Simha Dinitz Will Open Allied Jewish Campaign
ing Seligman, Marvin H. Goldman and David Handleman will also
Simha Dinitz, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., will speak at the formal
participate.
opening of the 1978 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund on
A special slide presentation, highlighting the work of Campaign volun-
Tuesday. The occasion will be marked by a reception and dinner at the
teers, will be a feature of the program.
Jewish Community Center beginning at'6:15 p.m.
Reporting on the efforts of the Campaign's divisions will be the division
Dinitz, Israel's ambassador to Washington since 1973, previously held
several other posts in the U.S. capital. He was sent to Rome as minister chairmen: Irwin Kahn and D. Lawrence Sherman, Mercantile; Robert H.
plenipotentiary in the mid-1960's, and also held several positions in Naftaly, Professional Service; Joseph H. Orley, Industrial and Automo-
Jerusalem, including director general of the Office of Prime Minister tive; Lester S. Burton and Bernard H. Stollman, Real Estate and Building
under Golda Meir. Trades; Thomas I. Klein, Fpod and Services; Dr. Conrad L. Giles, Profes-
Rabbi James I. Gordon of Young Israel of Oak-Woods will deliver the sional Health; Jeffrey N. Borin, Junior; Dulcie Rosenfeld, Women's; and
Jerome B. Greenbaum, Metropolitan.
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invocation.
Hundreds of volunteer workers are involved in the annual Allied
Jewish Welfare Federation President Martin E.- Citrin will wel- Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund which supports more than 60
come the guests, after which Campaign General Chairmen Phillip
social and humanitarian agencies locally, nationally, in Israel and •
Stollman and Philip T. Warren, presiding officers at the meeting,
(See Related Stories, Page 5.)
elsewhere overseas.
will report on pre-Campaign activities. Campaign Co-chairmen Irv-
THE JEWISH NEWS
The Human Reply
to the Beasts
of the PLO:
Solidarity
With Israel
Commentary, Page 2
A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
SIMHA DINITZ
The Nazi Horror
Back in the
Limelight:
The Menacing
Warnings
Editorial, Page 4
March 17, 1978
Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c
VOL. LXXIII, No. 2 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield,
Permanence - .in Security - Aim
of Lebanon-ltrael -Border Belt
Israel launched a massive ground, air and sea operation against Palesti-
TEL AVIV (JTA)
nian terrorists in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday with the stated objective of creating a
in southern Lebanon.
The action was launched during the early morning hours with Israel employing infantry,
artillery and armor, with large scale air support and naval operations, against terrorist bases on
the Lebanese coast. By noon, Israeli forces had over-run almost all known terrorist strongholds
in Southern Lebanon.
A heavy air attack was reported on the terrorist naval base at Damur, south of Beirut, the
site from which PLO terrorists launched their sea-borne assault on Israeli civilians last Satur-
day. Military sources acknowledged that the fighting was heavy in some sectors. They said the
terrorists sustained 100 killed, while Israeli forces suffered 15 dead and 77 wounded.
Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, addressing a Tel Aviv press conference, stressed
that the operation, though a consequence of Saturday's terrorist outrage, was not a
will
retaliatory action "in the accepted meaning of the word." He said, "The operation
attempt, and I hope we shall succeed, to uproot the concentrations of the terrorists from
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Weizman emphasized that "Israel has no intention of retaining South Lebanon. It is Lebanese
territory. Elias Sarkis (president of Lebanon) said yesterday he has no control over South
Lebanon and I can confirm that . . . But since this area is a base for terrorists going out for
murderous missions, the Israeli government has instructed the army to enter that region and
restore order."
Weizman said the Israeli army would remain in South Lebanon as long as necessary to restore
order and expressed hope that the operation will not jeopardize peace negotiations between
Israel and Egypt.
It was apparent from the outset that both Israel and Syria, whose peace-keeping force is
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From Ch. 56 to Skokie Sadat, U.S.
Blast PLO
An Analysis
By ALAN HITSRY
gave
Two months after cancelling a "public access" program that
Nazi spokesmen a platform, and then airing a "news program" that
achieved the same goal, Channel 56 station manager James Christian-
son last week apologized for the station's error "in neglecting
adequately to communicate with concerned members of the common-
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south Lebanon who were recently reinforced by men and equipment."
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"Music of the Jewish Resistance and Survival: Am
NEW YORK —
the theme of the 1978 Jewish Music Festival, spon-
Yisrael Chai" is
by the Jewish Welfare Board's Jewish Music Council
sored n ationally thousands
of Jewish centers, synagogues, schools and
by
and
observed
other Jewish organizations throughout North America from Thursday
through April 21 (Purim to Erev Passover). This year's festival — the
34th — honors Israel in its 30th year ofstatehood.
Purim- and Pesach-related programs will also be a central part of
Music Month activities, and Prof. Shalom Altman, chairman of
Jewish
the music council is providing resource materials to help Jewish com-
munities and organizations in carrying out their own observances.
That long-awaited statement (See Purely Commentary, Page 2)
should alleviate one of the unfortunate results of a now-admitted blun-
der: the loss of both financial support and viewing audience for De-
troit's only public television station. Christianson, following his tele-
vised press conference, admitted to reporters that the station had
suffered a loss of viewers following the Jan. 12 Detroit Black News
show, as well as support for the Ch. 56 fund-raising auction in April.
Hopefully, those trends will now be reversed because at no
time in the pastiwo months has any individual or group sought
the decline of Ch. 56. But now the Jewish community has been
charged by the local media with attempting to interfere with the
station's broadcast judgement. One letter-writer even equated
the Jewish community with Nazi tactics in playing the role of a
censor. •
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
President Anwar Sadat of
Egypt Tuesday strongly con-
dunned the Palestinian ter-
rorist raid on Israel, the first
Arab leader to do so since the
El Fatah wing of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization
perpetrated ' the outrage
Saturday. According to a
Cairo Radio broadcast, Sadat
described the murder of Is-
raeli civilians as "sad and
tragic."
In an apparent appeal to Is
Menahem
remier
P
Begin for restraint in any
planned reprisals, Siclat cal-
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