Friday, November 14, 1980 31 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Senior Men's Club Founded The city of Southfield has established a senio7 men's club for men who live in Southfield and are age 62 or older. The club meets the third Wednesday of the month at 1 p.m. at the McDonnell Towers, 24400 Civic Center Dr. This Wednesday's meet- ing will feature Kathy Mar- tin, a pharmacist at Provi- dence Hospital, who will speak on The Wise Use of Drugs." For information, call Judy Samson at the South- field Senior Adult Center, 354-9362. There is no dispute man- aged without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion. —Sherlock DZF Zionist Education Day Slated Nov. 30 at JCCenter The Detroit Zionist Fed- eration will present Israel Consul General for the Midwest Moshe Gilboa at its 1980 Zionist Education Day Nov. 30 at the main Jewish Community Center. Gilboa will speak at 1 p.m. followed by a series of workshops on "Jerusalem in Detroit," "Israel's Image in the Local Press," "American Israel Public Affairs Com- mittee," "Promoting Israel Locally," "Greater Detroit Aliya Council" and "Zeev Jabotinsky — A Centenary Perspective." The DZF has urged area rabbis to observe Zionist Shabat Nov. 29 by deliver- ing sermons on Zionism and Jabotinsky to their congre- gations. The former minister to the Israel Mission in Iran (1977-1979), Gilboa was trained as a commander in the Hagana. He fought in the Palmach during Is- rael's War of Liberation. He and his wife, Ayala, were founding members of Kibutz Erez. After having been nomi- nated as spokesman and di- rector of public relations of the Israel Labor Party (1957-1959), Gilboa became the first secretary to David Ben-Gurion when the party split and the newly created Rafi Party was formed. An open letter to Prime Minister Begin Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin visited Detroit on Thursday, November 13, where he addressed the national conference of the Council of Jewish Federations. On the occasion of his visit and in the spirit of Kol Israel Areivim Zeti B'zeh — all Jews carry collective responsibility for each other — the Metropolitan Detroit Committee for a New Jewish Agenda addresses the following letter to Mr. Begin. Committee for a New Jewish Adenda MOSHE GILBOA Gilboa joined the civil service in 1959 and was nominated as aide and head of bureau of Minister Abba Eban and later served as di- rector of special cooperation to developing countries in the Ministry of Defense. He represented Israel at international confer- ences. He was consul general of Israel in At- lanta for the southern region of the U.S. and was the dean of the consular corps of Atlanta. He was nominated as amabassador to Zambia, served as director of infor- mation of the World Zionist Organization and director general of the Israel De- fense Fund. For information about Zionist Education Day, call the DZF, 548-0511. Jewish Museum Official Monday at Shaarey Zedek Dr. Geoffrey Wigoder, historical director of Beth Hatefutsot — Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Is- November 13, 1980 Dear Mr. Begin: We are gratified that your visit to our city gives us the chance to share with you our deep-felt concerns about the present impasse in the Israeli-Arab peace process. As American Jews, we share a deep concern for the security of Israel and the welfare of its people. But recently, we have become increasingly concerned with the policies of your administration on the issues of peace and security. We are now convinced that Israel's best interest can no longer be served by our uncritical support for your current policies. For more than three decades, the people of Israel have strug- gled for freedom and national independence. It is becoming in- creasingly clear that the aspirations of Israel's Palestinian neighbors for these same rights are one of the crucial elements in the peace equation. And yet, it is also clear that your administration's refusal to acknowledge the reality of these aspirations has become a major obstacle to peace. We fear that if your administration continues on its present course, the hope for peace kindled when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made his historic trip to Jerusalem will be extin- guished. We fear that the Jewish state will find itself further isolated in the world community. In the long run, Israeli security depends not on the force of arms but on the resolution of conflict. The Jewish state cannot hope to survive forever as an island fortress in a hostile Arab sea. In the name of peace and the security of the Jewish state, we urge you to take the following steps: GROUP HOSPITALIZATION 1) Halt the building of new settlements in the occupied ter- ritories; Freeze all unilateral changes in the status of Jerusalem. AVAILABLE TO WORKMEN'S CIRCLE MEMBERS Get complete health care through Michigan HMO. No de- ductibles, co-payments or claim forms. Prescriptions, office visits, glasses included in coverage. Staffed by more than 600 physicians in more than 40 health care centers. Also available to Workmen's Circle Members: Benefits Life Insurance Final Expense Policy • Cemetery Plots Excess Major Medical Hospital Indemnity Retirement Annuities Services Credit Union Discount Buying Service Pre-paid Legal Service Sunday School Nursery School Group Travel Optical Savings Dental Discount Join the Workmen's Circle family for cultural and educational programs, social action and Yiddishkeit and to be eligible for the above benefits. For information call 545-0985 — or write THE WORKMEN'S CIRCLE 26341 Coolidge, Oak Park, Mich. 48337 Name Address Phone Age 2) Declare Israel's willingness to return occupied territories in exchange for guarantees of peace and security. 3) Agree to sit down with Palestinian leaders and directly negotiate the conditions for peace and mutual recognition. DR. WIGODER rael — will speak on "Jour- ney through the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora," 8 p.m. Monday at Cong. Shaarey Zedek. Dr. Wigoder will illus- trate his lecture with slides. Sponsored by the Irwin T. Holtzman family as part of Shaarey Zedek Cultural Commission's Fall Lecture Series, the meeting is open to the community at no charge. Israel Official to Address Hillel The Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan will hear Moshe Gilboa, consul general of Israel to the Midwest, 4 p.m. Monday in the Anderson Room of the Michigan Union. He will speak on "Israel and the Middle East: New Realities." His talk is spon- sored by Hillel and the Union of Students for Israel. He also will address special meetings of Jewish student leaders on campus and a Jewish faculty group. It may be emphasized that negotiations and recognition have to be a two-way street. Palestinian leaders must be prepared to recognize the right of Israel to security, independence and territo- rial integrity, just as Israeli leaders must acknowledge the rights of the Palestinian people. We can appreciate how painful it will be for you, Mr. begin, to contemplate sitting down at the bargaining table with the leaders of the Palestinian people. But only through such talks can Israel hope to break the cycle of bloodshed and build a lasting peace for its children and grandchildren. And only through such talks can the risk of world-wide conflagration be defused — a nuclear holocaust which threatens not only Israel's survival but the survival of all of us. 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