The Human Factor in Jerusalem Refutes the Papal Attitude Prejudicing Holy City Status THE JEWISH NEWS Commentary, Page 2 A Weekly. Review ■■• VOL. LXXXII, No 5 SUKKOT Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere of Jewish. Events Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c October 1, 1982 Resumption of Israel's Unity Evidenced by Probe Decision While not a sense of total relief from the tensions and agonies created by the tragedy in Beirut, the The Tallest Sukka • decision for an investigation by a commission authorized by the Isareli Cabinet has brought a resurgence of unity into the tense Israeli atmosphere which only a week ago was electrified by a demonstration of Ready in New York hundreds of thousands against Prime Minister Menahem Begin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. A soothing statement by Israel 'President Yitzhak Navon was among the unity-inspiring messages that followed the Cabinet decision. Meanwhile, the additional submission by Sharon to ministerial cooperation, which reduced the previous stand he had taken which had been interpreted as an extremity in firmness, added to an easing of tensions. While the latest poll shows that Begin's popularity dropped from 82 to 72 percent, the prime minister seems to have withstood the harshness of criticisms and attacks on his policies. Cancellation of the Knesset session to discuss the crisis is interpreted as a supplementary relief from the accumulated rancor, due to the decision in support of an investigating commission. The Labor Alignment on Tuesday evening withdrew its call for urgent debate in the Knesset after the government announced that it will establish a formal judicial commission to investigate the west Beirut massacre of Sept. 16-17 and Israel's role, if any. Labor's move was also apparently in response to the Likud party's cancellation of a pro-government rally it had planned to stage in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to counter last Saturday night's massive anti-government demonstration. The Cabinet's unanimous decision to reverse its previous opposition to a full-scale probe drew a commendation from President Yitzhak Navon. Navon expressed satisfaction with the Cabinet's decision but noted that the action came several days too late. The president said that "verbal violence" had reached new levels in recent days and he hoped that the Cabinet deci- Deportation proceedings against Romanian sion would be the first step in reducing tensions. Archbishop Valerian Trifa will begin 9 a.m. Mon- Navon last week called for an official inquiry day in Courtroom 228 of the Federal Building on into the massacre. - Lafayette Blvd. On Tuesday, speaking at the home of Sheikh The proceedings, expected to last two or three Amin Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze commu- weeks, start in the wake of a nearly 30-year effort nity in Israel, Navon said he appealed to President by New York dentist Dr. Charles Kremer to have the U.S. government investigate Trifa for -his Amin Gemayel of Lebanon to investigate the carnage World War II Nazi ties and his involvement in a and to try those responsible. The president added that pogrom in Bucharest in 1941. there were alarming signs that the Lebanese were The government began a de-naturalization trying to cover up the truth about the massacre. • case against Trifa in 1975. Trifa voluntarily Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, the prime target gave up his U.S. citizenship in 1980, and then. of Israeli protests over the events in Beirut, ex- appealed. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Cin- pressed full support for the commission of inquiry cinnati denied the appeal and the U.S. Supreme into both the political and military acts before and Court refused to review the case. during the episode. Addressing a memorial service Dr. Kremer is coming from New York to ob- serve the deportation hearings, which are open to for Yom Kippur War dead on Tuesday, Sharon said Trifa Deportation Hearing Monday Jack Weiler, honorary president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, is shown put- ting the finishing touches on one of the world's high- est sukkas, atop a 50-story building in Manhattan owned by Weiler's real estate company. The sukka is annually used by Jewish organizations for luncheons and holiday fund raising. the public. Philip Slomovitz Will Be Cited ri With Butzel Award for Service Nt 7 i it' The Jewish Welfare Federation will bestow its highest honor for community service, anthe Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award, on Philip Slomovitz, editor and publisher of The NoJewish News, at Federation's Oct. 13 annual meeting. thr The award will be presented to Slomovitz at the 7:30 one p.m. meeting at Adat Shalom Synagogue. Named for the Jewish community's eminent leader, the Butzel Award has been presented to 33 individuals in its 30-year history. MA In announcing the award, Federation President Avern of Cohn noted that it is richly deserved by Slomovitz "who has die been in the vanguard of enhancing Jewish life for those in his our own community, in Israel and around the world for the don past 60 years. The zest and professionalism with which he ter, has fulfilled both his roles as a journalist and Jewish leader ach are incomparable." Editor of The Jewish News for the past 40 years, , - Slomovitz has dedicated his efforts to fighting anti- NA Semitism and working for the cohesiveness of the line Jewish community. His editorial essays have been tive reprinted widely in the Jewish and general press, and is ril his columns on international issues have been in- vice PHILIP SLOMOVITZ serted in the U.S. Congressional Record. . finir (Continued on Page 5) Jewish Welfare Federation Picks CJF Official as Its Exec. Director Wayne L. Feinstein has assumed the post of executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation of. Detroit. The announcement was made by Federation President Avern Cohn. Feinstein, director of long-range planning for the Council of Jewish Federations in New York, becomes the chief operating officer of Federation. George M. Zeltzer will continue until May 1983 as executive vice president. A native of Albany, N.Y., Feinstein received a master's degree in Jewish communal service from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. He has served as director of leader- ship development for the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York and was assistant executive direc- tor of the Jewish Welfare Federation of San Francisco where his responsibilities included over-all direction of the annual fund-raising campaign. At the Council of Jewish Federations, Feinstein be- came the first director of campaign planning advisory ser- vices. He developed consultation programs for strengthen- ing community fund raising and later initiated and headed the department of long-range community planning ser- WAYNE FEINSTEIN vices.