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Labor Day Emphasizes AFL-CIO Backing for Israel — Story on Back Page
The Zionist
Identity
Prof. Scholem's
Interpretation of
Gush Emunim's
Messianism
Jerusalem's
. Jewish Status
Emphasized
in a Century of
Population
Statistics
THE JEWISH NEWS
of knish Events
A Weekly Review
Commentary, Page 2
VOL. LXXVII, No. 26 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075
424-8833
Editorial, Page 4
$15 Per Year: This Issue 35c
August 29, 1980
Senators, Reagan and Israel
Protest U.S. Jerusalem Vote
Copenhagen Meeting
Was Not Total Loss
By SARAH GODDARD POWER
(Editor's note: Mrs. Power of Ann Arbor is deputy
assistant secretary of the Bureau of International
Organization Affairs at the U.S. State Department.)
I wish I could describe the Copenhagen Conference (the
UN Mid-Decade Conference for Women in July) as a side
show of the current global political theatrics. I can't be-
cause it was not, and we never harbored illusions that it
would be. The United States delegation left for the confer-
ence fully aware of things to come and fully prepared to do
battle on two fronts.
First and foremost, we knew that we could not lend our
name, even by the slightest inference, to attempts to use
this women's conference as yet another forum of attack
upon common U.S. and Israeli interests. Conversely, we
were equally determined not to be part of any maneuver
that would use extraneous political issues to divert atten-
tion from those universal
tasks that are paramount to
women everywhere.
The fact that in the end
we, with a few steadfast al-
lies, were forced to vote
against the World Plan of
Action, may suggest at first
glance that our efforts were
frustrated. The final docu-
ment that this Mid-Decade
Conference has adopted,
contains politically objec-
tionable and morally abhor-
rent references to the PLO
and to Zionism. But the in-
sertion of such references,
SARAH POWER
(Continued on Page 10)
Political opponents as well as friends of the Carter Administration contin-
ued this week to voice their displeasure over the failure of the U.S. to veto the
Aug. 20 United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel for
occupying" Jerusalem.
The Carter Administration stance on the issue was scored in a statement by
14 U.S. Senators, including Carl Levin (D-Mich.). The U.S. vote was repudiated
by Republican Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan, GOP national chairman
Bill Brock, independent Presidential candidate John Anderson, Sen. Ted Ken-
nedy (D-Mass.), and American Jewish spokesmen and organizations. It was
bitterly denounced by Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin.
Prior to the U.S. abstention in the Security Council, the bipartisan group of
U.S. Senators urged Secretary of State Muskie to veto the Security Council
resolution on Jerusalem. After the vote, Sen. Levin read the following statement
in the Senate:
CARL LEVIN
"The United States abstained from voting on a resolution before the
United Nations Security Council censuring Israel for passing a law declaring all of Jerusalem its
permanent and undivided capital and calling on all nations with embassies located in Jerusalem
to remove them from that city and transfer them to another location. The resolution was passed
by a vote of 14 to 0.
" The United States refusal to veto or
at least vote against that resolution was a
■
terrible mistake. As Secretary of State
Muskie himself said prior to abstaining,
the resolution was 'fundamentally flawed'
• By ALAN HITSKY
by its one-sided attack on Israel and its
failure to view this dispute within the
Five years after he was indicted on charges of concealing his
ties to the fascist Romanian Iron Guard when he applied to enter
larger context of the Middle East peace
the U.S. and when he gained American citizenship; Romanian
process.
Orthodox Archbishop Valerian Trifa of Grass Lake, Mich., has
The point that must be made — and
surrendered his citizenship papers to U.S. officials. His status
made clearly — is that it does not serve our
now is resident alien.
national interests to participate in and
Trifa's action halts denaturalization proceedings against
sanction a process which seeks to focus
him. Federal officials will now have to begin deportation proceed-
exclusive attention on the behavior of only
ings. If successful in that action, Trifa could be deported to
one of the parties involved in this complex
Romania where he could be tried for allegedly inciting a January
and sensitive situation. And it does not
1941 pogrom by Iron Guardists in Bucharest which took the lives
serve the interests of peace for us to par-
of hundreds of Jews.
t t
Trifa Surrenders
His U.S. Citizenship
(Continued on Page 7)
(Continued on Page 5)
Cabinet Secretary Praises Work of JVS-CW
as She Tours Jewish-Sponsored Facility
By HEIDI PRESS
Jewish Vocational Service-Community Workshop administrators are beaming with pride this week, and rightly so —
their agency has been deemed a "gem" by a member of the Carter Cabinet. U.S. Secretary of Education Shirley M.
Hufstedler praised the facility during her visit to Detroit last week to speak to the American Federation of
Teachers. Vocational rehabilitation is one of the specialties that comes under the jurisdiction of the Department of
Education.
Asked why she chose to visit the JVS-CW over similar agencies operated under general auspices the Secretary said
that it was unique "for taking the unemployable and producing successful results." She lauded the combination of services
offered by the agency, which receives funding from government and private sources.
During her visit to the JVS-CW, Mrs. Hufstedler saw a videotape, "Help and Hope," describing the services offered by
the agency and toured the Woodward Avenue facility. (There also is a satellite office and workshop in Oak Park.) She saw
potential clients in the testing area to determine where their job aptitudes are strongest, clients at work in the workshop
areas, teaching AK study centers. Walking through the building she spoke with some of the clients.
Impressed by what she saw, the Secretary said, "Your facility is rather unique . . . it has the marks of
success." She was particularly pleased by the inclusion of senior citizens in the work programs. The Jewish
people always take care of their senior citizens; they don't hide them away," she said.
Executive Director Albert I. Ascher was jubilant that his agency was singled out to be visited by a top U.S. official. He
remarked that it is "a wonderful thing for government to put money into a private agency." He said the facility receives an
(Continued on Page 11)
Sharing a light moment during the recent visit of
'U.S. Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler, sec-
ond from right, at the Jewish Vocational Service-
Community Workshop are, from left: Julian Scott,
president; Dr. Ivan Lewis Cotman, associate superin-
tendent for rehabilitation for the Michigan Depart-
ment of Education; Mrs. Hufstedler; and Albert I.
Ascher, executive director of the JVS-CW.