• • Dedication of New Synagogue A Bittersweet. Event in Maalot By SIMON GRIVER United Jewish Appeal Jewish people have become used to commemorating their dead. Representing the government was Dov Shilansky, another member of the Knesset. As the group drove towards the new synagogue, constructed in memory of those who died, the sadness of the scene was heightened by the setting sun as it bathed the rolling. Galilee hills in its warm light. _ Among those attending the synagogue ceremony were many survivors. They included two brothers, Zvi and Arye Shmila, now aged 24 and 23. Shortly after the terrorists had taken the children hostage, Zvi es- caped the schoolhouse by jumping out of a window, only to be immediately caught and brought back. Today Zvi is a paratrooper but despite his traumatic experience eight years ago he is optimistic. "I believe we can achieve peace with the Arabs," he said, "I hope the treaty with Egypt holds. It might not work but we had to try." SAFED — In this ancient city rich in Jewish tradi- tion, the parents of the school children massacred during a 1974 Outing in the nearby.town of Maalot dedi- cated a new synagogue on May 15, the eighth anniver- sary of the tragic event. The years do not soften blow," explained - _. arice Ne'eman in a re- strained whisper, as his wife Tzvia wept over the grave of their 17 year-old daughter Ilana. "The face of our girl, smiling and so charming, keeps coming back to us and the memory is as painful each time." Three PLO terrorists in- filtrated from southern Lebanon on that day in 1974, and seized a schoolhouse in the Galilean town of Maalot, just across the border, where 85 youngsters from Safed and other northern com- munities were on a weekend excursion. By the time Is- raeli troops stormed the building, 24 children had been killed. For Miriam Mor Yosef, On the anniversary of the outrage, the this year's ceremony was townspeople gathered at especially meaningful. At a cemetery on a hillside 15 she is the same age as outside Safed, where 19 her sister Tzivia was of the 24 victims are when she died at Maalot. buried. A smaller cere- She also attends the same mony was conducted school as her late _sister. several miles away in Shaul Efrati came to Hazor, where the other Safed a year after the youngsters had lived. tragedy to take up the post The parents and of principal at the school. He townspeople were ad- has worked hard to pick up dressed by the mayor, MK the pieces and rebuild an Aron Nachmias. He spoke atmosphere where pupils sadly of how through cen- can be happy. "It is only in turies of persection, the the last year or two that the Sabbath Clause Out By BEN GALLOB (Copyright, 1982, JTA, Inc.) An employment applica- tion form used by one of the largest health and hospital insurers in New York has been revised by the firm, in partial settlement of a law- suit, to protect a Sabbath observing job applicant from being forced to disclose his or her religious corn- naitment prior to any pros- pect of a job offer from that firm. Howard Zuckerman, president of the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA), which handled the case, said the job appli- cation of Jay Frishman of Brooklyn, the Sabbath ob- ..-rver in the case, presented ,classic problem faced by `a bbath observers. Dennis Rapps, COLPA executive director, represented Frishman. Zuckerman said that, by being required to sign the application, which has a general declaration of the applicant's availability for work according to the re- quirements of the employer, the Sabbath observer was forced either to lie or to dis- close Sabbath observer status. . 4 Zuckerman said that this disclosure by the applicant could lead the prospective employer to assert many reasons for not hiring the applicant when the real, undis- closed reason was the applicant's Sabbath commitment. Thus, while the law per- mits non-hiring or dismis- sal of an otherwise qualified Sabbath observer only when the employer can prove undue hardship would' result. fi.O:m hiring or keeping the Sabbath ob- server, violations of the law were almost impossible to prove, Zuckerman said. COLPA's position, Zuc- kerman said, is that a job applicant should not be placed in a position of jeopardizing his or her abil- ity to obtain a job by disclo- sure of work restrictions religiously based; or con- sciously withholding infor- mation about those restriev tions, particularly if ac- commodation to such re- strictions would be possible through a reasonable effort by the employer, an accom- modation which would then be required by law. The Children of Israel left Egypt 3,500 years ago. Friday, August 6, 1982 11 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •• • community has begun to re- cover from the shock," he observed. "At first the school was so closely associ- ated with the event that many parents transferred their children elsewhere and could not bring them- selves even to visit the school." 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