood have been
harassing blacks.
Speaking to reporters at
the patrol headquarters in
Brooklyn, Rabbi Samuel Fo-
gelman, a member of the
executive committee of the
Community Council, said
that "At no time did any
member of the patrol in-
timidate or attack any
member of the black com-
munity. There were in-
cidents in which members
of the patrol were forced to
defend themselves." But he
denied that patrol members
were behaving as vigil-
antes. He said the patrol ex-
isted "to show their phys-
ical presence" and to deter
crime by reporting it to po-
lice.
On July 9 about 500
blacks demonstrated out-
side the local police pre-
cinct and marched to the
nearby world headquarters
of the Lubavitcher Hasidic
movement to protest al-
leged harassment by the
Crown Heights Community
Patrol and demand that it
be desbanced.
(JTA )—The
LONDON
fastest growing areas of
Jewish poverty are not in
Third World countries but
in the United States, where
10 percent of the Jewish
community of six million is
below the poverty line. This
emerged from last week's
conference of the central
board of the World ORT
Union.
David Young, chairman
of British ORT, said that,
as a result, the organization
was broadening the geogra-
phical scope of its vocation-
al training programs. He
was speaking at a banquet
in the City of London's
Guildhall.
Other speakers were Lord
Goodman, president of Brit-
ish ORT, Dr. William
Haber, University of Mich-
igan dean, president of the
World ORT Union's Central
Board, and M. Daniel
Mayer, chairman of the
World ORT Union's execu-
tive committee.
Judge Rejects
Torture Inquiries
LONDON (JTA)—The
call for an independent in-
quiry into allegations of tor-
ture by the Israeli author-
ities was indignantly re-
jected July 13 by a member
of the Israeli Supreme
Court. Justice Moshe Et-
zioni described the call by
the Sunday Times as "an in-
sult to the Israeli judiciary
on which the Israeli legal
system was - closely mod-
elled."
Etzioni, who is in London
for the World ORT Union
Council meeting, made his
comments at a specially
convened press conference
at the Israeli Embassy. He
stressed that he was not re-
plying on behalf of the gov-
ernment to the Sunday
Times' allegations. He spe-
cifically rejected that
paper's suggestions of an in-
quiry by the International
Red Cross, and he opposed
an inquiry by left-wing
members of the Israeli par-
liament, saying that the
only way to examine allega-
tions of torture was in open
court in Israel.
He said later that leading
members of the Anglo-Jew-
ish community had sugges-
ted an independent inquiry
by leading British judges.
He said he was shocked by
this suggestion, too, seeing
in it an affront to Israel's
national sovereignty and
her judiciary.
Bnai Brith Youth
Get New Director
WASHINGTON—Dr. Sid-
ney M. Clearfield has been
appointed international di-
rector of the Bnai Brith
Youth Organization
(BBYO) effective Septem-
ber 1. He succeeds Dr. Max
Baer, who will retire after
directing BBYO for 28
years.
Avineri Chides
Labor Silence
JERUSALEM (JTA)—
Prof. Shlomo Avineri, for-
mer director general of the
Foregin Ministry, has ac-
cused the Labor Party of
rubber-stamping Likud for-
eign policy and failing to
function as an opposition
party.
He said that Labor Party
leader Shimon Peres has
made no major statement
critical of Likud foreign or
defense policies. and con-
trasted Peres' silence with
Premier Menahem Begins
outspoken cniticsm of the
Labor government during
his 29 years in the opposi-
tion.
Avineri, who was chief ad-
ministrator of Israel's diplo-
matic establishment under
former Foreign Minister
Yigal Allon, said that
Begin, who has been in of-
fice less than two months,
has succeeded in silencing
the opposition.
He said that the Labor
Alignment under Peres'
leadership "says amen" to
all government statements
although it refused Begin's
offer to form a national
unity coalition.
According to Avineri, the
Labor Alignment lost the
elections in part because it
played into Likud's hands
by blurring the foreign pol-
icy differences between the
two parties.
Rabbi Delivers
Congress Prayer
WASHINGTON (JTA)—
Dr. Israel Goldstein. rabbi
emeritus of Cong. Bnai
Jeshurun, N.Y.. was invited
to deliver the opening pray-
er at the closing session of
the House of Representa-
tives last week.
The invitation is in recog-
nition of his 60th year of
public service in the United
States and in Israel. It will
be the third time Goldstein
will have performed the
honor. The first time was
on Feb. 1, 1960. the 100th an-
niversary of the first pray-
er delivered by a rabbi be-
fore Congress.