THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 36 Friday, October 29, 1982 Tunisian Jews Hit Begin, Anti-Semitism PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PARIS (JTA) - Seven- teen Tunisian Jews have published a joint declara- tion denouncing Israeli Premier Menahem Begin "and his helper-heretics for having failed to respect the commandment: thou shalt JUDGS 1461.16. 14 1 iii JUST. RIGHT. '- , ,L,e;„,,IJ,D0-,rzgiooriiiiu -New Documents FOR WAYNE COUNTY CIRCUIT JUDGE NEW YORK (JTA) - Documents on the evolution of the Holocaust and about Jewish response and resis- tance in Germany, Austria, Poland and the Soviet Union have been translated into English and published by Yad vashem in Israel, in cooperation wit the Anti- Defamation League of Bnai - Brith and Ktav Publishing House. ENDORSED BY The Detroit News 8 Detroit free Press The Detroit News said "Not all candidates are as extraordinary as Judge White", "she has established a record of industryand attention to detail"; "she demon- strated an unusual grasp of the policy and administrative issues." Judge White has had a variety of judicial experience in the civil, criminal, landlord- tenant and ordinance division of the Common Pleas now 36th District Court. The Free Press endorsed Judge White as one of the "better candidates" for the 2 circuit court judgeships to be filled in November. Cast 1 of your 2 votes for Judge Helene White. JUDGE HELENE WHITE • B.A. with honors, Barnard College, Columbia University • J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School • Law Clerk to Michigan Supreme Court Justice Charles Levin • Judge Common Pleas Now 36th District Court • Member American Jewish Committee and Hadassah not kill," according to a re- port from Tunis by Le Monde. - The French daily also re- ported that another dec- laration, signed by 190 Tunisian personalities, condemned "all forms of ra- cism" and rapped recent anti-Semitic incidents in the Tunisian towns of Zarzis and Ben Gardane. Homes and businesses of Jews in those cities were recently set afire and looted and sev- eral Jews were injured. The declaration by the 190 per- sonalities was published in the Tunisian ruling party's newspaper Al Aman. Le Monde pointed out that with the two declara- tions, the Tunisian Jewish community now hopes that the current tensions will abate and that the situation will revert to the normal peaceful relations between the Jews and their neighbors. Boris Smolar's `Between You . . and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.) , AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE MOODS: )u'H find it at Tappers e in and browse, you'll see Pendant * 73.32 B.Ret1 26,90 *1(4.52 CRe1114.16 D.Ret 109.66 Ret 91.53 * 91,33 E rnm Ret 24.94 * 19.95 A, Ret 79,59 B.Ret 91.53 * 63.67 * 75.62 C.Ret 95.90 D. Ret 66.33 C.Ret 87.63 D. Ret 90.00 * 76.72 * 53.07 E. Ret 80.00 F.Ret 124.53 Ret 67.10 F. Ret 531.25 * 87.73 61/2 mm Ret 33.65 71/2 mm Ref 53.25 * 64.00 * 99.63 * 70.10 * 53.68 * 72.00 * 425.00 R et 68.12 * 54.50 B. 4171111 Ret 58.00 * 46.40 * 26.92 * 42.60 26400 West Twelve Mile Road in Southfield's Racquetime Mall Northeast corner of 12 Mile 8 Northwestern Hwy 357-5578 CASH REFUNDS FREE GIFT WRAPPING t00% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED How do non-Zionists interested in the fate of Israel feel about President Reagan's proclaimed proposals for an Arab-Israel understanding. An answer to this question will be given at a four-day meeting of American Jewish Committee leaders which will open Nov. 4 in Los Angeles. The decision adopted at that meeting will be considered by many in this country and in Israel as expressing the sentiments of American non- Zionist Jews who are pro-Israel but have never been associ- ated with the Zionist movement. The American Jewish Committee has a strong Jewish tradition but has during all the years of its existence abstained from being ideologically involved in Zionism. The organization was considered as the non-Zionist partner in the Jewish Agency. Even now the AJCommittee is not a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Organization - the roof organization of other national Jewish groups alert to developments in American-Israeli relations. In this central body the AJC prefers to be only an "observer"; it perfers to go its own way in supporting Israel. Its efforts have been highly appreciated by all Israeli governments. There are issues on which the AJCommittee differs with the Israel government, but it expresses its dissent to Israeli government leaders privately, never pub- licly. The new plan by President Reagan, presented by him to the American people - in fact to the entire world - on television as a policy statement, as well as the develop- ments in Lebanon, have stimulated some leaders of the American Jewish Committee to raise a question whether the present AJC policy with regard to issues concerning Israel is to be considered merely as an "interim position," and whether the basic position of the organization should be re-examined or re-interpreted with a view to establish broad guidelines for setting a policy as new conditions arise. Recommendations on this question are now being sol- icited from the AJC chapters. The AJC leaders from var- ious parts of the country are being requested to come to the Los Angeles confab prepared to debate Regan's initiative, as well as the disagreements between Reagan and Israel on major issues. These issues are: final status of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza; The degree of au- tonomy for Palestinian Arabs in these territories, which are now under Israel; The issue of whether Israel should continue to establish settlements in these territories dur- ing on-going negotiations. Another major question on which AJC leaders are sol- icited to be prepared with an answer for the Los Angeles meeting is whether the organization,-in adopting a position differing from the Israel government on any of the three points above, should make its differences known only pri- vately to Israel or be ready to air them publicly. POLICY POINTS: The American Jewish Committee believes that President Reagan's proposals open new pos- sibilities for a diplomatic breakthrough in search for Mid- dle East peace, if all parties involved will seize the opportu- nity the Reagan plan presents. However, the AJC wants the proposals to be considered as "talking points" for dis- cussion, not pre-conditions the U.S. should seek to impose. The AJC finds that there are points in Reagan's plan that require clarification. Also, that there are points that are clearly unacceptable, like Reagan's call for negotia- tions on the status of Jerusalem. The AJC opposes any tendency by the U.S. to move away from its role as mediator, which has been successful in the Camp David agreement and brought about the Egyptian-Israeli under- standing. It believes that Reagan's initiative should be judged as a whole and dealt with on its merits. In this spirit, the AJC intends to present opposition or support for various aspects of Reagan's plan, giving each of them full consider- ation.