THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Saudi Treatment of Women Bar-Ilan Launches Program Blasted by Feminist Leader to Train Workers for Aged RAMAT-GAN — A across academic disciplines. TORONTO (JTA) — dynamic attack on the prob- Courses, projects and re- Charging that Saudi Arabia lems of the aged in Israel search within the was "a Nazi Germany for has been launched by Bar- framework of the new women," the American Ilan University in the form Brookdale-Bar-Ilan Pro- feminist leader, Gloria of an inter-faculty program gram in Applied Gerontol- Steinem, said it was "out- to train cadres in the var- ogy will be instituted by the rageous" that the Carter ious professional fields university's department of Administration had failed capable of assisting senior social work, sociology, psy- to recognize Saudi subjuga- chology, education, life sci- citizens. tion of women as a denial of Under the chairmanship ences (such as biology), phi- human rights. of Bar-Ilan President Prof. losophy, literature, even At a news conference Emanuel - Rackman the law. here, prior to addressing the project, which is sponsored convention of the American by the Brookdale Founda- psychological Association, tion of New York, is the first Ms. Steinem cited the Saudi in Israel to train under- practice of "auctioning off graduate students for women as chattel to their GLORIA STEINEM careers relating to the ag- prospective husbands," as one example of sex dis- "when he stood in the com- ing. Its emphasis is on people crimination. pany of the sheikhs and She deplored a statement other government rulers and services for the aged not by President Carter during and said how much 'at on buildings or old-age homes, said program direc- his visit to the Saudi capital home' he felt." Riyadh earlier this year, Ms. Steinem said she tor Prof. Meir Loewenberg, was particularly dis- head of the university's turbed by current Saudi school of social work, who My Mother efforts to impose Moslem has an extensive back- ideas about women on ground in education for always taught other countries that seek service to the aged in the me to . . . to do business with the United States. dress warmly, eat the right • The aim is to create oil-rich kingdom. foods, pick good The feminist leader and needed services, in qual- company, work hard, be author observed that, while ity and quantity, which fair with my customers, the United States has at- will enable more aged to always give them extra value for their money .. . tempted to reduce anti- remain happily in their Jewish discrimination and own homes reducing the "I always follow her advice. That's why I'm the to mitigate the anti-Israel need for institutionaliz- country's top Cadillac policies of the Saudi regime, ing older persons who salesman. no similar effort had been are physically able to 'Thank volt, Mother!' undertaken by the White care for themselves, al- • AL KLINE House on behalf of women. beit with some outside canwmorth, ,m help. Instead of being concen- Israeli Film Show trated in one faculty, the WASHINGTON (JTA) — new program is. cutting The American Film Insti- 6160 Cass Ave. tute is presenting a retros- `Settlement Focus Detroit 48202 pective of 33 Israeli films at the Kennedy Center for the of West Bank Issue' (313) 875 - 0300 Performing Arts from Sun- "Michigan's Largest JERUSALEM (JTA) — Cadillac Dealer" day to Oct. 7. Premier Menahem Begin told kibutz and moshav leaders that the "success of the government's autonomy plan for the West Bank de- pends on massive settle- ment." He was meeting in his Presents office with members of the Ein Vered Group, an infor- mal association of kibutz and moshav members, many of them . Labor-party affiliated, who favor major settlements across the "green line." At the meeting with the settlement advocates, Begin and his visitors took the opportunity to criticize bitterly Prof.- Raanan Weitz, co- chairman of the World Zionist Organization's settlement department, for his West Bank settle- ment scheme, recently submitted to the govern- Line Dance Fast/Slow ment, which envisaged the possibility of a sepa- rate Palestinian state. Swing & Latin Weitz, meanwhile, re- submitted a revised plan with all the controversial Advanced only political material removed. He said he had accepted WZO Executive chairman Leon Dulzin's suggestion that the WZO Executive examine a revised, non- W. 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