/- Rear Entrance Riles Retarded 8 Scholars Utilize Telephone Talmud 25 Russian Jewish Violinist Is Free At Last 88 Jerry Lewis Trades Fantasy For Spring Training 44 THE JEWISH NEWS . THIS ISSUE 40c JANUARY 25, 1985 SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY 2,000 Ethiopian Jews Have Died in Sudan But Sudan's president now says all refugees are free to leave — provided they do not go to Israel. New York (JTA) — Israeli and American Jewish officials active on behalf of Ethiopian Jewry had no comment this week on reports that at least 2,000 Ethiopian Jews have died in refugee camps in the eastern Sudan since they began to flee their home- - land last spring. The reports, carried in the . New York Times, quoted Sudanese officials and relief workers as estimating that CLOSE-UP perhaps 2,000 more have been stranded in the Sudan since Israel was forced to cease its airlift of Ethiopian Jews earlier this month after prema- ture disclosure of the operation ap- peared in the Israeli and international media. Reports from the Sudan said that at one camp, Umm Rekuba, nearly 1,800 of the 7,000 Ethiopian Jews who arrived last year died there, many of measles. In July and August, the camp reportedly went without food and water for three weeks. Relief workers said the Ethiopian Jews who began to flock into Sudanese camps in large numbers last spring and early summer were in the "worst state of any of the refugees." Some 2,000 Jews are reported to be camped near the Sudanese- Ethiopian border, where the Sudanese officials are preventing entry. Continued on Page 20 By TEDD SCHNEIDER Staff Writer The seven anti-Semitic incidents ) reported in Michigan during 1984 re- present a decrease from the nine / occurrences reported the year before ' \ _ and a return to pre-1983 levels, accord- ing to Dick Lobenthal, executive direc- > for of the Michigan Region, Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith Births 71 Classified Ads 74 Editorials 4 Engagements 67 Obituaries 87 Purely Commentary 2 Danny Raskin 47 Singles 62 Synagogues 59 Women's News 53 (ADL). The Michigan figures were re- leased last week with statistics for the rest of the United States in the ADL's annual audit of anti-Semitic van- dalism and other assaults or threats against Jews. While the survey showed a mod- erate increase in such incidents nationwide, Michigan and other Mid- western states continued to buck the national trend of the past few years by reporting a decline in acts of hatred. The 1983 survey had shown a decline in every region of the country except the Midwest. Lobenthal feels that the varia- tions of Michigan are due largely to the severity of the recent recession and the somewhat slower economic re- covery in the Midwest. "A higher un- employment rate means an increase in racially or religiously motivated vio- lence as well as violence in general," the ADL executive director said. "In 1983, the figures dropped in almost Continued on Page 28 NEWS at 11 TV newsman Murray Feldman has found the trappings of Detroit's Jewish community very welcome. BY SUSAN WELCH See Story on Page 14 Be nyas-Kaufm a n Anti-Semitism In State Drops, U.S. Figures Up