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Friday, September 28, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
YE R I N R E
ket, Rhode Island city-sponsored display .. .
Colorado's Democratic Presidential hopeful, Sen.
Gary Hart, delivers a strong pro-Israel address to
the Conference of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations, in a New York meeting .. .
Tami, a small coalition party, submits an early
election bill which sets off a reaction, causing other
parties to agree to early elections . . . "The Jews of
Germany Under Prussian Rule" exhibition is held
for 3 1/2 weeks at the Jewish Center in West Bloom-
field under the sponsorship of the Holocaust
Memorial Center . . . Avital Shcharansky makes
an impassioned appeal for her husband, Soviet
Prisoner of Conscience Anatoly Shcharansky, at
the annual dinner for Akiva Hebrew Day School
. . . The Jewish News is sold to a Baltimore group
which publishes the Baltimore Jewish Times.
APRIL
One Israeli and two terrorists die in an Israeli
Army rescue operation following the hijacking of
an Israeli bus bound for Ashkelon. Media charges
of impropriety in the subsequent death of two
other terrorists who hijacked the bus cause the
formation of the Zorea Commission to report on the
issue . . . Israel police arrest four ultra-religious
Israeli youth who, they say, are responsible for a
series of bomb and grenade attacks on Christian
and Moslem religious sites in Jerusalem and the
West Bank . . . The Birmingham Temple hosts an
"Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue: Prospects for a
Negotiated Peace" . . . the Detroit Historical
Museum hosts "The Jewish Life in America" ex-
hibit of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith . . . Shaarit Haplaytah sponsors its annual
Holocaust Memorial Academy . . . French Jewish
fighter Gilles Elbilia takes it on the chin from
Detroit boxer Milton McCrory . . . Dennis Prager
discusses the Jewish commitment of youth at the
Spring Forum of the Women's Division of the
Jewish Welfare Federation.
MAY
Israeli police reveal the existence of a Jewish
underground group which is suspected of commit-
ting terrorist acts against Arabs . . . An Israeli
delegation participates in the conference on
Moroccan Jewry held in Morocco under the au-
spices of King Hassan II ... The Zorea Commis-
sion finds that two Arab terrorists, involved in the
Ashkelon bus hijacking, died after being taken
prisoner . . . The Equal Access Bill, which would
allow public high school students to meet volun-
tarily for religious purposes is defeated in the U.S.
House of Representatives . . . Yom Hazikaron (Is-
rael Memorial Day) is commemorated at special
ceremonies by the Israeli community of Detroit .. .
Cong. B'nai David marks the "burning" of its
mortgage with a special dinner . . . Detroit philan-
thropist Benard Maas, a major benefactor of the
Fresh Air Society, dies . . . David B. Holtzman of
Detroit is elected national campaign vice chair-
man of State of Israel Bonds . . . Thousands of
Detroiters participate in Israel Independence Day
activities at the Jewish Community Center . . . A
fire destroys the interior of Cong. T'chiyah in
downtown Detroit . . . The AIPAC College Guide
published by the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee criticizes Jewish groups for not doing
enough to fight Arab propaganda at Wayne State
and Michigan State universities . . . Michigan
banks purchase $11.3 million in Israel Bonds .. .
Elie Wiesel links Passover and modern Jewry in
his Adat Shalom speech.
JUNE
Israel's economic crisis worsens. Inflation
climbs upward, and hundreds of thousands of Is-
raelis go on strike for salary increases . . . Israel
arrests three more suspects in the alleged Jewish
terrorist underground, bringing the total to 25
suspected members . . . President Reagan orders
the sale of 400 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to
Saudi Arabia for use in protecting the Persian Gulf
. . . anti-Catholic posters in downtown Detroit are
removed by Jewish volunteers and the Detroit
Round Table of the National Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews . . . David Lebenbom is re-elected
president of the Jewish Community Council .. .
The Jewish News features expensive bar mitzvah
celebrations and Jews living inside Detroit . . . the
Morris and Emma Schaver Foundation contrib-
utes $250,000 to the Holocaust Memorial Center
. . . Chaim Potok addresses the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America dinner honoring five local
congregational leaders . . . Cong. Beth Shalom
"burns" its mortgage . . . Ron Stone is elected
president of the Jewish Association for Retarded
Citizens . . . Marvin Daitch and Bernard Stollman
are re-elected at the Jewish Family Service and
the Resettlement Service . . . The second anniver-
sary of the war in Lebanon is marked by a deter-
iorating situation . . . Efforts by the Lebanese gov-
ernment to form a national unity cabinet appear
stalled . . . Yigael Yadin, scholar, archeologist,
general and deputy prime minister under
Menachem Begin, dies at the age of 67 . . . In the
first prisoner-of-war exchange in ten years be-
tween Israel and Syria, the International Red
Cross supervises the exchange in which six Israeli
prisoners return home . . . Black Muslim leader
Louis Farrakhan calls Israel an "outlaw" nation
and Judaism a "gutter religion." His remarks are
criticized by Jesse Jackson, whom Farrakhan sup-
ports for the Democratic Presidential candidacy.
JULY
Prof. Ephraim Katzir, former President of Is-
rael, is detained in Leningrad by the KGB. Katzir
is attending a biochemists' conference being held
in the Soviet Union . . . The Democratic National
Convention gets underway in San Francisco, with
Mondale emerging as the party's Presidential
candidate and Geraldine Ferraro as its Vice
Presidential candidate, the first woman of either
party to be nominated to that post . . . At the re-
quest of the Lebanese government, Israel closes its
liaison office in Beirut . . . The office was regarded
as the forerunner of formal Israeli diplomatic re-
presentation in Lebanon . . . Likud and Labor both
claim victories in the Israeli elections, in which
neither side wins a clear cut majority of seats in
the Knesset. Prospects are dim for the quick for-
mation of a new government . . . The 23rd Olym-
piad gets underway in Los Angeles, with Israel
joining 141 other countries in the opening cere-
monies . . . a fire damages three rooms at
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah . . . Robert Slatkin is
elected president of the Jewish Community Center
board . . . Black Muslim militant Louis Farrakhan
"clarifies" his anti-Jewish views in a speech at a
Detroit church . . . Max Fisher steps down as
chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and is
honored in August in Southfield at the National
Executive Committee meeting of the Zionist
Organization of America.
AUGUST
The views of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who won a
seat in the Knesset in the July elections, are
roundly condemned by Israeli newspapers and ob-
servers of the political scene . . . Labor Party
leader Shimon Peres and Likud Party leader,
former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, discuss a
national unity government after President Chaim
Herzog asks Peres to form a new government .. .
the Maccabi Youth Games at the Jewish Commu-
nity Center attracts world-wide participation .. .
Sol Baltimore is named executive director of the
Metropolitan Detroit B'nai B'rith Council .. .
Robert Naftaly and Stanley Frankel are named to
chair the 1985 Allied Jewish Campaign . . . Roma-
nian Archbishop Valerian Trifa is deported to Por-
tugal . . . President Reagan signs the Equal Access
Bill into law. The law prohibits public high schools
from banning gatherings of students for religious
or political purposes outside of class hours but on
school premises . . . Meeting in Dallas, the Repub-
lican National Convention renominates President
Reagan and Vice President George Bush to head
its ticket.
SEPTEMBER
Supporters of Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach
movement prevent four Knesset members from
visiting suspected members of the Jewish under-
ground who are being held in an Israeli jail . . . A
conference in Hungary on the history of Hunga-
rian Jews includes historians representing Israel
... Rabbis Reuven Drucker, Elimelech Goldberg
and James I. Gordon issue a Halachic ruling to bar
Rabbi Kahane from speaking at Young Israel of
Greenfield. The following week, Kahane returns
to Israel, skipping his Detroit address at an alter-
nate site ... an eighth Haverim Home is opened by
the Jewish Association for Retarded Citizens .. .
Detroit's Holocaust Memorial Center is dedicated
by 1,500 persons at a dinner at the Westin Hotel
. . . Bert and Toba Smokier Pioneer Skills Center is
dedicated at Camp Maas.