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Sol Lessman, a former
president of Young Israel of
Oak-Woods, will serve as chair-
man for the testimonial dinner
being tendered on May 5 by the
synagogue, in honor of Rabbi and
Mrs. James I. Gordon.
Rabbi and Mrs. Gordon will
leave Detroit in August to settle
in Israel after 22 years of service
to Young Israel of Oak-Woods and
the Detroit Jewish community.
Lessman has been active for
many years in the Detroit area,
and in national and Israel
charities. Some of Lessman's
community activties include:
member of the Prime Minister's
Club of Israel Bonds, Michigan
board member for Israel Bonds, a
founder of American Technion
Society, a founder and national
board member of Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity.
The Lessmans dedicated the
Beth Medrash at Young Israel of
Oak-Woods and a room at Shaare
Zedek Hospital in Israel in mem-
ory of his parents. He was chair-
man of the 50th Golden Jubilee
dinner of the Vaad Harabonim;
and recently was honored with
the Golden Torah Award by
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah. He is
also a charter member of the
Holocaust Memorial Center.
Sol Lessman
Aleic Roberg and Fayga Dom-
bey are co-chairmen of the dinner
committee. They are assisted by:
Phillip Applebaum, Hyman
Brown, Nathan Butrimovitz,
Harriett Beale, Blanche Engel,.
Rabbi Ernest Greenfield, Eva
Hertz, Helen Horowitz, Simon
Kresch, Manuel Levetsky, Myer
Mandelbaum, Barbara Mandel-
baum, Edward Traurig, Frances
Trager, Wilbert Simkowitz, Sonia
Ribiat and Stuart Snider.
Guest speaker for the evening
will be Rabbi Israel Miller, senior
vice president for academic affairs
at Yeshiva University.
For dinner reservations, call
Young Israel of Oak-Woods, 398-
1177.
Black-Jewish Unity
Theme Of DC Seder
Washington (JTA) — For
some, Passover began early this
year. The occasion was the Free-
dom Seder, held in Washington
last Wednesday night at the Reli-
gious-Aotion Center of the Union
of American- irebrew Congrega-
tions (UAHC). '
The seder, sponsored by the
Kivie Kaplan Human Relations
Institute, was part of a joint proj-
ect of the UAHC and the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP).
Washington-area Jews and
blacks gathered to take note of
their common legacy of slavery
and to re-affirm a shared pursuit
of universal freedom in the spirit
of the Passover holiday.
The co-hosts were the Rev. Ben-
jamin Hooks, executive director of
the NAACP and Rabbi Alexander
Schindler, president of the
UAHC. They led a group of about
30 blacks and Jews in a celebra-
tion of freedom gained and in sol-
idarity with those still oppressed.
They sang and recited an assort-
ment of traditional liturgical
pieces and folk songs and the writ-
ings of such activists as Anatoly
Shcharansky, imprisoned in the
Soviet Union, Soviet African
Nobel Peace Laureate Bishop De-
smond Tutu and the jailed anti-
apartheid leader, Nelson Man-
dela.
"This holiday is particularly
appropriate as a unifying symbol
between the black and the Jewish
communities," Rabbi Schindler
said, "because it goes to the heart
of what the black movement is all
about — the quest for freedom."
In that spirit, the Haggadah
used at the Freedom Seder pro-
vided a "Matza of Hope" to Soviet
Jews and South African blacks
and listed ten "modern plagues"
to be fought rather than cele-
brated, such as war, discrimina-
tion and world hunger.
Action-Urged
On Luitjens
Toronto (JTA) — The Nether-
lands government is urging
Canada to amend an 86-year-old
treaty between the two countries
which has frustrated efforts to ob-
tain the extradition of Jaap
(Jacob) Luitjens, a resident of
Vancouver, who was convicted to
his native Holland in 1948 of col-
labdration with the Nazi occupa-
tion forces during World War II.
Luitjens was sentenced in ab-
sentia to 20 years in prison for
"aiding and abetting" the enemy,
a crime not covered by the
Canada-Netherlands treaty of
1899. The Dutch Ambassador to
Canada, Naboth Van Dijl, said his
government has been trying for'a
number of years to negotiate a
new treaty, so far without success.
Luitjens was found guilty of
helping the Nazis track down
Dutch resistance fighters and
locating secret radio transmitters
and receivers. He is also alleged to
have killed a German army des-
erter and a Dutch resistance
member. Luitjens has denied kil-
ling anyone but refused to go to
Holland to answer the charges.
Van Dijl said he was surprised
that Canada would not comply
with a request from one of its
Western democratic allies to do
all it could to return a convicted
war criminal to face justice.