COMMUNITY
Audience Approves
Israeli's Assessment
RICHARD PEARL
Staff Writer
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Sheldon Lutz
Sidney Lutz
Lutz Brothers Win
Honor At CHAIM Event
Sheldon M. Lutz and
Sidney Lutz will be honored
by CHAIM — Children of
Holocaust Survivors Associa-
tion in Michigan at its annual
event April 9 at 7 p.m.
The event will be held at
Movies at Prudential Town
Center, Southfield, and will
feature a special screening of
HBO's film Murderers
Among Us: The Simon
Wiesenthal Story. A 6 p.m.
special gifts reception for
donors of $100 or more will
precede the screening, and a
dessert reception will follow.
The Lutzes founded the
Center for Study of the Child,
an organization dedicated to
childhood development
research. The Center's first
major undertaking was the
creation of a new curriculum
for high school students — "A
Holocaust Curriculum: Life
Unworthy of Life."
Sheldon Lutz received his
B.A. and J.D. degrees from
Wayne State University. He
worked as an attorney in
private practice for many
years and is currently the
manager of legal administra-
tion at Detroit Edison.
He worked with concentra-
tion camp survivors and
displaced persons in Europe
after World War II. He has
been a member of a number
of local, state, and national
`Open Doors'
Show Airs
"Open Doors" will be aired
on Channel 4 on Sunday at
7 a.m. Michael Winkelman,
chairman of the Soviet Jewry
Committee of the Jewish
Community Concil, will
discuss the changing cultural
and political climate in the
Soviet Union and its effect on
Soviet Jewry. Host is Sheri
Terebelo-Schiff.
organizations, including the
American Arab and Jewish
Friends of Metropolitan
Detroit, the Ecumenical In-
stitute for Jewish-Christian
Studies, the domestic con-
cerns committee of the
Jewish Community Council,
the Anti-Defamation League,
B'nai B'rith Barristers and
the American Jewish Com-
mittee. He also sits on the
boards of the Mental Health
Association in Michigan and
the Alliance for Mental
Health Services.
Sidney Lutz received his
B.A. degree in psychology
Proceeds from the
CHAIM fund-raiser
will be used for
Holocaust
education
activities.
from Antioch College and his
doctorate from Union
Graduate School, based on his
work at the University of
Michigan. He is the president
of Lutz Associates Inc.
Dr. Lutz has been active in
the Anti-Defamation League,
B'nai B'rith and the national
board of the American ORT
Federation, and serves as
chairman of both the Task
Force on Educational and
Employability Skills of Gover-
nor Blanchard's En-
trepreneurial Small Business
Commission and the
Michigan American-Israeli ,
Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC). He is the publisher
of Witness, a quarterly
literary journal, and chair-
man of the boad of the Ad-
vanced Center for Technology,
Inc.
Proceeds will be used for
Holocaust educational ac-
tivities. For information, con-
tact event chairman Art
Kirsh, 557-6089.
eople who heard Chi-
cago shaliach Yehuda
Weinraub's assess-
ment last week of the
realities facing Israel and its
administered territories felt
he had his finger on the pulse.
Weinraub, also a lieutenant
- colonel in the Israeli Defense
Forces, spoke before an au-
dience of 30 at the
Maple/Drake Jewish Com-
munity Center. as part of a
series sponsored by various
Detroit Zionist organizations,
the Center and the Jewish
Welfare Federation.
Weinraub told his audience
the Middle East is highly
unstable, that an agreement
with the Palestine Liberation
Organization without "con-
crete assurances" could prove
costly, that the occupied ter-
ritories have benefited under
Israeli rule and that Israel
must not be pushed into deci-
sions by "well-meaning
Jews."
Gary Duchan of Oak Park
said he agrees with
Weinraub's statement that
the Israelis must decide for
themselves what to do about
the PLO's push for a Palesti-
nian state.
But Duchan said he would
like to hear how the Israelis
feel about being an occupying
power — "how the political
situation with the Arabs af-
fects the people."
Ruth Vosko of Farmington,
who worked in behalf of the
IDF last year through the
Volunteers for Israel program
and will serve there again
this summer, said of
Weinraub, "I thought he was
very knowledgeable, very
much on top of the situation."
Weinraub called the
Mideast "a hotbed of - in-
stability." He said the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict is only
one level of four in the area.
Other levels include conflicts
between Syria and Iraq or
Libya and Egypt; internal in-
stablities, such as in Iraq,
with Sunni Moslems ruling
over Shi'ites; and the super-
power conflict between the
United States and the Soviet
Union.
"Israel's strategic position
today is good," said Weinraub,
an oleh from New York who
sat in on the Israeli/Egyptian
military negotiations of the
Camp David Accords. But he
warned that Arab countries
may combine to attack Israel.
The Golan Heights protects
Israel's most heavily
populated area — from Haifa
to Ashkelon — from attack
because enemy tanks can't
climb its steep east side,
Weinraub said.
"An agreement with the
Arabs based on declarations,"
such as those recently made
by PLO chief Yassir Arafat,
"would cost tens of thousands
of casualties during an at-
tack, if the West Bank were
given up as a result, without
concrete assurances,"
Weinraub said.
"The occupation of the West
Bank and Gaza, I would say,
is not the most pleasant
task," Weinraub said. "But
Israel as an occupying power
is one of the most humane."
He cited growth of the gross
national product in the ter-
ritories, the addition of col-
leges and universities, the
declining infant mortality
rate and overall improvement
in standards of living of the
Palestinians in the
territories.
The PLO is still pledged to
Israel's destruction and one
must ask if Arafat is in con-
trol of the organization's ex-
tremists, Weinraub said.
"The riots (intifada) may con-
tinue even if we deal with
Arafat because he doesn't
control all of his people."
The PLO fears free elec-
tions, he said, and "We don't
have that many Palestinians
now who are willing to come
forth and talk with Israel."
Asked by an audience
member what would happen
if Israel talked with the PLO,
Weinraub said, "If Israel sits
down and talks with the PLO,
any moderates (among the
Palestinians) would be finish-
ed. Israel loses in encourag-
ing the PLO extremist ele-
ment to be stronger than the
moderates.
"It's very dangerous for
well-meaning Jews in the
United States to push Israelis
to make decisions or to
precipitate decisions. Israelis
are the only ones who have to
live with the issues so they
should be the only ones to
make decisions," the shaliach
said.
What would help, he said,
would be if the United
States could get the PLO
to reconvene the Palestin-
ian National Council and
annul the destruction-of-
Israel charter. 111
Israel Birthday Fete
Plans Are Developing
The Detroit Jewish com-
munity is planning its
celebration of Israel's 41st
birthday.
On May 7, there will be a
Walk For Israel, sponsored by
the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion; an Israeli kumsitz,
featuring the Dudaim, spon-
sored by Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith,
Jewish Experiences For
Families and The Jewish
News; a petting farm, spon-
sored by Fresh Air Society;
children's crafts area, spon-
sored by the Jewish Com-
munity Center; Israeli films;
and a Quiz Bowl, sponsored
by Metro Detroit Hebrew and
day schools.
Decorations will be provid-
ed by B'nai B'rith Youth
Organization and metropoli-
tan-area Hillel Foundations.
Other organizations wishing
to adopt a family program for
that day should call the
Center, 661-1000, ext. 293.
On May 8, the community
will observe Yom Hazikaron,
Israel Remembrance Day at
7:30 p.m. at the Maple/Drake
Center, sponsored by the
Israeli community and the
Jewish Welfare Federation.
Yom Ha'Atzmaut will be
observed May 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Yaffa Yarkoni, Israeli folk
singer, will perform at the
Maple/Drake Jewish Center.
The Gevatron, performers
from Kibbutz Geva, will
entertain at the Maple/Drake
Center at 9:30 p.m. May 20.
Matzah Bakery
At Jewish Center
The Jewish Community
Center, BaiS Chabad of Far-
mington Hills and Bais
Chabad of West Bloomfield
invite all Jewish day, after-
noon and nursery schools,
youth groups, families and in-
dividuals to its fourth annual
model matzah bakers at the
Maple/Drake Center.
The bakery will operate
from Sunday through April
11. Weekday hours are: 10
a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sundays
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
For information, call Stuart
Rogoff, 661-1000.
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