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Spector Sculpture Adorns
Lubavitch Center Grounds
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Livonia Plans
Member Meeting
Alvin Spector, second from right, is shown at the
completion of his new sculpture outside the
Lubavitch Education Center in Farmington Hills. A
fan-like spiral of 12 long Wack steel poles in the back-
ground represents the 12 Tribes of Israel. In the fore-
ground are the eight polished aluminum cylinders of
the menora mounted on a black steel base. A ninth
taller cylinder stands at the side as the Shamash. Pic-
tured with Spector are, from left: Rabbi Berel Shem-
tov, regional director of Lubavitch; Rabbi Yitschak
Kagan and Rabbi Moshe Polter.
NEW 1980
SUNBIRDS
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LANCIA
Livonia Jewish Congre-
gation will hold its semi-
annual general member-
ship meeting 8 p.m. Wed-
nesday in the synagogue.
Following the business
meeting, Sgt. John Walker
of the Wayne County
Sheriffs Department will
speak.
Refreshments will follow
the program. Guests are in-
vited.
Autopsy Stopped
JERUSALEM — A group
of Hasidic Jews disrupted
an autopsy being performed
at Hadassah Hospital last
week. Police arrested 35
Hasidim during ,the distur-
bance.
The Knesset's new law
providing stricter autopsy
guide lines has not yet gone
into effect.
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Mystery of the Jews
By LEO SCHNEIDERMAN
Here is a message to those
Who think they have grasped
The mystery of the Jews:
You say that we recently emerged
From a tribal culture
And burst upon a civilized world
And this is why
We are at odds with the nations
But you are wrong.
We came out of a world
In which. our hearts were governed by God
Who is our'-ruler
Into a world in which men's hearts
Are governed by rulers
Who are their gods.
This is the difference between us.
Rabbi. Seeking Art Stolen
by Dutch Nazi Collaborator
AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
A Dutch Reform rabbi is
considering a trip to South
Africa to discuss an art col-
lection bequeathed to the
University of Pretoria by a
former Nazi collaborator.
The collection is believed to.
contain many items that be-
longed to Dutch Jewish
families deported to Nazi
camps during World War II.
Rabbi Avraham Soeten-
dorp of the Liberal congre-
gation in The Hague has re-
fused to let the matter drop.
He said he wanted to raise it
personally with the univer-
sity board of governors. The
collection was willed to the
Pretoria University by the
late Jacob Van Tilburg who
was an alderman in Dor-
drecht, Holland during the
Nazi occupation. After the
mar, a Dutch de-
NazifiCation court sen-
tenced him to 13 months
imprisonment for collabora-
tion with the enemy.
Van Tilberg, who set-
tled in South Africa in
1951, is believed to have
persuaded some 20 weal-
thy Jewish families in
Holland to entrust their
painting and objets
d'art to his safekeeping to
prevent them from being
looted by the Nazis. Most
the the Jews perished in
death camps.
When the survivors re-
turned, Van Tilburg al-
legedly refused to return
their treasures.
The art collection consists
of paintings, Persian car-
pets, antique vases and sil-
verware. The University of
Pretoria has stated that it is
prepared to return the ob-
jects to any survivor who
can provide solid proof of
past ownership. But after 40
yea's, it is difficult if not
impossible for the survivors
to provide such proof.
Closing Sought
of PLO Office
NEW YORK — Sixteen
French organizations which
make up the - Common
Front for Israel" have asked
the French government to
close the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization's Paris
office.
According to Shimon
Samuels, director of the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith's European
office in Paris, the appeal,
made to the members of the
French parliament, said
that despite attempts "to
clear the PLO," the Oct. 3
Rue Copernic synagogue
bombing is being traced to
international terrorist
organizations with links to
the PLO.
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