22 Friday, January 19, 1979
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ANNOUNCING NEW LOCATION OF
JACK CAULEY CHEVROLET
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W. Bloomfield
855-9700
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Shtetl and Wild West Will Meet in 'No Knife'
By HERBERT G. LUFT
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
ONG. BETH ACHIM
Presents on
SUN., FEB. 18, 1979 — At 8:00 P.M.
All STAR CONCERT
BETH ABRAHAM YOUTH CHORALE,
Dayton, Ohio
Cantor Jerome B. Kopmar, Director
Cantor Moshe Taube,
Guest soloist
PLUS
ORCHESTRAL SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE
ADMISSION:
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Call Synagogue Office for Reservations
Friday Nigth Dinner and Concert Tickets
Or Chairman, George Rossman 968-6835
Co-Co-Chairman, Lotty. Partovich 546-4452
Co-Chairman, Stewart Silverman 547-2329
HOLLYWOOD — Leo
Fuchs has returned to the
American stage' and screen
after recuperating from a
serious operation. The al-
most legendary Yiddish
comedian now portrays a
dramatic role in "No Knife,"
a comedy with tragic under-
tones, currently before the
cameras for Warner Bros. at
MGM studios with Robert
Aldrich directing for pro-
ducer Mace Neufeld.
The period picture, writ-
ten by Michael Elias and
Frank Shaw, opens in Po-
land around 1800 during a
meeting of the board of rab-
bis in the community when
the chief rabbi (Leo Fuchs)
selects a pious young man,
who has studied the English
language, to go to the city of
San Francisco where the
Jewish families are in dire
need of a religious leader.
The youthful scholar carries
with him to America a
Torah for his flock to study
and for his own protection.
Gene Wilder is the nimble
young rabbi who moves
about with Chaplinesque
gait fighting off ignorance
and anti-Semitism.
Entangled with some
brutish characters who try
to make his life unbearable,
he overcomes all obstacles
to his religious calling, but
not before he is forced by
circumstances to kill a
threatening adversary with
YESHIVAT AKIVA
Akiva Hebrew Day School
respectfully requests the pleasure of your company
at their
15th
Anniversary Dinner
Sun., March 4th, 1979
Congregation Beth Achim
Cocktails 6 P.M.
Dinner 7 P.M.
Couvert $125 per couple
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Dinner Co-Chairman
a knife handed to him by a
friendly Indian chief.
He swears never to use
a weapon again, "No
Knife," as the title of the
film implies. Riding at
Gene's side through the
Western territory is Har-
rison Ford, youthful hero
of "Star Wars" and
"Force 10 From
Navarone."
Leo Fuchs says the
countenance of the white-
bearded Polish sage in "No
Knife" is almost identical
with the one of the rabbi in
Sholem Asch's "Salvation"
of 36 years ago, in which the
character grew and declined
from 16 to 85.
"Moments" is a delicately
phrased lesbian love story
*
with author-director Bat-
"MADAME ROSA" (La Adam joined on the screen
Vie Devant Soi) won the by Assaf Dayan and Swiss
much coveted foreign- actress Brigitte Cantillon.
language "Best" picture
Arthur Cohn of Basel,
award of the Los Angeles Switzerland, three-time
Film Critics Association.
"Oscar" winner, most nota-
Director of the French- bly for "The Garden of the
made film starring Simone Finzi Continis," is distribut-
Signoret is Israeli Moshe ing the French-Israeli co-
Mizrahi who is currently production of "Moments."
producing "Moments" in Tel
*
Aviv, to be directed by Mic-
hal Bat-Adam, his wife and
WOODY ALLEN com-
the co-star of four of his pleted on location through-,
movies and the leading lady out New York his appropri-
of "I Love You, Rosa."
ately titled picture, "Man-
hattan," a comedy-drama __
about the lives of two mar-
ried couples, which he wrote
find security." Kreisky and directed, sharing top
argues that Israel is not the billing with Diane Keaton,
only answer to the Jewish
Michael Murphy and
question. According to him, Mariel Hemingway.
there are many solutions of Charles Joffe produced for
which Israel is only one.
United Artists.
Kreisky Gives Jewish Views
VIENNA (ZINS) — "The
Times in Which We Live" is
the title of a book by Aust-
rian Chancellor Bruno
Kreisky, which is expected
to make its appearance at
the end of February. In a
fragment from this book,
which was published in the
local press, Kreisky talks
about his relationship to
Judaism and Zionism.
Kreisky contends that
there is no such thing as a
unique Jewish race. He
writes that Jews are to be
found in all parts of the
world and that their physi-
cal appearance is more simi-
lar to the people with whom
they live than to any so-
called prototype of a unique
Jewish race. The Jews of Po-
land and of Germany are
very far removed from and
completely dissimilar from
the Jews of Morocco and
Yemen, Kreisky writes.
Speaking of his feelings
about Zionism, he says,
"The Zionists contend that
the only answer to the
Jewish question is the state
of Israel. Only there do Jews
Abzug Hits Scapegoat Role
WASHINGTON — After
an angry exchange with
President Carter last week,
Bella Abzug was fired as
co-chairwoman of • the
President's National Advi-
sory Committee on Women.
Mrs. Abzug was told that
she was fired by President-
ial aides Hamilton Jordan
and Robert Lipshutz.
Mrs. Abzug, who has been
an outspoken and stormy
critic during her tenure
with the committee, askeo
the two aides, "Why am I
being made a scapegoat?"
She said Lipshutz, the
President's counsel,
exploded at the use of the
word scapegoat and called
her a "liar," adding: "The
next thing you know you'll
be saying that you were
fired because you are a
Jew."
Both Lipshutz and Mrs.
Abzug are Jewish.
Yadlin Resigns from Knesset
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Labor Knesseter and former
Minister of Education Aha-
ron Yadlin has resigned his
Knesset seat after 14 years
in the House. He told re-
porters he would be return-
ing to Kibutz Hatzerim in
the Negev. His place will be
taken by another kib-
JERUSALEM — Only utznik, Zev Katz of Kibutz
when an anti-Israel resolu- Gesher.
tion is adopted at the United
Yadlin served in the early
Nations are the Israelis 1970s as Secretary General
aware of the centrality of Is- of the Labor Party and was
rael in UN debates, but the considered a protege of
fact is that the General As- Golda Meir. He survived
sembly dedicates 30-50 per- unscathed the embarras-
cent of its time to Israel, sing conviction and impris-
former Ambassador to the onment of his cousin, Asher
UN Haim Herzog recently Yadlin, on bribery charges.
told a Hebrew University
Yadlin explained that he
audience.
had been under pressure
During his three-year from his kibutz to return
tour of duty 'at the UN, he there full-time.
said, the world organization
He indicated he expected
did not deal even once with
the war in Lebanon. Only
the Israeli representative
and the Lebanese ambas-
JERUSALEM — Sheli
sador raised the issue. This leader Arye (Lova) Eliav
year the Security Council has announced that he will
dedicated a mere four min- resign from the Knesset this
utes to the subject.
month to take up a year's
Problems of Africa were research grant at Harvard.
not raised at all, Herzog
Eliav's place in the Knes-
said, with the exception of
speeches by the representa- set will be taken by Uri Av-
tives of Ethiopia and neri, who is next on the
Somalia. Libyan forces in- Sheli list. Avneri served in
vaded Chad and occupied two previous Knessets.
Under the agreements
part of its territory, but
there was no mention of it at made in Sheli when the
party was formed, Eliav and
the UN.
his colleague Meir Pa'il
were to resign their seats
He that goeth about as a this summer to let the next
talebearer revealeth two men get in.
secrets; therefore meddle
not with him that openeth
In announcing his res-
wide his lips.
ignation Eliav said, "I
UN's Main Topic
AHARON YADLIN
to be elected kibutz secre-
tary. In that capacity, he
said, he would seek to pro-
mote close consultation be-
tween the Negev settle-
ments and the army on the
future of the region after the
Sinai pullback.
Eliav Resigns from Knesset
ARYE ELIAV
firmly believe in the prin-
ciple of rotation, and my
plan to work at Harvard
will merely mean my res-
ignation earlier than I
was committed to do."
He will do research at the
Harvard Institute of Inter-
national Relations and will
probably write a book.