THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Customs on Orthodox Kibutz Cause Flap
By MOSHE RON
The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV — The reli-
gious kibutzim in Israel
lead an Orthodox religious
life while striving for a
modern life.
A year ago there was a
sharp discussion on Kibutz
Tirat Zvi. A new synagogue
was built without a sepa-
rate place for women. The
synagogue committee of the
kibutz ordered women and
girls to congregate near a
wall in the synagogue and
not to come near the men.
But the mere fact that in a
kibutz of the Hapoel Hamiz-
rachi movement such a case
could happen has caused a
scandal.
Another religious party,
Poale Agudat Israel, tried to
make political capital of the
incident.
Now another scandal is
brewing at Tirat Zvi. A.
rabbi of Hapoel Hamiz-
rachi Yeheskiel Lichtens-
tein, has protested that
boys and girls on the
kibutz have been dancing
together at celebrations
and meetings. Boys and
girls also use the kibutz
swimming pool at the
same time.
There are members of the
kibutz who support this pro-
test, including some
youngsters who are opposed
to these non-Orthodox prac-
tices.
Amnon Shapira wrote in
Amudim, the newspaper of
the religious kibutz move-
ment: "I was educated in the
Bnei Akiva Youth Move-
ment in the 1950s. I re-
member that there was al-
ways dancing of boys with
girls and therefore the pro-
test of Rabbi Lichtenstein
against this custom, as if it
could provoke sexual de-
sires, is strongly exagger-
ated.
"I do not propose, that the
youth in ,the religious
kibutzim should behave
like we in the Bnei Akiva
Movement in the fifties. I
only wish to protest against
the attack of Rabbi
Lichtenstein against dances
and bathing of boys and
girls.
"In the modern times of
today I would advise
Rabbi Lichtenstein to be
more cautious in dealing
with life of the young
generation in the kibutz
and refrain from using
words like 'prostitution'
and 'fire of hell.' "
Shapiro adds that on
houses in Jerusalem and
Bnei Brak, in the religious
quarters, one can find post-
ers of ultra-Orthodox circles
that warn women who are
hiding forbidden TV sets in
book-cupboards that they
will suffer in hell for this
misdeed.
Shapira asks, "Is Rabbi
Lichtenstein of Kibutz Ein
Hanaziv also adopting such
a radical attitude? Al-
though I agree basically
with many agruments of
Rabbi Lichtenstein, I reject
strongly the words he used
in dealing with this prob-
lem."
Jewish Heroine Hanna Senesh
Vividly Portrayed in NY Drama
By DAVID S. LIFSON
genius of Anna Sokolow dis-
(Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.)
tilled out of the barbaric
It takes devotion, inspira- martyrdom of the Jewish
, tion, and a monumental ta- heroine Hanna Senesh in
lent to create the compel- "Hanna" at the Harold
; lingly stirring and haunt- Clurman Theater. The the-
ing dance-drama that the ater's small stage delivers a
drama that breaks out of its
walls, rises above and be-
Navon Attends
yond our times, and ever-
Zionist Executive lastingly inspires all Jews.
The story of "Hanna," de-
JERUSALEM (JNI) ---
Last week, for the first time, rived from her diary, is that
a president of Israel partici- of an amazing heroine who
pated in a meeting of the fled fascist Budapest to help
Zionist Executive. By this build a Jewish homeland.
action, President Yitzhak On Jan. 11, 1944, she volun-
Navon demonstrated the teered to serve in the
importance he accords to British army Her assign-
ment took her on a mission
Zionist education.
- Navon spoke of his recent with other volunteers to at-
10-day visit, to the United tempt to rescue Jews from
States where he firmly the Nazi clutches, to alert
called for aliya, which, in Allied flyers about danger-
his view, is the only true ous areas, and to serve with
partisans against the Ger-
Zionist solution.
Navon urged the World mans.
On June 9, Hanna crossed
Zionist Organization to de-
vote the same attention to the border into her native
intellectuals as to philan-
thropists:
"Even if our answers are Students Seek
not always satisfactory in Recognition for
their view, we have to de-
velop a dialogue with the in- Righteous Gentile
_ tellectuals and academics in
TORONTO — Students
the Diaspora," he said. Be- at the Gerhart Hauptrnann
fore his election to the School in West Germany
presidency, Navon was have initiated a campaign
chairman of the Zionist to have Wilhelm Ham-
General Council, the parli- mann, a German school
ament of the World Zionist teacher, enrolled among the
Organization.
"Righteous Gentiles" at
Yad Vashem in Jerusalem,
the Toronto Jewish
Yordim Return
Standard reported.
JERUSALEM (JNI) —
Hammann was sent to the
Thousands of Israelis who Buchenwald concentration
left in recent years plan to camp as a Communist in
come back to Israel because 1935. He was put in charge
of the economic crisis in the of the children's block and,
U.S. Last year the number until the camp was liber-
of returning Israelis was ated by the Allies in 1945,
more than 1,500 compared he risked his life daily to
to less than 1,000 in 1981. save children from being
This year the figure is ex- killed in the crematoria.
pected to pass the 3,000 Research by the students
mark.
has revealed that Ham-
Not much unemployment mann saved some 158 chil-
and a stable standard of liv- dren of various
ing despite the inflation in nationalities during his de-
Israel are factors encourag- cade at the camp.
ing the returnees. There
The students are urging
was also a serious drop last survivors of the children's
year in the number of Is- block at Buchenwald to pro-
raelis leaving the country: vide corroborative evidence
7,000 compared to 17,000 to the authorities at Yad
one year before.
Vashem.
NEW YORK — The first
successful series of bone
marrow transplants on in-
compatible, genetically un-
related individuals was
completed last month by Dr.
Nathan Sharon, of the
Weizmann Institute in Is-
rael and a team of surgeons
from New York's Memorial
Sloan-kettering Cancer
Center.
The transplants were per-
formed on eight children,
seven from America and one
from Spain, all suffering
from Immuno-Deficiency.
The disease, an inherited
condition which leaves chil-
dren incapable of fighting
off any infection, usually
means a life of isolation in a
hospital room or sterile
plastic "bubble" for its vic-
tims. But the children who
received transplants last
month are now leading
normal lives in their respec-
tive homes.
Dr. Sharon was born in
Poland and educated in Is-
rael. As head of the Weiz-
mann Institute's Biophysics
department, he pioneered
the cell-separation tech-
nique used in the trans-
plants. The success of the
new procedure will open the
door for its use in treating
Leukemia, Sickle-Cell
Anemia and other blood
disorders.
Like a vial of perfume,
Abraham could give fragr-
ance only when moved. So
God said, "Get thee out," be-
come a wanderer!
—Johanan
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Turkish Jews
at WJC Event
for First Time
Under Turkish law, local
institutions are prohibited
from affiliating with foreign
ones. The request of the
Jewish community to
attend the WJC conference
required formal govern-
ment approval.
New Transplant Procedure
Pioneered by Israeli MD
Don't be left out
Hungary, where she was
caught and taken to prison
in Budapest. Hanna was
executed, at the age of 23, on
Nov. 7, 1944.
Together with the Israeli
writer Isarel Eliraz, Anna
Sokolow has rendered in her
choreography and staging a
lyric paen that makes thea-
ter history. Poetry, dance,
music and mime fuse into a
life force that gives deep
meaning to an existential
affirmation of life that can-
not be buried with the mar-
tyred girl. Hannah, like
Antigone, would neither ac-
cept nor abide Nazi
tyranny. This indomitable
Jewish daughter courage-
ously said "No" and ac-
cepted death rather than
betrayal.
In the title role, Blanche
Baker's extraordinary ta-
lent and beauty provide in-
tensity, tenderness, youth-
ful passion and an eternal
and abiding grace. One
notes an effortless response
to and synchronization with
the choreographic nuances.
The rest of the cast is mag-
nificent. Jack Garfein and
Jack Lawrence, the pro-
ducers, must arrange to
send this extraordinary
play "on the road," to bring
its aesthetic as well as its
dramatic story to all
America.
NEW YORK — The par-
ticipation of representa-
tives of the Jewish commu-
nity of Turkey at the recent
Washington session of the
World Jewish Congress
Governing Board marked
the first time the 22,000-
strong community was re-
presented at an interna-
tional Jewish gathering.
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