16 Friday, February 1, 1980 1 , My Mother always taught me to . . . "I always follow her advice. That's why I'm the country's top Cadillac salesman. Thaiik 'Foto Mother' AL KLINE "IC ZOA Responds to 2 Pro-Arab Speakers at State Department By JOSEPH POLAKOFF dress warmly, eat the right foods, pick good company, work hard, be fair with my customers, always give them extra value for their money .. C ,ill m. a ,I•riti THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS at DALGLEISH CADILLAC 6160 Cass Ave. Detroit 48202 (313) 875 - 0300 "Michigan's Largest Cadillac Dealer" WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Zionist Organization of America has resprded to attacks on Isr el and Zionism in meeti gs con- ducted at the State Depart- ment for personnel of the U.S. foreign affairs estab- lishment by the tax-funded "Secretary's Op; Forum" directed by a State Depart- ment official. The ZOA accepted an in- vitation to have a represen- tative address the Forum after the Jewish Tele- graphic Agency reported last December that the Forum had listened to pro- PLO and anti-Israel BUCKLES UNLIMITED SUPER BELT SALE ISRAELI IMPORTED BUCKLES . . . $9 each HAND MADE — SOLID BRASS 35 Designs — Holy Land History M-GO-BLUE BUCKLES $5.00 Now Available — German Silver Buckles PEARL SCISSORS — THE BUCKLE LADY" BUCKLES 3 FOR $11 $4 UCH OVER "1,200" DIFFERENT STYLES LARGEST BUCKLE DISPLAY IN MICHIGAN 2240 COOLIDGE 5 BLI%...1%,1E.„ ? ALM-M I L E Nadia On Satriay 114 — Inc Pa 5454885 speeches by Edmund Hanauer, who had dis- cussed "Is Zionism a Form of Racism," and James Zogby, head of the Palestine Human Rights Organiza- tion Committee which is under Department of Jus- tice investigation. Rep. William Brodhead (D-Mich.) asked the de- partment for a determina- tion on whether the com- mittee should be registered as a foreign agent. Dr. Paul Riebenfeld, a national vice chairman of the ZOA Public Affairs Committee, appeared be- fore the Forum. His audi- ence, according to the Forum's director, Paul Molineaux, numbered between 80and 90 —"ab- out the same as came out for Hanauer." Rieben- feld's discourse and re- sponses to questions in- cluded the following points: A generation gap affects the premises of Zionism. The younger generation considers that Zionism stems from the Holocaust and the birth of Israel in 1948 ; Actually, Zionism began 82 years ago to estab- lish a homeland for Jews in what was then called Pales- tine. Premier Menahem Begin is castigated for using Yes, your OILD odEND IRVING ROSENBERG ' who you used to know at Irving's Furniture. I'm in California now, but I'm still in the same business and still thinking of my old friends back in Michigan. It would be great having customers like you again! So ... if you like the way ltook care of your furniture needs in the old days ... and you happen to be in Southern California ... come in and let me show you my new store ... 13 EDIVO MS 6716 Van Nuys Boulevard, Van Nuys, California 91401 Phone (213) 785-1191 Judea and Samaria but the United Nations General Assembly partition resolu- tion in 1947 referred to Judea and Samaria. In addition, Samaria and Gaza are mentioned in the Pales- tine Mandate agreement. Thus, those names are not — as the media assumes — used for sloganeering by Begin and a fetish of the Gush Emunim. Arabs are done a disserv- ice by generations of maps in Christian Sunday schools in America that depict an area as Palestine when there was no actual exist- ence of a state called Pales- tine. Such maps feed the no- tion that Arabs were de- prived of a state called Palestine. The British under the 1919-1948 Mandate called it Palestine. Actually, maps in Syria today show Israel, the West Bank and Jordan as parts of Syria. The Turks controlled the area for centuries. When, in the 19th Cen- tury, a question arose about the Turkish-controlled area, the general view was that it should be given back to the Jews. Should an inde- pendent state be set up it would not remain a Palesti- nian state but revert to Syria or some other Arab entity. The allegation the Pales- tinians have no nation is a fiction created to contest the legitimacy of Israel. Jordan is the Palestinian state. Until 1970, Jordan was the target of first preference for a PLO takeover. King Hus- sein makes this point in his own writings. Answering Hanauer's thesis, Riebenfeld said that Zionism is the foundation of the Jewish state. To call it racism, is to call into ques- tion the legitimacy of the state of Israel. Cabinet Approves Austerity Budget JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Cabinet, by majority vote, Sunday approved Fi- nance Minister Yigal Hur- witz's IL 405 billion auster- ity budget for the new fiscal year beginning April 1. Three ministers dissented because of Hurwitz's de- clared intention to slash so- cial services and housing. Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin, Minister of Social Betterment Yisrael Katz and Absorption and Hous- ing Minister David Levy said they would continue to fight for the retention of these services. The IL 405 billion represents a framework within which the Treasury will have to bargain with individual ministries over their re- spective budgets. Premier Menahem Begin announced after the six- hour session that Project Renewal, home building and child welfare payments would not be cut. Hurwitz had planned to prune IL 2 billion from child welfare. Boris Smolar's `Between You . . . and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA I (Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.) YIDDISH IN THE U.S. CENSUS: Believe it or not, 1,593,993 Jews in this country declared Yiddish as their mother tongue in the last population census conducted by the U.S. government in 1970. Only 438,116 of them were born in other countries; 170,174 were second generation Americans; the remainder were born in this country with their parents having come from other countries or with one of the parents being American-born. This information entered indirectly into the data col- lected by the U.S. Census Bureau in its 1970 decennial census. The census does not distinguish Jews among the more than 60 ethnic groups in this country because Jews are classified only as a religious group within the general population and the Census Bureau carefully abstains from including a question on religion in its questionnaire, lest it be accused of violating the tradition separating religion from state. CLASSIFICATION OF SOVIET JEWS: It is a great absurdity to swell the data on the Russians and Ukrainian population in the U.S. with the inclusion of Jews in this data without identifying them as Jews, especially Jews who are now coming to the U.S. from the Soviet Union. The latter left the Soviet Union distinctly as Jews. They were officially classified as Jews in the Soviet Union. They were oppressed as Jews and lived under fierce anti-Jewish prop- aganda stimulated by the Soviet government policy against Jews. They were given exit visas by Soviet authorities distinctly as Jews. They were granted U.S. visas by Washington as persecuted Jews. They came to the U.S. to be counted as free Jews. Yet, under the policy of the U.S. Census Bureau they will appear in the 1980 census as Russian and Ukrainian natives with no reference what- soever to their being Jewish. Perhaps this situation will open a new avenue of thought in the minds of leaders of those Jewish organiza- tions who oppose the identification of Jews as Jews in the census for fear of violating the spirit of separation between religion and state. Perhaps the fact that about 1,600,000 Jews in this country have nevertheless identified them- selves as Jews in the census indirectly through declaring Yiddish as their mother tongue will open the eyes of these leaders to see that they are not reflecting the sentiments of a large part of the American Jewish community when op- posing Jewish identification in the census. The result of this opposition is the fact that not only does the census not contain data even on the total number of Jews in this country, but also carries no data on Jewish unemployed, the number of Jewish students in colleges and universities, the number of Jews living below the govern- ment standard of minimum income, and other important aspects of Jewish life. Other national minorities in this country are fundamentally covered in the census on these aspects. OUTLOOK FOR 1980 CENSUS: The 1980 question- naire, as in the previous decennial censuses, does not in- clude questions on Jews as Jews in the data sought on ethnic groups. It also does not include the question on religion, although other government departments find a way of including this question. They do this by not making the answer mandatory. The 1980 questionnaire, however, introduces a ques- tion "What is your ancestry?" which replaces two 1970 questions on where the respondent's parents were born. This paves the way for Jews to be able to answer that they are Jewish. At the same time, the questionnaire replaces the question about which language other than English was spoken in the home when the respondent was a child. The new text reads: "Do you speak a language other than English at home, and what is this language?" This may exclude many American Jews who don't speak Yiddish at home. Torah Bibliography Printed NEW YORK (JTA) — Publication of what the compiler claims to be the first bibliography devoted exclusively to Torah litera- ture in English, "The Study and Practice of Judaism," has been announced by the compiler, Micha Op- penheim. Oppenheim, senior cataloguer at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, said the 94-page book lists more than 500 books and pamphlets ar- ranged in 13 categories. He said the bibliography was created to guide growing numbers of readers seeking the classical religious works of Judaism, together with contemporary interpreta - tions. Three days of uninter- rupted company in a vehicl e will make you better ac- quainted with another than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.