Arlazaroff Branch marks fifty years
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Concern mounts for Soviet Jewish refuseniks
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Nativity scenes, city hall, and the Federal courts
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Lighting up for Chanukah
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SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
Israeli government shaky
But observers believe
the Shas-NRP dispute.
will be resolved.
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's gov-
ernmental crisis escalated this week
when Likud leader Yitzhak Shamir,
the Deputy Premier and Foreign
Minister, announced that he had given
Premier Shimon Peres 48 hours to re-
solve the conflict surrounding the res-
ignation from the government of the
.
Sephardic religious party Shas, a
partner of Likud.
Shamir, emerging from a private
meeting with Peres in the Knesset
building Tuesday evening, informed
the press of the deadline, adding that if
Peres failed he knows what we will
do."
Shamir did not say specifically
that Likud would leave the govern-
ment. He said the Likud ministers
would meet in caucus Thursday to de-
cide what steps to take. Three Likud
ministers who had been out of the
country had returned by Thursday —
Ariel Sharon, Moshe Arens and Gi- ,
deon Patt. Shamir cut short a visit to
Latin America and canceled a New
York appearance to deal with the prob-
lem.
Shas leader Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz,
a Minister-Without-Portfolio, submit-
ted his resignation to Peres on Sunday.
It took effect Tuesday morning despite
a last minute appeal from the Prime
Minister to retract it. Shas has been
embroiled in a dispute over portfolios
with the National Religious Party,
which is supported by Labor.
Peretz has refused to accept the
Ministry of Interior because, under a
compromise worked out last week, its
religious functions would be trans-
ferred to the Religious Affairs Minis-
try, headed by the NRP.
Peres has said repeatedly in media
interviews that he expected the crisis
to be resolved and did not believe the
Shas resignation was its "last word."
He called on all concerned to preserve
the Labor-Likud unity coalition.
This is no time for political games,"
Peres declared, noting the dire condi-,
tion of the economy and talks for in-
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News editor Alan Hitsky, left, publisher Charles Buerger and editor emeritus Philip
Slomovitz, seated, look at plans for the new offices of The Jewish News, which moves Dec.
27 to Civic Center Drive.
Jewish News moving
The Jewish News is on the move
... literally. The newspaper will move
next week for only the fourth time in
its 43-year history to accommodate its
expanding news-gathering and adver-
tising needs.
After moving day next Thursday,
Dec. 27, The Jewish News offices will
be located in the Control Data building
in Southfield's "Golden Triangle" area
near the Prudential Town Center and
the Southfield Civic Center. The new
address and telephone number will be:
20300 Civic Center Drive, . Suite 240,
- Southfield 48076; telephone 354-6060.
Charles A. Buerger, publisher of
The Jewish News, explained that the
move will provide additional space for
"an enlarged editorial staff to further
expand our coverage of Detroit's vib-
rant Jewish community."
Editor Gary Rosenblatt noted that
the percentage of editorial space in the
paper for news, features and local
stories has increased this year and re-
quires additional manpower. Now
we'll have room for more writers."
Buerger added that sales and
production facilities had to be made
larger to service the increased number
of advertisers. More space was also
required," he said, "for new computer
facilities and to handle the increasing
number of subscribers."
The Jewish News was founded in
1942, with offices in the Penobscot
Building. The newspaper later moved
to the David Stott Building, and in
1953 into its own quarters at 17100 W.
Seven Mile Rd. The offices have been
located in the Honeywell Building on
Nine Mile in Southfield since 1969.
Jewish units
join foes of
apartheid
DECEMBER 21, 1984
CLOSE-UP
THE FATHER
OF KINETIC
ART
Yaacov Agam opens
a Southfield exhibit
of his changeable art.
BY VICTORIA DIAZ
See Story On Page 14
The Michigan Region board of the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith has adopted a resolution in sup-
port of the "Free South Africa" move-
ment and has denounced the
apartheid-supporting government of
South Africa. The Jewish Community
Council of Detroit and several black
groups also dramatized the issue this
week.
ADL Michigan Region President
Peter Alter released the statement in
conjunction with the national ADL's
menorah-lighting vigil Wednesday af-
ternoon across from the South African
Mission in New York. Alter said that
during the season of Chanukah, "his-
tory's first recorded battle for freedom
and human dignity . . . as an organiza-
tion committed to the advocacy of
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