70 Friday, April 21, 1978
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Allied Campaign Leaders Anticipate Victory
Urgent Participation Call
Issued to 5,000 More Donors
Allied Jewish Campaign
leaders declared at the
workers' report meeting
Sunday morning, at the
Jewish Center, that they
anticipate a victorious con-
clusion at the final rally of
the 1978 drive to be held at
Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel
Moses on Wednesday eve-
ning.
A special toast to Israel in
the 30th anniversary year
of its independence will
highlight the closing celeb-
ration. Presiding over the
meeting will be Campaign
General Chairmen Phillip
Stollman and Philip T.
Warren.
The toast on behalf of Is-
rael will be delivered by Zvi
Rafiah, counselor for the Is-
raeli Embassy in Washing-
ton.
The toast on behalf of the
Jewish community will
come from Max M. Fisher,
honorary chairman of the
executive committee of the
Jewish Welfare Federation
and chairman of the board
of the Jewish Agincy.
The gathering begins
with a champagne reception
at 8 p.m. Leaders of each of
the Campaign's nine di-
visions will give final re-
ports on the amounts raised
by their workers.
Division workers on all
levels participated in two
days of telethon solicitation
this week in a last concerted
effort to contact all con-
tributors.
Warren and Stollman
joined in appeals at Sun-
day's meeting for an all-out
effort to reach more than
5,000 yet to be solicited to
attain the increased gifts
necessary to meet the
emergencies in the present
Israel situation.
Reports at the Sunday
meeting showed a total as of
then of $15,240,000 from
17,371 donors.
Encouraging factors in
the drive, which were
applauded by the chairmen,
were the increased
enrollments in the
Women's, Metropolitan and
Junior divisions. The latter,
with a total of $180,340
"rom 1,933 donors included
Shown with guest speaker Shlomo Gazit, center, are
1978 Allied Jewish Campaign general chairmen
Philip Warren, left, and Phillip Stollman.
more than 500 new givers
imong the youth in the
3reater Detroit area.
Warren emphasized the
seeds demanding increases
;AD assure continuity in ef-
forts in Behalf of Israel as
well as the local and na-
tional causes aided by the
campaign. While a $1 mil-
lion increase is expected in
the final total, he expressed
hope that additional funds
will be made available to
provide for the obligations
that must be met this year.
A strong appeal for in-
creased communal support
was made by Dr. Conrad
Four Refuseniks Get Exit Visas
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Four prominent longtime
refuseniks have been given
exit visas to emigrate to Is-
rael in what was seen here
as a move by the Soviet gov-
ernment in preparation for
Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance's trip to Moscow, the
Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry and the Union of
Councils for Soviet Jews re-
ported.
They identified the four
as: Joseph Ahs, a 33-year-
old Moscow surgeon; Joseph .
Blich, 40, a mathematician,
and Arkady Rabinov, 31, a
radio engineer, both of
Leningrad; and Moshe
Shipper, 59, a mechanical
engineer from Kharkov.
The four have been seeking
visas from three to six
years.
Meanwhile, "Solidarity
Sunday," an annual rally on
behalf of Soviet Jews, will
be held May 21 at Battery
Park, it was announced by
Bronx Borough President
Robert Abrams, chairman
of the Greater New York
Conference on Soviet
Jewry.
In a related develeip-
ment, the dropout rate
among Soviet Jewish
emigres reaching Vienna
is still running high, ac-
cording to a report pre-
sented to the expanded
World Zionist Organiza-
tion Executive meeting in
Jerusalem.
In Washington, Israel's
Ambassador to the United •
States, Simha Dinitz, de-
clared that the struggle for
the rights of Soviet Jews
and Israel's struggle for
continued independence
and security in the Middle
East are one and the same.
He denounced the Soviet
percent of Communist op-
position. He said that the
assurance of a united
Jerusalem, opposition to the
Palestinians injecting
themselves as a destructive
element, the right of Jews to
settle anywhere on the West
Bank, remains the view of
all Israelis.
Gazit, wearing a suit he
purchased in Cairo during
the peace negotiations, said
Israelis believe that the
peace-making process is the
greatest thing that has
happened in 30 years.
He said the process of
negotiation has just begun
and neither side should be-
lieve that their official posi-
tions are their last posi-
tions.
He added that the negoti-
ation's will characterize
"Arab-Israel relations for
the next 5,000 years and we
should be in no hurry to ac-
cept any deal."
Gazit said that no peace
agreement can establish a
threat to Israel on the West
Bank. He said Israel cannot
trust the Arabs, the UN or
the U.S. to guarantee Is-
rael's security interests.
He said there will be no
real peace until the problem
of the Palestinians is set-
tled, but that settlement
cannot be at the expense of
Israel.
"Whoever accepts the re-
turn of the Palestinians to
Israel accepts the destruc-
tion of Israel," he said.
"We are united in our sin-
Giles who gave an outline of
communal duties at a time
when there are many con-
frontations affecting Is-
rael's battle for self-
protection.
Stollman, in an address in
which he expressed concern
over the indifference that
still is in evidence in some
ranks, pleaded for identifi-
cations that will re-affirm
Jewish loyalties to tradi-
tions.
Drawing upon sources
that emphasize the reli-
gious duties inherent in
Jewish tradition, in a refer-
ence he made to the na-
tional interest being shown
in the Holocaust, Stollman
pointed out that two of the
613 (Taryag) Mitzvot,
Jewish religious obliga-
tions, commence with the
word Zahor, Remember.
One is the Zahor et
HaShabat, remember the
Sabbath, as the major as-
pect of Jewish solidarity for
survival; and the other is
Zahor et Hamalek, Re-
member Hamalek, never
to forget the enemy as
means of self-defense and
protection against dangers
from those seeking Jewry's
destruction.
In his impassioned ad-
dress, Stollman called upon
the more affluent who have
been niggardly to be more
compassionate. "You live in
expensive homes, in luxury.
Why do you deny help for
the great causes and for
those who need your
encouragement?" he de-
clared.
The major address at
Sunday's meeting was by
General Shlomo Gazit, di-
rector of intelligence for the
Israeli military forces, who
gave an outline of strivings
for peace. He expressed con-
fidence that peace is possi-
NEW YORK — The his-
ble. While describing the tory of the founding of the
Sadat visit to Jerusalem as land now called Israel is
the second in importance in captured in a new, limited-
the rebirth of Israel to that editien series of collector's
of the partition decision by plates created by sculptor
the UN in 1948, he indi- Laszlo Ispanky. The plates
cated that Sadat's speech in are issued-by Goebel of West
the Knesset on Nov. 20, Germany.
1977 actually demanded Is-
The first Ispanky plate is
rael's complete submission "The Twelve Tribes of Is-
which would speed the na- rael" handcrafted in porce-
tion's doom. But he retained lain, measures 12 inches in
hope that time may lead to diameter and is individu-
an understanding.
ally numbered. Only 10,000
Commenting on the of each plate in the series
demonstrations for peace in will be produced. A colorful
protests against the policies representation of Jacob oc-
of Menahenr-Zegin, he de- cupies the center or the first
clared that on the main plate, which has around its
points there is unanimity in circumference the names
Israel, except for the one and Hebraic symbols for
cere desire for peace in the
Middle East. We must make
decisions, however hard, to
make peace with our
neighbors. All of us are pre-
pared to make heavy sac-
rifices for peace."
Following Gazit's speech,
Warren commended the ef-
forts of the many hundreds
of volunteer workers and
the division emphasized
anew the need for contact-
ing every potential giver as
an assurance that the drive
will meet with the fullest
success.
The themes of commit-
ment and Jewish responsi-
bility will emerge in a
number of Passover ser-
mons to be delivered this
weekend in connection with
the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign.
Orthodox, Conservative
and Reform congregations
in the metropolitan Detroit
area will be asked by their
rabbis to take note of the
special urgency of this
year's Campaign.
Besides those rabbis who
will mention the Campaign
in their sermons, several
are sending out special
mailings to their congreg-
ants and others have writ-
ten about the 1978 appeal in
their synagogue and temple
newsletters.
Brochures describing
Jewish Welfare Federation
agencies and activities, and
Campaign appeal cards are
being distributed at other
locations.
Collectors' Plates Produced
by Hungarian Ispanky
Stepping into freedom, just-arrived leading
Novosibirsk refuseniks Yuri Berkovsky (center), Ale-
xander Holzman (right) and their families walk across
the Bar-Dan University campus in Ramat Gan, in a
photo obtained by the Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry. They flank Dr. Ira Hammerman, fourth from
right, an American oleh who was instrumental in ob-
taining their release.
Union and its "unholy coali-
tion of terrorism and sub-
version" in the Middle East
and Africa not only as a
menace to Israel but to "the
stability of every Western
vestige of influence in that
area."
Dinitz made his remarks
in an address at the closing
session of the national lead-
ership conference of the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry (NCSJ).
In an earlier address to
the NCSJ conference, Sen.
Robert Dole (R-Kan.)
suggested that the U.S.
Administration and Con-
gress could affect policy
changes in the Soviet Union
in the direction of human
rights by various means, in-
cluding linking federal
funding for foreign travel by
American scientists to the
adherence to human rights
by the host countries.
"The application of this
suggestion need net be
directed only toward the
scientific community," he
said.
It also was learned that
agents of the Soviet KGB
raided a Riga apartment in
which matza was being
made, halted the baking,
smashed the matzot already
produced, ransacked the
apartment and arrested the
participants. ,
The Al Tidom Association
reported that four of the
Jews were arrested, held for
24 hours and released. Sim
Abramowitz, in whose
apartment the baking took
place, was arrested and still
is in jail.
each of the 12 tribes. Every
plate in the series is deco-
rated with an acid-etched
gold rim and the legend,
"From an original work of
art by I .a.tilo Ispanky."
Ispanky settled in the
U.S. after fleeing his native
Hungary in the wake of the
1956 revolution.
He works in Pennington,
N.J., for Goebel of North
America and this new series
of collectors plates are on
display in gift shops and
galleries.
Jews, when they are good,
are better, and when they
are bad, are worse than
Gentiles.
— Heinrich Heine