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Five Michigan college professors
whose skepticism is born of aca-
experience came away from
a two-week trip to Israel still
skeptical but tempered with vary-
ing degreet , of admiration.
Members of - the American Jew-
ish Committee Detroit Chapter,
• who helped send the group to
Israel, heard from four of them
in an informal gathering last Sat-
urday evening. The quartet con-
sisted of Carl Cohen, professor of
philosophy at the University of
Michigan and president of the
American Civil Liberties Union in
:Michigan; Ernst Benjamin, pro-
fessor of political science at Mon-
.' teith College of Wayne State Uni-
versity; his wife, Judith McCombs
Benjamin, poet and instructor in
Wayne's English department; and
Kalman J. Kaplan, assistant pro-
fessor of social psychology at
WSU.
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Garelick's Gallery in Birming-
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the part of'4he Israel govern- ham,. will open its sixth one-man
onomics at Western Michigan Uni-
Of the. four. speakers, Kaplan ment?: -
show for RICHARD FLORSHEIM,
versity, could not be present for admitted
to the greatest change
Nor is if- ItImply a question of noted Chicago artist; with a spe-
the discussion. He has been quoted in
outlook
toward
his
own
Jewish-
cial
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Ashkenaihn
in the Kalamazoo press as being
versus Sephardim.
"I was an assimilated Amer- Benfaiiiiii noted
that American
tremendouslY impressed with Is- ness.
ican
Jew:
Being
a
Jew
in
America
rael and hopes to return soon with was so boring, although I grew Jews have their individual prob-
MARSH A GOLD
lems - of integration that 'cannot be
his family.
p in an age that had both the grouped' under the catch-all word
The five were among tw
CREATIVE INVITES
Holocaust and the birth of Israel.
Party Planning — INVITATIONS,
dozen academicians from 1 0 We felt a sense of warmth in Ashkenazim. They find it difficult,
8 Misc. Party Accessories for
U.S. campuses who took part in Israel. I've always been a uni- for example, to cope with the uni-
quely
East
European
bureaucracy
the Israel seminar, the second versalist. But there are two parts
of its kind, during December of being Jewish: the universal that has become a touchstone of for Appt. Ccarli f l 771174254
Israel _life.
and January.
ethic and the, particularist need
Nevertheless, Cohen added,
Each of the group scrutinize d for survival. Why should I ignore
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Israel from the perspective of his Jewish history? If I get too objec- "With all of the excruciating dif-
dud specia l occasions
own expertise, aided by a varied tive, a little voice within me says ficulties of achieving equality,
they are all Jews. The Arab cit-
Garson Zeltzer
and well-structured program of 'You can't be. You're a Jew.'
izens of Israel are not Jews. It
tours and meetings with govern-
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"At the same time," he added,
ment and military leaders, mayors "I can't fall into the trap of no will always be impossible to at-
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and Arab officials, with the man criticism at all. There are ways tach themselves fully to the state
of Israel. Someone asked, 'How
in the street and with academic to criticize that are legitimate."
can they sing the national an-
counterparts. None of the five
One point that disturbed him,
them, Ratiliva?' .1 can't answer
• itICK STEIN
Michigan travelers, except for Dr.
said, "was a lack of un-
that question,"
Presents
Cohen, had been to Israel before. Kaplan
derstanding
between
American
from
THE
DICK STEIN ORCHESTRA
The
American
college
profes-
Dr. Cohen, who has taught at Jew and Israeli ... (Sociologist)
AND
LONDON,
LONDON, ENGLAND
the Hebrew University, said he Simon Herman's study revealed sors took frequent opportunities to
THE JEEP SMITH ORCHESTRA
went this time "to test the cliche: that many sabras have more chat with Israeli students and gen-
to what extent is Israel 'an island positive attitudes toward Amer- erally found them to be, as Cohen
THE.MODDI McCALISTER ORCH.
fore erly v•ialist with Jeep
of democracy in the Middle East'? ican non-Jews than toward put it, "more knowledgeable about
world affairs than are American stu-
THE ORIN ROSS ORCHESTRA
If you test the democracy in Is- Jewi."
- and His ORCHESTRA
dents, yet quite parochial in their
rael,
the
results
are
mixed
but
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"Distinctive Styling in Music
Prof. Benjamin, who describes approach" to those affairs. Kaplan
favorable. There are inefficiences, himself
To Your Individual Taste"
as "the radical on the trip called it "a crazy combination of
but . . . Israel is a reasonably —not anti-Israel,
but not pro-Is- cosmopolitanism and parochial-
healthy democracy—in some re- rael either—" admitted
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spects better than our own, in criticisms of Israel were that
linked
some ways less so."
One
Israeli
student,
whose
views
small measure to the fact seemed to echo those of others,
Miss McCombs, editor of a wom- in no the
government "supported told Cohen that the American
en's liberation magazine, was par- that
the
war
and that is youth studying there evidenced a
ticularly attuned to the changing anathema in to Vietnam,
me." Unlike Kaplan, greater
• LOOKING FOR THE BEST
and com-
role of women in Israeli society, he felt no religious
change
and, in munity thoughtfulness
HALRCUT FOR YOUR HAIR?
and she was not entirely happy
orientation, judging by
• LOOKING FOR THE BEST
fact
"met
a
different
kind
of
Jew
FOUNDATION PERM FOR
with what she saw.
their active. role in social, volun-
for your party
YOUR HAIR?
that I didn't grow up with. I felt teer
organizations.
• LOOKING FOR THE BEST
The women of the pioneer more American than Jewish."
HAIR COLORING FOR
But what amazed Benjamin was
generation — that generation
YOUR HAIR?
About
the
quality
of
Israeli
life,
By
which nurtured Golda Meir and Benjamin remarked that one of the Israeli students who "kept tell-
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us
how
pragmatic
and
practi-
which has provided "a model to the tour participants suggested
(Just W. of (toIidge)
women everywhere" — are a Israel represents the transition cal they are and how introspective
dying breed, she feels. "My con- from socialism to capitalism. we are. What they were doing was
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cern," she said, "is that the "There's a tremendous growth describing themselves in Yankee
older, equalized generathin will that resembles the United States terms and describing us as though
die off, without the Younger to the 1920s—except that the Unit- we were European Jews!"
generation having that kind of ed States wasn't threatened with
HAIR STYLISTS
A hero is no braver than an or-
opportunity." One example of becoming a theocracy and Israel
formerly of
dinary man, but he is brave five
the change is that women, al- is."
minutes longer.—Ralph Waldo Em-
BIRMINGHAM
though required to enter the
Although Benjamin saw inequi- erson.
OPEN SIIND,AYS
army, are not taught offensive ties in Israeli society, "At least in
weaponry, "but only how to Israel, they build 10 housing pro-
FASHION'S
BEST
type."
jects when Detroit doesn't even
Miss McCombs noted that 50 build one."
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per cent of university undergradu-
Recognizing that there are "rea-
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—a binational state—is unaccept-
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a dilemma at the level of
school." She attributes it partly to
Palestinian nationalism, not so-
the Oriental patriarchy.
cialism. "This is no political
"It's a move up when an Ori- issue for Israel at all. In fact,
ental woman is taught to type. But the Israelis are contemptuous
her cousin is taught, at the same of the Arabs living in the West
time, to be a machinist and earns Bank because they don't fight
four times more than she does." back. It's a moral Issue, but not
Miss McCombs, who on balance a political issue."
found Israel to her liking and said
On the latter point, Prof. Cohen
she wants to return, complained strongly disagreed. "Only 200 Jews
that "the whole role of the women work on the West Bank," he coun-
on the kibutz and moshav is very tered. "That is no moral problem
disturbing. They're put into menial of ISraeli life." He added that the
service occupations on the kibutz, influx of immigrants is in no way
like working in the nursery. And tied to any expansionist aims.
Why Not
What is an
only men can be members of a "There is no hesitation on the part
moshay." She summed up the sit- of Israeli leaders that every Jew
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at the title of Amos Elon's basic the 1967 boundaries."
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Interior
Kaplan concurred. "If Israel
absorbs the West Bank with its
Chosen
Decorator?
Arab inhabitants, there will cease .
to be a Jewish state."
It's someone who can
On the question of assimilating
create, blend -and ac-
those within its own borders, Is-
cessorize your home to -
rael has enough .problems. Cohen
give it YOUR personal-
observed an anibivalence here:
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