THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 13, 1931 17
Levin Hits Reagan on Silence on `Ugliness' to Jews Over AWACS
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
charged Monday night that
the Reagan Administration
did nothing to stop the
charges of dual loyalty and
other "ugliness" that were
used against American
Jews from their opposition
to the sale of AWACs sur-
veillance aircraft and
enhancement equipment
for F-15 jet fighters to Saudi
Arabia.
As a result, "America's
internal pluralism was
damaged," he told members
of the Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs
(JINSA) at a dinner mark-
ing the end of a day-long
the group's third "Pentagon
fly-in" program.
Levin, a member of the
Senate Armed Services
Committee, noted that
when the Carter Adminis-
tration sought to supply
AWACs to the Shah of Iran,
the same national security
objections were raised in
congress as were
enunciated by opponents of
SENATOR CARL LEVIN
series of briefings at the _
Pentagon. About 50 mem-
bers of JINSA had come
from across the country for
Playing For Time' a Hit
As LA Stage Production
By HERBERT LUFT
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
HOLLYWOOD — A
dramatization of Fania
Fenelon's "Playing for
Time" is currently running
at the Strasberg Institute
Theatre in Hollywood.
The play stars Joanne
Nail, a young actress who
began her career on Broad-
way in "Scratch" (with Will
Geer), "The Devil and
Daniel Webster" and
"Lysistrata" (with Melina
Mercouri).
Unlike Vanessa Red-
grave, the British PLO col-
laborator, Miss Nail has the
endorsement of the author
who also supports the local
production of the play under
the aegis of Lee and Anna
Strasberg (Israeli actress
Anna Mizrachi).
While Ms. Redgrave is
tall, husky and strong, the
much younger Ms. Nail is
rather small and frail, yet
on the stage the embodi-
ment of sanity in a world
gone mad.
"Playing for Time" takes
Ms. Fenelon from her arri-
val at the camps of
Auschwitz-Birkenau in
January of 1944 through
the horrors of extermina-
Public Opposed
AWACS Sale
NEW YORK — Three na-
tional public opinion polls,
taken before the Senate ap-
proved the AWACS sale to
Saudi Arabia, showed that
the American public op-
posed the sale.
The Harris Poll on Aug.
16 showed that 28 percent
favored the sale of radar
planes and Sidewinder mis-
sies and 59 percent opposed
it; the New York Times poll
on Aug. 29 showed 20 per-
cent in favor and 37 percent
opposed; and the Los
Angeles Times poll on Oct. 8
showed 29 percent in favor
and 56 percent opposed.
30th Anniversary
NEW YORK — The
American Jewish Congress
will celebrate the 30th an-
niversary of its journal,
"Judaism," at a day-long
conference Nov. 22 at He-
brew Union College in New
York. , •
tion centers and the death
march to Bergen-Belsen to
the moment of liberation by
the British in April 1945.
LAINIE KAZAN has
been signed by producer
Michael Gruskoff for a co-
starring role in MGM's "My
Favorite Year," termed a
robust comedy about the
days of live television.
Richard Benjamin directs
the Norman Steinberg
screenplay which stars
Peter O'Toole and Jessica
Harper. •
Adoph Green, who wrote
book, sketches and lyrics for
"On the Town," "Billion
Dollar Baby," "Peter Pan,"
"Bells Are Ringing" and
"Applause," returns to act-
ing in the film, portraying
the energetic and impecca-
bly dressed producer of TV's
hottest variety show.
the $8.5 billion arms sale to had been silent as some
Saudi Arabia. But, he said: supporters of the sale
the "ugliness" that de- would have wished.
veloped in the recent debate
As a result, the American
did not come up in the con- Jewish Community will
troversy over the sale to continue to have "credibil-
Iran.
ity" on national security is-
However, Levin, who _ sues, Levin contended.
voted against the AWACs
He also accused the Re-
sale to Saudi Arabia, said agan Administration of
it would have been worse "very quietly" making some
for American Jews if they $2 billion cuts in convert-
tional weapons in order to
build interim weapons such
as the MX missies and the
B-1 Bomber. Levin said this
means a lessening of con-
ventional strength for the
short term, including areas
as vital as the Persian Gulf.
Representative Benjamin
Rosenthal (D-N.Y.) concur-
red with Levin on the voic-
ing of opinions of Jews and
other ethnic groups on U.S.
issues.
"If the ethnic groups
did not involve them-
calls, and concluded, "there selves in the issues, it
is no prohibition against a would leave foreign pol-
woman wearing a tallit."
icy to the arms industry,
Some members of the oil companies, the New
committee "wished to York banks, which lend
recommend to the Women's money to countries to
League for Conservative buy arms and the foreign
Judaism that a special tallit policy establishment
for women be designed. So within and outside the
far no such tallit has come government," Rosenthal
into popular use," he adds.
said.
The creation of a special
Sen. Edward Kennedy
tallit for women is the sub- (D-Mass.), speaking in Bos-
ject of the second "Out- ton last weekend, said he re-
look" article, "A Daven- jects "absolutely the un-
ing Garment for Women," worthy appeals which in ef-
by Rabbi Jonathan D. feet question the patriotism
Porath. of Jewish Americans."
Articles Discuss Tallit forWomen foreign policy
NEW YORK — Two arti-
cles in the Fall issue of
"Outlook," the quarterly
magazine of the Women's
League for Conservative
Judaism, address the ques-
tion of whether women
should wear a tallit.
In "A Tallit for Women,"
Rabbi Martin I. Sandberg
says that "careful study of
Halakhic sources seems to
offer a clear theoretical pos-
sibility of women putting on
tallitot, and, according to
one view, they may even be
required to do so!"
He discusses a decision by
traditional rabbinic
authorities to prohibit
women from observing a
mitzva, not on strictly
Halakhic grounds, but on
the basis of "it's not nice for
women."
thing. "This line of argu-
ment is not used in the tra-
ditional sources against the
use of a tallit by women
(with one minor excep-
tion)," he says. "Custom
today has made the tallit a
male prerogative, but there
is nothing in the garment
itself which makes it exclu-
sively male."
The Committee on Jewish
Law and Standards of the
Rabbinical Assembly dis-
cussed the issue of a tallit
for women in September
1978, Rabbi Sandberg re-
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He asks, "Is this suffi-
cient reason to deny
those women who wish to
observe the mitzva of
tzitzit (ritual fringes) the
opportunity to do so?"
Rabbi Sandberg also
examines the argument of
Beged Ish, the Torah pro-
hibition against the wear-
ing by women of men's clo-
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