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urning Point Seen in Diaspora-Israel Relations
Max Fisher called for translating ideology into reality in address to
General Zionist Council on Tuesday in Jerusalem — See story on Page 72
Peace Plans
With Merit
and the Silence
Meeting Them
from Arab
Countries
Editorial, Page 4
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
New Directions
Envisioned
in Current
Planning for
Jewish Agency
Boris Smolar
Column on Page 72
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VOL. LXXXIII, No. 16
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June 17, 1983
U.S.-Israel Amity Tightening;
M.E. Issues Reaching Climax
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Friedmans Establish
Yiddish Teacher Unit
at Bar- Ilan University
A new Department for the Training of Teachers of the
Yiddish Language has been established at Bar-Han Uni-
versity in Israel.
A joint announcement, by faculty representatives at
Ill'the university in Ramat Gan, Israel, and officers of the
Detroit Chapter of the American Friends of Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity this week gave details of new pedagogical aims to
fulfill a growing need to assure a continuity of interest in
.z...., the Yiddish language, with provisions to assure the
availability of teachers for Yiddish studies in both Israel
and in the Diaspora.
The interest displayed in fulfilling this aim stems from
a lifelong devotion to Yiddish, the language and its literal.
[ ture, by the two prominent Detroiters, Moshe and Sarah
Friedman, whose devotion to the Yiddish tongue has been
_ an established fact in the ranks of the creators of the im-
mense treasures of Yiddish literature during the past half-
century.
During that period, the Friedman home hosted the
most distinguished Yiddish writers.
At the same time, the Friedmans had active roles in
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Special to The Jewish News
Amidst numerous tensions, including the rise of the Israeli death toll in the
Lebanese conflicts to 500, relationship with the United States offered comfort-
ing assurances to Israel in this week's developing situations.
The Lebanese painiament vote of 65 to 2, with two abstentions, approving
the Israeli-Lebanese agreement, was among the major occurrences relieving
some of the tensions which were created by terrorist activities accredited to the
PLO in Lebanon that resulted in serious losses to Israel.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger told reporters Tuesday at the
National Press Club that the United States is willing to revive the U.S.-Israeli
military cooperation agreement against Soviet threats in the Middle East. The
agreement-was suspended in December 1981, just weeks after it was signed, by
President Ronald Reagan in response to Israel's annexation of the Golan CASPAR WEINBERGER
Heights.
Observers said the Weinberger statement Tuesday represented a notable shift in the Ad-
ministration's attitude since Israel and Lebanon reached agreement on the withdrawal of Israeli
troops from Lebanon.
White House officials said Tuesday that President Reagan would invite Israeli Prime Minister
Menahem Begin to Washington sometime in late July to discuss American-Israeli cooperation against the
Soviet threat in the Middle East, the diplomatic deadlock over Syria's refusal to withdraw from Lebanon,
and other issues in the Middle East.
Hedrick Smith reported in the New York Times that Rea-
gan had resisted earlier Israeli interest in a Reagan-Begin
summit meeting. Following the signing of the Israel-Lebanon
pull-out pact, Reagan said he was looking forward to meeting
again with Begin.
Weinberger told reporters that the U.S.-Israel cooperation
WASHINGTON — A 14-year-old
agreement could be reinstated "virtually at any time, depend-
New Mexico boy correctly spelled the
ing on the wishes of the Israeli government."
name of the Jewish holiday of Purim to
Smith wrote that the Weinberger comments were a
win the National Spelling Bee last week.
Blake Giddens of Alamogordo, N.M.
significant change in Administration policy, but the secre-
guessed correctly to spell "Purim" after
tary later told Smith that he had made similar comments
correctly spelling "ratatouille" which had
earlier that had "gone unnoticed."
been misspelled by runner-up Eric
The agreement calls for U.S.-Israel joint naval and air
Rauchway of St. Petersburg, Fla. Gid-
exercises and military cooperation, joint military -research and
dens said Purim was one of two words he
development, American use of Israeli medical facilities and
had to guess at of the 12 words he suc-
possible
U.S. purchases of Israeli military supplies worth up to
cessfully spelled during the two-day
The Winner
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competition.
Burned Synagogue
Reconstruction Is Set
Gives First Talk
By ALAN HITSKY
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Friedman are shown here
pointing with pride to the voluminous 760-page
classic work by Prof. Joshua A. Fishman, proclaim-
ing "Never Say Die" in reference to the Yiddish lan-
guage, based on the Psalm (118.17) "Lo omut ki ekhye
Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses hopes to break
ground in July for reconstruction of its sanctuary and social
hall that were destroyed in a Jan. 18. fire.
Synagogue Executive Director Mildreth Rubinoff said
that "if they dig in July like we hope, then we should be in
(the new facilities) by Shavuot of next year."
Plans for the new sanctuary and social hall have not
been finalized, but call for a cantor's table in the center of
the round sanctuary, with the bima and Aron Kodesh on
the east wall as before.
Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper said the cantor's table
in the center, in the Sephardi style, "will give us a
feeling of intimacy. You can't help but be enveloped
by it." Rabbi Schnipper said that all seats in the main
sanctuary would be within 50 feet of the cantor.
The plans, by the architectural firm of Prevost, Treacy
and Partners, call for several small social halls in addition
to the main one, a lobby twice the size of the old, and the
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Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Meir
Rosenne, center, made his first U.S. public ap-
pearance as ambassador June 7 when he ad-
dressed the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations. Shown with
the ambassador are, at left, Julius Berman, who
was re-elected to a second one-year term as
chairman of the Presidents Conference, and
Yehuda Hellman, executive vice chairman.