36 Friday, March 21, 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS afairwt wales/ Seyval Blanc A sensational white dinner vintage wine trom a French-American Hybrid grape. Le Blanc de Blancs A dry, rich demi-sec white wine. Chablis , 14646141 . Superb dry white wine, from the finest N.Y.S.- grapes. AIN KOSHER FOR kJ PASSOVER ..0 ROYAL WINE CORPORATION, NEW YORK, N. Y. Israeli General Warmly Greeted While Envoy Gets Cold Shoulder JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's ambassador to Egypt, Eliahu Ben-Elissar, is getting the cold shoulder from Cairo's diplomatic and social set in sharp contrast to the genuinely warm re- ception the Egyptian mili- tary has given a visiting Is- raeli general, Dan Shom- ron, commander of the southern front. Shomron, who com- manded the famous Entebbe rescue operation in July 1976, is a member of a large Israeli military dele- gation headed by Deputy Defense Minister Mor- dechai Zipori. He was the guest of the Egyptian Sec- ond Army and its comman- der, Gen. Ibrahim el-Auodi, who was Shomron's an- tagonist in the Yom Kippur War. Shomron became the first Israeli officer to visit an Egyptian army unit in field deployment. Ben-Elissar, on the other hand, has had little social contact with Egyptians since he presented his cre- dentials to President Anwar Sadat last month, according to Sami Greenspan, the Yediot Achronot correspon- dent in Cairo. Prime Minis- ter Mustapha Khalil has not yet found time to receive him. He is not invited to parties and Egypt's social elite refuse to meet with him beyond the minimum requirements of protocol, Greenspan reported. According to Greenspan, Ambassador and Mrs. Ben-Elissar had to call off a party they planned to give this week when 15 prominent Egyptians declined their invitation. The invitees included senior officials, newspaper editors and literary figures. Ben-Elissar has yet to be interviewed by a leading Cairo newspaper. Al Akhbar sent a reporter but the story has not appeared. Greenspan observed that the Egyptian pressed marked Ben-Elissar's arri- val in Cario three weeks ago with a flurry of critical arti- cles referring to the Israeli') envoy's hard-line state... ments on Jewish settle- ments in the occupied ter- ritories. But the "social boycott" does not extend to the Egyp- tian man-in-the-street, Greenspan, himself a native of Cairo, reported. Wher- ever the envoy goes he is greeted with smiles, hand- shakes and even kisses for himself and his wife, Nitza. Massachusetts School Prayer Court Decision Hailed by AJC Enjoy your Holiday Feasts with the Holiday-Quality Kosher Poultry... Kosher for Passover and all year. America's biggest selections of Turkey, Chicken and Duck for your every meal-time need . . . to eat in good faith and in good health. 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The court also cited a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Schempp case, which outlawed the practice of Bible-reading in public schools, and the 1962 rul- ing in the case of Engel v. Vitale. In accordance with that decision, the Massachusetts court said it was irrelevant that those reciting the prayer were volunteers and that students who decided to be excused were afforded an opportunity to do so. Meanwhile, the AJCon- gress has filed friend-of- the-court briefs in two re- lated cases: • On behalf of the Teaneck (N.J.) Township board of education which has been sued for attempt- ing to accomodate religious practices of its students by extra- discouraging curricular activities on Fri- day nights, Saturdays and Sunday mornings; • Against a federal ap- peals court case which is trying to overturn a district court decision which prohib- ited the city of Denver, Colo., from displaying a creche of the birth of Jesus on public property during the Christmas season. Anti-Nazi Activist Is Cited With a Medal in Hamburg BONN (JTA) — Eugen Kogon, an educator and anti-Nazi activist, was awarded a special medal in Hamburg March 11 bearing the names of two Jewish philosophers, Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig. The award, made by the Asso- ciation for Christian- Jewish Cooperation, hon- ored Kogon for his resis- tance to the Nazis during the era of the Third Reich. The festive ceremonies were held at the Hamburg City Hall where Justice Minister Hans-Jochen Vogel congratulated Kogon on behalf of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the federal government. In his remarks he referred to the recent Bundestag decision to remove the statute of limitations on prosecution for murder, including Nazi war crimes, and the estab- lishment of the first Jewish faculty at a German univer- sity since the war as exam- ples of the advancement of Christian-Jewish relations in the country. Mayor Hans Klose of Hamburg noted that one of the first acts by city authorities after the war was to restore to the City Hall the portraits of promi- nent Jewish citizens that had been removed by the Nazis. Kogon, responding to the award, said the young generation in West Ger- many was eager to know more about the past. But, he observed, young people are still not receiv- ing sufficient orientation on the subject and face enormous difficulties in a rapidly changing world. A bitter note was injected when one speaker remarked that "Buergstadt is everywhere in Germany." Buergstadt is the small Bavarian town whose citi- zens raised 200,000 Marks bail ($110,000) for their former mayor, Ernst Hein- richsohn, who was con- victed last month and sen- tenced to six years' impris- onment for his role in the deportation of French Jews and others during World War II. who Heinrichsohn, served with the Gestapo in Paris, was freed on bail, but only briefly. He was re- arrested by court order last week pending the outcome of his appeal to the high court in Karlsruhe. JDC Shipped Pesach Supplies NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has shipped over 400,000 pounds of Passover supplies to small Jewisl- communities throughout, the world, including ship- ments to the communities of Egypt and Lebanon, accord ing to JDC Presiden Donald Robinson. JDC Executive Vice President Ralph Goldman noted that for the past two years JDC has been provid- ing the small Jewish com- munity of Egypt with Passover matzot and supplies directly, rather than through the Interna- tional Red Cross as was the case for the past 31 years. The depository of power is two nations.