THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12 Friday, September 28, 1919 EQUIPMENT CO. J ',- DESKS '79.95 FILES 69.95 CASH REGISTER TYPEWRITERS 99.50 COMPLETE SHOWROOM OF BUDGET AND FINE EXECUTIVE FURNITURE WANTED.. NEW - USED A NY USED RENTALS • LEASES TYPEWRITERS • TRADE-INS WE WY USED FURNITURE - .1 I rAr 548-6404- 231 W. 9•1Ail• Rd., Ferndale 1/2 Stock West of Woodward Orchard Lake Dialogue Is Catalyst for Improved Polish-Jewish Relations Kahane Jailed 117A77 CHUDNOW 5 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- 113C5 112:1211 vu. .i1/(a)-21 9 91.1.,En,ch .114a.,9 (WE ExtEnd c:4ofi,clay EElt (1441fiEl got a oYa1212,9 and :7YEaft ,9 ..111Ea7. Eat WiciEngaum ( sm.d..ty,2 0„.taki.n, & 9amity Victor (WiciErzgaum & 9arnif,9 ( gfiz. Efrithz S'taff c barn Creative _lenders 29173 Northwestern Hwy. / Southfield, MI 48034 / (313) 356-2525 Best Wishes For A Very HEALTHY & HAPPY NEW YEAR SAVE 30 % 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 . OFF MAN. SUG. RETAIL NOW THRU SEPTEMBER 30th — SELECTED VERTICAL BLINDS DEL MAR WOVEN WOODS DEL MAR 1-INCH BLINDS (PREVIOUS ORDERS EXCLUDED) INCOMING FREIGH' AD /En INSTALLATION AVAILABLE dynamic PAINT & WALLPAPER 542-3315 23061 COOLIDGE HWY., OAK PARK, AT 9 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.