64 Friday, September 26, 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS The Role of U-M President Harold Shapiro Recognition for Academician at Several Local Functions Dr. Harold Shapiro, of the American Dental president of the Univer- Association, and Dr. sity of Michigan, will be Sanford S. Scheingold, accorded recognition for international president of his academic achieve- Alpha Omega. The ments at several func- dinner 'will be held Saturday evening at tions here. Carmi M. Slomovitz, Fairlane Manor. In addition, Dr. Shap- retiring president of the Jewish National Fund iro, who is a nationally- Council of Detroit, has respected economist, was announced that the Dr. guest speaker at the Harold T. and Vivian "President's Breakfast Shapiro Forest of 25,000 Series" of 'the Engineer- trees will be planted in Is- ing Society of Detroit on rael. This honor will be Sept. 17. * * * formally announced Oct. 15 at the annual JNF Harold T. Shapiro was in- dinner, to be held at vested in April as the 10th president of the University Cong. Shaarey Zedek. of Michigan. He was ele- Alpha Omega Dental vated from the post of vice Fraternity will honor Dr. president for academic af- Shapiro and University fairs, and had previously of Detroit President served U-M as director of its Father Robert A. Mitch- graduate program in eco- ell, with guests Dr. I. nomics and then as chair- Lawrence Kerr, president man of the Department of Economics. An international expert in the field of economics, Dr. Shapiro is a native of Montreal and a graduate of McGill University and Princeton University. He has served on the faculty of the University of Michigan since 1964, when he earned his PhD at Princeton. He has served as a re- search associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, senior research associate at the Brookings Institute in Washington, research adviser for the Bank of Canada, a consul- tant for the U.S. Treasury and the Economic Council of Canada, and has served in several capacities for the American Statistical Asso- ciation. Dr. Shapiro's economic forecasts are widely re- garded throughout the world. He has written 35 papers on econometrics, a a Mil • mathematical economics, money and banking. The dean of U-M's School of Literature, Science and Arts, B.E. Frye, recently wrote about Dr. Shapiro: "Clearly, we shall need strong and effective leader- ship to meet these chal- lenges. Those of us who know President Shapiro well believe that through his' insightful awareness of these problems, his courage and determination, his commitment to academic excellence as a teacher and scholar, and his practical experience as an economist and businessman, he is eminently well qualified for the role he now assumes. "I doubt that any incom- ing president of the Univer- sity has ever enjoyed greater confidence, respect, and support from the fa- culty, the students, the re- gents, or the alumni than Dr. Shapiro." Ni gm , DR. HAROLD T. SHAPIRO West German Publisher Believes Jerusalem Is in Good Hands By AXEL SPRINGER (Editor's note: The fol- lowing editorial ap- peared in the West Ger- man "Die Welt" news- paper on Sept. 6.) Is it political love that makes one blind when — after the Jerusalem law and despite a world-wide put- ting of the finger on an al- legedly stubborn Israel — one is willing to stand up for the rights of that country and for its people? At all events, uncritical love would represent a risk of misjudgment and wrong de- cision. However, the attri- bute of any serious criticism forwarded with a sense of responsibility is the capa- bility to differentiate be- tween essential and im- material things. It is not only the recogni- tion of Israel's right to exist that has priority in this sense. This recognition is only the condition for the most important fact: The preservation of Israel's rights for freedom and peace, the intercession in favor of its security, its na- tional, religious, political and spiritual substance. All this will become possible only through acceptance of the historical truth that the undivided city of Jerusalem represents the symbol and the manifestation of Israeli self-determination, thus being Israel's destiny. A German's critical love for the Jewish state is not only governed by remembering the past, but also by realizing that frightening events of our A 4 I • ' • AXEL SPRINGER days show a depressing similarity in their essence to injustice of the past. In the same way as Israel is lacking true solidarity it is confronted with an abundance of hatred. Thus it does not weigh that the Jerusalem-law is, as Teddy Kollek said, "useless and unneces- sary." But for those who con- sider this law an Israeli provocation, prior provoca- tions directed towards Is- rael must be recalled. All of a sudden, Egypt, formerly willing to exclude the Jerusalem question at Camp David, presses Israel hard with it. In a vote performed by the Security Council of the United Nations, the United States voted "by accident" against Israel and its rights in Jerusalem. The Venice resolution of the European Community favored the enemies of Israel in a shameless way. Arafat and his PLO receive revaluation and recognition from deeply within democratic govern- ments. Thus Israel was — once again — pushed against the wall; its willingness for peace was misused cyni- cally; it was forced to give — all by itself — a sign of its determination. It shows nothing but mendacity to be angry about the Knesset's Jerusalem law and to deny. Prime Minister Begin the qualification to act as a partner for dis- cussions on the one hand and to accept simultane- ously the PLO — a mur- der organization — as such a partner and grant it recognition on the other hand. What kind of echoes did we encounter when Israel gave in and made sacrifices? The public opinion did not give credit at all to the re- lease of Sinai nor to the giv- ing up of oilfields and mod- ern airstrips in favor of Egypt. Now one is claiming Judea, Samaria and the eastern part of Jerusalem., This is being requested without guarantees as to se- curity, without a restrain- ing influence on the Ara- bian "rejection front," with- out the understanding as to elementary interests of Is- rael and as to peace in this world. Jerusalem never was the capital of an Arab state. Three times in history it was the capital of the Jewish state. During the time of its partition, war and peace, and it must be brought back to some people's memory that Israel offers peace to all its Ara- bian neighbors while they in turn threaten Israel with war. To drop Israel aids the Soviet empire; that would mean to favor a power and its violence that was just protested by Polish work- men who remonstrated in the name of their Christian faith. What they and what we want to reach — peace in freedom and justice — is at stake- in Jerusalem. The cupolas, towers, and roofs of mosques, churches and synagogues symbolize it. In Jerusalain it has been proven that being in Jewish hands means to be in good hands. The possibility to give way to incalculable encroachment again — no matter whether there be partition or "inter- nationalizing" — would mean nothing but disaster. Recently, Rolf Pauls, the first ambassador of the German Federal Re- synagogues were dishon- ored in the eastern part of the city under Jordanian rule, tombstones were used for roadbeds and in public lavatories. There is a lot of oily hypocrisy in the cam- paign expressing anger towards Israel. It conce- als that only since the reunification of Jerusalem the three large- monotheistic religions in the world — Christians, Moslems and Jews — have been enabled to live in their respective faith within the Holy City freely, safely, and with protected dignity. An "in- ternationalization" would endanger this, a partition would mean its shattering. It does not even need the love for Israel and its afflicted people to realize that Jerusalem — even more than Berlin — is the key crystallization point to peace in the world. Jerusalem represents the historic decision between public to Israel, said something that was meant for all of us: "The Europeans and espe- cially we, the Germans, should always realize our permanent responsibility for Israel and its security. This responsibility is predominant, no matter what other interests might request. This re- sponsibility is indepen- dent of the consent as to the policy of any respec- tive Israeli government." If other states in this world do not realize these correlations of risks and chances in the sense of ethics and power politics — shouldn't at least the Ger- man people be perceiving? It is not blind love, but lov- ing clairvoyance that re- quests avowal for Israel. The nations of this world — despite all their unkind engagements in this conflict — would take it up with re- spect. And moreover, it would mean the only right, morally and politically adequate attitude. A New Year Greeting from Israel 113 7 V 171 kiegle sim 44 - =U Jr*r.toi titii r ***Rit. *tin_ da$ 414:4 One of Israel's many soccer teams sent the above New Year card to its friends and fans.