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Volume 2 Number 16 \ St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, Jujy 31,1981 FrtOStiochtl \ "Price 10 Cents Mideast Tensions Mount as Violence Escalates; Begin Forms Coalition U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger led off U.S. criticism oflsrael Prime Minister Menachem Begin last week following two weeks of daily Israeli raids against PLO stronghold while PLO guerrillas continued to fire hundreds of Soviet-made rockets into Israeli lowns along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Weinberger said Begin "is not on a moderate course it is an explosive situation." Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.Ephraim Evron, following a meeting with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., during which he learned that the U.S. has suspended for the time being delivery of 10 F-16 fighter - bomber jets scheduled for this month, said of Wein- berger's comment: "1 think he's wrong in this case." The following day, July 23, the Israel Cabinet disputed other comments by Weinberger. Deputy Secretary of State William Clark, a close friend of Presiden Reagan, told reporters Begin is making it difficult for the U.S. to continue its tra- ditional support for Israel. lie was quoted as saying: "Israel is simply not our onl) Iriend in the area. You just don't ship gasoline to a lire. We have something of a crisis on our hands." Reports from Lebanon indicated that sophisticated military weapons and missiles were being rushed to PLO liases in the country from Russia by Libya and Reagan Atom Policy Syria. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat blamed Syria in part for the escalating violence in the Mideast. Israel staged ground, air and sea attacks for 14 straight days as it assaulted Palestinian Liberation Organization forces and facilities in Southern Lebanon On Tuesday, July 21, the Israeli Cabinet, in a statement prepared following a meeting between Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Ronald Reagan's special Mideast envoy Philip Habib, urged the latter to seek "peaceful relations between Israel and Lebanon.'' On the 15 th day of bombings and shellings, Friday, , July 24, Habib arranged a cease-fire truce. Meanwhile Begin is forming a new Cabinet, having been directed to do so by President Yitzhak Navon on the basis of the June 30 election which gave Begins Likud block 48 seats in the 120-member Knesset to the Labor Part's 47 seats. Begin, having won assurances from the National Religious Party, the Agudat Israel and Tumi parlies to join his coalition, has rejected the Agudat Israel proposal to amend the Law of Return. With the seals won by these three minor parties, Begin will have a bare majority of 61 votes in the Knesset. On the tensions that are mounting in the Mideast, Habib responded to the Israel Cabinet statement by saying he would "seek to secure a ceasefire along the Israeli Lebanese border as a first step to bringing calm to the area." He was reported trying to get Saudi Ara- bia to use its inliuence in getting the PLO to stop shell- ing Israel. And in Saudi Arabia, the government announced it would pay $20 million to the PLO and additional $20 million to Lebanon to help pay for the damage caused by the Israeli air attacks. Libya also announced it would replace any PLO and Lebanese leftists weapons that were destroyed in the raids. And the U.S., it was announced by Secretary of State , Alexander Haig, after conferring with President Reagan and other high officials, that the F-16 planes scheduled to be delivered to Israel would remain in the United States until another study is made of the tense situation in the Mideast. Begin and Egypt President Anwar Sadat are scheduled to make separate visits soon to the U.S. to meet with President Reagan after which a new special negotiator may be named to get the stalled Camp David peace process moving again. Just Sell 'Em More Reactors By DAVID FRIEDMAN WASHINGTON - (JTA) President Reagan has announced a policy to avoid the spread of nuclear weapons by encouraging the export of nuclear material, including breeder reactors, to countries which have an advanced nuclear power program as long as there are safeguards to pre- vent the material from being converted into weap- ons. Administration officials stressed that such a policy would give the U.S. greater "influence" How the Latest Fighting Began in Lebanon By HUGH ORGEL TEL AVIV (JTA) Three people were killed and 13 were wounded in a Katyusha rocket attack on the coastal resort town of Nahariya. Rockets fired by Pal- estinian terrorists based in Lebanon also hit the border town of Kiryat Shemona. The casualties in Nahariya were among people walking the streets or riding in cars, Israel Radio reported. The names of the fatalities were not immediately announced. THE ATTACK followed a heavy Israeli air raid on Palestinian targets near Damour south of Beirut. It was the third Israeli air attack over Lebanon since the week- end of July 11 and 12. The earlier attacks also touched off retaliatory rocket barrages on towns and settlements in northern Israel. Israeli artillery replied by pounding a Palestinian base in south Lebanon. There were no reports of casualties in Kiryat Shemona where at least a dozen rockets hit the town and its outskirts sending the populace into bomb shelters. Military sources said later that 13 persons were injured in the Katyusha rocket attack on Nahariya in addition to the three killed. Earlier reports put the number of injured at 13. Several casualties were reported in Kiryat Shemona, also hit by rockets, but the exact number was not given. BOTH NAHARIYA and Kiryat Shemona sustained severe property damage in what military sources de- scribed as the heaviest attacks since the Yom Kippur War. United Nations sources said over 120 rockets rained down on the two towns. Nahariya and Kiryat Shemona are on a line with the Palestinian terrorist bases at Damour on the Lebanese coast and Nabatiyeh, inland, both of which were the targets of heavy Israeli air raids July 14. to persuade other countries not to build nuclear weapons. "We must establish this nation as predicta- ble and reliable partner for peace- ful nuclear cooperation under adequate safeguards," Reagan said in a statement issued by the White House. "THIS IS essential to our non- proliferation goals. If we are not such a partner, other countries will lend to go their own ways and our influence would diminish. This would reduce our effective- ness in gaining the support we need to deal with the proliferation problem" the statement said. At a White House briefing, Administration officials denied that the policy announcement was triggered by Israel's air attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor last month. Since the June 7 raid, both those in Congress who have denounced Israel's action and those who have supported it have been urging the Administration to fashion a strong non- proliferation program. Adminis- tration officials said today that the new policy had been "many weeks" in the drafting. Both the President and the officials who explained his state- ment emphasized that the non- proliferation program was a con- tinuation of the policies of past Administrations. This included a declared need to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, sup- port of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty and support for the- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). THE OFFICIALS conceded that the IAEA needed strength- ening both in the number of inspectors and its inspection procedures. At Congressional hearings on the Israeli raid, a former IAEA inspector, Roger Richter, said the inspection could not prevent a country from diverting fuel for nuclear weap- ons. The Administration officials noted today that the IAEA a "burglar alarm" which alerts the international community when such a diversion occurs. New Rabbi Arrives At Congregation Beth Chia Beginning on August 1, Rabbi Sherman P. Kirshner will become the spiritual leader of Con- gregation Kctli Chai. Seminole. In addition to being an or- dained rabbi, Rabbi Kirschner is a certified mohel and holds the degree of I la/./an from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He will be the first mohel residing in Pinellas County in recent memory. Rabbi Kirshner holds a Master of Arts degree in Pastoral I'sjiliology and Counseling from Ashland Theological Seminary and a Chaplaincy Certification Degree from the Northeast Clergy Institute. He has had several liturgical compositions published and was the youngest Jewish composer asked to contribute to the world famous "Cantonal Anthology" by Gerson Ephros. Rabbi Kirshner was born in Winnipeg, Canada 45 years ago. He and his wife Barbara have lour sons, ages seven to twenty- one. We extend a hearty welcome to Rabbi Kirshner and his family and hope that he will enjoy a most favorable relationship with I the Pinellas Jewish community. Have You Joined Our Campaign, Yet? 1,000,000 Goal ,000 890.000 800,000 750,000 700,000 860,000 800,000 550,000 500,000 450,000 400,000 350.000 300.000 250.000 200.000 150.000 100,000 Dollars Raised $740,000. Contributors 1875 > ..... i- ages Pag* 2 The Jewish Floridian ofPinellaS County Fnda y-July3l,ifj Raising Money Is the Means Saving Lives, Building a Nation YOUTH ALIYAH: A MATTER OF LIFE lAbbal (Song in Hebrew) Dr. Hiam Perry: Do you know what you just heard? You head Eli singing about his father. It's not a tune that he picked up somewhere, it's a melody, and words that he himself wrote, he himself performed, it's him giving himself because Eli has a father, but he really doesn't have one. It is the image of father he would like to have. My name is Hiam Perry and I am the Director of the Yamin Ord. which is a Youth Aliyah, or Aliyat Manor village: a Youth Aliyah village is somewhat a unique creation. I don't think you can compare it to a regular boarding school, it's a village it's a place to live, a place to identify with, to see as your home. Yamin Ord is a kind of microcosm of what Israel could have been and should be. It has a school, the children go to school every monrning but the school is separated somehow geo- graphically, physically from the living quarters which are the homes. The children, about (241 in each home, live in small homes 14) in a room and each home attached to it has a little flat, a small flat in which a young couple, the counselors, or we call them The Me Chun, the edu- cators live, they take care of the children who live in their house, from the underwear to the in- tellect I would say. We provide not only academic education, we provide also voca- tional education. It's a very elaborate program, a child can become an electrician in three levels, practical level, semi-aca- demic level and the highest level, which enables him to continue in the Techmon, or the Weitzmann Institute, he can become an artist, and continue in Betz Allil. the School of Art in Jerusalem. The child can become an indus- trial laboratory worker also in three levels. We have (400 children around here and you see it is a quiet place You won't feel that 14001 children are on campus right now because the rural set up somehow conveys or creates an atmosphere ol calmness We have over a (1001 children who came from Iran dur- ing the last 117) months, not all the stories about how they arrived and how they have been brought over, have yet been told, but for many of these children tht experiences that they went through are so traumatic that vou cannot be sure if they will ever Ih- free from them. Poorak: (Iranian Student) My name is Poorak. I'm from Teheran in Iran, I am here about three months I came only with my cousin. My family all are in Iran or in America. My language is Persian but the language which speaking in is Ivrit, so I must have to study very much. My school my language, every- thing, everybody are strange for me. And it will take some time to feel at home. All of my family wanted that 1 come here because if I stayed there I would have to go to Army. I am happy to be here. I don't want to goto Iran. I hope my parents come here. I can telephone once a month to Iran. That's very good because if 1 don't have any news from my family I will worry for my family. Voice: Is everything well now with your family? Poorak: Now, yes. But 1 don't know about tomorrow. Dr. Hiam Perry: The kind of children we deal with here are defined in education literature, generally as disadvantaged chil- dren, the Israeli children, second generation Israelis. dis- advantaged or underprivileged. Both are terms that tend to the negative, they are dis or under something, in Hebrew the term, the equivalent term is Tevnai Teepoach which means those who require special nourishment, which is a positive. I mean it is not only semantics, it is an atti- tude, it is a philosophy and Youth Aliyah is really em- bodying this philosophy is really materializing it, is really doing something about it. Those who equire special nourishment. Dorit: My name is Dorit. and this is my second year in Yamin Ord. I lived in Batyam. in Tel Aviv, with my two brothers and five sisters, in a three and a half room apartment. I wanted to go away to a boarding school be- cause I felt I could no longer stay at home. I was affected by all the v tolence in my neighborhood, and 1 hung around with a lot of bad people. 1 started smoking drugs, and doing all the worst things you can imagine. 1 was fooling around a lot and didn't know, or care, where I was going or what I was doing. In the beginning, drugs made me feel good, and helped me to forget everything that was happening. Smoking took me away from the violence around me In my school at home, the kids were terrible they didn't respect the teachers. They would hurt the teachers, and they didn't allow them to teach, or to give tests. Here, in Yamin Ord. I am able to concentrate on my studies. My head is clear and 1 can forget about everything that happened back home. Now, I am in a place where the people talk to me . pay attention to me worry about me and care about me. I feel as if. for the first time. I am getting all of the warmth and all ot the best that everyone can give me. When 1 first cam here, I didn't know how to act. and I did all kinds of terrible things. I tried to spoil friendships between people, and I tried to hurt people. I was afraid that I would be sent back home. But everyone had a lot of patience with me. They really understood my fears. Now, everything is different. I | really like this place ... I like the \ lew ... 1 like the trees ... I like the people. I feel wonderful since 1 came here. 1 am a different per- son Yamin Ord has given me a new life. Dr. Hiam Perry: Running a village like ours is not easy in these days, where maintenance costs are shockingly high, and everj' month you have to ask yourself in what am I cutting this month, what less could be provided because you know I won't touch the food, because food is essential. I won't cut on things like heating in the winter. I can't cut on teaching, from which shall I cut? Maintenance worker? The children should do more work than they do already and then they will study less again. Somebody tells me don't send them to concerts or theater, but what kind of what right do 1 have to to raise culturally crippled Jews in Israel. This is not what we are here for. (Abba). (Song in Hebrew) General Aharon Doron: My name is Aharon Doron, Major General in the Israeli Reserve, the Israeli Army. Presently the Administrative Director from Bait Hatefulsoth. the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora. I came to Israel at the age of close to 17, I can in January of 1939, but I think it makes sense to state that 1 left Germany in 1938. the reason being that 1 made the de cision to immediately to leave the day after the so-called Crystal Night. As it happened 1 have been right in the midst of it. I came in the morning into the city. living in a suburb dressed in my plumber uniform and therefore by no one regarded as a Jew and I -aw what s happening. 1 saw the synagogue being burned down and 1 was right in the middle of the mob. 1 came to Israel a few weeks later, with a group of (15) youngsters, all of us selected to Hi in a vocational school because ol our background and this school has been established a year l>etore by Youth Aliyah by Aliy at Hanoar. in a kibbutz tailed Yagur next to Haifa. 1 remember it very well be- cause of the you know these are the first impressions you come into a country, we were taken by bus which had screened windows, against the stones which Arabs used to throw in Haifa on Jewish buses. We talk On behalf of 40 Overseas, National and Local Jewish needs and the Combined Jewish Appeal, I, the undersigned, hereby promise to pay the sum shown to the Pinellas County CJA-UJA Campaign. 1981 PLEDGE Address Phone Number The Sum Of__ Signed:______ ? Check Enclosed for $ D Please Bill Me 'ploasa mail to Campaign Headquarters, 302 S. Jupiter Are.. Clearwater 33515 WVWVWrV 'WWWVW* s; 31 ii A new era coulc1 dawning for Israels disadvantaged teenagers. Througn Youth Aliyah schools, training them to take their rightful place in the Jewish future about 1936 1939. the disturb antes at that time and I remem- ber the first Jewish policeman on board the bus for me this was a great moment to see an Israeli- Jewish policeman armed with a rifle guarding us on the way up to Mount Carmel. Regrettably to- day I can already look back it as h What comes into your mind are the moments, the days the eve- r.ings. in which your heart felt warm Waht I look back to are i he many evenings we spent on ilie lawns before the dormitory wlure I livid at Yagur. and these are really the memories you i iicrish. in addition to whatever I got from my parents' home i hi-re is no other place, no other people to whom 1 should be grateful to that extent than to i Ik people iii the kibbutz and the (H-ople of the Youth Aliyah. be- cause they have really given me so much.because whatever 1 have on human value, whatever 1 have on how I look at other people's work, whatever I have to try to distinguish between what is real ui lite and what is only the out- ward expression of life, that whatever 1 have as far as culture is concerned, certainly Jewish and Hebrew culture. I got it right there in the three years in which I was with the Youth Aliyah and the lime 1 spent later on in the kililiul/. 1 mean this is where my lile really sUrud. If 1 can. 1 would do whatever I can to make it possible for every youngster who is in the country, wants to come to the country, his to come to the country, to get the same opportunity to start life in i fruitful manner. (Abbot. (Song in Hebrew) Joseph Shapira: My name is Joseph Shapira and today world head of Youth Aliyah. I think that the existence of the Jewish people, the Jewish nation, is based on justice. What Youth Aliyah. the ideology of Youth Aliyah is. to make justice with youth, with Jewish youth. It means if there are parts among ifal Jewish youth that ire neglected we are trying to give them the same opportunity that every child should gel and we make justice with them, we bring them to such a level that will get the same opportunities that every child who don't face such probk-ms is getting. How is Youth Aliyah working? Youth Aliyah has a special in- strument, this is the residential education. In the Diaspora, even among the Jews, there is 1 would say a stigma that residential edu cation is only for deprived chil- dren, but this is not the attitude in the Jewish people in the past and not even now in Israel. And maybe you will be as surprised to know that 20 percent of the ages relevant to Youth Aliyah in I irad and studying in residential education. Both Sides Initial Sinai Peace-Keeping Force LONDON (JTA) The draft agreement on multi-national peace force to police Sinai following Is- rael's full withdrawal next year was initialed Friday by senior Israeli, Egyptian and American officials at toe U.S. Embassy in London. DAVID KIMCHE, director general of the Israel For- eign Minister, represent Israel; the U.S. sent Michael Sterner, head of the State Departments Middle East section; and Egypt was represented by Ambassador Al- Shaah, Parliamentary Under secretary for Foreign Af- fairs. Diplomats say London was chosen because it is the central point between the three signing countries. Under the Camp David agreements, a United Na- tions force was to have replaced Israeli troops in Sinai- This was opposed by the Russians, and after months of discussions Egypt and Israel agreed to a mainly American force but also including some Commonweal" troops. The force will contain 2,000 lightly armed trooj* backed by 1,000 communications and logistics personnel s-; 3i ii 31 II The Jewish FhriSnoffin!uSco!S^ HP Endowment Enlightenment Joel Braitstein Endowment Consultant Executive Director T.O.P. Jewish Foundation LIKE FATHER LIKE SON Hypothetical: Sam and Sarah Donorwitz have a son, Benjamin. When Sam and Sarah were young and Ben was growing up, Sam purchased a considerable amount of life insurance so that the family could be adequately pre- lected in the event of Sam's untimely death. Sam is now 65 and Sarah is 60. Ben is an execu- tive vice president of Chai corpo- ration and earns a substantial salary plus corporated benefits which include a group term life insurance policy in the amount of $75,000. Ben, like his father be- fore him, has purchased addition- al life insurance to protect his young family. Both Sam and Ban are com- mitted Jews and each would like to make an endowment gift to the Foundation for the benefit of his Federation. Although their financial circumstances and the size of their estate differ, they each have a common asset which I can be the basis of an endowment I g'ft- Question: How can Sam and I Ben make a present gift to the Foundation while leaving their current assets intact and not put- \ting their family in a financial \ bind at the time of their death? Answer: The vahw of life in- surance as a means of charitable giving is often overlooked. Life insurance is initially purchased for many reasons. Some purchase lit purely as a means of protection [for the family while children are young. Others purchase it as a I means of forced saving, since life I insurance, other than pure term insurance, builds cash value which may be used in time of cash need. Still others purchase it [as a vehicle for funding various business obligations, such as a Ibuy sell agreement between busi- ness partners. Many business- [entities provide group term in- | surance to their key executives as part of a non-taxable income | benefit. Regardless of the purpose for its initial purchase, there may ; come a time when retaining all of I ones life insurance is unnecsesary and unfeasible from an estate and tax planning point of view. In the above hypothetical situation Sam, Ben and the Foundation would benefit by Sam and Ben making an endowment gift of a portion of their life insurance. In Sam's situation there is no longer the need for substantial amounts of insurance. Over the years he has built an estate con- sisting of a modest portfolio of securities, a home with substan- tial equity and other cash invest- ments. Certainly, Sam may have a need to retain a portion of his insurance to augment his estate and provide a means of support to his widow, if he should prede- cease her. If sam chooses to make an endowment gift by using some of his life insurance, he has two options, either of which, depend- ing on his estate plan objective and current income tax deduction needs, would be feasible. Assuming Sam has a policy with cash value, he could make an outright gift of the policy to the Foundation, naming the Foundation both as owner and beneficiary of the policy and giving up all rights that he may have in the policy. This will yield an immediate charitable income tax deduction for Sam for the re- placement value of the policy (assuming it is a paid up policy.) If premiums remain to be paid on the policy, the charitable deduction is equal to the inter- polated terminal reserve value of the policy (an amount slightly in excess of cash surrender value on the date the policy is given). In the event that premiums remain to be paid on the policy, Sam's annual premium payment would also qualify for an annual charitable income tax deduction. Making a gift in this fashion achieves two tax objectives an immediate income tax deduction and a reduction in the adjusted gross estate. Sam's other choice is not to give up total control of the policy, but merely name the Foundation as beneficiary. This does not yield an income tax Charitable deduction, but it may result in significant estate tax savings. Using this method of making a life insurance charitable gift the value of the policy is included in Sam's estate, but it is offset by a charitable estate tax deduction. At first blush there appears to be nothing more than a wash, however, the inclusion of the Klanwatch Intelligence Report The Jewish Federation of Pinellas County supports Klan- watch and receives information monitoring the Klans activities. Here are a few selected items of Klan-Nazi incidents from around [ the country. WASHINGTON. DC. June 11, The Pentagon is investigating charges by a German news I magazine. Stern, that a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant has been re- Uruiting Nazis to the KKK. The magazine reported that Sgt. Murray Melvin Kachel admitted recruiting Germans to open up "a **ond front'" for the Klan in I Europe. Stern said Kachel told an in- vestigative reporter, "Not only the nigger, but the Jew is our enemy. We are facing a new race , war and have to be prepared for it. The white race must return to its old greatness You Germans have a long racially conscious tradition. Even the Americans can learn something from it" Air Force spokesmen reported- V said that as long as the sergeant conducted his Klan ac- tivities off base and out of uni- form the Air Force could do nothing about it. NASHVILLE, TENN. June 18, Six persons have been in- dicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged attempt by a KKK group to bomb Jewish-owned businesses, a synagogue and a television station transmitting tower in late May. Indicted were William C. Foutch, 48: Gladys Girgenti, 50: James E. Nellums, 3? David B. Garrett, 31; Bobby Joe Norton, 32, and Charles C. Boyer, 26. Except for Garrett, who is from Laceys Springs, Ala., all the defendants are from the Nashville area. They have been charged with conspiracy, illegally transporting explosives and stolen dynamite in the bombing attempt. Federal agents testified that the five Nashville defendants were members of a splinter Klan group known as the Confederate Vigilante Knights. Each defend- ant faces a maximum fine of $50,000 and a 45-year prison sen- tence if convicted. value of the policy in Sam's estate will swell the value of the adjusted gross estate and will therefore increase the amount of the estate that passes tax free to Sam's surviving spouse, i.e., the marital deduction wherein the decedent may pass tax free to the surviving spouse the greater of $250,000, or one-half of the ad- justed gross estate. Ben's situation is somewhat different from Sam's. Ben is still in the process of building his estate and he has a young family. However, in the hypothetical example, it was indicated that Ben's employer, as part of the compensation package, is provid- ing Ben with $75,000 of group term life insurance. The IRS has ruled that an em- ployer may provide group term life insurance of up to $50,000 without any income tax conse- quences to the employee. The premium payments are tax de- ductible to the employer and non- taxable to the employee. How- ever, to the extent that an em- ployer provides group term life insurance in excess of $50,0ffcto the employee, the employee must recognize taxable income measured by the premium cost of the excess coverage. However, to all rules there are exceptions. If the employee names a Charity as beneficiary of the excess portion (the amount over $50,000), the premium cost of said excess is not taxable as additional income to the em- ployee. Ben could name the Foundation as beneficiary of the additional $25,000. Although he does not get a charitable income tax deduction, he does achieve his objective of making a gift to the Foundation at no cost to him- self. Assuming he can spare this amount of protection and still adequately provide for his family's future in the event of an untimely death, he like his Father, can use life insurance to achieve his Philanthropic objec- tives. Life insurance can provide an inexpensive means of not only in- suring the value of yourself for the benefit of your family, but of insuring that the quality of Jewish life will be maintained and enhanced for years to come. As with any charitable gift, you should consult your attor- ney, accountant or other tax advisor before implementing your decision. The Federation's Endowment Consultant is at your disposal for a confidential conversation with you and-or your legal and tax advisors and insurance agent to discuss an en- dowment gift through life insur- ance. For further information about this and other tax-wise charitable ' giving plans you may contact the T.O.P. Jewish Foundation, 100 Twiggs Street, Suite 4444, Tampa, Florida 33602. (813) 225- 2614. All inquiries will be held confidential. NOTE: This column is written as a service to provide general in- formation to the Public about the Endowment Program. Informa- tion contained herein is not designed as legal or tax advice. HHJ Isadore Zitlin Celebrates 90th Birthday The strength of the Jewish community in Pinellas County owes much of its success to the dedication and hard work of a few individuals. Isadore Zitlin, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday at a party at the Golda Meir Center, is one of the pio- neers who laid the foundations upon which our Jewish com- munity is built. Mr. Zitlin has been a resident of Clearwater since 1939, when he retired from his business, the In- dependent Automotive Radiator Co. and moved here from Chicago. From the beginning, he involved himself in the Jewish community. Mr. Zitlin was one of the founders of Temple B'nai Is- rael, and was one of the tra- ditional Jews who recognized the need for a conservative shul. and who worked to establish Con- gregation Beth Shalom, in Clear- water. Mr. Zitlin had always felt a love for Jewish liturgical music, and took special courses in the art of interpreting Jewish melo- dies. He completed courses and eurned a coveted cantorial certifi- cate. Mr. Zitlin then served as Cantor at Beth Shalom, a post he lii-ld for 10 years. Wtih Cantor /.illin's soul stirring chants and In.-.- rich spirit of Judaism, Beth Sliulom was able to sustain meaningful religious services even without the services of a rabbi. Mr. Zitlin s activities in Beth Shalom were not limited to those of the Religious Committee, chuirman of the Membership committee, and member of the Building Committee. Beth Shalom was honored to have him serve as its Second congre- gational president. Clara Zitlin, l.sudwre's wife, was equally devoted to the shul. It was said that Clara provided the food for the body, while Isadore provided the food for the soul. Congregation Beth Shalom was not the only beneficiary of Mr. Zitlins dedication. He was one of the early leaders of the United Jewish Appeal campaign in Pinellas County, and served as a member of the Jewish Welfare Board. He was one of the founders of B'nai B'rith here, and was the Chaplain of his Masonic group, Hi-Twelve. Mr. Zitlin has been honored by Congregation Isadore Zitlin Beth Shalom on numerous oc- casions in recognition of the inestimable contribtutions he made to the shul. He has also been recognized by various civic and fraternal organizations for his service to them. Mr. Zitlin has four children, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He still remains active in the Jewish community he helped to build. He is a regular participant in the Dining Program at the Golda Meir Cen- ter on Jupiter St. and par- ticipates in many of the programs und classes offered at the center. We wish him continued good health and our gratitude for all that he contributed toward the establishment of viable, succesful Jewish community. Jewish Sound WMNF Sunday Mornings Jewish Sound, a Sunday morn- ing show on radio station WMNF, 88.5 on the dial, will be- come u two hour program on August 2. Oded Salpeter is the host. On the morning of August 2 an open house invitation to the radio station from 9-11 a.m. is being extended to everyone. There will be singing ac- companied by Yaron Golany, the shauach for the summer at the Tampa JCC, and you can be on the radio live. The station is lo- cated in the back wing of the Ne- braska Ave. United Methodist Church, 3838 Nebraska Ave., on the second floor. MISSION TO ISRAEL Under the auspices of United Jewish Appeal in cooperation with the Jewish Community Federation of Pinellas County OCTOBER 11-21,1981 meet the new leaders of Israel-delve into daily life- explore historic sites PRICE: $1,789 per person, double occupancy, includes hotels, meals and touring. Deposit of $200 per person holds reservations. (Checks to Federation/Mission Ac- count) CLIP AND MAIL TO: r GERALD RUBIN, Exec. Director Jewish Federation of Pinellas County 302 S. Jupiter Ave. Clearwater. Fl. 33515 I I I i m I I i D Yes, I would like to join the Federation Charter Mission to Israel on October 11. Enclosed is my check for $------------- to hold_____________reservations. ? please send me more information NAME _----------------------------------- Z ADDRESS I i i i i j i Z TELEPHONE. I Page 8 - Page 4 The Jewish Floridian of Pinellas County *'"day,Ju]y3ll 1 1 y. % The Half-Truth Respoken One fact is dear: The half-truth of the Palestinians be- witches the western nations more and more so that they do not understand the reality of PLO and Middle East maneuvering. What the west sees are Israeli planes that bombed Bei- rut twice last weekend and into Monday. It sees civilian casualties and is outraged although there never does appear to be an equivalent brand of outrage voiced in the west or, indeed anywhere else, when it is Israeli civilians who are the casualties of the unrelenting Palestinian war against the Jewish State. What the west does not see is the PLO's deliberate decision to set up its headquarters and many of its ancil lary military operations smack in the middle of Lebanon'; most crowded civilian population centers and to seek immunity from attack there by a revolting kind of camou- flage. In this sense, the west shows no concern that Yasir Arafat is conducting his campaign against the existence of Israel from the very same centers he declares he is pro- tecting, but about which he has no real concern at all. In all of this, the repeated Arab propensity for calling Israel the new source of Nazi practice and Prime Minister Begin a Hitler is unspeakable. The history of the Arab world's alliances with Hitler during the Nazi era sets the lie to their unrelenting reconstruction of the past. To what extent does the west fall for this? We would bet fairly ex tensively. Having made these observations, we are pressed to emphasize that the Israeli attacks on Beirut, while under standable from a military point of view, are less under standable otherwise. No doubt. Prime Minister Begin be- :j:j lieves with profound conviction that knocking out the 1 ,PLO centers is as important to Israel's survival as | knocking out the Iraqi Osirak reactor was outside of g Baghdad. 1 O,tne other hand' suca reservoir of goodwill that' | Israel had prior to that June 7 operation is long since spent. There wasn't much of it to begin with either, and so the raids on Beirut should have been weighed against that perilously diminishing reserve. 5J* especially true in light of the election results on June 30, which Begin can in no way interpret as a mandate to rule his country another four years. The stinging critic- ism of the Beirut bombings already voiced in several major Israeli newspapers suggests that there is hardly a unanimous feeling about them. Met with divided opinion at home and with the kind of I reaction abroad that brought a halt to the delivery of 10 \ American-built F-16's last Friday, can the Begin decision to continue with the campaign in the name of self-defense be justified at this time? Book Notes- By LOUISE RESSLER As interested citizens wishing JS'to increase our awareness, we x listen to TV news, read the daily newspapers, and follow the leading periodicals i.e. Time :;: magazine, Newsweek, etc. There & are outstanding Jewish newspa- :* pers and periodicals that are of :: equal interest. To mention a few: Pott, Commen- Jewish Digest, Quarterly, and The Jerusalem tary magazine. The Jerusalem Moment. Moment is a magazine with a very interesting format, includ- ing lead articles on current topics and issues, literary excerpts, etc. It is a highly readable, erudite publication. A recent issue, June 1981. printed a selection from I. B. Singers Lost In Am^. Letters from readers T* Editor abound, comment** items in earlier issues A mia\ called The Spice Box 1%* special articles and strffij* Here is Love re is a reprint of "But 71 Jews Don't Theyr, faZ March-April 1981. fro. But they love the Jews, don't they? i A number of activists in the Moral Majority have taken great pains to deny any anu-SemlUc senti- ments There is no reason to suspect them of duplicity; for the most pan, they are without guile. They really don't believe they are anu- Semitea Thus. Rabbi Joshua Berkowitz for- wards to us a letter which appeared in the Darlen (Oonnecucut) News of January 22, written by Pastor Anthony L Olbeon of the Calvary Baptist Church. Pastor Olbson, after iden- tifying himself with the Moral Majority, avers that, "We love the Jewish people and respect them as friends and neighbors." So far, so good Moving right along, and doubt- less simply ignorant of the lmplicauonsofwhat he is saying (Rabbi Berkowitz makes those implications clear in his letter of reply), the Pastor has it that, "One way that we show our love for our friends is by sharing our faith with them. We would like all Jews to recognize that Jesus is their Messiah and that it la possible to be a Jew for Jesua" But that's just for openers. The more inter- esting case of :*e month la that of the Reverend DanC. Pore, chapman of the New York state chap. ter of the Mora. Majority. Interviewed in the New York Times of Pebruary 5, Reverend Pore ob- serves. "I love the Jewish people .leeply God has ' given them talents He has not given othera They are His chosen people. Jews haw & Ood- gtven ability to make money, almost a super- natural ability to make money /They control the media, they control this city " Isn't It nice to be tooaj? From time to time in Book Notes I will present articles such as this. In a future issue of The Floridian, I will discuss Mordicai Hichk-r. a Canadian author [Duddy Kravitz, etc.), who depicts Jews in a bad light in his works. In a sense, he is another I'I.Hip Roth. Kik-rring Ui the article fro* The Spice Box section, isn't it nice to be loved? Orothodox Leader Condemns Reform And Conservative Groups No Real Love What seems like a m ild Reagan Administration reaction to the Beirut bombings on its face ia probably less so in fact. Still, Secretary of State Haig, speaking for President Reagan, in announcing that the 10 F-16's would not goto Israel as scheduled last Friday, noted that this did not! x mean that they would not go at all In fact, it was Edwin Meeee, the White House counsel- or, who more than mildly observed that sending the planes off as scheduled would only make things worse at this p time, and so the shipment would have to wait some more. g How much more, he did not say. But we would wager &: not for long. As we say, this is not sheer love of Israel we : are talking about in the corridors of Capitol Hill. | NEW YORK (JTAI Dr. X Harold Jacobs, president of the I' National Council of Young Israel g condemned what he termed the \ : threats by American Reform and g Conservative leaders to withhold & support for Israel if the new g government led by Prime Min- ister Menachem Begin acceded to :j:j the requests of its religious parties coalition members "to ft strengthen the integrity of the Israeli religious establishment." of innocent men and women. It is to avoid further damage and hu- man suffering of this kind that we must reject Reform and] servative demands for . religious recognition in IsraaLh Jacobs termed the threats "a f naked attempt at economic and political blackmail to reverse the democratic decision of the Israeli electorate expressed in the ballot jxibox" June 30. 1 Jacobs refuted the charge by Dr. Gerson Cohen, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary :j|: of America, that the religious : parties' request would be a "religious affront" to the ,____. .. n S religious aitront to the There is the Reagan economic retrenchment plan that ft majority of Jews by citing a re- ::: still needs passing. There is the Reagan defense budget that is staggering in size not only by contrast with $ economic retrenchment elsewhere but by its own right, x There is the coming Reagan assault on the Social Security | system in the name of saving it. There is the Reagan justi- $ fication to the world's democratic leaders in Ottawa this I week of high U.S. interest rates about which the Adminis- tration is doing precisely nothing. There is the Reagan de- :: termination to sell AWACS to Saudi Arabia come what may. All of these Reagan gambits need support on Capitol $ Hill. Israel's dwindling reserve of good-will abroad not- $ withstanding, there is still a good bit of it left in the Con- ft gross of the United States. S wmmummsWrn (Jewish Floridian OF PINELLAS COUNTY MSMM Editorial Office. 303 Junder Avt.. South. Clearwater Fla. UBis Telephone 44S-10U Publication A Bialnee* Office. 130 NX St .Miami Fla U1I2 ' ...... Telephone I SOB) STS-MOB HtKDK. SHUCHET SUZANNE STHKruiTR m._ .. m*,eJRgE 'S^!^!SSSSgl ""1BB5BB Jewteh rierMlaa Deae Nat Guarantee Mm Kaaarata of M*r_ . SaroadClM Po*u* Aha ( M>SMim7o.i Mm. Pfc PuN.iwd H, Mteal/. Postmaster Forward Form 3579 to Hoi 012H7A. Miami. Fla 33101 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Local Area Annwal MM) V ^ *cr,pion S7.J0 or by annual member*ip p4a#aVio Ja2Lal """"" W Cw.ty lor wh.ch the turn of M-il port OutoJ^U*.^*M*" 5 ***** Friday. July 31.1981 Volume 2 29TAMUZ5741 Number 16 cent American Jewish Committee study which found, "A growing acknowledgement among vir- tually all sectors of the Jewish population (of Israel) that the state cannot survive if it is not a Jewish state, and that the Jewish character of the state is preserved most fully by those recognized at the authentic guardians of Juda- ism, the Orthodox." Jacobs responded to the charge by Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Con- gregations, that the religious parties' requests would "rupture the unity of the Jewish people" by pointing to the attempts of the Reform and Conservative groups to "undermine the tra- ditionally united American Jew- ish support of Israel to extort by political pressure the recognition they have failed to win from the people of Israel." Furthermore. Jacobs said, "by rejecting the standards of Jewish law and tradition, it is the Re- form and Conservative groups which have divided the Jewish people and caused needless hu- man suffering through invalid conversion, marriage and divorce procedures which have thrown a shadow over the Jewish identity and marital status of thousands Pen Points Copyright Morris B. Chapman By MORRIS CHAPMAN Prime Minister Begin utterly rejects the notion that Israel should consult US before using American made military equip ment Israels security ia not a childs play called "MAY I?" The Equal Rights Amendment will die a lingering death. It will truly mark the end of the ERA There may be a message for the Reagan Administration in the N.Y.C. subway incident from the failure of a 63 year old signal light. Maybe it had an order that the 63 year old light was too young to be retired. Reagan picks Sandra O'Connor as the first woman on the Supreme Court But he doesn't compare with the way oppo- nents are picking her to pieces. Concerned groups are trying to determine when human life begins and when it ends And much in between is puzzling too. Our European allies are waking with baited breath for our foreign policy And so is President Reagan, we have reason to believe. The USSR often condemns their worst offenders to a living death. They are not permitted ever to emigrate. The Pope is on his way to complete recovery, but is running a persistent temperature Paradoxically, hie condition may be described as not so hot. Many investment counselors recommend bonds as today* best buys ... In their eyes, your bond ia much better than your word. .. Atlanta police officials contend that a suspects arrest in toe many unsolved murders won't alow up their investigation - We anticipated a bigger miracle accelerating its pace. ifSHfcKWBWSi^SPS'" ^w&wSijSajw 77te Jewish Floridian of Pinellas County Page 5 ienatcr Paula Hawkins' Visit tc Israel jviqx nnoo * mr-vo .two iw -w nunnio '33"I PL BMC LIBRARY OtDICATEC BT JOEL AND PA'H FRIEDLAND THEIR CHILDREN HA!-* POUR AND v: IT !' n">np }>. * P^L- For many years my husband and I thought about traveling to the Holy Land. Although we were versed in the history of this land, our greatest ex- pectations were exceeded by what we experienced. Gene and I departed from Miami and arrived in Israel on Saturday evening May 23, 1981. Ascending the Judean mountains to Jerusalem, the "eternal city" and the home of our three great religions, is a truly emotional experience. While walking the dirt roads of this walled ancient city, we immediately comprehended why this city is so holy to all our major religionsand why Jerusalem has been the site of some of history's greatest conflicts. We recognized that this was not going to be another tourthis would be a unique experience. Presented is a pictorial overview of a recent visit by Senator Paula Hawkins to the modern state of Israel the birthplace of the two major religions of the Western world. Senator Hawkins and her husband Gene had the opportunity to visit Israel and to see the miracle of a modern state born out of barren rock and desert sand a country whose technological advances are among the most sophisticated in the world, whose unique ed- ucational system integrates both Eastern and Western cultureo, and whose military capabilities form a vital link in America's global geopolitical strategy. We appreciate and thank Senator Hawkins and her husband Gene for sharing this excit- ing experience with us. H. Irwin Levy PageJ Page 6 The Jewish Floridian ofPinetlas County Friday, July 3i 198j Sunday. May 24,1961 Our first visit was to Yad Vaahem. the memorial to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust This holy place serves as a constant reminder to the world of the horrors of Nazism and the genocide committed against the European Jews. This must never happen again. We walked through the museum which pictorially shows the rise of Nazism and the cruelties that were inflicted on a people only because they were Jews. We viewed the impressive monuments to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and then partici- pated in a ceremony commemorating the death of the Six Million Next we went to Bethlehem, where we visited the Church of the Nativity the holy place where Jesus was born. While here, we witnessed a confirmation ceremony and then chatted with the parents, whose family had lived near Bethlehem for hundreds of years. Our next stop was to visit the Mormon garden on the Mount of Olives. Here we saw the site where the Mormon missionary Orson Hyde dedicated the land to the Jews; pro- claimed, in 1841. the rebirth of the State of Israel; and beckoned Jews to return from all over the world to restore this historic land and form a modern state. This was particularly meaningful since Gene and I are Mormons. After lunch we met with Jerusalem's legendary mayor Teddy Kollek. I asked Mayor Kollek why, in Jerusalem, where there are so many potentially H <* hostile groups living side by side, there is no visible street crime. He responded that the in- tegrity of the neighborhood and the importance of the family unit are two values held deeply by all groups. It is these values that prevent crime. What a great lesson for us in the United States who are plagued with an increasing crime rate! At 4:00 we met with David Ephrati in the Minis- try of Foreign Affairs; he handles relations with all the churches. He explained the ongoing dialogue with representatives of the Roman Catholic. Greek Orthodox, and Moslem religions regarding the importance of preserving the unique status of the religious shrines throughout the State of Israel. I was most impressed with safeguards that allow each religion to function freely, without any government interference, while allowing each to respect the rights of others. We met with Yitzhak Shamir, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who gave us a much greater comprehension of the fragility of the existing "peace" in the Middle East. Mr. Shamir warned against allowing sophisti- cated arms to fall into the hands of potentially hostile or unstable neighbors. This would endan- ger not only the security of Israel, but would also compromise America's military technology and jeopardize the safety of American pilots and sol- diers. He showed us the geographic proximity of Saudi Arabia and Israel and emphasized that those lethal weapons would have no other even- tual use but against Israel. Mr. Shamir's words were sobering. He reminded us not only of the most recent declaration of the Saudi leaders, de- claring a Holy War against Israel, but also of the Saudi s participation in at least three previous wars against Israel. That evening, we met with the current leader of the Labor Party, Shimon Peres. He stated that, even though there are great differences between Mr. Begin and himself, they share a common ground concerning defense and adherence to the belief that Israel and the United States share a common position. Monday. May 25,1961 We began the day by meeting with Prime Minis- ter Menachem Begin. I was impressed by his keen insight into Israel's relations with her Arab neighbors, his sincere desire for peace and his rec- ognition of the Soviets as the most serious threat to peace and stability in the Middle East and Per- sian Guff regions. He emphasized the disaster that would result if sophisticated American weapons were sold to unstable Arab states who neither participate in the peace process nor sup- port American foreign policy. Later in the morning, we met with Mrs. Tamar Eshel. a member of the Knesset (the Israeli Par- liament). She noted that Israel is the only demo- cratic state in the Middle East. She, duly elected member of the Knesset, serves with other duly elected members including other women. Arabs, Bedouins and Druze members. We dis- cussed the sociological problems caused by the large number of Jewish refugees absorbed from Arab countries refugees who. when they enter Israel, for the first time enter the twentieth century refugees with large families and many young children who have to be educated and integrated into a modern western society. Gene and I spent the rest of the morning at the "new" Hadassah Hospital, a modern, world- renowned medical center. Some of the major ad- vances in medicine have been developed by members of the staff of this hospital which treat Jew and Arab alike. One of the doctors explained to me that, before 1947, Arabs from all over the Middle East came to Hadassah for advanced medical treatment; and, even now, non-Jerusalem Moslem and Arabs come there for treatment of their most serious medical problems. With peace in the Middle East, this most certainly would be the regional medical center improving health care for all. Norman Braman, a friend from Miami who ac- companied us during our entire visit to Israel, took us to the original Hadassah Hospital built in the 1940s on Mount Scopus. This hospital was surrounded by the Jordanians in 1948 and could not be used as a medical facility until 1967. A new hospital duplicating the one on Mount Scopus was built in Jerusalem in the early 1960's. J aar^ SSSS&,*:.:.-7-^:.ii:- M gamHM - H , July 31,1981 The Jewish Floridian ofPinellas County Page 7 Gene and I felt that thia was a terrible waste of physical property. Norman Braman then told us the story of a clearly marked unarmed medical convoy contain- ing 105 professors, doctors, nurses and patients Which left for Mt. Scopus under British and Jor- danian protection and guarantees for safety. En route, it was attacked by Arab soldiers 76 were slaughtered while the "protectors" did nothing. Although this event happened in 1948, I can un- derstand Israel's attitude that it must protect itself guarantees cannot be relied on. After lunch at the hospital and meeting with the medical staff, we visited Jerusalem's religious shrines, now accessible to all in a unified city. Je- rusalem is a holy city of the western world's three major religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. I was inspired to stand at the Western Wall, to walk the Stations of the Cross, and to view the Al-Aqsa i Mosque holy sites dear to so many people and now accessible to all religions. Tuesday, May 26,1981 We left for the north via the Jordan Valley where we stopped at Kibbutz Gilgal, located three miles from the Jordanian border, composed of approxi- mately eighty members, both Christian and Jew, from all parts of the world. This kibbutz has a very large number of children. The older children expressed their concerns about security and their fear of this territory's being returned to the Arabs -which would mean that they would have to leave their home. They reminded Gene and me that Jews were not allowed to live in occupied Je- rusalem or the West Bank while it was illegally oc- cupied by Jordan from 1948 to 1967. The younger children showed me the bomb shelters in which they sleep every night of their Uves. We inspected the vineyards and were amazed to see barren rock turned into fertile soil and grapes growing on this soil. This ability of these pioneers to make productive use of the land is a major reason for the success of the State of Israel. We continued our journey to Lake Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee, where Christ's ministry began and where he performed many of his miracles. The historical significance of this area is as important as its present day significance. Now a heavily fished sea surrounded by flourishing agricultural communities, it supplies 80 percent of Israel's fresh water. Prior to 1967, the Syrians and their heavy artillery constantly bombarded the sea and the communities surrounding it, making everyday farming and fishing a life or death experience. The serenity that now exists must be such u sharp contrast to those times of peril. We then ascended the Golan Heights to visit Kib- butz Kfar Haruv. Of the 110 member population, one-third are American and most of these are American military veterans. Lenny Spector, who conducted our tour, is from Bayonne, New Jersey. He impressed upon us the importance of the Is- raeli presence in the Golan Heights to protect the heartlands of Israel. He reminded us that, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.the Syrians would have overrun and destroyed Israel had it not been for the Israeli chain of settlements in the Golan Heights. As he was talking, I gazed from the barren rock-strewn countryside to the kibbutzs 1,000 acres of land under cultivation and shared the pride these people feel. From these heights, I could see how easily the Syrians could shell the region from which we had just come the vul- nerable farms around the Sea of Galilee. I fully understood the peril to Israel and her need to re- tain these lands and settlements which serve as her first line of defense against a repeat of Syrian attack. Wednesday, May 27,1981 We arose early in the morning and again drove north towards the Lebanese border stopping at Metulla to visit a gateway in the Good Fence - a unique international boundary between Israel and Lebanon where the beleaguered Lebanese-Christians are able to enter Israel for social and medical aid. It is a site where one can v1 what is left of the once beaurifui country of Lebanon now war-torn, 0WMpi*ffi|feg*jB terrorized by the PLO. I was shocked to learn of the genocide being practiced by'Modems against Christiana and to learn that, with the excep- tion of Israel, the world silently watches^ domg nothing. Israel is the only country actively op- posing the genocide of this once vibrant LAarTese-Chrisrian community. The Arebchum that Jew and Moslem can live together in peace m a secular state of Palestine is put to the tost ui Lebanon. It fails that test Israel s aidmg the Lebanese-Christiana to survive is proof of Israel s intentions. _ On this up-beat note, we left the, "Good Fence and drovTto the holy Jewish Jfr 9**J* quaint town where scholars hgwmfafejg artists and tourists visftmg Jewish holy PjJ" " was in Sfad that I met Sara Zefira, the^head orthe Isroel Red Magen David, an organuaUon wrth much meaning for mc> since I serve as itsun aanixation. I resolved at that time '""' SeTmore strongly my fight to force the Intoma tional Red Cross to recognize the Red Star David as an official symbol just as it does the Red Cross, the Iranian Red Lion and Sun, and the Moslem Red Crescent to include the Red Magen David Adom as a member of the interna- tional organization of mercy and to allow official affiliation of the American and Israeli sister organizations. We returned to Tel Aviv and had a most enjoy- able dinner with Mordecai Zippori, the Deputy Minister of Defense and his lovely wife Tova. I had looked forward to meeting this couple who are cousins of good friends of mine in South Flor- ida, Stan and Karen Margulies. We had a fascinating interchange of ideas regarding Amer- ica's and Israel's strategic and military needs. Zippori expressed to me in the strongest military V inn imrinnxrrionn ptfn tw i terms how threatening the sale of sophisticated i weaponry such as the enhanced F-15 s and AWACS would be to the security of Israel. He then added a much more startling thought how could we Americans allow our most a*6"* military technology to be given a regime already unstable? There was very little question in his mind that the secrets of our AWACS and F-15 s would soon fall into Russian hands if given to the Saudis, just as our F-14 airplane technology and our Harpoon and Lance missile secrets had fallen into Russian hands soon after being given to Iran; and that President Carter planned to deliver AWACS to Iran just before the fall of the Shah AWACS that would now be in the hands of Aya- tollah Khomeni and the Russians. He reminded me that many of the same people who testified before the Senate that this could never happen in Iran were now, coming forth with similar testimony about' Saudi Arabia. I restated my active opposition to such a sale. We must learn from our mistakes, not repeat them. Thursday, May 28,1981 Early the next morning, we arrived in Beersheva, the capital of the Negev. In the early 60's, Beer- sheva was nothing more than a Bedouin trading post; it is now the fourth largest city in Israel. I was able to see again how barren and arid desert had been transformed into productive, agricultur- al soil. If what has been done here could be done in other parts of the world, what benefits would derive to underdeveloped nations, especially in alleviating world hunger. While in Beersheva, we visited the Ben Gurion University, the youngest and among the most in- novative of Israel's universities. Ben Gurion U. concentrates its efforts in several areas. Most interesting to me were agriculture, irrigation and health care. The medical school provides com- plete modem medical care to the large Bedouin community of the Negev, a community which prior to 1970 received almost none. In discussion with students and faculty, I learned another im- portant facet of Israeli life everyone who serves on the faculty teaches and everyone who teaches serves. The social and economic implications of this to me were staggering. This means that each Israeli citizen, male and female, after completing mandatory military service, spends an average one month a year on active military duty. Gene and I examined other divisions of the Uni- versity where applied research for specific prob; lems is being performed. As a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and as senator from Florida, where agriculture is a major in- dustry, the projects that centered on special uses and conservation of water, new agricultural ap- proaches and the unorthodox use of presently grown crops were of special interest to me. We visited four desert settlements where brackish water, never before used in agriculture, is now being used to grow cotton, corn and wheat. I dis- cussed the possible applications of this method of agriculture for use in Florida. It seems to me that, if brackish warm water could be used in our state, we might be able to avoid the problems of un- timely freezes and resulting crop loss. I have asked Dr. Pasternak to provide additional in- formation and to testify before the Senate Com- mittee on Agriculture on these innovative techniques. I was excited to meet with Dr. Mizrachi, who ex- plained how his genetic research on tomatoes has produced a commercially acceptable product with a six week shelf life. I asked if this could be feasibly done in Florida where tomato farming is an important part of our agriculture industry. He thought that his research could be useful in Flor- ida and agreed to testify before the Senate on this subject. I feel that, with the possible benefits to residents and farmers in Florida, this is well worth looking into, because of Florida's water problems, especially shortages, I was extremely interested in the Israeli system of drip irrigation presently being used in the Negev to grow fruits and vegetables. Their moisturized hot houses I allow for the inexpensive growth of large varieties 1 with very little usage of water and with extremely I high yield per acre. This is another area having important implications for Florida and will be carefully followed. (Of interest for Florida also were projects of de- salinization, the use of salt water for commercial growth of ornamental plants, and techniques for energy production from solar resources. I was amazed to learn that there were joint projects be- tween Ben Gurion University and Egyptian academic centers that are already benefitting the populations of North Africa. One of these in- volves research on animal health care at the Isan Center for Comparative Medicine, the veterinary center at the university, dedicated by Floridians, Barbara and Jerry Isan. Before leaving the Uni- versity, I had lunch with President Shlomo Gazit, the former head of Israeli intelligence and Vice President Israel Ben Amitai, former chief of Is- raeli artillery. We discussed the strategic impor- tance ot the Negev and the Sinai They explained to me the strategic and economic sacrifice Israel had made by returning to Egypt the Sinai with its important military bases and its large oil supply at a cost to Israel of over eight billion dollars! They felt that Prime Minister Begin was offering everything possible for the sake of peace. I sugr gested that the military bases iff the Sinai, the Jt Pa*e8 Page 8 The Jewish Floridian ofPinellas County Friday. Juiy 31 A1 if f i ii 11 Perspective Or flie Im h Ii Attack It seems to me that there is a terrible sense of unreality about the outcry over Israel's attack on the Iraqi nuclear facility at Tuwa- itha. Rarely does a commentator mention the explicit threat made by Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq, to use weapons supplied by this reactor against Israel. Rarely does anyone mention the destabilizing effect a nuclear weapon would have in the hands of Hussein, or any of a number of other Mideast potentates. Looked at realistically, the Israeli attack has to be seen as stabilizing not upsetting. It is ironic that those who call for having all nuclear weapons destroyed should object to the destruction of this nuclear device, potentially in the possession of someone engaged in a holy war of elimination against the people of Israel. But, of course, Mr. President, the Israeli attack is not viewed realistically. It is viewed through the prism of the United Nations, an organization which sometimes appears de- dicated to clouding the real world in a fog of rhetorical confusion. The United Nations is, to put it mildly, irresponsible. It has no real constituency, no economic base, no founding in the real world. It is largely a paper organi- zation, and so it can engage in a paper battle. Nations such as Israel can pay some at- tention to the U.N. so long as it does not threaten Israel's real interests. The United States is the same way. The only difference seems to me to be that Israel has a clearer sense of its own interests than the United States has demonstrated in recent years." Paula Hawkins. United States Senator Congressional Record, June 16,1981 Statement fieri United States Senate! Paula I t*l ii % Cn Ine Cceaslen Of Isiael's 11 ii l > -l I ii I AnnKersany "Every free person in the world whether Jew or Christiancherishes the contribu- tions Israel has brought forth since her inception thirty-three years ago. The words democracy, stability, friendship, strength, dedication can be applied to only a hand- ful of nations throughout the world. No state in the world has-been a more faithful ally of the United States. No other nation in the world has had to prove over and over again that sh& deserves even the basic right to exist. I again restate my commitment to preserve Israel's security by providing her with the means to shape her own future. I again restate my opposition to the sale of sophisti- cated offensive weapons not only to Saudi Arabia, but to any nation in the Middle East that treatens the security of the State of Israel. Israel is a strategic ally of the United States; therefore, any effort to harm her hurts the interests of the United States in the most critical part of the world. Unless Saudi Arabia lowers its heated anti-Israel rhetoric unless Saudi Arabia stops its fi- nancial support for international terrorism through its one-million-dollar-per-day con- tribtuin to the PLO unless Saudi Arabia joins the Camp David peace process unless Saudi Arabia grants the presence of American bases on Saudi soil I will not support the sale of sophisticated weaponry to the Saudis. This firm United State policy should not only apply to Saudi Arabia, but to Jordan as well. King Hussein must not be a recipient of potentially destructive military equipment until a valid quid pro quo for the United States is obtained." Paula Hawkins, United States Senator May 7, 1981 most modern in the world, would be ideal basei for an American military presence in thai strategic part of the world, the Persian Gulf area On our return to Tel Aviv, we visited one of the many ORT centers in Israel, heavily supported bv many friends in Florida. These centers help r^L pie to help themselves by education and training which make them productive and self-respecting members of society. ORT has a well-respected system of education including technical and voca- tional high schools, technical colleges, appren- ticeship centers and factory schools where revolu- tionary techniques have created one of the most successful programs in Israel. Our final evening in Israel, we enjoyed a magnifi- cent concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the Mann Auditorium. As we listened to the beautiful music of the Israeli Philharmonic we were struck with the stark realization that this concert was dedicated to a young, internationally renowned flutist whose career was interrupted to fight in the Yom Kippur War. His death was the result. I was moved by the spirit of the Israelis, as represented by this young hero, who even at time of greatest peril, have never failed to remember the importance of the quality of life and cultural enrichment. Gene and I were thrilled by all that the journey's agenda had meant to us and through us, to the citizens of Florida. We had the experience of a lifetime on this trip to Israel and were ready to return home filled with information and emotion to share with our friends. We would urge all our fellow Floridians to experience first hand a visit to Israel. I___ Friday. July 31.1981 The Jewish Floridian ofPinellas County Page 9 Young and Old in Same Boat ASSESSMENTS are correct that the current spate of violence in western nations is largely youth-centered. It takes no sophisticated observation to note that the burning, the looting, the attacks on police are being carried out by gangs of young people, not by their parents or grandparents. But the conclusions are in correct that young people are acting this way to show their dis- affection, their alienation from a social order that does not help them with their needs or even pay attention to their complaints, their statements of dissent against the established order. THE FACT is that older peo- ine contribution of the minions of Madison Avenue to this deplorable development was and, to a great extent, remains n|i> suffer from precisely the same f* j K' II reI*t ^eH in disaffection. No one helps them U! a,nd ParLs- w*t Berlin their complaints, and Stockholm. Rome and Tel Aviv in levels of insidious growth di or listens to either. And so, they are just as much a victim of the social order as arc their children and grand- ilnlilan who have been staging riots in the principal cities of England, And who are with in- n-using ominousness these days aiiiphleteering in West Ger- many and Italy. And even in ch centers of bourgeois com- ucency as Switzerland and ami'. Why, then, do their elders not to take to the streets? After all, was the older population of i many that rallied behind the /.i thugs and brought them to t-r in the early 1930s. Ditto tin- Fascists in Italy before t. And for the Bolsheviks in ist Russia before that. ic answer to this question ins the rise of youth- ted violence in the west in irst place. Only a decade ago, ery same sociologists who re this latest phenomenon of it were busy observing the coronation of the cult of In motion pictures and skin, plays and commercials sized the desirability of young in the frankest terms. And books and ines anointed them as the uve of human excellence. 1 THE sociologists did not, same time, crown the wis- A age with a still greater In glorifying golden and deep bosoms, they did lalt as the ultimate foun- nd of respect those who Irown older and deserved lion for that very reason. u-ri'ly made the aging look in whs as objects of lor derision. The result was leushing of a competi- between the generations piously damaged the old the young with the un- promises that the media jposed as a sociological live but were not obliged katisfy. ke contrary, the hucksters iri more daring promises, mple, there were movies ^g the young never to nyone over 30 as if larantees innocence or, mything else. Especially, s one motion picture of that portrayed the de- of consigning everyone age of 25 to a con- In camp, where the vic- lld come to a quick and eath, thus vaccinating gainst the disease of age it is more, against its and development. The elderly are bunglers to be tolerated at best and made fun of or even mugged at worst. They are the enemy who do not "understand" youth which is, after all, easy to under- stand. Youth is beauty, and beauty is truth. NOR ARE Madison Avenue and their equivalents elsewhere in the west entirely to blame. The roots of this cancer began with tlie permissiveness of post-World War 11 and the phony Freudian- ism of the doctrine of equality between children and their parents. And it later extended into the schools, with the equally phony Deweyism of the dqctrine of equality between students and their touchers. These doctrines were, and still arc, rooted in the notion that the old dictums defining the status ad the privileges characteristic of the generations are outmoted excuses to repress the energies of the young and that the re- pressions they suffer in the name of these dictums are deliberately designed to rob them of their youth, leaving them frustrated and neurotic later in their lives as adults, leaving them prisoners of a bourgeois social order that beats them into passive sub- missiveness at the hands of cor- porate slavery rather than to freedom and personal self-ex- prcsbion. Worst of all, the old dictums defining the status and the pri- vileges of the generations is un- democratic. Or so the reasoning of these corruptions of the philosophies of two important 20th Century thinkers goes. There is no doubt that the post-World War II period saw a lot of genuine youthful rebellion, rebellion rooted in political and social unrest, notably among the French under the leadership of Henri Cohn-Bendit and among the Germans under Red Rudi Dulschke. Hardly did this re- lu-lliousness die down in Europe, when it reappeared in America during the Vietnam era. only to Ik.- murdered on the campus of Kent State. BUT LARGELY, the legacy of thul era has since focused on a lot of myths about the young. And about the old. The young have gone about the business of en- trenching themselves in a culture of hedonistic nihilism best ex- emplified by a beer company commercial's rationale that "you The Finest MuUle-of-the Road Music Available Music from the 40's to Rock & Country and m "Music" \74I9 39th Avenue North I St Petersburg, Fl. 33709 Telephone: 391-4213 Seven Days A Week BAR MITZVAHS OUR SPECIALTY only go around once" and a soft drink's film footage exhorting the cadaverous corps of Vic Tanny- ism to join the vanguard elite of the "PepsiGeneration." What thislhad done is to leave the young with no intellectual re- sources to change course mid- stream when the hedonism and the nihilism lose their compelling attractiveness when it be- comes their turn to be incar- cerated in a concentration camp because they have now reached the talisman age of 25 and must be exterminated. When the weight of years kicks them out of the "Pepsi Generation," and the doors of the nearest siimnastics emporium slam in their faces. As for the old, they have contented themselves to wring their hands before this messianic mythology of the young and to be victimized by it. Or else, to preach and warn of coming social Armageddons that the new mythology will surely bring. THERE IS perhaps no point now in observing that the young plunderers of Britain are not really protesting their economic plight of political and social alienation from the mainstream. What is more important is to recognize that their plunder is yet another form of hedonism and nihilism essentially no different from our own sense of helpless- ness in the face of vast global forces that are depressing our lives and over which we have no more control than the young. In lashing out at their elders, the young may think that they are attacking the source of their despair. But that self-deception comes simply from the fact that their hedonism has helped make them so poorly-educated. IF THEY can not understand that young and old these days are in the same boat, we must not contribute to their 'further folly by ill-conceived conclusions that their violence is pre-revo- lutionary. It is not; it is mere tantrum. If their elders are not violent also in response to these very same pressures, it is simply the wisdom of age that tells them it is useless. Besides, the ultimate beauty of age is contemplation, which abhors violence. The ul- timate beauty of youth is phy- sical beauty itself, which is transitory and leads to a sense of having been betrayed once it is gone. And to a need for vengeance against the estab- lished order that assured them in the first place that it would never be gone. None of either of these condi- tions, not youth nor age, has a blessed thing to do with the social condition, but only with the human condition. 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Conn, at the New York State Theatre pnor to the annual American Jewish Congress Festival Evening at which Lonn. a Manhattan attorney, presented Lansing with the AJ Congress' Artistic Achievement A uard. Lansing hailed AJCongress for being in the vanguard of the fight against prejudice and for freedom. Headlines Install New JWV Memorial at Pearl Ins Goldwasser. special project* chairman of the National Ladies Auxiliary. Jewish War Ve- terans of the United States, is announcing the de- dication of a memorial plaque a^WaJMauaasl the men who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Arizona on December 7.1941. The dedication announcemen conjunction with JWV A National Evelyn Mermonstein. Lt. Cmdr. Fred Nation, of the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps, and a hw of the Jewish War Veterans in Hawaii, placed the plaque in the ahoreside memorial at Pearl Harbor. The new memorial is under the supervision of Gary Cummins, superintendent of the USS Arizona Visitors Canter, s project of the National Park Service. Some 500 participants in the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Je- rusalem witnessed the unveiling of pkques in memory of three young Jewish men who were executed in 1944 in the notorious Buns Camp of Auschwitz. The brother of one of the three, Fred Dia- ment of Los Angeles, established the memorial at Hebrew University to promote the study of the Holocaust. University President Avraham Herman greeted the gathering in the Wise Auditorium on the G lvat Ram campus. The three, Nathan Weissman. Janek Groas- feld and Yehuda Leo Diament, were arrested, tortured and hanged for Hiadiiig a resistance movement among the ""^r of the eztsmuna- tioncamp. The ceremony was opened in Hebrew and English by Fred Diament. who wHiieasiiil the ex- ecution. Another brother. Rabbi Shaul Diament, recited a chapter of Psalms in memory of the de- parted. A dose friend of the young men. Arthur Poznanski. also delivered a tribute. Sephardic Jewish texts once used by Georgi- ans in Atlanta are now in the hands of other Georgians Jews from the Soviet Union's Re- public of Georgia thanks to the Sephardk Community Activities Program at Yeehiva Urn- varsity in New York City. One of the programs' projects ie the develop ment of new Sephardic rriiimimifiss saaj congregations in the United States, according to Rabbi M. Mitchell Serels. associate director of the program. Sephardic Jews are of Spanish. Portu- guese or Oriental descent. Congregation Or ve Shalom in Atlanta waa one of the groups that donated books. That con- gregation is comprised mainly of Sephardk Jews from the Island of Rhodes. Rabbi S. Robert Ichay is spiritual leader. Texts from Atlanta were given to the Associ- ation of Jews from Russian Georgia, in Forest Hills. NY. Rabbi Serels said. Prof. Allen Pollack, president of the Labor Zionist Alliance, will lead delegates from across the nation in an ideological conference to be held in Israel Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Labor Zionist Alliance in America. Joining with delegates from Labor Zionist Alliance will be Pioneer Women, Habonim and other organizations related to Labor Zionism. In addition to sessions in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, a day is planned at Kibbutz Ginosar by the Sea of Galilee to honor the memory of Yigal Allon. late chairman of the World Labor Zionist Movement, as well as visits to Labor Zionist In- stitutions. A vastly expanded force of pro-Arab lob byists and government officials has been singled out as the main reason for Israel's inrmamiil diffi- culty in obtaining political support in Washing- ton. Speaking before the convention of the National Council of Young Israel at Spring Glen. NY. Leonard Davis, director of Information and Research of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee based in Washington, urged con- cerned friends of Israel to counter the efforts of "an army of Arab lobbyists, backed by millions of dollars of oil money" to turn American support sway from Israel. He said that Israel's friends are outnumbered 10-1. Davis cautioned against speculation about the internal workings af the Reagan Administra- tion and against allowing the American Jewish community to get caught up in the personality politics and in-fighting within the executive branch. , The number of Jews who arrived in Vienna from the Soviet Union in the month of June was 866. bringing the total for the first six months of 1991 to 6.668. In reporting these figures. Char btte Jacobeon. chairman of the Soviet Jewry Re- search Bureau of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, emphasized the steady decline n emigration by comparing the first six month* of 1979.1990 and 1981. In the January through June period of 1979. s total of 24.794 Jews left the Soviet Union, while 15.087 left in the same months in 1980. These figures represent a 40 percent decrease from the first half of 1979 to that of 1980. and a 55 percent decreeas during the same periods from 1980 to 1961. The Mel and Sheila Jaffee Chair in Interna- tiona] Trade has bean inaugurated at Tel Aviv University to promote research and teaching of international trade, with particular emphasis on prospects of economic cooperation and peace n the Middle East, and examination of conditions which enhance integration into the world economy. The incumbent of the Chair ,r Prof Sssv Hirsch. is an expert in the field, a former dean of Tel Aviv Universkya Faculty of Management, who has served as visiting lecturer at Oxford Uni- versity, and at the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank. Donor of the Chair. Mel Jaffee. of Orange County. Calif., is a member of the Council for Economic Development and has been s longtime supporter of Jewish and Israeli causes, particu- larly in the fields of health and higher education NEW YORK (JTA) - Rabbi I. Usher Kirshblum. spiritual leader of the Jew- ish Center of Kew Garden Hills and chairman of the Committee for the Pre- iervation of Tradition within the Rabbinical Assembly, became the first Conservative rabbi to state that "I cannot accept the logic of those of my colleagues who argue that by amending the Law of Return the existence of the Jewish people would be threatened." In a telegram to Israeli leaders, Kirshblum said he regretted "that so religious a subject" as "according to halacha" has become s political football." Continuing to deal with the issue, he reiterated "my strong feelings" that the adoption of the "Who is a Jew" amendment to ** WE MUST painfully admit that there are quite a number of rabbis Orthodox. Con- servative and Reform ^ perform conversions m fujj violation of halacha. What con- fusions and heartaches such in. proper conversions cause to many a Jewish family m fa United States! "Do we wish to export this very aggravating problem to the Suite of Israel? Do we desire to dissever the Jewish community into two religious camps where children of one camp will not be allowed to marry the children of the other camp?" He concluded by statin* "Once and for all, let the Knesset put an end to this very acn- moruous debate by amending the Law of Return. By doing so it will make sure that every convert ac- cepted in Israel has entered the Jewish fold through the halachic process of conversion.'' Chatter Box i GLADYS OSHER 8682007 Maul Tov to Rabbi aad Bin. Robert Kirxaer upon the birth of their son Aaron Norman, who weighed in at seven pounds twelve ounces. The newest member of Temple Beth El in St. Petersburg was greeted by members of the congregation who shared their joy at a Briss held in the Temple sanctuary Enjoy- ing the celebration were Abb Com. Thehaa Levy, Sharoa Oshar, the Bruce Mergers. Irv Fmkeisteia*, Alsa Dees, and Sidney Rickmaas. Miriam Schroeder is proving its never too late to learn. She has returned to school full time to become a Mediral arriirfant Wow, two presidents in one family and prestigious ones at that. Marilyn LeVnw was installed as President of the Pinellas County Medical Society Auxiliary by her husband Dr. Mom> LeVine. who is President of the Pinellas County Medical Society. This is the first time that a husband and wife team an Presidents at the same time. If you follow the Chatterbox regularly, and who doesn't, you will recall that Daniel Koha cams from out West to visit his grandmother Rath Koha and prepare for his Bar Mia v ah Now. at 13, Daniel celebrated this momentous event at a beautiful Bar Mitzvah at Gulfport Synagogue. Among the kvelhng surrogate Grandmas and Grandpas ware the Hy Pi-we, Harold Wank. Sam Vogels. and John Kansas Priecila Fddamaa. who had been Bat Mitzvah the day before was a guest at this affair. As a pe oal bonus Daniel's grandma is taking him to Israel. Congratulations to Doauaa and EDW MIBe on the arrival of Joshua Aaroas brother. Adasa Jonah on June 18. Adam weighed in at eight pounds two ounces. I :\:::::::x::v ::::::::: :::.:*:ro^ d\ CONVENTION AND CONFERENCE DATES CALENDAR 1981 DATES PROGRAMS Aug. 5-9 Hadassah Pre-Convention National Board Meeting. New York. Aug. 9-12 Hadassah National Convention. New York. Aug. 10-13 B'nai B'rith Board of Governors Meeting. Grossingers, New York. .Aug. 10-20 State of Israel Bonds, 30th Anniversary Internationa! Conference. Israel. Aug. 15-19 B'nai B'rith International Council of B'nai B'rith Plenary. Israel. Aug. 16-23 Jewish War Veterans of the USA. 86th Annual Conven- tion. Hollywood'. Fla. Aug. 23-28 International Conference of Jewish Communal Service. Quadrennial Meeting. Israel. Aug. 29-Sept.l United Israel Appeal Jewish Agency Assembly Jerusalem. Friday. Julyjtl. 1981 Tke Jewish Floridian afPinellas Count* "Page11 Congregations, Organizations Events AHAVAT SHALOM The Pacesetters will be having Ihcir regular meeting on Satur- v evening Aug. 1 at 7:30 p.m. [Temple Ahavat Shalom, 2000 [jain St.. Dunedin. Planning for the coming Reason, and selection of a ominating committee for new ,rs will be first on the Lgenda. New ideas to help us evp our growing Pacesetters ontinuing to grow are welcome. Come and give input and get nvolved. Try it. I'm sure you will like it. This meeting will be followed v games of all kinds, and re- eshments will be served. Every- one is welcome. Members admis- sion $1 ''U. non-members and uests $2. Following a short meeting on Uurday night, Aug. 1, at 7:30 km., the Pacesetters are proud to bresent Hawaiian Night, at the (Temple. 2000 Main St., Dunedin. Come and watch some good frlula Dancing'*. Also learn how )dance the "Hukilau". Prizes for the best man dancer nd woman dancer. (Wear your est "Hawaiian" costume, if you aveone.) Refreshments will follow. Ad- lission $1.50 for members and $2 pr nun members. Everyone la Hcome. B'NAI ISRAEL Temple B'nai Israel, 1685 ".nil lielcher ltd., Clearwater, is nnouncing a special program for nr "College Bound". How To intain Your Jewish Identity Campus. The date is Aug. 7. Ifa are looking forward to seeing lou at Shabbat Services and puling us at our Oneg Shabbat ugram in the APR for all our Ludenlfl before they leave for frlll-jre. BETH SHALOM Schedule of Summer Services It Congregation Beth Shalom. rhe schedule of summer late Fri- k) evening and Saturday irning services for the month of lul>. while Itabbi Peter Mehler HI lie on vacation is as follows: riday evening services at 8 l-iii conducted by Past Presi- iiu Bernard Panush. Lou Dan- liger will act as Cantor, Harry kid Anne Lane, Erwin and Phyl- Vbronw, Irvin and Rea Kety lill lead in responsive reading l>d the Oneg Shabbat will be ensured by the Sisterhood. Saturday service will com- mce ul 9 a.m. conducted by Brnard Panush. Albert Schmidt chant the introductory [avers, Ix>u Danziger will lead the Sharachit Services. Abe Cohen will read the portion of the Torah and Bernard Rosenbach will lead the Musaph Supplemen- tal service. The Kiddush will be sponsored by the Men's Club. JWV POST 246 Their 45th wedding anniversa- ry was celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Avery and friends at their home in Reddington Beach on July 6. Molly and Jack have endeared themselves to their many friends by giving of them- selves unselfishly to any en- deavor sponsored by the Abe Ader Post 246 Jewish War Veter- ans of the U.S. Jack as Chairman of the VAVS devotes many hours visiting patients at Bay Pines Veterans Hospital. Mollie lends her efforts to making a success of the dinner shows put on by both the Jewish Community Service and the Jewish War Veterans. We wish them many more happy and healthy anniversaries. JEWISH SINGLES PLUS 40 The Jewish Singles plus 40 are going to the Columbia in Ybor City on Aug. 15. All interested in joining, please call Gladys Osher 866-2007 or Lil Brescia, 577-3105. Car pooling is required. SHALOM HADASSAH A prospective member tea will be held by the Shalom group of Hudassah at the home of Miriam Barslieisky, 6400 30th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 1 p.m. Kindly make reservations with chairperson Sonya Olitsky 384-5971 or Char- lotte Greenberg 343-1845. p& & V*^ siP < ' * By MtchMi Ber .isteki Reagan Sends Congress N-Agreement With Egypt, 'Other Interests' WASHINGTON (JTA) - President Reagan has sent to Congress the nuclear agreement with Egypt which, he said, will "further the non-proliferation and other foreign policy interests of the United States." The agreement, signed at the State Department on June 29, could provide Egypt with up to two nuclear reactors for energy production purposes. Congress has 60 days in which to accept or reject the accord. "The proposed bilateral agree- ment reflects the desire of the governments of the U.S. and Egypt to establish a framework for peaceful nuclear cooperation in a manner which will recognize our shared non-proliferation ob- jectives, the economic and energy development needs of Egypt and the friendly and harmonious rela- tions between the U.S. and Egypt," Reagan said in his mes- sage accompanying the nuclear cooperation agreement. THE PRESIDENT noted that Egypt ratified the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty last February. "This is an important step toward controlling the dangers of the spread of nuclear weapons," Reagan said, "and is a reaffirmation of Egypt's long standing commitment to the ob- jectives of this (non-proliferation) Religious Directory ITEMPLE BETH EL-Reform __ w [400 S. Pasadena Ave., St. Petersburg 33707 Rabbi David ISusskind Rabbi Robert Kirzner Sabbath Services: Friday evening |at 8 p.m. Tel. 347-6136. Congregation BETH SHALOMConservatlve 1844 54 St. S.. St. Petersburg 33707 Rabbi Sidney Lubln Sabbat" Services: Friday evening at 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9:00 a.m. TO. W 13380. Congregation B'NAI ISRAEL-Conaervative 301 59 St N., St. Petersburg 33710 Rabbi JnOQttgM*Og![ Jose. A. Schroeder Sabbath Services: Friday evenmg 8P-m. Satur day, 9 a.m.: Sunday 9 a.m.: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.: and evening I Minyan Tel. 381-4900,381-4901. CONGREGATION BETH CHAI-Conaervatlve 8400 125 St. N.. Semlnole 33542 Rabbi Michael Cha^ Jg bath Services: Friday evenings 8 p.m.: Saturday. 9:30 a.m. Tel. s*y 15525. CONGREGATION BETHSHALOMConaervatlve M325 S Belcher Rd.. Clearwater 33516 Rabbi Peter Mehler Sab bath Services: Friday evening 8 p.m.. Saturday 9 a.m., Sunday morn 1 ng Minyan 9 a.m. Tel. 531-1418. ITEMPLE B'NAI ISRAELRelorm 1685 S. Belcher Rd., Clearwater 33516 Rabb. Arthur Baseman Sabbath Services: Friday evening at 8 p.m.. baiuroay j 10:30 a.m. Tel.531 5829 [TEMPLE AHAVAT SHALOMReform |P O. Box 1098, Dunedin 33528 Rabbi Jan Breaky Sabbath Ser- vices: Friday evening 8 p.m. Tel. 734-9428. treaty and its commitment to peace and stability in the Middle East and Africa." Meanwhile, White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakee had no comment on a report in the Los Angeles Times that the U.S. has been main- taining secret contacts with the Palestine Liberation Or- ganization since the Nixon Ad- ministration and up to the present. He also had no comment on reports of joint Soviet-Syrian naval maneuvers off Syrian coast- That issue was raised by a minister at Israel's Cabinet meeting but was promptly quashed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Cabinet Sec- retary Arye Naor explained later that "This is not a matter for the government of Israel." URI PORAT, Begins press spokesman, was quoted by Israel Radio as saying that Israel expects the U.S. to "react" to such Soviet moves wherever they are made, but especially in the Middle East. At the State Department, spokesman Dean Fischer also re- frained from commenting directly on the Los Angeles Times report. He merely repeated that the U.S. will not hold talks with the PLO until it recognizes Israel's right' to exist and accepts United Na- tions Security Council Reso- lutions 242 and 338. Giscard Contracts To be Honored PARIS (JTA) The French government has an- nounced that all commercial r contracts signed with Libya under the previous Adminis- tration of Valery Giscard d'Estaing would be honored. The decision implied the lifting of an arms embargo which had been applied by the Giscard govern- ment in protest against Libya's intervention in Chad. THE MYSTERIOUS POWERS OF THE MEZUZAH NOW EXPLAINED! | Send for revealing, interesting Report, its FREE! EVERYTHING JEWISH, Dept. MZ-6, P.O. Box 497, Piermont. NY 10968 Michael Bernstein is Executive Director of Gulf Coast Jewish Family Service, Inc. 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Page 8 <* Page 12 The Jewish Flondian ofPineUas County l^yj^f, [U -" Maccabiah Games End On Festive Note By HASKELL COHEN JERUSALEM 1JTA> The 11th Maccabiah Games were concluded here last Thursday night when the Maccabiah flame, which was lit at the opening ceremony July 6 at the Ramat Gan stadium, was extinguished at the foot of Mount Zion Immediately thereafter a banner con- taining the words "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem" was hoisted on the hilltop. The various teams, comprising 3.600 athletes from 35 countries who competed in 31 sports in 58 locations throughout Israel, then marched from Independence Park through the center of the city chanting and handing out souvenirs and insignia pins to Is- raeli youngsters who trailed along THE FESTIVE mood con- tinued as more than 10.000 fans, sitting in an outdoor amphi- theater viewed a sound and light show projected on the wails of the Old City and were entertained by the country's top singers, dancers, choirs and bands. At the closing ceremony where the Maccabiah flame was ex- tinguished. Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Ramat Gan Mayor Israel Peled and Jeru- salem Mayor Teddy Kollek ad- dressed the athletes and fans on the need to make aliya to Israel. At the end of the 10-day Maccabiah. the largest since its inception in 1932. Israel had the most medals. 177. while the Unit- ed States had 162 But the US. was ahead with 73 gold medals to Israel's 59. Israel was also ahead with B4 medals to the OS.' 49. and Israel topped the U.S. bronze medals with 54-40. Israel and the U.S. followed by South Africa, with a total of 36 medals; Canada, with 29. Australia. 23: Great Britian and Argentina tied. 16 each; France. 17. Brazil 15; and Sweden. 1^ .Mexico and Holland tied, nine medals each. West. German > and Italy tied, three* medals each. Finiand had medal, and New Zealand Austria tied, one medal each and THE ACTUAL competition during the last day was featured by the overall team play of the US. squad and South Africa. In tennis at the Ramat Hasharon courts, the Americans dominated by taking 16 of the 20 gold medals with Israel and South Africa sharing the remaining four medals between them. Only Shloroo Gbckstetn. Israel's top tennis player, prevented the U.S. from making a clean sweep of the court's play. He coasted to an easy win over Brad Gilbert of Piedmont. Calif 6-4. 6-3. in the men s final- Andrea Leand. a junior Wimbledon semi-finalist of Brooklandvilk*. Md came up with her second gold medal in mixed doubles with partner Jeff Klaparda of Los Angeles. Calif.. in a long contest, the beat of the day. when they defeated Gail Joss and Brian Levine of South Africa 2-6. 6-2. 6-4. in were Gilbert was consoled what for his singles loss to Gliek- stein when teamed with Jon Levine in doubles they beat fellow Americans. Ricky Meyer and Paul Bernstein. 6-4. 6-3. POLITICS ENTERED the Games when the Mexicans A. Walerstein and M. Fastlie re- fused to take the court against E. Saphire and J. Saks of South Africa in the over 35-year final. thereby forfeiting the match. The Mexican tennis manager advised Maccabiah court officials before the start of the tournament that none of his players would com- pete against South African players at the insistence of the Mexican government which bans sporting association with South Africa in international officially recognized events. Earlier the Mexicans refused to play a scheduled soccer match with South Africa, forcing the organizing committee to switch the two teams to separate foot- ball brackets. The enraged South African hooters went on to heat the United States in the football finals 3-1 at Ramat Gan stadium. For the Americans it was a moral victory since the> had never taken down a medal in soccer and ecstatic with their sdver runner-up team trophy. The South Africans dominated the final game after coming from behind. The US. scored first in the 10th minute of play on a goal by Kenneth Abrams of Spring Valley. NY. but lagged behind the rest of the contest. Israel just managed to come up with a bronze medal by downing Great Britain 5-4. THE US. retained its basket ball title won four years ago by swamping Israel 91-71 at the Yad Eliahu stadium The home club went with its reserve in- ternational squad and was no match for the Americans. Dan Schayes. of Syracuse University, a National Basketball Asso- ciation draft choice of Utah, was outstanding with 28 points, dominating the back boards and hitting amazingly from the outside. Willie Sims, the Black Jew. who was responsible for the 1977 gold medal, played a tremendous floor game and came up with 16 points Sims hails from Long Island. NY and will try out with the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association. If he fails in Colorado, he is all set here with Maccabi Haifa. American Captain David Blatt of Princeton notched 17 points while the ex-Syracuse II flash dominated as team playmaker. Blatt. likewise, is slated to play here next season with Maccabi Haifa. At one point in the second half, the Americans held the Israelis scoreless for nine minutes, no small feat % AT CAESAREA, the US. Golf team came up with a team victory with 1.189 point to runner-up Canada at 1.224. Horn- t-veer. the big excitement came when Americans Corey Pavin of Oxnard. Calif., and Joel Hirsch of Chicago. 111., tied at the end of regulation play and were forced into a sudden death, extra hole play-off after they had tied 72 holes. In the sudden death. Pavin shot a brilliant birdie as Hirsch could do no better hitting a par four. Similarly, in the quest for the bronze medal. Canada's Bill Holsman went into a sudden death play-off with Gene Gross of Pembroke Pines. Fla.. and won when the American fl easy putt to blow the me^1 Great Britain edged _, women I links team 985 to- points but Renee R Wesley Chapel. Fla singles title with t j margin over Debora fl Great Britain BRIAN MOf Huntington Beach. Calif.* new Maccabiah record mi cathlon with a total points, The silver medal Mark Kibort of Saratof who came up with a . 6.486. In topping all comn Mondschein look a first discus and 1.500 run wit onds in the 110 meter hu pole vault. Brenda Kaziner of the versity of Michigan wontaj] meter women's final spr the 4x400 meter women'] the U.S. placed second i while standings were the same race for male i The men won the gold i as the women took the i 3.59.63. Sara Strauss of! dale, N.Y. came second 3.000-meter run the Center Pa^e JCC Programs And Activitives The Jewish Community Center of Pinellas County is a major beneficiary of funds raised in the annual Combined Jewish Appeal Campaign. The Jewish Community Center of Pinellas County. 8167 Elbow 1-aiK North. Si Petersburg, with facilities also at 302 S. Jupiter Ave in Clean*ater. will be of- fering the following programs to commence in the fall. The JCC is especially proud this year of the fine instructional staff we have obtained for our sports and cul- tural arts programs. Registration is to begin Aug. 17 at the JCC. For further information, contact Ann Lardner-Program Director. >r Stephan Alpert-Cultural Arts Director and Program Coordi- nator at 344-5795 Child Care Starts Sept. 9 Playgroup Ages two to three. Mother-Toddler Ages 14 months to two years. Crafts Starts Sept. 14 Needle Point. Macrame" Cultural Arts Dance. Pro- Call. Ballet. Tap Starts Sept. 9 Ages two and a half through Adult. Israeli Folk Dance. Children* Theatre. Term Theatre. Guitar. Piano. Organ. Voice Lessons. Personal History Writing. Oil 1'aiming. Interrior Design. Sculpture Starts Sept. 14. Exercise Jazzercise. Western Leaders Leaning More Toward PLO Role OTTAWA In a separate session of "Issues and Answers," West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in- terviewed in Ottawa, said he believed the increased violence in Lebanon "is proof of the necessity to broaden the Camp David process." He said this applied to both the issues and the participants. Schmidt said that in order to achieve a com- prehensive peace in the Middle East, the negotiations cannot be left just to Israel and Egypt but should include other Arab states, such as Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, as well as the Palestinians. Schmidt refused to comment when asked what affect a U.S. decision to resume delivery of F- 16s to Israel would have on the situation. BRITISH FOREIGN Secretary Lord Carrington meanwhile said in a television interview that the Euro- pean Economic Community's (EEC) Middle East ini- tiative is baaed on the Arab recognition of Israel's right to exist within secure borders and "in exactly equal measure" Israel's recognition of Palestinian rights. Appearing on NBC's "Today" program, Carrington stressed that any peace initiative in the Mideast must in- clude the Palestine Liberation Organization. The PLO does represent the Palestinians," he asserted. "If you look at who represents the Palestinian people and try to find anybody but the PLO, you will be absolutely un- successful. If you to go the West Bank, if you go any- where, they are all people who belong to the PLO." Contending the EEC peace initiative does not undermine the U.S. peace efforts in the Mideast, Carrington claimed that the European initiative was baaed on the rights of both Israel and the Palestinians. Aerobics Dancercise. Seniors. 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