Yom Kippur:
The Indomitable
Spirit of
Humanism

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Expose of
Double Standards
in Diplomacy

A Weekly Review

Commentary, Page 2

"OL. LXXVIII, No. 3 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075

of Jewish Events

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$15 Per Year: This Issue 35c September 19, 1980

U.S. Opposes Renewed Stand
Against Israel by UN Agency

HMC Committee Signs
Memorial Center Contract

Signing the contract for the Holocaust Memorial Center are,
from left seated, Samuel Hechtman, Joseph H. Jackier, Rabbi
Charles H. Rosenzveig, and architect Leonard G. Siegal; standing,
Saul Waldman, Richard J. Maddhi, Martin Water, Dr. Morton Plot-
nick, Abraham Weberman, Leon Halpern and Hugh W. Greenberg.
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Samuel Hechtman, chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Center-
Jewish Community Center building committee, has announced that ar-
chitect Leonard G. Siegal has been retained to build the Holocasut Memo-
rial Center.
The HMC will be constructed as an addition to the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield. It will continue to function as an independent
institution.
Siegal, of the firm of Siegal/Tuomaala Associates, joined the leaders
of the Holocaust Memorial Center-JCC building committee and United
Jewish Charities for the signing of the contract.
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GENEVA (JTA) — The United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of Discrimina-
tion and Protection of Minorities concluded its four-week session here Monday with the
adoption of several strong anti-Israel resolutions. It called on Israel to release all Palestinian
political detainees or prisoners and to ameliorate the conditions of all prisoners held in Israeli
prisons with a view to meeting international standards. The U.S. delegate voted against the
resolution. Britain, France, India and Nigeria abstained.
Another resolution called for the appointment of three members of the subcommittee to
visit Israeli prisons and report on conditions. There were 17 votes in favor of this resolution
and four abstentions. The U.S. delegate abstained, although the Israeli delegation hoped he
would vote against it. The Syrian delegate also abstained because he thought the resolution
was not strong enough.
A resolution on Jerusalem urged the Israeli authorities to withdraw from all the occupied
Arab territories, including Jerusalem, to stop immediately all excavation and work "aimed at
the destruction of the essential physical character, demographic composition, historical
structure and status of the holy city of Jerusalem."
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel arrived in New York on Monday to
represent Israel at the 35th session of the General Assembly which began this week.
Before leaving Israel he said he would be surprised if the Arab states did not try to
expel Israel from the UN dur-
ing this session.
Israel's ambassador to the
UN, Yehuda Blum, underlined
this concern at a press conference.
He said this year's General As-
NEW YORK (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin of
sembly is likely to be "one of the
Israel will address 2,506 leaders of North American Jewish
most
unpleasant" Assembly ses-
federations on Nov. 13, at the Council of Jewish Federa-
sions
as far as Israel is concerned.
tions' General Assembly in Detroit.
He warned of the likelihood of a
Speaking at a major plenary session, Begin will pro-
move by the Arabs and their sup-
vide delegates with his views on "Israel-Diaspora Rela-
porters
to suspend Israel from the
tions" — the bond between American Jewry, the state of
General Assembly by revoking its
Israel and its people.
credentials to participate in the
The General Assembly, Nov. 12-16, will bring together
session.
leadership from CJF's 200 constituent federations in the
Shamir, who will address the
United States and Canada. The Assembly is the largest
Assembly
Sept. 29, devoted the
single gathering held each year of North American Jewish
major part of this week to meet-,
leadership. Delegates will participate in sessions covering
ings with Administration officials
every major aspect of concern to the organized Jewish

Begin Here Nov. 13
for CJF Sessions

community.

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Is such the fast I desire,

A day for men to starve their bodies?
Is it bowing the head like a bulrush

And lying in sackcloth and ashes ?

Do you call that a fast,

A day when the Lord is favorable ?

No, this is the fast I desire:

To unlock fetters of wickedness,

And untie the cords of the yoke

To "let the oppressed go free;

To break off every yoke.

It is to share your bread with the hungry,

And to take the wretched poor into your home

When you see the naked, to clothe him,

And not to ignore your own kin.

—Isaiah 58:5-7

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