;.4r 4 1 Yrt 11? 4 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • 16 Friday, November 28, 1980 Conservative Women Re-Elect President, Seek New Priorities KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y. (JTA) — As she accepted the presidency for a second two-year term, Mrs. Goldie Kweller charged the 200 delegates at the national convention of the Women's League for Conservative Judaism last week with the task of "re-channeling our values and priorities and changing them from self- satisfied 'me-ism' to com- munity 'we-ism'." Wishes All Their Friends and Customers Success at first can undo men at last. GOOD NEW HAMILTON PLACE NOW OFFERS RACQUETBALL*AND MORE! • • • • INDOOR POOL GYMNASIUM INDOOR TRACK MODERN EXERCISE EQUIPMENT • • • • • SAUNA GOURMET RESTAURANT LOUNGE CATERING FACILITIES MUCH MORE! GOLDEN MUSHROOM COMES TO HAMILTON PLACE Golden Mushroom owner, Reid Ashton. and internationally acclaimed Chef Milos. will also be directing food services at Hamilton Place. 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The delegates also urged the United States govern- ment to recognize united Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move its em- bassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. They also urged the Israel government to recognize the validity of Conservative Judaism. Michigan Branch mem- bers were the recipients of awards at the women's con- vention. Toby Dolinka of Grand Rapids was recog- nized for her handicraft de- sign of the Michigan Branch banner which depicts the Hebrew month of Av. Rec- ognized with Ms. Dolinka for their needlework were Judy Joseph and Bess Winick. Adat Shalom Sisterhood, represented by Hannah Linden of West Bloomfield, was honored with a citation for creative fund-raising project, "Southern Expo- sure," a special program run by sisterhood for the "snow- birds" who leave town for winter vacations. More West Bank Unrest ............................. limited time I c y . offer! Mrs. Kweller of Kew Garden Hills, N.Y., heads the largest women's synagogue organization in the world, with 210,000 members in 810 Conserva- tive sisterhoods in North America and women's groups in Latin America and Israel. "We are also charged with the task of turning the tide of family fragmentation, creating in its place a family restoration," she said. "In the words of the late Dr. Solomon Schecter, chancel- lor of the Jewish Theologi- cal Seminary of America, `leaders become influential among their contem- poraries only by teaching and living an examplary life.' We must become a Judaically knowledgeable laity, rather than Jews whose ties are only cultural and social." Speaking of problems within Jewish families, Mrs. Kweller, at an ear- lier session suggested a return to "strong family life, the high standards of family and personal morality which have been our strength and support, and have helped us survive." She also remarked that "particularly in an era of feminism, we must make ourselves role models, by our actions demonstrating our conviction that the Jewish tradition, which has always had a strong family life, has to be our top prior- ity." Referring to the role of Conservative Judaism in Israel, Mrs. Kweller said that "the steady growth in the number of our congrega- tions in Israel, despite the roadblocks set up by the chief rabbinate, is 'hearten- ing." In the past two years, ties between Women's League and women in Israel con- gregations have led to for- * ASSOCIATED ' RACQUETBALL 1 MEMBERSHIP / AT OAKLAND RACQUET CLUB PMILTON PLACE HA 30333 Southfield Rd.(between 12 & 13 Miles Rds.) Stop In Or Call 646-8990 Anytime Between 10:00a.m. & 9:00p.m. JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers used tear gas and rubber bullets to quell an Arab student demonstra- tion near Bir Zeit Univer- sity on Monday. Soldiers ar- rested 24 students for throwing rocks and block- ing roads near the campus with stone barricades and tires. Unrest on the West Bank broke out last week. Rock- throwing incidents led to the wounding of 10 Arab students last week. The clashes betwen Arab youths and Israeli troops were precipitated by the Military Government's order shutting down Bir Zeit University for seven days in order to enforce a ban on "Palestine Week," an annual campus- event. The Israeli authorities con- tended that "Palestine Week" is a political man- ifestation aimed at provok- ing Palestinian nationalist and anti-Israel sentiments. A statement by the stu- dent council and faculty association insisted it was a "purely cultural event." The statement said, It is political, if at all, only in the inevitable but harmless sense that it is Palestinian rather than voodoo or Budhist or Jewish." It was to includ exhibitions of paintii drawings, folklore, danc- ing and lectures on Pales- tinian life, the statement said. On Tuesday, soldiers fired into another demon- stration after a policeman was hit in the head with a rock. Sela Re-Elected R.EHOVOT (JTA) — Prof. Michael Sela has been re- elected for a second five- year term as president, of the Weizmann Institute of Science.