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Sweet Music of Harmony
in celebration of our cooperative spirit
TEMPLE ISRAEL and The WILSHIRE BLOCK ASSOCIATION
on the east side of Detroit
join together in a concert dedicated to
ROSA PARKS
honoring
U.S. CONGRESSWOMAN BARBARA-ROSE COLLINS
and
WAYNE COUNTY COMMISSIONER BERNARD PARKER
SUNDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 7:30 p.m.
at
TEMPLE ISRAEL
5725 Walnut Lake Road
West Bloomfield
featuring
The Second Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir
Michael E. Fletcher, Conductor
Arthur Thompson
Baritone, Metropolitan Opera
David Syme
World Class Pianist
Cantor Harold Orbach
Sponsored by
The Arlene June Gottlieb Music Appreciation Fund
and the Michael J. Syme Memorial Fund
Dessert Reception Following the Concert
The entire community is invited
For free tickets or further information, please call Temple Israel, 661.5700
This concert is a celebration of our cooperative spirit. In an attempt to
make our communities a better place to live, we have undertaken joint
projects which include building a playground and packaging and
distributing food baskets to the hungry.
David Biber
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1992
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Israeli Bar Balks
At Olim Testing Plan
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's
eagerness for American
olim, especially trained pro-
fessionals, has hit a snag.
The Israel Bar Association
has balked at a plan to en-
courage American lawyers
already interested in aliyah
by allowing them to take
their qualifying examina-
tions in New York.
According to aliyah ac-
tivists here and abroad, that
is often the deciding factor
for lawyers contemplating
aliyah. The next examina-
tion for the Israeli bar is
scheduled for this summer.
More than 100 attorneys
in the United States have
applied. But the program
has been put on hold pen-
ding a decision by the Bar
Association's Executive.
There is no shortage of
lawyers in Israel. The an-
nual output of the country's
three university law schools
— Hebrew University, Tel
Aviv University and Bar-
Ilan — is augmented by
young lawyers who attend
recently established non-
university law schools.
Some who fail the rigorous
admissions requirements go
to law schools abroad, main-
ly at British universities.
Added to them are the hun-
dreds of Soviet immigrant
lawyers trying to qualify to
practice their profession in
Israel.
The feelings of some
leaders of the bar is summed
up in the words of its direc-
tor general, Micha Yinon.
There is "no need to go
abroad looking for attorney-
olim," he said. If the lawyers
want to make aliyah from
the United States or
elsewhere, they can come to
Israel and take their exams
here, he said.
The exams are given every
six months in Jerusalem.
Attorneys and law
graduates who pass are re-
quired to serve a period of
apprenticeship in a law of-
fice for six to 18 months,
depending on their experi-
ence.
Bar Association Presi-
dent Dror Hoter-Yishai of
Tel Aviv has indicated that
he does not sympathize with
plans to hold exams in New
York or anywhere outside of
Israel at the present time.
Court Rules
Revisionist Could Sue
Los Angeles (JTA) — A
federal appeals court has
ruled that two Jewish organ-
izations can be sued for
preventing a Holocaust revi-
sionist from speaking at a
conference.
The court ruled in favor of
the late David McCalden,
saying he could have sued
two Jewish groups that
intervened to prevent his
addressing a librarians con-
vention 1984.
The majority decision was
contested in unusually pas-
sionate language by four of
the 28 judges sitting on the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals. The four dissenters
claimed that the majority
ruling was based on a
technicality and ignored the
suffering and emotions of
Holocaust survivors.
Mr. McCalden, a native of
Belfast, Northern Ireland,
was co- founder in 1978 of
the Los Angeles-based In-
stitute for Historical Re-
view, which claims the Holo-
caust is a myth and a hoax.
He died in October 1990 of
AIDS-related complications,
but his widow, Viviana, is
pressing the suit.
The beginnings of the case
go back to 1984, when the
3,000- member California
Library Association first ex-
tended and then withdrew
an invitation to Mr. Mc-
Calden to mount an exhibit
at its convention and ad-
dress a panel discussion on
"The Holocaust and Free
Speech."
The Library Association
board canceled the exhibit
and Mr. McCalden's ap-
pearance following vigorous
protests by the American
Jewish Committee and the
Simon Wiesenthal Center.
In 1986, Mr. McCalden fil-
ed a suit against the two
Jewish organizations and
Rabbi Marvin Hier of the
Wiesenthal Center, as well
as the City of Los Angeles,
alleging "a conspiracy to
interfere with his civil rights
and breach of contract."
Mr. McCalden claimed
that the AJCommittee and
Wiesenthal Center had
threatened leaders of the
Library Association that if
Mr. McCalden's appearance
and exhibit were not cancel-
ed, "the conference would be
disrupted, property would be
damaged, and the CLA
would be 'wiped out.' "