1 1 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. The Record of an Era of Terror and the Generators of the PLO Menace 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 (Continued on Page 3) THE JEWISH NEWS 'A Weekly Review of Jewish Events 1166. GOV. BLANCHARD The Day Schools Movement, with Emphasis on Hillel and the Urgent Educational Objectives Editorial, Page 4 Commentary, Page 2 Copyright () The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXIII, No. 9 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c 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 (Continued on Page 5) 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). (Continued on Page 3) Significance of Numbers and Counting of the Omer By DAVID GEFFEN Ili This 16th Century Dutch engraving shows an Or- thodox Jew getting a Lag b'Omer haircut. — 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. (Continued on Page 26) , This 19th Century European scroll, or calendar, is used for counting the Omer.