·- "· R.I. JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOC, 130 SESSIONS ST. PROVIDENCE, RI 02906 Exodus Hero To Address Women Benefactors Div. John Stanley Grauel, the man who has become a legend in his own time, will address the Benefactors Women's Division of the Jewish Federation at a cocktail party to be G'.LY F',GLISH JEWISH NEEKLY P I AN:] SOUTHEAS' 'IA'5 fHf "i held in Providence on Thursday, October 21, according to Fannie FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1976 20c PER COPY Shore, campaign chairman of the Women's Division. Rev . Gra uel is particularly k~own for the role he played in the historic drama around the Exodus affair. The Battle of the Exodus. or the Exodus affai r, became a focal point for the United Nations recommending partition of Palestine and the eventual cs­ tablishcnt of the State of Israel. Rev. Graucl's link to Zionism and Haganah had come about by a chain of circumstances which could not have been foreseen in his early life. He was born in Worcester, REV. JOHN S. GRAUEL Massachusetts, and as a child grew For over three decades Reverend up near the Kennedy boys at Hyan­ Grauel has continued his unceasing n i sport. Like them, he wa s efforts on behalf of the State of fascinated with boating and the Israel. Rev. Grauel has been the water. His family were Methodists. recipient of many awards, among He aspired to the ministry and which arc the Fighter for Israel became pastor of a sea parish on the Medal, with two combat ribbons; coast of Maine. Humanity Medal, shared with Pope The war and its first reports of Paul ; Victory Medal and Medal of Nazi persecutions led him to resign Jerusalem as a founder of the State; and join the American Christian and B'nai B'rith Humanitarian Palestine Committee, an organiza­ award. ti on dedicated to the establishment of the State of Israel. He became in­ Chai rman of the Benefactors timate with the Jewish community Division is Mrs . E ugene and learned about the Haganah. Wachtcnheim. Hostess.for the event Fascinated , he joined and is Mrs. Frederic Wcingcroff. volunteered to ride on the President Warfield. soon to be called the Exodus, as a ga lley boy. He soon apcarcd in the underground in THE FISCHMAN SUCCAH: Stringing fruits and vegetables ta decorate their famHy Succah - the "'-idenc• East Europe, a mysteri ous figure, known Side are, left fa right, !'ref- lurt- FIKhman, daut1hter Helene, Oliece leverly Schleifer ....ct ,,..hbor Fiona to his co-workers as "John the Smith. Laak far more Succah picture.- next wHk. • Priest." BETH EL TO HONOII: Cantor and Mrs. Norman Gewlrt1 will be honored by Temple leth El at a reception to wish them Shalom on the occasion of their aliyah to Israel. Congregation members and their friends are invited to attend the event which will take place in the temple mHling hou .. on Sunday, October 17, from 3 ta 5 p.m. Cantor Gewirh has served the congregation of Temple Beth El for 14 years, coming to Providence In 1962, and is a graduate of Hebrew EMANU-EL LECTURE: Dennis Prager, Union College of Sacred Music. Mrs. newly appointed 01-iate director Gewirtz has also Hrved the of the Brandeis Institute (California) congregation as secretary to Rabbi will open the 5737 series of the Emeritus, William G. Brande and Institute of Jewish Studies. A PLAN MEETING: Shown planning the annual meeting of the Jewish Family graduate of Yeshiva Flatbu1h High Rabbi Leslie Y. Gutterman. · and Children's Service scheduled for October 19 a! 8 p.m. at the Jewish School, Mr. Prager studied for a year Community Center are Mrs. Walter J. Nelson, chairman of the evening, and in England. He received his BA in Paul L Segal, executive director of the agency. history and Middle Eastern studies Ford, Carter Rapped For and his MA, from Columbia Univer­ 47th Annual Meeting Is Slated For sity, in international affairs. For the Reiection Of Amendment last six years, he has bffn traveling Jewish Family & Children's Service and lecturing internationally. In ad­ denegration by equating moral NEW YORK (HA): President a' dition to English, he speaks Hebrew, ,deal to the issue of trade." The 47th annual meeting of the Department of Social Welfare, the Ford and Democratic ·Presidential Arabic, Russian, French and "There is nothing morally un­ Jewish Family and Children's Ser­ RI Council of Community Services candidate Jimmy Carter were · Spanish. criticized for their. reji;ction of the worthy when we relate human vice will be held on Tuesday even­ and the Children's Aid Association Jackson-Yanik amendment in favor rights to trade," he continued. "It ing, October 19, at 8 p.m. at the · of Boston. In ,addition to active He has written on intemational of quiet diplomacy as the approach demonstrates for all the world to Jewish Community Center, membership in many social welfare and Jewish affairs for National to achieve free emigration for Jews see that the United States is as Providence. Philip Macktez, chair­ organizations, Mr. Affleck serves Review, New Leader and American and others in East European coun­ much concerned about the exten­ man of the nominating committee, . on .the board of directors of the Zionist. He is co-author with Jo.. ph tries. sion of human rights as it is in the has announced that Ralph P. United Way~ the American Public hlushkin of the book Eight Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, extension of economics and Semonoff, Providence attorney, will Welfare Association and the Questions People Ask About president of the Union of American political way . AndJhat among these serve a second term as president of National Association of Socia•! Judaism. Hebrew Congregations, who has human rights, the free movement of the agency. W9fkers. just returned from ·a six-day "of­ peoples is an ideal • to which our A business meeting and installa­ Mrs. ·Edwin B. Krause is chair­ Mr, Prager will speak on "Four ficial" visit to Rumania, told natjonal honor is pledged." ' tion of officers will be followed by a man of the reception which will Reforms for Jewish Life" on Tu••· members of the UAHC's Executive - program and a social reception. follow the annual meeting. Serving day, Ocl.tlber 19, at 8 p.m. in the Committee current hearings · in Mrs. Walter J. Nelson, vice on her. committee are Mrs. Ralph temple mHling houM, Subsequent Congress linking emigration to an On Time For The president of tlic Jewish Family and Scmonoff, Mrs. Jeremiah Gorin lectuNI are slated for December 21 expansion of. the most favored na­ High Holy Days -Children's Service, will be chairman and Mrs. Norman Orodcnkcr. and March 1, 1977. tion status to "ast European ofthe evening. nations, including Rumania, would ELIZABETH .N.J.: Jewish Norman G. Orodcnkcr is chair­ never be taking place, without the leaders in comniunities throµghout man of the planning committee leverage of · the Jackson-Yanik the Soviet Union have confirmed which includes Rabbi Leslie Y. amendment. the arrival of shipments ,of esrogim, Gutterman, Mrs. -Karl Foss, A SPECIAL NEW CAR AND CAR CARE · Schindler, whose organization lulavim and hadasim, Rabbi Donald Robbins and Stanley represents 720 Reform synagogues Pinchas M. Teitz, dean of the Bleecker. and I. I million members in the US • Jewish Education Center here, The featured speaker will be John SUPPLEMENT IN THIS WEEKS R.I. HERALD and Canada, disagreed with in­ reported. J. Affleck, director of the Rhode dividuals like Ford and Carter, He said the items were received in Island Department of Social and , "who voice public criticism of the Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Riga, Rehabilitative Services. Mr. Affleck PAGES 7 - 18. / amendment, opting instead for per­ Vilna, Kovno, Dvinsk, Tashkent, will ~iscuss ••Critlcal Issues in State , sonal diplomacy, on the grounds Slavuta, Kuihishcv, Minsk, Social Service Today." He was that s11£h action represents a Kishinev and Odessa, formerly associated with the RI 2-THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1916 diameter; the 24 karat gold medal Medal Which Honors Rescue At_Entebbe weighs almost two troy ounces. The NEW YORK: The ninety and confidence in the fulfillment of gold and silver _medals arc NEW ENGLAND numbered. minutes at Entebbe that electrified Jewish destiny as expressed both in VISITS ISRAEL the world on July 4,° 1976, have been Psalm 91, "Surely He shall deliver Further information is available memorialized in ..The Medal of thee," and in Herzl's own exhorta­ from The Judaic Heritage Society, Deliverance," announced by The tion, "If you will it, it is no dream." Suite 4011, 866 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. (212) 421- Judaic Heritage Society. The medal Sculptor Belski is an Academi­ 2960. - also honors the man whose vision· cian of the National Academy, of did so much to inspire the creation Design and Fellow of the National Histerical Material lnclNM of the Smte of Israel. ..Those who Sculpture Society. The obverse of In licentNllial Time Capsule 0..... ~ 17_.:Third Israel International Cham­ planned and executed the rescue at piqnship Regatta . _ -. the medal shows a kindled menorah Entebbc," says Society President held aloft by two Lions of Judah. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE OdDllerh. 16-0dlller 2'-Holy Land Pilgrimage", led by Rev. (JTA): A Bicentennial time capsule J o n Smua Robert W ebcr, ..were surely im­ The names of the menorah lead into bued with Theodore Herzl's exhor­ the Hebrew lettering, YISRAEL. which included material related to Oct. 17-0ci: 25-28tli Annual Congress of International Jewish history was buried on F'ederatlon of Tlterml!lism and Climatism tation, ..If you will it, it is no Flanking the Lions of Judah is the dream!" quotation, "Surely He shall deliver September 30 in Wilmington Octelllr .N......_ .3-Longmeadow Visits Israel, led by Square.