Former Lebanese PM blames Israel 29 Terror probe jails Gush Emunim rabbi 44 Complete short story: "Mysterious Obsession" 80 Will July 23 be Labor Day? 4 THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY IMO The genius of Adin Steinsaltz First Walk for Israel opens celebration A down-to-earth mystical rabbi BY GARY ROSENBLATT Editor A din Steinsaltz says he would rather be a stone- cutter. "I like the feel of stones," he says softly, almost apologetically. But he has no time. Instead, he works with his mind, not his hands, shaping thoughts and ideas and transforming them into liv- ing images. A frail, red-bearded man who looks older than his 46 years, Stein- saltz is arguably the foremost Tal- mudic scholar and commentator of our time. He is now about half-way through a project so monumental and difficult that it has not been done in eight centuries: He is preparing a new edition of the entire Babylonian Adin Steinsaltz: the sort of mind that comes around every couple of thousand years. Talmud, all 33 volumes, complete with modern Hebrew translation and his own commentary. He has been working on it for more than two de- cades, and 16 volumes have already been published. Today, out of his home in Jerusalem, he oversees about a dozen scholars and typesetters. Ultimately, Continued on Page 14 An estimated 1,000 walkers from eight-months old to 80 are ex- pected Sunday morning to kick off Detroit's celebration of Israel Inde- pendence Day at the Jewish Com- munity Center in West Bloomfield. Some 600 persons have registered with sponsors for the 18-kilometer Walk for Israel, and officials expect that number could double with late registrants and families of younger walkers participating. The JCC Runners Club will precede the walk with their annual Chai Run. "Walkers" may include eight- and nine-month-old offspring of Walk for Israel committee members, as well as youngsters in their 80s from the walk's starting point at the Hechtman Federation Apartments adjacent to the JCCenter. Walk registration begins at .9 a.m. with entrants receiving route maps, check point cards and official hats for the event. Twenty committee memb—ers and 50 volunteers are coordinating the walk. At 9:30, the day-long Israel In- dependence Day festivities will begin at the Center. More than 30 organ- Route for Walk for Israel 111=11•10 •• • • Walk Route Return Route Mini-Walk W ❑ Checkpoints S WALNUT LAKE ROAD • BIKE PATH • ••• I • • • t„,11. 41: • • • • • • FARM INGTON ROAD .1 ■ 1•111•1 • • • • • •• • • • ."."" • •I • I HECHTMAN APARTMENTS •I • MAY 18, 1984 • MAPLE ROAD izations will have information booths set up. There will also be food conces:. sions. Throughout the day, entries in an Israel poster contest will be dis- played, as well as art from the Safed Art Gallery and goods from Israeli manufacturers, including tele- phones, Agrexco flowers, Natanya Diamond Fadory jewelry, Maskit fashions, Israeli foods, swimwear from Gottex, Aviva and Gideon Oberson. Representatives from El Al Israel Airlines and the Jerusalem Post will also be present, and winners of the Teme Skully essay contest will be announced. The winners will re- ceive Israel scholarships. Also scheduled are several show- ings of the film Exodus, as well as dance exhibitions, two fashion shows coordinated by Estelle Gubow, and a 1 p.m. children's program involving arts and crafts, a magician and Is- rael's birthday cake. Keynoting the day will be a 1:30 p.m. program in the Jewish Commu- nity Center gymnasium. In a re- enactment of 1948, Philip Slomovitz, Continued on. Page 10