18 Friday, October 10, 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Begin Critical of Jordan Support for Iraq in Conflict ALDRICH :ct/STCitA KITCHENS CUSTOM CABINETS Fol-t\11( & COUNTER TOPS OLD CABINETS REFACED KITCHEN APPLIANCES SOLD & INSTALLED 542-1550 Lei di/ our Shouroorn 1824 BEU.AIRE - ROYAL OAK . 1 BtX. S. OF 12 MBE - 1 BLX. E. Of CAMPBELL eat f f ak m ett m at el ispatt 2 YES—to the Jewish National Fund JNF land supports the whole Israel economy — It grows its food — On it stands Israel's religious, educational and welfare institutions. A bequest to Jewish National Fund is a bequest to the entire Jewish people, linking the name of the Testator with Israel in perpetuity. For information and advice in strict confidence apply to nre r FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH NATIONAL FUND t . In Vienna, former Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan told reporters here he does not think Israel will or should get involved in the Iraq-Iran war. In New York, Ivan Novick, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said the war be- tween Iraq and Iran "demonstrates the errors of the United States and the European countries in their Middle East policies" and clearly demonstrates "that the basic problems in the Middle East are the inher- ent conflicts among the Arab states themselves which have little to do with Israel or the alleged Pales- tinian problem." Novick made these re- marks in an address to 150 delegates at the Westchester (N.Y.) region convention of the ZOA which was held at Beth- El Synagogue in New Rochelle. He observed that the U.S. and its European allies "as- sume that the basic problem in the Middle East is the Arab-Israeli conflict and the question of the Palesti- nians. They incorrectly be- lieve that appeasing the Arab states at the expense of Israel would stabilize the Middle East and solidify it to secure the free flow of oil and keep the area out of the Soviet orbit." Novick stressed that to keep peace in the Mideast and secure its role as a supplier of oil to the U.S. and its allies, "Israel must be recognized as the stabilizing factor in the area" and as serving "as an effective base for U.S. strategic interests." JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin described Jordan's increas- ingly high profile support for Iraq in the current gulf war Tuesday as "not wise." Addressing a high school audience in Bet Shemesh, a development town near Jerusalem, Begin compared King Hussein's decision to side with Iraq now to his de- cision in 1967 to come into the war against Israel on the side of Egypt. "We all know what happened them," Begin observed. , Hussein had "jumped on the bandwagon" in '67 be- cause Egypt's army had given misleading reports of the first hours of the fight- ing to President Nassar, and Hussein had relied on these reports, Begin re- called. Referring to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's declaration that the road from Abadan leads to Jaffa, Begin said: "Let him just try that road . . . we shall show him where it ends. The same applied to Jordan's Hussein who has said that Iraq's vic- tory will pave the way to victory in Palestine." Meanwhile, Israel has admitted officially for the first time that it provided arms and military in- structors to the Kurds in their secessionist fight against Iraq from 1965 to 1975. DESIGNERS & INSTALLERS OF 27308 Southfield Southfield, Mi. 48076 557-6644 s .ars $501!.E FREE Summer Visits by Youth Down with the purchase of this 19" DIAGONAL tronw • • • REMOTE CONTROL • • The HASTINGS • SM1961 SYSTEM 3 COMPUTER SPACE COMMAND ® 2500. Simulated Walnut finish (SM1961W). In White finish (SM1961X). New PRP Circuit. Cable-Ready. 1 0 • • • • • • • • • • . . SEIKO QUARTZ WATCHES 40% - OFF Sugg. List Good until Oct. 30 OSCAR BRAUN'S • • LINCOLN TOWERS, SUITE 111 • • • • • • • • • • BIG DISCOUNTS TELEPHONE SMITH-CORONA ELECTRIC ANSWERING MACHINES TYPEWRITERS • • • EUREKA VAC'S FARBERWARE RADIOS - CROSS PENS TAPE RECORDERS "NEW ADDRESS" One Block East of Greenfield • • • • • • • • • • • • • 15075 W. Lincoln (10 1/2 Mile) Mon. thru Sat. 10-4 967 1212 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • - JERUSALEM (JTA) — Six thousand youths from overseas took part this year in the Jewish Agency's youth and hehalutz de- partment summer program. Avraham Katz, depart- ment head, reporting this to the World Zionist Organiza- tion Executive, noted that the figure represented a 20 percent drop compated to 1979. This was due, he said, to budgetary considerations which had forced the de- partment to cut back its program. A number of Executive members supported Katz for more funds but trea- surer Akiva Lewinsky said he saw no reason why the WZO should sub- sidize Jewish organiza- tions abroad in order to encourage them to send their youth to Israel. He maintained that the overall figures of youth group visitors had not drop- ped this year, since many had come in different frameworks — 2,000, for in- stance, under the auspices of the Jewish National Fund. The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. Boris Smolar's `Between You • • . and Me Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.) ADULT EDUCATION: Adult Jewish education — especially education of parents — is as important for Jewish continuity in this country as is the education of children. A very small percentage of American-born Jewish parents possess fundamental Jewish knowledge. Their Jewishness is relatively superficial. It finds its P-- -- pression mostly in making philanthropic contributions Jewish causes. They are strangers to Jewish history and know very little about their Jewish roots. Efforts to implant greater knowledge are being made in Jewish community centers, synagogues and other in- stitutions, and by national Jewish organizations engaged in conducting programs for adult education. Recently something new — very original, very attrac- tive, and highly educational — has been added in the field of adult education. It is a project known as "Weekends in Jewish History." The project is the creation of the Tarbuth Foundation. Abraham Goodman, the founder and president of the foundation, is the "father" of the project. COLORFUL METHODS: The new project is built on a novel idea. It introduces programs of Jewish history — ancient and contemporary — in atmosphere settings of the period of history with which the "weekend" deals. It thus seeks to bring the audience into the spirit of the period presented. The "weekend" programs and method have evoked an enthusiastic response in the communities where the pro- grams were given in local community centers and synagogues. The presentations reflect Jewish history in various lands and at various times. There is, for instance, the "Weekend with Judah Halevi" conducted in an atmos- phere setting of Jewish life in Spain in the time of the immortal Jewish poet. The "Weekend with Judah Halevi" starts on Friday evening with a Shabat service in Sephardic ritual, followed with a Shabat dinner with Sephardic cuisine. The menus are printed in Spanish, Ladino and English. There are Sephardic table songs at the dinner and a recital of Halevi's poems in Hebrew and English. The after-dinner session is devoted to a lecture on the great poet's life and work, fol- lowed by Sephardic folksongs. Saturday's all-day program includes talks on Halevi, lunch with Sephardic table songs, a lecture on Halevi's classical work "The Kuzari," the traditional "third meal" of Shalosh Seuda with Sephardic Sabbath songs, and the Havdala — Sephardic style. The evening concludes with Ladino discotheque and folksongs and dances of the Spanish Jews. The climax on Sunday includes a recital of music of Judah Halevi's "Songs of Zion" and a filmstrip "An Interview with Judah Halevi." THE IMPACT: The impact of other "weekends" is similarly strong. There is a weekend program, "Sanhedrin in Paris." Most impressive is the "Weekend with the Baal Shem Tov," the founder of the Hasidic movement, given in a setting showing Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the 18th Century. The biography of the Baal Shem Tov, his teachings, legends about him are presented during the three-day ses- sions. His philosophy on individualism and existentialism is analyzed. There are Hasidic songs and dances, and the dinner menu is printed in Yiddish and English. Those attending the three-day program leave with a profound idea of the role played by Hasidism in Jewish life and what Hasidism meant to many thousands of Jews in Czarist Russia, Poland, Galicia, Bukovina and other areas in East- ern Europe where the Hasidic movement was popular. There is also a series of weekends on the "Roots of American Jewry" — one in the Sephardic setting of the first Jewish settlement in this country; one in a setting of the early German-American settlement; and one in settings of the mass-immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe. There is a weekend on Soviet Jews and a three-day program on Jerusalem designed for joint Christian-Jewish audiences. The Tarbuth Foundation deserves great commenda- tion for its "Weekends with Jewish History." They are a great contribution to adult Jewish education. The spiritual guide of the project is Dr. Emil Lehman, the foundation's executive vice president — a great educator and a very able administrator. Folk Stories for Shut-ins FORT COLLINS, Colo. emeritus of English at (JTA) — A Colorado State Colorado State, says the lit- University Jewish scholar erature has "survival has been giving lectures value" for shunned and and leading discussions of segregated persons. His Jewish folklore and Jewish folklore at Colorado prisons, senior centers, host humor project has been funded by the Colorado pitals and a drug center. Dr. Carl Levine, professor Humanities Program.