THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 22 Friday, January 26, 1919 Red Tape Trap Right In Your Own Driveway! THE TUNE -UP MAN Certified by the National Automotive Institute of Excellence Comes to your home or office with the "garage-on-wheels." Valet service that doesn't cost one pedny extra • Expert diagnostic tune-up ■ Electronic analyzer - all engine systems ■ Professionally trained mechanics • Perfect results assured TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Faye Schenk, former president of Hadassah and the American Zionist Fed- eration, ran into Israel's bureaucratic red tape when she made aliya to head the World Zionist Organiza- tion's Organization De- partment. Mrs. Schenk reported that many friends aided her and she had little difficulty. But the special treatment prompted her to ask about other immigrants who do not have high-placed friends to help them. She is convinced that the procedures can be reduced and made more orderly. 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Mrs. Rose's personal story not only describes the thoughts of the population as the Nazis slowly tight- ened their noose around the Jews and the Dutch; she also gives the reader an in- sight in to the daily life of a captive nation under Nazi occupation. For five years, Leesha lived one step ahead of Nazi transports, first as a student nurse in hospi- tals that Jewish patients and staff were eventually removed from by the Nazis; then in hiding with gentile families. Dedi- cated to the many Dutch Christians who risked their lives by protecting Jews, her tale of Dutch underground activities on behalf of the "onder- duikers" (hidden people) has chilling and heartbreaking moments. At the age of 18, Leesha found a nursing position in the Joodse Invalide hospi- tal, where it was not un- usual to find Jewish "patients" in hiding from the dread Gestapo. 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Mrs. Rose decided to write her book because "after many years of teaching, I began to realize that the Holocaust as an event in Jewish history was being commemorated in a most pitiful manner. There was ignorance of its his- toric, national, and reli- gious significance on the part of leaders, students, Papers Reveal 1948 Intrigues - LONDON (ZINS) — The British government in No- vember 1948 considered the suggestion that British forces "might be called upon to support the Transjorda- nian force operating in Palestine" and thus clash with the army of the new state of Israel. This is the most startling revelation in the British Cabinet and Foreign Office papers, which have been made available to the public after the expiration of a 30-year period. The documents reveal that an unnamed American Zionist said to represent Dr. Chaim Weizmann (who later became Israel's first President), approached the British Embassy in Wash- ington, This man, described as "a senior official of the Zionist Organization of America," suggested that the British might review the decision to leave Pales- tine on May 15, 1948. In another document, British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel told the Foreign Office that Ameri- can Zionist leader Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver had re- turned from Palestine much less belligerant than when he had left. A document dated April 1948 records that Britain was prepared to retain bases in the new state of Is- rael. The unnamed Zionist emissary assured the British Embassy that "Weizmann would be pre- pared to break with the Jewish Agency over this plan." When the British Ambas- sador asked about Rabbi Silver's position, in view of the Basle Congress of De- cember 1946 (when Rabbi Silver opposed Dr. Weiz- mann), "the informant said that most of the Jewish Agency would give $10,000 to see Silver and Emanuel Neumann (another Ameri- can Zionist) underground." teachers and parents alike. "I began to be consumed by a flame of awakening, and the hermetically closed vault of my memories began to open up slowly but pain- fully. However, it was my son's intense interest in my personal experiences that finally convinced me of the necessity to relate my own story in full. "I began to lecture at school assemblies and teachers' seminars. I staged Holocaust commemora- tions. I wrote and directed plays stressing the heroism during the Holocaust. I began to delve into the his- tory of anti-Semitism and Nazism, into the mechanics of the "final solution" of the Jews in Europe, and I be- came more and more as- tounded at the unbelievable monstrosities perpetrated against the Jews. "I also found to my great dismay that 35 years after the Holocaust books are being published denying that the Holocaust ever took place — some even denying that Hitler knew or was re- sponsible for the systematic extermination of the six million Jews. "The Neo-Nazi move- ments claim the Holocaust is but a fig- ment of the Jewish im- agination. All this, de- spite the millions of per- sonal, eyewitness re- ports, the vast Holocaust literature, and the official German Nail records. "Therefore, we, the eyewitness survivors,. the last link to the Holocaust, must tell our personal stories, no matter what pain and anguish we suffer in doing so. That is why I have written this book — so that present and future genera- tions will never forget the Jewish agony. Only then will they prevent it from ever happening again." More Jews Are Gained by Conversion, Rabbi Says NEW YORK (JTA) — A Michigan Reform rabbi con- tends that if accurate data existed, they would show that conversions out of Judaism and conversions to Judaism would, on a bal- ance sheet, "show a steady stream . of converts to Judaism and only a slow trickle of converts out." Rabbi Ralph D. Mecklen- berger of Temple Beth Emeth, Ann Arbor, made his assessment in reacting to the flow of articles and committees dealing with "the alleged threat to Jewry from the cults." Writing in a recent issue of Sh'ma, he said th•ques- tion of how many young Jews are being converted to non-Jewish faiths "depends on whom you believe." "Some articles and speakers say the num- bers are astronomical and others say they are- small," Rabbi Mecklen- berger declared. He added that from this perspective in the uni- versity town of Ann Ar- bor, "the problem ap- pears small. A few Jewish students, but only a few, are attracted by fundamentalist sects or cults" and "my col- leagues at Hillel concur that there is little cause for alarm." He asked what all the furor was about if there are more converts to Judaism than Jewish converts to Christianity. He com- mented "we could charita- bly ascribe it to a feeling that even a few Jews lost is a few too many." He contended Jews do have problems "but not the problems the national Jewish community seems to enjoy discussing. The real danger that we face is not a youth problem but a multi- generational problem of secular drift away from Judaism." He said few Jews knew more than one or two con- verts to the cults "but all of us know many Jews, un- affiliated and uninterested, who rarely give a thought (or even a dollar) to Jewish causes." He declared that while this is "hardly a new problem," it is "the more serious problem we neglect as we agonize. over the minor annoyance of the cults." He contended that the Jewish community should "simply write off those few who actually convert out of Judaism," adding that "paroxysms of guilt on our part ac- complish nothing.", . While agreeing that the Jewish community "obvi- ously" should try to reach more Jews, he added "we should be realists enough to know that we are going to lose some Jews just as we gain some Jews. In a society as open as ours there are bound to be individuals who shift from one religious camp to another." Stressing that Jews, like the cults, were making con- verts, he argued "we should have enough faith in Jews and Judaism not to be panicked by proselytizers." Fund Raiser Head Named NEW YORK — Leonard H. Sherman of Chicago, a United Jewish Appeal na- tional vice chairman, has been appointed chairman of the third annual UJA Na- tional Walk-A-Thon to be held May 6. "We expect well over two million people to walk as one along the 'Road to Re- newal' on that May Sun- day," said Sherman. "More than ever, the 1979 Walk-A-Thon will be an ex- pression of solidarity with Israel's people, as well as a means of raising funds for overseas and local aid pro- grams."