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. — 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 — Purim to Passover Bliss THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL Jewish Music festival March 23-April 21,1978 • Purim to Eiev Pesach swi IVASI1 sh. ReSiStailte %Olt and %Milt 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 (Continued on Page 6) 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- .110,1014 JEINt13141,AUSIC COUNCIL J Wa south Lebanon who were recently reinforced by men and equipment." If UM 1011 ■ 111M•S • 041.• Nr116 IL, 1.170 "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. • (Continued on Page 12) 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- (Continued on Page 15)