…Israeli Consul Is Abducted, Tourists Harassed in South America WASHINGTON (JTA) — The kidnapping at gunpoint a week ago of Ernesto Liebes, honorary consul general for Israel in El Salvador, now appears to be politically moti- vated, according to knowledgeable Salvadorean and American sources. Radio station Y Su in San Salvador on Monday broadcast that it had received a manifesto from the "Armed Forces of National Resistance" (FARN) which The...…
…Cambridge University Is Seeking Funds in U.S. to Preserve Taylor-Schechter Geniza Collection WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Friends of Cambridge University will seek funds in the U.S. this year to help preserve and restore one of the world's most precious collections of early Hebrew manuscript material and Judaica, the famous Taylor- Schechter Geniza Collection at Cambridge, England. The collection was recovered in 1896-97 from the "geniza" ...…
…American Nazi Groups Were Major Concern of U.S. Jews in 1978 NEW YORK — American Jews worried more about a resurgence of Nazi groups last year than any other issue relating to domestic Jewish security. The intense Jewish reaction to a series of Nazi activities in Skokie and elsewhere came at a time when anti-Sem' ,ism and anti-Jewish discrimination in this country are at their lowest in more than three' decades. These were among the findings ...…
…Pope John Paul II Asked to Visit Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Yitzhak Navon has extended an informal invitation to Pope John Paul II to visit Israel and its holy places. Addressing a reception for Christian community leaders on the occasion of Christmas, Navon recalled that the Pope had expressed a desire to visit the holy places in his own Christmas address. "I am certain that I express the feelings of both the people and the governme...…
…Pi Name -Calling and Begin's Defense of the Israel Position . THE JEWISH NEWS Commentary, Page 2 A kVeckIN Review' of Jewish Events Exposing Charges of Atrocities: Truth About Israel's Treatment of Minorities Editorial, Page 4 VOL. LXXII, No. 21 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c January 27, 1978 Israel Is Sharing U.S. Confidence Negotiations Will Resume American Rabbis Op...…
…Jews Mourn for a Strong Friend: Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey By JOSEPH POLAKOFF rs WASHINGTON (JTA)—Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, ever thoughtful of the concerns of the Jewish people, left a legacy to them in the form of a statement prepared shortly before his death. He died Friday night at his home in Waverly, Minn. of cancer at the age of 66. Humphrey serval in the Senate from 1949 until he was elected Vice President under President Johnson ...…
…When Children's Hatreds Stem From Gun-Toting A Mistake in Judgment The Kissinger View: Optimistic Predictions on Middle Eas Deliberations THE JEWISH NEWS A WeekIN Review Commentary, Page 2 of Jeicish Events Editorial, Page 4 VOL. LXXII, No. 19 17515 W. Nine Mile. Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per-Year: This Issue 30c January 13, 1978 Weizman Convenes Cairo Talks in a Middle East 'War for Peace' . New Settlement...…
…• • . , President Visits Monument to Warsaw Ghetto Martyrs On his visit to Poland over the weekend, U.S. President Jimmy Car- ter visited the Nike memorial to Warsaw's war dead, and the mon- ument to the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 (photo- graphs at right ). According to Time magazine, police kept away all but a handful of official observers. "The Polish government had tried to persuade Carter not to visit either site," accordi...…
…Yiddish Struggle, Media Problems Analyzed in Israel • Courage of Nation With Creativity Commentary Page 2 VOL. I.XX, No. 21 HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review I Jewish Events 9 . 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 Ordered Execution Mrs. Bloch's Sons Name Security Chief As Her Murderer LONDON (JTA) — The suspected murderer of Mrs. Dora Bloch, the Israeli hostage killed in Uganda after the Entebbe raid, was ide...…
…73 The Jewish Press: Status of the Media in All Languages as Viewed at Jerusalem Parley THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 VOL. LXX, No. 20 of Jewish Events 9 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite - 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 Israeli Political Acumen Is Now Put to the Test • Hbittered Shouts for a 'Change' Echo Everywhere, Yet 4Ik Predictions are that the Target - The Party - Will Retain Limited Dominance, Defying Preval...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS The Legacy of Solomon Zeitlin: Memorable Definition of 'Who Is a Jew' Commentary Page 2 VOL. LXX, No. 19 A Weekly Review 9 Editorial Page 4 f Jewish Events 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 Annointment: The Biblical and the Inauguration of President Carter $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30' January 14, 1977 jsrael, U.S., W. German Officials Dismayed by Terrorist's Release Agreement Signif...…
…Tributes to Prof. Zeitlin and Sen. Hart * PLO's 'Gestures' Exposed by Dialogue Participant Commentary. Page 2 VOL. LXX, No. 18 HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review f Jewish Events 9 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 Jewish Vocational Service Workshop: a Major Service Expansion of Federation Apartments Editorials Page 4 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30 4 January 7, 1977 PLO Rejects Peace Movement's Proposals ...…
…0C. Er"-- -0,41ba Jewish State Opposed 1943 Vatican Papers Claim WW II Silence Was to Protect Jews Bicentennial Features: U.S. Jewish History Revived ,711PISMWAIII1011111111111k. - ROME (JTA) — Documents released by the Vatican last Friday revealed that during the last years of World War II it opposed the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine and that its policy of public silence on the plight of the Jews under Nazism was an effort to a...…
…Goldmann Criticizes Jewish Leaders' Survival Policies WASHINGTON (JTA) — Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, said Saturday that Jewish leadership must "reassess its political methods" to secure Jewish survival "in a radically changing world." He told Bnai Brith's board of governors at the annual midwinter conference here that present policies and actions of the Jewish community are failing to cope with "the new politic...…
…EDITORIAL Procedural Genocide for Israel at UN? Thirty years after the end of Nazism the genocidal evils are more in evidence than ever before. It seems as if the entire world has conspired to renew Hitler's aims—this time within the headquarters of a movement that was created for peace. Once again, only the United States rejects the tyranny of a major- ity in what has become a den of bandits bent upon destroying the sovereign state of Israe...…
…Year of Many Tensions • ChallangeS to Leadersh in Mark Setbacksfor Jewry Murray Zuckoff, Jewish Telegraphic Agency editor, reviews the experiences of the past year and the of 1976 for both Israel and American Jewry in a' year-end review published on Page 56. Zuckoff describes the many international events that made 1975 a year to forget for Jewry, and points a direct challange at Israeli and American Jewish leadership to change self-serving p...…
…Exposure of an Atrocious Lie Myth of a 'Democratic Palestinian Secular State' Jews from Arab Lands Warn Against Threats THE JEWISH NEWS Cxq Editor's Note: Concerned that the case of the Jews from Arab countries should have become a "neglected issue," the newly organ- ized World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries published a series of statements exposing the lies emanating about them from Arab capitals. A major misrepresentation refut...…
…Cohen, Drachler Named Federation Associate Directors Samuel Cohen and Sol Drachler have been appointed associate directors of Detroit's Jewish Welfare Fed- eration. The announcement was made by Federation executive vice president William Avrunin following con- firmation by the organization's executive committee last week. Cohen and Drachler have been assistant directors of the Federation staff for _ the past decade. Cohen's primary responsibi...…
…NEW YORK — The world Jewish population is estimated at 14,150,000, according to the American Jewish Year Book, whose 1974-75 edition has just been published. There are approximately 5,732,000 Jews in the United States, more than in any other country. After the United States, countries with the largest Jewish populations are: Israel, 2,806,000; Soviet Union, 2,680,000; France, 550,000; Argentina, 475,000; Great Britain, 410,000; and Canada, 305...…
…g.taga:;itatelth Guidelines for More Effective Zionist Public Relations Activities JEWISH NEWS - A Weekly Review Outline by JTA Editor Zukoff on Page 48 , LXV1, No. 19 of Jewish Events A Time for Defiance of 'the Ominous' Aiding the Handicapped With Jobs Editorials - Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper 44iiem 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c January 17, 19...…
…Allon Meetings With Kissinger Postponed Until Next Week Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon's scheduled Washington conferences with U. S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have been postponed until Wednesday. Sources in Jerusalem and Washington speculate that Kissinger is still discussing with Egyptian representatives their Mideast positions. The cancellation of Russian leader. Leonid I. Brezhnev's visit to Egypt may have changed or unsettl...…
…Rahamanim Bnai Rahamanim Principle * Vatican Sanctimony Commentary Page 2 VOL. LXVI, No. 17 THE EWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper 44iii0' 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c Suspicious Detente Inaugurates 1975 David' Sling, Goliath's Poison Barbs Editorials Page 4 January 3, 1975 Israel Denies U.S. Pressuring 1 ,.to Cha...…
…A Reminder to Gromyko: An Historic Document: Recalling Russian diplomat's powerful ap- peal at the United Nations for justice to Jewry in the re-establishment of the Jewish State. Congressional Affirmation of Zionist Lib- ertarianism . . . The 1942 Declaration: 'The Common Purpose of Civilized Mankind: A Traditional American Policy Confirmed' —Editorial, Page 4 The Road to Peace: Why Not Also Disengage Animosities? —Commentary, Page 2 ...…
…Affectionate Henry: Kissed by Egyptians but Not by Abba Eban TEL AVIV JTA) — Israelis tend to hide their emotions in public while Arabs are prone to display their feelings. And thereby hangs a tale. U. S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger told Israeli leaders that Arabs are smoochier than Israelis when they greet foreign diplomats, or, 2t least, Kissinger. Kissinger, who was in good spirits during a reception given in his honor by Defense...…
…Introducing: Israeli Women's Champ Shulamit Aloni A major surprise in the Israeli election was the triumph of a new party, the Civil Rights List, which was organized by Shulamit Aloni in defiance of the Labor Party with which she was previously associated. She had been a member of the Labor Alignment in the Knesset, in the 1965 list, and was dropped in 1969 because of her critical role of her party's attitudes. In a last-minute decision to ru...…
…Herut-Likud leader Menahem Be- gin, extreme right, emerged as a for- midable opposition leader in the next Knesset with the gains his party regis- tered in Monday's election. Teddy Kollek, left, will be reorga- nizing the Jerusalem municipality as its third-term mayor, although he suffered losses in the balloting. Joseph Almogi, right, won overwhelmingly as the re-elected Labor mayor of Haifa. Historic Buber Defense of Israel's Right to L...…
…Iiajor Jewish Organizations Call on HEW to 'Prevent or Eliminate Preferential Treatment' in Universities NEW YORK—Six national Jewish organizations concerned with "reverse dis- crimination" in college admissions and hiring practices. have sent 19 new examples to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare "of such gravity as to command immediate attention." The groups, which had previously submitted 33 examples to HEW, urged the fe...…
…Prayer by Rabbi Siegel at Inaugural Saturday Albert Einstein: Scientist's Historic Role in the Zionist Movement Commentary Page 2 WASHINGTON — President Nixon's inaugural on Saturday will include a prayer by Rabbi Seymour Siegel, president of the Jewish Rights Council and a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, who was one of the President's leading supporters during the election campaign. Provisions were made for kosher food to ...…
…7 )er- this to les- ov- hat of GA ff1- see 'al- lu- tse It a at Lenient Halakha Demand Advanced in Women's Plea LONDON (JTA)—A split has developed in the 102-year-old Anglo-Jewish Association over whether it should sup- port a petition recently sent to rabbinical authorities all over the world by the International Council of Jewish Women appeal- ing for measures to relieve Jewish women from certain personal hardships caused by rigid in...…
…0 Brazaville-Congo Diplomatic Breaks Mystify Israel Endless Terror, UN's Disgrace Day School Factors in Education JERUSALEM (JTA)—Government sources expressed surprise over the break in diplomatic relations with Israel by Brazaville- Congo and said they could think of no apparent reason for the sudden move announced Dec. 31 in Brazaville. Brazaville-Congo is the third African state to sever relations with Israel in recent months. The othe...…
…4Cssintilation, Assumed Cultural Decline of U.S. Jewry Argued at WZC JEW' SH NEWS I:=IM 0 I T A Weekly Review INA I I-1143A NI f Jewish Events sLomovrrz BY PHILIP JERUSALEM—For the Jewish people, ideologically, the Holy City has become the center of evaluative, judging of positions relating to basics in survival. With 26 countries represented at the 28th World Zionist Congress, Israel assumed with certainty the leading role in creating...…
…tfaff - of Last Year's AJCampaign Total Subscribed The struggle for peace in the Middle East is important, but the struggle for sur- as a homeland can "eliminate the phenome- that you continue to share with us as part- non of the wandering Jew which has existed ners as you have done in the past." vival of the state of Israel and its people is for centuries." Chairman Frankel predicted that this even more important, Israel Ambassador "The Jewi...…
…Hebrew-Tongued Israel Stronghold for Yiddish • Zionist Congress Tumult Anticipated in Jerusalem By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Dr. Marcus' Story of Jew Who Refused Seat on the Supreme Court Page 48 TEL AVIV—While Arab guerrillas are fighting a war via the mails from Yugoslavia and Austria, in a campaign of terrorism to kill Jews they don't like; or to strive for an exterminate-Israel program by placing bombs in garbage cans, Jews in Israel are concer...…
…12,000 Newcomers to Israel in 1971... 12,000 From USSR JERUSALEIC(JTA)—The Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 42,000 persons arrived in Israel during 1971 as immigrants or potential settlers compared to 36,800 in 1970. The category of potential immigrants was defined as persons from Western countries who arrived on tourist or temporary resident visas and have not yet changed their status. The number of persons in that category in 197...…
…Increased Allocations Affect Urgency of Current Allied Jewish Campaign Many divisions active in fulfilling philanthropic obligations of Detroit Jewry . . . Major function planned in honor of Ambassador and Mrs. Itzhak Rabin, Feb. 9. Detailed reports en Page 48 The Russian Enigmas: Propaganda and the Factual Zionist Appeals Commentary Page 2 THE JEWISH NEWS Michigan Weekly Review of Jewish News Clarification About Blunder in Jerusalem ...…
…Rabin, St. John Due at Functions Inaugurating Allied Drive Prominent personalities will appear in Detroit at a series of pre-campaign functions to inaugurate the 1971 Allied Jewish Cam. paign•Israel Emergency Fund. Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Uzbek Rabin and Mrs. Rabin will be guests at the traditional black tie dinner at Cong. Shaarey Zedek on Feb. 9. Robert St. John, noted author and lecturer, will address a women's function next Wednesda...…
…Truth About Israel's Jerusalem Administration: Undoctored Text of Letter by Mayor Kollek Also: Four Moslem Qadis Affirm Israel's Just Treatment of Religious Elements in Their Quest for Equality From Their Arab Coreligionists THE JEWISH NEws Detailed Documents 'Let Our People Go' Demand Remains Major Call for Justice From USSR Michigan Weekly Editorial Page 4 1 on Page 48 A Courageous Plea From USSR War Hero Who Gave Up Medals for Righ...…
…- • 1. ■ -.." _ Extension of Cease Fire U.S. Aim Yosef Tekoah Tribute to a Great Jurist • Russian Jews Expose the Kremlin Vilifications Yosef Tekoah, as chief Israel representative to the United Nations, bad initial talks with the peace negotiator, Dr. Gunnar Jarring, Monday morning, and the major task as outlined from UN headquarters as well as In the State Department in Washington is to assure the extension of the cease fire betwron ...…
…JEWISH NEWS 1 11 Shortcomings in Evaluating Philanthropy Crucial Issues We Face in Coming Year Editorials Page 4 Michigan Weekly :1 Review of Jewish News Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. LVI I I, No. 16 °IggiY. 27 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075, 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c Russian Terror Emulates Czarism Facts About Israel and U.S. Positio...…
…Detroit Jewry is confronted with the obligatory role of the WE as a functioning member of world Jewry, in the campaign that is now being launched for the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund. Fused in this drive is the obligation we share with Jews everywhere to take into account Israel's struggle for her very existence and our duty to provide for the social, educational and immigration-integration needs that are as burdensome as the m...…
…Purely Commentary Land of Achievement Where Peace Is More Than Salute and Slogan By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ (Continued on Page '2) THE JEWISH NEWS Atrocity Propaganda: Imagery of Spreaders of Lies in the Middle East Michigan Weekly Commentary Page JERUSALEM, Israel—A nation whose ears are unendingly attuned to news broadcasts out of the necessity of being prepared for any eventuality on its borders and within its inL:rnal settlements might w...…
…Sabbath of Concern to Focus on U.S. Policy in Mid East. The Rabbinical Commission of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit has designated Jan. 23-24 as a "Sabbath of Concern" as an expression of concern over recent U. S. proposals on the Middle East. Rabbi Max Kapustin, co-chairman of the Rabbinical Commission, joined by Lawrence Gubow, paNgident of the Community Council, in was an- nouncing plans for the observance in a lette...…
…Editorial Act to Prevent Genocide! Inform Your Legislators Israel Is Menaced Conflicting Views on the 'Jewish Seat' Supreme Court Controversy Israel's position is menaced! There is danger of another genocide if Israel's enemies should succeed in their efforts to destroy friendships for the embattled Jewish state and to prevent fulfillment of cooperation in agree- ments to defend the people aiming to live in peace. It is vital, therefore, th...…
…ANIPSITZfO THE JEWISH NEWS Priority for Education and the Major Problems Facing Our Community Editorials Page 4 Michigan Weekly Review of Jewish. News Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. LVI, No. 16 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 — 356-8400 —January 2, 1970 Our New Offices are in Honeywell Center 9 Mile and Lodge Service Drive Phone: 356-8400 $7.00 Per Y...…
