N EWS 1 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 Crestview Cadillac 656-9500 toll free 541-4133 555 Rochester Rd. (1 Mile N. of Avon) Rochester 30 FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1992 • "Car of the Year" 1992 Seville STS available for immediate delivery • Sales & Leasing • Pick - up & Drop - off service 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.' "