…In toil shall you eat . . . all the days of your life. —Genesis 3:17 When you eat the labor of your hands, happy shall you be. —Psalms 128:2 As others toil for me, I must toil for others. —Ecclesiastes 2:20 Blackmail Exposed as Weapon Against Israel by Third World, Arab • and Oil Interests Working Together for a Better America The true right to a country — as to anything else — springs not from polit- ical or court authority, but from wor...…
…Urgent Appeal Issued for Immediate Payment of Campaign Pledges Black-Jewish Confrontation Inexcusable .. . Resort to Scapegoat Deplorable Commentary, Page 2 Jewish Welfare Federation President George M. Zeltzer and Louis Berry, chairman of Federation's Cash Mobilizatoin Committee, have issued an urgent appeal to Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund contributors asking for payment of 1979 pledges. The United Jewish Appeal should be t...…
…Changes in the Jewish Welfare Federation Educational Policies Are Anticipated by Board Approval of Study Commission Report The Board of Governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation has concur- red with a series of recommendations developed by its Jewish Education Study Committee. Central to these is the committee's belief that new patterns in Jewish population, institutional and household distribution and affiliation call for appropriate change...…
…U.S. Holocaust Commission Places a 'Jewish' Wreath at Babi Yar WASHINGTON (JTA) — A wreath, stating for the first time that Jews had died at Babi Yar, was placed at the Babi Yar Monument in Kiev last Friday by members of President Carter's Commission for the Holocaust. The wreath contained English, Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew inscriptions saying it was from a Presidential commission formed to establish a memorial "to• the catas- trophe that o...…
…U.S. Congressmen Ask Argentina to Release Jacobo Timerman NEW YORK — Eighteen Congressmen, representing a wide political spectrum, have spoken out in the House of Representatives for freedom for imprisoned Argentine publisher Jacobo Timerman. The bipartisan effort is aimed at "demonstrating the.sin- cere and strong support of the U.S. Congress for Jacobo Timerman, . . . (who is a) champion of the cause of human rights in and outside of . . . ...…
…t The Agonies of Hitler, Lessons of Holocaust Dr. Gutmann's Reviews on Page 56 Saluting_ Leonard Simons' 75th Birthday Gemilut Hassodim Revitalized The Boat People and the Sins of World War II Jerusalem Employee Served Three Flags - Sholom Aliechem Holiday Stories Book Review, Page 4 Feature on Page 56 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Commentary, Page 2 OLLXXV, No. 21 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mic...…
…`Crisis in Confidence' as Challenge, to the Nation • Romanian Jewry , and the Decline - of Communities Commentary, Page 2 Critics and Defenders in Middle East Crises, and Resistance to Pressure THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Editorials, Page 4 VOL. LXXV No. 20 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c July 20, 1979 _ U.S. Energy Plan Applauded; Oil Crisis -Escalati...…
…An End to Statute of Limitatio-ns, 'Making Punishment of Nazis a Human Duty - Editorials, Page 4 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Gisi Fleischmann, Martyred Heroine Who Rescued Many Victims of Nazism Conclusion of Joan Campion's Tribute, Page 64 VOL. LXXV, No. 19 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c _ July 13, 1979. cuttling Israel for Energy' Ian Shunned at Cam...…
…Joan Campion as Champion of Righteousness * * * Children Lead in Obviating Prejudices THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 The President's Challenging Sermon to All Americans * * * Jerusalem the Capital of Jewish Events Editorials, Page 4 I VOL. LXXV, No. 18 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c July 6, 1979 U.S. Leaders at Hebrew University 'Aissinger as Envoy ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS A Single Word Can Be Harmful: Value of Providing Look at the Record A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 of Jewish Events VOL. LXXV, No. 17 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c The Settlements and Israel's Leaning on Democratic Procedures The Enigma of USSR and MFN Editorials, Page 4 June 29, 1979 egotiators in Upbeat Mood in Low-Key Autonomy Talks Robert Strau...…
…Truisms: Spirituality and Persecution as Factors in Survival of the Jews THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 of Jewish Events Historic Anniversary: Jewish Agency at Fifty Israeli Arabs' Animosity Editorials, Page 4 VOL. LXXV, No. 16 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c June 22, 1979 High Court Halts Alon Moreh Construction for Thirty Days A Jewish Bullfighter...…
…Jewish Historical Society Marks Its 20th Anniversary United Hebrew Schools Names Rabbi Teller Superintendent Story on Page 14 The USSR Jewish Emigration Trends and the Defections From Israel I * Basic Facts About the Settlements Commentary, Page 2 Story on Page 23 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events VOL. LXXV, No. 15 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c Signif...…
…Canada Reaffirms Moving Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem By MICHAEL SOLOMON OTTAWA (JTA) — Premier Joe Clark said Tuesday at his first press conference that he is fully determined to follow through with his election campaign promise to move Canada's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem despite the opposition from the U.S. and Arab countries. "I cannot give you a time frame at the moment. We certainly intend to do that. From now on this is th...…
…The Ten Words, the Message of Feast of Weeks The Faith of Anne Frank THE JEWISH NEWS Editorials, Page 4 A Weekly Review of Jewish Events VOL. LXXV, No.13 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12:00 Per Year: This Issue 30c SHAVUOT Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere June 1, 1979 Avacuation of Sinai, Settlers' Distress Affects M.E. Parleys eiDC Aiding Blind Students in Israel TEL AVIV — It all starte...…
…Chief Communal Obligations: Educational Priorities and Duties to Assist the Retarded Commentary, Page 2 ay morial M THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events VOL. LXXV, No.12 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c Red Cross and Magen David Adorn: Delay in Welcome, Not a Rejection Isolated Sadat and the Evils of War Threats Editorials, Page 4 May 25, 1979 Israeli - Egyp...…
…Ironies of History Repeating Themselves The Tragedies in Iran THE JEWISH NEWS Novosti's Distortions About Human Right in U.S., Israel * Limitations Statute Under Scrutiny A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 Tracking Down Nazi Criminals Books as Symbols of Good Will of Jewish Events Editorials, Page 4 VOL. LXXV, No. 11 17 515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c . May 18, 1979 Kho...…
…Iranians Execute Jewish Leader for Zionist Ties Camp Ruth Given to Center as New Day Camp Facility Archbishop Trifa Given Platform on Radio Network See story, Page 5 See story, Page 21 See story, Page 24 The Death Penalty in the Jewish Tradition U.S. Red Cross Policy of Fairness Toward Magen David Adorn of Israel Commentary, Page 2 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events VOL. LXXV, No. 10 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Sou...…
…Central Room, Modernized Kitchen Approved for 10 Mile Center _ .2 The Jewish Welfare Federation Board of Governors has approved the expenditure of about $90,000 for renova- tion and expansion of facilities at the 10 Mile Branch of the Jewish Community Center. Expansion plans include enclosing the atrium in the middle of the building to provide a large room capable of seating 300 persons. At present, the 10 Mile Center's largest room can seat...…
…The People Israel Lives Happy 31st Birthday, Israel. Israel's Historic Legacies: The Prophecies and the Hope for Peace . THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 of Jewish Events VOL. LXXV, No. 8 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c Battle for Israel's `Heart' Remembered on State's 31st Anniversary Special Feature Page 56 April 27, 1979 Begin,Yadin Support Capita...…
…Two Memorials Sunday in Tribute to the Victims of the Holocaust The Detroit area will have two major programs on Sunday in conjunction with international events next week marking Tuesday as Yom Hashoa - Holocaust Remembr- ance Day in Israel and ceremonies and memorial services throughout the U.S. being sparked by the President's Commission on the Holocaust. At noon Sunday, Shaarit Haplaytah (Survivors of the Holocaust) will sponsor their annu...…
…Closing_April 26 AJC-IEF to End With Rally, Final Telethon The Basic Facts Explaining The Price of Peace' Between Egypt and Israel - Workers in all divisions of the 1979 Allied Jewish Campaign - Israel Emergency Fund are busy contacting prospective con- tributors in anticipation of the Campaign closing April 26. Division chairmen will report on their workers' progess at a report meeting Sunday at the Jewish Community Center. The meeting, t...…
…The Passover Message: Freedom and Its Obstructions Commentary, Page 2 Editorials, Page 4 VOL. LXXV I No. 5 of Jewish Events A Weekly Review 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c . "Every person in every generation must regard himself as having been personally freed from Egypt . . . It was not only ovr firthers thut the Holy One, blessed be He, re- deemed, but ourselves also did He...…
…A Preamble to Peace: To Bring to an End the State of War Communists and Arabs in Israel's Knesset Prove Nation's Democratic Role HE JEWISH NEWS (-3ommentary, Page 2 A Weekly Review Peace and Its Complications, the Dreams of the Free World f Jewish Events Editorials, Page 4 ■■ • VOL. LXXV, No. 4 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c March 30, 1979 U.S. Egyptian - Israeli Eff...…
…Allied Jewish Campaign Generosity Marks Community's Message of Cheer to Israelis $13,400,000 in Contributions, $4,500,000 for 'Project Renewal' Inaugurate Current Solicitations Transformed into a demonstration of gratitude for the developing peace agreements between Israel and Egypt, the opening dinner of the 1979 Allied Jewish Campaign served, by expressions of generosity, as a message to the people of Israel that this community retains its...…
…- In Anticipation of Pact to Be Signed - Next Week in Jerusalem, Cairo and Washington The Historic Development: Jimmy Carter the Hero in Israel-Egypt Peace Accord Commentary, Page 2 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events In an Era of Peace in the Middle East: The Urgency of Arab Amity Editorial, Page 4 1979 VOL. LXXV, No. 2 .17515 W. Nine Mile, - 'Suite 865, SouVield,_ Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This IsSue 30c Marc...…
…Purim Enigma in the Image of `Modernized' Persia Diplomacy Tested in Current CrisiS THE JEWISH NEWS VOL. LXXV, NO. 1 of Jewish Events A Weekly Review Editorials, Page 4 PURIM Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere • 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30. March 9, 1979 Carter in Knesset on Monday; President Trekking for Peace PURIM 5739 TEL AVIV (JTA) = President Carter h...…
…The Iranian Jews .. . Their Apologetics The Carters In Our Lives THE JEWISH NEWS Commentary, Page 2 A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Are World Crises Beckoning to Middle Ages? Israel Won't Be Kicked Around Editorials, Page 4 VOL. LXXIV, No. 26 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c March 2, 1979 arter's Invitation Vindicates israers Peace Talk Rejection French Jew's Shop Rippe...…
…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 ...…
…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...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS The New Year and Its Emerging Challenges and Tensions A Weekly Review Editorial, Page 4 f Jewish Events Hanuka Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere VOL. LXXIV, No. 17 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30' Dec. 29, 1978 Brussels Meetings May Lead. to New Round of -Peace Talks Former Hitler Youth Prints Hate Sheets A former member of the Hitler NEW YORK (JTA...…
…Hanuka On Its Own Merits • Interrmarriage and its Rising Problems Editorials, Page 4 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Hanuka Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere of Jewish Events VOL. LXXIV, No. 16 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c Dec. 22, 1978 Hanuka 5739 We kindle these lights on account of the miracles, the deliverance and the wonders which Thou didst work for our f...…
…Israel, World Pay Respects to An Institution: Golda Meir JERUSALEM (JTA) — Golda Meir's last wish was that no eulogies be said at her funeral. Indeed, no eulogies were said on a cold and rainy Tuesday in Jerusalem, but the sight of the tens of thousands who came to pay their last respects to Golda said more than a thousand words. Seeking shelter from the rain under their umbrellas, friends came from all over the world to share the grief of th...…
…--„ Human Rights Day and the Battle for Justice Dilemma of Iranian Jewry THE JEWISH NE Editorials, Page 4 A Weekly Review of Jewish Events History of UJA Carved in Multiple Achievements Rooted in Many Reminiscences Boris Smolar's Column, Page 49 VOL. LXXIV, No. 14 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year This Issue 30c,. Dec. 8, 1978 mice Shuttle Hopes to Avert Latest Crisis in Peace Talks UAHC...…
…United Jewish Appeal Marks Its 40th Year See Purely Commentary on Page 2 and Editorial on Page 4 Israel Bonds as Unifying Medium Marking Anticipated Peace Agreement THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Editorial, Page 4 Max Shaye Comments on Life and Work of Marc Chagall of Jewish Events Stalin's Role in Middle East and His Anti-Semitism Book Reviews on Pages 2 and 56 Ask_ Vul...1..XXIV, No. 13 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, M...…
…•f k Historic Ruling Against 'Linkage': How Ralph Bunche at Rhodes Enforced Separate Egypt-Israel Agreement By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ - (Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.) "Linkage," emerging as a new obstacle to peace, has been bandied around without recourse to precedent. This becomes apparent in a re- capitulation of events that recall the first of the Israel-Arab negotiations for what was then to result in an armistice, on the Island of Rhodes, on Fe...…
…i==.11.1 ■7 Bomb Threat Interrupts Washington Performance of Israeli Choir WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bomb threat last Saturday night interrupted the first Washington concert in 16 years by the national choir of Israel, Rinat, at the John F. Ken- nedy Center for the Performing Arts. But after an interval of some 35 minutes that included More Federation Apartments and Concern for Elderly Post-Election Obligations the regular intermission period,...…
…1 Ground-Breaking Set for Second Phase ofFedercttion Apartments Grouad will be broken at a 10:30 a.m. ceremony Nov. 19 for a 100-unit - addition to the Jewish Federation Apartments, 15100 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park. Federation Apartments is a member agency of the Jewish Welfare Federation and is supported by the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund. The facility will be called the Anna and Meyer L. Prentis Towers, in recognition of the lat...…
…I i ORT Marks Anniversary By Expansion Carl Levin as a Liberal and a Recollection of an Episode About Jewish 'Illiberal' assembled at the Hyatt Regency as a national board meeting, turned into a convention with decision-making for the years ahead. While Women's American ORT already numbers many thousands, the sessions here launched an extensive member- ship drive as an aid to ORT in the many lands in which it functions. Emphasis was given ...…
…Brodhead Scores UN Unit Butzel Award for Berman Rep. William Brodhead (D-17th District), in a speech to the U.S. House of Representatives last week, spoke out strongly against the UnitedNations Special Unit on Pales- tinian Rights. In his speech, Brodhead stated: "In December 1977, the United Nations General Assem- bly approved a resolution establishing within the UN Secretariat a Special Unit on Palestinian Rights. Over the past year, this ...…
…Project Renewal' Launched at Regional UJA Conference The three-day United Jewish Appeal East Central Region conference, held here last weekend at the Sheraton Southfield Hotel, assumed national significance. Inaugurating "Project Renewal" as a major addendum to obligations to be fulfilled in behalf of 40,000 impoverished families in Israel whose needs demand urgent immediate action, the 300 delegates from scores of communities set into motion...…
…The Nobel Prize in Literature for the Shtetl Mysticist Today a Laureate, Tomorrow a Yiddish Writer Again' By BEN GALLOB ISAAC B. SINGER NEW YORK (JTA) — Isaac Bashevis Singer was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature last Thursday, the first Yiddish writer to win this award. The announcement was made in Stockholm. Singer accepted the $165,000 award modeStly. He rejected questions as to which of his many novels and short stories were ...…
…Daughter's Biography of Zionist Pioneer Max Nordau to Appear in Jewish News -- '' • ...................................... The biography of the chief advocate pf the Zionist movement, Dr. Max Nordau, who was the chief supporter of Dr. Theodor Herzl in the founding of the World Zionist Organization and in the convening of the First World Zionist Congress in Basle in 1897, will commence in a series of articles that will be published beginning ...…
…A New Year With, an Augury for Peace Knesset Approves Peace Accords Camp David Framework for Peace See Page 10 See Page 34 EWISH N E Taking Stock of Obligations for World Jewry During the Coming Year Commentary, Page 2 Editorials, Page 4 A Weekly Review . New Year Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere of Jeluish Events " OL. LXXIV, No. 4 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075' 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Iss...…
…The Glory of a Tripartite Success at the Camp David Summit Commentary, Page 2 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review f Jewish Events Prophecy as Guideline: `They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares' Editorial, Page 4 VOL. LXXIV, No. 3 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c Sept.22, 1978 Knesset Approval Is Assured; Vance Visiting Arab Capitals WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secretary of State...…
