THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Prisoner Wants Satmar OK'd NY Holocaust Memorial Body
Director
Kosher Food Rather Than OU Names Blumenfeld
memorial, and fund rais-
Friday, July 1, 1983
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Activities in Society
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph recently on a mission for
NEW YORK (JTA) —
(Anne) Bernstein of Oak chairmen and Campaign di-
dietary laws in federal pris-
ing. The co-chairmen of
Park celebrated their 55th rectors from 28 major
ons. In 1975, COLPA as- The New York City the commission are Man-
wedding anniversary re- American cities.
sisted the Bureau of Prisons Holocaust Memorial Com- hattan District Attorney
* * *
cently.
in drafting regulations to mission announced the ap-
Robert Morgenthau and
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Detroiters who will
provide a kosher diet for pointment of David
George Klein, a New
Rabbi Leon Fram of attend the National Jewish
federal prisoners asking for Blumenfeld, of Great Neck,
York business leader.
Temple Israel was in Balti- Hospital/National Asthma
N.Y.,
as
executive
director.
such a diet. The regulations
The commission was in-
Noting that New York more, Md., recently to of- Center's 76th annual au-
provide that all kashrut-
City is home to the largest ficiate at the Bat Mitzva of xiliaries conference in De-
observing Jewish inmates itiated by Mayor Edward
number of Holocaust sur- his great-grandniece, nver, Colo., this month are:
shall be provided food "cer- Koch to create "a living
vivors, Klein said "the Michelle Ann Albert, Lucia Robiner, Detroit
tified or deemed acceptable memorial" in the city to the
mandate of the commission daughter of Mr. and Mrs. League Chapter; Ernestine
by the Kashrut Division" of six million Jewish victims
is to set up a memorial Louis (Susan) Albert. He Medow and Helene Wes-
the Orthodox Union "or any of the Holocaust.
Blumenfeld is giving up
which would house a also was in St. Louis, Mo., to ter man,.Northwest Detroit
other Jewish agency
museum, reference library, visit relatives.
deemed acceptable by the his present position as a di-
Chapter .
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rector of the Israel Bond archives and educational
inmates."
Party
Borman,
and conference facilities."
Butner prison officials organization to assume
Marlene
Jewish Welfare Federation
said they could satisfy those full-time duties with the
Before joining the Israel
Women's Division Cam-
regulations by providing memorial commission.
Organization,
Bond
by
He
will
coordinate
all
paign chairman, and
OU certified food but the
Blumenfeld was executive
Chuck Borshanian
Michelle Passon.
inmate claimed that his aspects of the commis- head of the National Feder-
Women's Division execu-
traditions required him to sion's activities, includ- ation of Jewish Men's
535-5340
tive director, were in Israel
eat only CRC-approved ing site selection, content
Clubs.
and
programming
for
the
foods.
In his brief, Butler
argued that the Hasidic
inmate had the right —
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of the constitution to vestigation of the shooting gether with representa-
insist on getting food ac- attack last week near tives of the police de-
ceptable to his religious Yeshiva University in partment and leaders of
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upper Manhattan in which other ethnic and reli-
beliefs.
Butler cited the text of the , two rabbinical students and gious groups expressed
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regulations, which recog- a yeshiva high school stu- their outrage at the at-
closed
Saturdays
during
July.
tack and their determina-
nize that "some Jewish in- dent were wounded.
tion
to
join
forces
to
pre-
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mates may require food that
32734 Franklin Road, between 13 and 14
is approved by an organiza- liminary stages of the in- vent such attacks in the
tion other than the Union of vestigation," Ken Walton, future.
851-8850
Franklin Village
Last week's attack took
Orthodox Jewish Congrega- deputy assistant director of
the FBI in New York said. place at about 11:30 a.m.
tions of America."
Butler also argued that, He said the FBI has no new when "three or four men"
e akakk
under the First Amend- leads so far regarding the described by. eye-witnesses
as "hispanic looking," fired
ment, which protects the case.
Meanwhile, the New about-20 shots from a speed-
right to the free exercise of
religion, on individual can- York Police Department ing car into the kosher res-
not be required to sacrifice was continuing to maintain taurant across the main
his religious beliefs to a heavy presence around building of Yeshiva Univer-
Yeshiva University. Police sity.
maintain his health.
Wounded in the attack
Dennis Rapps, COLPA Commissioner Robert
executive director, said that McGuire said that a team of were Yossef Zimmerman,
the Orthodox Union is spec-
10 detectives was assigned 40, and Abraham Wein-
traub, 26, both senior rab-
ifically named in the regu- to investigate the case.
But he pointed out that binical students at the uni-
lations because it is a non-
profit organization whose unlike similar attacks, no versity. Weintraub was
certification trademark is one has claimed respon- treated and released from
the most widely recognized sibility for the Yeshiva the hospital the same day.
University shooting, and Zimmerman was released
symbol of kashrut.
two similar other attacks from Presbyterian Hospital
against Jewish targets in Monday night and his con-
the Washington Heights dition was described by a
area in the last three spokesman for the univer-
weeks, a fact that makes sity as "stable." The high
the investigation more school student who was also
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
wounded, suffered super-
Sala Galant Burton, the
difficult.
widow of Rep. Philip Bur-
The police disclosed that ficial cuts and did not re-
ton, won the June 21 elec-
ballistic tests indicated the quire hospitalization.
tion for the Congressional
weapons used in the shoot- Stranger Than .. .
seat in San Francisco left
ing at Heshie's restaurant
LONDON — Arthur
vacant by the death of her
had been used in a shooting Koestler and his wife,
181 S. Woodward Ave., 1 BIk. S. of Maple
husband last April.
near Jewish Memorial Hos- Cynthia, who committed
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Mrs. Burton was born to a
pital on June 9.
suicide together last March,
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and came to the United
tacks were connected with a study of psychic
States with her family in
June 7 incident in which phenomena.
shots were fired into the
1939.
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The 57-year-old Mrs.
lobby of a Yeshiva Univer-
Burton will bring the
sity building.
number of Jews in the
A reward fund of $3,000,
House to 31. She will in-
to supplement the $10,000
crease the number of Jewish
reward offered by New York
women in the House to
SALA BURTON
City for information leading
three, all from California.
Mrs. Burton suspended to the arrest and conviction
The others are her fellow
of the gunmen who attacked
San Francisco Democrat, campaigning June 17 when the restaurant near
her
94-year-old
father
died.
Barbara Boxer, and Bobbie
Yeshiva University, was
Fiedler, a Republican from She did not participate in announced at a meeting at
the
victory
celebration.
the Los Angeles area. There
Her husband, who served the American Jewish
are eight Jews in the Se-
18 years in Congress, was Committee last Friday.
nate.
Also last Friday the Ameri-
Mrs. Burton received one of the leaders of the can Jewish Congress an-
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55 percent of the vote,
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other candidates in the on her knowledge of the meeting, representatives
Washington political scene.
campaign.
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
federal judge, in what was
described as the first case of
its kind, has ordered the
federal Bureau of Prisons to
provide a Jewish inmate
with food certified by a
Hasidic rabbinic agency,
Howard Zuckerman,
president of the National
Jewish Commission on Law
and Public Affairs, re-
ported.
The ruling by judge John
Larkins, Jr. of the federal
district court for the eastern
district of North Carolina,
was handed down in Tren-
ton, N.C.
Judge Larkins ruled that
• the prisoner, whose name
was withheld and who is be-
.
lieved to be from Montreal,
was entitled to provisions
certified as kosher by the
Central Rabbinical Con-
gress (CRC) of the U.S.A.
and Canada, the umbrella
agency for all Satmar
Hasidic groups. The CRC
has an extensive kosher
product certification pro-
gram.
The ruling was in re-
sponse to a suit filed on
behalf of the inmate at
the federal Correctional
Institution at Butner,
S.C., which challenged
the bureau's policy of
providing only kosher
products certified by the
Kashrut Division of the
Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of
America, designated by
the OU symbol.
COLPA had assisted the
inmate's attorney and filed
a friend-of-the-court brief in
the case. The COLPA brief
was drafted by David Bu-
tler, a Washington lawyer
and member of COLPA's
Washington chapter.
Butler said the issue was
the meaning of rules relat-
ing to observance of Jewish
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