THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS - 20 FridaY, May 1, 1981 Brazil Sell Out Desks, Chairs, Files, Typewriters & Adders Hit for 'Jewish / Licenses RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Leading newspapers have attacked the govern- ment for awarding much sought after television, licenses to Jewish-owned 342-7802 firms, one headed by an immigrant from Czarist Russia and the other by a Brazilian-born son of im- migrants. - The licenses granted by There's nothing more revealing than a naked diamond. The diamond you buy should have nothing to hide. David Wachter Sons will show you Detroit's largest selection of Ideal Cut diamonds before you select your mounting. With our scientific equipment we'll point out the vital factors of cut, color, clarity and carat weight that determine the true value of any dia- mond. Brilliance is the key, for it en- hances both the beauty and the" value. The Ideal Cut diamonds in our collection are proportioned to bring out all the stone's natural brilliance. 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SUNDAY H-5 Boris Smolar's `Between You . . . and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.) JEWISH VITALITY: The American Jewish Commit- tee will celebrate 75 years of its existence at its five-day annual meeting in Washington May 13-17. The Jewish National Fund will celebrate its 80th anniversary in New York on Monday. The New York Board of Rabbis which - represents more than 1,000 rabbis of all denominations – Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist — will celebrate its 100th anniversary on May 17. The American Jewish Historical Society, which reaches 90 years of existence next year, will, for the first time, hold its three-day annual meeting in New York May 15-17, marking the 100th anniversary of the immigration of East European Jews to America and giving its members from all over the country the flavor of all Jewish sights and historic sites of New York — the city which was the gate to the Jewish immigrants 100 years ago and later. Other leading Jewish organizations will hold their an- nual conferences in May. The United Jewish Appeal will have its annual four-day national meeting in New York on May 12-13. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee will have its two-day annual meeting May 18-19 in Wash- ington. The National Conference of Soviet Jewry will con- duct its two-day annual meeting May 18-19 in New York, and the Conference- of Jewish Communal Workers will open its annual convention in New York on May 31. U.S. RECOGNITION: Special attention will be paid this spring to the 100th birthday of Dr. Mordecai M. Kap- lan, the "father" of the Reconstructionist movement, and to the 80th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menahem Schneerson. Dr. Kaplan was born June 11, 1881, in Lithuania; Rabbi Schneerson was born on the 11th of Nissan, corresponding to April 15 this year, in Russia. In honor of Rabbi Schneerson's birthday, the American government has proclaimed the day of his birth as a "Day of Education in America." THE LUBAVITCH INFLUENCE: The sphere of influence of Rabbi Schneerson has long transcended his Hasidic community. During the 30 years of his leadership — he is the seventh Rebbe in the dynastic lineage of the Lubavitcher leaders — he consistently intensified the out- reach work in stimulating Jewish consciousness among alienated youth and assimilated families. There are today Lubavitch centers in about 40 Jewish communities in this country. Lubavitch centers and schools have also been established or expanded by the Rebbe in about 20 other countries. Israel is dotted with a large net- work of Lubavitcher educational institutions, in addition to Kfar Chabad, the Lubavitcher settlement near Tel Aviv, and other settlements, including one near Rehovot where, more than 750 Russian families are housed. The Lubavitcher Rebbe sends families from the United States to take up residence in Israel. 10- PLO, Yugoslavia to Join on World War II Film Effort ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA) — The Palestine Liberation Organization and Yugoslav film-makers are jointly pro- ducing an Arab-financed motion picture that por- trays Palestinian Arabs as aiding the partisans in Yugoslavia during the Nazi occupation of that country in World War II, Abraham Foxman, national associate director of the Anti- Defamation League of Bnai Brith said here Monday night. a at Speaking community-wide Yom Hashoa observance mark- ing the 38th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Upris- ing, Foxman said the $8 million film, titled "Death in Flames," will have its premiere at the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in Baghdad in 1982 and will be serialized for television. According to Foxman, "the only Palestinian who came to Yugoslavia in 1943 was Haj Amin El-Husseini, the former. Grand Mutfi of Jerusalem, and he came from Berlin in Nazi uniform to bless the newly formed SS Hanjar Division which fought against the parti- sans," Foxman said. Foxman said "the only Palestinians who aided the partisans were in fact Jewish Palestinians from pre-Israel Palestine." He was referring to Hannah Senesh and others who . • parachuted into Yugos- W lavia in 1943 and joined the partisans. Senesh, on a mission to rescue Hun- garian Jews, was cap- tured by the Nazis and executed. Foxman said that he spoke with a representative of the Yugoslav government in New York after the ADL received information on the film. He said that in re- sponse to his protest, the Yugoslav official asked him, "how do you know that two Palestinian- Arabs did not come to the aid of the Yugoslav partisans?"