fr THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, October 15, 1982 5 Slomovitz Cited with Butzel Award Emphasis on Unity at Federation Meeting Rejecting the villifica- tions evidenced in recent weeks and calling into evi- dence the Detroit Jewish communal responses to cur- rent needs and to calls for action in Israel's defense, Judge Avern Cohn, in his presidential address at the 56th annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation, Wednesday evening at Adat Shalom Synagogue, de- clared that the unity that has marked activities here reaffirmed the strength of the community's solidarity. Applying his thesis to the experiences in the recently instituted 1983 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund, Judge Cohn pointet1 • to the promptness of generous re- sponses and interpreted their unified indications, stating: "Here at home, we have not overlooked the needs of our own, especially in a year that has been economically devastating for so many. With a reliance on volun- tary agencies to assume a greater burden of social wel "fare costs — costs prev- iously assumed by govern- ment — there is an added challenge to Federation. "While the Jewish Family Service and Jewish Vocational Serv- ice were affected most di- rectly by increased case loads, requiring addi- tional staff, all of our agencies have been touched. However, work- ing together with our budgeting and planning divisions, they labored with persistence and im- agination to effect bal- anced budgets without hurting the quality of service." At the annual meeting, Philip Slomovitz of The Jewish News was awarded the Fred M. Butzel Award for outstanding community service. Slomovitz received the Butzel Medallion and a framed citation commend- ing the length and scope of his service and his role in communal and civic affairs. Slomovitz, in his re- sponse, reminisced about the leadership of Fred M. Butzel, in whose name the 0 -- Jewish News - editor and publisher Philip Slomovitz, center, holds his Butzel Award with Fed- eration president Judge Avern Cohn, left, and ad- ministrative vice president George Zeltzer. award was established in 1951, 33 already having re- ceived the community honor since then. He also recalled the community ex- periences and joined with Judge Cohn in emphasizing the dignity with which this community developed and the unity with which it em- braced its obligations. The presentation of the award to Slomovitz was to have been made by Leonard , N. Simons. His regrettable illness made it impossible for him to attend the annual Feder- ation meeting, his in- capacity having de- veloped only a short time prior to the meeting. His prepared remarks were read to the gathering by George M. Zeltzer, former president of the Jewish Welfare Federation and presently the adminis- trative vice president of Federation. Zeltzer added his per- sonal greeting to the pre- sentation, in which Simons praised the recipient's role professionally as well as in his communal role. His em- phasis was on the unity Slomovitz helped create in Detroit Jewish ranks. In his response, Slomovitz reminisced about the Butzel role which served as an in- spiration to Detroit Jewry in all the creative commu- nity developments. He joined in a call for continuing unified ef- forts in behalf of the so- cial and educational pro- grams as well as in sup- port of a protected Israel. Judge Cohn, in his speech, outlined problems facing the Jewish commu- nity and the community's reactions. He mentioned the divisiveness over Israel's action in recent months, growing anti-Semitism, the economic problems in this community and population changes. In response to these prob- lems, Cohn related how Federation had established several task forces to study the needs, mentioned the new facilities under con- struction for the elderly, ac- tions of the Jewish Commu- nity Council to confront anti-Semitism, and the fact that the community has raised $10 million in just two months for the 1983 Al- lied Jewish Campaign. The meeting also saw elections for at-large mem- bers of the Federation Board of Governors. Those elected for three-year terms were: Paul D. Borman, Hugh W. Greenberg, Ed- ward C. Levy, Jr., Robert H. Naftaly and A. Alfred Taubman. Re-elected for three-year terms were: Rabbi Irwin Groner, Stuart E. Hertzberg, Jessie Stern and Shelby Tauber. Carolyn Greenberg pre- sented the nominating slate which was approved unanimously. The new executive di- rector of Federation, Wayne L. Feinstein, was introduced to the com- munity. In an address evaluating the ideologi- cal concepts of Jewish community organiza- tions, Feinstein defined approaching obligations to be tackled in the corn- ing year. Fred Sichel, vice president of the Council of Jewish Federations, in an address outlining the na- tional communal ap- proaches on the ,agenda, during the 50th year of CJF, recalled that. two De- troiters, Kurt Peiser and Henry Wineman, had im- portant roles in the found- TORONTO (JTA) — Ahmed Ben Bella, the former president of Algeria who was imprisoned for many years under the re- gime of Houari Boumedienne, said in a re- cent interview with the French periodical "Politique Internationale" that the Arabs will never accept the Zionist fact. "I am an Arab and Pales- tine does not only concern Palestinians; it concerns all Arabs. Even if the Palesti- nians are forced to accept some kind of solution, the Arabs in general will never accept the state of Israel," he said. "Sooner or late they will have the atomic bomb; this is inevitable. At that point we will weigh down so heav- ily on the Israelis that they will be unable to resist us. They don't have a chance." Sanctions Eased JERUSALEM (JTA) — The civil administration on the West Bank has eased re- strictions it imposed on stu- dents and faculty of univer- sities in the territory. The decision was announced by Gen. Yigal Karmon, acting head of the administration, at a meeting with officials of Bir Zeit, Najah and Bethlehem universities. No Statement WASHINGTON (JTA) — The State Department re- fused to make any direct comment Tuesday on the meetings in Amman be- tween King Hussein of Jor- dan and Palestine Libera- tion Organization chief Yasir Arafat. 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