THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 44 Friday, July 29, 1977 r •• Births July 18—To Mr. and Mrs. David Citrin (Janis Holtz- man), 27828 Westcott Cres- cent Cir., Farmington Hills, a son, Matthew Craig. * * * July 16—To Mr. and Mrs. Gary Domino (Janet Plot- Certified Mahel 557-0888 557-7629 RABBI S.•ZACHARIASH, Specialized MOHEL In Home or Hospital 557-9666 nik) of Royal Oak, a daugh- ter, Jennifer Lynn. * * July 13—To Dr. and Mrs. Larry Finn (Gail Eisen), 29417 Marshall, Southfield, a daughter, Erika Nicolt. * * * July 12—To Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Schreiber (Celia Rosenthal), 16975 New Jer- sey,- Southfield, a daughter, Rebecca Louise. * * * July 4—To Mr. and Mrs. Allan Berger (Ronna Man- dell), 32438 Bonnet Hill, Farmington Hills, a daugh- ter, Haley Laura. * * * July 1—To former Detroit- ers Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Wollner of Sherman Oaks, Calif., a son, David Alan. RABBI DR. LEO Youth News GOLDMAN Expert Mohei Serving Hospitals and Homes LI 2-4444 547-8555 Certified Mohel 358-1426 or 357-5544 Cantor SAMUEL GREENBAUM MOHEL Certified Serving Homes & Hospitals 399-7194 — 547-7.970 ci) Americans and Israelis Join Dialogue on Individual Rights BNAI DAVID Atid senior youth group will go to Pine Knob to hear the Seals and Crofts concert Aug. 15. meeting 5 p.m. in the youth lounge. Friends are invited. Discounts will be available to dues-paying members. Reservation deadline is Tuesday. For information, call Steve Dines, 557-1977; or adviser Hartley Harris. 968-3563. JERUSALEM—The 13th annual American-Israel "Di- alogue" ended last week with a plea for recognition that "Jewish sensibility" is an essential element of civil liberties in Israel. Law Professor Irwin Cot- ler of McGill University in Montreal told the American Jewish Congress-sponsored symposium in the Van Leer Institute: "Civil liberties in a Jew- ish state are no less impor- tant than in a secular coun- try like the United States, but they are not identical. Israel was founded as a state for Jews. As such it has a legitimate claim on its secularists to respect Jewish values—although they need not observe them—in the same manner that the religious commu- nity must permit—even if it does- not respect—non-reli- gious behavior." The 35 "Dialogue" pan- elists, including legal schol- ars, rabbis and community leaders, spent four days on the symposium • theme: "The Rights of the Individ- ual in Halakhic, Israeli and American Law." Howard M. Squadron and Paul S. Berger, lawyers and leaders of the Ameri- can Jewish Congress, sug- gested that a written con- stitution would strengthen civil rights and civil _liber- ties in Israel and serve also as a "useful educational tool to enhance public un- derstanding of and respect for the rights and freedoms of others. ' The issue of women's rights within a Jewish framework was raised by Mrs. Leona Chanin, presi- dent of the American Jew- ish Congress national women's division; by Ruth Bader-Ginsburg of Colum- bia University Law School, a leading authority on Women's legal rights; and by Harriet Pilpel of New York, a prominent civil lib- erties attorney. Mrs. Chanin called the struggle for women's rights "the great auto-emancipa- tion movement of our day." She said: Jewish "American women are determined to introduce the _ new per- ception of themselves and of their rights into three major areas: (1) Jewish communal life—by demand- ing equal participation in the organized Jewish com- munity; (2) Jewish family Baby World's NEW Teen C ewer BEDROOM FURNITURE FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES by FAMOUS brands like ... Schoolfield 126 f: 14 MILE RD., CLAWSON •,_ (2 MILES EAST OF WOODWARD) Sta,B1,g• _ 588-2333 life—by insisting that they be treated as full partners in every aspect of Jewish domestic relations; and (3) Jewish religious life—by seeking new interpretations of Halakha that will give recognition to women's new role in society." Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz, deputy mayor of Jerusa- lem, supported Mrs. Chan- in's call for changes in Ha- lakhic interpretation that would grant the personal dignity today's women de- mand. -- Israel Supreme Court Jus- tice Hayim Cohn said that the imposition of Jewish,re- ligious law in the areas of marriage and divorce had resulted in the Halakha's be- coming a matter of "con- tempt, ridicule and hatred" in Israel. Justice Cohn de- clared: "Too many Israelis fail to see the beauty of Halakha. People see only the hard- ship and suffering that re- sult from the curtailment of fundamental human rights when Halakha determines the family relations of those who do not wish to be bound by it." Rabbi Emanuel Rack- man, president of Bar-Ilan University, agreed with Jus- tice Cohn that the "wrong impression" of Halakha was being conveyed by the emphasis given to the role of Halakha in the Israeli law of marriage and di- vorce. There was far more to Jewish religious law than rules covering domestic re- lations, he said. Rabbi Aharon Lichtens- tein of Yeshivat Alon Shvat, whose opening "Dialogue" paper led off the discussion, agreed that thefe were "limits" beyond which Ha- lakha could not be altered. "A measure of flexibility greater than what we have known is perhaps feasible," he said, "but public pres- sure and public scrutiny make such change more dif- ficult." Zalman Abramov, former Knesset member, urged that the halakhic commu- nity in Israel "submit to the will of the Jewish people as it did in the past to the non-Jewish commu- nity." He recalled that in 1921, when Lord Samuel es- tablished a rabbinical juris- diction under the British Mandate, Orthodox leaders violently opposed the High Commissioner's demand that a court of appeals be created — in contravention of Halakha — to hear ap- peals from the rabbinical court. "When Lord Samuel in- sisted that there be an ap- peals court or no rabbinical jurisdiction at all," Abra- mov recalled, "the reli • authorities submitted non-Jewish civil authori ty! "Let them now bow to the demand of the Jewish community in Israel to in- troduce changes in the Ha- lakha affecting individual rights." Meanwhile, Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president of the American Jewish Congress, declared: "In Israel, what o the law must seek is a bal- ance between the obligatory character of Halakha and the libertarian nature of a modern state. N. American Israel War Dead Memorialized JERUSALEM (JTA )— The Jewish National Fund is planting a 10,000-tree for- est commemorating 101 members of the Association New York Planning October Campaign NEW YORK (JTA)—The most massive telephone campaign in the history of philanthropy, to be known as Mobilization '77, will be held in October by the United Jewish Appeal-Fed- eration of Jewish Philan- thropies Joint C .mpaign in New York. The week-long Mobiliza- tion will be launched with a four-hour television presen- tation Oct. 15, with Alan King as host to a long ros- ter of entertainers and ce- lebrities. The. telecast will open a week of telephone so- licitations by volunteers working in enters in the city and throughout neigh- boring counties. of American and Canadian known as Shaar Ha-Carmel. The dedication took place Immigrants who have died in the presence of Moshe in Israel's wars, the JNF Rivlin, JNF board of direc-• announced. - tors chairman, Pierre Gil- The forest will be in the Judean Hills in the Jerusa : desgame, world president of Maccabi, Louis Berold, lem corridor. A statue with president of the Caesaria the names of the 101 dead la club, and member of was unveiled last week. National Golf of Great Five of the children of the Britain whose sponsorship dead planted five saplings of this recreation area is marking the five wars in the latest of their projects. - which Israel has been in- volved since 1948. The area\ was dedicated Another JNF venture begun last week was the in honor of Sidney Obrart, dedication of a 12.5-acre rec- president of -the JNF golf- reational area at the foot- ers of Britain, and his wife, hills of the Carmel range Ruth. New Legislation Will Help U.S. Businesses Dealing With Israel Last year's Mobilization television broadcast, en- titled "Remembering is Not Enough," was seen by an audience of millions and won an Emmy Award. Some $4 million was pledged during the broad- Cast. - Crash Victims' Families Helped NEW YORK—Harold M. Jacobs, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, presented a check for $93,000 to Eugene Flxler, to be distributed to the fami- lies of the victims of an au- tomobile crash last Decem- ber in Pennsylvania which claimed the lives of five shokhtim and mashgikhim (rabbinic kosher slaughte- rers and supervisors) and seriously injured a sixth. The funds were raised by the member synagogues of the UOJC and the members of the Rabbinical Council of America. . American firms (Wing business in Israel are expected to be aided substantially by new U.S. legislation designed to curb Arab boycott pressures.