THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
53—ENTERTAINMENT
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Is available for your child's
party after June 29. Magic,
balloon sculpture, face
painting, games.
559-3319
John Greenberg to Chair Educational Loan Service
Responding to the con-
cern about the rising costs of
education and increasing
financial pressures on
young people in the coining
decade, the Jewish Schol-
arship Service has been re-
structured in its 36th year
of providing interest-free
loans to college students.
Avern Cohn, president of
the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, announced the ap-
pointment of John L.
Greenberg to over-all
chairman of the policy
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Safad Centers
Request Aid
Editor, The Jewish News:
Following the -Peace for
Galilee operation, which
brings a year of tranquility
of our region, our commu-
nity center facilities, serv-
ing thousands of youth in
the Safad and Upper Galilee
region, are facing severe
cutbacks in budget and
_ materials.
While our agencies pro-
vide a wide variety of after
school and summer pro-
grams for youth of all ages,
along with extensive, crea-
tive programs for blind,
mentally retarded, educa-
ble handicapped, and autis-
tic children, in the most
modern of facilities, our
materials to run programs
well remain severely lack-
ing.
I take this opportunity to
call upon members of your
community to forward any
equipment to our agency for
immediate use in youth
program development in Is-
rael's Galilee region. The
equipment would include
games or sports equipment.
Examples of games are
puzzles, Master Mind, Lego
blocks, Tinker Toys, chec-
kers, calculator games,
crayons, math, bingo and
games without language.
Sports equipment includes
tetherballs, basketballs,
soccer equipment, vol-
leyball equipment-, badmin-
ton, tennis equipment, ping
pong paddles and equip-
ment.
Office supplies are also
severely lacking, including,
writing equipment of all
kinds.
According to Israelitax
law, any item donated to our
agency must be 'marked
used. We are sorry that we
can accept no electrical
equipment.
David Bedein
Safad Community Centers
Association,
P.O. Box 1286, Safad, Israel
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Saudi Arabia:
No U.S. Friend
Editor, The Jewish News:
The U.S. has undertaken
the important role of peace
maker in the Middle East
and, as such, can America
rely on Saudi Arabia's as-
sistance in this effort?
It is interesting to note
that very little is mentioned
by the media or elsewhere
regarding Saudi peace in-
tentions. Perhaps the media
does gloss over the "tidbit"
that the Saudis have "po-
litely" asked the Syrians to
remove their troops from
Friday, June 3, 1983 53
Lebanon. Even though
Syria has been accepting
aid from Russia, it is no
secret that the Saudis have
heavily financed and pro-
vided comfort for the Sy-
rians and the PLO terrorists
who seek the destruction of
Israel.
For a decade, Saudi
Arabia has made a mockery
of the peace initiations of
U.S. presidents. Earlier it
did everything it could to
undermine the Camp David
negotiations process, lead-
ing the efforts to ostracize
Egypt economically and
politically from the Arab
world.
Not too long ago, the
Saudis harmed the U.S.
with its oil blackmail tactics
— economic problems
headed by the inflation was
the price America paid for
its amicable relationship
with them.
Has Saudi Arabia been a
friend to the U.S.?
Aaron Goldberg
Rabin Blasts Israel's Mossad
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Israel's former prime minis-
ter, Yitzhak Rabin, who was
army chief of staff during
the Six-Day War of 1967,
has expressed several opin-
ions to the Knesset Com-
mittee on National Security
that created a sensation.
Rabin said that for the
last 20 years, Israel's secret
intelligence service was
frequently in error in
evaluating information
from its agents. The tragic
miscalculations on the eve
of the Yom Kippur .War
were not an exception but
rather the- rule, he said.
He further said that, con-
sidering the large force
utilized in the Lebanon op-
eration — particularly
against the PLO terrorists
who could not equal the
highly-trained Israeli
soldiers — one must concede
that the PLO is entitled to
boast about its "heroic resis-
tance." The PLO suffered
relatively little after the
long battle with the well-
trained and well-equipped
Israeli army, Rabin said.
Rabin further stated
that in the last 20 years
most of the analyses of
the military secret serv-
ice were "erroneous."
The Israeli press devoted
eration's Executive Com-
mittee and chairs its Con-
ference of Division Chair-
men. Former president of
JVS and of the National
Association of Jewish Voca-
tional Services, Thal cur-
rently sits on the boards of
United Jewish Charities
and Sinai Hospital. He also
is an Allied Jewish- Cam-
paign officer.
yx
JOHN GREENBERG
payment is a particular
area of concern in assuring
aid to students in the future.
It is hoped that the new
name will clarify the fact
that the funds are loans,
rather than scholarships or
grants, and must be paid
back.
Greenberg, who chairs
the. __ Loan Service, has
played a major role in it for a
number of years and is the
son of one of its founders,
the late Samuel S. Green-
berg. A vice president of
Jewish Vocational Service,
Greenberg serves as
president of the National
Association of Jewish Voca-
tional Services.
Thal is a member of Fed-
Leopold is a member of
Federation's Board of
Governors and serves on
its Community Services
Division. A past presi-
dent of Hebrew Free
Loan Association, he
currently is a board
member of HFLA and of
Jewish_ Family Service.
Leopold is co-president
of the National Associa-
tion of Hebrew Free
Loans.
The Jewish Educational
Loan Service makes funds
available to college and
graduate students based on
economic need and prior
performance in school.
Nearly 300 students applied
for aid during the past year,
an increase of more than 50
percent over previous years.
Although only a percentage
of them could be accommo-
dated, a total of more than
$100,000 was loaned.
Goodfellows Aid FAS Campers
YITZHAK RABIN
a great deal of attention to
Rabin's statements, noting
that as a former premier
and former chief of staff,
Rabin was well-acquainted
with these matters, and
that one must take his
views on these subjects very
seriously.
,
Aid Sought
for Ethiopia
CHICAGO — The Ameri-
can A _ ssocition for Ethio-
pian Jews has begun a
letter-writing campaign to
Congress, requesting that
the U.S. join in relief efforts
for Ethiopia, which has
been suffering through a
drought.
Dulzin Scores Modai Plan
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The split within Likud's
Liberal Party wing widened
this week when Leon Dul-
zin, a veteran party leader,
demanded that Energy
Minister Yitzhak Modai
abandon his plans to estab-
lish an independent faction
within Liberal ranks.
Modai announced his in-
tentions last week, with the
support of four other Liberal
MKs. He said the new fac-
tion would insist on being
consulted separately on all
coalition decisions. Dulzin,
who is chariman of the
World Zionist Organization
and Jewish Agency Execu-
committee and Henry
Leopold is collection review
chairman.
Jewish Educational Loan
Service is an umbrella
organization of some 50
funds that include com-
munal groups such as Na-
tional Council of Jewish
Women, Greater Detroit
Section; Maimonides Medi-
cal Society Women's Auxil-
iary; Ruth Franklin Eins-
tein Educational Fund of
Temple Beth El; and Probus
Club. It includes educa-
tional endowments held by
Federation's United Jewish
Charities, as well as educa-
tional funds of Hebrew Free
Loan Association, also a
Federation agency.
Under the new
structure, loan review
will continue to function
under the auspices of_
Jewish Vocational Serv-
ice. Collection will be
handled in cooperation
with Hebrew Free Loan.
Both agencies are within
Federation's Community
Services budgeting and
planning division, which
reviews the Loan Service.
According to James
August, chairman of the di-
vision, a new structure and
name were implemented to
strengthen the over-all pro-
gram. He said that loan re-
tives, confronted Modai at a
meeting of the Liberal
Party Presidium. He said he
was trying to avert a loom-
ing crisis in the party.
Modai replied that he
would postpone further ac-
tion if certain demands are
met. These include the im=
mediate extablishment of a
new television channel in
addition to the existing
state television and educa-
tional channel; the im-
mediate introduction of a
state health insurance bill;
and the appointment of sev-
eral members of his group to
senior positions in the
party's Knesset faction.
Many youngsters will
know the fun, friendship
and spirit of a Jewish camp-
ing experience this summer
thanks to a gift of $9,000
presented to the Fresh Air
Society by the Old News-
boys' Goodfellow Fund.
The gift will help provide
camperships to those chil-
dren whose parents are un-
able to pay the full fee at
Camp Tamarack at
Brighton and Camp Maas at
Ortonville. It was presented
to FAS by George M. Stutz,
allocations chairman for
the Goodfellow Fund and a
longtime Jewish communal
leader.
While the Goodfellow
Fund regularly allocates a
sum to the Fresh Air
Society, according to Stutz,
this year's gift represents a
significant increase made in
memory of Rabbi Morris
Adler, who was supportive
of both the FAS camping
programs and the- Goodfel-
lows' work, and in memory
of Robert Kasle, who was an
FAS president and "Old
Newsboy."
The presentation coin-
cided with the recent
dedication of the Rabbi
Adler Chapel and a Sefer
Torah in the name of
Robert Kasle at Butzel
Conference Center in Or-
tonville. Stutz said that
the Goodfellows wished
to "join with the commu-
nity in honoring the
memory ... of two of the
kindest men I have ever
known."
As Goodfellow Fund allo-
cations chairman, Stutz
said he felt a significant gift
to FAS was particularly im-
portant when needs are so
great and many youngsters
George Stutz, with friends Rebecca and Karen
Stern at Butzel Conference Center in Ortonville.
are feeling family stress.
Fresh Air Society, whish
is a Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion agency and receives Al-
lied Jewish Campaign fund-
, ing, expects to provide more
than 500 camperships for
the upcoming summer sea-
son. According to FAS
President Allan Nachman,
for some children it is the
only or most significant
Jewish experience they will
have all year.
Stutz has devoted more
than 50 years to the better-
ment of the community and
was recognized in 1975 with
the Fred M. Butzel Memo-
rial Award, Federation's
highest honor for commu-
nity service. A member of
Federation's Board of Gov-
ernors, he has been active in
its budgeting and planning
divisions and currently
serves on the Capital Needs
Committee.
He is past chairman of
the Community Services
Division and of the De-
troit Service Group. He is
a board member of He-
brew Free Loan Associa-
tion, Jewish Family Serv-
ice and Sinai Hospital.
Stutz also is involved in a
number of the Goodfel-
lows' charitable pro-
grams.
An additional gift from
the GoodfelloW Fund was
made to the Jewish Com-
munity Center for its sum-
mer day camp program.
Center President Charles
G. Stone acknowledged the
gift, with special apprecia-
tion for Stutz' commitment
to providing young people
with a Jewish camping ex-
perience.
Sephardi Officers
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
The Israeli Defense Forces,
which in 1955 had no com-
mand officers of Sephardi
descent, now has five major
generals and 13 brigadier
generals of Sephardi des-
cent.
Jezbel, the wicked queen,
was thrown through a win-
dow and trampled by Jehu's
horses as punishment for
her many crimes.
—II Kings 9:30-37