The Concept
of the Holy Land
in the Bible:
Dr. Orlinsky
Traces Historic
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Government
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Action
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calling for Trifa Deportation

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Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice began this
week to submit in court a massive number of exhibits to sub-
stantiate their request for the deportation of Romanian Or-
thodox Archbishop Valerian Trifa of Grass Lake, Mich.
Trifa is accused of fomenting a pogrom in Bucharast in
January 1941 while he was the leader of the National Union of
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Romanian Christian Students under the fascist Iron Guard.
back
from the printer
The opening of the case this week in Detroit's Federal
Thursday to report that Trifa
Building focused on materials and testimony of Dr. Bela A. '
admitted guilt and submitted
Vago of the University of Haifa. Dr. Charles Kremer of New
to voluntary deportation to
York was an observer in the court room. It was Dr. Kremer who
Switzerland. Details must be
Pushed the Justice Department for 30 years on the Trifa case.
held
until next week's issue.
Local groups of Holocaust survivors attended the
daily sessions, presided over by Immigration and
Naturalization Service Judge Bellino D'Ambrosio.
Dr. Vago has been the only witness to date, patiently explaining the historical context of letters,
docoments and newspaper articles submitted by the government over the objections of Trifa's lawyer,
William Swor. Dr. Kremer is not
scheduled as a witness in the case.
Dr. Vago heads the department
of Holocaust history at Haifa Univer-
sity and the Historical Documenta.-
tion Center of Eastern European Af-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israel Supreme Court justices and a
retired career army officer will comprise the judicial commission of
fairs.
inquiry set up to investigate Israel's role, if any, in the massacre of
Swor has objected to each
Palestinian civilians by units of the Lebanese Phalangist militia in
document admitted as evidence
west Beirut Sept. 16-18.
because they are not the originals
The members of the panel were appointed by the President of the
but certified translations from the
Supreme Court, Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan, as provided under the
U.S. National Archives and the
1968 Commissions of Inquiry Law. Kahan, 69, and due to retire in a
Library of Congress. Judge
year, designated himself chairman.
He named as his colleagues Justice Aharon Barak, a former
D'Ambrosio has noted his objec-
Attorney General, and Gen. (res.) Yonah Efrat who once com-
tions and overruled him each
manded Israel's crack Golani Brigade and later served as com-
time.
manding general of the central command.
On Tuesday, Swor objected to the
The composition of the commission is bound to satisfy even the
admission of newspaper articles
most skeptical that the inquiry will be conducted fairly and thoroughly.
Kahan and Barak are distinguished jurists, regarded as "judges'
about Trifa as leader of the student
judges" whose entire outlook is judicial and divorced from any other
union. He claimed that Trifa could be

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III Committee Prepares for 31st Book Fair

The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit will host its 31st Annual Jewish Book Fair Nov. 13-21 at the
main Center. Dolores Silverstein and Sandra Nathanson will be co-chairmen, and Rita Rochlen is vice chairman.
Committee chairmen are: book display, Eleanor Korn and Cis Maisel; book inventory, Gertrude Lahr, Mildred Ross
and Rose Roland; book selection, Joyce Burkoff; children's program, Julie Gurwin, Marilyn Kohen and Nina Schneyer;
), decorations, Georgia Kux; gift shop, Belle Kukes and Eleanor Sugarman; Hebrew, Hava Schaver; hospitality, Marilyn
Weiss and Evelyn Silverman; patrons, Shirley Zirkin and Bess Orecklin; pre-Book Fair briefing, A.M. Goldkrant and
Marion Kantor; reservations, Jain Lauter and Sharon Lipton; Sisterhood Day, Lois Falk, Sylvia Lee and Ruth Wein-
garten; volunteers, Diana Honet, Susan Rose and Sandra
Zeskind; Yiddish, Sarah Friedman.
The steering committee includes: Marle Abramson,
Sylvia Babcock, Clara Bachman, Selma Bernbaum, Joan
Bloom, Judy Bloom, Joan Braun, Jackie Bree, Joyce Bur-
koff, Shirley Colten, Grace Colton, Barbara Cook, Cindy
Daitch, Bertha Davidson, Dr. Norman Drachler, Helen
Dushkin, Margaret Eichner, Rita Etkin, Lorraine Fisher,
Marilyn Friedman, Thelma Rom Gilbert, Eileen Berris
Glaser, Bunny Goldman, Elaine Goldman, Rose Gould,
Micki Grossman, Marian Handleman, Jan Hauser, Mari-
lyn Herbach and Valerie Indenbaum.
Also, Pauline Jackson, Dorothy Kaufman, Lee Kepes,
Diane Klein, Barbara Kreiger, Leona Kutlov, Ruthe Lax,
Pauline Jackson, fourth from left, chairman of Barbara Lefton, Elaine Lesser, Marise Levy, Ghinda Mar-
the first Jewish Book Fair at the Jewish Community rich, Marion Menczer, Milli Moss, Sherry Najman, Rose
Center 31 years ago, is joined by former and present Parnos, Marcia Peven, Helen Rice, Sally Rodin, Bette Roth,
chairmen at a planning meeting for the 31st annual Shirlee Sachs, Mary Saidman, Martha Schechter, Rose
event, set for next month. From left are Joyce Burkoff, Schiller, Marion Schneider, Phyllis Schwartz., Rose Shap-
Thelma Rom Gilbert, present co-chairman Sandra iro, Lillian Shaw, Freddie Shiffman, Maurine Sillman,
Nathanson, Mrs. Jackson, present co-chairman Do- Donna Sklar, Evelyn Tobias, Rissa Winkelman, Irene
'ores Silverstein and Eileen Berris Glaser.
Winkler and Shirley Zirkin.

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