6 Friday, October 28, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS `U.S. Is Israel's Only Friend: Eban' WASHINGTON (JTA) — Former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban has cautioned that Israel has "no substitute for America" ,54, SOUTH WO s DWARD (Nr. Maple ,$1HMINGHAM MI 2 4150 - Sympathy FRUIT BASKETS; 3 Times Daily Nation-Wide Delivery $1.3.95 ROINICK--- McINERNEY'S 779-4140 772-4350 and in the "crucial moment of truth" it is "vital" for the two countries to reach "lucid understanding on issues on which they diverge." "There's no way of dis- cussing the Middle East without be ginning and ending with America," Eban said. The Soviet Union, the United Nations and Western Europe, he noted, have ruled them- selves out of dialogues with Israel, thus leaving the United States "alone in the field." Eban addressed about 1,200 delegates and guests at the Pioneer Women's din- ner meeting at the Shore- ham Americana Hotel where it held its 25th bien- nial national convention. The first Golda Meir Human Rights Award was presented in absentia to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.). SPITZER'S of Harvard Row All Kinds of RUMMIKUB available at SUPER SPECIAL PRICES FROM $12.95 SPITZER Hebrew Book & Gift Center S11 Mile & Lahser, Southfield Harvard Row • 356-6080 Open All Day Sunday Emanuel Wodic: A Colorful Detroit Figure By IRVING I. KATZ Executive Secretary Temple Beth El One of the most pictur- esque and rugged members in the long history of Temple Beth El was Ema- nuel Halevy Wodic, Indian fighter and Civil War veteran. He was born in Bohemia in 1836 and immigrated with his parents' to the United States in 1854. Two years later he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He participated in the colorful Indian Cam- paign on - the Western frontier. He was honorably dis- charged from the Army on Nov. 3, 1861, but re-enlisted on the same day and served throughout the Civil War, Polish Daily News Editorial Hit, Critical of Soviet Jews INDIANAPOLIS — Decr- ying what he calls "the cul- tivation of old prejudices and bigotry," Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum, lecturer in Soviet politics at the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University-Purdue University, has called atten- tion to an editorial which appeared in the June 17-18 issue of the Polish Daily News of Detroit. The editorial, entitled "No Comparison," was stated to be in response to an anony- mous letter received by the paper, which sought to know why the Polish Daily News had devoted space to the plight of dissident workers in Poland and almost none to the Jews trying to leave Russia. The Polish Daily News editors declared that the story of Russian Jewish dis- sidents, had been glossed over for a number of rea- sons. The editors asserted that some Soviet Jews had in fact broken the law and deserved prosecution; also, Jewish dissidents, they said, who suffer no real hard- ships, get underserved pub- licity in the west. They fur- ther claimed that Russian Jews, unlike dissident Pol- There is not a man who has not his hour, and there is not a thing that has not its place. —Ben-Azai I Don't Want to Sell You A Car. I Want to Help You Buy One. You work hard for your money. So do I. But I don't think that a low price alone is enough to get you to spend your money at Jerry Glassman Olds, or any other car dealership. I believe people want to buy their car from a dealership they can put their trust in. A dealership, that'll work as hard for their money as they did. , Making sure things are right — before, during and after the sale. When you visit Glassman Olds, well help you pick out a car that's right for the kind of driving you do. Then we'll quote you a fair price. A price as low as any in town. Maybe lower. - And, after the sale, you'll find our smiles are just as wide, our handshakes just as friendly when you come in for a free warranty check. That's the way I run things at Jerry Glassman Oldsmobile. Come in and see for yourself. WHERE PEOPLE STILL COME FIRST GLASSMAN • OLDSMOBLE INC. 28000 TELEGBAPH RD. • SOUTHFIE6) • PHONE 354-3300 ish workers, only desire to help themselves by leaving, and hope for no positive changes which would affect all the peoples of the Soviet Union, and that the Jews really do not want to go to Israel, but want to come to the United States. The whole crux of the problem, the Polish Daily editors declared, was that the Rus- sian Jews had been strong supporters of communism, and they became dis- illusioned only after they had been forced out of power. "No doubt," Rozenbaum said, "the authors of "No Comparison" feel obviously threatened by the new Jew- ish immigrants from Russia the same way they may have been afraid at the turn of the century, or more recently in 1968, during the mass immigration of Jews from Poland." Rozenbaum rebuffed the editorial's claim that Soviet Jews only wish to escape. "Let us remember," he said, "that one of the rea- sons we know so much about the Polish workers' movement is that a number of harassed workers have fled to the west." Ftozenbaum also rejected the notion that Jews only became aware of their Judaism when they alled- gedly lost power. He pointed out that many Jews had occupied leadership posi- tions in the non-communist and anti-communist parties, and that Jewish desires to leave Russia were prompted by Soviet anti- Semitism. Rozenbaum gave the example of the 1952 trials in which 25 leading Jewish intellectuals were killed on Stalin's orders, plus the quotas in the 1950s and 1960s against Jews in education and employment. "It is pretty obvious," Rozenbaum declared, "that the attack against Russian Jews in the Polish Daily News is not simply a prod- uct of ignorance, inferiority complex or insecurity on the part of a segment of the Polish American population. It is deeply rooted in old prejudices, brought here from Poland, and enforced by the anti-Semitic prop- anganda on the right and on the left." participating in many of its battles. He was wounded several times. Simon Wolf, in his book "The American Jew As Sol- dier, Patriot and Citizen", states the following about Wodic: "has testimonies from his superior officers, speaking in the highest terms of his devotion and courage." Wodic was honor- ably discharged on Nov. 3, 1864, and went to Macomb County where he bought a 40-acre farm. Wodic moved to Detroit in 1885 and served for many years as a trustee and as the warden of the cemeter- ies of Temple Beth El. When the Palestine Agri- cultural Colony in Bad Axe began to have its problems, Wodic, an experienced farmer, volunteered his services, moved in 1892 to Bad Axe and taught agricul- tural science to the former peddlers. When Temple Beth El conducted its ground-break- ing ceremonies in 1901, for its house of worship on Woodward at Eliot (now the Bonstelle. Theater of Wayne State University) he was given the honor of turning the first sod. In 1921, when Beth El held ground-breaking ceremo- nies for its new edifice on Woodward at aiz t G w a l asd sat g o a n Wodic, given the honor of turning the first sod, with the same shovel he used in 1901 (this shovel was also used at the ground-breaking ceremo- nies of the present Temple Beth El on Telegraph at 14 Nfile). During his long tenure as warden of Beth El's ceme- teries, Wodic made reports to the congregation at the annual meetings. At one of these meetings he stated, "During the past year we -buried 18 members — a very poor showing for a con- gregation as large as ours". ISRAELI CHASSIDIC FESTIVAL Sun., Nov. 13,1977 JWV Bodzin Post 414 355-5765 We want you to meet the next Mayor of Southfield Judith Wiser with son Gregory, Age 9 and husband, Dr. Pino Wiser. Able, articulate, knowledgable and dedicated to the interests of the entire community. Mr. Benjamin M. Laikin Dr. and Mrs. Milton Steinhardt Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lieberman Mr. and Mrs. Nathan P. Rossen Mr. and Mrs. Morris Mendelson Mr. and Mrs. Norman Collier Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Lipsitz Mr. and Mrs. Louis Levine Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fishman Mrs. Adele Mondry JEWISH Mr. and Mrs. David Chaney Mr. and Mrs. Morris Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Shrodeck Mr. Harry Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Ben Harold Mr. Edwin G. 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