16 Friday, November 14, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Controversial
Convert Dies
IRVING BLUESTONE
A. FRASER
Honoree
DAVID K. EASLICK
LEE A. IACOCCA
JOSEPH L. HUDSON JR.
You are cordially invited to attend the presentation of the
BNAI B'RITH INTERNATIONAL
Humanitarian Award
to
DOUGLAS AN FRASER
6:00 P.M.
Wednesday, November 19, 1980
Renaissance Center
The Detroit Plaza
LANE KIRKLAND
Black Tie Optional
Dietary Laws
$125 per person
General Dinner Chairmen
LANE KIRKLAND
IRVING BLUESTONE
WILLIAM G. MEESE
DAVID K. EASLICK
ALAN E. SCHWARTZ
. JOSEPH L. HUDSON, JR.
LEE A. IACOCCA
Honorary Chairmen
Martin Gerber
Hon. Neil Goldschmidt
Dr. William Haber
Hon. Edward M. Kennedy
Hon. Philip M. Klutznick
Odessa Komer
Hon. Carl Levin
Ray Majerus
Hon. William G. Milliken
Paul S. Mirabito
Honorary Co-Chairmen
Owen Bieber
Philip Caldwell
Walker L. Gisler
Irwin I. Cohn
Rodkey Craighead
Donald F. Ephlin
Max M. Fisher
Henry Ford, II
WILLIAM G. MEESE
Thomas B. Adams
William M. Agee
Wendell W. Anderson, Jr.
Dr. Jerry Appel
Hon. Richard H. Austin
J. Paul Bergmoser
Louis Berry
David M. Blumberg
W. Michael Blumenthal
Dr. Thomas N. Bonner
Paul Borman
Martin Bruseloff
Edward J. Carlough
Father Malcolm Carron, S.J.
Sol C. Chaikin
Cesar E. Chavez
Martin E. Citrin
Peter B. Clark
Leon S. Cohan
Phillip Cohen
Orval R. Crabbe
Hon. Bobby D. Crim
Abraham J. Cutler
Joseph M. Cutler
Dr. Howard L. Dubin
Emmett Eagan, Sr.
Elliott M. Estes
Bernard A. Fauber
Murray H. Finley
William Q. Graham
Charles E. Grenier, Jr.
Rabbi Irwin Groner
David Handleman
David B. Hermelin
Robert Holmes
Reverend Benjamin Hooks
Harold S. Jaffa
Hon. Frank J. Kelley
Daniel J. Kelly
Right Reverend Clement Kern
Jay Kogan
Nathan Korash
Robert D. Krestel
Norman Adelsberg
Mrs. Morris Adler
James A. Aliber
Rabbi Daniel Allen
Louis G. Allen
Fred N. Andreae
Frank Angelo
Eugene Arden
Rabbi Milton Arm
Burton Armstrong
Ken Bannon
Louis E. Barden
James T. Barnes, Jr.
E.W. Barrett
Donald E. Barns
Henry Baskin
Robert Battle, Ill
Blanche Bauman
George Bell
Mandell L. Berman
Sherwood B-.--man
Kenneth Bertin
Harold Beznos
Hon. James Blanchard
Dr. Herbert J. Bloom
Albert J. Booth
C.E. Bottum, Jr.
Charles Bowling
Sam Braverman
Dr. Michael J. Brennan
Joseph Broder
Paul Broder
Hon. William M. Brodhead
Michael Brooks
Hon. William S. Broomfield
Horace Brown
J. Lawrence Buell, Jr.
John Bugas
Hon. Benjamin D. Burdick
Robert M. Burns
Martin I. Butzel
Bill Casstevens
H. Fred Campbell
Donald Canvasser
Marvin Caplan
Manny Charach
Allen Charlupski
J.T. Clark
Jack Cochran
Frederick Cody
Samuel M. cohodas
Hon. Mary S. Coleman
Hon. John Conyers
Richard W. Cordtz
Jacques Cousin
Frank Couzens, Jr.
Wardell C. Croft
Dr. Frederick Cummings
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Harry B. Cunningham
Leroy W. Dahlberg
Hugh C. Daly
William Davidson
Edward L. Davis
Cardinal John F. Dearden
Alfred Deutsch'
Morris Direnfeld
Martin M. Doctoroff
J. McGregor Dodds
James Donahue
Henry Dorfman
Walter E. Douglas
Geoffrey M. Eaton .
Donald Ellis
Robert W. Ellis, Jr.
Alex J. Etkin
Aubrey Ettenheimer
Leonard R. Farber
Hon. Jack Faxon
Hon. Norman W. Feder
Dr. Leon Fill
Rabbi Louis Finkelman
Charles T. Fisher, Ill
Nathan Fishman
Robert Filearman
Hon. Joseph Forbes
Walter B. Ford, II
Hon. Donald F. Fracassi
Jerome Frank
Kaye G. Frank
Samuel Frankel
Leo Franklin
Sidney Freedland
Sam Freedman
Jeanne Findlater
J. Russell Fowler
Gene E. Gann
Lawrence R. Gechter
Richard C. Qerstenberg
William E. Giles
Sheldon Girsh
Ira Glasser
Adolph Goldberg
Bernard G. Golden
Dr. Donald L. Golden
Bernard Gordon
Charles M. Gordon
William T. Gossett
Louis A. Goutman
Hon. Barry M. Grant
Edward Gray
Pat Greathouse
Irwin Green
Hon. Martha Griffiths
Irving Grodan
Charles Growe
Samuel Hamburger
R.L. Hannon, Jr.
Walter E. Hanson
Nathan Harris
Janie Hart
Dwight Havens
Earl Heenan
John D. Hegarty
Frank M. Hennessey
William Herbert
Leonard Herman
Rabbi Richard C. Hertz
Sidney M. Hiller
Lee Hills
Richard C. Hoerner
Coleman F. Hogan
M. Carl Holman
David B. Holtzman
Irwin T. Holtzman
Jason L. Honigman
Milton M. Howard
H. Clay Howell
Joseph H. Jackier
David Jaffa
William R. James
Arthur Jefferson
Perry Johnson
Robert E. Jones
Maxwell Jospey
Austin Kanter
Sidney J. Karbel
Alexander Karp
Hon. Charles Kaufman
Hon. Ira G. Kaufman
Hon. Nathan J. Kaufman
Hon. Thomas G. Kavanagh
M. Jane Kay
Hon. Damon J. Keith
Barney L. Keywell
Robert E. Kilgore
William Klinsky
Hon. Walter F. Mondale
Thomas A. Murphy
John J. Riccardo
Hon. Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
Thomas F. Russell
Jack J. Spitzer
Marc Stepp
C. Boyd Stockmeyer
Robert White
Hon. Coleman A. Young
LOUIS WEBER
Irving Laker
Alan B. Larkin
David Lawrence, Jr.
John H. Lyons
Dr. Cecil Mackey
Donald R. Mandich
Dr. Richard E. Marburger
William C. Marshall
Frank D. Martino
John C. McCabe
Walter J. Mccarthy
William H. McClennan
Philip J. Meathe
Gerald C. Meyers
Myron L. Milgrom
Milford Nemer
Jack L. Otto
Donald E. Peterson
Charles H. Pillard
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John S. Pingel
Dean E. Richardson
John Rye
Albert Shanker
Ray A. Shapero
Dr. Harold T. Shapiro
Dr. Milton Shiffman
Philip Slomovitz
Ernest M. Solomon
Max Sosin
Phillip Stollman
Joshua J. Stone
Peter W. Stroh
Robert M. Surdam
A. Alfred Taubman
Dr. Daniel Thursz
Thomas Turner
Milton M. Weinstein
Hon. G. Mennen Williams
Stanley J. Winkelman
William W. Winpisinger
Dr. James Woodruff
William H. Wynn
George M. Zeltzer
Paul Zuckerman
Lee T. Knutson
Ralph Koenig
George Koulouras
Dr. Edward G. Kroll
C.H. Kupsky
George L. Lahodny
Harry Laker
James N. Laker
Joseph Lee
Yale Levin
Walton A. Lewis
Donald A. Lindow
Richard H. Lobenthal
Donald A. Long
Sheriff William Lucas
James T. Lynagh
William E. Macbeth
Harold M. Marko
George T. Matthews
Emil Mazey
Bob McBride
Robert D. McBride
Robert E. McCabe
M. Frank McCaffrey
Hon. Wade H. McCree, Jr.
Rt. Rev. H. Coleman McGehee, Jr
.
W. S. McIntyre
Richard L. Measelle
Theodore H. Mecke, Jr.
E. T. Michael
Arnold Michlin
Norman Michlin
Charles Milan
Arnold R. Miller
Milton J. Miller
Ralph Miller
Charles R. Montgomery
E. Joseph Moore
Kenneth Morris
Charles A. Muer
Dr. Romallus 0. Murphy
Robert H. Naftaly
Joseph Nederlander
Theodore Nemzin
Marvin Novick
Irving Nussbaum
Paul W. O'Malley
Cantor Harold-Orbach
Ozzie Olson
David K. Page
Ray T. Parfet, Jr.
Michelle Passon
Daniel N. Pevos
George Pierson
Bernard Pincus
Max J. Pincus
Irving Pitt
David Pollack
Elmore E. Pollack
William Poplack
Hughes Potiker
Philip H. Power
Father Vaughan Quinn
Longworth M. Quinn
Fred F. Raznick
Herbert Rechter
William R. Ritchie
D. Jack Rixmann
Edwin A. Roberts, Jr.
Mrs. Estelle Robinson
Jack A. Robinson
George W. Romney
Meyer Rosenbaum
Rabbi Milton Rosenbaum
Maurice Rosender
Norman H: Rosenfeld
Sylvia P. Ross
Robert D. Rowan
Nathan D. Rubenstein
Sidney Rubin
Sigmunt Rubin
Marvin S. Ruby
Hon. William A. Ryan
E. Harwood Rydholm
Father J. Samonie
Bernard Schlussel
Thomas Schoenith
Morton L. Scholnick
Douglas A. Schubot
Sidney Schwartz
Louis Segel
Dallas Sells
Robert B. Semple
George Seyburn
Asa Shapiro
Jack Shenkman
I. W. Sherr
Mrs. Marian Shifman
Leon Shull
Irving Siegel
Ira G. Silver
Gilbert B. Silverman
Donald Simon
Howard Simon
Leonard N. Simons
Jay E. Slater
Joseph Slavik
Eugene Sloan
Richard Sloan
Carmi Slomovitz
Van P. Smith
Herbert Sott
Alvin Spector
J. Perham Stanley
Fred A. Stecher
Matthew Steckel
Ida Stein
Martha Jean Steinberg
Robert A. Steinberg
Edward Stenzel •
Max Stollman
Rudolph Straus
William C. Stuff
Norbert A. Sylvester
Marvin Tamaroff
George Tarnoff
Joel D. Tauber
Cleveland Thurber, Sr.
Evelyn Tichik
W. Paul Tippett
Charles H. Tobias
Joseph Tomasi
Herbert Triplett
William E. Turley
Martin D. Walker
Harold Warren
Lawrence J. Washington
Max Wayburn
Arnold J. Weiner
Leon N. Weiner
Edwin Weinstein
Louis L. Weinstein
Bernard Weisberg
Harvey L. Weisberg
Peter Weisberg
Martin Weston
Jerry Whipple
James S. Wilkerson
Robert . Willens
Roy Levy Williams
Nathan Willis
Robert E. Winkel
Hon. John M. Wise
James Wright
Bard Young
Donald E. Young
A. Robert Zeff
Barbara Zonder
Dinner Committee*
`Committee in formation
ALAN E. SCHWARTZ
Bnai Brith Foundation Committee Chairman
Louis Weber
Co-Chairmen
David L. Bittker
Arthur C. Schott
David Levine
Joel F. Garfield
Ernest Shaw
Sharon R. Freund, Michigan Director, B'nai B'rith Foundation of the United States
Charles M. Gordon, Executive Director, B'nai B'rith
Metropolitan Detroit Council
Floyd A. Bornstein
Sol Moss
Harry Weinberger
Reservations for the B'nai B'rith Humanitarian Award Dinner can be made by calling the B'nai B'rith Foundation Office, 552-8070 or by contacting
your B'nai B'rith Lodge or Unit.
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Helen Seidman, an
American-born Israeli im-
migrant, whose battle 10
years ago to be recognized
as a Jew after she was con-
verted by a Reform rabbi
rocked the religious estab-
lishment in Israel and al-
most caused a major crisis
in the government of Pre-
mier Golda Meir, died Nov.
1 at age 50.
Mrs. Seidman, a Unita-
rian, came to Israel as a
tourist in 1964 from \
Bethesda, Md., with
daughter from her first.,
marriage and became
enamored with the kibutz
way of life. She settled in
Kibutz Nahal Oz near the
Gaza Strip where she met
Benjamin Seidman, a Jew,
and married him.
_ Because she was a Unita-
rian, she and Seidman were
wed in a proxy marriage in
Mexico since the Orthodox
rabbinate in Israel would
not wed a Jew to a non-Jew.
Mrs. Seidman then
underwent conversion in
a ceremony performed
by a Reform rabbi in Tel
Aviv and the couple was
re-wed by the Reform
rabbi. When she applied
to be registered as a Jew,
the Interior Ministry re-
fused to do so.
The ensuing struggle for
her to be recognized as a
Jew rocked the Israeli reli-
gious and secular com-
munities and produced a
controversy on the issue of
"Who is a Jew."
She appealed to the Sup-
reme Court and before a de-
cision was handed down
which appeared would favor
Mrs. Seidman, Rabbi
Shlomo Goren, then the
chief army chaplain, con-
vened a special court which
converted her according to
halakha. Thus, a political
time bomb was defused.
Britain's Foot 5
Israel Friend?
LONDON (JTA) —
Michael Foot was elected
Tuesday leader of the
British Labor Party in suc-
cession to James Callaghan.
Foot, a left winger, is 67
years old and a brother of
Lord Caradon, Britain's
former United Nations am-
bassador.
A brilliant orator and
writer, Foot has been asso-
ciated with the campaign
for unilateral nuclear dis-
armament and opposes_
British membership in V
Common Market.
Foot has remained si-
lent for many years on
most international is-
sues, including the Mid-
dle East. However, de-
spite his left-wing lean-
ings, he is regarded as
basically friendly
towards Israel and has
given assurances to this
effect to Labor's pro-
Israel lobby.
He entered parliament in
1945 and was a sharp critic
of the Palestine policy of
Ernest Bevin, but he cooled
towards Israel in 1956 at
the time of the tripartite at-
tacks on Egypt.