g.taga:;itatelth Guidelines for More Effective Zionist Public Relations Activities JEWISH NEWS - A Weekly Review Outline by JTA Editor Zukoff on Page 48 , LXV1, No. 19 of Jewish Events A Time for Defiance of 'the Ominous' Aiding the Handicapped With Jobs Editorials - Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper 44iiem 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c January 17, 1975 Pessimism Strikes Israel, USSR Jewry Waldheim's Fears of UNDOF's End, Disruption of Detonte, -Link - Ceis - es Arab Students' Animus Hurts Israeli Colleges By MOSHE RON Jewish News Special Israel Correspondent TEL AVIV — Lately some actions occurred which have aroused the indignation of the Israeli population and have widened the gap between it and the intellectual Israeli Arabs. The Israeli writer Yizhak Orpas, who since the Six-Day War was active in circles of Arab writers as an avant-garde for mutual understanding and peace between the two peoples 'has published a letter in the Israeli press, in which he ex- pressed his bitter disappointment from his activity for seven years. He reveals that an Arab poet has proposed to him to publish a united protest against the administrative arrests of Arab Communist members by the Israeli military authorities in the occupied territories. The appeal came a few days after the terrorist attack in the Chen cinema in Tel Aviv, where two people were killed and dozens were wounded. Orpaz proposed that a protest against administrative arrests should be linked to a condemnation of the terrorist attack in the ' Chen Cinema, but the woman poet reacted, saying that con- demning this terror was a political step and she was not ready for such a step. Orpaz refused to sign the protest petition. At the same time, Arab students delivered at a symposium on the Haifa U. campus solidarity declarations for Arafat and stated that he represented all Palestinian Arabs. The Education \ Minister, Aharon Yadlin, who spoke a few days later in a students' assembly in Haifa, expressed his regret-about these (Continued on Page 5) - , United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's expression of fear that the agree- ment for renewal of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) may not be renewed again in May, thereby adding to mounting war threats; Russia's rejection of the 1972 trade pact which was approved by congressional action last month, because of the USSR's refusal to accept the U.S. demand for unrestricted emigration of Jews and other nationality groups in the Soviet Union and the statements by President Ford in Time magazine, emphasizing the possibility of limiting continued American aid to Israel, combined to add tensions in Israel and for world Jewry. Only the continuing optimism of Israel Foreign Minister Yigal Allon that there still are hopes for a possible Middle East peace retained a measure of calm in the process of new global developments. While the USSR's rejection of the trade pact, which shocked Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, causing him to say that efforts to restore the agreements will continue, and the Waldheim and other statements may appear unrelated, they nevertheless affect Israel because either directly or indirectly they have a Russian involvement and inevitably lead to renewal of the energy crises and possible U.S.-USSR conflicts. The publication, on the eve of Foreign Minister Allon's Washington visit, of President Ford's Time interview devoted largely to the Mideast is seen — both in timing and in content — as a firm but gentle nudge aimed at eliciting further concessions from Israel before second-stage talks. The President's offer, observers here feel, of formal U.S. guarantees following "substantial" further progress towards a settlement is intended to soothe Israel's security susceptibilities and prod her toward greater generosity in her offered. Sinai pullback. The effort to arrange at short notice a Ford-Allon meeting is seen, similarly, as evi- dence of the President's own pressing concern that the U.S.'s Mideast efforts should move forward — and should be seen to move forward. The President's veiled warning that while the U.S. and Israeli interests coincide at present, they might not always do so, and in that case the U.S. national interest must take preference in policy-making, is seen here as a piece of psycho- logical arm twisting — probably engineered by Kissinger — in advance of the Allon talks. Nevertheless, observers do not ignore the fundamental truth of the President's assess- ment. Official thinking here is very aware indeed of the currently very real and definite • American interest in attaining a second-stage settlement and thereby further thwarting Soviet (Continued on Page 8) 4-Year Old's Brit Mila Starts New , Life After Emigration From Soviet Union . 4, ow. Dimitry Kazavchinsky, center, and his mother Mayah, left, are shown with Sinai Hospital staff Monday, before the four-year-old Russian emigre underwent a ritual circumcision three months after coming to the United States. Four-year-old Dimitry Kazavchinsky was given his Jewish name and underwent a brit on Monday at Sinai Hospital of Detroit. The event — routine for male Jewish children in the United States — was a hallmark for the Kazavchinsky family which arrived in Detroit from Moscow just three months ago. Alex and Mayah, the parents of Dimitry, described the experience as, "A great day in our lives and a great day for Dimitry. It i,s a wonderful, wonderful thing and we are very proud.... People ask us, 'Why did you cling to your Jewishness in Russia. It was easier—maybe wiser— to hide/it. Yet you wanted yobr identity as Jews. Why?' This is why, for this day and this child." Rabbi Irwin Groner of Cong. Shaarey Zedek officiated at the brit which was performed surgically by Dr. David Donitz in a Sinai Hospital room. The arrangements had been made through the Jewish Community Council _by Israel Elpern. - The parents expressed themselves as tremendously lucky in, as the father said, "deciding when to ask to leave Russia. Dr. Kissinger was holding discussions with Leonid Brezhnev, and the timing was opportune. It took us only three months of waiting. We know friends who have been waiting for more than three years. , . ." Alex Kazavchinsky was the assistant director of a toy factory and his wife a teacher of German in a Moscow high school. "We left," said Mrs. Kazavchinsky, "because we were denied the right of our Jewishness. It is as simple as that," she explained .through Elpern who served as interpreter. (Continued on Page 5) ,