40 Years of Junior Division Services to Be Feted at Celebration A musical history of the Jewish Welfare Federation Junior Division will high- light that group's 40th an- niversary celebration at the annual meeting, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, at the Jewish Community Center. Division members will be joined by former members and officers in the song and Shavuot: Trust in Faith Our Youth as Our Trustees • Tourism in Israel's Fame Editorials, Page 4 dance program, which was written and directed by Ellen Schmier and Jane Zukin. The division will honor the men and women who have been active in the young adult volunteer or- ganization over the past 40 years. Many former Junior Division members have gone on to hold leadership positions in the Jewish Wel- fare Federation and Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund. Kenneth Safran is chairman of the annual meeting. In addition to the anniversary celebra- tion, the agenda includes election of officers for the coming year and a report by outgoing President Jeffrey N. Bonin on the group's activities during his term. Committee chairmen for the evening include Cindy Leven, visual effects; Fran Slabeck, refreshments; Shelley Navarre, memen- tos; Carol Dunitz, invita- Mons; and Ben Rosenthal, reservations. Ellen Whitefield and Nancy Green are program coor- dinators. Immediate past president Neil Satovsky is preparing a booklet commemorating Junior Division's history. All past and present members of Junior Division are invited to attend, as are interested men and women of post-college age through their mid-30s. Reservations are required. For information, contact Lilian Bernstein, division director, at the Jewish Wel- fare Federation, 965-3939. (The Junior Division is featured on Page 64.) THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Shavuot Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere of Jewish Events $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c VOL. DOCIII, No.14 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 June 9, 1978 Arab Financing Bars Israel from December Asian Games Stollmans Give $1 Million to Bar-Ilan Lookstein Center NEW YORK (JTA) — A Joseph H. Lookstein Institute for Diaspora Education at Bar-Ran University in Israel was announced Monday night at a dinner honoring Rabbi Lookstein, chancellor of the university, for more than 50 years of service to the Jewish community both in America and Israel. More than 500 persons attended the event at which Dr. Lookstein was presented with an honorary doctorate of philosophy by Rabbi Emanuel Backman, president of Bar- Ilan. Phillip Stollman of Detroit, chairman of the university's board of trustees, announced a gift of $1 million from the Stollman family to the university. Stollman said that the Lookstein Institute will seek to alleviate the shortage of teachers and mark "a fitting tribute to one of Jewry's out- standing educators and leaders. BANGKOK, Thailand —The council of the Asian Games Federation on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution to exclude Israel from the Eighth Asian Games in Bangkok in December. The move was opposed by three uninvited representatives of teh Israeli Olympic Committee who attended the meeting. The three were members of the Asian Sport Federation. In December 1976 the federation voted in Montreal not to invite Israel to the games to avoid complicated security arrangements. The Israelis issued a statement which said: "The security issue was a totally unacceptable reasoning and Lord Killanin, president of the International Olympic Committee, had stated that such reasoning used against Israel's partici- pation opened the door to usage against any other country as well. Israel is part of the Asian continent, a fact which no force in the world, and no amount of money can change." Thailand agreed to be the host on condition that member countries put up $2.5 million. Five Arab countries — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — pledged a total of $2 million, and a spokesman said the Arab nations would not compete with Israel. The International Olympic Committee and two international sports groups, athletics and archery, have informed the Asian Games Federation that they will not recognize the events. SHAVUOT, 5738 NCCJ May Boycott 1980 `Passion Play' NEW YORK — The president of the National Confer- ence of Christians and Jews has declared that his or- ganization will launch a significant effort to discourage American Christians from attending the 1980 Passion Play at Oberammergau, West Germany if the anti- Semitic 1860 script is used. Dr. David Hyatt, NCCJ president, said that the deci- sion of the town council to keep the 1860 text which portrays Jews as shylocks and Christ killers would re- sult in boycotts and protest demonstrations in the town. Dr. Hyatt, who was elected president of the Interna- tional Council of Christians and Jews at its recent 25th annual meeting and will assume office next January, said that the ICCJ also would mobilize a campaign in Europe to conduct protest demonstrations. "There is absolutely no reason to use that anti- Semitic script," said Dr. Hyatt, a Catholic, of Bavaria's decennial Catholic folk pageant. "The Second Vatican Council denounced anti-Semitism and absolved Jews of any blame for the crucifixion of Jesus. "We hope the town council realizes its error and instead uses its 1750 version which makes Satan the heavy and like the New Testament, portrays the Jews as divided over Jesus. "But if it appears that the 1980 two-day festival of weeks, celebrating the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people, begins at Shavuot, Saturday. the sundown The photograph above shows a Torah scribe sculpture at the new Beit Hatefutsoth - Museum of the Jewish Diaspora on the campus of Tel Aviv University. play will use the anti-Semitic script which the murderous Adolph Hi- tler praised in the 1930s, we will do whatever we can to create an inter- national boycott and significantly reduce the 1970 attendance of 530,000," concluded Dr. Hyatt. DAVID HYATT