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direct connection between the two
events, but didn't discount the
possibility that vandals may have
gauged their actions with an eye
towards exposure in the media.
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OUR JEWISH TRADITION CALLS UPON US TO SEEK
JUSTICE, PURSUE PEACE, FEED THE HUNGRY AND
CARE FOR THE NEEDY TO PRESERVE THE EARTH
AND ITS CREATURES.
PEACE AND SECURITY:
While vastly increasing military spending, President Reagan ignores the
demand of a majority of U.S. citizens for a bilateral nuclear freeze and a ban
on first strike nuclear weapons, even though 62% of the Republican Con-
vention favored the nuclear freeze. Mondale and Ferraro support -a nuclear
freeze.
THE SUPREME COURT:
President Reagan would appoint several more Justices to the U.S. Supreme
Court. Through this mechanism alone, re-electing President Reagan
would mean the loss of individual rights for generations to come.
CHURCH AND STATE:
President Reagan, as an exponent of the "Christian Nation Movement,"
has abandoned the principle of separation of church and state. His identifi-
cation with a narrow Christian ideology has been to the detriment of many
Christian and non-Christian religious minorities, including Jews. Mondale
and Ferraro stand for the separation of church and state.
CIVIL RIGHTS:
President Reagan opposes the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as well as
freedom of choice for women. Mondale and Ferraro endorse ERA and
support reproductive rights.
Red paint was daubed on the
front and rear of the synagogue
and the exterior of the school
wing. In addition to swastikas,
the words "Jews" and "Niggers"
were splattered on the brick
walls. Synagogue officials dis-
covered several paint brushes and
cans on the roof. Police found no
other physical evidence at the
synagogue, although the location
of some of the markings indicates-
that a ladder may have been used.
Efforts to clean the walls were
underway by Tuesday afternoon
and were expected to be completed
by the end of the week, Rabbi
Martin Gordon said Wednesday.
According to Rabbi Gordon,
spiritual leader of the congrega-
tion for the last 18 years, a group
of area residents, headed by
Holocaust Memorial Center
opening signals new era
President Reagan undermined the Voting Rights Act, school integration
and the Equal Opportunity Act. Mondale and Ferraro stand for all citizens'
rights to participate in American society by supporting the full Voting
Rights Act, school integration, the Equal Opportunity Act and aid to
education.
the United States. The guest
speaker expressed the hope that
the museum would encourage a
continuing effort on the part of
American society to help sur-
vivors break the mold of isolation
from the community in which
they often find themselves.
ECONOMY:
President Reagan's economic and budgetary policies have created un-
precedented deficits. He has widened inequities by providing enormous
tax-windfalls for large corporations, while plunging many Americans into
poverty with no prospects for sufficient government assistance. Mondale
and Ferraro would cut military waste, restore cuts to entitlement programs
and reduce run-away deficits by - two-thirds by 1989.
FOREIGN POLICY:
President Reagan has resorted to arms instead of diplomacy on a number of
fronts:
He claims to be Israel's best friend, but has chosen militarization of the
Middle-East by furnishing arms to all parties of the conflict rather than
supporting negotiations of a comprehensive peace agreement.
His policies have bolstered military rule in Central America through C.I.A.
activities, ignoring international as well as U.S. law, circumventing the will
of Congress. Mondale and Ferraro have pledged to end the covert war
against Nicaragua, to end the general U.S. militarization of Central
America, and to pursue a negotiated solution to the region's problems.
ENVIRONMENT:
President Reagan's appointees to the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) have protected industrial and agri-business interests rather than the
environment. Mondale and Ferraro's sensitivity to the environment is
demonstrated by their pledge to restore the EPA to full capacity.
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Charles Costa, volunteered their
services for the clean-up.
Police are also dismissing the
notion that the incident was the
work of an organized group or that
it resulted from a conspiracy
against Jewish institutions in the
Detroit area. "It is our contention
that the vandal or vandals were
not connected to any organiza-
tion," Lt. Ericson said.
The Livonia Jewish Congrega-
tion is marking its 25th anniver-
sary with a dinner at the
synagogue Sunday. The congre-
gation has -held services at a
number of locations since its
founding in 1958, including the
Botsford Inn and an area far-
mhouse. The congregation moved
to its present location, 31840 W.
Seven Mile, in 1970.
Rabbi Gordon did not feel that
publicity surrounding the 25th
anniversary celebration had
encouraged the vandalism. A
number of local newspapers were
slated to run stories on the event,
but not until later in the week, the
synagogue's recording secretary,
Phyllis Scherman, said Tuesday.
In a similar development, van-
dals painted swastikas, scrawled
anti-Semitic slogans and crashed
a tractor through a new
synagogue in Manalapan Town-
ship, N.J. last week, The New
York Times reported.
Benjamin Meed addresses the
crowd at the opening of the HMC
The Holocaust Memorial Cen-
ter in West Bloomfield opened its
doors to the public Sunday, mark-
ing the culmination of a 20-year
effort to erect both a Detroit-area
memorial to the six million Jews
murdered during the Nazi era and
an educational institution for the
surviving generations.
Benjamin Meed, president of
the American Gathering of
Jewish Holocaust Survivors, told
the crowd of more than 200 at the
opening ceremonies that Detroit's
accomplishments "should be
known all over the nation" and
that "the significance of the day is
to see how dreams become
reality."
Meed characterized the HMC as
a tool for showing the uninforme-
d"the pit of hell" that Holocaust
survivors had to travel through
and what those who survived
have achieved since arriving in
"It's your center," HMC Direc-
tor Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig told
the gathering. "It will be what you
determine it to be, or what you
enable it to be."
The goal of the $2.5 million cen-
ter, he said, is to "help present the
future generations understand
what happened in the Holocaust
and how it happened, so that they
can create a guide for human be-
havior that will prevent such an
atrocity to mankind from ever
occurring again."
The museum incorporates
state-of-the-art audiovisual dis-
plays and will include one of the
most thorough archives of
Holocaust-related material in the
country.
A number of dignitaries, in-
cluding Michael Richsteis, the
West German consul in Detroit,
attended the opening ceremonies.
HMC officials reported some
2,500 visitors during the center's
first full day of operation.
Meanwhile, federal and state
officials in New York have de-
cided to convert the unused Cus-
toms House in lower Manhattan
into a museum of the Holocaust
and the history of Jews in the
Diaspora.
The Customs House has been
vacant since 1971, when the U.S.
Customs Service shifted its opera-
tion to the World Trade Center.
According to township police,
sometime late last Wednesday or
early last Thursday, vandals
started a tractor that had been
used for landscaping outside
Temple Beth Shalom (Conserva-
tive) and drove it through a wall
into the educational wing of the
just-completed building.
No arrests have been made and
no assessment of damages was
available, police said. Manalapan
Township is about 35 miles
southwest of New York.
NEWS
Sharon attacks
government policies
Jerusalem (JTA) — Industry
and Commerce Minister Ariel
Sharon opened a political hornet'g
nest last weekend by expressing
opposition to government plans to
base an Israeli withdrawal from
south Lebanon on the deployment
of United Nations Interim Force
in Lebanon (UNIFIL) troops in
that area and by attacking gov-
ernment plans to improve the
quality of life for Arabs in Judea
and Samaria.
In a sharp attack on the with-
drawal plan, Sharon told Radio
Israel that "this government will
survive only if it concentrates on
economic problems and on condi-
tion that it avoids action in other
areas" where differences between
Likud and- Labor cannot be
bridged. He warned that Likud
did not agree to a national unity
government to serve as a cover for
Labor's defense and foreign af-
fairs plans, which he described as
"disastrous."
Sharon said he ruled out any
cooperation with UNIFIL which
he said had "cooperated with ter-
rorist organizations, openly and
secretly, during the years it was
in Lebanon." The present official
Israeli government policy advo-
cates a controlled pull-back by the
Israel Defense Force from Leba-
non, based on UNIFIL taking over
the area between the Awali and
the Zaharani rivers, and the
Israeli-backed South Lebanon
Army (SLA) controlling the area
south of the Zaharani to the in-
ternational border.
Sharon, at a Herut luncheon
last Friday in .Tel Aviv, also de-
nounced government plans to im-
prove the living conditions of
Arabs in the administered ter-
ritories, plans which the govern-
ment announced following in-
tense American pressure to do so.
Vatican report
on Israel denied
New York (JTA) — The Ameri-
can Jewish Committee declared
that it welcomed "the report that
the Vatican favors the diplomatic
recognition of Israel."
The statement was issued by
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, direc-
tor of international affairs for the
AJCommittee and presently in
charge of the AJCommittee's re-
lationship with the Vatican. The
Vatican later denied the report.