42B 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.