6 Friday, August 5, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • • 0041 00 W. 41000 00 00 MQV1NG• Book on Judaism in Israel Depicts Its Religious Diversity By ALLEN A. WARSEN Halukka. He.traces the Ha- • Scholarly works describ- lukka's evolution, examines • ing and evaluating diverse its merits and , demerits, HOUSEHOLD aspects. of Israeli life have and points out that while the system of Halukka.pro- appeared in recent years. • The latest is S. Zalman , moted pauperism, fostered Abramov's engrossing vol- idleness and obscurantism, • IN ume "Perpetual Dilemma," at the same time encour- • subtitled "Jewish Religion aged the durability and YOUR HOME in the Jewish State" (Fair- growth of the Jewish popu- leigh Dickinson University lation of Palestine, and had • Press). This book evaluates given the Old Yishuv • ESTATES • the • religious and secular as- "strength and cohension." pects of. Israel. The author similarly LIQUIDATED Abrarnov,* whose ap- traces. the development of • • proach is historical and ana- the New Yishuv, and ana- • • ical, commences his lyzes the factors that con- IRENE EAGLE • stu by describing the his- tributed to its growth. Ac- : 626-4769 626-8907 : tory the Old Yishuv with cording to him, the most po- its uniqkie institution, the tent factor was the virulent . Russian anti-Semitism of the 1880s that resulted in WE GOT YOU COVERED mass emigration of Jews It You Don't Want Our Blinds It's Curtains For You from Russia. He estimates VERTICAL BLINDS that about 30,000 Jews immi- LAMINATED SHADES grated to Palestine in the SLIM LINE BLINDS WOVEN WOODS years 1882-1902. Among DRAPES w/matching WALLPAPER-BED SPREADS them were the members of the "Bilu" (an acronym composed of the Hebrew words "House of Jacob come and let us go," Isaiah Free Estimates Free Estimates 559-8209 5:5). 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The lowering of tuftsin levels in the blood is associ- ated with an increased sus- • 5 lbs. of MATZO. If I can't Beat Your Best Deal ARNOLD MA - RoOLIS cornerstone of the New Yi- people of Palestine." It also though Israel is regarded shuv. chose a cabinet, the "Va'ad as a secular state and its so- It should be noted that Leumi" (National Com- ciety as secular, "yet it is a- Jewish state and a Jewish mittee). the settlements of the New society...because of its Jew- Yishuv were constructed These two political outside the four Holy Cities bodies, soon after the birth ish character," and is more- of Old Jerusalem, Hebron, of the state of Israel, were over "a product of Jewish Tiberias and Safed that replaced by the Provisional history and an integral part comprised the Old Yishuv. Government (cabinet) and of Jewish" continuity." Therefore, state-religion It should also be pointed - the Provisional Council (leg- separation as in the coun- out that the author singles islature). tries of the West is in the out Rabbi Mikhal Pines A law of great signifi- state of Israel an impossibi- (1842-1912) and Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1857-1922) as the cance passed by the Provi- lity. As proof, the author • New Yishuv's foremost pio- sional. Council was "The cites the numerous reli- Days of Rest Ordinance." gious practices and holi- neers. This law made the Jewish days the Israeli secularists As the population in- observe as "aspects of na- creased and more settle-- holidays • "the prescribed tional culture.' Inter alias ments were established, the days of rest in the state of observe the Sabbath as author notes, a need arose Israel." Another law of a they day of rest. Passover equal importance enacted for an elective body to rep- • by the council was the the other festivals they cel resent the Jewish people of "Kosher - Food for. Soldiers brate as national holidays. Palestine: Ordinance." This law The act of circumcision The — "Asefat stated: "The supply of kosh- they observe with great" sol- Ha'Nivcharim" (Assembly er food shall be ensured to emnity and the ceremony of the Elected), elected in all Jewish soldiers 'of the of Bar Mitzva with great re- 1920, was such a body. Defense Army of Israel." joicing. "The blowing of the, It proclaimed itself as the shofar, the traditional These two laws, the au- ram's hwn, on the occasion "supreme authority for deal- thor emphasizes, proved ing with public and national of the inauguration. of a that the state of Israel was newly elected president of interests of the Jewish indeed a Jewish state. people of Palestine," and the state, is regarded a be- declared that it "laid the Profound is the author's fitting the solemnity of the foundation for the national evaluation of secularism in occasion." autonomy of the Jewish Israel. He maintains that al- "Perpetual Dilemma" is skillfully and -objectively written and is a valuable ad- dition to the literature on the state of Israel and its people. The author S. Zalman Abramov is a lawyer and ceptibility of patients to se- , the lymphatic system — or parliamentarian and is the .vere — and often fatal — for certain non-malignant Associate Editor of the "En- bacterial infections. In such conditions. Aftdr splenec- cyclopedia of Zionism and case, prophylactic anti- tomy, tuftsin levels in the Israel." biotic therapy is usually re- blood were halved, a situa- quired. The test developed tion which, in about 10 Per- by the researchers should Cent of cases, leads to se- alSo prove useful' if tuftsin vere streptococcal or pneutnococrcal :. • . in- is adopted as: a drug to fections. With the relative- treat tuftsin deficiencies, a ly, simple radio-immu- suggestion supported by noassay developed at the many doctors. Weizniaiin Institute, the Accotding to Prof2 amount of serum needed is kin, tuftsin, first discovered in the United States at no larger than that used in standard blood test. The Tufts Medical School by. Vic- tor Majjar, is = an essential 'assay!. was also found to be blood component which 'highly 'reproducible, with the results •obtained from stimulates white blood cells the same subjects-through- and macrophages to attack out the day and on different, and engulf bacteria. This days 'showing nearly identi- process, known as phagocy- cal values. It -replaCes an tosis, 'severely. curtailed older and qualitative meth- when tuftsin levels fall. od which assessed tuftsin Working with doctors at levels by observing phagocy- Tel Aviv University Medi- tosis by white blood cells cal School and the Center under the microscope. for Internal Medicine of JO- It is expected that the hann Wolfgang von Goethe radio-immunoassay will FORD UniVersitat in Frankfurt- help in discovering more in LINCOLN Main, Prof. Fridkin, Dr. Spi- dividuals with hereditary GRAND PRIX rer and graduate students tuftsin deficiencies and in Yitzhak Stabinsky and Vera OLDS, ETC. observing other splenic Zakuth measured tuftsin malfunctions, such as levels in normal individuals those found in sickle-cell and in patients who went anemia, ulcerative colitis, total splenectomy either:be- celias disease, pre:term in- cause of Hodgkin's disease fants and a splenic atrophy — a malignant condition of in the elderly. 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