1 4.01111111111•11111111.010•111111111110 401/.1WINFINFISINFWINIWPW -7 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 $4495 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. 46.11.111.111.1•1111011.141111M1 Friday, December 12, 1980 23 116 yt AL STEINBERG FIAT ART MORAN PONTIAC SALES and EXPERT SERVICE 29300 TELEGRAPH JUST NORTH OF TEL-TWELVE MALL 353-9000 GIVE HER PEARLS 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. AVID ..WICISErL... Hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Mon. - Fri. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sat. , .JEWELERS 552-0876 Custom work is our specialty. 23777 Greenfield Rd., Suite 486 (Corner of Mt. Vernon) Southfield, MI 48075 P171