Communist's Tragic Soviet Experience Exposes Travesty of Social Pledges THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 VOL. LXXVII, No. 23 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 Jewish Events of Jewish 424-8833 The Democratic Convention: Senator Levin's Message Page 56 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c August 8, 1980 Stalemated ME. Negotiations paced With Bleak Prospects Yeshiva Is Given OK for Move Into Roosevelt Yeshivath Beth Yehudah will move into Oak Park's former Roosevelt Elementary School on Sept. 5 and begin using the buildingfor its high school and college classes and as a dormitory facility. The yeshiva, which is changing its name to Yeshiva Gedolah of Greater Detroit to reflect its expanding operations, was given permission by the city of Oak Park to move into the building after Ford Motor Co. gave the city a letter of intent. Ford Motor Co. has to finalize with the city its use of two acres of the nine-acre site. Ford is paying 50 percent of the lease price to the Oak Park Schools, and will pay 40 percent of the purchase price when the yeshiva buys the building in six years. Rabbi Leib Bakst, rosh yeshiva, and Rabbi Norman Kahn, yeshiva administrator, said the yeshiva's expansion into Roosevelt Will be a great gain for the community. For years our young scholars have had to leave Detroit to continue their Jewish education," the rabbis said. "Many have married while away from Detroit and have been lost to ouncommunity. The building is also in the right neighbor- hood." Rabbi Kahn said that the yeshiva now has students from New York, California, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington enrolled in its classes, and has been receiving requests from others areas. The yeshiva'will use Roosevelt for classroom and dor- mitory space. Classes for the high school, college, kollel and adult education will be held in the building. The present yeshiva facility on Lincoln in Southfield will be used for elementary school courses. Rabbi Kahn explained that the yeshiva had been trying to acquire the Roosevelt building for six years. Oak Park stopped using the building as an elementary school 10 y, ears ago. The rabbi said Roosevelt will be inexpensiVe to convert for the yeshiva's purposes. The school has been used in recent years for Oakland County programs for the handicapped and the physi- cal plant is ideal for the yeshiva, he said. Rabbi Kahn said the yeshiva's share of the lease will be underwritten by a group of supporters so that additional funds will not have to come from the yeshiva budget. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Menahem Begin's response to the letter of President Anwar Sadat regarding the state of negotiations on Arab autonomy was sent Wednesday to Egypt by a special emissary.- Copies of the Israeli response were handed to the White House in Washington and to Saad Mortada, Egypt's ambassador to Israel. In the response, Begin represented Israel's views as following the Camp David accords and rejected the allegation that it is Israel which places obstacles in the negotiations. "He who writes as Sadat does that the legislation of the Knesset on Jerusalem is null and_void,his own words have no value," Begin wrote. The Begin response to Sadat's 18-page letter reportedly told the Egyptians that all issues, including Jerusalem, were negotiable. Begin completed his response to Sadat on Monday and it was approved by his Cabinet on Tuesday. Sadat's letter was written in a "courteous and friendly style" but it presented an Egyptian stand on the controversial issues. The letter included his old demands of imposing autonomy on East Jerusalem as well as the West Bank, Israeli withdrawal from all territories, dismantling of the Jewish settlements in the territories, as well as establishing Arab judicial and legislative bodies in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Sadat also blamed Israel for the difficulties in the autonomy negotiations. Egypt said last weekend that the resumption of the au- tonomy talks depended on Israel's re- sponse to Sadat's letter. Sadat was in seclusion this week at Mt. Sinai for the last week of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. But Sadat was TEL AVIV (JTA) — Avraham Boruchim, a member of scheduled to make-a-speech while at Sinai, a prominent Iranian Jewish family which owns two of and may respond t.) Begin's letter. Teheran's luxury hotels, was executed by an Iranian firing Dr. Yosef Burg, head of the Israeli squad in Evin last Thursday on charges of "spying for negotiating team, told newsmen fol- Israel." lowing Tuesday's Cabinet session that- The 27-year-old hotelier went on trial last May before the resumption of the autonomy talks an Islamic Revolutionary Court in Teheran on charges of depended on Egypt. In a clear refer- embezzling public funds to build a hotel chain and of "creat- ing an espionage center for American and Israeli agents ence to Israel's reservations over and their servants." Iran's official Pars news agency re- Sadat's repeated delays of the talks, ported at that time that hotel employees had claimed that Burg said one needed to negotiate now the Boruchims hosted "continual meetings of Iranian the proper "time and place" for the re- Jews in the hotels and organized meetings of Zionists." newed negotiations, which should suit Avraham Boruchim was executed despite efforts of his all three parties. 80-year-old father, Izaak, to save him. The father, who was At a meeting with reporters in Cairo, in the United States visiting his sons, rushed back to Iran Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan when he learned of his son's sentence and managed to have Ali said that the Knesset legislation on Avraham released only to see him re-arrested. The father is Iranian Jew Executed for 'S pying for Israel' (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page 5) The Challenge to the Democratic Convention Jewish Concern for Israel to Confront Delegates By DAVID FRIEDMAN wr. however, are in the forefront of the effort for the Democratic Party to support strong measures to increase employment, help the poor and needy and provide more aid to the NEW YORK (JTA) — The Democratic.National Convention which opens in Madison cities. Square Garden on Monday promises to be as raucous and exciting an event as the sports At the same time, many of those seeking an open convention, particularly some of contests and circuses that are usually on display at that arena. President Carter, pummeled by his low standings in the public opinion polls, will be the New York delegates, have argued that among Carter's handicaps is his unpopularity in the Jewish community. Although the Carter Administration considers the Camp ving to hold on to the huge majority of delegates he has to ensure his renomination for a David agreement its major foreign policy achievement, many Jews believe the Adminis- c,ond term; Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts will be making a strong, last-ditch tration, particularly National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and some officials of effort to wrest the nomination away from the President; and some Democrats, particu- the State Department, have tilted toward the Arabs, particularly on the issue of the larly members of Congress who fear Carter's unpopularity will hurt their own re-election chances, are hoping for a third alternative. Palestinians. A fear has been expressed among some Jews that if Carter is re-elected, he would no The unpopularity issue has included concern by the Jewish community toward longer have to worry about the Jewish vote in his second term and feel .rter over fear that the Administration has been pressuring Israel as free to exert undUe pressure on Israel. At the same time, this fear has demonstrated by the United States vote for the United Nations Secu- been tempered by a belief that Congress would prevent any one-sided rity Council resolution of March 1 condemning Israel. It was disavowed pressure on Israel. by the Prdsident and by subsequent abstentions by the U.S. in the UN Nothing has angered the Jewish community so much as the on issues dealing with Israel. U.S. vote for the March 1 UN resolution, which was repudiated Some who would like to deny Carter the nomination do not 41( by the President a few days later. Republican speakers at their believe Kennedy should be the Democratic Party's choice either. convention continuously referred to it and it was the only They have mentioned,such alternatives as Vice President Walter specific reference to the Mideast made by Reagan in his ac- Mondale,' Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Sen. Henry ceptance speech in Detroit. Jackson of Washington. All are considered popular in the Because of this there is a fear that some of the traditionally Demo- Jewish community. cratic Jewish vote could go to the Republicans. Some of this erosion can -- Jewish Democrats can be found on all sides of the controversy and already be seen. New York State Assemblyman Samuel Hirsch, a as partisans of all the candidates. No issue of particular Jewish con- (Continued on Page 7) cern, such as Israel, divides the candidates at this point. Many Jews,