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300 Volunteers to Call 12,000 on Super Sunday

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Thousands of members of the Detroit Jewish community will have the opportunity
on Sunday to join with others in more than 100 cities throughout the country in a
nationwide effort on behalf of world Jewry.
Some 12,000 community residents will be contacted by telephone from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. on Super Sunday and asked to make an increased commitment to the 1981 Allied
Jewish Campaign - Israel Emergency Fund.
The phone blitz, the most massive of its kind ever undertaken locally, marks an
earlier launching point for the Campaign which is seeking $19,150,000. If that figure is

The UN:
A Plea to Prevent
Perpetuating
International
Outrages

not reached, serious cutbacks in fund allocations could occur, Jewish Welfare Federation
President George M. Zeltzer warned. He urged each individual to consider a larger pledge
to help the aged, poor, recent immigrants and many others who don't have the means to
help themselves.
Marvin H. Goldman and David S. Mondry, general chairmen of the 1981 Campaign,
also stressed the great importance of Super Sunday.
Working to make Super Sunday a community-wide success are more than
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A Weekly Review

Commentary, Page 2

of Jewish Events

A Salute to
President-elect
Ronald Reagan

The Calls to
the 12,000

Editorials, Page 4

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Ground Broken for
Srere Birth Center
at Sinai Hospital

Ground was broken Monday for a three-story Perinatal
Center at Sinai Hospital of Detroit. Bearing the names of
its benefactors, Harry and Fann Srere and Sons, the
multi-million dollar complex will house the most sophisti-
cated medical equipment and offer the most up-to-date
birthing services available.
Sinai's obstetrical and newborn service is one of the
most comprehensive and progressive programs in the De-
troit metropolitan area, with its obstetricians delivering
3,200 babies per year.
"The ongoing programs of teaching and research at
Sinai results in a climate which fosters excellence," Sinai
Board President Alfred L. Deutsch said during the
groundbreaking ceremonies. "Our complement of physi-
cians, young medical personnel in training, nurses and
others means that patient care is always tempered by com-
passion and concern for the welfare of the individual," he
added.
Drs. Milton H. Goldrath, chairman of Obstetrics and
Gynecology at Sinai and Ralph Cash, chairman of Sinai's
Department of Pediatrics also addressed the gathering.
Patient education in the new facility will play a
significant role in the parents' birthing experience. It
is anticipated that prenatal classes, childbirth prep-
aration classes, parenting classes and parent support
groups will be incorporated as ongoing programs
when the center opens for service in about two years.
"This new service will enable us to respond to the needs
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The prospect of Israeli elections in June strengthened still more Thursday
with two coalition parties, the Democratic Movement and Agudat Yisrael, coming out openly in support of
the idea. Last-minute efforts were still underway by Housing Minister David Levy, Agricultural Minister
Ariel Sharon and Commercial Minister Gideon Patt, to put together a Knesset majority that could last
until November. But well-placed political observers said there was no real hope that these efforts would
convince the majority of the coalition to re-think the June-election prospect.
The Knesset is scheduled to debate on Monday a Labor-sponsored bill to dissolve the legislative body
and hold early elections.
Deputy Premier Simha Ehrlich told television viewers Wednesday night that the majority in his
Liberal Party favors holding the election in June.
The DM empowered one of their three Knesseters, Binyamin Halevy, to table a private
members bill Wednesday setting the election date for June 16. He said he felt the coalition and
ultimately the opposition too could unite around this date.
The four-man Aguda faction, meanwhile, is un-
derstood to have resolved by a majority of three to one
to support June elections. The one dissenting voice
was that of Knesseter Shlomo Yaacov Gross. The
party's executive was expected to take the same deci-
sion at a meeting yesterday, thus formally endorsing
the faction's viewpoint.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Postmortems performed by
Israeli pathologists on the bodies of five Palestinian
Similarly, in an election-laden atmosphere, the
terrorists killed by Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon
Knesset Finance' Committee decided by majority
on Dec. 25 confirmed Israel's assertions that the
Wednesday not to approve certain government
bodies had not been mutilated by explosives and
grants to Aguda-affiliated institutions. Likud mem-
burned, as charged by the Dutch contingent of the
bers joined with Laborites in opposing the alloca-
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
tions.
Gen. Emmanuel Erskin, Commander of UNIFIL,
"There is no point artificially propping up the
proposed that postmortems be done on the bodies by
government by parliamentary tricks," an Aguda .
UN medical personnel. Gen. Avigdor Ben-Gal, corn-
leader said Wednesday. Without Aguda and the DM,
mander of Israeli forces in the north, agreed but UN
the Likud and National Religious Party have no
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim banned the pro-
majority by any arithmetic calculation. And thus, it
cedure on grounds that it would breach the UN's
neutrality in the dispute between Dutch soldiers and
seemed to observers Wednesday, Levy's efforts to

Autopsies Refute
UNIFIL Charges

the Israelis.

Ben Franklin's Genesis Parable

By RABBI ARTHUR A. CHIEL

(Editor's note: Rabbi Chiel leads Cong. Bnai Jacob in Woodbridge, Conn. This article is reprinted with
permission from "Liberty, a magazine of religious freedom" and the author.)
In the fall of 1759, Benjamin Franklin journeyed from London to Scotland to accept an honorary doctorate from the
University of St. Andrews. While in Scotland, Franklin was hosted by the learned jurist Lord Kames. One evening
ranklin astonished his host and assembled guests by declaring that the Old Testament favored religious toleration.
)rd Kames, a Presbyterian Scotsman, asked Franklin for textual proof. Franklin requested a Bible, opened it, and
declaimed the following passage, which he introduced as a chapter from Genesis:
"And it came to pass after these things, that Abraham sat in the door of his tent, about the going down of the sun.
And beheld a man, bent with age, coming from the way of the wilderness, leaning on his staff.
"And Abraham rose and met him, and said unto him: Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night;
and thou shalt arise early in the morning and go on thy way. But the man said, Nay, for I will abide under this tree.
"And Abraham pressed him greatly; so he turned and they went into the tent, and Abraham baked
unleavened bread and they did eat. And when Abraham saw that the man blessednot God, he said unto him,
Wherefore dost thou not worship the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth?"
And the man answered, and said, I do not worship thy god, neither do I call upon his name: for I have made to
myself a god, which abideth in my house and provideth me with all things.
"And Abraham's zeal was kindled against the man; and he arose and fell upon him, and drove him forth with blows
into the wilderness.
And at midnight. God called upon Abraham saying, 'Abraham, where is the stranger?' And Abraham answered
and said, lord, he would not worship thee neither would he call upon thy name; therefore have I driven him out from
before my face into the wilderness.'
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