E JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
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of Jewish Events
VOL. LXXIV, No. 1 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833
Sept. 8, 1978
Jewish Teachers' Strike
Disrupts Local Classes
By ALAN HITSKY
Menahem Begin and Jinuny Carter are shown talking after their
May meeting in Washington.
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Jimmy
Carter Hails Begin
Before Camp David Summit
In anticipation of this week's sessions at Camp David, Md., the White
House released the photograph above with the following annotation:
"Intense preparations have been underway for the summit at Camp
David between President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin
and Egypt President Anwar Sadat.
"President Carter and Prime Minister Begin, have met on four previous
occasions -7 in July and December of 1977, and March and May, 1978.
"The President once said of Prime Minister Begin: like him,
admire him, and respect him, because throughout his conversa-
tions with me in the quiet, lonely, private times together, and even
when the talks with others in a larger group, there is a fervor of a
deeply committed religious man who again worships the. same God
I do, and you do.'
"President Carter also once referred to the Prime Minister as 'a strong
leader.'
" 'He is a man of deep convictions and unshakeable principle. He is a
man of truth and quiet dignity. He is a man who is polite and very
modest.' "
Meanwhile, at Camp David, bereft of anything more substantive to
occupy them, the dozens of newsmen covering the opening of the Camp
David summit on Tuesday focussed their attention on the superficial
trappings of the brief arrival ceremonies at the camp's helipad for Sadat
and, two hours later, for Begin.
And the White House hosts, probably aware that superficiality
would take the place of substance so long as the "no-leak rule"
prevails, sought to ensure that the two leaders' arrivals should be
totally identical.
Such things, however, cannot be entirely ensured in advance. As fate
would have it, Begin descended from the helicopter before the President
and Mrs. Carter managed to reach the foot of the gan&ay. And so,
slightly comically, the two leaders strode towards each other for some
15-20 yards with their arms outstretched and fell into an embrace which
seemed even more artificial than such hugs usually do.
The watching newsmen could not help noting that the Carter-Sadat
embrace had been longer, warmer and had seemed less contrived.
Begin, on the other hand, scored one on Sadat by kissing Rosalynn's
hand as well as both of her cheeks. Sadat had made do with the cheeks.
(Continued on Page 8)
More than 2,200 students were affected this week by teacher strikes at the Detroit area's
largest Jewish schools. United Hebrew Schools, with approximately 1,400 students and 50
teachers, failed to open Wednesday as the teachers implemented their "no contract, no work"
threat of last week.
UHS teachers said there has been no movement in the negotiations since last Friday. The
school board was scheduled to meet noon yesterday to discuss the situation. No opening date
for classes has been scheduled, although the UHS nursery program at Temple Emanu-El did
open on schedule.
Hillel Day School teachers returned to work yesterday after agreeing to contract terms "by
a very narrow margin." The Hillel teachers did not report to work Wednesday. There are 400
students at the school, and 35 teachers. The Hillel teachers had also issued a "no contract, no
work" ultimatum last week; and complained about the lack of summer negotiating sessions
until just before school was scheduled to open.
The 34 secular studies teachers at Yeshivath Beth Yehudah did not report to their
classes Wednesday afternoon, but agreed to return to their classes Thursday after
giving the school a strike deadline. In what is believed to be the first organized
bargaining at the yeshiva, the teachers agreed to begin negotiating sessions next
Tuesday but set a strike deadline of 6 p.m. Sept. 17.
Hebrew teachers at the yeshiva are not involved in the negotiations. Some 460 students
attend the yeshiva's boys' school, the Beth Jacob School for Girls and the graduate programs.
Negotiations are continuing at Shaarey Zedek, where classes for 750 students are not
scheduled to begin until Monday. Some 15-20 teachers are involved in the contract dispute
there. The Beth Hayeled nursery program, however, opened as scheduled Wednesday. The
Beth Hayeled teachers have already reached agreement with the school.
United Hebrew School teachers issued a statement last week, echoing the Hillel
teachers' complaint about a lack of summer negotiating sessions. In their statement,
the UHS teachers said they had made a contract proposal to the school board by the
May 1 deadline stipulated in their contract, but the board did not offer their contract
proposals until July 25, in violation of the contract.
The UHS teachers said they were offered a 2 1/2 percent salary increase, contingent upon the
teachers assuming payment of 30 percent of their health insurance premiums. The net effect
would be a salary cut, the teachers said.
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Toronto Science Center Halts Soviet
Space Exhibit Anti-Semitic Pamphlet
TORONTO (JTA) — Officials of the Ontario Science Center have demanded that the Soviet space
exhibit at the center stop distributing all literature after discovering that the Soviets were handing out
an anti-Semitic booklet entitled "The Sword of David."
The 78-page booklet states that the Torah and' Talmud contain advice to • Jews recommending
deception of non-Jews and taking their property and money. Soviet officials claimed that the booklet,
published in 1977 by Novosti, was not anti-Semitic but anti-Zionist.
Immediately upon discovering the distribution of this anti-Semitic booklet, Tuzo Wilson, director
general of the Science Center took immediate action to halt its further distribution.
Rabbi Jordan Pearson, national chairman of the Joint Community Relations Committee of
the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and Bnai Brith, stated that the booklet was further
evidence of Soviet movement from passive acceptance of anti-Semitism to active fomenting of
anti-Jewish feelings. _
Ben Kayfetz, director of the CJC, said the booklet abused Canadian hospitality and all rules of
international scientific exchange. The Soviet space ship exhibit, which has been in Toronto since
February, is ending this week and, going to Australia.
Handleman, Seligman Lead Allied Jewish Campaign
DAVID HANDLEMAN
David Handleman and Irving R. Seligman have been named general chairman of the 1979 Allied Jewish Campaign -
Israel Emergency Fund. They succeed Phillip Stollman and Philip T. Warren as chairmen of the fund-raising drive
which benefits more than 60 local, national and overseas humanitarian agencies.
The announcement of the 1979 Campaign general chairmen was made during the Detroit Service Group's 29th
annual Stag Day yesterday at Knollwood Country Club in West Bloomfield. Handleman and Seligman were co-
chairmen of the 1978 Campaign.
Handleman is on the Executive Committee of Jewish Welfare Federation and is chairman of Federation's Capital
Needs Committee. He is vice president of the United Jewish Charities and serves with the Jewish Community
Foundation.
Long active in Campaign activities, Handleman was pre-Campaign chairman in 1972 and Campaign vice chairman
in 1973 and 1977. He is a member of Federation's Cash Mobilization Committee.
Handleman sits on the board of directors of HIAS and the board of trustees of the American Jewish Committee. He is
a member of Temple Beth El, the Standard Club, Recess Club and Franklin Hills Country Club. He is also on the board
of directors of the United Foundation.
Seligman is also active in community and Campaign affairs. He is a director of Detroit Service Group and Jewish
Home for Aged. He served as chairman of the Real Estate and Building Trades Division of the 1971 Campaign and was
pre-Campaign chairman in 1972 and 1973. He was Campaign co-chairman in 1977, as well as last year, and serves on
Federation's Cash Mobilization Committee.
IRVING SELIGMAN