Begin Starts to Form Govt. Gilman New U.S. Attorney JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin, formally summoned by President Yitzhak Navon Wednesday to form a new government, lost no time beginning that task: He met Wednesday afternoon with leaders of Likud's Liberal Party wing. He was scheduled to start coalition talks Thursday with the National Religious Party, with the Aguda Israel Party today, and with Aharon Abu Hatzeira's Tami faction Sunday. He said that he hoped to have his new cabinet ready for presentation to the Knesset within two weeks. The three religious parties, with 13 Knesset seats between them, would give Begin the 61-seat Knesset majority he needs to govern. Danny Ver- mus, secretary general of the NRP, told reporters Tuesday night that he expected negotiations with his party to be completed in a week, but the controversial "Who Is a Jew" amendment to the Law of Return may compli- cate Begin's efforts. (Continued on Page 6) Leonard R. Gilman has been selected by President Ronald Reagan for appointment as U.S. Attorney in Detroit. The announcement was made last Friday by Congressman William Broomfield, who has been pressing for Gilman's nomination. Gilman was graduated from Wayne State University in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science degree and went to law school at Wayne State Univer- sity, where he was a member of the Law Review. Following law school, Gilman was employed as a field attorney with the National Labor Relations Board until January 1968, when he joined the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office as an assistant pro- secuting attorney. He served in that capacity until 1973 when he joined the staff of Oakland County Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson. , In January, 1978, Gilman joined the staff of the United States Attor- ney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan as the chief of the criminal division. Gideon Rafael's Chronicled Record of Israel's Battles for Justice in United Nations Commentary, Page 2 LEONARD GILMAN HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Menaced . Worshipers: Israel's Problem Affecting Non-Orthodox and Jewish Unity Editorial, Page 4 Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXIX, No. 20 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c July 17, 1981 Israel Claims Foreign Policy Firmness in NieFariane Talks - Slomovitz, Three Others Get Bar-Ilan Doctorates RAMAT GAN — Bar-Ilan University has bestowed honorary doctoral degrees upon four ourstanding leaders at its recent commencement exercises. The degrees were conferred upon Philip Slomovitz, editor and publisher of The Detroit Jewish News; Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum; Prof. Emmanuel Levinas of France; and Dr. Irv- ing Moskowitz of California. The university's commencement pro- gram described the four recipients of the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa as follows: SLOMOVITZ Philip Slomovitz is an outstanding jour- nalist and worker for Jewish and Israeli causes. He holds high office in journalistic and Jewish organizations, including the Zionist Organization of America, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Jewish Publication Society of America. He has received many awards from top press and Jewish bodies. These include Israel Bonds, Hadassah, American Jewish Press Association, Jerusalem Award and more . than 70 citations from Zionist and Jewish organizations. KIRSHBLUM (The doctorate to Slomovitz was given in absentia and will be presented formally in Detroit in late summer.) (Text of citation to Slomovitz by Bar-Ilan President Emanuel Rackman on Page 10.) Rabbi Kirshblum is one of the original founders of Bar-Ilan, active for the univer- sity since its inception, and is a member of its board of trustees. A member of the executi-Ve of the newish Agency for 22 years, he headed its aliya and Torah- education and culture departments. MOSKOWITZ He is former president of the Mizrachi Organization of America, A distinguished religious leader. and orator in Yiddish, English and Hebrew, he was honored by his alma mater, Yeshiva University, with an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Prof. Levinas is a renowned French philosopher whose work is concerned with the significance of the other person for metaphysical inquiry. He completed a doc- toral dissertation on Edmund Husserl's theory of intuition, and was one of the first to introduce the work of Martin Heidegger LEVINAS (Continued on Page 10) JERUSALEM (JTA) Israel denied Tuesday that it had given any commitment to the United States beyond the joint statement concluded the night before between Premier Begin \nd a U.S. envoy "clarifying" misunderstandings about' use of American-supplied Arms. Begin's office put out a statement denying specifically a Washington Post report Tuesday that Israel had given an oral pledge to the U.S. to take account of American interests before using its American-supplied weapons in the future. The "clarification," between Begin and State Department counselor Robert McFarlane, came in the wake of America's suspension of warplane supplies to Israel following the Israeli air raid on Iraq's nuclear reactor. The agreed statement, read out by McFarlane with Begin standing alongside him at the end of their second lengthy session Monday, read as follows: The governments of the United States and Israel have had extensive discussion concerning the Israeli operation against the atomic reactor near Baghdad. The discussions have been conducted with the candor and friendship that is customary between allies. The governments of the two countries declare that any misunderstandings which have arisen in the wake of the Aforementioned operation have been clarified to the satis- U.S. Takes Gold, faction of both sides." Israel Leader Israeli officials said they regarded this statement as a significant diplomatic success for Israel. They clearly ex- in Maccabia pected that it would open the way for the Administration to report back to Congress that the "clarification" with Israel Story on Page 11 had been satisfactorily concluded — and that the suspended — (Continued on Page 5) ' Israel Uncovers Archeological Finds JERUSALEM — A Roman amphitheater, the only one of its kind in Israel and the surrounding area, was uncovered recently at an archeological excavation at Beit Shean by a team of archeologists from the Hebrew University working in cooperation with the Israel Department of Antiquities and Israeli museums. Also unearthed were a section of roadway and living quarters from the Byzantine and early Arab period. The amphitheater is elliptical in shape, 67 meters wide and an estimated 110 meters in length. The amphitheater contained an arena sur- rounded by a high wall, which was built to protect the spectators from man-eating animals used in the gladiator events, circuses (Roman races) and other sports exhibitions. Around these walls, which were built of large limestone blocks and covered with a colorful layer of plaster, rose the spectators' gallery. The structure looks like an oblong crater surrounded by seats. It is thought that the amphitheater, most of which was built aboveground, was erected in 200 CE. Ar- cheologists stress the similarities between the amphitheater and the famous Roman theater of Beit Shean located nearby. The three lowest rows of seats in the amphi- theater were hewn from white limestone brought from Mt. Gilboa and have been well preserved. The Byzantine roadway uncovered at Beit (Continued on Page 10) Shean.