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Blanchard to Speak at Independence Fete
Michigan Governor James Blanchard will be the keynote speaker on
Sunday at the Israel Independence Day festivities at the main Jewish
• Community Center.
Blanchard has been active on behalf of Soviet Jewry and was a
presidential appointee to the U.S. Holocaust Council while he served as a
member of Congress.
The theme of the festivities at the Center is "Hava Nagila — Let Us
Be Joyful."
At 10 a.m. Sunday, booths and exhibits displaying a large
. variety of Jewish-related products, especially items direct from
Israel, will open for the day, Israel bathing suit and playwear will
be modeled during the afternoon, and movies on Israel will be
shown. Food booths will be open throughout the day selling falafel,
hot dogs, donuts, ice cream and beverages. Israel Independence
Day t-shirts will be sold bearing this year's "Israel 35th" logo.
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The parade will begin at 1p.m. with marchers and floats representing
the various Jewish organizations, synagogues and youth groups in the
metropolitan Detroit Jewish community. A contest judging the floats will
take place during the parade and prizes will be awarded in two categories:
adult and youth.
Immediately after the parade, entertainment will be presented by
Naomi Shemer, who will sing in the main gym. Preceding Ms. Shemer will
be the opening ceremonies. Cantor Samuel Grrenbaum of Cong. Beth
Shalom will lead the community in singing of the anthems. Rabbi Efry
Spectre of Adat Shalom Synagogue will give the prayer for the country.
Posters created by Jewish youth will be on display. The winners of the
poster contest and the Temmy Skully Essay Contest will be announced.
Special children's programming will be available for children
age 3-8. Included in the program will be games and entertainment
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'A Weekly Review
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April 29, 1983
Israelis, Shultz Are Hopeful
Shuttle Vint! Gain Agreement
Deputy Accuses the PLO
of Spreading Hate in Peru
NEW YORK (JTA) — A member of the Peruvian Congress has
demanded the expulsion of Raji Burhum, a Palestinian propagandist
who has engaged in anti-Semitic activities. The legislator also asked
the government to explain why the Palestine Liberation Organization
office is operating in Lima, the capital city.
According to Rabbi Morton Rosenthal, Latin American Affairs
director of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, the call for
Burhum's expulsion was made by Wilson Benzaquen Rengifo, a
member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Rosenthal said that Burhum, host and producer of the radio
program "Palestinoamericana," has been described by Peru-
vian newspapers as "an agent of the PLO" and as "a PLO milit-
ant."
At a press conference in Lima, Deputy Benzaquen Rengifo called
Burhum's activities "subversive," citing the use of his program on
Radio Santa Rosa to offer free copies of anti-Semitic books like "The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and "The Worst Enemies of Our People."
He showed journalists a leaflet signed by Burhum which urged
military and police officers to "be careful of Masonry, a Jewish device to
enslave you" and which claimed that the "Jew will take over your land
and the land of your countrymen."
This literature was found in the libraries of military installations,
but has since been removed as a result of a public outcry, Rosenthal
observed.
The ADL official reported that Foreign Minister Fernando
Schwalb has responded to Benzaquen Rengifo by declaring that
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By DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM (JTA) — American Secretary of State George
Shultz launched an Israel-Lebanon shuttle mission in Jerusalem on
Wednesday, listening to lengthy dispositions on Israel's stand in the
troop withdrawal negotiations with Lebanon and asking probing
questions.
Shultz met for more than two hours with Israel Foreign Minister
Yitzhak Shamir and his aides, and later with Premier Menahem
Begin, who was flanked by Shamir and Defense Minister Moshe
Arens.
A private session with Begin was scheduled Thursday morning
before Shultz flew to Beirut for talks there. He was scheduled to
return to Jerusalem Thursday evening and more meetings with
Begin and Shamir were set for this morning.
Shultz also plans flying visits to Amman, Riyadh, and Damas-
cus. He started his Mideast mission with a stay in Cairo.
Thursday's talks in Jerusalem were in the nature of a pro-
GEORGE SHULTZ
bing, exploratory review of the still-outstanding issues in the
four-month-old, Israel-Lebanon-U.S. negotiations. Shultz put forward no new ideas of
his own at this stage.
Briefing newsmen on the plane from Cairo on Wednesday, the Secretary said Israel and
Lebanon had moved most of the way required to clinch an agreement during the months of
negotiating. "But you don't have an agreement till you have it," he was quoted as saying,
stressing that outstanding issues were troublesome.
The Israeli side laid emphasis on two main areas of disagreement with Lebanon in their
presentation to Shultz:
• The future of Major Saad Haddad and his forces in south Lebanon.
• Arrangements for trade and tourism after the withdrawal (termed mutual relations in the
negotiators' parlance).
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Significance of Numbers and Counting of the Omer
By DAVID GEFFEN
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This 16th Century Dutch engraving shows an Or-
thodox Jew getting a Lag b'Omer haircut.
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World Zionist Press Service
JERUSALEM = We Jews are a counting people.
Specific numbers, in fact, evoke a reaction in our Jewish
psyche. Forty is one of those numbers. Forty days it was
that Moses spent on Mt. Sinai receiving the Ten Com-
mandments. Forty days it took the spies to gather the
intelligence data about Eretz Yisrael for Moses. Forty
years, sadly, our ancestors had to wander in the wilderness
until a new generation of free men and women had been
born and assumed the mantle of Jewish peoplehood.
Thirteen stimulates thoughts of coming of age. Bar
Mitzva for the boy and Bat Mitzva for the girl. In actual
fact, since girls reach puberty earlier, 12 is the chronologi-
cal time for Bat Mitzva, according to Jewish law. Thirteen
also refers to the 13 principles of faith formulated by the
great medieval philosopher and legalist Moses
Maimonides. Each one of these principles begins with the
words Ani Maamin — I believe.
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This 19th Century European scroll, or calendar, is
used for counting the Omer.