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Michigan's Lt. Governor and an
11-mile hike to be featured at Detroit's
birthday party for Israel.

Lt. Gov. Griffiths to be keynote speaker.

An 18-kilometer Walk for Israel
and an address by Martha Grif-
fithS will be just two of the highlights
on May 20 as Detroiters mark Israel's
36th Independence Day.
The day-long series of events
will be focussed at the Jewish Corn-
munity Center in West Bloomfield,
with the fund-raising Walk for Israel
starting at 9 a.m. from the adjacent
Hechtman Federation Apartments.
Mrs. Griffiths, a long-time sup-
porter of Israel as a U.S. Congress-
woman and during her 18 months as
Michigan's Lieutenant Governor,

will deliver the Israel Independence
Day celebration keynote address at 2
p.m. at the Center. The celebration is
sponsored by the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit.
Following Mrs. Griffiths' re-
marks, Israeli vocalist Gadi Elon
will entertain.
Theme of this year's celebration
is "Say Yes to Israel — Double Chai."
Area youth have been invited to
submit entries for the Teme Skully
essay contest using this theme. Win-
ners, who will receive scholarships
for study in Israel, will be announced
at the Israel Independence Day cele-
bration. Essays can be submitted to
Esther Tal at the Jewish Community
Center.
Over 30 area organizations will
have information booths in the Cen-
ter lobby opening at 9:30 a.m. accord-
ing to Booth Chairman Robert Shap-
iro.
Additionally, a number of prod-
ucts manufactured by Israeli com-
panies will be on sale together with
"Say Yes to Israel" T-shirts and re-
freshments.
An honor guard and color bear-
ers of the Jewish War Veterans, fol-
lowed by the members of the posts

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150,000 jam New York
rally for Soviet Jewry

New York (JTA) — Hoisting
banners and placards calling on the
Soviet Union to allow Jewish ac-
tivists, Prisoners of Conscience and
refuseniks to emigrate, tens of
thousands of persons on Sunday
joined with national and state legis-
lators, Jewish community activists
and leaders in a mass human rights
rally in New York, in support of
. Soviet Jewry.

Under hazy skies, some 150,000
persons gathered across from the
United Nations in Dag Ham-
marskjold Plaza in a dramatic dis-
play of support and solidarity with
Soviet Jewry, a community under in-
creased government harassment and
intimidation as well as subjected to a
government sponsored anti-Semitic
campaign in the Soviet media.

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Is the media
obsessed
with Israel?

Some 60 leading journalists discussed
and debated Israel's image in the
American press.

BY GARY ROSENBLATT
.
Editor

I srael, once the darling of the
media and portrayed as a brave,
tiny democracy surrounded by hos-
tile Arabs, has for the last decade
been characterized as a powerful
military state threatening its
neighbors' territory, as Goliath
rather than David. Has Israel
changed or has the press altered her
image?
This is one of the key questions
discussed and debated, sometimes
heatedly, by some 60 leading Ameri-
can and Israeli journalists and aca-
demics at a two-day conference in
New York last week on "Perceptions

of Israel in the American Media."
The colloquium was co-sponsored by
the American Jewish Committee's
Institute on American Jewish-Israel
Relations and the Institute on
Israel-Diaspora Relations at Tel
Aviv University.
The setting was appropriate
enough — a large, smoke-filled room
— and the journalists proved that
they enjoyed talking as much as writ-
ing. Participants included the editors
of Israel's leading dailies, Ha'aretz,
Dvar, Yediot Achronot, Maariv,
Hadashot, and the Jerusalem Post

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