18 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 Personal Financial Planning HAROLD JAFFA, call Pennsylvania Securities Company Brokers for stocks, corporate and municipal bonds and mutual funds. 559-3120 and ask for Mr. Jaffa. Buy. or Lease An OLDSMOBILE Immediate Delivery Follow The Tracks To ALL OUR OLDSMOBILES HAVE SAKS APPEAL 35300 GRAND RIVER FARMINGTON HILLS 478-0500 MES S tl\A DUV s. EARNING WELTS t TAPPER'S j /tem JEWELRY See Our Large Selection Priced to Please See Why Everyone's Talking! Free Gift Wrapping - CASH REFUNDS ( No Due Bills) Watch & Jewelry Repair on Premises Free Jewelry Cleaning RACQUETIME MALL N.E. Corner of 12 MILE & NORTHWESTERN 357-5578 Mon, Thur, Fri till 9 - Tues, Wed. Sat till s 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.