THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS America-Israel Dialogue Nets New Program for Zionists ALBERT EINSTEIN LODGE of BNAI BRITH extend best wishes for a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year to all their members and friends. Sam Freedman, pres. Mel & Inez Kepes By RICHARD COHEN Associate Executive Director, American Jewish Congress (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) - While Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his staff were planning the daring commando raid that freed 100 Israelis hijacked to Uganda last July, a dozen Israeli intellectuals were meeting in a seminar in Jerusalem with an equal number of American Jewish scholars and community leaders on a less immediate but no less crucial theme: the rela- tionship between the state of Israel and the Jews of the United States. For both American and Israeli panelists at the four-day symposium in the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, there was something troubling about the present state of relations within the fam- ily. On the Israeli side, there was sharp disap- pointment that American Jews still refuse to make aliya— that is move to Is- rael — in large numbers. And from the American side, there was a concern that U.S. J,ews had little or Alo input into Israeli decisions that affect not only Israel but also Jews outside Israel - for example, on religious questions like "Who is a Jew?" and on political ones like the govern- ment's policy on the fu- ture of the West Bank The setting was the 12th American-Israel "Dialogue," an annual symposium sponsored by the American Jewish Con- gress. The chairman was Henry Rosovsky, dean of the faculty of arts and sci- ences at Harvard Univer- sity, a national vice presi- dent of the AJCongress. The issues were sharply drawn on the opening night of the symposium, ti- tled: "The Contemporary Meaning of Zionism — New Definitions and New Directions." - Wish All Their Relatives and Friends A Happy, Healthy, Prosperous NEW YEAR S?e ore00‘0,(0-)ecN>ceCNJe tizrizri rimle 17e,5 BYRON, REBECCA & JANICE LIEBERWITZ wish all their Iriends and relatii.es A Her Healthy Neu. Year THE LADIES OF OAK PARK extend best wishes to their friends and the community for a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ROZ & SID PELTON Plantation, Florida wish all their family and friends a happy and healthy New Year May the New Year bring peace, health and happiness to our dear family, relatives and friends Happy New Year MR. & MRS. A. PHEFFERBERG To. Our Children, Relatives, Friends and Associates a Happy, Healthy New Year MR. & MRS. NATHAN PLONSKIER and FAMILY MR. AND MRS. ALBERT PORVIN and Grandchildren Miram, Mark & Howard wish their relatives and friends a peaceful and happy New Year New Year Best Wishes To All Our Friends and Relatives MR. & MRS. PAUL L. SHERIZEN AND FAMILY 21901 Parklawn, Oak Park, Mich. To All Our Relatives and Good Friends We Wish a Happy New Year MR. and MRS. SAM TUKEL ERWIN WALDMAN LINDA and LEONARD Oak Park wish their family and friends a very happy and healthy New Year The following members of Negbah Chapter Pioneer Women wish to Extend to the community and friends a prosperous and happy New Year. Mrs. Gertrude Becker Mrs. Zeno Berman Mr. & Mrs. Hermon Emmer Mr. & Mrs. Jack Harrison Mrs. Rose Hurevitz Mrs. Rose Kleinbard Mr. & Mrs. Morris Faxon Mrs. Rose Gayer Mr. & Mrs. Max Gelman Mrs. Lillian Goldman Mr. & Mrs. Max Goldstein Mrs. Reva Lahr Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Primack Mr. & Mrs. Morris Order Mr. & Mrs. Ben Press Mrs. Eva Rivkin Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Shackman Mr. & Mrs. Ben Shapiro Mrs. Ida Stone Mrs. Iliene Winkelman Mrs. Sarah Wohl Rabbi Arthur Hertz- berg, president of the AJCongress, began with a call for "serious joint consultation and ac- tion" between the Dias- pora — Jews who live out- side of Israel — and the state of Israel. The AJCongress leader warned that "Jewishness in the Diaspora is e.vaporating amidst poli- tics and programming on behalf of Israel," adding: "At this moment the prime task of Zionism in the Diaspora is to mount a rescue operation to give every Jewish child some kind of Jewish education, some direct experience -of Israel early in his life, so that he is challenged with the possibility of opting himself for aliya." In reply, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban expressed both puzzlement and regret that American Jews were not emigrating to Israel in the kind of numbers that would make an im-, pact on the Jewish state. (In 1975 less than 2,500 American Jews emig- rated to Israel.) After four days of dis- cussion and debate, ag- reement was reached on a kind of declaration of in- terdependence of Ameri- can Jews and Israel and on a set of guidelines for meeting the issues of par- ticipation in Israeli decision-making and in- creasing American aliya to Israel. The six points of the 1976 "Dialogue Declara- tion" make up a new agenda for Zionism, pos- ing issues for debate.that are likely to reverberate in the. Jewish community for months and years to come. And they offer one more indication that since its first session in 1962 the American - Israel dialogue has come to be recognized as perhaps the most vital and sig- nificant exchange of ideas and ideologies bet- ween the two great cen- ters of world Jewry L– America and Israel. Here is the dialogue's program for Zionists: MR. &- MRS. SOL GOLDBERG - To All Our Friends and Relatives We wish you a Healthy & Happy New Year. With Love ROSE and MARK HECHLER & Family • • • • • • • • • .• • • • Wishing Our Relatives and Friends A Happy New Year LOUIS AND SARAH IWREY r MR. SAM KLAR Oak Park, Mich. wishes all his family and friends a healthy happy New Year MR. & MRS. SAUL LEVIN and ZOE Oak Park wishes all their friends and relatives a Happy Healthy Peaceful New Year MR. & MRS. HY MERVIS and Family Wish all their family and friends a Healthy Happy New Year Southfield To all our friends and family A Year of Health, Happiness and Peace The LEFKOFSKY FAMILY BILL, SANDY, JODI-, STEVE AND ERIC Z111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111M111111111111111111111111111111111111111111U MR. & MRS. JULIUS ROTENBERG 22495 COVENTRY WOODS LANE SOUTHFIELD, MICH. - Best wishes for the New Year to all our relatives and friends = . I i i I Best Wishes to all -our friends and relatives for a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful New Year 1 MR. & MRS. HENRY TOBET 1 • Zionists demand a deepening of Jewish knowledge. This task re- quires increased dedica- tion by world Jewry to the broadest possible range of educational modalities, directed toward an un- derstanding of the Jewish heritage and its contem- porary application and significance. • To reinforce the sol- idarity of the Jewish people in the face of the grave threats that today confront it, Zionists rec- ognize the need to de- velop instrumentalities for effective consultation and deliberation between Diaspora Jewry and Is- rael on ,issues affecting r common fate. and Oak Park • Zionists accept re- sponsibility for promot- ing spiritual and physical ties between Israel and the Diaspora, to the end that aliya becomes one of the primary tasks of the Jewish people. • Zionists believe Heb- rew must become the sec- ond language of Diaspora Jewry. It provides a pro- found connection with the Jewish past, en- hances and strengthens Jewish consciousness and creates essential links among Jewish people. Son, Ronald Wish all thei?•fantily & frier?ds A Happy Healthy New Year • Zionists affirm the role of Israel as the home- land of the Jewish people and as occupying a spe- cial and primary role in the life of that people everywhere, while acknowledging the exis- tence of other valid and ongoing centers of Jewish creativity. • Zionists recognize the mutual dependence of Israel and the Diaspora in the struggle to main- tain the continuity of the Jewish people and ad- vance the Jewish herit- age in the modern age. Friday, September 24, 1976 71 JERRY AND JUDIE WEISMAN ELISA, AND CARY Wish all their family and friends a Healthy, Happy New Year \ MRS. FANNY ZUCKERMAN HANITA, SANDY & SHERRY Wish all their friends and relatives a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous \ , New Year 1 t i I 1 i i