THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 30 Friday, April 3, 1981 AJCongress Downplays Anti-Semitism, But Urges Nine-Point Community Action NEW YORK (JTA) While there is evidence of DICTATING — MACHINES $8888 also transcribing units . 342-7801 increased anti-Semitic vio- lence and vandalism, "claims of a 'wave' of anti- Semitism in any part of this country do not seem jus- tified," the American Jewish Congress declared in a major statement on anti-Semitism adopted by its policy-making Govern- HARVEY'S PRODUCE 26045 Coolidge, Oak Park 2 blks. North of Lincoln Daily 9-6, Sun. 9-4 546-8936 Free Delivery (5 mile radius with $15 purchase) Every Wed. Senior Citizens 10% OFF, ex. specials Offers expire 4-9 59c SPINACH us .. pkg. . PASCAL CELERY , IDAHO POTATOES 10 lb. bag $ 1 " Borden's Plastic Gallon HOMO MILK $ 84 with $3 purchase, excl. tobacco i NAVAL-ORANGES 89c,.. STRAWBERRIES 49c California 113 size p. ing Council. The AJCongress also adopted a comprehensive nine-point community ac- tion program to "cauterize" anti-Semitism at its source. Despite an increase in the number of reported inci- dents of anti-Semitism, "all social indices we have con- ventionally employed to measure anti-Semitism over the years converge in the same direction: the low estate of anti-Semitism in the United States," the AJ- Congress asserted. "In all sectors of American life, anti-Semitism has become shabby, disreputable and abhorrent." "There is uniform agreement by all who have studied these mat- ters that there is no evi- dence that any of the re- cent acts of anti-Semitism were carried out in con- cert or pursuant to any common design, purpose or arrangement," the statement said. "In the overwhelming majority of cases in which the perpetrators have been caught, they have turned out to be juveniles under the age of 17, and in virtually all cases it has been estab- lished that they were acting independently," according to the AJCongress analysis. Nevertheless, the AJ- Congress cautioned that "the trauma of the Hitler period does not allow us to feel entirely secure even in free and enlightened societies." The history of Matt& Royale nature at its best First there was Matuk Royale Rouge. Now there's Matuk Royale Blanc. Delicious slightly sweet wines unmarred by additives. sugar or artificial sweetener flavor for Rich bouquet, robust hearty all occasions. For wine mavens who prefer nature at its best. Under the strict Rabbinical supervision of the Zelerner Ray KEDEM WINE CO., NEW YORK, N.Y. KOSHER FOR PASSOVER Western culture "is bur- dened by a tragic legacy of anti-Semitic prejudice," it added. The AJCongress nine- point program calls for: im- proved monitoring of anti- Semitic incidents; creation of separate sections in police departments and the pro- secutor's offices to deal with racial or religious incidents; a review of existing laws to determine their adequacy; reviewing the methods of dealing with offenders; periodic reviews by the police, prosecutors and the Jewish community of anti- Semitic incidents. Also, meetings with the media to discuss the method of reporting inci- dents; conferences with churches and schools on how to convert anti- Semitic incidents into constructive purposes; assistance to school dis- tricts on curricula deal- ing with human rights, genocide and the Holocaust; and organiza- tion of communitywide coalitions to maintain alertness toward anti- Semitism and to meet it with a united response. The AJCongress pointed out its officials studied a wide range of reports of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. The statistics on increased growth by the Ku Klux Klan "do not imply that the Klan is on the verge of a breakthrough in terms of public support," the AJ- Congress statement said. In employment, housing and admission to the most prestigious universities and professional schools, "Jews confront no special encumberances, as Jews, and experience no signific- ant discrimination," it added. "More critically," the statement argued, "there is not a single influential pub- lic personality or molder of public opinion, not a single important or influential journal, magazine or news- paper, not a single impor- tant or influential radio or televisTon commentator or spokesman who has failed to express complete and total abhorrence and revul- sion over anti-Semitism in all its manifestations." NY Honors Nazi-Hunters NEW YORK (JTA) — Simon Wiesenthal and Charles Kramer Day was marked Tuesday in New York. A presentation to the two Nazi-hunters was made by Mayor Edward Koch at City Hall. An award dinner in their honor was held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where both men were fea- tured speakers. Wiesenthal has been responsible for bringing hundreds of Nazis to justice. Kramer was responsible for identifying Archbishop Valerian Trifa as a member- of the wartime fascist Romanian Iron Guard. Sephardi Unit Hits Israel, Agency on Immigration Woe LONDON (JTA) — Sephardi Jewish leaders from several countries have expressed profound disap- pointment with Premier Menahem Begin's Likud government. They said that thee. climate in Israel for immigration was "worse than ever" and that Project Renewal, Begin's emer- gency plan for improving the lot of 100,000 of Israel's poLrest citizens, had been "a total fiasco." The criticism of the Is- raeli government and the Jewish Agency came at the end of a meeting last week of the World Sephardi Fed- eration's aliya and social commission, which was attended by Nissim Gaon, the federation's president, who had originally proposed Project Renewal to Begin shortly after the 1977 Is- raeli general elections. Summing up the two-day conference, Roger Pinto, the commission's chairman, spoke of a "total lack of coordination" between the Ministry of Housing and Absorption and the Jewish Agency and said this was frustrating would-be im- migrants to Israel. Pinto, a French busi- nessman and leader of the French "Ziona" movement, spelled out the difficulties faced by the World Sephardi Fed- eration in promoting aliya to Tiberias and Kiryat Shmona in answer to the government's plea for more Jewish settlers in Galilee. On the one hand, he said, Jewish Agency officials had told the federation that there was no scope for im- migration in Tiberias be- cause of local unemploy- ment. On the other hand, the European head of the Jewish Agency's aliyah de- partment had said it had 20 vacant apartments there and was calling for families to occupy them. A similar situation had arisen in Kiryat Shmona where the federation had decided to send out 15 young volunteers to the town de- spite the claim of the Jewish Agency office in Paris that it had received no in- structions from Israel con- cerning these volunteers, Pinto said. PLO Caches Are Destroyed in Israeli Sweep in Lebanon TEL AVIV (JTA) — An Israeli army infantry force went about six miles inside southern Lebanon Tuesday night and blew up four houses in the village of Toulin, east of Kibutz Mis- gav Am. One Israeli was slightly wounded. The village is in the area held by UNIFIL soldiers but they did not intervene. Oc- cupants of the house were evacuated before the build- ings were destroyed. The army said the houses had been used as a forward staging area for terrorists who have raised Israel in the past, including an at- tack on Misgav Am a year ago. Weapons, ammunition and explosive materials used by the terrorists were found in a search of the houses before they were blown up. Toulin village is two or three miles south of the vil- lage of Kantara in southern Lebanon where UNIFIL soldiers were killed in shel- ling by Christian militia last month. Militia com- mander Saad Haddad com- plained that Lebanese army troops had taken up posi- tions in the village and threatened his men. Israeli sources said that in Toulin village terrorists and UN troops are billeted side-by-side. Lebanese government sources in Beirut an- nounced that 900 Lebanese soldiers would join the 600 already in the south work- ing with the UNIFIL troops. Haddad says it is these forces that are threatening his men. Israel criticized the UNIFIL commander this week for allegedly stat- ing that he would help the Lebanese army put southern Lebanon under its control "regardless of the casualties involved." Israel reaffirmed its pledge to support the Chris- tian militia. Lavie Chosen Israel Consul General in NY JERUSALEM (JTA) — Naftalie Lavie, a 55-year- old journalist and Holocaust survivor was approved by the Cabinet Sunday to be Is- rael's new Consul General in New York. He will re- place Yosef Kedar who has held the post since summer of 1978. Lavie was nominated by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir with the active ap- proval of Premier Menahem Begin. He was a longtime protege of former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and was Dayan's press spokes- man during the latter's te- nure as defense minister. Eitan Shortens Soldier's Term TEL AVIV (JTA) — Chief of Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan has reduced the sentence on a soldier who has spent most of his time in the army in prison for refusing to serve or train in occup ied area s . Private Gadi Elgazi had served four months in de- tention on five charges within his unit for refusing to go to a training camp across the Green Line," and was then sentenced by the Tel Aviv District Military Court to a year in prison which was upheld by the Supreme Court.