22 Friday, July 1, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Begin Snubs Jewish Agency After Appointment Squabble JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jewish Agency's an- nual Assembly ended last • • • • • • • • • • • Thursday night, marred by candidates, Raphael Kot- rumblings of anger and dis- lowitz and Eli Tavin, was appointment that Premier not for objective reasons but Menahem Begin failed to because of the overseas to deliver the closing leaders' "antipathy toward • have them • appear address as he 'had been Herut." Kotlowitz, who has 'II REMEMBER YOUR AFFAIR' • scheduled to do. chaired the department for • The official explanation the past 5 1/2 years was de- • • With • was that the Premier was nied reappointment on • COMPUTER PORTRAITS • too heavily occupied with grounds that he was "un- • pressing duties to make an suitable." Herut's alterna- • • Framed Pictures, • appearance before the more tive nominee, Eli Tavin, • Posters, T-Shirts, Etc. • than 800 Diaspora Jewish was also rejected. • • leaders and others who It was reported at the • BANQUETS, PARTIES • attended the three-day ,assembly that Jerold • WEDDINGS, SHOWERS • gathering. The unofficial Hoffberger of Baltimore, • MITZVAHS, ETC. • word was that Begin delib- who was elected chair- • erately stayed away be- man - of the Jewish Call • cause he was angered that Agency Board of Gover- the overseas Jewish fund nors, succeeding the re- • • PHOTOGRAPHIC • • raisers had rejected two tiring Max Fisher of De- candidates for the troit, led the opposition to •COMPUTER IMAGES, INC.• Herut chairmanship of the Jewish both Kotlowitz and Ta- (313) 851-5977 4° • Also located in Tally Hall • Agency's aliya department. vin. Nevertheless, Begin According to sources close was not expected to Farmington Hills • • • • • 0- • • • • • • to Begin, the veto of the two "boycott" the assembly. ' Menahem Savidor, Speaker of the Knesset, ad- dressed the assembly in Be- gin's stead. He was well re.- ceived but anger at the Begin snub was not con- cealed. 28585 TELEGRAPH RD. One delegate remarked (313) .353-1300 Smithfield Across From Tel-12 that the Prime Minister _ KES & MODELS — DOMESTIC OR FOREIGN ALL MA "did more of a disservice than a service by making Sam Scotella this point." Another ob- • , • • TamaRoFF Leasins co SALE ALL Exercise Clothes 30%-50% OFF tehhlb time S.E. Corner Maple & Lahse Birmingham, MI 646-4475 HARRY THOMAS FINAL CLEAN-UP! LAST FEW DAYS! Entire stock of fine spring suits, sportcoats, slacks will be SOLD regardless of cost. SUITS Req. $175 to $375 NOW $16950 - X18950-$20950 [ SHORT SLEEVE SHIRTS • $ SPORT COATS Reg. to $225 NOW $895° to $11 9 50 TIES BELTS A TREMENDOUS SELECTION! SLACKS $2950 from The Finest $55 to $65 values HARRY THOMAS Fine Men's Clothes for 48 years. 24750 Telegraph at 10 Daily to 6. Fri. to 8. SUNDAY 11-3 Alterations at cost served, "There are a lot of important contributors here who expected Begin to ad- dress them tonight." The assembly adopted a general resolution express- ing "outrage at Soviet dis- crimination and its trampl- ing of human rights." It also expressed sorrow at the ill -treatment of Jews in certain Islamic countries and reaf7 firmed the assembly's com- mitment to aliya and Jewish education. Meanwhile, Leon Dulzin was elected chairman of the Jewish Agency Assembly. Akiva Lewinsky was elected treasurer and Harry Rosen was elected secre- tary. The membership of the board of governors was in- creased to 72. A new Jewish Agency executive was an- nounced Wednesday after seven months of inter-party wrangling following the World Zionist Congress last December. Dulzin of the Likud-Union of Gen- eral Zionists was named chairman. Levinsky of the Labor Zionists was named trea- surer. Raanan Weitz of Labor and Matti Drobless of Likud-Herut were named joint heads of the settlement department. Uri Gordon of Labor 'heads youth aliya. Yitzhak Meir of Miztachi heads traditional education and Avraham Katz of Likud-General Zionists heads youth and hehalutz. Others named are Eli Tavin of Herut, head of edu- Seek to Ban Protests Outside Begin's Home JERUSALEM (JTA) — The coalition will give top priority to a Knesset bill banning demonstrations outside private residences. The measure was drafted as a result of weeks_ of anti-war demonstrations and pro-government counter-demonstrations outside Premier Menahem Begin's residence on Bal- four St. in the Rehavia sec-, tion of Jerusalem. Begin is not known to have complained, but some of his neighbors are an- noyed by the constant hum of conversation and occa- sional arguments under their windows in what is normally a quiet neighbor- hood. The demonstrations have been peaceful." _ The anti-war group displays a daily "score" of Israeli casualties in Lebanon which currently stands 501 dead. The government supporters also display a scoreboard showing 13 months of "Peace for Galilee." Begin is not known to have had any dialigue with the demonstrations. On one occasion he is reported to have sent a messenger to the anti-war group protest- ing that it was "not nice" for a boy and girl to camp out during the night under the same blanket. cation, Avraham Shenker of Agency Board of Governors Mapam-Labor, community in October. Meanwhile, services, Eliezer Sheffer of Raphael Kotlowitz remains Mizrachi heads the young as head of the aliya depart- leadership department. ment and, at the same time, Yitzhak Warshawski of the the opposition to him on the World Confederation of part of American members General Zionists heads the of the board of governors organizing department. remains implacable. David ' Avayou of the Dulzin, who was re- Sephardim heads the de- partment of sephardi com- elected chairman without munities. Avraham Avihai opposition at the December of Confederation of General Congress meeting, formally Zionists is Keren Hayesod announced the make-up of chairman. Moshe Rivlin of the Executive. The an- Labor is Jewish National nouncement followed a meeting of the Jewish Fund chairman. Agency Executive at which Mordehai Dayan of Herut the dispute over Kotlowitz was named deputy JNF was high on the behind- chairman. Bernice Tan- the-scenes agenda. nanbaum of Hadassah The refusal of the Ameri- (Confederation) was named head of the American Sec- can members to support tion of the World Zionist Kotlowitz, reportedly be- Organization. cause they feel he does not The posts for Gordon communicate well with and Sheffer were a key to Diaspora communities, and the interparty jousting on their refusal to accept Tavin appointments. The post in his stead sparked bitter- for Dayan was estab- ness between them and Is- lished to assuage - raeli Likud leaders. Kotlowitz reportedly will 'Likud-Herut grievances. The focal dispute on the continue to head the aliya aliya department has been department because the as-, put on ice until the next sembly ended without meeting of the Jewish choosing a successor. Max Fisher 'Retires' The Jewish Agency Assembly announced new elections' and appointments. Max ,Fisher of Detroit, who has served as chairman fo the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors since 1970, is retiring: He has been succeeded by Jerold Hoffberger of Baltimore. Fisher has been named chairman of the new committee implement the "Caesaria Process," the program adopted by the Jewish Agency at Caesaria three years' ago. ' Fisher was awarded the "Medal of Israel" for his many years of devotion to Israel and the Jewish people and his '13 years of service to the Jewish Agency. (The proposed re-organization of the Jewish Agency and the change in leadership was analyzed in two articles on Page 72 of the June 17 Jewish News.) Report Soviet Jews Anxious' NEW YORK (JTA) — was fascinating to me Mary Travers, of the ding- since the 80 or so souls ing group Peter, Paul and that I had met were still Mary, said last week, after there." returning from a 10-day trip Travers' trip, which in- to the Soviet Union, that the cluded meetings in Moscow mood among Soviet Jews and Leningrad with Soviet was "very anxious." Jews who had applied for Travers, who visited the exit visas, was sponsored by Soviet Union and then Is- the NCSJ. She was accom- rael last month, addressed a panied by Rabbi David meeting of the board of gov- Saperstein, Washington ernors of the National Con- representative of the ference on Soviet Jewry UAHC, and Albert Vor- (NCSJ) held at the Union of span, vice president of the American Hebrew Congre- Union, and his wife. gations (UAHC) headquar- ters. The Anti-Zionist Com- mittee "had just been formed a month before we TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The arrived," Travers told a U.S. Army publication Cur- group of reporters after the rent News carried an inter- meeting. `They had re- view with Israeli General leased a paper in Moscow Amos Gilboa, who com- and Leningrad, and plimented the Syrian Army. everyone was talking about - Gilboa said the Syrian it," she said. "No one really soldiers have always been knew what direction this well-organized and there new organization was going has only been one incident to take." in Syria's wars ,with Israel Two days after she re- where a unit has fled the turned to the United battlefield. States, the committee re- Gilboa added, however, leased a statement that that Syria's armored units all Jews who wanted to and air force do not compare emigrate had done so al- with their Israeli counter- ready, she said. "This parts. ID,F General Praises Syria