24 Friday, February 20, 1981 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Arab Intelligentsia Impact Debated HURRY! BEFORE TIME RUNS OUT MARCH 1 1981 NCCJ Chief Issues Warning on Hate Groups NEW YORK — Dr. David Hyatt, president of the Na- tional Conference of Chris- tians and Jews, told the organization's national board of trustees of the re- ' surgence and the potential danger of hate groups in America and called upon them to help "awaken the conscience of America to its crying human relations needs." Dr. Hyatt addressed the trustees at the group's an- nual meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and noted the rise in anti- Semitic and anti-black inci- dents during 1980. Hyatt cited 1980 inci- dents such as the shooting of National Urban League President Vernon Jordan; the vandalism of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries; the bombing of a Paris synagogue that kil- led four persons; the offhand anti-Semitic remarks by the president of the Southern Baptist Convention which drew heated controversy; the murder of six black males in upstate New York; the bizarre case of the dead and missing black children in the South; and the plight of the Hispanic community in America, as issues of paramount concern for everyone. SAVE UP TO HAMILTON PLACE DUES There's never been a better time to join GO UP Hamilton Place MARCH 1ST than NOW! Now before rates go up March 1st. Now while you can SAVE UP TO 5 425. .. Jewish Agenda Council Meets . Hamilton Place, the com- plete Social and Fitness Club in Southfield. Relax in the indoor pool, jog around the indoor track, exercise on Nautilus Equipment. Dine with your friends at Cafe Rouge, now under the direction of the Hamilton Place and Golden Mushroom Chef Milos. Join now and have the best summer of your life. Hurry before time runs out. TEL AVIV (JNI) — Seven members of the Knesset Arab Education sub- committee expressed pes- simism concerning the mood and absorption of the Middle East's burgeoning Arab intelligentsia during a seminar at Tel Aviv Uni- versity's Shiloah Institute for Middle East Studies. According to the insti- tute, the number of univer- sity students in Arab coun- tries increased by 250 per- cent since 1972, to total over one million. Of the 70,000 Palestinians studying throughout the world, two- thirds are being educated in the Middle East. The institute estimates GOLDEN MUSHROOM COMES TO HAMILTON PLACE ' Golden Mushroom owner. Reid Ashton, and internationally acclaimed Chef Milos. will also be directing food services at Hamilton Place. Join Now and taste the difference. 30333 Southfield Rd. (Between 12 and 13 Mile Rds.) Call 646-8990 Between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. HAMILTON PLACE NEW YORK — The Na- tional Council of New Jewish Agenda met in January in New York and reaffirmed the organiza- tion's commitment to "the validity and vitality of pro- gressive Jewish values at a time when many have lost faith that the goals of justice and peace are attainable." The council announced that Agenda expects to enlist several thousand members during its first year and to form at least 25 chapters nationwide. Af- filiates will be linked through a newsletter and the national council. At the founding confer- ence in December, the 700 participants proposed some 40 task forces on issues such as the environment, anti- Semitism, Israel, the arts and world hunger. that five percent of the world Arab population, or 2 million, will receive aca- demic certification by the year 2000. In 1975, 0.5 per- cent had obtained degrees. "But the Arab coun- tries can't absorb all these academicians," stated Dr. Chagay Ehrlich. Its premature to say they could turn the tables, but they could contribute to regional destabilization." disproportionate "A number of Israeli Arabs learn professions where they won't be dependent on the establishment for a job, creating few job openings," stated Shiloah director Eli Reches. Israeli Arab graduates (25,000 currently enrolled in secondary schools and 4,000 in higher education) also have diffi- culty finding employment "due to prejudice which is usually unjustified," he con- tinued. Jews tend to blur the line between civil rights and na- tional aspirations of Israeli Arabs, added MK Shmuel Toledano. He disagreed with Reches' demographic conclusion that 23 percent of Israel's population will be Arab within 20 years say- ing, "When their cultural level increases, Arab family growth will decline." SBA Policy Hit WASHINGTON — The Small Business Adminis- tration (SBA) has been urged to adopt regulations ending the presumption that racial minorities are automatically eligible for assistance and requiring in- stead that all small businesses which seek SBA assistance prove they are "socially disadvantaged." The proposal was contained in a formal comment on the SBA's proposed new regula- tions submitted by the American Jewish Congress in behalf of itself and the American Jewish Commit- tee, Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith and Jewish Community Rela- tions Council of New York. Dispute Over `Moonies' Hits Catskill Town ACCORD, N.Y. — The purchase of a summer camp site by the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon has angered residents and incited violence in this town at the base of the Catskill Mountains. Opponents of the camp say that church members disturb the peace and harass their neighbors and that people have turned up at homes in the area asking for help after having been "recruited" to the camp under false pretenses. Church officials deny the charges and note that the U.S. Justice Department plans to investigate a long list of alleged instances of arson, vandalism and harassment by members of the community.