THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
42 Friday, January 5, 1979
Detroit Auto Show Slated
The 1979 Detroit Auto
Show will take place Jan.
13-21 at Cobo Hall.
`Special activities include
children's days, Jan. 15 and
16; a senior citizens' party
LENNY ,
LIEBERMAN
Orchestra
559-0844
es
Quality Music
Disco Dance Instruction
Floor Show
(audience participation)
ALL IN ONE
and Celebrity Night. Radio,
television and newspaper
personalities will be on
hand for the occasion.
There is an admission
charge.
Auto Show Set
The Tel-12 Mall will con-
duct its 10th annual auto
show through Jan 14. Ad-
mission_ is free, and the
show can be seen during
regular mall hours: 10
a.m.-9 p.m. daily and from
noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Canadian Minister Accused
of Inciting Hatred Is Dead
Anal Brith Activitie
DETROIT CHAPTER
will hold a general member-
ship meeting noon Wednes--
day in the Knob-in-the-
Woods Apts. club house.
"Luncheon Will Be Served"
will present a program and
serve luncheon. There also
will be prizes and games.
Gussie Zuckerstein,
president, invites guests at
a nominal charge.
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CENTENNIAL LODGE
will hold a dinner meeting 7
p.m. Thursday at the Red
Cedars Restaurant. Mr. and
Mrs. Morton (Naomi) Eden
will speak on "Cults." For
reservations, call Morrey
Silverman, 545-6603, or
Gerry Corlin, 559-4041.
There is a charge for dinner.
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Rev. A.C. Forrest, a
Canadian minister who had
been accused of inciting
anti-Semitism among
Christians, died last month.
Editor of the United
Church Observer since
1955, Rev. Forrest came
under attack in 1968 follow-
ing a 10-month leave from
the magazine to report for it
and other church publica-
tions on the Middle East.
According to the Toronto
Globe and Mail, the stories
he filed led to charges that
he and the Observer were
inciting anti-Semitism
among Christians.
In 1971, his book, "The
Unholy Land," was re-
moved from the book
shelves of a top book store
chain in Toronto. According
to the Globe and Mail, the
books were removed be-
cause of poor sales, and not
from pressure from the
Zionist community.
Blood Rally Set
Donors are being sought
to participate in Bnai
Brith's blood bank rally to
take place 5-10 p.m. Mon-
day and Tuesday at the
Eleanor Roosevelt Service
Center, 24600 Greenfield,
Oak Park.
Youth-in-Israel Reunion
Scheduled at Jewish Center
The Israel Information
and Resource Center and
the Jewish Cominunity
Center will co-sponsor a
weekend retreat Jan. 19-21
at Camp Tamarack for high
school students who have
been to Israel.
Yitzhak Feller, Israeli
radio broadcaster who
covered the Camp David
talks, will be the guest
speaker. The retreat also
will give the students an
opportunity to compare ex-
periences in Israel and
enjoy Israeli folk dancing,
singing, Maccabia competi-
tion, Shabat services and
rap sessions.
Informal workshops
and seminars will focus
on post-Camp David de-
velopments, daily life in
Israel and Detroit's or-
ganized Jewish commu-
nity.
Places are limited. There
is a charge. For informa-
tion, call Shelly Jackier,
661-1948, or Reuven
Leibovitch, 661-1000, ext.
265. Checks may be mailed
to the Jewish Center, 6600
W. Maple, West Bloomfield,
48033.
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JNF Month Is Proclaimed
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The month of Shevat, Trees, will be celebrated on
Jan. 29-Feb. 27, will be ob- Feb. 12. On JNF Sabbath,
served in Greater Detroit Feb. 10, sermons will be
and throughout the state of preached on outlining the
Michigan as Jewish Na- achievements and aims of
tional Fund Month. The_an- JNF during its 78 years.
nual JNF Sabbath will be Many organizations al-
marked Feb. 10, according ready are planning the cel-
to Carmi M. Slomovitz, ebration of JNF Month by
president of the Metropoli- arranging special programs
tan Detroit JNF Council, and meetings. JNF films
and Phillip Stollman, and speakers are available.
chairman of the JNF
Thousands of pupils in
Synagogue Committee ;
schools will par-
Tu b'Shevat, or the 15th Jewish
ticipate in planting trees
day of the month, also in Israel, and there will
known as the New Year of be special festivities and
tree planting activities in
the schools. It will be a
community-wide cele-
bration. Adding impetus
to the celebration is the
fact that this will be Is-
rael's 31st anniversary
year.
For information on par-
ticipation in JNF Month,
call the JNF, 557-6644.
Hater Sentenced
PARIS (JTA) — An Alsa-
tian nationalist leader, Dr.
Marcel Iffrig, was given a
six-month suspended sen-
tence last week for incite-
ment to racial hatred and
anti-Jewish libel.
The 52-year-old Stras-
bourg doctor had written in
the last issue of a local pub-
lication that the Holocaust
had never taken place and
that it is a Jewish inven-
tion.
The case was heard at the
request of the French
League for the Rights of
Man which also charged If-
frig with having played an
important role in the "de-
velopment of racist and
anti-Semitic tendencies in
France."
The newspaper stated:
"In 1972 the Bnai Brith
Foundation of Canada is-
sued a writ seeking dam-
ages of libel against Dr.
Forrest, the general
council of the United
Church and the United
Church Publisihing
House. The writ cited an
Observer article under
the heading, 'How
Zionists Manipulate Your
News.'
"Always denying the
charge that he was anti-
Zionist, Dr. Forrest said last-
June that for 11 years his
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enclosed.
Not 'Occupied'
Editor, The Jewish News:
I am getting sick of the
ballyhoo from the President
and his cohorts about the
"illegality" of the settle-
ments in the so-called
"occupied territory" in
Eretz Yisrael.
When will President Car-
ter take offhis cynical mask
and read the words of the
Divine in his Bible, where it
is stated repeatedly: "To you
and your future generations
I am giving this land forever
. . .
Whoever stopped Jordan
from occupying the West
Bank and half of the City of
Jerusalem? I guess it just
depends on who is doing the
occupying.
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Ben Schraub
Miami Beach
Wins Music Prize
Former Detroiter Rena J.
Panush, soprano, won a
cash prize of $500 and sec-
ond place in the Florida-
Atlantic Music Guild's voice
competition.
consistent position had been
that peace would not come
to the Middle East 'until
there is an honest attempt
by the world to solve the
problems of the Palesti-
nians.'
"In May he instigated a
letter to the secretary-
general of the World Coun-
cil of Churches, signed, by
100 churchmen. It asked the
council to press for a Middle
East solution based on
United Nations resolutions
which call for an Israeli
withdrawal from all Arab
lands occupied after the
Six-Day War of 1967."
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MISS OLSHANSKY
and Mrs. Martin 01-
shansky of Southfield an-
nounce the engagement of
their daughter, Debra
Lynn, to Steven Paul
Steinway, son of Mr.' and
Mrs. Marvin Howard of
Birmingham.
An April wedding is
planned.
Israeli Profs
Discuss Nuclear
Energy Problems
BEERSHEEBA — Nu-
clear experts from all over
Israel met at Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev in
December to discuss alter-
natives to nuclear energy.
The one-day symposium
was the sixth in an annual
forum for the Israel Nuclear
Organization, an - umbrella
group which includes scien-
tific associations which deal
with all aspects of nuclear
use.
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Ben-Gurion University
Prof. Yigal Ronen, or-
ganizer of this year's con-
ference, explained that
many of those selected to
sit in on the panel are not
nuclear scientists them-
selves. The idea of dis-
cussing alternatives to
nuclear energy was
meant to convince the -
participants of the in-
evitability and desirabil-
ity of utilizing nuclear fu-
sion as an energy source.
The nuclear experts dis-
cussed new directions in the
use of radiobiology against
cancer; recent develop-
ments in fusion reactors;
the significance of nuclear
reactors in the Middle East;
and the use of thorium as a
nuclear fuel.
Israel has 470,000 Arab
citizens.
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