Speculated
Observations on
Israel Elections
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Indelible Mark
Left on Israel
by Saul Bellow

THE JEWISH NEWS

VOL. LXX, No. 23

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'Roots' ,
and the
Facts of Life

Editorials
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f Jewish Events

A Weekly Review

Commentary
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Federal Aid for
Haverim Homes
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$10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30 0

February 11, 1977

Vocal U.S. Human Rights Stance
Re-Affirmed by President Carter

Quaker Conference
Denied PLO Speaker

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The government Tues-
day barred the re-entry into the U.S. of Sabri Jiryis, an
official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, -on
grounds that the PLO is a proscribed group under
American law and because last fall Jiryis falsified in-
formation in applying for a U.S. visa. At that time he
came to the U.S. ostensibly to set up a PLO prop-
aganda office in Washington. While here he engaged in
private talks with Jews in Washington and New York.
State Department spokesman Frederick Brown
said, "We have decided not to seek waivers for Jiryis"
to attend the American Friends Service Committee
seminar this weekend where he was to be a featured
speaker. The seminar is on "The New Imperative for
Israel— Palestinian Peace." - --

Brown said, "We have occasionally allowed a PLO
representative or people affiliated with the PLO to come
to the U.S. But not for politiCal activity. In the case of
Jiryis, if he were to give a speech at this Quaker meeting,
that would be reasonably construed as a p6litical activ-
ity. For that reason our recommendation was not in favor
of the waiver."

Brown. acknowledged, under questioning, that
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance's visit to the Middle
East later this month in pursuit of progress toward an
Arab-Israeli settlement "is one of the factors taken
, into account" in the government's decision.
Israel, acting through its Consul General in
Philadelphia, Asher Nairn, has declined to participate
in the conference. One of the speakers will be Gen.
Matti Peled of the Israel Council for Israeli-
Palestinian Peace.
Nairn, in citing his reasons for declining the invi-
tation, stated emphatically that Israel - believes the
sole purpose of the conference is to provide the PLO a
U.S. platform from which to speak. He also described
the conference as "one-sided," adding that "all the
cards are stacked against Israel." The invitation -to
participate in the conference was contained in a letter

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Jimmy. Carter has reiter-
ated his dedication to human rights in the Soviet Union and
elsewhere. "I reserve the right to speak out forcefully on human
rights," he told a press conference Tuesday in response to ques-
tions on the imprisonment of the Soviet dissident author and poet
Alexander Ginzburg. He said his remarks are "not intended as a
public relations attack on the Soviet Union."
Carter said, "I regret the fact" that the Soviet Union has
"incarcerated" Ginzburg, but he observed that there has been
"progress" in the Soviet Union and elsewhere on human rights.
He said an example was that "The number of Jews permitted to
emigrate (from the Soviet Union) in the last few months has in-
Creased."
But, the President stressed, "We've got to be firm and force-
ful" and not "timid" on human rights. "I don't want to mislead the
American people" and have them "expect overnight success"
since it will be a tedious" process, the President added.

ALEXANDER GINZBURG
He said he opposed the concept of "linkage" of human rights
with other issues between the U.S. and th6 USSR. He said that human rights "can be separated from
atomic weapons and the reduction of forces in Europe." He said that an invitation to Soviet dissident
Alexander Solzhenytsin would not have affected U.S. arms
discussions with the Soviet Union. "We can come out better if
I am consistently and completely dedicated to human rights,"
he said.
Former President Gerald R. Ford admitted this week
in an interview that he made a mistake in not meeting
TEL- AVIV (JTA) — Spain has
Solzhenytsin after he was released from the USSR. The
notified Israel that an Israeli pavill-
president of the National Conference of Christians and
ion will not be permitted at the ag-
Jews,
David Hyatt, urged President Carter last week to
ricultural exposition in Saragossa at
invite Solzhenitsyn to the White House "and bestow upon
the end of March although Israeli
him the highest award that can be given to such a person"
companies will be -allowed to partici-
pate under their own names.
by the U.S. President "as a symbolic gesture" to
The Spanish action, believed to be
strengthen the morale of those "risking death in behalf of
caused by Arab pressure, came as a
human
rights." •
surprise since Israel was invited to

Spain Cancels
Israel Pavillion

participate in the fair following the
success of the Israeli pavillion at -an
agricultural fair at Seville several
months ago.

Noting that Russian dissident Dr. Andrei Sakharov
has stated that only the Christians of America can liberate

$500,000 Federal Grant Assures 2 Additional
Haverim Homes to- Provide for Area Retarded

Additional housing facilities for the retarded in
the Greater Detroit area were assured this week with
the announcement of a $500,000 Federal grant for
the projects sponsored under auspices of the Associ-
ation for the Jewish Retarded.
Harry Berlin, upon his election on Feb. 3 as pres-
of the association, announced that the HUD
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gl ant will provide for the construction of Haverim
Home Two and Haverim Home Three on a 2 1/2 acre
site on the southwest corner of 14 Mile and Far-
mington Rds. -

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The two new homes, Berlin announced, will be 12-
bedroom facilities. In addition, each building will have
two respite-care beds to provide for needy emergency
cases.

Haverim Home One is presently operated at
19735 Evergreen in Detroit.
Morton Collins, retiring president of the associa-
tion, addressing the annual meeting on Feb. 3 at the
10 Mile Rd. Jewish Center, called the HUD grant a
notable humanitarian act by the U.S. government.
Collins was named an ex-officio member of the
newly-elected board of directors of the association.

Berlin stated that the grant, funded under Section
202 of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development pro-
gram, also is being made under section 8 which pro-

vides for rent subsidies.

The slate of new officers of the Association for
Jewish Retarded, headed by Marry Berlin, includes:
Sara Mittledorf, first vice president; Anna
Slomovitz, second vice president; Evelyn Bider,
corresponding secretary;
Sylvia Weitzman, assis-
tant corresponding secre-
tary; Tess Resnick, re-
cording secretary; Sylvia.
Schane, treasurer; Ber-
nard Sukenic,- financial
secretary; and Ann
Tanzman, tributes.
The board of directors
includes Sharon Alter-
man, Manuel Brown,
Manuel 'Feldstein, Ruth
Golden, Louis Isaacs,
Clare Kay, Meyer
Pearlman, Leon Roy, Ann
Sipher, Joseph Sisler,
Joseph Tanzman and
Norman Wachler, with
Morton Collins ex-officio.
HARRY BERLIN

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Trifa to 'Absent Self '
from Church Council

NEW YORK (JTA) — Two Jewish organizations
have welcomed the suspension of Archbishop Valerian
Trifa, who has been accused of instigating the murder
of Jews and Christians in Romania during World War
II, from the general board of the National Council of
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Churches (NCC).

The NCC's executive committee was informed Fri-
day that the Orthodox Church in America has asked
Trifa, of Grass Lake, Mich., to absent himself from all
further meetings of the NCC's general board, until all
charges against him have been dealt with by the courts.

Rabbi Henry Siegman, executive vice president of
the Synagogue Council of America, who shortly before
the announcement made an unprecedented address to
the NCC's executive committee, called Trifa's suspen-
sion "an act of moral courage and responsibility. It is
an expression of the Council's opposition to anti-
Semitism and of its awareness that the HolocaUst re-
mains a constant challenge to the religious conscience
of all mankind."
The American Jelkish Committee said that "in
light of the record of Archbishop Trifa's unremitting
anti-LSemitism and pro-Nazi activities, the American
Jewish Committee had cause to hope' the National

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