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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 13, 1978
The Holy Land. . .Ho1y to Many
From Israel Digest
The pilgrimage — a jour-
ney to a sacred place — is an
important religious experi-
ence for people of every
faith.
In Israel, "The Holy
Land" to people of different
creeds, there are oppor-
tunities to visit shrines re-
vered by Judaism, Chris-
tianity, Islam as well as the
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lesser-known faiths of the
Druze and the Baha'i.
Jerusalem
contains
Judaism's most sacred
shrine, the Western Wall,
last remnant of the Great
Temple. Once it was known
as "The Wailing Wall," but
today — after 2,000 years —
it is often the site for joyous
celebrations interspersed
with impromptu song and
dance.
Other Jewish pilgrim-
ages are made to Rachel's
Tomb in Bethlehem, the
Tombs of the Patriarchs
in Hebron, David's Tomb
on Mount Zion in Jeru-
salem, and the Cave of
the Prophet Elijah on
Mount Carmel.
Moslems, are, of course
bound by the fifth pillar of
Islam, to make a pilgrimage
or hajj to Mecca and Medina.
However it is also consid-
ered a sacred duty to make a
ziarra (sojourn) in
Jerusalem at the Temple
Compound, where Ab-
raham, father of Ishmael
from whom their race de-
scends, offered his son Isaac
as a sacrifice (Gen. 22:2).
_ Here they visit one of the
most important and beauti-
ful mosques in the world,
the Dome of the Rock and
also the famous El-Aqsa
masque.
Another favorite pil-
grimage is to the great Mos-
que of el-Zazzar in Acre. and
the impressive, newly-built
mosques in Nazareth and
Haifa.
Although Moslems
from every country are
welcome to visit their
holy shrines in Israel, Is-
raeli Moslems were until
recently denied transit
through neighboring
Arab countries to make
their most holy pilgrim-
age to Mecca.
Today there are Christian
sects belonging to 30 de-
nominations in Israel, and
12,000 Christians live in
Jerusalem alone. The main
sects are Greek Catholic,
Greek Orthodox, Latin and
Maronite.
The Protestants comprise
Anglicans, Presbyterians,
Baptists and Lutherans.
The Eastern churches
are also well represented by
Armenian Orthodox, Cop-
tic, Ethiopian and Syrian
Orthodox.
Many Christians come
to Israel to tread in the
footsteps of Jesus ...
from the Church of Nativ-
ity in Bethlehem, to
Nazareth and the Sea of
Galilee.
In Jerusalem, they can
walk along the Via
Dolorosa, pausing for
prayer and reflection at the
Stations of the Cross, visit
the Hall of the Last Supper
on Mount Zion, and worship
in the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre.
AJCo ngress Decries Use
of Swastika on War Toys
.
NEW YORK — Toy man-
ufacturers gathering last
week in the Biltmore Hotel
for a seminar on toy safety
conducted by Toy Manufac-
turers of America (TMA)
were met with a protest by
the American Jewish Con-
gress against the use of
swastikas and other Nazi
insignia on hobby toys such
as model planes, ships and
tanks.
"Safety is not only a mat-
ter of physical security,"
said Julius Schatz, director
of the American Jewish
Congress Commission on
Jewish Life and Culture, in
a letter to C. William Crain,
chairman of the board of
TMA.
"It is also a matter of
safeguarding young and
vulnerable children from
toys that teach them that
the swastika is merely a
geometric design and that
the murderous Nazi war
machine, which sought to
destroy Western civiliza-
tion, may be trivialized into
just another game.
"For the past nine
months," Mr. Schatz said,
"we have been collecting
evidence that many toy
manufacturers, members
of your association, are
producing hobby toys,
planes, ships and tanks,
imprinted with the hate-
ful Nazi insignia," he
added:
"It is deplorable that in
1978, more than three de-
cades after the Nazi
Holocaust in which millions
were destroyed, butchered
and savagely murdered —
including 6 million inno-
cent Jews — toys must bear
the hated Nazi swastika in
the interest of 'objective his-
torical replication' of the
Nazi war machine.
"We have written to indi-
vidual companies engaged
in this practice and we have
asked for a meeting with
your officers, but to no av-
ial."
The American jewish
Congress spokesman con-
tinued:
"Catholic and Protes-
tant clergy in Germany —
which remains the major
market for these toys —
have demanded a halt to
the sale of these 'authen-
tic historical reprod-
uctions.' We support that
call.
"Playing at war is bad
enough; war games that
simulate the actions of the
Nazi war maching add
grievous insult too irrepar-
able injury."
Short Stories,
Poems in New
Grove Volumes
Close to 50 authors are
represented in the anthol-
ogy, "Yardeird Lives,"
edited. by Ishmael Reed and
Al Young (Grove Press). A
variety of poems and short
Stories are included in this
paperback.
Also published by Grove
Press is a collection of new
poems by Harold Pinter,
under the title "Poems and
Prose."
Weizman U. Dinner to Cite
Nobel Laureate, Drug Chief
NEW YORK — Dr.
Joshua Lederberg, a Nobel
Laureate in medicine, who
is the newly elected
president of Rockefeller
University, and Dr. Walter
Ames Compton, chairman
and chief executive officer of
Miles Laboratories, Inc.,
will be the guests of honor at
the 33rd annual Weizmann
Dinner, tendered by the
American Committee for
the Weizmann Institute of
Science Oct. 29 at the
Americana Hotel.
The dinner's theme is
"Weizmann Science on the
International Scene."
Dr. Lederberg, one of the
world's foremost authorities
in the science of genetics,
will be the principal
speaker.
DR. LEDERBERG
Dr. Compton will re-
ceive the Weizmann
Medallion "in recogni-
tion of the high standards
in pharmacological re-
search his organization
has achieved under his
direction, and for the
pioneering role taken by
his Elkhart, Ind. based
firm, in setting up pilot
and subsidiary plants in
Israel over the past quar-
ter of a century."
Both honorees are also
members of the intitute's
DR. COMPTON
international board of gov-
ernors.
Dr. Michael Sela, re-
nowned immunologist and
president of the Weizmann
Institute, also will partici-
pate.
Guest artist will be cellist
Nathaniel Rosen, winner of
the gold medal at the 1978
International Tchaikovsky
Competition in Moscow and
the first American in-
strumentalist since Van
Cliburn to earn this honor.
Dr. Lederberg, fifth
president of Rockefeller
University, was awarded
the Nobel Prize in 1958
for his research on the
organization of genetic
material in medicine. The
following year he was
appointed professor of
genetics and chairman of
the department of gene-
tics at Stanford Univer-
sity's school of medicine,
a post he has held until
his appointment to Roc-
kefeller University last
July. Dr. Lederberg also
served as chairman of the
department of medical
genetics at the University
of Wisconsin.
Dr. Lederberg is recipient
of honorary degrees from
Yale, -Wisconsin, Columbia
and Yeshiva Universities.
El Al Airlines and Israel
Post Office Hit by Strikes
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
El Al, Israel's national air-
line, was grounded by a
strike of maintenance
workers over the weekend.
Thirty-six flights were can-
celled and about 5,600
passengers milled around
the Ben-Gurion Airport
terminal as efforts were
made to transfer them to
other airlines. El Al was re-
ported trying to charter
foreign aircraft and crews to
maintain a semblance of
Mordechai Hod, director
general of El Al, offered the
workers advances against
future wage increases but
would not accede to their
demands while contract
talks are underway. He said
the walk-out was a "wildcat
strike" in violation of the
agreement last spring that
no workers' group would act
unilaterally. Histadrut
pledged at that time not to
support an unauthorized
strike.
service.
Israel's postal employees
walked off the job last week
as well, forcing the U.S.
Post Office to refuse all air
mail bound for Israel. The
post office is continuing to
accept surface mail bound
for Israel.
The El Al management
branded the airline walkout
a violation of agreements
signed last spring after a
prolonged strike by several
unions paralyzed the Israeli
air carrier. The mainte-
nance workers are demand-
ing a 15 percent wage hike
immediately although wage
negotiations have been in
progress for some time.
Czechoslovakia's
Biased Reporting
LONDON — The Inter-
national Council of Jews
from Czechoslovakia re-
ported that Czech radio
broadcasters followed the
Communist line in broad-
casting news of the Camp
David Middle East peace
accords.
The accords were de-
scribed as making no pro-
gress toward real peace and
one broadcaster suggested
that the Geneva peace con-
ference should be recon-
vened.