THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Boris Smolar's `Between You . . . and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.) THE NEW YEAR OUTLOOK: The new Jewish year started with the resignation of Menahem Begin as prime minister of Israel for personal reasons, but in an atmos- phere of relaxation in the relations between the White House and Israel; with improved pro-Israel moods among members of both houses of the U.S. Congress; with renewed sympathy for Israel among many Americans who criticized Israel's move in Lebanon — a criticism caused by mislead- ing information carried by the American media. The new year also starts with increased respon- sibilities and problems for the American Jewish commu- nity in its communal life. Also, with an indefinite outlook for the fate of Jews in the Soviet Union. The strain which developed in the White House toward Israel — primarily as a result of Israel's failing to notify President Reagan in advance of its intention to enter Leba- non to halt the Palestine Liberation Organization from continuously assaulting Israeli settlements near the Leba- non border — is now a matter of the past. Gradually, Rea- gan began to realize that the Israel government took the right step in the direction of making its border secure from PLO attacks. He is now satisfied with Israel's ousting of PLO leader Yasir Arafat from Lebanon and with the destruction of his forces there. He is also softer on the issue of the Israeli settlements in Judaea and Samaria, the areas in which Israel is willing to grant administrative autonomy to the Arab population. Today, Syria and the PLO — not Israel — are Reagan's problems, with the PLO causing trouble in both Lebanon and Nicaragua. Documents captured in Lebanon when the PLO forces were smashed there by Israel revealed that Salvadorean guerrillas were, like the Nicaraguan, trained in terrorism in PLO camps; also that Arafat promised the insurgents in El Salvador aid in arms and aircraft, which he reportedly delivered. The Sandinistas and the Salvadoreans are both sworn to the destruction of Israel. A Salvadorean guerrilla bombed the Israel Embassy in San Salvador "to show sol- idarity with the Palestinian people." THE COMMUNAL OUTLOOK: The American Jewish community starts the new year with growing finan- cial complications in supporting Jewish institutions de- pending on federal aid and assistance from Jewish federa- tions. Among the major problems which Jewish communities will face during the new year are, aid to the growing number of needy aged Jews and assistance to the rapidly increasing number of "single parent families." In community after community the plight of one- parent families is considered one of the most — if not the most — urgent problem. More than 40 percent of the 185,000 children in summer camps affiliated with the Jewish Welfare Board came this summer from "one parent" families. This does not include children in camps not con- nected with the JWB, camps of various Jewish movements and religious groups. The breakdown of the Jewish family — already a mat- ter of grave concern for Jewish community leadership — will in the new year become even a greater challenge for the community. Spokesmen for the American Jewish com- munity are worried about major population losses. It is taken for granted that children of mixed marriages — of intermarriages in which neither partner has converted out of their religion by birth — will not be socialized as Jews and will grow up without a firm sense of Jewish identity; their children will definitely be lost to Jewry. OUTLOOK FOR SOVIET JEWS: History repeats itself. The Kremlin is just as anti-Semitic now as was the Czarist regime. While doing everything to make life for Jews unbearable, the latter came to the conclusion that emigration was the best way "to get rid" of many of them. It began to issue emigration passports to Jews right and left, within only a few days after the asking. This was what brought the huge mass-immigration of Russian Jews to the United States early this century. That the same can happen also with the Kremlin is not precluded, since the Soviet government must always be on the defensive before the Free World with regard to its mistreatment of its Jews. Until the time comes — hopefully soon — Jews in the Free World must naturally continue their fight for unham- pered Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union and for full rights for Jews remaining in the country. At present there are still more than 2,500,000 Jews in the Soviet Union. Currently, some 500,000 Jews possess affadavits from Is- rael. Many of them are holding the invitations and waiting before submitting them together with formal applications for exit visas in the hope that more promising times for Jewish emigration will come. Friday, September 30, 1983 1 Halting Cults MIAMI BEACH — Rabbi Rubin R. Dobin of the Jews for Jews organization has initiated a campaign to halt increased cult and missio- nary activity in Israel. Rabbi Dobin recently re- turned from Israel, where he worked with the gov- ernment on a plan to control the growing cult movement. The Miami-based rabbi has prepared a report on the cult problem in Israel. To obtain a free copy of this report, send a long, self-addressed stamped en- velope to Jews for Jews Is- rael Facts Report, P.O. Box 6194, Miami Beach, Fla. 33154. 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