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Cost per person includes registration, accommodations, all meals and sessions. Babysitters will be available. The Machon L'Torah - Torah Center Retreat is made possible by a grant from Leonard & Roberta Borman. We acknowledge with gratitude their assistance. For further information please call (313) 968-4835 or 968-1679 The race begins Continued from Page 22 would only amount to about 53 seats. Whoever is asked by Herzog to form a government has six weeks to do so. If the effort fails, the President then asks someone else to try. Shamir may prevail on Herzog to choose him first since he is the ruling Prime Minister and because he may be able to form a coalition together with the religious and more right- wing small parties. Though the prospect of a na- tional unity government may sound attractive, bringing together Likud and Labor with a combined 85 seats, it is fraught with problems, chief of which is who will lead. Even if they rotate, as some have suggested, the two major parties are deeply divided on the major issues of the economy and territorial compromise. Instead of dealing with those problems they would likely be put on the back burner. One result of the inconclusive election was to stymie any chance of U.S. plans to bring the Israelis and Arabs together soon. Until a new coalition govern- ment is formed, Shamir's govern- ment will have a caretaker role that doesn't lend itself to bold new dealings for Mideast peace. But even when the political picture clears, the splintered verdict of Israeli voters won't leave much room for productive peace talks. Officially, the United States did not have a favorite in the Israeli elec- tions. Unofficially, U.S. officials say they would have preferred a decisive Labor victory. Peres promised bold moves to open negotiations with King Hussein of Jordan over returning some Israeli-held West Bank territory in exchange for peace. U.S. diplomats had hoped they could move quickly on the heels of such initiatives by Peres to help arrange Israeli- Jordanian talks over the future of Palestinians on the West Bank. State Department officials are not optimistic that either a Likud or Labor government or a national unity government will be able to move decisively on foreign policy is- sues. "Whatever government they form will be very weak," a State De- partment official predicted. Issues confronting Asian Jewry topic of colloquium Melbourne (JTA) — An Asia-pacific Jewish Col- loquium, to be held Sept. 11-12 in Singapore, will complement the seminar on anti-Semitism conducted here last month under the sponsorship of the Univer- sity of Melbourne and the Australian Institute of Jewish Affairs, according to Isi Leibler, president of the Executive Council of Au- stralian Jewry (ECAJ). Both events "will serve to bring to the attention of Au- stralian Jewry the impor- tant role it will inevitably and increasingly play in world affairs," Leibler said. Australia, with a popula- tion of 14.9 million, is home to an estimated 75,000 Jews, the largest Jewish population in the Asia- Pacific region. The Jewish population of other coun- tries in the area ranges from 4,300 in India and 4,000 in New Zealand to only 150 in the Philippines. "Australia, of course, con- tains by far the largest, best organized Jewish popula- tion in the Asian Pacific region," Leibler sid, and the country "is much more closely situation to East Asia than is the United States. "I believe we have both the opportunity and respon- sibility to assist the smaller Jewish communities of the region and to work inofar as we can to assist both the . Jewish people and for the benefit of the State of Israel in the Asia Pacific region," he said. The Melbourne seminar on anti-Semitism and human rights last month concentrated on the "ideological convergence" between the far right-wing and the extreme left in con- temporary anti-Semitism. In summarizing the seminar, Liebler noted that "There was general agree- ment that both historically and at the present time, Au- stralia hasbeen spared not , only the worst excesses of the Western world's anti- Semitism, but virtually any significant organized sources of anti-Jewish feel- ing." Nevertheless, Liebler ob- served, "there is agreement that anti-Semitism does exist and may be on the rise. Some of this renewed anti- Semitism here," he said, "represents the Australia facet of the organized ideological sources of the extreme right and left which exist around the world." Lebanese government seeks close of joint commission Jerusalem (JTA) — The Cabinet this week authorized Premier Yit- zhak Shamir and Defense Minister Moshe Arens to decide at a future date whether to accede to the Lebanese government's demand to close down the joint Israeli-Lebanese Liaison Commission, the quasi-diplomatic mission Israel has maintained for the past two years at Obaiye, 10 miles north of Beirut. Knowledgable observers predicted there would be no immediate decision. In the longer term however, Israel is, expected to close its mis- sion, given Lebanon's dog- ged insistence. According to the sources here, Israel has the option of standing pat. The Israel- backed "Lebanese Forces," the Christian Phalangists, reportedly have offered to guard the mission in place of the. arms regulars who have been withdrawn. The mission, meanwhile, has ceased issuing passes to Lebanese who want to visit Israel-occupied south Leba- non. Government sources here admit this is a form of pressure on the Beirut authorities • to rev _ erse their decision. to shut down the Liaison Commission.