54 Friday, December 24, 1982 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Violinist Leonid Kogan Dies Israel Pushing Arms Sales - International Jewish Sports to Latin American Regimes Hall Includes 38 U.S. Stars O Latin America has be- come the leading customer in the Israeli arms market, the Detroit Free Press re- cently reported. Israel's arms exports now bring in $1.5 billion a year. They are expanding in an otherwise depressed economy, outstripping re- ceipts from traditional ex- ports like oranges and diamonds, according to the Free Press article. The right-wing regimes in Latin America are cur- rently absorbing more than half of Israel's arms sales abroad. Uruguay, Argen- tina, Costa Rica, Honduras Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala are all investing heavily in Israeli weapons, the Free Press reported. . The sword of the best tempered metal is most flex- ible. The 38 American athletes who have been elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame include: Baseball players Al Ro- sen, Barney Dreyfuss, Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax; Basketball players Adolph Schayes, Abe Saperstein, "Red" Auer- bach, Eddie Gottlieb, Nat Holman, Harry Litwack and Max Zaslofsky; are house calls a thing of the past?? Bowler Sylvia Wene; Boxers Barney Ross, Jac- kie Fields, Benny Leonard, Barney Lebrowitz and Abe Attell; Football stars Benny Friedman, Marshall Goldberg, Sid Luckman and Ron Mix; Handball player Jim Jacobs; Jockeys Hirsch Jacobs and Walter Miller; Figure skater Irving Jaf- fee; Soccer player Arthur Baar; Swimming stars Mark Spitz and Charlotte Eps- tein; Tennis player Dick Savitt; Weightlifters Isaac Be- rger and Frank Spellman; Track and Field stars Lil- lian Copeland, Lon Myers and Myer Prinstein; Wrestler Henry Witten- berg; Yachtsman Zefania Carmel and Lydia Lazarov; and sportscas- ter Mel Allen. No atheletes can be voted into the hall during the course of their active careers. The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, originally founded in 1978, is a project of the U.S Committee Sports for Is- rael. Sunshine Line' for Elderly Jews NEW YORK — The con- ference call method of com- munication, a fixture in the world of business, has been brought into the lives of a dozen elderly homebound Jews in Queens. the month, Each Rochdale Village Luncheon Club of the Jewish Associa- tion for Services for the Aged (JASA) connects the homebound Jews by tele- phone for a discussion with a guest speaker. JASA calls the project the "Sunshine • Line." The residents, who range in age from 62 to 89, are dis- abled and cannot travel to the JASA senior center at Rochdale Village to join in the activities. JASA sends Meals on Wheels to many of the homebound Jews but they were still cut off from social contact most of the time, according to Barry Lee Coyne, the JASA social worker who organized the Sunshine Club last March. OF COURSE NOT! Let The Jewish News i.• visit your home or that of a friend or relative each week. • IM =I • MI • • • OM • • • • MN IMO IIMB To: The Jewish News 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 „ 4 . Please send a year's gift subscription to: • NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP I OCCASION: FROM ❑ $15 enclosed MO UM IND 11111 OMR SMI IIM t 1 IND Oil SAO • IMB ONO Ile IMO MIS Sp ale IMO Oil Ma MO ME U Every sneer at education, at culture, and at book- learning which is the re- corded wisdom of the ex- perience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intel- ligent liberty, inviting na- tional degeneracy and ruin. —G. W. Curtis NEW YORK -- Leonid Kogan, famed Russian Jewish violinist, died Dec. 17 at age 58. Born in the Ukraine, Mr. Kogan was graduated from the prestigious Moscow Conservatory of Music. In 1947, he won first prize at the Prague youth competi- tion. He won the interna- tional competition in Brus- sels in 1951. He was a professor at the Moscow State Conservatory and was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1965. He performed as a sol- oist with many major or- chestras in the U.S., hav- ing made his U.S. debut at Carnegie Hall in 1958. According to the New York Times, he frequently served as a host in the Soviet Union for visiting American orchestras and musicians. He supported Soviet foreign policy and in 1970, when there was worldwide concern over Russian anti- Semitism, he joined 51 other Russian Jews in sign- ing a statement rejecting the charge that Jews were discriminated against in the Soviet Union, the Times reported. His wife, Yelizaveta, a sister of pianist Emil Gilels, was a violinist who ap- peared with him in two- violin works. Their daugh- ter, Nina, a pianist, accom- panied her father in the U.S. concerts. His son, Pavel, is an award-winning violinist. Resistance Leader Dies NEW YORK — Clara Malraux, an author who was active in anti-Nazi re- sistance during World War II, died Dec. 15 at age 85. Born Clara Goldschmidt, Mrs. Malraux was an art critic and the first wife of Andre Malraux, author and minister of culture in France under President Charles de Gaulle. During the war, she or- ganized a network of shel- ters for German Jews flee- ing the Nazis before and after World War II broke out, the New York Times reported. When her husband was arrested in Cambodia charged with attempting Cele Eichenhorn Cele Starman Eichenhorn, co-owner of Family Shoe Stores, died Dec. 15 at age 72. Born in Utica, N.Y., Mrs. Eichenhorn lived 52 years in Detroit. She retired 10 years ago. Mrs. Eichenhorn was a member of Women's Ameri- can ORT, Hadassah, Adat Shalom Synagogue and its sisterhood and Joseph L. Bale Auxiliary of Jewish War Veterans. She was the founder and second president of the Ladies of Mosaic Lodge. She also held membership in the Downtown Merchants Association. In Tucson, Ariz., she was a member of the sisterhood of Anshe Israel Synagogue. She leaves two sons, San- ford Eichenhorn and How- ard S. Home of Tucson; a daughter, Mrs. Berry (Ter- ryl) Bell; three brothers, Dr. Joseph Starman, Dr. Nathan Starman and Dr. Jack Starman; a sister, Mrs. Sidney (Ruth) Siegan; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. to steal state property, she mustered all of her resources, financial and otherwise, to free him. Rather than crediting his wife for his release, he in- stead credited the An- namese people. She gained renown for six volumes of memoirs chronicling the rich politi- cal and cultural texture of modern France. Magda Fox Magda Fox, a member of Jewish communal organ- izations, died Dec. 20 at age 53. Born in Malden, Mass., Mrs. Fox was a member of Temple Emanu-El and a past vice president of Hadassah. She leaves her husband, Herman; three daughters, Mrs. Leonard (Susan) Be- zrios, Linda and Nancy; a sister, Mrs. Seymour (Lily) Polk of California; and one grandson. Bombs Blast Jewish Units in Australia SYDNEY — Bombs exploded Thursday morn- ing at a Jewish social club and at the Israeli Consulate in Sydney. Two persons were injured in the blast at the consulate. Israelis in Australia blamed the Palestine Lib- eration Organization for the blast. PLO spokesmen said they were not responsible. New Immigrant JERUSALEM (ZINS) -- Stan Moss, a 56-year-old American diplomat, has made aliya with his family. Asked by newsmen how it felt to live in immigrants' quarters after having lived in Israel in relative luxury, Moss replied, "Not bad.". 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