THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 14 Friday, September 12, 1980 Jewish Groups in Court on Behalf of Adventist LOSE 17-25 POUNDS (Men Lose 28-35 Pounds)' Quickly, Safely, Permanently in just 6 weeks No Shots No Drugs No Contracts Individual Daily Counseling because it's harder to lose weight alone . Call Today Southfield 642-5665 Cranbrook Centre 30233 Southfield Rd SUITE 102 ,4,0 14 AT T H E LOSIN G Troy 879-2222 Sunset Plaza 81 E. Long Lake Rd at Livernois CHICAGO — Several Jewish organizations in- cluding the American Jewish Congress have filed friend-of-court briefs here in a major test case involv- ing the right of a Seventh Day Adventist to refuse to pay union dues on the basis of his religious beliefs. The case, "Nottelson v. A. 0. Smith Corporation," is now before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The employee, Darrel C. Nottelson, worked for the A. 0. Smith Corporation in Milwaukee. When he re- fused to join or contribute to the union as required by the union contract, the corn- pany dismissed Nottelson at the behest of Smith Steelworkers, Directly Affiliated Local Union 19806, AFL-CIO. Nottelson said he could not support the union be- cause of the tenets of his church. He offered to make a contribution to charity in the amount of the required union dues, but this was rejected by the union. After losing his job, Nottelson filed suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which requires employers to make reason- able accommodations to the religious practices of em- ployees. THE ALL N/ TOURO COLLEGE is offering a dual track English program to serve your needs ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR JOB AND UNIVERSITY • TECHNICAL ENGLISH For Professionals with. 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Although the Jewish population has been re- duced from 7,000 persons in 1964 to less than 1,800 per- sons in 1980, Jewish com- munity life continues. (Jews still live in Salisbury and Bulawayo as well as in such small Midland towns as Gatooma, Gweld and Que Que.) The kosher butchers are open for business as are the Jewish sports clubs. President of the Jewish Board of De- puties of Zimbabwe is Harold Gallop. Vice President of the Liberal Party and member of the Jewish Board of De- puties is Arthur Kaplan. Salisbury's three synagogues, Orthodox, Sephardic and Progressive, are all open without rabbis. The Conservati ill synagogue in Bulaw built in 1970 was closed in 1978 and today is a social hall. (Rabbi Curtis Cassell had retired.) Zimbabwe life for Jews continues amid the greatest tragedy, as told in a new book, "The Goldbergs of Lee Ranch." Corruption Charges Shake National Religious Party JERUSALEM (JTA) — The National Religious Party is being severely sha- ken by charges of corruption against Minister of Reli- gious Affairs Aharon Abu-Hatzeira, one of three NRP ministers in the Cabinet. The Jerusalem Post in its lead story last week re- ported that "five charges of bribery and fraud" were likely to be completed against Abu-Hatzeira. Police sources have re- vealed that the investiga- tion has found that funds were channelled to non- existent yeshivot and other yeshivot were given money for twice as many students as they actually had. The money allegedly went to the minister and his NRP fac- tion. Interior Minister Yosef Burg, an NRP Minister who also heads the police department, Justice Minister Moshe Nissim and Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir met with Premier Menahem Begin to discuss the case. The police may seek to have Abu-Hatzeira's immunity as a Knesset member re- voked. Zamir, meanwhile, met with Binyamin Siegel, the top police fraud inves- tigator, and approved his request to grant Yisrael Gottlieb, deputy mayor of Bnei Brak and an NRP member, the status of state's witness with immun- ity from prosecution. The Jerusalem Post quoted police sources as say- ing Gottlieb has claimed he transferred millions of shekels of ministry funds slated for Bnei Brak yeshivot back to Abu- Hatzeira at the latter's re- quest. The investigation has deepened the enmity within the NRP between the faction headed by Abu-Hatzeira and that headed by Burg. Abu-Hatzeira's suppor- ters are calling for an inves- tigation into the Ministry of Interior. Some are charging that Abu-Hatzeira would not be the subject of an in- vestigation if he was not a Moroccan Jew. Two Russians Allowed to Study at Jewish Seminary NEW YORK — Isaak Fuchs, a graduate of the Kiev Technical Institute and Yuri Kerzhenevich, a construction worker from -Moscow have been granted permission by Soviet authorities to begin studies at the Jewish theological seminary in Budapest. The move by Soviet offi- cials is apparently an at- tempt to deal with a shor- tage of rabbis in Russia, ac- cording to New York Rabbi Arthur Schneier. The Hungarian seminary has been selected by the Soviet Council on Relgious Affairs, a state body that oversees legally established religious groups, as the set- ting for a cautious experi- ment. Pressed over the years by American and other Western Jewish leaders to do something about the shortage of religious leadership for Jews, the council agreed to allow Adolf Shayevish, from the Jewish autonomous region of Birobidzhan, to enroll in the Budapest seminary. Reports reaching Moscow on Shayevich's studious- ness and political loyalty were favorable and the Soviet authorities permit- ted two other Jews, Mikhail Povzhitkov of Kiev and Nudel of Riga to study at the seminary. Fuchs and Ker- shenevich will be the fourth and fifth students that Soviet authorities have sent. Club for Blind FAR ROCKAWAY, N.Y. (JTA) — Thirteen blind women and five blind men — most of them elderly Jews — have celebrated the eighth anniversary of their "visually handicapped" club of the Gustave Hartman YM-YWHA.