THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Tough Sadat Talk Worries Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) — There is some concern in Jerusalem at the content of a major speech to the Egyp- tian Parliament by Presi- dent Anwar Sadat last week. Israeli analysts point to a tougher line taken by Sadat vis-a-vis Israel and the United States and — Begun in Jersey City 4 Havura' JERSEY CITY (JTA) — Young professionals have created a residential havura in an historic landmark bank building here. The 13 families will enjoy their ar- chitecturally unique condo- minium units and will share their Jewish traditions in the building's community spaces. According to Jeff Oboler, director of the American Jewish Congress Youth Commission head- quartered in Manhattan. "Small intimate groups known as havurot, the He- brew word for friendship and fellowship, are develop- ing throughout the country. A havura is simply a corn- munity of individuals striv7 ing to attain a shared hu- man consciousness through common activities. BACKGAMMON beginner & strategy LESSONS aft. or eve. classes 20% OFF Backgammon • sets 626-4643 WrSocCSof eStot 4 equally worrisome — a very broad hint thrown out by the Egyptian leader to Mos- cow. Sadat said Cairo would be ready to "rebuild its bridges" with Moscow if the Soviets honored their pledges of aid to the Arab states and if they ceased supporting Arab radical states against Egypt. This is the first time since the in- terim Sinai agreement last September, observers here note, that Sadat has allowed a more positive tone on the Soviets to creep into a public address. , He flayed at the Ameri- cans for slowing the pace of Mideast peace-making and cited them, by impli- cation, as Syria's allies in hounding the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. Sadat was especially tough in his as- sault on President Hafez Assad of Syria over the Le- banon issue — returning in full measure Assad's own strictures delivered in an earlier speech. The two speeches were analyzed in depth by offi- cials and army intelligence men. The consensus, accord- ing to informed sources, was that the Sadat address presages no immediate threat of a change in policy. Religious Olim Unhindered • JERUSALEM (JTA) — The social-absorption of reli- gious immigrants in Israel is much smoother and eas- ier than that of the non-reli- gious, says Rabbi Mordechai Kirschblum, associate head of the Jewish Agency-World Zionist Organization Immi- gration and Absorption De- partment. The reason, he says, is not that better services and fa- cilities are provided for reli- gious olim than for others. It is that the religious -leh naturally enjoys better com- munication and relatively closer connections with vet- eran religious Israelis, mainly through frequent and regular meetings at the synagogues. Within days of his arrival in Israel, the religious im- migrant is out and about looking for a suitable syn- agogue. At the synagogue, Israelis and newcomers share the same experience, find a common language, and thus grow instantly closer to each other. The Immigration and NEW CADILLAC? BUY OR LEASE FROM ANDY BLAU in BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC RES. 642-6836 CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM Absorption Department has always flatly rejected proposals for setting up special absorption centers for religious olim, says Kirschblum. The depart- ment believes that the reli- gious Jew, whether new- corner or veteran Israeli, does not need a special framework of exclusivity to satisfy his spiritual and ritual requirements. What the religious Jew -l oes need is suitable and ad- equate physical facilities to enable him to practice and enjoy his faith. Often, such physical facilities are sadly lacking. But Kirschblum's department, the rabbi says sadly, has no real influence on the religious facilities provided by the governmen- tal or municipal authorities in the suburbs where the olim eventually settle. While the department does not develop special programs to cater to reli- gious immigrants, it does devote a great deal of effort to providing religious facili- ties for non-religious new- comers. The department's reli- gious culture section is con- stantly putting up religious facilities in absorption cen- ters. The section encourages religious events, such as dis- cussion groups, or Sabbath and festival celebrations. Lecturers are sent out by the center to talk to immi- grants on religious themes. Each of the absorption centers has a synagogue, and almost every Saturday there are "oneg Shabat" and "Melave Malka" pro- grams. The Israeli reli- gious women's organiza- tions send packages to the absorption centers on the festivals. 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Friday, July 30, 1976 19 Israel Universities Record Enrollment Increase RAMAT-GAN — Enroll- ment in Israel's universities has increased five-fold in the past 15 years, from 10,- 000 to 50,000 students, while the population increased by only 50 percent. During this same period university expenditures in real terms increased by 600 percent compared with a 300 percent increase in the gross national product. These were some of the figures released by Israel's Minister of Education, Aharon Yadlin, showing the strides Israel has taken in higher education. Yadlin said these achievements helped make Israel the only country of any consequence between Rome and Tokyo in which independent scien- tific and industrial research was carried out on an inter- national so told his Bar- Ilan audience that in 1960 the Israel government and the Jewish Agency under- wrote 45 percent of the univ- ersities' budgets while today they were contributing 78 percent. However, because of the heavy burden on its budget and resources, he explained, the government was forced to cut back its Overland Bridge Business Rises HAIFA — Dispite the fact that the Suez Canal re- opened in June 1975, the Kedem overland bridge transported 38,000 tons of cargo between the Fgr East and East Africa and Europe during the first six months of the year, equaling the 1975 total. Kedem's 1975 gross revenue totalled $2.5 million. contribution this year by 18 university continued to ex- pand during the past percent. In order to cope with year, Bar-Ilan's Chancellor, these cutbacks Yadlin Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, called on Israel's universi- reported, reaching a total ties to cut their expenses built-up area of some and to raise more money 700,000 sq. ft., double the from tuition fees and from built-up area available just various outside sources. five years ago. This entailed Despite these economies, an expenditure of IL 40 mil- which follow similar cut- lion ($5.5 million) during the backs made last year, the past year. Insurance Company to Stop Discriminating Against Jews NEW YORK — In what it termed "a landmark agree-' ment," the American Jew- ish Committee announced that the Pennsylvania Hu- man Relations Commission and the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Phila- delphia had agreed that the insurance company would "broaden the involvement of Jews in the management of the concern." Under the agreement, Provident Mutual Life promised to take a number of measures to end "exec- utive suite discrimination," the Jewish service organiza- tion said. The insurance company, without admitting any violation of Pennsylvan- ia's Human Relations Act, agreed to notify all em- ployees of the pact, adver- tise on the media specifi- cally directed toward the Jewish community, among other moves. According to the AJCom- mittee, which helped ini- tiate the complaint against the insurer, the agreement was "to the best of our knowledge the first case of its kind in the country where a human relations commission has found a pattern of exclusion with re- gard to Jews existing in a company and entered into an affirmative action pro- gram with that company to remedy the situation." Free 10th Grade Education Limit TEL AVIV — Compul- sory 10th-grade education, formerly free, will be avail- able only to youths from disadvantaged neighbor- hoods according to Eliezer Shmueli, acting director- general of the Israel educa- tion ministry. The state- ment corrected a report which said that compulsory 10th-grade education would be cancelled altogether be- cause of budget cuts. 580 POOL DOCTORS OPENINGS & CLOSINGS Weekly Cleaning & All Repairs Authorized "Pool Sweep Dealer" Mork Orechkin & Tom Stubbs 557-2657 pd. pol. adv. 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