…No End to Challenges to Jewish Courage This Hanuka Editorial Page 4 Commentary Page 2 Vol LIV, No. 13 THE JEWISH NEWS DE TROI T A Weekly Review MICHIGAN of Jewish Events Hanuka Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle ° 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit—VE 8-9364—December 13, 1968 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Wolicicty cre e t in g s 729 …
…Purely Commentar, y Hanuka Theme Marked by By Philip siomovitz Crises and Challenges Hanuka's Lessons and the Challenges to Jewry From All Quarters Rejoice all you wish in the triumphs of the past, take pride in the Maccabean valor, in the heroic role of the defensive -tions of our kinsmen in our own time. While we celebrate, we have cause for serious concern. There are thrn-ts from all sides. Not only the minute State of Israel whose people...…
…THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 13, 1968 - 3 Israel Is Good Place to Do Business, Advises U.S. Aide WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States Department of Com- merce said that Israel, "now more than ever, presents a desirable of Odessa, in the Soviet Union, to climate for U.S. business inter- rebuild their synagogue, destroyed ests." by fire several days ago. Chester E. Norris Jr., the Amer- The American Jewish Conference ican commeric...…
…Hanuka 1968 THE JEWISH NEWS . Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 National Editorial Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit, VE 8-9364. Subscription 87 a year. Foveign 88. Second Class Postage Paid at Detroit. Michigan CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ PHIL...…
…The Menora The LightT hat Burns Since Sinai resembles a medieval French centuries by the lighting of candles cathedral. Another from North- or oil wicks for the eight-day per- ern Italy is designed with the When the State of Israel was re- iod from 25th of Kislev to the 2nd crenellated towers of a castello. born 20 years ago, n6 one had any I of Tevet. From the simple Roman doubt what the emblem of the clay burners fashioned by the early From...…
…to the USSR JTA Editor Emeritus Boris Smolar Reports on His Mission fate of my Jewish compatriot. I (Editor's Note: This is the first the various Jewish delegations of a series of columns by Boris from the United States who had Smolar, editor-in-chief emeritus of visited the country. I talked to at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, fol- least 200 Jews. They were of v ari- lowing his return from a three- ous professions and of various week visit ...…
…Archives' Director Dr. Jacob Marcus Reviews Record of Immigrants' Role as U.S. Emissaries Soviet repression of freedom in Czechoslovakia reminds us today of the ways in which the United States and the Czechoslovak Re- public have each in turn been havens for persecuted Jews. Al- ready early in our colonial history, says Jacob R. Marcus, founder- director of Cincinnati's American Jewish Archives, Jewish immi- grants from Bohemia (part of Czech...…
…Scranton's Mission for Nixon Assumes Aspect of Diplomacy (Direct JTA Teletype Wire President-elect and he was bound News) to The JERUSALEM (JTA) — William I to study problems from their grass-roots without being affected W. Scranton, President - elect by past policy. Nixon's personal fact-finding en- Scranton entered Israel via the voy to the Middle East,. had . a Allenby Bridge which he crossed second, unscheduled, meeting with on foot owing...…
…- • • Acquital of Nazi Judge Unleashes Protest; Jew Terms It `Atrocious' BERLIN (JTA)—A West Berlin court's acquittal of a former Nazi judge who pronounced death sen- tences on 250 political prisoners in 1943 and 1944 has aroused a storm of protest in this city. The ex -judge, Hans -Joachim Rehse, who presided over one of Hitler's notorious Peoples Courts during World War II, was freed by Judge Ernst Jurgen Oske on grounds that he was only...…
…Czech, Polish Crises Add to JDCs Burdens (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) NEW YORK — The executive vice chairman of the Joint Distribu- tion Committee reported here Wed- nesday that the agency had to divert some $400,000 from pro- grams to meet the emergency needs created by the Czech crisis and the spurt in Jewish emigra- tion from Poland because of the anti-Semitic campaign there. Samuel L. Haber spoke at the closing session o...…
…Provocations of Separationists Resented at New York Negro-Jewish Confrontation NEW YORK—A Negro leader de- clared here that rising tension be- tween the Jewish and Negro com- munities was due in part to the 4 a r RPORATEDt INCORPORATED 141 i. .,. . .,. 4 v,r...... ctistry E T i n I i rife ewels 20010 James CouzensDrive Detroit 35, Michigan GO eta PHIone:342-5666 fact that "Jews, having occupied for so long the role of an oppresse...…
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…Declaration of Human Rights' Anniversary Mtirked With Appeal to Aid Soviet Jews Tiftiorrant JEviistrwewg" - DiCember - 13: 19e3Z:11'' French Leftists Criticize Poland for Bigotry PARIS (JTA) — A French left- wing organization condemned this NEW YORK (JTA)—Two ap- 17. The latest murder victim was dent of the American Jewish Com- week the Polish regime's anti- mittee in a statement issued for Semitic policies and demanded that a businessman ...…
…-THE••DETROIT JEWISH-NEWS Flint News —1 Society Mrs. Ben Bombe] and Mrs. Morris Rosenthal were hostesses for the Tuesday meeting of the League of Women Voters of Flint. Mrs. Rosen- thal is membership chairman. s * • Attending the 30th annual United Jewish Appeal National Confer- ence at the New York Hilton Hotel this weekend are Louis Epstein, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sherwin, Dr. and Mrs. William Bernard, Dr. and Mrs. Peter Kronick, Mr. and Mrs...…
…• French ~ ewlts ~ li comm unists Register Protests 'rift arkin. JEwitnnNtolt 13; 1968-1S `Friday; Against Official Anti-Semitism in Poland Continuing anti-Semitic persecu- tions in Poland have brought about "a severe crisis" within the Jew- ish Communist movement in France that already has caused defections from the ranks of fol- lowers of the Communist Party, according to a report from the American Jewish Committee's European office in...…
…16—Friday, December 13, 1968 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS AS CHEERING AS THE CANDLES OF HANUKKAH GREET YOUR HOLIDAY GUESTS WITH MAXWELL HOUSE® COFFEE Matchless flavor, rich and mellow, has made Maxwell House° the favorite co& fee in Jewish homes throughout the land for many, many years. A happy tracli• tion at holiday time, a joy at meats or any time . . . why not have a cheer. ing cup right now! Instant or ground, Maxwell House Coffee. K CERT...…
…Jordanian Areas That Were Struck by Israeli Jets . Friday, December 13, 1968-17 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Survey to Determine Need for Ulpan Courses in U.S. NEW YORK (JTA)—A Hebrew University expert on teacher train- ing is conducting a survey of ulpan programs—intensive Hebrew language courses — in the United States with the intention of estab- lishing such courses in communi- ties where they do not exist. The survey by Aharon Rosen was un...…
…Could Arthur Goldberg Have Had Chief Justiceship? Could Arthur Goldberg have had the chief justiceship had it not been for a move by President-elect Richard Nixon that stymied it? The story as related by Drew Pearson follows: Relations between the President and President-elect, hitherto more which affect the country during cordial than between any other in- this interim period. coming and outgoing Presidents, No President in half a century we...…
…Detroit Jewry and Bellefaire: Recalling Historic Data on Home's Centennial By IRVING I. KATZ Executive Secretary, Temple Beth El This year marks the centennial of. the establishment of a Jewish orphanage in America's Midwest by the Independent Order of Bnai Brith —the Or phan Asylum in Cleveland for Jewish boys and girls orphaned by the Civil War. When the idea of an orphan asylum in Cleveland was conceived by Bnai Brith all the existing lodg...…
…Prof. Hermann Schapira-Founder of JNF BY JOSEF FRAENKEL Special Jewish News London Correspondent Hermann Schapira (born Aug. 16, 1840, in Erswilken), the son of a rabbi, was an "Illui" and at the tender age of 8 he was already held in high esteem by the Litvaks for his knowledge of "Gemara" and "Tosafot." He progressed from one yeshiva to another, poring over the Holy Books by day and by night, and at the age of 24 was a rabbi in Krutingen. B...…
…Kiesinger Warns of Middle East Danger to World Peace, Welcomes Bond With Israel BONN (JTA) — West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger warned that "Any war in the Middle East carries in itself the danger of becoming a world war" and said that whether it did or not depended "on that old riddle, will the Soviet Union run the risk or will Moscow refrain from action?" He added that "Russia has always left the way open to pull back when a genera...…
…22—Friday, December 13, 1968 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Announce 3 Scholarships at Rehovot Maurice Gordon (right) and Dewey D. Stone, chairman of the Weizmann Institute of Science board of governors, shake hands on a deal, establishing three scholarships totaling $150,000 for worthy stu- dents seeking PhD degrees. The scholarships, in the name of Maurice and Dorothy Gordon, will be offered at the Feinberg Graduate School of Weizmann Intitute i...…
…Brooklyn Yeshivot Assisted; Tora Scrolls Buried by Mourners NEW YORK — The American Jewish Congress Tuesday an- nounced emergency grants totaling $500 to two synagogue schools in Brooklyn that suffered extensive fire damage last week in an out- break of attacks on Jewish houses of worship. Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland, president of the AJC, authorized the grants following receipt of an appeal for help from Rabbi Joseph Kaminetsky, di...…
…24—Friday, December 13, 1968 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Border Quiet Disrupted Again in Jordan-Israel Clashes (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV—Mortar and rocket fire flared along the Israel-Jordan demarcation line Tuesday night and Wednesday for the first time since Israel's air raid on Jordan- based Iraqui military concentration a week ago. A military spokesman said Jor- danians fired rockets at Kfar Rup- pin in the Bei...…
…Hillel Day School to Break Ground Sunday People Make News At Mellman, director of the com- munity relations committee of the United Jewish Federation of Pitts burgh, has been appointed director of community re- lations for Amer- ican Israel Public Affairs Commit- tee, effective Jan. 1, it was an- nounced by the chairman of the AIPAC, Irving Kane of Cleve- land. Mellman Mr. Mellman has served in Pittsburgh for the past four years. Prior to th...…
…26—Friday, December 13, 1968 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Midwest Bnai Brith Camp Center Dancers Will Portray Ilanuka's Lesson in Many Ages "The Light," a dance-drama for Hanuka written and directed es- pecially for the Omnibus Series by Harriet Berg, dance coordinator of the Jewish Center, will be pre- sented in the Aaron DeRoy Thea- ter 2 p.m. Sunday. Using unusual lighting effects, slide projections and period cos- tumes, "The Light" prese...…
…rrr nss-e hat auTa Is All At•O " (Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.) Hanuka, celebrated this year from Sunday night through Dec. 23, Is known as the "Festitval of Lights," a name rooted in the practice of lighting candles on eight nights. The name of the holiday—"dedi- cation" in Hebrew — stems from Judah the Macabee's rededication about 165 BCE (Before Common Era) of the Second Temple in Jer- usalem. The festival also marks his vic- tory some thre...…
…SYNAGOGUE SERVICES TEMPLE BETH JACOB of Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Berkowitz will speak on "Is Jewish Ecumenism Possible?" CONG. BETH ACHIM: In-town services 5 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Gorrelick will speak on "Parental Influence." Jeffrey Subar, Bar Mitzva. Suburban services 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Arm will discuss "Family Frictions." CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Braverma...…
…Meth Mose's 14esidents Cited Windsor's Beth El Religious Scfiool ' Calls Halt to Automatic Promotions A procedure of automatic pro- motion of students has been ended by the religious school of Temple Beth El, Windsor, which hereafter Current and past presidents of Cong. Beth Moses and its affiliates Rho gathered for a group picture at the synagogue's recent dedica- cation banquet are (from left) standing: Harry Shiovitz, Jerome L. Kohn, Sh...…
…Silberman-SpilmanVow. Ellicago Bonds Schedules Israel Action Day to Be Spoken in August to Address Meeting. of Histadrut Givers Israel Action Day, the final Is- lars are needed to maintain the THE 'DETROIT JEINISItttEWS 30—Friday, December 13, 1968 rael Bond cash collection effort of the year, has been set for Dec. 22, it was announced by Robert Brody, Isfael Bond general chairman, and 'Mrs. Morris L. Schaver, Israel Bond Women's Division c...…
…• omen's Club activi ties IFS TEMPLE ISRAEL SISTERHOOD Book Review and Breakfast Series will open with Rabbi M. Robert Syme reviewing Myron S. Kauf- mann's "Thy Daughter's Naked- ness:.! ---11 a.m. Monday in the social- bill. Tickets for the series may be purchased by calling Mrs. Harry Letzer, LI 9-4112, or at the temple office. The cost includes breakfast of bagels and lox at 10 a.m. and the review following. Mrs. Easton Brodsky is book re...…
…THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 32—Friday, December 13, 1968 Joel Gordon Takes Bride, Marsha Ann Albert 200 Mentally Ill Patients to Be Treated to Co Op Council's First Hanuka Party - Entertainment will be provided by Cantor Hyman Adler of Cong. Bnai David and humorist Max Sosin. There will be latkes and other treats. A Hanuka gift and a "nash" will be the patients' part- ing gifts. Jewish patients at Northville, Ypsilanti, Lapeer and Wayne Coun...…
…SHERRI'S Climaxing a fund-raising cam- paign of more than three months, the Detroit Council of Pioneer Women will hold its 38th annual donor luncheon noon Wednesday at Raleigh House, Mrs. Aaron Katz- man, president, announced. According to program chairman, Mrs. Sam Fishman, guest speaker Dr. Howard Morley Sachar will share the program with contralto Lois Raye, winner of the Marian Anderson Award, who sings at Temple Shalom in Chicago. She wi...…
…•••••••••■-.--- 34L-fridajt, biceniber 11, 1963' TWE'VETRiilY'JEWS'ffilEYft - JNF Women Direct - Four-Year Project Fund, which will devote all its efforts to participation in the Pil- lars of Courage program. According to Mrs. Larry Chanin, fund-raising chairman of the aux- iliary, this development program involves the reclamation of 110,000 dunams (27,500 acres) of land and opening 500 miles of roads, as well as the planting of 25,000,- ...…
…•r HaiidieSinger,I1Ern - issaries' Bang Movement's Messages to Detroiters Hasidism — its nigunim and dances and the spirit of an enthus- iastic community that seeks joy in praying and observing and hallow- ing Jewish life—were in full evid- ence at the concert of the local Chabad Lubavitch movement, Sunday evening, at the Community Arts Auditorium of Wayne State University. The liturgical selections and folk songs sung by Cantor Samuel Heber ...…
…36—Friday,' Deteinbee 13; 1968' ' THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS' Merrill Hoffman toWed Cochin Jews Mark 400th Year Mr. Hamburger in May of Synagogue on Sunday; Weinstein Peports on Findings Louis Weinstein, Detroit attor- ney, who, with Mrs. Weinstein, visited the Cochin (India) comu- nity last month, while on a tour arranged by Bnai Brith, brought back interesting data regarding that community's Jewish citizens. On their three-day stay in Co- ch...…
…Will' Leave- Antique Behind WSU's Hillel Set to Move Down the Street By PAM SHRIMAN Moving into a new home is an exciting experience — even if it's only two blocks away. The excite- ment redoubles if the old home is a somewhat dingy, three-story antique-looking house at 4841 Second, and the new home is a million-dollar, ultra-modern, in- terior-decorated complex. This is the move the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation on Wayne State Univ- ersity'...…
…Eighteen Congregations to Receive Awards Tourism to Israel Encouraged at Israel Bond Hanuka Dinner Thursday 38Fri.tray: ljeZember THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS by All Faiths; Israeli Tourist Day Proclaimed Here by Council Meir de Shalit, director-general of the Israel Ministry of Tourism (center) is shown receiving a resolution proclaiming Dec. 5 as Israel Tourist Day in Detroit. The resolution, signed by the nine members of the Detroit Common C...…
…THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 13, 1968-39 Bnai Brith Campaign Bnai A- ith .Activities MAURICE C. ZEIGER LODGE, which has "adopted" the Detroit Baptist Children's Home as a com- munity project by sponsoring a trading stamps program, is still seeking stamps that will be turned over to the home so it will be able to fill some of its many needs. Since the campaign started, the men have received books of stamps from as far as Port Hur...…
…▪ • 40—Friday, December 13, 1968 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS janiceBermanBetrothed Detroit Round Table to Give V. E. Boyd to Harvey Schlesinger Award at Annual Brotherhood Dinner Virgil E. Boyd, president of Chrysler Corp. will be honored by the Detroit Round Table of the Na- tional Conference of Christians and Jews at the 1968 Brotherhood Din- ner 7 p.m. Sunday at Cobo Hall. Robert M. Frehse, executive di- rector, said an award will be presen...…
…g ewrg Heads Committee for Lal4or Israel i On tke Jr This Week's Radio and Television Programs HANUKA SPECIALS Time: Noon Sunday Station: Channel 4 Feature: Metropolitan Opera star Roberta Peters is interviewed on this Eternal Light special by Mar- tin Bookspan, music critic and commentator. Miss Peters, who was in Israel during the Six-Day War, describes some of her ex- periences entertaining the troops and shows a medal minted by the Isr...…
…U.S. Musn't Retreat From M.E., Warns Head of Public Affairs Body WASHINGTON—A warning that the trend toward disengagement and isolationism is subversive of peace in the Near East was an- nounced by Irving Kane of Cleve- land, chairman of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, at a luncheon in his honor at the National Press Club here. He said that those who "insist on belligerence may be embolden- ed to engage in new reckless ad- ventu...…
…UN Resolution Asks Probe in Occupied Areas; U.S. Delegate Criticizes 'Inadequate' Israeli Action UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — A coalition of the Afro-Asian states and the Communist bloc pushed through the social, humani- tarian and cultural committee on Friday a resolution empowering the General Assembly president to name a special committee com- posed of representatives of three member states "to investigate Is- raeli practices affecting the...…
…American Jewish C ongress' Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration This Weekend Fifty years to the day following its founding here as the first re- presentative body of the American Jewish community, the American Jewish Congress will assemble in Philadelphia — the same city in which it began half a century ago —this weekend consider its past, present and future role in strength- ening Jewish life advancing human rights. The observance will bring to-...…
…THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 13, 1968 45 - Hanuka Torch Relayed Haupka Menora Wired • Sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of Springfield, Mass , an affiliate of the National Jewish Welfare Board, this Hanuka Torch Run enlists the participation of 19 local Jewish organizations. The torch relay is part of the Center's special Hanuka program, which reflects Festival of Light activities for young members of Jewish Community Ce...…
…46—Friday, December 13, 1968 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Hanuka Quiz Servan-Schreiber Challenges U.S. An eminent French journalist takes note of the European eco- nomic crisis and the American impact in a serious evaluation of the existing conflicts. In "The American Challenge," published by Atheneum (122 E. 42nd, NY17) translated from the French by Ronals Steel, J.-J. Servan-Screib- er presents an examination of American investment in Europe...…
…Leo Rosten's Jocular Yiddish interpretations Friday, December 13, 1968-47 THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS • Leo Rosten, in "The Joys of Yid- garment for which the owner paid Two shlemiels were drinking tea. I Happy Hanuka dish" published by McGraw Hill -little. In time, one looked up and an- Book Co., which already has been Dresskes come from bargain nounced portentously: "Life! What reviewed in these columns, resorts basements, off racks labeled ...…
…• THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 48—Friday, December 13, 1968 Digging for Love in Israel a. By various channels it may have reached the ears of the adventur- ous that one way of spending a cheap holiday in Israel is to volun- teer for an archaeological excava- tion there. But whoever contem- plates this plan solely as a means to a cheap holiday would do well to dismiss the intention here and now. Archaeological holidays are not really cheap. The...…
…Battle of the Pacific and Japanese Opposition Related by USN Expert Young Americans will need in- formative material about the last war and the authoritative writings provided for them will serve an important purpose in their studies. The war with Japan will be re- viewed, and for those in search of basic material about it there is an excellent account in "Midway — Battle for the Pacific," by Capt. Edmund L. Castillo, USN. Published by Random...…
…HOli-iiii- eirin"LlUbilee Volume `Hang 'Em High'-Its Exciting VengenceTheme great significance and his gifts to Jewry have been immense. It is in tribute to these achieve- ments that "Philip W. Lown: A Jubilee Volume," edited by Judah Pilch, has just been issued by Bloch Publishing Co. This volume is a combination of tributes to Lown and reviews of his gifts to Jewry and to America, as well as a compilation, in the form of numerous literary c...…
