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Orchard Lake Dialogue Is Catalyst
for Improved Polish-Jewish Relations
Kahane Jailed
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BETTER BUSINESS
TEL AVIV — Rabbi Meir
Kahane, founder of the
Jewish Defense League, has
begun a three-month jail
term in Israel for failing to
obey a court order to stag
out of the city of Hebron.
Kahane was ordered to
silty out of Hebron after he
began a campaign to drive
Arabs out of Israel and the
West Bank.
. _
Sam Wohl & Family
and Bernard Hirsch & Family
Wish You A Happy New Year
NEW YORK — Follow-
ing an interethnic dialogue
in Orchard Lake, Mich.,
that was stimulated by the
forthcoming visit of Pope
John Paul II to the United
States, national leaders
from the Polish--American
and Jewish communities
have announced plans for a
joint study of the origins of
anti-Polish and anti-Jewish
atittudes in some segments
of American society.
In a statement issued fol-
lowing a day-long consulta-
tion two weeks ago at St.
Mary's College in Orchard
Lake, both groups ex-
pressed deep concern over
the persistent manifesta-
tions in American society of
anti-Polish and anti-
Semitic slurs expressed in
popular culture. The
dialogue participants as-
serted that these slurs do
psychological damage,
especially to young people,
who are the victims of such
defamation.
The dialogue was or-
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Shown at the Polish-Jewish dialogue in Orchard
Lake are, from left, Fr. Leonard Chrobot, George
Szabad, Robert Amberg, Hyman Bookbinder, Fr. Ron
Modras, Prof. Andrew Ehrenkreutz, Eugene
Kusielewicz, Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum, Dr. John
Gutovski, Leonard Walentynowicz, Irving Levine,
Harold Gales, Sherwood Sandweiss and David Roth.
ganized by Rev. Leonard F. media, particularly by com-
edians. The participants
Chrobot, president of St.
Mary's College, and Harold called for better judgment
Gales, president of the on behalf of responsible
American Jewish Commit- media leaders in this re-
gard.
tee's Detroit Chapter.
Similarly, both groups
Among those in the
American Jewish Commit- disapproved of any anti-
tee delegation were Rabbi Semitic manifestations in
Marc Tanenbaum, national the general culture, includ-
director of interreligious af- ing some anti-Jewish man-
fairs; Hyman Bookbinder, ifestations heard following
AJC Washington represen- the recent resignation of
tative; Irving M. Levine, di- Ambassador Andrew
rector of AJC's Institute on Young. The hope was ex-
Pluralism and Group Ident- pressed that tension be-
ity; and George Szabad, a tween the black and Jewish
former mayor of Scarsdale, communities would be re-
N.Y., and a member of the solved quickly and that the
spirit of cooperation be re-
national board of governors.
the
Polish- stored. The participants
From
American community said, "In our pluralistic
were Leonard Walenty- society, any breakdown of
nowicz, executive director communication between
of the Polish-American any ethnic groups hurts all
Congress; - Eugene ethnic groups and the
Kusielewicz, president of society as a whole."
Both groups acknowl-
the Kosciuszko Foundation;
Andrew Ehrenkreutz of the edged that there has been
North American Center for considerable misun-
Polish Studies, and Rev. derstanding in both the
Ronald Modras, a professor Polish and Jewish com-
munities in the U.S. and
at Saint Louis University.
The "Orchard Lake elsewhere over the situa-
Statement" strongly re- tion of the Jewish people in
jected offensive "anti-Polish Poland, climaxed by the
jokes" perpetrated by the tragedy of the Nazi
Holocaust.
The Polish and Jewish
leaders agreed to organize a
project of Polish and Jewish
scholars who would seek to
write and publish together
an objective joint Polish-
Jewish history, and other
cultural documents, which
would take into account the
respective -understandings
and sensitivities of both
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communities in their corn-
mon pursuit of objective
truth.
It was hoped that such
joint scholarly publications
and conferences would
eventually help both com-
munities to modify polemi-
cal tendencies and contrib-
ute to a deeper and more
empathetic relationship in
the future, especially
among young people.
Both groups also ex-
pressed the hope that such
increased sensitivity and
knowledge would be incor-
porated in Holocaust
studies in our nation's reli-
gious and public schools.
The Polish and Jewish
leaders also discussed the
condition of human rights
in various parts of the
world, and the need to join
hands in standing together
against the epidemic of de-
humanization in the world,
such as in Asia, Africa,
Latin America, Eastern
Europe and elsewhere.
In particular, both groups
agreed to cooperate in
studying and acting to-
gether to oppose denial of
religious liberty, religious
education, and freedom to
emigrate from Poland, the
Soviet Union, and other
eastern European coutries.
A subsequent consultation
of Polish and Jewish leaders
was agreed upon in order to
give more systematic con-
sideration of these shared
human rights concerns.
The Polish and Jewish
leaders also agreed to ar-
range in the coming months
for a high-level delegation
of Polish and Jewish reli-
gious and ethnic leaders to
visit Poland and Israel in
order to promote deepened
understanding of "spiritual
homelands" in both com-
munities.
Finally, the Polish and
Jewish leaders viewed the
elevation of "the Polish
Pope," Pope John Paul II, as
a development of unprece-
dented symbolic and social
significance to both com-
munities. They said, "There
is a need to seize this mo-
ment as an occasion-to try to
build a new, creative rela-
tionship between the Polish
and Jewish peoples that
would strengthen common
solidarity and fraternal re-
spect."
Official Claims U.S. Public
Is Souring on Aid to Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
American public opinion is
growing increasingly anti-
Israel because of Israel's in-
creased requests for eco-
nomic aid, Douglas Bennet,
head of the U.S. Agency for
International Development
(AID) told Adi Amorai,
coordinator of the Labor
Alignment faction in the
Knesset Finance Commit-
tee. Bennet is in Israel to
review Israel's economic re-
quests for 1981.
He met last week with
Finance Minister Simha
Ehrlich, who outlined Is-
rael's economic needs.
Ehrlich told Bennet that the
peace agreement with
Egypt paradoxically made
it necessary for Israel to in-
crease its defense spending.
But Bennet maintained
that Israel had chosen a dif-
ficult time to make her in-
creased request.
Inflation and growing
unemployment in the U.S.
made it difficult to raise the
aid, he said.
One way' to stop a
runaway horse is to bet on
him.