…t ' The Shocking Irresponsibility of Condoning Libel About Tortures in Israel THE JEWISH NEWS Commentary, Page 2 of Jewish Events A Weekly Review Brotherhood in an Era of Evil Learning from the Past in Massive Crises - in Iran Editorials, Page 4 VOL. LXXIV, No. 25 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c Feb. 23, 1979 03 Americans Give Up Seats . to Save Last Israelis in Iran ...…
…Important Lesson From the Media: When Insistence on Facts Establishes Truth THE JEWISH NEWS Commentary, Page 2 A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Second Camp David in Offing Lessons of Nazism and the Inerasable Past Editorials, Page 4 - VOL. LXXIV, No. 24 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30 Feb. 16, 1979 Savon's Plea to Iran's Jews: 'At Least Send the Children' Dayan PLO State...…
…New Mideast Peace Talks Expected Soon But U.S. Favors Egypt • WASHINGTON (JTA) — The State Department confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. has invited Israel and Egypt to a new round of high-level talks in an effort to resume the peace treaty negotiations that have been deadlocked since November. The State De- partment's chief spokesman, Hodding Carter, said the invitation was for a meeting "in the near future." Presumably it was extended by Pres...…
…Romania Chief Rabbi Demands Extradition of Michigan's Valerian Trifa for '41 Pogrom BUCHAREST (JTA) — Romanian Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen called for the extradition to Romania of the two men allegedly responsible for the January 1941 massacre of Bucharest's Jewish community. The two are Bishop Valerian Trifa who now lives in Grass Lake, Mich., and Father Vasile Boldeanu who is in Paris. The call was launched last week during a memorial service ...…
…• Begin's Defiance of Sadat's Unreasonable Distortions; Dayan's 'Fear Not' Admonition Commentary, Page 2 VOL. LXXII, No 25 THE JEWISH NEWS A ‘Veekly Review of Jewish Events 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30` Solving Refugee Problems: Realities Versus Myths Editorial, Page 4 February 24, 1978 Dulzin Wins Zionist Election, Lashes HIAS Drop-Out Help JERUSALEM (JTA) — The 29t...…
…WJC Leader Denies Backing U.S. Pressure Against Israel Sadat's Demands and the Israeli Role of Sovereignty and Absolute Right to Exist Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations that U.S. Jewish leaders must refrain from any attempts to act as go, between or mediator between Israel and Egypt. He said Is- rael's future and security can only be handled by Israel. Dayan also told...…
…) .4 Jewish Population Figures Updated . The Dignity of Israel: Envoy Dinitz's Reply to Distortions Regarding State's Pledges NEW YORK — The world Jewish population is estimated at 14,259,525, according to the American Jewish Year Book, whose 1978 edition is being published this month. This figure represents an increase of about 115,000 from the previous year. The U.S., with approximately 5,775,935 Jews, has the largest Jewish population ...…
…Anwar Sadat's 'Open Letter' to American Jews Politely Rejected NEW YORK (JTA)—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in an open letter published acceptance of Egypt's full demands." Sunday has urged the American Jewish community to "contribute" to the peace process in Sadat's letter, copyrighted by the Miami Herald which had asked him to speak directly the Middle East and by implication support his demands for an Israeli-Egyptian peace to the Jewish ...…
…'Breira' and Quakers: PLO Backers Challenged • 60th Anniversary of Jewish Legion THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 • VOL. LXX, No. 25 of Jewish Events , ' 9 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 ,'1 - 'Reassessment' as a Moral Issue in Diplomacy • Prejudices as Challenge to Mankind Editorials Page 4 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30 4 February 25, 1977 Detroiters Establish Philanthropic High ...…
…The Nazi Crime in Modern Garb: Expose of Distortions by Hitler's Defenders THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Editorial Page 4 of Jewish Events VOL. LXX, No. 24.-S.7.19.- 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 - $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30 4 Help for Soviet Jewish Emigres: Outline of U.S. Role Edelman's Analysis on Page 56 February 18, 1977 M.E. Peace-nik at Quaker Meeting Insists Terrorists 'Accept' Israel ...…
…Speculated Observations on Israel Elections • Indelible Mark Left on Israel by Saul Bellow THE JEWISH NEWS VOL. LXX, No. 23 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 'Roots' , and the Facts of Life Editorials Page 4 f Jewish Events A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 Federal Aid for Haverim Homes • $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30 0 February 11, 1977 Vocal U.S. Human Rights Stance Re-Affirmed by President Carter ...…
…Goldmann the Maverick and the Jewish Journalists • Reporter's Israel Observations Commentary Page 2 Or 'VOL. 1.XX, tsio. 22 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review f Jewish Events '3611) 9.. 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 Ir Jerusalem Reunification to Be Celebrated May 16 Carter and Palestinians • Poverty Amidst Affluerke • Human Reactions to Boycotts Editorials Page 4 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30 0 Fe...…
…Phono-Gift Drive Spurs Campaign The President's Religious Fervor and Principle of Separation • The USSR Whip Over the Panicked and PLO Barbarians paign-Israel Emergency Fund include a Pacesetters Eve- ning for the Food Division and Pharmaceutical Section leadership Wednesday evening, and the Metropolitan Divi- sion "Kick-off" at the new Jewish Community Center March 7. Both the Pacesetters Evening and Phonogift rally will be addressed by Pau...…
…NCJW, AJCongress, UAHC Restore Mexico Travel Programs NEW YORK — Three major Jewish organizations have announced that they will immediately resume their travel programs to Mexico as a result of Mexico's newly clari- fied position on Zionism. The three organizations are the National Council of Jewish Women, the American Jewish Congress and the Union of American Hebrew Congrega- tions, the parent body of Reform Judaism. The organizations based ...…
…Aliya LaRegel Lifts Israel Noted Historian Honored The eminent American Jewish archivist, Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, is being honored by the U.S. Jewish community for a life-time of historical and archival research on the occasion of his 80th birthday. His many contributions to Jewish historical scholarship includes a lengthy list of volumes on a multitude of Jewish topics. The eminent archivist's role in American Jewry, along with another in a se...…
…Bicentennial Features—Michigan and National The Bicentennial celebrations of America's fight for independence have been the catalyst for a wealth of material recall- ing the role of Jews in the American rebellion against tyranny which helped revolutionize the entire world. The role of the Old Testament in influencing the thinking of colonial America and the hope-filled immigrants to the New World is explained in a feature article on Page 7 of...…
…Detroit, Pontiac Conservative Congregations Ratify Merger Cong. Beth Moses, on Evergreen in northwest Detroit, and Cong. Bnai Israel of Pontiac have ratified a merger agreement, and plan to build a new synagogue on Walnut Lake Road in West Bloomfield Township. The newly formed synagogue will be called Adat Israel-Moses. A photograph of the new synagogue's board of directors is on Page 16. Arab Boycott Equates With Anti-Semitism Now the Arab...…
…Efforts for Syria Jews Planned This Weekend Tay-Sachs Screening Due Sunday at Beth Achim Jewish people who have not already been screened are being urged to participate in the Tay-Sachs screening 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday and March 2 at Cong. Beth Achim in Southfield. The simple blood test needed to find carriers of the fatal disease is being organized by Sinai and Ford Hospitals and area volunteers. See photograph, Page 46. 48. Spur 1...…
…EDITORIAL ' Arab Boycott of Jewish Financial Enterprises Justifies Suspicions of Menacing Arab Bank Control The 'Armchair Philosopler' Ruminates About Banking Controls by Oil Magnates It doesn't matter whether the boycotter, as in the instance re- ported from London, is Kuwaitian or Saudi Arabian.He could be Iranian, Omanian, Syrian, Abu Dhabian, Egyptian. They are all engaged in a boycott of Israel and of the Jewish people, and they po...…
…Bank of Commonwealth Control by Saudi Citizen Creates National Issue; Plan Washington Protest Fisher Declares Fight Over Menace to American Banks :HE 'JEWISH NEWS Concerned citizens are raising the Commonwealth Bank in Washington to prevent transfer of the bank's con- ing interest to a non-citizen from Saudi Arabia. A Weekly Review of Jewish Events. Max M. Fisher declared on Tuesday that he views the developing banking situation as menacing...…
…I Genocide Convention Not Farcical in Spite of Sam Ervin's Tale-Bearing THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 Vol. LXIV, No. 24 [74 of Jewish Events Editorial Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper NOWI'' 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 Dutiful Community Faces Tasks Involving Philanthropy, Investments, Tourism $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c February 22, 1974 Israel Minority Govern...…
…Diplomacy and Prophecy: Jewry vis-a-vis Israel THE JEWISH NEWS Bicentennial Planning A Weekly Review l Editorials Page 4 J of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper Vol. LXIV, No. 23 4111P0 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c Nazi Heritage Keeps Hitlerism Alive in Many Hearts Commentary Page 2 February 15, 1974 mer ency Fund Reaches $21,126,584 • 7 •:,...…
…pip r It's a Match. ZOA, Zionist Federation Together Again (JTA)—The long and frequently acrimonious dispute between the American Zionist Federation and the Zionist Organization of America has at last been amicably settled. Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the AZF, and Jacques Torczyner, chairman of the administrative board of the ZOA, toasted the new accord here Sunday over Israeli brandy as Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the World Z...…
…Emergency Drive Geared for Speedy Action at Rally Feb. 10 Paul Zuckerman, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, will speak at a special report meeting for workers on the 1974 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emer- gency Fund 10 a.m. Feb. 10 at Cong. Shaarey Zedek. Emergency Uninterrupted: Jewry's Duty * Ballots Above Bullets Zuckerman, who is in Israel for meet- ings of the Jewish Agency and discussions with government officials, is ...…
…'Goren Appeals to USSR to Provide Prisoners With Passover Matzot Jewry's Responsibility to Combat 'Erosions' JERUSALEM ,JTA)—Acting in response to a plea from Jewish political prisoners in the Soviet Union, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren has cabled Soviet authorities urging them to supply Jewish prisoners with matzot for the Passover holiday and to permit them to practice their religion freely in accordance with their conscience. The Ashkenazic ...…
…• Divisional Activities Commence for Allied Jewish Campaign Conclusion of the pre-campaign phase of the Allied Jewish Compaign-Israel Emergency Fund, at a session last week at the home of the Samuel Frankels, marked introduction of the divisional functions, with all sections of the drive getting into action to reach the goals necessary to assure sup- Racism Has No Place in American Society: A Plea for Fair Play Editorial Page 4 port for ...…
…Fr- Detroit's School Crisis Judged By Our Traditions A Truism From the Talmud: Jerusalem was destroyed because its children were in the streets (see Jeremiah 6:11), not in the schools. —liamnuna, Babylonian Amura, in Tal- mud, Sabbath. How Spokesmen for School System Treat the Issue That Kept the Schools Closed: The Hebrew Teachers Association kept asking for arbitration, but the school's superintenden, Hs execu- tive secretary and the ...…
…A.mlIMMINIMI V Israel Studies Jordan Move to Unify Its Front Our Democracy in Danger Over JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli sources took the view Tuesday that Jordan's agreement to join Egypt and Syria in a reactiva- tion of the eastern front and to place its forces under the over-all command of an Egyptian general, was less important for its immediate military consequences than for the motivation behind Jordan's action at this time. Some observer...…
…0*--a icor aspora - Israel Cooperative Link (*kir - Record of Allied _ 1C Annual Detroit conference Sunday at Jewish Center to review movement for - - settlenteitt of Western Jews in Israel Jewish. Campaign Leadership , uhf i eH igh School to Have Course in Hebrew Pages 26 anal * 27 Story on Page 5 Board of Education votes unanimously to introduce Hebrew language studies to start in September Story on Page 3 Tribute to Dr. Ralph B...…
…211 Per Cent Increases Mark Generosity Commu-nity Motto: 'We'll Abandon Neither Israel Nor Our Local Needs' Supplementing the national slogan of "Keep the Prom- ise" for efforts towards advancing the needs of the United Jewish Appeal with an additional motto: "We won't, abandon Israel and won't ignore our local obligations, volunteer work- ers for the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund set a new record at the annual pre-campaign di...…
…igtOrnyt4n Israel: 802::Jews Granted Right_ to 2 Wives . THE JEWISH NEWS IN Multiplicity of Drives Endangers Unified Philanthropic Efforts Editorial Page 4 VOL LX, No. 22 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's Orthodox rabbinate permits bigamous marriages in certain circumstances. Dr. Zerach War- haftig, minister for religious affairs, told the Knesset since the establishment of the state in 1948 the rabbinate has granted 802 Jews the rightto take...…
…Betimit-Uabibinieal Commission Adopts Pro-Busing Stand Recognizing that busing school children is neither inexpensive nor easy, the Rab- binical Commission of Detroit nevertheless has issued a statement in favor of busing because "it is preferable to neglecting prob- lem that will- otherwise get worse." -The statement was developed by a - Rab- binical Commission subcommittee com- posed of Rabbis Milton Rosenbaum, Hayim Doubt and Ernst Conrad...…
…Establishments on Trial: Indifference to Realities, Youths' Community Roles (Editorial, Page 4) Ruth Dayan, Other Notables Coming Here as Allied , Drive Speakers Detailed Stories on Page 8 Research on 'Geniza Mishna,' Definitive Yiddish Volume (Book Reviews, Pages 4, 14) Strange Bedfellows Merge From USSR, Saudi-Arabian Ranks in Blackmail Tasks (Commentary, Page 2) JEWISH NEWS Michigan Weekly Review of Jewish News Michigan's Only En...…
…qgigpmmittee Presses for Ratification of Genocide Convention AiWRK-Arthur J. Goldberg, former Supreme Court justice and former U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, has been named chairman Of the'AdlIOF,,Canunittee on the Human Rights and Genocide Treaties, it was announced by Hershel Halbert, retiring chairman, and Betty Kaye Taylor, of the committee. The Ad Hoc Committee, formed in 1964, combines 52 national religious groups of various de...…
…Women Intercede in Defense of Oppressed Jews in Arab Lands TEL AVIV (JTA) — Mrs. ShoshanaJlareli, international president of the 200,000-member International Council of Jewish Women, has asked United Nations Secretary General U Thant "to exercise your influence and authority . . . on behalf of the suffering Jewis in Arab countries, particularly Syria." The cable was sent to Thant as part of a campaign by the ICJW's 25 national branches to pub...…
…Jarring Report Delay Traced to French, Egyptian Pressure JERUSALEM (JTA) — Informed sources here Indicated a belief that United Nations Secretary General U Thant is under pressure from Egypt and France to delay publication of a report to the Security Council which is believed to state that some pro- gress' has been achieved so far in the Jarring talks. The circles said Egypt wants to suppress the report because any sign that the Jarring talks...…
…EDITORIAL: Mankind's Conscience: Surrender to Terror? Mankind's conscience is on trial! For nearly three years, planes have been hijacked, attacked, blown up, innocent men, women and children murdered in a spreading campaign of terror imposed on an international community—and the world was silent! Innocent people were attacked in a Munich airport, and there was silence! Seven aged survivors from Nazism perished in a fire in a German home ...…
…Jewry's Rights to Israel: History's Verdict Affirmed THE JEWISH NEWS Conscience of Mankind at Munich • Henrietta Szold and Youth Aliya Waiting for Just Spark From USSR Michigan Weekly Editorials Page 4 Vat. LVI, No. 23 A noted columnist turns back pages of history questioning Jewry's rights to statehood ... Allusion to New Left's antagon- ism to Zionism ... Christian attitudes and Jewish historic rights —Commentary Page 2 analyzed. Re...…
…Retarded Look With Hope to Jewish Community Brotherhood ... A Repeat Performance Who Really Is a Jew? Atrophied Education Editorials Page 4 Vol. LVI, No. 22 The retarded have long been a silent minority in the midst of the Jewish commun- ity. Little by little, advances have come—largely through a successful program at the Jewish Center—but much remains to be done. How the parents of the retarded are cop- ing with their problems and the n...…
…Sephardic Chief Rabbi Supports Plan to Ease Conversions in Israel JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Itzhak Nissim on Monday called for the creation of a special "bet din"—rabbinical tribunal — to devote itself exclusively to the handling of conversion cases. Rabbi Nissim's statement was the first public response from the rabbinate to the cabinet decision to investigate ways to speed up the conversion process. It presently takes a...…
