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U.S. Jewish leaders opposed APPRAISER . 0 SALE Desks $79 96. 1 Chairs $10 00 1 Executive I Chair $69 96 New Banquet Tables $59 96 • Plain Paper Copiers . $699.96 P Typewriters $10-$25 Adding Machines $10.00 Files $52 99 IBM's $49 50-$99 501 New Four Drawer 1 Locking Lateral i Files $500 Now $189 96 to change in Law of Return Jerusalem (JTA) — Four prominent American Jews warned here last week that any amendment to the Who is a Jew law might split the unity of the Jewish people I and create serious breaches in Isreal-Diaspora rela- 1 tions. I The warning was raised I Y: OFF SELECTED TYPEWRITERS / at a press conference by Theodore Mann, president Starting at $39.96 1 Reconditioned of the American Jewish Heavy-Duty 1 Typewriters $149.96 Congress; Dr. Simon 11 1 Correcting Electric Greenberg, vice chancellor . $269 00 I 1 Typewriters of the Jeish Theological New Electronic 1 Typewriters $489.96 / Seminary of America; Year Warranty) 1 Rabbi Jack Cohen of B'nai 1 Airy old (5 typewriter taken IN trade B'rith; and Rabbi Richard TYPEWRITER ; Hirsch of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. I I V. s niWie Their organizations took lEiwtic Skirt, tiitieul 9.4 Pill) 1 out a quarter-page ad in the Jerusalem Post entitled "Am Ehad — Preserve Our Unity." I 231 W. Nine Mile Rd. The call was part of an I overall effort by non- . I Ferndale • 548-6404 OPEN SAT 9-4 30 I Orthodox groups to foil at- tempts by the religious par- IL Zilisolid iiii no a ties in Israel to secure a promise from whichever party forms the next gov- ernment to change the Who is a Jew law so that it would recognize only those con- versions performed accord- ing to the Orthodox in- terpretation of Halachah 1 1 1 1 • BETTER BUSINESS' EQUIPMENT CO. (Jewish law). The present Who is a Jew .law, or the Law of Return, gives every Jew the right to enter Israel and receive automatic citizenship. It was adopted shortly after Israel declared its indepen- dence in 1948. It applies to born Jews and converted Jews, but does not establish criteria for such conver- sions. The four American Jews, who said they represented some four million Jews in the United States, warned if an amendment is intro- duced to change the law, aliyah from the. U.S. would diminish, and also possibly financial support for Israel. They pointed out, at the press conference, that if an amendment was adopted, it would exclude anyone con- verted to Judaism by a non-Orthodox rabbi. They also said that most Ameri- can Jews regard themselves as either Conservative or Reform, even those who are not actually affiliated with synagogues. Mann said if the amend- ment was adopted, it Would merely be a political and not a religious act. He said the non-Orthodox Jews could live with the fact that the Israeli religious authorities do not recognize their con- version, but one would not be able to accept that this would become state law. "I don't want the State of Is- rael to tell me that we are something less than Jewish," he said, "because we do not accept the Or- thodox point of view." In New York, Rabbi Ale- xander M. Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congre- gations, called on Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres to "reject pressure from the Orthodox parties" in Israel to amend the Law of Return as the price for their par- ticipaton in a coalition gov- ernment. "Jewish unity must never become a bargaining chip on the table of political power," the reform leader said in cables to Prime Minister Shamir and Peres, the leader of the Labor op- position. "The self-serving demand of a tiny group of Orthodox spokesmen in Is- rael that they be recognized as the sole interpreters of Jewish religion . . . is mor- ally and religiously offen- sive." 85 Jews leave USSR in July For Those Who Want Distinctive Interiors New York (JTA) — The National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported that 85 Jews left the Soviet Union in July. This, the con- Tour Thi Troy Deign Center ference said, continued the low rate of emigration for For Consultation Call: 352-2264 this year. A total of 72 Jews emi- grated in June and 109 Jews emigrated in May. Accord- ing to the Geneva-based In- tergovernmental Commit- tee for Migration, 556 Jews left the Soviet Union during the first six months of this year, 267 of whom went to Israel. In Washington, Sen. Charles H. Percy (R-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee, announced that the Se- nate passed and sent to the Before you make up your mind, make up a check list. Corn President for signature a all five cars. How many of them have 4-wheel independent bill condemning the low suspensions? Which has the most comfortable rate of emigration of Jews seats? The smoothest tide? We're confident from the Soviet Union. you'll discover that Peugeot is perhaps the The bill, a joint resolution most comfortable car in the world today. originally sponsored in the House by Rep. Mark Siljan- der, passed the Foreign Re- lations Committee by unanimous vote on July 31. The joint resolution charges that the Soviet Union has "systematically interfered with the practice of the Hebrew language and culture and severely re- 1765 Telegraph Rd., Bloomfield Hills stricted Jewish religious (One Mile North of Square lake Road) expression," has "made it almost impossible for Soviet Jews to obtain higher edu- cation and meaningful em- rem a lo rq ent " h . rt# 4.,0/644147 0- gg COMPLETE FURNISHINGS CUSTOM COLOR COORDINATING ACCESSORIZING The four cars you should try before you buy a Petigeot PEUGEOT Autobahn motors 11.110 AUTOBAHN MOTORS .1nra...S.Z.Z.,,,.=-4.31geriles,..., . ■ . ,^711, —, 7." 338-4531 tal hospitals and abuses of psychiatric treatment to punish dissenters and re- fuseniks," and has thereby violated the United Na- tions' Declaration of Human Rights and the Hel- sinki accords. In a related development, Soviet Jewish prisoner of conscience Anatoly Shcharansky has been placed under strict regime in Chistopol Prison, accord- ing to the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. In a letter which his brother Leonid received on July 30, Shcharansky re- ported that under this new regime his rations have been halved and his daily walks have been restricted to 30 minutes from the prev- iously allowed 60 minutes. For Shcharansky, who suffers from a serious heart condition resulting from a four-month hunger strike which he undertook in 1982, this cutback in daily exer- cise could have serious im- plications for his health, the conference said. According to Leonid Shcharansky, who lives in Moscow, Anatoly's letter- writing privileges have also been curtailed, and he is now permitted to write only once every two months, in- stead of every month. His next letter is expected at the end of September or early October. Leonid reported that despite these negative developments, the spirit of Anatoly's letter was posit- ive. Ida Milgrom, Shcharans- ky's aged mother, is plan- ning to travel to Chistopol Prison next week to deter- mine the reason that her son has been subjected to such harsh treatment, the conference reported. Mil- grom's previously scheduled July 4 visit was canceled. Anatoly Shcharansky, who applied to emigrate to Israel in 1973, is currently serving a 13-year sentence (to 1990) for "treason." Meanwhile, the NCSJ re- ported that the "draft eva- sion" trial of 29-year-old ac- tivist Aleksandr Yakir was scheduled for this past Thursday. Strikes hurt Israel economy Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Is- raeli economy lost almost a million working days in 93 strikes in 1983. The Labor and Social Affairs Ministry said that 188,305 workers took part in 93 strikes dur- ing the year. The Miistry said that 78 percent of the days lost were due to the three-month strike of salaried doctors in the pub- lic sector. In addition to the full strikes, there were also 47 partial strikes.