THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS I Fr, daY sileyer 1-4 piece orchestra and disco tapes 398-2462 61, T 'Tr Te-t1 By HASKELL COHEN (Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.) Close to 500 people from all parts of the country joe brinkls cornel his new " CUI#P/ for 7th Gr. qders to West Blookinfield . and Southfierld Registration noi:v Open 357-0600 26645 W. 12 Mile, SouthfieRd HOUSE of - SHUTTERS D re e..J (A/ L.; SINCE 1959 \ Call Now For Free Home Estimates RESIDENTIAL-COMMERCIAL • attended the second annual induction dinner of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame on July 27 in Los Angeles. All members of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame selected last year and those inducted this year will have their photos and records perpetuated in a special building which the U.S. Committee Sports for Israel is constructing at the Win- gate Institute of Physical Education in Natanya, Is rael. The building wil) be ready for the 1981 Ma, ibia Games. An instat:ition service will be heldon the night of June 7 at tie Win- gate Institute. Those honored hcluded Mel Allen, baseball sportscaster; Isary Berger, weightlifting; Lilian Cope- land, track and field; Bar- ney Dr.yfuss, baseball; Marst`l,r1 Goldberg, foot- ball; 1-1ward Gottlieb, bas- ketba; Harry Litwak, bas- kmeetyb a es Laurence "Lon" i track; 'Ron Mix, - Nopt lall; and Al Rosen, baseball. A special commemora- tive medal was presented to Gretel Bergman, who was refused permission to practice with the 1936 German Olympic team and thereby was pre- vented from participat- ing in those Games. Stars from the stage and screen performed and helped in the induction services, but the highlight of the evening was an ad- dress made by Alex Dreier, a war correspondent with ABC during World War II who read his essay on "What Is a Jew?" Everyone in the audience was touched, many to tears, as this non-Jew read his script which was presented for the first time six days after the Six-Day War in Is- rael. Dreier today is a sickly man who gets by with the aid of a cane but still retains the beautiful, sonorous voice of his broadcasting days during Wb-rld War II and for many years thereaf- ter. Here is his understand- ing as to "What Is a Jew?": "We think we know. Whether he calls himself an Israelite, a German, a Russian or an American, he is a man with a special kind of backbone that has been tempered by travail and straightened and hardened by an un- releAting determination to be free. And because he is free and he is strong every Jew stands taller and prouder today than at any time in the history of recorded man. "What is a Jew? "A tired old man squint- ing his watery eyes as he bends over needle and thread in a corner tailor shop in an American city. A tall, sunbronzed young zealot working in a kibutz in Israel, a gifted musician performing in a European symphony orchestra, an or- dinary family man with no medals or high-water , 4 0/0 Off on GRABER - Woven Woods - - Vertical Blinds - - Horizontal Blinds - HOUSE of SHUTTERS 559-4668 25511 SOUTHFIELD RD., SOUTHFIELD, p • NORTHWOOD SHOPPING CENTE\ 13 MILE AND WOODWARD • TEL-12 SHOPPING CENTER 12 MILE AND TELEGRAPH • MEADOWBROOK MALL ADAMS & WALTON, ROCHESTER • TWELVE OAKS MALL NOVI MICHIGAN'S LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORES FOR CHILDREN EARLY BIRD SALE ALL WINTER OUTERWEAR 2 I % OFF OUR REGULAR PRICE SALE ENDS AUG. 30 • BOYS' OR GIRLS' WINTER COATS • BOY'S OR GIRLS' SKI JACKETS • 2 PIECE SNOW SUITS • PRAMS • SNOWMOBILE SUITS SIZES INFANTS TO 14 — BOYS AND GIRLS Famous il Outerwear Is For This Season's Picking At Youth Center! MASTER CHARGE VISA • “13, /1 T Friday, August 15, 1980 41 Q % 0 LAI/ Q./ marks in his life. But yet a vast, hostile land that each is different from his seems to be all muscle but fellow man. And for has left room for mur12 thousands of years that dif- heart. ference was turned against "Am-4 ft is in this context him. Today . . . that dif- ference has meant the dif- iiiat we salute and honor Is- ference between siwival rael, to say as a proud American acutely aware of and death . . "Whether intellectual pr- his own nation's bloody ime or peasant, today's Jew battles for survival, we rec- leas done what millions who ognize you for what you are: went before him tried but a brother in an imperfect could not do. He has proved world, striving for what we to the world that to be a Jew strive for — the dignity of is still something special all men — and their inher- and something different. ent right to be free. Israel But the artificial inferiority has caught the torch of lib- complex that was laminated erty . . . and to her we say on his psyche by centuries of hold it high. And let no force oppression is gone forever. on earth ever dim its light It was blasted away by the much less extinguish its rise of Israel, a tiny state in flame." Memories, Not Much Else for Burma's Last Jews RANGOON, Burma — Some 3,000 Jews resided in Burma prior to Japanese oc- cupation in 1942 according to a recent New York Times story chronicling the de- mise of the country's once flourishing Jewish commu- nity. Until the arrival of the Japanese drove most of the Jews, together with the British colonial population, to the safety of India, nearly two-thirds of the Jewish community made their homes in the city of Ran- goon. "There were not enough chairs in the synagogue for all the people on the High Holidays," said Reuben Al- bert, 67, caretaker for the building which is now used by a handful of aging men and women. Jewish immigration to Historic Finds at Ancient Site TEL AVIV (JTA) — Ex- cavations at the ancient-site of Antipatris, east of Petah Tikva, have uncovered a number of historic finds, it was announced by Prof. Moshe Kochavi of Tel Aviv University's archeological department who headed the excavation team. The finds included a per- fectly preserved household with wine jars, oil lamps, food and utensils all in place, as if a housewife had neatly arranged the pantry just before a disaster oc- curred, Kochavi said. The disaster was the de- struction of the town in 70 CE by the soldiers of Roman Emperor Vespasian (69-79 CE) who were there to re- store order after the populace organized resis- tance against the Roman occupiers. The household found was the remains of a house that collapsed after it was set afire. The town of Antipat- ris was built by King Herod in 9 BCE on the site of the previous Hellenistic town of Pegai which was populated largely by Jews. The name Pegai is a distortion of the Hebrew word Afek which subsequently became the Arab village _of Fejja. Burma began in the 1850s. The land on which the synagogue stands was given to the commu- nity by the colonial rul- ers. Until about 1941, 25 Jewish children were born in Rangoon each year. The last entry in the birth records is dated 1970. There are approximately two dozen Jews left in Burma, with half of them living in Rangoon. About 400 came back after the war, but most left when Burma and Israel gained their independence in short succession in 1948. Most live in abject pov- erty and owe their living largely to the, only one among them who earns a moderate income — the son of the former head of the community, Jacob Samuels. Samuels, 36, succeeded his father and continues his business of renting party supplies. The synagogue's treasury was nearly depleted last year after a wealthy Swiss Jew, a frequent visitor, do- nated more than $1,000 to have the building white- washed. But, perhaps sym- bolic of the community's problems, the stucco proved to be too worn to absorb paint, and replastering the building cost more than the original donation. Orthodox Blast DST in Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) — Several dozen Orthodox residents of Jerusalem gathered • recently in downtown Jerusalem pro- testing against the intro- duction of daylight savings time — although there was almost no public desecra- tion of the Sabbath. The Orthodox feared that due to the fact that the Sab- bath now ended later the operation of the first show in the local cinemas (which begins at 7 p.m., when there is still light outside) would cause a mass desecration of the Sabbath. Cinema own- ers cancelled- the first show for this very reason. WE SELL FOR LESS "KNITS ARE IN" SUPERB COLLECTION OF EXQUISITE 2 PIECE DRESSES & sizes 8-18 CLOW Li1 13171L/4/ Advance Fashions Ltd. New Orleans Mall O 1 5600 W. 10 Mile Rd. at Greenfield HOURS Mon.-Sat. 10-5 569-4030