THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
311 Friday, May 9, 1975
State Department Officials Meet With Jewish Leaders
.
man of the Presidents Con-
ference, said the positive
aspects of the meeting were
the reiteration of the U.S.
commitment to Israel's se-
curity and the special rela-
tionship between Israel and
the U.S. Less positive was
the outcome of the reassess-
ment and the failure to
state the quantities of aid
Israel would receive from
the U.S. -
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The concerns of the Amer--
...._,can-Jewish community over
the current status of U.S.-
Israeli relations were ex-
pressed here last week in a
two-hour exchange of ques:
tions and answers between
40 American-Jewish leaders
representing virtually every
major national Jewish or-
ganization and two top level
State Department officials.
The officials, Joseph J.
Sisco, Undersecretary of
-*State for Political Affairs,
and Alfred E. Atherton,
Assistant Secretary of State
in charge of Middle Eastern
Affairs, met with the group
at the request of the Confer-
ence of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organiza-
tions. The group included
the American Jewish Com-
mittee which is not a mem-
ber of the Conference of
Presidents.
Rabbi Israel Miller, chair-
According to Miller,
Sisco, who is chairman of
the group conducting the
policy review ordered by
President Ford, told the
group that while the U.S.
would like to return to the
step-by-step negotiating
process, it looked as if the
option will be the Geneva
conference. No date was
mentioned.
Sisco warned, according
to Miller, that a flashpoint
will occur in the Middle
Bnai Brith Names Dr. Jick
DR. LEON JICK
WASHINGTON — Bnai
Brith has named Dr. Leon
A. Jick of Brandeis Univer-
sity, an authority on Jewish
communal and family life,
as chairman of its national
program committee.
The committee is the pol-
icy body for specialized Bnai
Brith programming which
seeks to encourage the in-
volvement of Bnai Brith's
__$50,000 adult members in
"strengthening their Jewish
identity and commitment to
Jewish institutions."
Dr. Jick, on - leave from
Brandeis during 1972-74,
was the first director of
the Institute for Jewish
Life which the Council of
Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds established
to enhance the quality of
Jewish life in the United
States.
Dr. Jick, currently head
of the Lawn Graduate Cen-
ter for Contemporary Jew-
ish Studies at Brandeis suc-
ceeds Harvey Platt of New
York, as chairman.
An ordained rabbi, Dr.
Jick held pulpits in Boston
and Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and
was a _chaplain at Norfolk
State Prison in Massachu-
setts before beginning an
'academic career. He has
been active in the civil rights
movement.
He was ordained at the
Hebrew Union College in
Cincinnati and received a
doctorate in American his-,
tory at Columbia Univer-
sity.
East this July when the
newly extended mandates
for the United Nations
peace-keeping, forces ex-
pire.
Another flashpoint will
be in August unless there
is some progress toward a
peace settlement, not nec-
essarily at Geneva but in
terms of some kind of de-
velopment, Sisco said, ac-
cording to Miller.
Regarding U.S. military
aid to Israel, Sisco told the
Jewish leaders that aid
was not the,. question; the
question is the amount,
and, as always, "we have
to wait until other factors
in the reassessment are
concluded."
Sisco also said, accord-
ing to Miller, that the rea-
son the U.S. prefers the
step-by-step approach to a
Mideast settlement is that
it does not want to tackle
the Palestinian question at
this time.
sage of Israeli cargoes
through the Suez Canal was
part of the January 1974
disengagement agreement
concluded between Israel
and Egypt. But Sisco evaded
the question of whether Is-
raeli cargoes would indeed
be permitted through the
waterway when it is re-
opened June 5, Miller said.
- According to the Constan-
tinople Convention of 1888,
"The Suez Maritime Canal
shall always be free and
open, in time of war as in
time of peace, to every vessel
of commerce or of war,
without distinction of flag.
"Consequently, the High
Contracting Parties agree
not in any way to interfere
with the free use of the
canal, in time of war as in
time of peace. The canal
shall never be subjected to
the exercise of the right of
blockade."
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Sisco said the U.S. was
not thinking of the Palesti-
nians in terms of statehood,
but the problem will have to
be dealt with, though he
didn't say how, Miller re-
ported.
He said that Sisco ac-
knowledged that the pas-
"jewelry designed
with the individual
in mind"
Day School Unit
Picks Board Chief
The Association of He-
brew Day Schools of Metro-
politan Detroit has elected
Jack Zwick chairman of its
board of directors.
The association, com-
prised of Akiva Hebrew Day
School, Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit and
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, also
elected Dr. Jules Altman,
custom
Sol Waldman, Percy Cohen,
David N. Cohen, Marvin
Rabbi David Lieber- 41 17040 W. 12 mile
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Dr. Martin Guyer and Mark
Schlussel to the board.
Schlussel is past president.
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Health Testing
Due at Tel-12
A special exhibit, featur-
ing Southfield's Life Sup-
.)ort Unit and free tests for
high blood pressure, will be
held 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday
through May 17 at Tel-12
Mall, presented by Provid-
ence Hospital in conjunction
with National Hospital
Week.
The exhibit will follow the
theme "Our Constant Con-
cern for a Healthy Commu-
nity." Each day's display
will focus on different serv-
ices available at Providence,
and emphasis will be placed
on public education on prev-
entive health care.
-
fields in Sinai in exchange
for peace or- even in ex-
change for substantial prog-
ress toward peace which
would indicate that Egypt
was moving away from the
cycle of war.
Withdrawal from the oil
fields, which currently pro-
duce 50 percent of Israel's
domestic oil consumption
and are one of the country's
largest foreign currency
earners, is a fact of life and
a reality that Israel will
have to face, Rabin told
workers at the-Abu Rodeis
fields.
He_told the workers there
was no contradiction be
tween their hard work to de-
velop the oil fields and the
reality that they will have to
be given up when the time
comes. He said that mean-
while, Israel would spare
nothing to develop the
fields.
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Abu Rodeis • Will Be Returned,
But Development Continues
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Pre-
mier Yitzhak Rabin said
last Wednesday that his
government is prepared to
give up the Abu Rodeis ail-
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