16 Friday, February 16, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Brotherhood Week Marked 1919 CADILLAC ANDY BLAU "Best Deal In Town" WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 RES. 642-6836 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM JOIN TODAY! I Please enroll me (us) as a member of the 1 1 I 1 Association for the Jewish Retarded Name I Address 1 I City 1 1 Phone 1 1 1 1 Zip - Enclosed is my (our) . check for $15 (Contributions are tax-deductible) Association for the Jewish Retarded 24525 Southfield Road Suite 107 Southfield, Michigan 48075 (313)557-7650 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 NEW YORK — The president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews has called upon the "millions of little people" in this nation to do the "work of developing what we universally call brotherhood, the respect for one's fellow human being and giving to others the same rights and respect we desire for ourselves." In a message contained in the materials distributed by the NCCJ celebrating the 46th Brotherhood Week, which begins Sunday, Dr. David Hyatt said that the potential for harmonious solutions to common prob- lems would thus dramati- cally increase. "Perhaps if we all could participate in the process of inter-cultural and intergroup face-to- face experiences, we might be freed from fears of living next door to or being in the same school or neighborhood with people and families whose customs differ from our own," said Hyatt. He said that mankind "still is bitterly divided in the three Rs — race, reli- gion and riches," and that religious fratricide appears to be the norm rather than the exception in various places in the world. Yes, 6716 Van Nuys Boulevard, Van Nuys, California 91401 Phone (213) 785-1191 Holocaust' Shown in France PARIS (JTA) — French television began showing the NBC-TV "Holocaust" series this week. A record audience of some 15 million people was expected. The program was .shown in spite of a strike by TV technicians who decided to air the program nonethe- less. French television first turned down the film on ar- tistic and historic grounds. Heads of France's three state-controlled channels also claimed the price de- manded by the producers was far too high. - It was only after a series of mass protests led by Health Minister Simone Veil, herself a former Auschwitz in- mate, that one channel decided to acquire the rights and air it within the framework of one of its most popular pro- grams, "Screen Files," which consists of a film followed by a debating panel. r The showing of the series has sparked interest about the entire Holocaust period. Magazines and newspapers are giving front-page cover- age to the period and recall that 120,000 Jews were de- ported from France, includ- ing some 60,000 French na- tionals, and that less than 3,000 returned alive. Last week, French televi- sion cancelled an interview with Mrs. Lina Heydrich, widow of former gestapo leader Reinhard Heydrich "in order not to provide a platform from which former Nazis or their relatives could try to whitewash their crimes." The decision not to show the interview was repor- tedly taken after organiza- tions of former resistance fighters and deportees lodged stiff protests with the TV authority. (See Commentary, Page 2.) The French-dubbed version of "Holocaust" was also screened in Bel- gium, where more than 1,000 persons demon- strated last week in Antwerp to protest rising neo-Nazi activities. "Holocaust" is also being dubbed into Italian for showing in Italy later this year. several times to the Soviet Union, where he circum- cized Jewish children secretly. He distributed prayerbooks, -mezuzot, prayer shawls, etc. Some 12 years ago he was accused of being a "counter-revolutionary who perpetrated bar- baric acts on grown-up people and honest work- ers." Rabbi Bronstein was ar- rested and tortured. The Russian authorities wanted to compel him to confess. He suffered a heart attack, was released and deported from the Soviet Union. He de- cided to fight for Jewish human rights and against the Soviet regime. Rabbi Bronstein could not visit the Soviet Union any- more. But he sent emis- saries to spread the Jewish spirit among Soviet Jews. In this way he succeeded in saving the writings of the sage of Poltava. DRAPERY CLEANING DRAPERY CLEANERS All That The Name Implies We Remove & Rehang FREE ESTIMATE Trade Member American Society of Interior Designers (A.S.I.D.) Puzzled about Diamonds? A I A 0 N.... , H L ER L I ANCE L FACE AT R D G E ID E S T R AL I TY D G N E ■ 1 BEDROOMS INC. TEL AVIV — When one of the last great Torah sages in the Soviet Union, Yit- zhak Isaar Krassiltshikov from Poltava felt 14 years ago that his death was ap- proaching, he asked Ameri- can Rabbi Zvi-Bronstein to visit him in the hospital in Moscow. After the Bolshevik Revo- lution, the Russian rabbi was forced to become an ac- countant. In the hospital, he confided to Rabbi Bronstein that during recent years he had secretly written a com- mentary to the Babylonian Talmud, the "Mishna To- rah" of the Rambam. Under his hospital bed were 20 volumes of his comments on the Talmud. Rabbi Krassiltshikov asked Rabbi Bronstein to take these volumes with him and to promise him that they would be published. A few days later, Rabbi Kras- siltshikov died at the age of 84. He had told Rabbi Bronstein that he wrote the comments for many years in a cellar with the help of candle light. Bronstein Rabbi brought the hand-written volumes to Israel. In 1977, the first volume was pub- lished. Talmud experts all over the world ex- pressed their admiration for this work, which was produced under inhu- man conditions. The comments were not writ- ten for scholars and ex- perts. The late Rabbi Krassiltshikov suc- ceeded in bringing the Talmud closer to the common people. The comments were re- viewed by Israeli rabbis and printed in Bnei Brak. Rabbi Bronstein told us that in 1953 he was sent to Poland as a mohel. In those years there was an emigra- tion from the Soviet Union by former Polish citizens. Many Jews used this oppor- tunity to come to Poland. They asked to be circum- cized. Rabbi Bronstein left Po- land, but he kept his rela- tions with the remaining Polish Jews. He travelled 11-1cc micn who you used to know at Irving's Furniture. I'm in California now, but I'm still in the same business and still thinking of my old friends back in Michigan. It would be great having customers Tike you again! So ... if you like the way I took care of your furniture needs in the old days ... and you happen to be in Southern California ... come in and let me show you my new store ... 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