Special Israel Emergency Fund Merged With 1983 AJCampaign;
Early Appeals Launched by the General and Women's Divisions
MARVIN GOLDMAN
To the Ramparts
Fortifying
the Synagogues
Re-Emergence
of the Prejudiced
in Current
Lebanese Crisis
Commentary, Page 2
DAVID MONDRY
For the first time in Metropolitan Detroit Jewry's philanthropic activities, which assumed
a national leadership role since the early 1930s, annual solicitations will commence more than
four months earlier due to the difficulties encountered by Israel as a result of the battle to
uproot terrorism which was headquartered in Lebanon for more than a decade.
A Special Israel Emergency Fund is being established and funds are now being solicited for
it jointly with the obligations for the 1983 Allied Jewish Campaign, both having been inaugu-
rated last week.
To insure success of the urgent efforts described as an emergency in defense of Israel,
Marvin H. Goldman and David S. Mondry have been named co-chairmen of the traditional
inaugural campaign meeting to be held at the home of Max M. Fisher, world chairman of the
Jewish Agency for Israel.
Simultaneous with naming Goldman and Mondry, who were Allied Jewish
Campaign co-chairmen in 1979 and 1980 and general chairmen in 1981, Judge Avern
Cohn, Jewish Welfare Federation president, announced the appointment of Mrs. Paul
(Marlene) Borman as chairman of the Women's Division Israel Emergency and AJ-
Campaign.
Last year, Mrs. Borman was associate Campaign chairman for the Women's Division. A
member of the Women's Division board, she is also on the board of Hebrew Free Loan
Association, past Oakland County chairman of the Torch Drive and a volunteer for the Detroit
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MARLENE BORMAN
Judging
the Prejudices
and Their Effect
on Tragedies
Influencing
M.E. Crises.
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France's Anti-Semitic Terror
Creating Resistance Demand
Begin-Habib Agreement
Speeding Lebanon Finish
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Prime Minister Menahem Begin said Wed-
nesday that all parties appeared satisfied with the PLO withdrawal
plan presented by U.S. special envoy Philip Habib.
In an interview published in Yediot Aharonot, Begin said that if all
went according to plan, the terrorist withdrawal from west Beirut
should begin by as early as next week.
Begin said that once the problem of the PLO withdrawal and
establishment of a firm government in Lebanon was assured,
there was little chance of either Syria or Jordan making war on
Israel and the Middle East should be able to enjoy peace for
many years.
In the inverview, Begin spoke emotionally of the Israeli casualties,
dead and wounded, incurred in the wary, saying the thought of them
gave him sleepless nights. He disclosed that he planned to retire from
office in two years.
"I agreed with my wife last week that I would retire as Prime
Minister in two years' time. Another minister will then be able to take
over and lead the Likud to victory in the next elections," he said.
Begin said he planned to write books after his retirement, on the
"Holocaust generation" and on his own memories as Premier.
Israeli officials expressed satisfaction with Wednesday's two meet-
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PARIS (JTA) — A powerful bomb explosion Wednesday morning damaged a building
housing commercial firms linked with Israel and a Jewish-owned bank. A passerby, a woman
walking her dog, was seriously injured. •
Police believe the attack was carried out by the extreme left-wing "Direct Action" organiza-
tion which assumed responsibility for four explosions and several machinegun attacks against
Jewish or Israeli installations in France during the last two weeks. Wednesday's blast 48 hours
after six people were killed and 22 wounded in a terrorist attack in the heart of Paris' traditional
Jewish quarter, further increased the atmosphere of shock and dismay. French officials said the
government had taken all necessary measures to try and prevent further violence but warned
that in a democratic country such as France, these measures might not always be sufficient.
Israeli Premier Menahem Begin warned Tuesday that unless French authorities
take measures to protect Jews, he would call upon French Jewish youth "to actively
defend their lives, the lives of the Jews and their human dignity."
The Premier's statement, as it was read to the press at the end of the Cabinet session by
Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor, said:
"The murderous crime perpetrated yesterday in the heart of Paris was the result of the
horrendous talk about Oradour and the anti-Israeli incitements (which is tantamount to
anti-Jewish incitement) in the French press and news media. Again the cry of 'Death to the
Jews' can be heard in the streets of Paris as it was during the Dreyfuss affair."
The talk about Oradour which Begin referred to was a statement President Francois
Mitterrand of France made last month when he reportedly compared Israel's military action in
Lebanon with the World War II massacre of 642 people by the Nazis in Oradour-sur-Glane in the
southwest of France.
Begin's statement continued: "I am proud to be Prime Minister of democratic Israel,
.
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Lebanon Prof. Joins U.S. Compatriots' Conference Seeks to End
Expose and Demand for PLO's Ouster Polarization of Judaism
Climaxing a series of events that foc-used attention on major Lebanese events and Israel's involve-
ment, a Lebanese professor of history visited in Detroit with American Lebanese.
At the same time, the heads of the American Lebanese League reiterate their urgent appeal for
American aid to assist in ending the crisis in Lebanon by pursuing the action undertaken by Israel to end
+he PLO rule of terror.
The urgency of such action was expressed here by Mona Khoury. Mrs. Khoury has just arrived from
.-ast Beirut, Lebanon, where she and her family live.
She is the official spokesperson of "The Voice of Lebanese Women," an organization repre-
senting the interests of Lebanese women and mothers.
She is on a tour through major cities in the United States to explain the suffering and hopes of all
Lebanese women to the American people. She is a professor of history and has written many articles on
Lebanon that have been published in the Lebanese and French press.
Her tour of the U.S. is being sponsored by the American Lebanese League.
Prof. Khoury's visit here was in connection with an exhibition of photographs showing the horrors in
Beirut. They especially emphasized the PLO barbarities since 1975, exposing the terror that was imposed
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RAMAT GAN — The president of Bar-Ilan University has called
for an end to the "pitiful polarization" of the various branches of
Judaism and urged a broad-scale program of cooperation among Or-
thodox, Conservative and Reform Jews "without sacrificing convic-
tions in religious matters."
Stressing the need to develop "ecumenism
within the Jewish community," Dr. Emanuel
Rackman announced that Bar-Dan would sponsor
an International Conference on Jewish Unity,
Aug. 22-25, at the campus in Ramat Gan, Israel.
The conference, which has invited representatives
of all streams of Judaism, will address what Dr.
Rackman termed "the hardening of positions
within each .of the different groups."
Participants in the conference will include sec-
DR. BACKMAN
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