20 Friday, January 1, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS the card caterer Histadrut to Continue to Bid on Housing in the Territories COMMERCIAL AND SOCIAL STATIONERY OWAY TEL AVIV (JTA) — Three leftwing components of the Histadrut — Mapam, Sheli and the Communist Party -- have strongly pro- tested a Histadrut decision to allow the labor federa- on Il■12 VIT 5 AT° I / ON ° S, SOC F IAL F STATI-O L NERY, INFOR S MALS 20% OFF on all accessories Call Vicki Barnett 855-3598 muit de ( arfier Paris THE "MUST" TANK In 1918, Louis Cartier created the original TANK WATCH in tribute to the American Tank Corps for its brave defense of Paris during World War I. Full lifetime warranty. Jewelry Designers & Manufacturers of Original and Unusual Creations • Authorized Appraisers • Estate Liquidators TH. ran ti 31313 Northwestern Farmington Hills 851-7333 mo Ogles . Inc. Mon. — Sat. 9:30 to 5:00 -- ■•■■ •••••=mb,_ tion's construction com- panies to continue to oper- ate within the West Bank. The labor federation's holding company Hevrat Ovdim decided Monday after a lengthy debate, that the Histadrut had on this issue to be governed by eco- nomic considerations, and not by political philsophy. It said the Histadrut construction companies would have to dismiss workers if it did not win bids for housing in the administered territories. . If the Histadrut's Sollel Boneh and other corn- panies did not build there, other private com- panies would do so. The Hevrat Ovidim said that the decision to build should be taken on sensible economic grounds, and not to make a quick profit. Op- ponents of continued Judea and Samaria building said that by accepting housing in the territories, the Histad- rut and its majority Labor Party component were com- promising their ideals. Education is the appren- ticeship of life. 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They are then sent to the institute which is located at the Patrick Air Force Base in Florida to spend four months there as residents. After graduating, they return to their service installations as- signed as specialists in the field of human and racial rela- tions. The institute is officially known as the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute. The institute also conducts a one-year correspondence course for non-residents. It is designed for Army and Navy Reserve and National Guard personnel. The non-resident students attend an initial two-week resident session at Patrick, then complete five months of correspondence work, attend a regional seminar, complete an additional six months of correspondence and return to the institute for a final two-week residence training period prior to gradua- tion. Resident as well as non-resident graduates receive academic credits. The graduates are a great asset later in the work of combating racial and religious prejudice in the armed forces and in the civilian population. THE JEWISH COMPONENT: A look at the 1983 curriculum of the institute provides a good idea of the lectures there on contemporary and historical perspectives of Jews in the United States as an ethnic group, their culture and consciousness. In addition to attending lessons given by faculty mem- bers, the students are also required to do research on any subject in the curriculum to prepare themselves to give a lecture, during their 16-week study period, on a chosen subject. The lecture by each student is followed by discus- sion in the class and both the lecture and the discussion are televised and taped. The student presentations during 1983 are listed as follows: Anti-Semitism in America today, the U.S. position in the Middle East, the U.S. position on human rights for Soviet Jewry, contemporary arguments about the Holocaust, American Jews and civil liberties, cultural pluralism and the American JeAr in the 1980s, the black Jew today, anti-Semitism — a world problem, terrorism — a threat to human rights and contemporary problems of Jewish military families. The curriculum also deals with projects of the Anti- Defamation League of Bnai Brith, American Jewish Com- mittee and other Jewish organizations engaged in fighting bigotry. There is also a lesson on "Skokie and the First Amendment." Israel Economy Down in '82 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's economy performed poorly in 1982, but Israelis as a whole lived better, if their rate of consumption is a guide to the good life. Year-end figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics showed that in 1982, for the first time in 30 years, Israel's gross na- tional product failed to in- crease by so much as a dec- imal point. But purchases of consumer goods were up 16 percent. The international bal- ance of payments deficit — the difference between Is- rael's hard currency re- serves and what it owes overseas creditors — in- creased by a half billion dol- lars. Real wages declined by three percent on the av- erage; the wages of civil servants were eroded a full six percent in value by triple-digit inflation. But, private consumption of all consumables rose five percent. A treasury spokesman said the economy was not all that bad. He cited stability in exports, employment and increased investments. Israel's economy is linked to most Western economies which are in almost con- tinuous crisis, he said. But for Israel, 1982 could turn out to have been a "great economic success story." The Central Bureau also provided some encouraging data: Increased invest- ments in machinery and industrial equipment and a slight decrease in the number of unemployed. Rabbis Group Meets in N.Y. NEW YORK — "Nuclear Armaments An Analysis," will be the theme of the Rabbinical Council of America's midwinter con- ference Jan. 17-19 at the Homowack Lodge, Spring Glen, N.Y.