12 Friday, September 5, 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS LOUVERDRAPE VERTICALS FLEXALUM 1" BLINDS 45% o pff ricr e etl a ii s l t 50% with your measurements and pick-up CUSTOM MADE DRAPES at UNBEATABLE PRICES Offer good until 9-30-80 FOR COMPLETE SERVICE CALL: HURTIG WINDOW INTERIORS 2559-8209 APPRAISALS if they're worth doing, they're worth doing right 32802 FRANKLIN RD., FRANKLIN VILLAGE 851-7111 10-5:30 TUES.-SAT. Religion in an Aging Society By RABBI MARC TANENBAUM (A Seven Arts Feature) "Old age is not a defeat but a victory, not a punish- ment but a privilege. In education we stress the im- portance of the adjustment of the young to society. Our task is to call for the ad- justment of society to the old." Those penetrating words were spoken by my late blessed teacher and friend, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, the great Jewish theologian, during a memorable address before the 1961 White House Con- ference on Aging. These views are all the more re- levant to the 1981 Confer- ence on Aging which is now being organized. During the next 50 years, America's population will double in the number of its older citizens. We need to face the hard fact that America has been a youth and achievement society, dominated by competitive- ness and production of material goods. Both Judaism and Christianity need to help all Americans realize that the worth of a person is not to be measured by his or her usefulness to society, but rather that a human being is valuable in himself or herself. Care for the old is still regarded as an act of charity; it must rather become an act of sever- ance, of supreme Mack Pitt and his privilege as it has been in most ancient civiliza- tions. • As the 1981 White House Conference will seek to make clear, being old is not the same as being stale. Orchestra plus Disco Music just for you 358-3642 PRESCRIPTION OPTICAL CO. PHIL ELLIS PHIL ELLIS INVITES YOU TO INSPECT OUR LARGE SELECTION OF EYE FASHIONS SILHOUETTE, AVANT GARDE, ANTHONY MARTIN & MORE Tues.-Fri. 9:30-6 Thurs. Evening 7-9 p.m. Sat. 9:30-5 543-3343 CLOSED SUNDAY & MONDAY 26001 COOLIDGE HWY. OAK PARK, MICH. ......... By 101/2 Mile IT IS INTOLERABLE . . AMERICA'S FAILURE TO VETO UN JERUSALEM RESOLUTION ENDANGERS ISRAEL The Security Council of the United Nations in an effort to delegitimize the State of Israel, a member nation, has in a vote of 14-0 urged that all embassies be withdrawn from Jerusalem. The United States effectively supported the resolution by abstaining rather than casting a veto. The rejection of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state by the United Nations is reinforced by the tragic positions taken by the Carter administra- tion. Up to now, UN resolutions have been viewed as unpleasant and nasty rhetoric. But the resolution passed by the Security Council calling on all embas- sies in Jerusalem to be withdrawn goes beyond verbal onslaught against the Jewish state. The resolution calls for direct action against Israel and, in fact, is a sanction. The UN resolution is a most dangerous and sinister development and its far-reaching conse- quences are cause for immediate and great alarm. Secretary of State Muskie in his speech to the UN described the resolution as "unbalanced," "unrealis- tic," "fundamentally flawed" and "disruptive." Yet in spite of those arguments against the resolution, President Carter decided to abstain rather than to veto. In explaining the position taken by the United States, Secretary of State Muskie refers to a "common vision of this ancient city's future — an undivided Jerusalem with free access to the holy places for people of all faiths." It is regrettable that the Secre- tary of State did not acknowledge that his vision has been fulfilled. Israel has made possible freedom of worship for all faiths. The American Administration seems not to under- stand that the actions of the United Nations are or- chestrated in Moscow, the center of world anti- Semitism, whose objective is to make Israel the scapegoat for all the ills of the world. The Adminis- tration permits itself to be victimized by this Soviet manipulation. Those who negotiate the future of Jerusalem cannot disregard an important partner — the Jewish people in the Diaspora. Jerusalem is not an internal political issue of concern only to the people of the State of Israel. Jerusalem is the eternal and holy city of all the Jewish people. It is and will remain the capital of the Jewish State, notwithstanding policies made by the State Department of the United States. , The latest decisions by the United States on the issue of Jerusalem raises serious questions. Does our great nation decide its own destiny? Should not Americans question why outside influences deter- mine the location of an American Embassy? Should not Americans be indignant that\ our policy appears to be influenced by international blackmail? These are some of the serious questions which confront the Jewish people as we gather during the Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to search our minds and innermost feelings. excerpts from a statement Aug. 22, 1980 by IVAN J. NOVICK, National President, Zionist O_rganizations of America ZOA ACTIN GUIDELINE Write to President Carter and Secretary of State Muskie to express your outrage at their capitualation to oil blackmail as shown by the failure to veto the repulsive actions of the United Nations intended to turn Jerusalem over to Arab rule, deprive the Jewish people of the focus of their spiritual life, destroy their historic past and which ignores that the democracy of Israel is the only country in the Middle East where both Arabs and Jews as well as Christians enjoy the human rights espoused by Mr. Carter and that Jerusalem, under Israel, already enjoys the "free access to the holy places for people of all faiths" that Mr. Muskie has called for. Send ZOA a copy. President Jimmy Carter The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie Department of State 2201 C Street Washington, D.C. 20520 Do NOT BE SILENT FIGHT BACK—JOIN THE ZOA SIDNEY SILVERMAN, president IRVING LAKER, vice-president, membership Zionist Organization of America—Detroit District Southfield, Michigan 48075 Phone: (313) 569-1515 18451 West 10 Mile Road