Concerned Jewish Community Makes Solidarity Sunday a Reality By CHARLOTTE DUBIN and BEVERLY WOLKIND Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit The lives of Jews in Detroit, Israel and around the world were "on the line" Sunday, as hundreds of volunteers reached out 'on the telephone for the 1983 Allied Jewish Campaign and special Israel Emergency Fund. Results were a whopping $495,148 — a 54.5 percent increase over last year from the same 2,614 contributors. (A later tally pushed the total over the $500,000 mark.) While many Detroiters were outdoors enjoying the unseasonably sunny day, more than 300 Campaign workers led by Chairmen Janice Schwartz and Dr. Paul C. Feinberg, performed a labor of love for their fellow Jews in need. The message was "solidarity" — Solidarity Sunday — and prospective con- tributors, some of them unemployed, some retired and living on fixed incomes, Confronting Media Treatment of Middle East Occurrences and Continuing Hatreds demonstrated that they know what solidarity is all about. At the United Hebrew Schools headquarters in Southfield, volun- teers worked in shifts after being briefed on the unique needs of the 1983 Campaign and second-line Israel Emergency Fund whose pro- ceeds will go directly to Israel. The special IEF was instituted in response to Israel's desperate need for cash to fund human services in the aftermath of Operation Peace for Galilee. At the same time, the effects of the economic downturn on Jewish Welfare Federa- tion agencies were being emphasized. Said briefer Diane J. Klein, "Just to do the job we did last year — for example, to help families deal with the emotional stress brought on by unemployment — we must raise increased funds for the 1983 regular Campaign. To (Continued on Page 17) THE JEWISH NEWS . A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 In Search of Pragmatism While Testing Auguries About U.S. Jewry's Future of Jewish Events Editorial, Page 4 Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXII, No. 9 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c October 29, 1982 Israel Inquiry Is in High Gear; UN Demolishes Arabs' Move Falasha Children Adapt Quickly to Life in Israel Falasha children at an absorption center in Israel play - a game to help them learn Hebrew. * * * By WENDY ELLIMAN — United Jewish Appeal BEN-GURION AIRPORT — The children cling to their el- ders, overawed and overwhelmed, their eyes bright and curious. The adults move slowly forward, glowing with messianic fervor, and — half-blinded by tears of joy and thanksgiving —'they kneel down to kiss the soil of Israel. There is something achingly familiar about the scene. Israel is ingathering her exiles. Refugees are coming home, clutching all they possess in tightly-wrapped bundles. (Continued on Page 5) AJCongress Asks Romanian Church to Remove Trifa NEW YORK — The American Jewish Congress wants the Romanian Orthodox Church in America to remove Valerian Trifa of Grass Lake, Mich. from his position as a bishop. Archbishop Trifa has acknowledged lying about his Nazi activities in World War II and is scheduled to be deported. Henry Siegman, executive director of AJCongress, said the church for many years refused to conduct its own investi- gation or take any action against Trifa, claiming it could do nothing until a secu- lar court found him guilty. Trifa has now acknowledged his guilt. UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — The General As- sembly Tuesday afternoon approved the credentials of Israel and 89 other countries. Its approval followed the adoption of a motion by Finland not to vote on Iran's proposal of Monday night to reject the creden- tials of Israel. The vote in favor of the motion was 74-9 with 31 abstentions. It ended weeks of threats and specula- tion that Israel would be suspended from participa- tion in the 37th General Assembly currently in ses- sion. After adopting the Finnish motion, the Assem- bly approved the report of the Credentials Committee covering the credentials of 90 member states, includ- ing Israel. The nine nations voting against the Finnish motion to halt the debate were Afghanistan, Al- bania, Algeria, Cuba, Grenada, Iran, Libya, Nicaragua and Vietnam. In a surprise move, Iran decided to challenge Israel's credentials to the Assembly and introduced the issue for a vote despite an earlier decision by Arab and other Moslem countries to drop their campaign against Israel for the time being. The Iranian pro- posal, introduced by Ambassador Said Rajaie- Khorassani, was offered as an amendment to a report of the Assembly's Credentials Committee which recommended the approval of Israel's credentials along with 89 other member states. Iran said that it decided to press for Israel's sus- pension because it believed the United States would not carry out its threat to withdraw its financial support of the UN if Israel were expelled. Even if the U.S. halted its payments, Iran said, it would make up the financial loss, together with Libya. The U.S. warned repeatedly in the last few weeks that it would walk out of the Assembly and suspend payments to the UN if Israel were expelled. The U.S. pays more than 25 percent of the UN budget of $600 (Continued on Page 8) ' JERUSALEM (JTA) — It was assumed that when Israel sent the Christian Phalangist forces into the Sabra and Shatila camps in west Beirut that there would be civilian deaths, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon told the judicial commission of inquiry this morning. "No one thought they (the Phalangists) would behave as we behave," he said. "But it is a very far cry from that assumption to the anticipation of a bloody massacre . . . None of us, myself included, ever for one moment in our worst dreams anticipated or feared a horror like that." . This distinction between anticipation of some civilian casualties and anticipation of a massacre was one of the key themes in the public testimony of Sharon before the commission of inquiry. He gave evidence in open court for more than two hours Monday before chairman Jus- tice Yitzhak Kahan ruled that the rest of his evi- dence would be heard behind closed doors. The Defense Minister said that no one in Israel, at any level of decision-making, raised the thought of a potential massacre in prior consultations concern- ing the entry of the Phalangists into the camps. This statement, he said, included Deputy Premier David Levy's remark at the Sept. 16 Cabinet meeting refer- ring to a possible massacre. Sharon said Levy had "not opposed" the decision to send the Phalangists in. Sharon said Israel's purpose in sending the (Continued on Page 10) L Israeli Airport Operating Again ADL Report Chides Television Coverage of War in Lebanon NEW YORK (JTA) — An Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith study of television network coverage of the war in Lebanon acknowledges the networks' "desire for truth and accuracy" in news coverage and the "inherent difficulties',' in war reporting. It nevertheless cites numerous examples of errors found in examining tapes of the evening news broadcasts of the three major networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — from June 4 to Sept. 1. The report, prepared by media specialists Garth- Furth International, covers only the tapes from this period. According to Kenneth Bialkin, ADL's national chairman, "the following factors contributed to our perception of a lack of balance in the news media's handling of Israel's actions in Lebanon": • Inflated casualty figures reported and not corrected, as well as other factual errors. • Melodramatic portrayals of Israeli censorship. • Lingering and graphic daily coverage of the wounded and suffering that over- whelmed or overlooked the political, historical and military context of the situation. (Continued on Page 6) See Story on Page 14 A Mental Health Hotline Is Set Up for Holland Jews AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The war in Lebanon and the fallout from that war in the form of biased media reporting and the growth of anti-Semitism in Holland has traumatized a sizeable portion of the Jewish population. Many are suffering from severe anxiety and depression. In order to help them, the Dutch Jewish Mental Health Society has de- cided to establish a 24-hour hotline for such Jews to call in for psychological counseling. The service will function on an experimental basis for six months. Twenty-five persons will rotate in an- swering the hotline.