Congregations Will Celebrate Federation Sabbath This Weekend
Federation Sabbath — recognizing the role of the Jewish Welfare Feder-
ation and its agencies in Detroit — will be observed this weekend in area
congregations.
This special Sabbath coincides with Shabat Shekalim, when the Torah
portion deals with the responsibility of Jews to sustain Jewish life. Other
congregations throughout the country will join in the observance, honoring
their local federations and the life-saving role of the United Jewish Appeal in
Israel and elsewhere overseas.
Among the special sermons arranged by Detroit area rabbis are
"Zedaka: Love in Action" by Rabbi Irwin Groner of Cong. Shaarey
Zedek; "Jewish Isolationism Is Dead" by Rabbi Richard C. Hertz of
Timerman's
Talmudic Approach
to Israel's
Status and the
Role of Pilpul
in the Disputation
Temple Beth El, both on Saturday; and "Zedaka — Basic Mitzva" by
Rabbi Milton Rosenbaum of Temple Emanu-El tonight.
Stanley D. Frankel, national chairman of the Young Leadership Cabinet
of the United Jewish Appeal, will speak at Saturday morning services at
Adat Shalom Synagogue.
Other rabbis who have indicated their participation are Rabbis Ernst
Conrad, Temple Kol Ami; Israel I. Halpern, Beth Abraham Hillel Moses;
David A. Nelson, Beth Shalom; Stanley M. Rosenbaum, Bnai Moshe; M.
Robert Syme, Temple Israel; Sherwin T. Wine, Birmingham Temple; and
Morton F. Yolkut, Bnai David.
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Palestine
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February 15, 1980
NCCJ Is Testifying for Israel
Before Christian Mideast Unit
Syria Plan Precipitates
New Terrorist Attacks
on Lebanese Christians
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A new round in the Lebanese civil war
appears to be taking shape as Syria prepared to redeploy its
"peace-keeping" force despite urgent appeals by the Lebanese
government to call off or delay its evacuation from the Beirut
area. The Syrian moves apparently have encouraged the Palesti-
nian terrorists to resume their attacks on the Christian enclave
in south Lebanon.
Artillery exchanges continued intermittently Monday night
and Tuesday between the Palestinians and the Christian militia.
It was learned meanwhile that the heavy shelling by the Palesti-
nians of the Christian village of Deir Memes on Monday was a
cover for the infiltration of terrorists into the hamlet. The eight
casualties there — four dead and four wounded — were the result
of mines and booby traps planted by the infiltrators.
There was no intervention by Israel in the latest round
of fighting. Nevertheless, both Syria and the Soviet Union
accused Israel of aggression and intervention in the affairs
of another country. The charges were contained in a state-
ment issued in Moscow following the visit there of the de-
puty secretary general of the Syrian Baath Party, Abdallah
el-Ahmar.
Israel charged that the Soviet Union has supplied the Pales-
tinians with 60 World War II vintage Russian T-34 tanks. A
Lebanese Christian spokesman said the tanks were delivered via
Syria. Israel says the terrorists have also received several mobile
artillery pieces from the Soviets.
The shelling subsided late Monday but was resumed by the
terrorists at sundown, using American-made 105 mm cannon
which were originally supplied to the Lebanese army. The Chris-
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Special to The Jewish News
Dr. Carl Hermann Voss, prominent author and Christian clergyman,
WASHINGTON, D.C.
speaking in behalf of the National Conference of Christians and Jews at a "Special Panel on the
Middle East" convened here by the National Council of Churches of Christ, reaffirmed the National
Conference of Christians and Jews' position which demands all-out U.S. support for Israel and the aid
necessary for Israel's security.
Dr. Voss spoke in his own behalf and in behalf of Dr. David Hyatt, NCCJ president, whose
statement he read confirming the NCCJ unqualified position in support of Israel and rejecting the
defamatory actions of the Jewish state's enemies and the destructive activities of the PLO. Seventeen
Jewish organizations were unanimous in their rejection of invitations to the meetings of the National
Council of Churches of Christ first held in New York last Friday and reconvened in Washington on
Wednesday.
—
In his 10-page statement, Dr. Voss carefully outlined the NCCJ support of Israel as
expressed by Dr. Hyatt in a 1976 special press release and in a 1978 letter to the New York
Times. The 1978 letter strongly denounced the terrorist PLO and predicted that the West
Bank would become a terror base controlled by a pro-Soviet, Palestinian dictatorship if it
ever became a Palestinian state.
In his own remarks, Dr. Voss listed the 3,500-year Jewish presence in
the
the Holy Land and carefully documented the international mandates,
historic and moral rights of the Jewish people to the land of Israel.
"Remember the extraordinary bravery and tenacity of a half-million
Jews in the newly-established Israel of 1948," Dr. Voss declared, "as they
successfully resisted the onslaught of the armies of five Arab states, while
at the same time welcoming tens of thousands of new immigrants from
Western Europe and North Africa, a victory as stunning and heroic as
those achieved in the Six-Day War in 1967, Egypt's War of Attrition in
1969-1970 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
"Remember the remarkable absorption of hundreds of thousands of
penniless Jewish immigrants over the three decades after Israel's estab-
lishment, of whom just under a million fled the Arab states of that time.
"Remember that the half-million Arab refugees from what had
been Palestine, most of whom had no need to flee and were often
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Bnai Brith Asks Law of WASHINGTON
Return (JTA) Status
Quo
— Bnai Brith has
called on
Israel to reject any legislative attempts to limit the Law
of Return solely to Orthodox Jews, terming such a move
ill - considered and a denial of those rights that "Israel
has properly recognized for the Jewish people as a
whole."
In a resolution adopted unanimously by the organiza-
tion's board of governors at its annual winter meeting,
Bnai Brith urged the Begin government and Knesset to
defeat a new drive that would deny automatic Israeli
citizenship — past, present and future — to Jews con-
verted by Reform and Conservative rabbis.
The board declared that limiting the Law of Re-
- turn would, in effect, brand as illegitimate two
major branches of Judaism, the Reform and Con-
• U.S. Secretary of Transportation Neil
servative. "It would ultimately sap Israel's cen-
Goldschmidt, left, is shown talking to Bnai Brith In- trality in world Jewish life," the board said, inevit-
ternational president Jack Spitzer, U.S. Secretary of ably weakening both world Jewry, "including Or-
Commerce Philip Klutznick and Egyptian Ambas-
sador Ashraf Ghorbal at a Bnai Brith reception last thodox communities," and Israel itself.
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week.
DR. CARL VOSS
American Jewish Congress
Battles Massachusetts Law
Requiring Prayer in School
A new Massachusetts law that allows
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ritual prayer in the public schools has been challenged by
the American Jewish Congress and the Civil Liberties
Union of Massachusetts (CLUM) in a major test case that
may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The suit contends that the law violates the First
Amendment provision guaranteeing the free exercise of
religion. It asks the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
for a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of the
measure pending a declaratory judgment that the statute is
constitutional.
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The statute, which took effect Feb. 5, requires
teachers throughout the state to invite student volun-
teers to lead their class in prayer. Children who do not
wish to participate are entitled, under the measure, to
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