A JANUARY FUR CLEARANCE AT Sarah Davidson MALTER FURS 01 Continued from Page 24 ization of America when Rabbi A.M. Hershman was president. That's when I first met her and her parents and earned the privilege of being a guest at her marriage to Ralph Davidson in her parents' home. I believe it was on Virginia Park in De- troit. The recollections revive interest in the pioneering era of 20th Century Detroit Jewry. It was the time of the Wetsmans, Israel Davidsons (not related to the Ralph Davidsons), D.W. Simons, the Ehrlichs and many more, their mention inviting an encyclopedic record of this community's most eminent personalities. The very mention of A.M. Hershman as president and OUR ENTIRE COLLECTION OF FINE FURS IS REDUCED FROM 20% TO 50% M• L T E R Of Harvard Row 11 Mile Rd. at lahser DESIGNERS OF FINE FURS •6?/(40-- tNG HOURS: DRILY - 9:00-5:00 THURS. - 9:00-8:00 21742 W. 11 Mile Rd. Southfield Phone: 358-0850 SALE ENDS JAN. 31, 1987 I BE A WINNER, PLAY THE CLASSIFIEDS Cali The Jewish News Today 354-6060 SUNDAY January 18, 1987 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Main Jewish Community Center Shiffman Hall The Jamboree is when camp comes to you in the city. We'll have carnival booths where you can play games of chance or test your skill for prizes. We'll have craft booths like weaving, ceramics, and candlemaking. We'll serve popcorn, cotton candy and refreshments. . . Everything, including the raffle tickets for door prizes are free! And most i mporta u can apply to nt of all, Of our 24 any S yo one uper summe . 26 Friday, January 16, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS PURELY COMMENTARY Sarah Wetsman as secretary of the Detroit Zionist District in- vites recollections of others of eminence who shared roles with Sarah Wetsman David- son whose passing on Monday at age 96 gives emphasis to pioneering as a quality in lead- ership. Dora and Joseph Ehrlich were in our ZOA lead- ership ranks at that time. Is- rael Davidson, Maurice and Anna Landau, so many more, where the activists. The Davidson gifts to Hadassah, inspired and shared by Sarah Wetsman Davidson's son William Davidson, are notable. The name of Sarah Wetsman Davidson will always be \ treated as a blessing. Leaders' Criticism Angers O'Connor New York (JTA) — John Cardinal O'Connor was taken aback and visibly angered last Sunday by a statement sharply critical of his conduct and remarks during his re- cent visit to Israel and Jor- dan. The statement, which ex- pressed disquiet and distress about some of his remarks, was signed by the leaders of 53 major American Jewish groups, including community, rabbinical, Zionist and fund- raising organizations. O'Connor, the Archbishop of New York, told reporters after conducting Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's Cathe- dral, that he feared the "fruits" of his trip and his meetings afterwards at the Vatican could be "destroyed" by the response of the Jewish organizations. He expressed "deep, deep disappointment" at the state- ment. "I hope there is nothing in that statement that will make it more dif- ficult than it has been for me in trying to support the Jewish cause," he said. He described his trip to the Middle East as the most dif- ficult he ever made, one that involved "great personal and professional risk." He went to Israel "in good faith," the Car- dinal said. The trip was fraught with controversy and embarrass- ment. The Cardinal was forced to cancel appoint- ments he had made with Israeli leaders because Vatican policy which does not recognize the status of Jerusalem as Is-ael's capital, forbade him to meet with them at their offices in Jerusalem. He did meet, however, with President Chaim Herzog at the Presidential residence in Jerusalem and with Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres at the latter's home. The Cardinal apologized profusely during his trip for any offense he might have given the Israeli people and their leaders and faulted himself for failing to recognize the ramifications of the constraints placed upon his movements by Vatican policy. The Jewish leaders said in their statement that they were "disquieted and dis- tressed" by remarks made by O'Connor sympathetic to the Palestinians and that they "found disturbing and pain- ful" his statement at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem that the Holo- caust "may be an enormous gift that Judaism has given the world." O'Connor was particularly stung by the latter criticism. He said he meant it as "an enormous compliment to the Jewish people ... If this is considered demeaning to the Holocaust, then it demeans my entire theology because mine is a theology of suffer- ing," he said. He also said that the com- passion he expressed when visiting a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza was not meant as an indictment of Israel. "I said repeatedly that this was not to be blamed on israel," the Cardinal declared, adding that the blame rests on the entire Middle East. Both=, Arabs and Jews are "involved and responsible." __/ The Israel government pro- mptly dissociated itself from the statement by the Jewish leaders. Barukh Binah, press spokesman for the Israel Con- sulate in New York said that "It was an American re- sponse and not an Israeli response. The statement acknow- ledged that the Cardinal has been an outspoken foe of anti- Semitism.