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Cantor Klein
Sings in Concert
Cantor Louis Klein of
Cong. Bnai Moshe will ap-
pear at the Chamber Music
Workshop 8 p.m. Sunday at
McAuley Auditorium of
Mercy College of Detroit.
He will sing five songs in
three languages, one of
which will be an aria from
Mendelssohn's "Elijah." His
accompanist will be Re-
becca Froharn.
For information, call
Harry Siegel, 273-3883.
Wyn & Harold Landis
The Finest In
Musical Entertainment
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American Jewish Commit-
tee, the American Jewish
Congress and the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith, which strongly sup-
port legitimate affirmative
action measures to rectify
the consequences of dis-
crimination, have urged the
U. S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission to
revise its guidelines on re-
verse discrimination since,
"in our opinion, the overall
thrust of the guidelines in
their present form would
serve to encourage
employers to hire and pro-
mote preferentially."
The Jewish groups
criticized the failure of the
guidelines to refer to bar-
ring hiring or promotion of
"persons less qualified over
those better qualified, for
reasons of race, ethnicity or
Hebrew Course
for Professionals
NEW YORK — College
graduates preparing to
enter Jewish professiOnal
life can improve their Heb-
rew language skills in an Is-
rael summer program espe-
cially designed for them by
the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
Future rabbis, teachers
and other professionals who
have a background in
Judaica, but need to develop
proficiency in reading and
speaking Hebrew are ac-
cepted into the eight-week
intensive course in
Jerusalem. The course was
developed in cooperation
with the Department of
Education and Culture of
the World Zionist Organiza-
tion.
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sex." They urged that the
guidelines follow the 1973
memorandum issued jointly
by the EEOC, the U. S. Civil
Service Commission, the
Department of Justice and
the Office of Federal Con-
tract Compliance, which
specifically called for "abil-
ity and merit" to be the
guiding basis for hiring and
promotion.
The Jewish agencies
wrote Eleanor Holmes
Norton, EEOC chairman,
"We share your concern
about the continued pre-
valence of widespread
discrimination so many
years after the nation
adopted laws and execu-
tive orders for fair
employment." The agen-
cies added that they
backed "affirmative ac-
tion programs that would
recruit, train and up-
grade those who have
been disadvantaged or
discriminated against"
as "in accord with the
American tradition of
giving special assistance
to categories of people on
whom society has im-
posed hardships and in-
justice."
"Precisely because we
favor affirmative action,"
Desert Water
Used for Crops
BEERSHEBA (ZINS) —
Scientists at Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev
have developed a green
house system using warm,
brackish, underground de-
sert water to control air and
soil temperatures during
the winter.
Plants mature up to two
months earlier and $3,000-
$4,000 is saved per acre over
heating the soil with oil
heaters.
The scientists say that
warm industrial waste
water could also be used in
their system.
Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Zuroff
on behalf of
CHINUCH ATZMAI
TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL
Invites the Jewish community to their home
31455 Franklin Fairway Drive — Farmington
Sun. Eve, March 12, at 8:00 P.M.
To commemorate the 25th Anniversary
of Torah Schools For Israel
Guest Speaker
Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg
Dean of Ner Israel Rabbinical College
Baltimore, Maryland
The Greater Detroit Committee
Rabbi Leizer Levine
Rabbi Leib Bakst
Honorary Chairmen
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said the Jewish groups, "we
must oppose the proposed
guidelines in their present
form," and "strongly urge
that they be reformulated."
The organizations
pointed out that EEOC
guidelines used the words
"ratios, or other numerical
remedies" as being valid
parts of an affirmative ac-
tion program by an
employer to remedy possi-
ble past discrimination.
They charged that the use of
such language "clearly
opens the door wide to the
establishment of quotas," a
policy in direct contradic-
tion of President Carter's
position. They noted that
the President's State of the
Union message said that
"our efforts to eliminate dis-
crimination and promote ef-
fective affirmative action
programs relying on flexi-
ble goals, rather than on
quotas, will continue in full
force."
The three organizations
noted that government
agencies in the past had
stated that quotas based on
race, ethnicity of sex were
unacceptable as affirmative
action measures, and de-
clared: "We believe that the
guidelines should expressly
prohibit quotas, not encour-
age them."
Ehrlich Defends Policies
Despite Opposition, Strikes
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Fi-
nance Minister Simha
Ehrlich • defended his
economic policies in the
Knesset against the
background of a new wave
of labor unrest and attacks
by the opposition Labor
Alignment.
Ehrlich, introducing an
additional budget of IL 17
billion for the current fiscal
year, claimed that his
policies have proven suc-
cessful. He said exports
were up and the price index
for the period November-
January rose only 17 per-
cent, two percent less than
critics anticipated when the
pound was devalued by 48
percent last year.
According to Ehrlich, in-
dustry and agriculture are
growing and if there was a
decrease in investments it
was not in export-oriented
projects. He noted that
there was a rise in the
number of building starts,
but did not mention the
sharp price increases in the
apartment market.
Gad Yaacobi of the
Labor Alignment, chair-
man of the Knesset's
Economic Committee,
charged that the state's
economy was deteriorat-
ing while the national
debt is rising at an un-
precedented rate. .
He challenged Ehrlich's
statement that the govern-
ment was avoiding borrow-
ings in foreign currency.
According to Yaacobi, infla-
tion increased at a rate of 30
percent during the last
three months as a result of
the government's economic
policies.
Ehrlich's immediate
problem is the latest rash of
wildcat strikes and work
stoppages and the eight-
week-old strike that has
paralyzed Israel's merchant
marine. About 11,000
employes of the Postal Ser-
vice engineering depart-
ment which includes televi-
sion, telephone and telex
technicians, staged a 24-
hour strike Sunday without
advance warning.
A general strike by mail
carriers and post office
workers is threatened for
next Monday. Psychologists
employed by municipalities
are also planning to strike
next week.
El Al maintenance
workers suddenly de-
cided they will not work
on Saturdays although
they always have.
Ehrlich warned yester-
day that the government
will take firm action
against small groups of
workers who try to "hold
the state by the throat"
Ehrlich was attacked by
Histadrut for allegedly re-
ferring to the striking sea-
men and the El Al mainte-
nance crews as "parasitic
elements." The Finance
Minister was accused of in-
sulting Israel's workers.
One bright spot was a de-
cision by district' court
judges to postpone a three-
day strike they were to have
begun last Monday. They
postponed the strike at the
urging of Justice Minister
Shmuel Tamir.
Orthodox Oppose
Religious Equality
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Rabbinical Alliance of
America has issued a
statement registering
"strong opposition" to the
granting of equal rights by
the World Zionist Congress
to the Conservative and Re-
form Movements in World
Zionist Organization educa-
tion programs in the Dias-
pora.
The Orthodox group, in
its statement, signed by
Rabbi Abraham B. Hecht,
president of the Alliance,
declared:
"This action is an insult to
the traditional Jews
worldwide. It will cause ir-
reparable harm to the unity
of the Jewish people and
will bring further division
in the already splintered
Jewish community. This
can result in destructive
consequences in the state of
Israel.
"We urge the World
Zionist Congress to re-
pudiate this vote and
thus remove a cancer
which threatens to de-
stroy Jewish life and the
Jewish faith."
After the equal rights
measure created turmoil at
the Congress in Jerusalem
last week, Leon Dulzin,
WZO chairman, promised to
refer the measure to the
Congress Court.