I NOTEBOOK In Season Sale NEW FALL JACKETS COATS KNITS SEPARATES SAVE 50% Save Now Wear Now Sale Starts Monday, October 24th Monday-Friday 10 am-6 pm Saturdays store will be open only for "Russian Artists in America Exhibit" Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Ceramics, Sculptures & Jewelry IRINA European Designer Fashions 700 N. Woodward Avenue, Near Claymore Shop Birmingham 642-2990 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE 24123 GREENFIELD ROAD SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN 20th Annual Volunteer Institute November 7, 1988 Back By Popular Demand ROBERT BERNSTEIN, Ph.D. Executive Director of Geriatric Screening will discuss "Retirement — A Time To Rediscover" The impact of retirement on couples and individuals Continental Breakfast 9:30 A.M. Program 10:00-12 NOON Please Invite a Friend to join us for this interesting program 54 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1988 R.S.V.P. 559-4046 to Mary Schneider or Ellie Glen, Volunteer Office Controversial Preiheit' Closes After 66 Years New York (JTA) - The mor- ning Freiheit, one of the last surviving Yiddish newspa- pers in America, and easily the most controversial, an- nounced recently that it is ceasing publication. Its first edition appeared on the newsstands on April 2, 1922, and for the next 34 years it faithfully purveyed the Communist Party line from Moscow to Yiddish readers in the United States. Its moment of truth arrived in 1956, when Nikita Khruschev delivered his scathing expose of Stalin at the 20th Communist Party Conference in Moscow. After that, the Freiheit felt free to question and criticize Soviet policies and even at- tacked anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, a subject it previously ignored. Still, Freiheit veterans of- fered differing recollections of the newspaper's editorial policies. Irving Freed, the managing editor, insisted it was an "independent pro- gressive" Jewish newspaper from inception. He denied it was ever sub- sidized by the Soviets or the American Communist Party. But it slavishly supported Soviet policies, including the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. Paul Novick, the editor in chief, who was manning the city desk when the first edi- tion of the Freiheit appeared more than 66 years ago, ad- mits "we were duped." While he maintains, like Freed, that the paper was never a Communist Party organ, he acknowledged that it never deviated from the party line before 1956. He said that when it asked questions about the vic- timization of Jews at the time of the alleged "doctors' plot" after World War II, the paper was attacked by Moscow and by the Communist Party U.S.A. According to Freed, the Freiheit has strongly sup- ported Israel though it was critical of many Israeli government policies. Novick stressed that the newspaper covers the situa- tion of Soviet Jews. He said he himself has written numerous articles in recent years denouncing manifesta- tions of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. Freed stressed another aspect of the newspaper. He recalled that it sponsored many Jewish fraternal organizations, clubs and Yid- dish schools for children "all over the United States." Those were very active in the 1930s, but they no longer exist. The Freiheit remained a daily until seven years ago, when it began to publish three times a week. Later, it published just weekly. It was always supported by its readers, the two editors said. But Yiddish readership has declined almost to the vanishing point. The paper cannot sustain the burden of high costs and a weekly press run of 6,000. NEWS Vaccine Urged For Travelers Philadelphia (JTA) — Peo- ple should take a dose of the polio vaccine before they go to Israel, says the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. A CDC advisory recommen- ding the vaccine will soon be sent to health departments, private physicians and travel agents, Jim Mize, a public health adviser at the CDC, said last week. "We strongly advise a traveler getting the vaccine at this time," said Jim Mize. "As of this morning, Israel has 16 cases diagnosed." "Most people in the United States received polio shots or oral vaccine on sugar cubes as children, but now if they're going to be in one of the coun- tries with polio, which in- cludes Israel, they should receive a single polio booster," Mize said. The Salk vaccine, contain- ing dead virus, is ad- ministered by injection. The Sabin vaccine, which consists of live but weakened virus, is taken orally. This report was prepared by L. E. Scott of the Jewish Exponent. Israel, Poland Upgrade Ties New York (JTA) — Israel and Poland have agreed to upgrade their diplomatic mis- sions in Tel Aviv and Warsaw and to turn them into in- dependent missions. The two missions are operating under the diplomatic sponsorship of the Netherlands. The agreement was reached in a meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and his Polish counter- part, Tadeusz Olechowski.