28 Friday, June 22, 1984 FLOW PRICES EVERYDAY! THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Music by GAYNORS . Sam Barnett NEWS Big or small, we custom the music to your needs. ImE at 855-0033 968-2563 June COL compensation to hit 16 percent as economy worsens VALUABLE COUPON 0/ OFF CUSTOM Al FRAMING waH COUPON CCTYLINT Tel Aviv (JTA) — Histad- rut and private sector em- ployers signed an agree- ment Sunday night for the payment of a 15.9 percent cost-of-living increment on June salaries, due July 1. Agreements with private employers are auto- matically accepted by pub- lic sector employers, includ- ing the government. The June increase in- cludes a 4.5 percent boost still due on May salaries plus an additional 11.4 per- cent. This represents four- fifths of the 14.3 percent rise in the consumer price index last month. Last month's inflation rate, which exceeded even the most pessimistic proj- ections, has brought infla- tion to the fore as the most serious immediate problem facing Israel's economy. former Finace Minister Yigael Hurwitz, who is running for the Knesset, warned this week that "fi- nancial chaos will fan out" unless runaway inflation is halted. If the economic situation continues to deteriorate, in- flation in September and October will hit 20-25 per- cent for an annual rate of about 1,000 percent, he said. The current inflation rate is about 400 percent. In other economic news, Israeli television screens went dark and radios were silenced last Friday as jour- nalists employed by the state-owned Broadcast Authority began a three- day strike for higher wages. ON ANY MOULDING IN STOCK INCOMING ORDERS ONLY EXPIRES 7-6-84 C@ERGT 18831 W. 12 MILE ROAD, LATHRUP VILLAGE 313-557-0595 JN I- Who'll Get Stung By Our Stingers? It is time America stopped feeding Saudi Arabia's insatiable appetite for weapons. The Saudi regime already has a huge arsenal of American arms: Redeye surface-to-air missiles, Hawkeye surface-to-air missiles, F-5 fighters, F-15 fighters, AWACS command planes and a vast array of other war materiel—$40 billion worth. Four hundred Stinger antiaircraft missiles and 200 shoulder-held launchers are the newest addition to the Saudi military storehouse. Meanwhile, the feudal kingdom continues to frustrate American policy by providing $1 million a day to the terrorist PLO and by financing Syrian military purchases from the Soviet Union. What "emergency" impelled the President to waive the rule requiring Congress to approve arms sales to foreign governments? The New York Times reports that even some Administration officials admit there was no intelligence information showing a likely Iranian air attack on Saudi oilfields. The Stingers, it turns out, were really sent "to reassure the Saudis, politically and psychologically." A frightening risk. Whatever the purpose, this sale poses a special peril. The Stinger is compact, lightweight, portable. You can bet the PLO is already attempting to get hold of it. That would not be the first time American arms have fallen into terrorist hands. Immense quantities of munitions we sold to the Saudis were part of the hoard of PLO weapons discovered by Israeli forces in Lebanon. But this time the danger is especially grave. The Wall Street Journal calls the Stinger "a perfect weapon against civilian aircraft' In catering to Saudi Arabia's unquenchable thirst for military hardware, the Administration has created a new and frightening risk. We pray that our country and its allies are not stung by our own Stingers. N.Y. Times, June 10, 1984 George Rothman Institute of the Zionist Organization of America HELP INFORM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. YOUR MEMBERSHIP IN ZOA WILL HAVE IMMEDIATE IMPACT. JOIN ZOA TODAY. METRO DETROIT DISTRICT, ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA Leonard Herman, President • Irving Laker, Exec. Comm. Chairman Sidney Silverman, Hon. Exec. Comm. Chairman 18451 West 10 Mile, Southfield MI 48075 569-1515 They are demanding im- mediate negotiations for new contracts to bring their pay in line with that of print journalists. If not satisfied, the newscasters have threatened to black out political broadcasts in the summer election campaign, expected to be in full swing shortly. They have also threatened, if necessary, to prevent Israeli coverage of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles next month. Last week, elementary and junior high school teachers returned to their classrooms, ending a one- day strike after an all-night bargaining session with the Education Ministry. But the 60,000-member civil servants union has an- nounced another work stop- page in two weeks. The Likud Party has charged that the sudden series of work stoppages, strikes and threats of strikes to come was fomented by the Labor Party and Histadrut to em- barrass the government and further injure the economy with elections less than two months away. ' Labor spokesmen fiercely deny this and 'accuse the government of grossly mis- managing the economy and reneging on promised im- provements in wages and working conditions. Meanwhile, Hillel Dudai, the Finance Ministry offi- cial in charge of labor negotiations, was fired last week, apparently in a wage dispute of his own. According to Finance Minister Yigal Cohen- Orgad, Dudai made unac- ceptable demands and wanted a free negotiating hand in the current labor crisis. Treasury sources said he was seeking severance pay equal to that of a deputy minister and the argument over whether or not he was entitled to it led to his being severed. Reconstructionists re-affirm '68 patrilinea1 descent vote Buffalo, N.Y. (JTA) — Delegates to the 24th an- nual convention of the Fed- eration of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot (FRCH) reaffirmed a 1968 resolution which grants full Jewish status to a child whose father or mother is Jewish and who is raised and educated as a Jew. In another resolution, the 200 delegates declared that Reconstructionist rabbis and congregations should offer counseling to a Jew and non-Jew expressing an intention to marry. The resolution said such assis- tance should be offered to enable the mixed couple to explore the lifetime impli- cations of mixed marriage, such as education in relev- ant matters of Jewish cus- tom, including the dif- ferences between Jewish law (Halachah) and the Re- constructionist philosophy which does not accept Halachah. The resolution also pro- posed that appropriate counseling should also be made available to the par- ents of the couple. Another resolution de- clared that the traditional rites of the Jewish wedding ceremony (kiddushin) should be reserved for the marriage of a Jew to a Jew. Another resolution de- clared FRCH rabbis should encourage in every way the marriages of interfaith couples committed to estab- lishing a Jewish home and educating their children as Jews. Among the suggestions for such encouragement were the possibility of Re- constructionists attending civil marriage ceremonies and, after the ceremony, ex- tending to the newly- married couple remarks of welcome into the Jewish community "and encourag- ing their continued in- volvement in the life of the Jewish people." Jewish religious and lay leaders should never take part in a joint inter- religious wedding cere- mony, another resolution declared. In another resolution, the delegates said that the Jewish community should reach out to intermarried couples and provide them with opportunities to explore their relationship and that of their family "to the Jewish people" by spe- cial educational programs, invitations to home Shab- bat and holiday programs and assistance to such families to find suitable congregations when they must relocate. The reaffirmed 1968 reso- lution appeared to be almost identical with the resolu- tion approved by the 94th annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform) in Los Angeles in 1983. That resolution was a non-binding recommenda- tion on Reform rabbis authorizing them to accept the child of a mixed mar- riage as being under the "presumption" — with the consent and cooperation of the parents — of being of Jewish descent, to be validated "through appro- priate and timely public and formal acts of identification with the Jewish people." Like the CCAR resolu- tion, the FRCH resolution would end the historic Halachic rule under which only the mother can trans- mit Jewish identity to her children. The_ Reform movement came under u se- cure condemnation, ini- tially by Orthodox rabbini- cal and lay organizations, and subsequently by the Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of Conserva- tive rabbis, for that pro- posal. Lillian Kaplan of Silver Spring, Md., was elected to a two-year term as FRCH president, reportedly the first woman to head a major Jewish denomination. She succeeded Samuel Blu- menthal of Roslyn, -N.Y.