"YOUR MICHIGAN SAAB CONNECTION"
the Jewish poisoners," the
means of producing instant
or delayed deaths among
non-Jews worldwide.
"With this pamphlet in
your hands, My Non Jewish
(sic) Friends and by copying it
and disseminating it further
you will bring about a four-
thousand-year delayed
justice," the 20-page letter
reads.
In a previous letter, Mrs.
Mokry said that "the Jewish
gang, infuriated over our
escape from communism
decided by sly, publicly
unknown, brutal inhuman
tortures either to force us
back into communism . . . or
to incapacitate, maim and
kill us here in the U.S." ❑
Europeans Thought
Indians Were Jews
OREN GOLAN
Special to The Jewish News
F
or years after Christo-
pher Columbus dis-
covered the New World,
Europeans believed the
Native Americans were
descendants of the Ten Lost
Tribes. of Israel. This belief
was supported by the
discovery of a "Jewish" tomb
in Ohio. Various Hebrew in-
scriptions were discovered in
the Americas that supposed-
ly preceded Columbus'
discovery in 1492. Plus, the
aboriginal Americans practic-
ed circumcision and spoke in
a language similar to Hebrew.
Why were the Europeans
looking for the Ten Lost
Tribes of Israel? That was
what Professor Richard H.
Popkin of UCLA sought to
answer Sunday evening,
March 30, at the Rackham
Auditorium in Ann Arbor.
During his lecture, Pro-
fessor Popkin said the Euro-
peans were searching for the
lost tribes of Israel to
facilitate the Second Coming
of Christ. They felt that the
Corrections
Last week, in an article
about an incident at
Hillel Day School, The
Jewish News reported
that a former Hillel stu-
dent had sprayed a
chemical irritant into a
closed gym. According to
a Farmington Hills police
report, a Hillel student
had sprayed the device.
Also, in last week's arti-
cle on the April 4 BBYO
reunion, dinner chairman
Allan Feuer's name was
misspelled.
The names of William
and Elaine Kadashaw,
and Nathan and Edith
Butrimovitz, were placed
under the others'
photographs on Page 16
and 17 in The Jewish
News Commemorative
Issue March 27.
The Jewish News
regrets these errors.
prophecies of the Book of
Revelations were coming true
with the increased conversion
of Jews to Christianity. The
last piece to hasten Christ's
arrival needed to be the
discovery and subsequent
conversion of the lost tribes of
Israel. Columbus believed
that the lost tribes were in In-
dia; finding them was one of
the goals of his voyage.
Because of such ideas, Pro-
fessor Popkin said, "Chris-
tians were prepared to accept
what was found in America
as going along with their
spiritual views!'
Many Jews also concurred
with the view that the Native
Americans were Jewish
descendants. Most prominent
among them perhaps was
Menasseh ben Israel, who felt
that, "the 10 lost tribes were
dispersed following the Tower
of Babel!'
"One Jewish American col-
onist went so far as to grant
the Native Americans dis-
counts on goods because he
considered them 'brethren!"
said Professor Popkin. ❑
Rabbis Council
Elects Officers
The Rabbis of the Greater
Detroit area elected new of-
ficers for the Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis.
Rabbi Chaskel Grubner has
agreed to stay on as Menahel,
rabbinic administrator. This
was reaffirmed by the Coun-
cil when they offered him a
lifetime contract.
The office of president of the
C.O.R. will now be a presidi-
um comprised of Rabbis
Shaiall Zachariash,
Elimelech Goldberg and
Meilech Silberberg.
Other officers elected at the
meeting were: Rabbi Leo
Goldman, vice president; Rab-
bi Chaim Bergstein,
secretary; Rabbi Nachman
Kahn, treasurer; and Rabbi
Shmuel Irons, member of the
executive committee.
Rabbi Irons also was elected
as the third member of the
Beth Din which consists of
Rabbi Leib Bakst and Rabbi
Chaskel Grubner.
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