THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS PLO Propaganda Film Is Criticized SAN FRANCISCO- — Film reviewer Judy Stone, KOSHER ACAPULCO EL PIRESIDENTE Americana Hotel WINTER 1981 Fr m $26.3.00- One Week The only kosher tour with freshly cooked meals in the - © Presidente Hotel. ristionsl Kasivuds- Rabbi Y. Lipschutz ATLAS INTERNATIONAL TOURS 2 West 45th Street, N.Y. N.Y. (212) 921-9292 Toll Free 800-221-2600 Occ.+ Kosher Mee/ Flay .3. Y" , ,41.11r , ...,cy-- --Ne y „.........,„ .. ,, 'C.' l kkv 1 SS- AN* N, ? Ai„,..y. zsc...• writing in the San Fran- cisco Chronicle, criticized the recent premier showing of "Occupied Palestine." Ms. Stone wrote: "It's not every day that a movie is interrupted by a bomb threat. That's what happened 25 minutes into the U.S. premiere of the emotionally loaded documentary. The - packed (1,500-seat) house was emptied for about an hour while police conducted a search — no bomb was found — and the screeneing resumed for approximately one-third of the previous audience, by then largely Arab and cheering almost every frame of the film. " 'Occupied Palestine' is, one young filmmaker commented during the s865°° Per person Double occ DEC. 23 - 30, 1981 Includes: Round trip air ,,, ,a lJn , ted N.7r... tV Airlines • Transfers • 8 days - 7 nights ,,,,,- at the beautiful NEW Calinda Cancun .-.cv Hotel • Welcome cocktail • Fiesta Maya Cruise • All taxes and gratuities • Completely A. Call: (313)968-7800 escorted Limited seating el in hrciuQ1 Claims Soviet Synagogues Held Services , enforced intermission, an extremely shrewd — and also self-defeating — use Of film as propaganda. • , "The Palestinians here are all either heroes or vic- tims, facing restrictive laws, land and property con- fiscation, death and injus- tice. The Israelis are Zionist imperialists in the service of world capitalism. The Is- raeli soldiers are called rapists and baby killers. "When a courageous Is- raeli woman attorney speaks up on behalf of her imprisoned Arab clients, (director David) Koff — a Jew himself—omits this bit of relevant information. There is no mention of other Israelis who fight against their government's policies. "There is not even one mention of the terrorist murders perpetrated by the PLO and Black September; not one mention of the ter- rible historical reasons that sent early Jewish settlers to Palestine or the Holocaust that brought the others. "This is a film that leads only to the exacerbation of tension and offers no ground for people of good will on both sides who urgently want to arrive at a just solu- tion of these problems, no matter how difficult." HURRY — Friday, November 21, 1%1 11 WASHINGTON — A re- cent Novosti Press Agency story released by the Soviet Embassy in Washington claims that traditional High Holiday services were held in more than 100 synagogues throughout the USSR this year and that numerous Minyans also conducted holiday services for Soviet Orthodox Jews. According to the article, "The renovation of the Mos- cow Choral Synagogue was completed just before the holidays. Offices were re- arranged, ornaments of the Aron Kodesh (in which the Torah scrolls are kept) were renovated. The synagogue received from Hungary ritual ornaments for the holiday service: palm-tree tops, special citrus fruit, myrtle branches and var- ious accessories for the con- gregation. "On the holiday (Rosh Hashana) no less than 5,000 people attended the Moscow Choral Synagogue, situated in the center of the Soviet capital. Before the holiday religious people brought kosher meat and poultry. The meat was cut at the synagogue, and the poultry at the Krasnogorsk poultry factory near Moscow. "The kosher cafeteria at the synagogue is fes- tive. Here the Yeshiva students have their breakfast and lunch, as do the synagogue per- sonnel and some elderly members of the congre- gation who find it dif- ficult to cook such food at home. "The cafeteria serves all the traditional dishes of Jewish cuisine. Prayers are said before and after every meal." New Hotel BOSTON — The five-star luxury Sonesta Hotel, now under construction on the shores of the Red Sea at Eilat Bay, is slated to open in July 1982. Explanation for Synagogue Tradition By RABBI SAMUEL FOX (Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.) Kohanim (descendants of the priestly family)3often come up to the platform in the synagogue, spread open their hands and pronounce the blessing of the Almighty upon the copgregants. The basis for this tradi- tion is the biblical com- mandment (in the Book of Numbers, Chap. 6) which commands the Kohanim to do so. A number of reasons are given for this practice. Some claim that the Kohanim, who in the Tem- ple days of old performed the rituals in the Holy Tem- ple, were considered closer to the Almighty and an thus the benediction is expressed All arts acknowledge that then only we know cer- tainty, when we can define; for definition is that Which refines the pure essence of things from the circum- stance. —Milton through them (Sefer ha- Chinuch). Others claim that • the Kohanim were symbolic of mankind as a whole.Hav- ing them pronounce the blessing indicates that the blessings of the Almighty are transmitted through human beings who aid each other and wish each other well. It is also claimed that the Kohanim spread out their hands to signify that every human being should be a helping hand to his fellow human being. While it is certainly true that the Al- mighty could have bestowed help to mankind by himself without any one's help, He directed his blessings through the hands of fellow humans to make people understand that no blessing is complete without one human helping another. A monarchy is a mer- chantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a. raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water. — Fisher Ames THE KOSHE R LL ... L:L A AJT l=j swami CALL TOLL FREE 1-800-327-4523 0. OR Ocean at Pt, St st:smt ■ INTER SCJIIEDE FT. LAUDERDALE/MIAMI AIRFARE ROUND-TRIP Sat. Morning Departures & Sat. Afternoon Return Beginning February 6th. THRU April 24th. 1982 NON-STOP FLIGHTS TO AND FROM DETROIT METRO. Roundlrip__ Airfare _PLUS:HOTEL ONE-FULL-WEEK OF FUN! Agi Choose from all beach front hotels, The Famous Diplomat Hotel. Dunes. 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