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June 30, 1978
Israel Is Pressuring Mondale
to 'Officially' Visit Jerusalem
Vice President Walter Mondale's "good will" visit to has indicated that it wants the Americans to
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Israel has already been clouded by altercations between his Israeli hosis and the refrain from touring on the Sabbath. The
American advance party. The Israelis insist that Mondale visit East Jerusalem Americans have balked at this. Mondale has
in his official capacity, something no visiting American official has ever done. already arranged to visit former Premier
They also demand that the American party observe the Sabbath ban on travel. Golda Meir in Tel Aviv on Saturday and his
city
wife is
sched
to
museums
in that
Mayor Teddy Kollek said that he would snub all public functions with Mon- city which are always open on the Sabbath.
dale unless the Vice President visits the Western Wall as part of his formal
schedule, with U.S. and Israeli flags flying from his limousine and an official
A highly placed Israeli source said that
Israeli escort. The U.S. has never recognized Israel's unilateral annexation of
if the U.S. remained adamant on the East
East Jerusalem after the Six-Day War and top American diplomats, including
Jerusalem issue, much of the good will
Secretaries of State William Rogers, Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance poin-
Mondale hopes to generate would be
tedly avoided visiting East Jerusalem in their official capacity because of the
drowned in bad feelings. Mondale and
implied recognition of Israeli sovereignty there.
his party, which includes more than 20
Mondale and his party will have only two full days in Israel. The government
prominent American Jews and non-
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Editor Philip Slomovitz Is Cited
by Union of Jewish Journalists
Jews, is due to land at Ben-Gurion
Air
' port at 3 p.m. local time today where
they will be welcomed by Premier
Menahem Begin, Knesset Speaker Yit-
zhak Shamir, and the entire Cabinet.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Philip Slomovitz, editor and publisher of The Detroit Jewish
News, was guest of honor at a luncheon on Tuesday given by the World Union of Jewish
Journalists, of which he is a founding member. Prominent members of the union at-
tended to pay tribute to Slomovitz and his wife Anna who are visiting Israel.
Earlier in the week, Slomovitz was awarded a scroll by Jewish National Fund Chair-
man Moshe Rivlin in recognition of his six decades of work for the J14F in Detroit. The
occasion was the dedication of the Stollman Recreation Park honoring the Stollman
family of Detroit.
Slomovitz founded The Jewish News in 1942 and has edited it ever since. He is also a
vice president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He told the guests at the luncheon, "If it
weren't for the JTA there would be no English-Jewish press in the U.S." Referring to the
political scene, Slomovitz said that at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956 "more American
Jews panicked than today." He said the panic-stricken accounted for only a minority
while "the mass of the Jewish people in America will never let Israel down." In that
connection, he declared that Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) was now "non grata"
among Jews because of his support of the sale of F-15 planes to Saudi Arabia. He warned
that the same might happen toSen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) because he criticized Israel
government policies last week.
The party includes Detroit Mayor Coleman
Young who was quoted earlier-this week as
WALTER MONDALE
saying that he has turned down earlier
invitations to visit Israel because he did not want to offend Detroit's Arab
community. Among the Jewish members of the party are Hyman Bookbinder,
Washington representative of the American Jewish Committee; David Blum-
berg, president of Bnai Brith; Burton Joseph, national chairman of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith; Richard. Maass, president of the American
Jewish Committee; Theodore R. Mann, chairman of the National Jewish Com-
munity Relations Advisory Council and chairman-elect of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; and Rabbi Alexander
'Schindler, outgoing chairman of the Presidents Conference.
The Israeli Cabinet's announcement Sunday "unreservedly rejecting"
Egypt's latest proposals for the West Bank and Gaza Strip was intended,
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Trancization' of Quebec Would Make Jews a Distinct Minority
TORONTO (JTA) A Canadian Jewish leader predicted Tuesday that "unless there
will be a radical turning of events, the majority of Quebec Jews will remain" in Quebec.
But Rabbi W. Gunther Plant, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress and senior
scholar at the Holy Blossom'Temple here, added, "Even though there may be no anti-
Semitism and no negative feelings directed their way, Jews will be, with all their civil
liberties intact, the out-group."
Plaut made hiS remarks at a session'ofthe 89th convention of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis (CCAR) at the Harbor Castle Hilton Hotel, attended by 500 delegates
representing some 1,300 Reform rabbis from the U.S., Canada and abroad. Because of
dynamic changes in the Jewish community of Canada, as well as concern with the Jewish
' situation in Quebec, the Reform rabbis are devoting special sessions to the subject of
Jewish life in Canada. Several rabbis in the panel discussion on the "Situation in
Quebec" agreed that there is some anxiety among Jews in that province. Of the 300,000
Jews in Canada, about-120,000 live in Toronto and 120,000 in Montreal.
Plaut stressed that he felt that "a great Jewish community will exist in Montreal
. unless an extreme right-wing element with strong anti-Semitic feelings takes over in
Quebec." He said, "In a French Quebec, there would be a natural distinction between the
non-French of all kinds and the Quebecois ... It is this which gives rise to a sense of
Jewish anxiety because the climate of any state with a monolithic culture and social
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structure would not be fully hospitable to minority aspirations."
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However, he cautioned the rabbis, "You who come here from the U.S. must not
confuse this situation with that to which we Jews have, unhappily, been regu-
larly exposed over the centuries, namely, one in which anti-Semitism is encour-
aged by governments or given free reign. Once again, I repeat, that this is not the
issue."
., Plant said the issue is the "Francization of Quebec and the natural fall-out which is its
consequence." In comments prepared for delivery at another session, Plaut said that the
leadership of the Canadian Jewish Congress has come to the conclusion that indepen-
dence is not in itself a Jewish issue.
Rabbi Edward S. Treister, of Temple Rodeph Shalom of Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec,
stressed that "the separation of the Province of Quebec from Canada and any form of
relationship between Quebec and Canada which may come about are not Jewish issues
per se. More is Francization a Jewish issue. Jews are, to be sure, affected by any decision
in these areas, but not specifically as Jews."
Rabbi Mark A. Golub of Temple Beth Sholom in Hampstead, Quebec, spoke of an
eventual referendum on independence. "The continuing imponderables of a dark and
unknown Jewish future in Quebec which awaits an eventual referendum on indepen-
dence,are the subject of many a debate," he said. 'The future of the Canadian confedera-
tion might well depend upon the outcome of the referendum vote, but the Jews of Quebec,
as well as all other Quebecans and Canadians must continue to live out their daily lives
while the sword of Damocles remains uneasily poised over their heads," he said.