80 Friday, September 9, 1983

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Unlikely Retreat in Germany for Jewish Military Chaplains, Their Families

Every year since the
1950s, Jewish military
chaplains and their families

nificent mountain peaks
and placid glass-like lakes,
the spiritual leaders of the
U.S. Armed Forces come to

have been and continue to
meet on retreat in pictures-
que Berchtesgaden, Ger-
many. Here amid the mag-

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A Happy, Healthy
NEW YEAR

replenish themselves spir-
itually as well as physically.
Each year, the JWB
selects a prominent rabbi to
serve as scholar-in-
residence at the three-day
conferences usually held in
the beautiful Alpine Inn.
One chaplain serves as
mashgiakh to oversee the
entire kosher operation
while the others are as-
signed various tasks during
both the chaplain's retreats
and the Torah convocations
held for all Jewish person-
nel stationed with the
European based U.S.
Forces.
Ample time is set aside
for sight-seeing in nearby
Salzburg, Austria, the
salt-mines, the Konigsee,
the Eagle's Nest (Hitler's
mountain hideaway) and
other attractive spots. The
rebbitzens usually manage
to find time for some
Bavarian-style shopping
too.

The major item on the
rebbitzens' priority list
though is just to get to-
gether informally to
share, to learn from each
other and to gain inspira-
tion from their counter-
parts and from their fel-
low Jews.

This becomes especially
significant because this
particular area of Germany
has for centuries been
"judenrein." For unknown
reasons, Jews never popu-
lated this splendid Alpine
area. Perhaps that's what
impelled the Nazi big-wigs
to built their vacation man-
sions here. In any event, we
were told that Hitler and his
generals planned to hold out
here among and inside
these mountain fortresses
long after Berlin and the
rest of the Reich would have
fallen.
Slave labor built intricate
tunnels and networks
within these Alps where
arms and food were stock-

piled. Thank God, the end of cent setting come the
World War II came before Jewish families annually to
they could be used because share and be one with an-
Nazi strategists proudly other, imbibing Torah and
boasted they could have Judaism where none was
fought off the Allies here before nor could one im-
indefinitely. agine there ever would be
And so to this magnifi- again.

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Classes begin Tuesday,
September 20, 6:30 P.M.

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For application, contact Educational Director
Stuart J. Rogoff at the Center.

661-1000, ext. 252

The major issues that
will be considered by the
conference are Israel,
Soviet Jewry, nuclear
disarmament, hunger in
America, Ethiopian
Jewry and other Ameri-
can domestic and foreign
policy concerns.

The students will attend
briefings and meetings at
the White House, the State
Department, the Capitol,
and the Israeli Embassy.
Conference headquarters
will be at the Shoreham
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English As a Second
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For adults whose primary language. is other than
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improve language fluency in English. ESL classes
are available five mornings and four evenings
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WASHINGTON — Some
300 college studerit leaders
from across the United
States and Canada are ex-
pected to convene in Wash-
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meet with American and Is-
raeli political leaders and
scholars and plan a campus
agenda, for 1983-1984.
The meeting, called
Washington 2, the National
Jewish Student Conference
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