THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 28 Friday, February 8, 1980 Local Synagogue Council Names Schon as President SAM BARNETT Jack Schon was elected president of the Synagogue Council of Greater Detroit. AND HIS ORCHESTRA 968-2563 for Valentine's Day 1/2 CARAT T W DIAMOND STUD EARRINGS Reg. $595.00 $32900 NOW JACK SCHON 1/4 CARAT T. W. DIAMOND STUD EARRINGS 1 5900 Reg. S295.00 NOW 1-4r dertalfT1 CreotivekNAelers in the Franklin Plaza (Northwestern at 12 Mile Road) Southfield Daily 10-6 Appraisals Thurs. 10-8 by Appointment 356-2525 Other officers are: Gerald Rosenbloom and Harold Somlyo, vice presidents; Jerry Tepman, secretary; and Paul J. Dizik, trea- surer. Mildreth Rubinoff is executive director. Member congregations include: Adat Shalom Synagogue, Cong. Beth Ab- raham Hillel Moses, Cong. Beth Achim, Cong. Beth Shalom, Cong. Bnai David, Cong. Bnai Moshe, Downtown Synagogue, Livonia Jewish Congrega- tion, Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Temple Beth El, Temple Beth Jacob, Temple Emanu-El, Temple Israel and Temple Kol Ami. Upon three things the world is based: study (To- rah), worship and the prac- tice of loving kindness. — Simon the Just Is Having An "Untouchable" 50% OFF Sale Fine European Fashions . . . That Won't "Put The Touch" On You!, 100% Wool European Designer Suits Sport Coats Regular $275.410 Regular $145-225 Bulky Knit Topcoati & Sweaters Regular $40-110 Now Outerwear Regular $130-275 Buy Early - Get The Best Selection 19771 W. 12 Mile Road at Evergreen in the Evergreen Plaza Southfield 569 5523 Daily 10-6 Thursday & Friday 'til 9 Most Charges Welcome .1•• ■•■• Temple Beth El Will Hold 38th Institute for Christian Clergy The 38th annual B. Be- nedict Glazer Institute on Judaism for the Christian Clergy of Metropolitan De- troit will be held 10 a.m. Feb. 15 at Temple Beth El. Dr. Frederick C. Schwartz, spiritual leader of Temple Sholom of Chicago, will speak on "From the 70s to the 1970s — The Four Party System: Essenes, Sadducees, Zealots and Pharisees." Rabbi Marc H. Tannen- baum, national inter- religious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee, will follow Dr. Schwartz with a talk on "Iran Implications for Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations." Rabbi Richard C. Hertz, senior rabbi of Temple Beth El, is in charge of planning and presiding at the annual Israel to Get Iran's F-16s WASHINGTON (JTA) — The 75 F-16 fighter planes that Israel has ordered from the United States will be in Israel's possession by Oc- tober 1981 instead of in 1984 or 1985 as originally expected. The advance in the deliv- ery date was noted by the Pentagon and General Dynamics Corp., manufac- turer of the jet combat plane. It was made possible because the Israeli govern- ment picked up the contract for 55 of the aircraft which the U.S. had made with Iran but which was cancelled after the revolution in that country last year. The Pentagon and Gen- eral Dynamics also dis- closed that the first of the 75 aircraft "currently con- tracted" was turned over to the Israel Air Force last week at Fort Worth, Texas and flown by Brig. Gen. Amos Lapidot of the Israel Air Force and U.S. Air Force Maj. H.W. Powly to Hill Air Force Base in Utah for training Israeli pilots. The number of Israeli pilots at the Utah air base was not disclosed. Swiss Block Saudi Chalet GENEVA (JTA) — The citizens of the Swiss village of Saanen have banded to- gether to block the sale of a chalet to Saudi Arabian Minister of Civil Aviation Addulla Mandi. Werner Raaflaub, a resident of the hamlet near Gstaad, or- ganized a local committee to take legal action against the sale. They turned down an offer by Mandi to donate 400,000 Swiss francs to the village for an agricultural project if he is allowed to buy the property which is owned by a French busi- nessman. The ban was enforced by invoking a Swiss law that contains restrictions on the' sale of property to for- eigners. for about institute held in memory of Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, who served Beth El from 1941 to 1952. Following the lectures and discussion, luncheon will be served by the temple sisterhood. The clergymen also will hear Rev. Ralph Parks, All Saints Episcopal Church, Detroit; Sister Margaret Urban, 0.P., Christian Service Office, Archdiocese of Detroit; Rabbi Joseph Gutmann, professor of art history, Wayne State University, Detroit; Rev. Edward B. Willingham, Jr., executive director, Metropolitan De- troit Churches; Bishop Re- ginald Holle, president, Michigan District Ameri- can Lutheran Church, De- troit; Rev. Charles W. Bu- tler, New Calgary Baptist Church, Detroit; Odell Jones, pastor, Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, De- troit; His Grace Bishop Timothy, Diocese of Detroit: Rev. Anthony Kosnik, St. Mary's College, Orchard Lake. Marvin Waits of St. Louis New Beth El Administrator Marvin S. Waits of St. Louis, Mo., has been elected executive secretary of Tem- ple Beth El, it was an- nounced by Walter Shapero, president of the congrega- tion. Walts, currently execu- tive director of Cong. Bnai Amoona in St. Louis, served for nearly 20 years as direc- tor of administration and education at Shaarey Emeth Temple in St. Louis. Educated at Washing- ton University of St. Louis, Waits served as president of the National Association of Temple Educators from 1969 to 1970, and holds a degree as a fellow in temple ad- ministration. For two years he was di- rector of children, youth and family life, in the education department of the Jewish Community Center of St. Louis. Israel's First Lady Learns 'How to Cope With Cancer JERUSALEM — "Life looks different after you undergo treatment for cancer," Ofira Navon said in a recent interview. "You realize what things are really important; like fam- ily, faith and friendship." The interview, part of a story in the Jerusalem Post, was given shortly after the wife of Israel's president re- ceived her first chemotherapy treatment at Hadassah University Hos- pital. Mrs. Navon also re- ceived special treatment at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Before she discovered last August that she had breast cancer, Mrs. Navon thought that the disease meant a hopeless end. Since then, she has learned that there are 100 types of cancer, and various stages to each one. It has been reported that one-third of all cases in Is- rael are cured and in many others life can be prolonged. Her treatment in Bos- ton, involving the im- plantation of radioactive needles, was done in lieu of a mastectomy. "I had to fight like mad against it (the mastectomy)," she recalls. Her doctors in Jerusalem had originally insisted that she undergo the traditional treatment for breast cancer. However, Mrs. Navon had read that in the United States, doctors were now giving their patients a choice between the radical and often psychologically damaging mastectomy, and the riskier, more experi- mental approach. The new approach, which has been used in America 10 years, involves removal of only the tumor. followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatments. "Women should at least know that they have an op- tion," said Mrs. Navon, not- ing that the implantation technique will be available in Israel in a few months. Mrs. Navon flew to the U.S. alone, but an old friend who lives in New York was with her before and after her hospitaliza- tion. Her explanation for not taking someone from Israel is that she was worried about criticism and in the press elsewhere that she was wasting public money. She was amused by the fact that she had to use an assumed name, Judith Co- hen, for security reasons. "The name was picked out by our embassy. When I an- swered the phone I was Judith Cohen and the name is even on the luggage that I used. The staff in the hospi- tal used that name, but gradually they asked if they could call me Mrs. Navon and finally they called me Ofira." She was overwhelmed by the outpouring of good wishes here and abroad. Everyone from Britain's Queen Elizabeth to local schoolchildren sent her greetings. Czech Adviser LONDON — The Inter- national Council of Jews from Czechoslovakia re- ports that Czech Gen. Mar- tin Dzur in November toured Syrian army posi- tions on the Golan Heights, accompanied by the Syrian defense minister.