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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 6, 1981

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PLO Rocket Attacks Follow Israel Air Raid

TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Palestinian terrorists fired
two salvoes of Katyusha
rockets into Western
Galilee from Lebanon on

EMy Thanks To . . .

DR. I. STEINER

(Pediatrist—Phone: 552-1155)

Who Was On A House Call To See
A Patient, Yet Took Of His Valuable
Time Not Only To Get My Car Out Of
Bumpy Ice, But Stayed With
Me Until Professional Help Arrived.

I Shall Always Remember
Your Kindness, Dear Dr. Steiner.

ANN L. KORSON-BERGER

Registered Electrologisy

Tuesday but caused no
casualties or damage. The
attacks were the second
since Monday when rockets
injured three persons in the
Israeli border township of
Kiryat Shmona and dam-
aged some buidings and
power lines.
Gen. Avigdor Ben-Gal,
commander of the northern
front, visited the area of the
shelling seeking to calm
local residents. He said they
were exaggerating the situ-
ation when they described it
as a "war of attrition." Ac-
cording to Ben-Gal, "there
is some tension but you
should not call it a war of
attrition as there has been
in the past."
The rocket attack on
Monday began two hours

after Israel air force jets
carried out a preemptive
raid on Palestinian terrorist
targets northeast of Sidon
on the Lebanese coast. The
raids are part of Israel's pol-
icy of preventing the ter-
rorists from organizing in-
cursions into Israeli terri-
tory by hitting them at will
instead of in retaliation for
specific attacks.

A Medical Oasis

PETAH TIKVA (JNI) --
A 16-year-old Saudi woman
has followed patients from
Libya and Behrein to a
Petah Tikva gynecologist
for fertility treatment.
Many women from coun-
tries at war with Israel
enter through third coun-
tries for medical treatment.

`Between You
. . and Me'

Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA

(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)

Watch for details in your March gas bill.

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4. You stay on this rate for at least one year.
Once you apply for this rate, we'll automat-
ically include you in our winter shutoff pro-
tection program. That means we'll code your
account so that, should you fall behind in bill
payments, your gas service will not be shut
off in the winter.
If you're a senior citizen who qualifies, it
makes a lot of sense to apply for this new rate.
Not only may you save about $20 annually on
your gas bills, you'll also be protected from a
shutoff in the winter.
The information in your March gas bill will
tell you how and where to apply. Be sure to
watch for it!

MICHIGAN CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY

MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN NATURAL RESOURCES SYSTEM

Detroit area Cadet Lyle Jay Kellman, shown hold-
ing the Torah with his father, Dr. Fred J. Kellman,
recently became the first Bar Mitzva at the U.S. Mili-
tary Academy at West Point. Shown with the
Kellmans are, from left, Rep. Benjamin Gillman (R-
N.Y.), Rabbi Avraham Soltes (behind the Torah) a -
Herbert M. Ames of the West Point Jewish Chap,.
Fund.

Boris Smolar's

Announcing a special
new gas rate for
senior citizens.

Michigan Consolidated has a new senior citi-
zens' natural gas rate available to our customers
who are age 65 and older and who meet cer-
tain qualifications. Information on this rate,
which may save you about $20 annually, is
being sent with your gas bill. The qualifica-
tions are:
1. You are head of the household and at least
65 years old. (The head of household is the
person whose name appears on the gas service
account and who provides primary financial
support for the family at the account address.)
2. Your principal residence is the address where
this rate is to be applied. (This rate is not for a
seasonal home—a cottage, for example—or
for any rental properties.)
3. You do not have a natural gas air conditioner,
natural gas swimming pool heater, or natural
gas outdoor lighting.

Bar Mitzva a West Point

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IRANIAN JEWS IN THE U.S.: More than 25,000
Jewi have emigrated from Iran to the United States since
the change of the regime there. About 15,000 of them live in
Los Angeles; more than 3,000 reside in New York; the
others have settled in the larger cities in various parts of
the country.
Most of the immigrants -are middle-class and upper
middle class people. Their emigration to the United States
did not involve Jewish organizations in this country in
expenses. They did not seek any financial assistance.
During recent weeks, however, their representatives
contacted Jewish organizations — such as the Council of
Jewish Federations, JDC, HIAS — seeking help from them,
not philanthropic assistance, but legal aid — to have their
status adjusted from "refugee" to "permanent resident
alien." A refugee must reside in the United States one year
before he can apply for such an adjustment, but many of the
Iranian Jews now in this country would like to go abroad for
business reasons before the year expires, and they do not -
want to travel on Iranian passports even if these passports
are still valid.
The Washington office of the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions, representing the organized Jewish communities in
the U.S., is now engaged — together with other Jewish
organizations — in the effort to secure the change in status
which the Iranian immigrants seek. Negotiations to this
effect are being conducted with the proper government
agencies.
THEIR RELIGIOUS PROBLEM: Another problem
brought forth by the Iranian Jewish immigrants to the
attention of American Jewish leaders is the non-existence
in America of synagogues to suit their style of religious
living.
Having lived in a community which is one of the oldest
in Jewish history — Jews dwelled in Iran for about 2,500
years — the newcomers are rooted deeply in ancient Jewish
religious traditions which they do not find practiced in this
country. On Sabbath, for instance, the entire family —
parents and children — proceed together to the synagogue
for services. But they find few American Jewish children at
synagogue servi c es.
They are also different in their praying — they do not
follow the Ashkenazi prayerbook- used by American Or-
thodox Jews; not to speak of the fact Conservative and or
Reform Judaism are totally alien to them. Thus they suffer
from absence of their own style of houses of worship.
There were about 70,000 Jews in Iran before the up-
heaval in 1978. Today there are only about 30,000 Jews
there. Most of them are poor. There were some 15,000
beneficiaries from JDC and in Iran in 1978 before the
Moslem religious extremists took control of the count
Some Iranian Jews now settled in this country
maintaining contact with relatives and friends in Iran by
letter and even by telephone. They are told that the remain-
ing Jews there feel themselves no longer in the danger they
were during the grim period of the end of 1978, and that
some hope they will be able to continue to live in peace in
Iran. Those still planning to emigrate will, however, con-
tinue to meet no difficulties in securing entrance visas to
the United States as long as there is an anti-Jewish atmos-
phere in Iran. The U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law
includes Iran among the states in the Middle „East from
where oppressed persons are eligible for U.S. visas as refu-
gees.