THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

38 Friday, March 20, 1981

Rights of Observant Upheld in New Federal

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NEW YORK (JTA) — A
federal appeals court in
Chicago, in a 2-1 decision,
has upheld the constitu-
tionality of a provision of
the U.S. Civil Rights Act
which has protected the
rights of Sabbath observing
Jews, according to the Na-
tional Jewish Commision
on Law and Public Affairs
(COLPA).
The Seventh Circuit
Court of Appeals rejected
the argument that the pro-
vision of the act, which re-
quires employers and labor
unions to make "reasonable
accommodation" to the reli-
gious needs of employees
unless an "undue hardship"
would result, violates the
"establishment of religion
clause" of the First
Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution.
Howard Zuckerman,
COLPA's president, hailed
the decision as a "reaffair-
mation of an individual's

right to avoid , having to
chose between religious
principle and gainful em-
ployment."
COLPA, joined by the
Agudath Israel of
America, the Anti-
Defamation League of
Bnai Brith, the National
Council of Young Israel,
the Rabbinical Council of
America and the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations of America,
had filed a brief in sup-
port of the constitutional-
ity of the provision.
The case involved Darrel
Nottelson, a Seventh Day
Adventist, who was fired
from the A. 0. Smith Corp.
in Wisconsin for refusing to
join the labor union at the
company because his reli-
gion prohibits him from
joining or financially sup-
porting labor unions.
Labor agreements at the
Wisconsin company re-
quired all employees to join

NEW YORK — Fifteen
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preparing educational
guides for the eight-hour
ABC-TV movie-epic,
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evenings of April 5-8.
The inter-agency effort
was coordinated by the
Jewish Welfare Board, the
American Association of
Jewish Education, Ameri-
can Zionist Youth Founda-
tion and Jewish National
Fund.
Other organizations in-
volved in the project are the
American Jewish Commit-
tee, American Jewish Con-
gress, American Zionist
Federation, Council of
Jewish Federations, Hadas-
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National Commission on
Torah Education, National
Foundation for Jewish Cul-
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Hebrew Congregations,
United Jewish Appeal,
Workmen's Circle, and
Zionist Organization of
America.
The educational guide is
available from the agencies
at a charge.

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the union, the Smith Steel
Workers, AFL-CIO, and to
pay dues.
Nottelson filed suit in a
federal district court in
Milwaukee and his position
was upheld. the A. 0. Smith
Corp. and the union filed an
appeal in the Seventh Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals which
again ruled in favor of Not-
telson.
The appeals court said
that by accommodating
the needs of religious
minorities, the law "does
not confer a benefit on
those accommodated,
but rather relieves those
individuals of a specific
burden that others do not

Ruling

suffer by permitting them
to fulfill their societal ob-
ligations in a different
manner, as in this case,
by substituting a charit-
able contribution for
union dues."
Nottelson had offered to
make a contribution to a
non-religious charity
equivalent to what his
union dues would have
been.
Zuckerman noted that
while the payment of union
dues does not pose a prob-
lem for Jews, the constitu-
tionality of the protection
for Sabbath observerg who
require adjustment of hours
on the job is of great impor-
tance to observant Jews.

U.S. Refuses to Implicate
Israel in Lebanon Shellings

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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The State Department
sharply condemned the
tank and artillery shelling
by Christian forces in south
Lebanon that inflicted
casualties on United Na-
tions peacekeeping person-
nel on Monday but denied
emphatically that there was
any evidence of Israeli in-
volvement in the incident.
(See Purely Commen-
tary, Page 2.)
killing4
Referring to the killing
two soldiers of the Nigerian
contingent of the United
Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the
wounding of 11 other Nige-
rians and two Lebanese
army regulars in Kantara
village, State Department
spokesman William Dyess
said the U.S. condemned
those "outrageous actions."
"We wish to make it clear
that the U.S. fully and un-
equivocally supports Leba-
non's territorial integrity
and UN Security Council
Resolution 245 of March 19,
1978 under which UNIFIL
received its mandate,"
Dyess said. "There must be
no interference with UN-
IFIL and its attempts to
carry out its duties." The
State Department added
that Haddad had pledged a
truce but threatened to re-
sume the shooting if
Lebanese army units do not
evacuate Kantara.
The Christian militia of
Major Saad Haddad said
the United Nations
soldiers were caught in a
cross-fire between the
militia and 30 Lebanese
troops who moved into
the southern region and
were harassing villages
for alleged collaboration
with the Christian forces
and Israel which sup-
ports Haddad's militia.
Haddad accused UNIFIL
solderis of acting in con-
cert with the Lebanese.
Haddad views the south-
ward movement of the
Beirut-controlled Lebanese
army as a threat to his
authority and warned that
he would shell them if they
did not retire.
Israel said that it was
maintaining a close watch
on the situation in south
Lebanon after reports from
the region that the Beirut
troops were actually Sy-
rians in Lebanese army uni-

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forms. Israel, meanwhile,
denied a Beirut report that
its artillery had joined the
shelling of the Lebanese
force.
Premier Menahem Begin
expressed "deep sorrow"
over the "tragic incidents"
in south Lebanon. Begin
said he was prepared to
meet with representatives
of the Lebanese government
to discuss the situation and
seek ways to relieve the ten-
sion.
Begin was speaking in
Kiryat Shmona, the bor-
der town that was the
target of terrorist rocket
attacks from Lebanon
last month. He said that •
Israel wanted no inci-_
dents with UNIFIL and
credited some of the units
of the UN peacekeeping
force with doing a good
job to prevent terrorist
infiltration of Israel's
border.
Last week, Nigerian
troops fired warning shots
at five terrorists west of
Yakhmur and the terrorists
retreated._
Shortly afterwards Dutch
troops stopped another
group of five ,terrorists by
firing smoke grenades at
them as they tried to infil-
trate near Haref. The Dutch
position came under
machine-gun fire about 45
minutes after the incident.

`Swan Lake
to Be Presented

The Oak Park Symphony
Orchestra, under the baton
of Ervin Monroe, in con-
junction with the Contem-
porary Civic Ballet Corn-
pany, will present two per-
formances of Tchaikowsky's
"Swan Lake" 2:30 p.m.
Saturday at West Bloom-
field High School and 7:30
p.m. Sunday a.t, Oak Park
High School.
Tickets are available at
the Oak Park Library, the
Flute Center in Southfield,
Harrison's Violins, Rollins
Danceware or at the box
office.

Isaac Aboab, a rabbi in
Amsterdam, was the first
rabbi in the Western Hemi-
sphere. In 1642 he was
called to the Dutch Jewish
community in Recife,
Brazil.

