INDEPE THE JEWISH NEWS Auguries for the Future: The Eternity of Israel Under Scrutiny A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 f Jewish Events A Lesson in Population Studies Imperishable Holocaust Literature Editorials, Page 4 VOL. LXXIII, No. 17 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30' 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 JERUSALEM (JTA) 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- — - 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, (Continued on Page 5) 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 - structure would not be fully hospitable to minority aspirations." — , 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.