28 Friday, May 27, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS \\Tribute Concert for Fuchs Thursday . at Shaarey Zedek Tickets are still available for the concert tribute to Cantor Israel Fuchs scheduled for 8 p.m. Thurs- day, at Cong. Shaarey Zedek. The cantors of metropoli- tan Detroit will perform the music of Cantor, Fuchs, some of which has been per- formed throughout the world by noted singers and cantors. Cantors who will par- ticipate in the concert and their congregations are: Hyman. J. Adler, Bnai HONOREES xa CANTOR FUCHS David; Earl Berris, Adat Shalom; Samuel Green- baum, Beth Shalom; Israel Idelsohn, Downtown Syna- gogue; Sholom Kalib, Beth Israel of Flint; Louis Klein, Bnai Moshe; Ben-Zion Lanxner, Beth Abraham Hillel Moses; Chaim Naj- man, Shaarey Zedek; Harold Orbach, Temple Is- rael; Sidney Resnick, Tein- ple Beth El; Sidney Rube, Shaarey Zedek; Max Shimansky, Beth Achim; Jacob Sonenklar, Shaarey Zedek; and Larry Vieder, Adat Shalom. A 12-voice choir and piano accompaniment by Dr. Kalib will supplement the program. Cantor Fuchs is the re- tired associate cantor and music director of Cong. Beth Abraham . Hillel Moses, which he served for 25 years. Proceeds from the con- cert will go for publishing the works of Cantor Fuchs. Admission is nominal. For tickets, call the synagogue, 851-6880. Plan to attend The First DETROIT COMMUNITY-WIDE DINNER Arthur Boschan Congregation B'nai Moshe A SEMINARY SALUTE TO THE CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATIONS AND FRIENDS OF THE Jewish Theological Seminary of America Barbie Denies Rounding Up Jews in Lyon During War PARIS (JTA) — Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie claimed that French police and the German army — not the gestapb — rounded up Jews in Lyon during World War II and deported them to death camps in Eastern Europe. Barbie was questioned for the first time last week by Christian Riss, the French magistrate assigned to the case after Bolivia handed Barbie over to French authorities 3 1/2 months ago. Barbie also denied charges that he had personally supervised the shipment of Jews from the Lyon railway station. Barbie served from 1943 until the final months of the German occupation as ges- tapo deputy commander for -the Lyon area. He is accused of having carried out mass deportations ofJews and re- sistance fighters. Known as the "butcher of Lyon," he has been charged on five counts of "crimes against human- ity" alleged to have been Whereabouts of U.S.-Born Israeli Sought in Syria WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sixty members of the House have sent a letter t o Syrian Ambassador Rafic Jouejati, asking that his government reveal the whereaboUts of a 22-year-old Brooklyn-born Israeli soldier who has been missing since last June 11. A spokesman for Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-L, N.Y.) who originated the letter said that the family of Zachary Baumel believes that he and the four other members of his tank crew were captured by either the Syrians or the PLO in Lebanon. He was last seen on TV being paraded through the streets of Damascus. Neither the International Committee of the Red Cross nor the State Department _ A message to the Jewish Community Stanley Berger Congregation Beth Shalom DINNER CO-CHAIRMEN SHARON HART Harry Laker Congregation Beth. Achim I. MURRAY JACOBS Throughout its history, the Jewish Theological Seminary has enjoyed a unique partnership with Jewish leaders in every walk of life, men and women, who have seen in this institution an outstanding expression of their own ideals of learning and devotion to Judaism_ You can join this illustrious company in lasting association with the Seminary by attending this city-wide dinner and by showing your support. In doing'so, you will be contributing invaluably to the work of the Semi-nary, to the Honorees and to the Governor and his, wife in celebration of their EWnal Light Award. Irving Laker Congregation Shaarey Zedek GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Gerson D. Cohen carried out during the years he served in Lyon. Barbie was taken from his cell at the high security Saint Joseph Prison to Montluc Fort which had been one of–the . main ges- tapo detentiori centers dur- ing the war. A former Jewish deportee, an elderly woman whose identity was not released, re-enacted her own deportation. She showed Magistrate Riss her former cell and said that on Aug. 11, 1944, she saw Barbie personally supervise the deportation of shipment ofJews from Lyon - to Auschwitz. Barbie, who watched the re-enactment and heard the woman's testimony told the judge that he was not pre- sent. He claimed that the round-up of Jews and the deportations were carried out by units of the German army and not by members of the gestapo who, he said, were busy fighting the French resistance and pre- venting sabotage opera- tions. have been successful in "ob- taining any information about Baumel, according to the spokesman. • Ackerman became in- terested ifi the case after the soldier's mother, Miriam Baumel, visited the U.S. in an effort to seek help in learning the whereabouts of her son. Truck Contrazt WASHINGTON — The Egyptian government and International Harvester of Chicago have signed a $5.2 million agreement for the manufacture of 120 medium-duty trucks for Egypt. The contract will be financed by the Agency for International Development (AID). Spectre Invocation, Segal Tribute in the U.S. Senate . WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1983 Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary Cocktails at 6 p.m. • Dinner at 7 p.m. Special Guests: Governor and Mrs. JAMES J. BLANCHARD Recipients of the Seminary's Eternal Light Award . Cantor Larry Vieder Adat Shalom Synagogue $7500 per person Congregation Shaarey Zedek 27375 Bell Road, Southfield, Michigan For more information call 357-5592 A reception in the Washington office of U.S. Sena- tor Carl Levin, on May 12, after Rabbi Efry Spectre had given the prayer opening the session of the U.S. Senate, served to recall a similar role at a Senate ses- sion by one of Rabbi Specfre's Adat Shalom Syna- gogue predecessors, Rabbi Jacob E. Segal. The presence of Jean (Mrs. Jacob) Segal was occasion for Senator Levin to pay tribute to her husband's mem- ory. Attending the ceremony were, from left, Mrs. Segal, Rabbi Spectre's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ab- raham (Shirley) Spectre of Florida, Senator Levin, Rabbi Spectre, the rabbi's sister, Ruth, and Senate Chaplain Richard C. Halverson.