Israel Bonds Dinner
Hears Dr. Tanter

Dr. Raymond Tanter will be
the speaker at the Israel
Bonds/Congregation B'nai
David tribute to George
Vine 6 p.m. June 13 at the
synagogue.
Dr. Tanter, who has been
teaching at the University
of Michigan since 1967, has
also taught at the
University of Amsterdam
and the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem.
He has served on the
senior staff of the National
Security Council at the
White House, where his
responsibilities included
Israel, Lebanon, and Libya
as well as working on the
Arab-Israeli peace negotia-
tions. Dr. Tanter was co-
director of the Middle East
Task Force for the 1980

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Raymond Tanter

Reagan/Bush campaign.
. For information on the
event, call Gerry Berkal at
the Israel Bonds office, 352-
6555.

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German Cities Recall
Nazi Book Burning

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Berlin (JTA) — Recalling a
sinister prelude to the Holo-
caust, several cities
throughout Germany held
ceremonies to observe the
60th anniversary of the first
Nazi book-burning, in which
books by such authors as
Ernest Hemingway, Franz
Kafka and Sigmund Freud
were torched.
In Berlin's Opera Square,
where the book-burning
began, German Jewish
writer Stefan Heym read
from the work of British
writer Salman Rushdie, a
secular Muslim whose work
provoked the late Iranian
cleric Ayatollah Khomeini
to issue a death warrant
against him.
"Freedom of speech is
everything," the 80-year-old
Mr. Heym quoted from Mr.
Rushdie, who today lives in
hiding.
The northern port city of
Rostock, which gained noto-
riety last year for a series of
violent racist incidents, had
invited members of the
Israeli Knesset to its com-
memoration.
William Shirer, in his Rise
and Fall of the Third
Reich,described the scene of

May 10, 1933, in chilling
terms: "Some four and a half
months after Hitler • became
chancellor, there occurred in
Berlin a scene which had not
been witnessed in the
Western world since the late
Middle Ages.
"At about midnight a tor-
chlight parade of thousands
of students ended at a square
on Unter den Linden oppo-
site the University of Berlin.
"Torches were put to a
huge pile of books that had
been gathered there, and as
the flames enveloped them
more books were thrown on
the fire until some 20,000
had been consumed.
"Similar scenes took place
in several other cities. The
book burning had begun."
Berlin's minister of
cultural affairs, Ulrich
Roloff-Momin, told the small
gathering in that city, "The
Nazi crimes have taught us
we have to continue to fight
against censorship. The
book-burnings showed how
vulnerable we all are, even
today. What happened 60
years ago was not a one-time
event. It is happening
again."

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Friday, June 25th
in the
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21100 W. 1Welve Mile
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This family style picnic
dinner will begin at 7 p.m.
followed by Shabbat
songs and services led by
Rabbi Martin Berman and
Cantor Max Shimansky.

There is a charge for the dinner.
Reservations should be made by Monday, June 21.
For Information call 352-8670.

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