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THE JEWISH NEWS
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VOL. LXXVIII, No. 7
Yitzhaq Ben-Ami
Account, Page 72
of Jewish Events
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Jabotinsky's
Historic Role
as a Builder of Zion
Recalled on Centenary
of His Birth
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October 17, 1980
Begin Lashes Global Hatred,
ealls for Jewish Self-Defense
TAU Affiliate Develops
Portable Kidney Machine
TEL AVIV — The Ramot portable artificial kidney, the smallest
and lightest of its kind, has been awarded an international prize as one
of the 100 most significant techn6logical innovations of the year 1980.
Developed by A. T. Ramot Plastics Ltd. a subsidiary of Tel Aviv
University's applied research authority, the artificial kidney offers a
new independence from the hospital system and the constraints of
hospital schedules and manpower, which are so confining in conven-
tional kidney dialysis today.
The brief-case sized Ramot artificial kidney, weighing 37 pounds,
features a microprocessor control system which monitors and controls
kidney functions and operates that machine almost automatically. For
the patient, the use is so simple that he can use it in his sleep and lead a
next-to-normal life in his waking hours.
The Ramot artificial kidney prototype, now in the advanced
stages of clinical testing, is not only light-weight and easy to
operate, but, unlike other portable kidneys, "may be operated on
ordinary tap water. The unique mechanism also offers a variety
of other practical applications, among them desalination of salt
water, preparation of sterile, pyrogen-free water for laboratory,
pharmaceutical and medical applications, and production of
various solutions for medical uses.
The artificial kidney operates on a Reverse Osmosis (RO) system
which sterilizes and purifies water by high pressure.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin lashed out at the French government, the
Soviet Union and Syria in an address on the state of world Jewry at the opening of the Knesset's
winter session on Monday. He assailed the French for encouraging neo-Nazi attacks on Jews by
their anti-Israel policies and denounced the Soviets and Syrians for "sadism" toward their
Jewish subjects.
Alluding to the escalation of neo-Nazi violence in Europe, Begin declared that it is the
"right and duty" of Jews everywhere to defend'themselves, their lives and their national honor. _
"The years of the 1930s and 1940s must never be allowed to return," he said. He insisted that no
distinction can be made between anti-Israelism, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
Begin's attack on the French was the sharpest yet by an Israeli leader. While his
Cabinet issued a statement on the Jewish right of self-defense in the aftermath of the
Oct. 3 terrorist bombing of a-Paris synagogue, it stopped short of direct criticism of the
French government for the act.
Monday, however, Begin declared: The French President and people certainly do not want
anti-Semitic outbursts to occur. But they must know that their own anti-Israeli propaganda
inevitably creates the groundwork upon which such occurences take place."
He spoke of "two Frances," one which Israelis and Jews will always admire and cherish —
the France of the French revolution, Equality, Jewish emancipation, culture and literature and
Emile Zola — and the "other France" of Col. Picard, who was involved in the Dreyfus Affair and
those who taunted Simone Veil as a child.
Veil, a former minister of culture and currently president of the-Parliament of Europe, is a
concentration camp survivor. "No Jewish child ever need be spoken to the way Simone Veil
recalls being insulted at the age of four — 'Dirty Jew,' " Begin said.
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4 U.S. Jews Win Nobel Prizes
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Four American Jewish scientists are sharing 1980 Nobel Prizes in the fields
of chemistry, economics and physiology. The four are: Dr. Baruj Benacerraf of Harvard University, Dr.
Paul Berg of Stanford University, Dr. Lawrence Klein of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Walter
Gilbert of Harvard.
Berg, 54, was awarded half the $215,000 chemistry prize while Gilbert, 48, split the other half with
Frederick Sanger, 62, of Canibridge University.
Berg was cited for his biochemical studies of nucleic acids and Gilbert and Sanger for having
independently developed different methods which determine the exact sequence of the nuc-
leotide bundling blocks. The Swedish Academy of Sciences said Berg was the first investigator to
construct a 'recombinant DNA molecule" through the use of genetic entineering, sometimes
called gene manipulation.
Berg, who was born in New York City, is the son of Russian immigrants.
Berg said that he grew up in the Sea Gate
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section of Brooklyn where he was Bar Mitzva.
His family was "not totally Orthodox" but ob-
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Rabbi Hertz Will Hold Jewish Studies
Professorship at University of Detroit
u niversity of Detroit President Fr. Robert A. Mitchell has announced the formation of an endowed chair
tug position of Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies in the university's Department of Religious
Studies.
Rabbi Richard C. Hertz, senior rabbi at Temple Beth El and an adjunct professor in religious studies at
U-D, will be the first person to hold the chair, beginning in September 1982. It is the first fully-endowed chair
in the 103-year history of the University of Detroit, and one of a very few such positions in the 28 Jesuit
universities in the United States.
Fr. Malcolm Carron, U-D chancellor who organized the chair formation, said the new position
has been a long-standing goal of the university. "We have long sought to establish this chair, for the
benefit of all our students — Catholic, Jewish , Protestant and all religions.
We feel it is very important, in this post Vatican age, for our students to be more familiar with Judaism
and other religions. Understanding another's faith is absolutely necessary for true harmony," Fr. Carron said.
"The formation of an endowed chair insures a continuing tradition of outstanding religious education in our
university. Furthermore, we believe this chair will provide the groundwork for an expansion of our entire
religious studies department."
The appointment of Rabbi Hertz as distinguished professor is an "excellent choice for the new position,"
Fr. Carron said.
"Rabbi Hertz is a great gentleman, who has demonstrated through his scholarship, teaching, writings
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servant in the traditional ways. A visitor to
Israel "many times," Berg lectured for 10 days
at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot in the
1970s. He has many friends and students at the
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Rabbi Hertz, Fr. Carron, Leonard Simons