AJCampaign Community-Wide Phone Solicitations Jan. 18
Super Sunday, a massive, one-day telephone solicitation drive on behalf of the
1981 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund, is set for Jan. 18.
The most ambitious telephone solicitation operation ever undertaken locally,
more than 300 community leaders will serve as phone callers to reach every Jew in
the Detroit metropolitan area.
An Appeal
to Christians
to Lead in
Repudiating
Enemies
of Israel
Eighty telephones will be set up at the United Hebrew Schools for the
event, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
On the Sabbath weekend preceding Supei Sunday, rabbis will deliver sermons
on the work of the Jewish Welfare Federation and its agencies.
Detroit's Super Sunday is part of a nationwide effort Jan. 18 on behalf of world
Jewry.
THE JEWISH NEWS
of Jewish Events
A Weekly Review
Commentary, Page 2
Soviet Threat
to Israel a
Threat to
All Mankind
Editorial, Page 4
Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co.
VOL. LXXVIII, No. 12 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075
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$15 Per Year: This Issue 35c November 21, 1980
CJF Plea to Reagan: Continue Israel Support
N. American Leaders Affirm
Unity Policy by World Jewry
let My People Go' Slogans for USSR, Ethiopian Jews
Responding in positive, unanimous actions to the call for Jewish unity
sounded by Israel Prime Minister Menahem Begin, in his "Stay Together" call
for solidarity with which he concluded his historic address here last Thursday,
the more than 2,500 registered delegates at the 49th General Assembly of the
Council of Jewish Federations, convened at the Plaza Hotel Nov. 12-16, went on
record with a declarative statement affirming the world Jewish position for an
undivided Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The record-setting leadership involvement by delegates from more than
400 communities in the United States and Canada set forth policies on many
issues, emphasizing dedication to tasks for Israel's security and the programs to
insure the peace of the Middle East, striving for the rescue of Jews from the
Soviet Union and Ethiopia, calling upon the governments of the United States
and Canada to register concern for the safety of Jews in France and wherever
anti-Semitism becomes evident again.
The presence at the General Assembly of Prime Minister Begin of
Israel aroused national interest and his address at the Nov. 13 session,
attended by 1,800 in the convention hall of the Plaza Hotel and broadcast
to an overflow audience of 1,200 more was judged of historic signifi-
cance. It was the first time an Israeli prime minister currently in office
had addressed the CJF.
The General Assembly was viewed as the closest form to a parliament of
North American Jews, in the vastness of its performance here. The delegates,
while they were a volunteer army of enrolled and duly registered representa-
tives of the hundreds of communities, ranging in population from the 2,000,000
in New York down to villages of a dozen Jews, emerged representative in
character.
They did not ignore a single issue. There was one outburst of discord when a
group shouted, during the address by Morton Mandel of Cleveland, who was
Attorneys' Appeal
Delays Trifa Case
Government attorney Kathleen Coleman, has accused
_ ,,olnanian Archbishop Valerian Trifa of filing a "frivolous"
appeal against a denaturalization agreement Trifa signed
two months ago in order to delay the U.S. deportation case
against him.
Trifa's lawyers informed an Immigration and
Naturalization Service administrative judge of the appeal
at a hearing on Tuesday in Detroit and the judge, Anthony
D. Petrone, ruled that the deportation hearing could not
continue until the appeal was resolved. Observers say the
appeal could take a minimum of several months to be hand-
led by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. They added
that it could take much longer.
Trifa signed the denaturalization agreement on Sept.
3, thus halting denaturalization proceedings. He is accused
of fomenting a pogrom by the fascist Romanian Iron Guard
in Bucharest in January 1941.
Some observers have speculated that Trifa signed the
agreement in September so that testimony against him was
not heard in court. The government's indictment against
him was filed in 1975, and appeals by the 66-year-old priest
could delay deportation proceedings for five more years,
attorneys said.
re-elected president of CJF, for more action to assure emigration and rescue of
the Falashas, the Ethiopian Jews, most of whose community has already been
massacred. Mandel confronted the shouters, whose actions have even been
labeled as the "Detroit Revolt," with an explanation that after negotiating there
was an agreement to open the Begin session with a prayer and to permit a brief
statement in behalf of the Falashas, both having been accomplished. Prime
Minister Begin himself countered the protesters with a declaration that Israel
will make it a priority to rescue the Jews from Ethiopia and to bring them home
to Israel.
It was on a par with his appeal to the Soviet Union, in behalf of himself,
Israel and the entire Jewish people, to "Let My People Go" for them to come
home to Israel.
Begin said that Israel today is stronger than it has been since the
days of the Maccabees and he expressed confidence in the sanctity and
the future of the Camp David Accord.
We now have relations with the largest and strongest Arab country," he
told the enthusiastic crowd which interrupted his speech many times with
applause. We do not believe in international cynicism — that a peace treaty is
just a piece of paper that can be torn," he remarked.
But he noted that the commitments made at Camp David may take years to
realize and he cautioned patience. "There is no guarantee that can guarantee an
international guarantee," he said, adding that he would never ask any other
country to fight Israel's battles but noted that Jews of all countries must share
concern for Israel's problems.
The problems of the Jewish people are Israel's; the problems of Isriiel are
the Jewish people's. Let us stand together as one family in love and devotion .. .
and thus we will make sure that the Jewish state and the Jewish people will live
(Continued on Page 12)
Likud Survives Confidence Motion
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Menahem Begin's Likud-led coalition government, mustering all of its resources, barely
survived a no-confidence vote in the Knesset Wednesday over the rapidly deteriorating economy. The tally was 57-54
against motions submitted separately by three opposition factions — Labor Alignment, Communist Party and the
ultra-nationalist Tehiya — but voted on as a single motion. There were two abstentions.
The three-vote margin was the narrowest by which Begin's coalition has averted defeat since it took office in May
1977. Former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, both of whom had served in
Begin's Cabinet, voted for the first time with the opposition.
Weizman, who delivered what some observers described as the most moving speech of the grueling seven-hour
debate, urged his Likud colleagues to bring down the government and go the electorate for a new mandate. His
defection could cost him membership in Likud. Dayan, a former Laborite, is an independent MK.
The no-confidence motions and the debate were prompted by the release of economic statistics last
Friday which showed the cost of living up 11 percent in October, the second highest monthly increase in
Israel's history, and inflation running at an annual rate of 138 percent, the highest in the world. The crisis
forced Begin to cut short his 10-day visit to the U.S. by one day. Begin returned to Israel Tuesday night to
marshall coalition forces for the crucial test in the Knesset.
He did not speak during the debate, but he managed to align Likud, the National Religious Party and the Aguda
bloc against the opposition. At one point Wednesday, it appeared that the coalition would defeat the motion by five
votes, but two splinter faction MKs, former members of the Democratic Movement for Change (DMC) decided to vote
against the government. Begin's survival was attributed to a decision by two wavering independent MKs to abstain
rather than vote with the opposition.
In his speech, Weizman said that Israel was passing through a period of emergency and "if Likud doesn't do
something extraordinary and fast, not only the state will suffer but Likud. In such a period we must change the ones
who stand at the helm," he said.
(Continued on Page 17)