Rep. Lantos Will Accept Detroit-Windsor
Freedom Festival Award for Wallenberg

REP. LANTOS

A Potpourri
of Incidents
Relating to
Struggle for
Public Awareness
of Tragedies
Enmeshed in War

Commentary, Page 2

U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), who was saved from the Nazi Holocaust by Raoul Wallenberg, will accept
the International Freedom Award on Wallenberg's behalf June 28 at a Cobo Hall luncheon.
Lantos and his wife, Annette, faced death in Hungary during the waning days of World War II. Their lives were saved
by Wallenberg, a Swedish citizen and graduate of the University of Michigan who used his diplomatic immunity and
sheer bravado to shield 20,000-50,000 Jews from the Nazi death camps.
Also expected at the luncheon are Willhelm Wachtmeister, Swedish Ambassador to the U.S.; Kaj Bjork,
Swedish Ambassador to Canada; Marvin Anderson, Swedish Consul to Michigan; Sonja Sonnefeld, executive
secretary of the Raoul Wallenberg Association; and Mayors Coleman Young of Detroit and Albert Weeks of
Windsor.
Rep. Lantos was instrumental in having Raoul Wallenberg named an hcinorary U.S. citizen last October.
"Wherever he is, his humanity burns like a torch," said President Ronald Reagan upon signing the Wallenberg
resolution. Only one other person, Winston Churchill, has been so honored.

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June 18, 1982

ZOA Calls for Jewish Unity;
U.S. Understanding Is Hailed

Reagan's 'Correct Assessment' of Israel's
Actions Commended at ZOA Sessions Here

Delegates from a dozen states, attending the ses-
sions of the National Executive Committee of the
Zionist Organization of America at the Sheraton-
Southfield Hotel during the crucial weekend when
ceasefire decisions were reached by the state of Israel,
took the lead in issuing a call for unified Jewish
action to render every possible service, as a united
community, to protect Israel's position as a sovereign
nation.
In the days that followed, similar action was
pursued by national Jewish movements throughout
the land.
At the same time, the ZOA leaders issued a
statement commending President Ronald Reagan
and his Administration for the "correct understand-
ing" of Israel's position, arguing that these policies be
pursued in the best interests of peace in the Middle
East.
Emphasis was made in the decisions
reached at sessions here of the urgent need for
Shown at Sunday's presentation of the ZOA's Jus- all possible aid that can be given to the state of
tice Louis D. Brandeis Award (inset) to Philip and Israel.
Anna Slomovitz are, from left, top photograph, Judge
Max. M. Fisher, chairman of the Jewish Agency,
Avern Cohn, Natalie Novick, Alleck Resnick, Sidney addressing the luncheon meeting Sunday at which
Silverman, Ivan Novick and Slomovitz. In the bottom
photograph are Novick and speakers Wolf Blitzer and the Brandeis Award was presented by the ZOA to
Philip and Anna Slomovitz, pointed to the heavy
Max Fisher.

costs entailed by Israel and the "economic strains"
that are a result of the action in Lebanon, and he
appealed for proper and generous responses to the
United Jewish Appeal — locally by the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation through the Allied Jewish Campaign
— and the Israel Bonds Organization, for help to
assure continuity of support for the Israeli economy,
and social service, immigration and education pro-
grams.
In the appeal for unity and the commendations to
the Reagan Administration issued on behalf of the
ZOA by its president, Ivan_J. Novick, and the ZOA

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Begin Visit Tests
U.S. Role in M.E.

By DAVID LANDAU

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin, who
flew to the U.S. this week, may face strong American pres-
sure to pull back Israeli forces in Lebanon when he meets
President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander
Haig in Washington early next week. Some officials in
Israel expect the Administration to urge Israel to withdraw
to positions 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of its border, the
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Modern Translation of Bible Completed With JPS' The Writings'

PHILADELPHIA —For the first time in 2,300 years, a committee of Jewish scholars
has completed a translation ofthe Bible into the language of the day, using the findings of
- modern archeology and biblical scholarship to transmit the original Hebrew text into
contemporary literary English.
on - - The translation, commissioned by the Jewish Publication Society of America, was
than 25 years in the making. It is now complete, with the publication of the third
. _
d final volume of the work — "The Writings."
"The Writings" contain numerous changes of concept and nuance from earlier
translations. For example: The
opening line of Ecclesiastes —
"Vanity of vanities . . . all is van-
ity" in the Revised Standard
Version of 1952 (official Bible of
the National Council of
Churches) — is now translated
as "Utter futility . . . all is futil-
ity," a less literal but truer re-
ndering of the author's inten-
tion, according to Nahum Sarna,
ORLINSKY GINSBERG SARNA

to

professor of biblical studies at Brandeis University and a member of the committee of
scholars that worked on the translation of "The Writings."
The 23rd Psalm's "valley of the shadow of death" is now translated as "valley
of deepest darkness." The Seventh Psalm (verse 10), which is translated in the
King James Version as "He who probes the heart and kidneys is God the right-
eous," is now rendered as "He who probes the mind and conscience . ."
Prof. Sarna introduced "The Writings" at a luncheon marking the publication of the
last volume of the Jewish scriptural canon at the Harvard Club in New York City.
Joining him were Harry M. Or-
linsky, professor emeritus of
Bible at Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, who served as editor-
in-chief of the JPS translation of
"The Torah" — volume one of
the biblical trilogy, which was
published in 1963; and H.L.
Ginsberg, professor emeritus of
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