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Noon - 5 p.m. TALLY HALL Mon.-Thurs. 10 am. - 9 p.m. Fri., Sat.10 am. - 10 p.m. Sun. — Selected Stores noon-5 p.m. Orchard Lake Rd. at 14 Mile • Farmington Hills, Ml 48018 • (313) 855-3444 Anti-Semitism Continued from Page 1 every state. But those regions where unemployment was still relatively high, like Michigan and Ohio, showed increases." According to Nancy Frum- kin, of the ADL's Michigan Region office in Detroit, the seven incidents in the state last year included three cases of vandalism against synagogues. In September, a smoke bomb was reportedly hurled into an Oak Park synagogue during weekday evening services. (The ADL declined to identify the synagogue.) The Livonia Jewish Congregation and Cong. Beth Tephilath Moses of Mt. Clemens were vandalized in separate incidents in Oc- tober. A private home in Grand Rapids and two stores in De- troit were daubed with racial and religious epithets last fall, Frumkin said. The home is occupied by a Jewish family but neither of the two stores is Jewish-owned. In addition, the ADL re- ported, an unidentified Jewish group received two threaten- ing letters within the last six months. There were no verbal or physical assaults against Jewish persons reported in 1984. In 1983, Lobenthal said, a Jewish high school student in Michigan was assaulted by a youth who claimed he had been assigned to beat up Jews in the school. The national survey, based on the data supplied by the ADL's 30 regional offices in the U.S. and prepared by its Civil Rights Division's re- search department, cited a total of 715 incidents of van- dalism, an increase of 6.7 per- cent over the 1983 total of 670. Thirty-two of the 715 inci- dents were described by the ADL as serious crimes which included 17 cases of arson and attempted arson compared to 13 in 1983; three bombings, as compared to none in 1983; one attempted bombing, the same as in 1983; and 11 cemetery desecrations, compared to nine in 1983. The ADL said in the cate- gory of other assault§ or threats, tabulated separately, there were 369 incidents, an increase of 5.4 percent over the 1983 figure of 350. The survey showed New York experienced 237 episodes of anti-Semitic vandalism, followed by California with 99; Maryland with 69; New Jersey, 56; and Florida, 51. Overall, 32 states and the District of Columbia were involved in the incidents. The large Jewish population in New York and California is not the only reason those states consistently report the most 'anti-Semitic incidents, Lobenthal said. "The higher visibility of the Jewish com- munity in those areas is defi- nitely a contributing factor." The executive director added that New York and Los Angeles have more Jewish in- The seven incidents in Michigan last year included three cases of vandalism against synagogues. stitutions than most com- munities and therefore, more targets for vandals. Nathan Perlmutter, ADL national director, said the 1984 figures were "disturbing because they reverse a two- year decline." But he noted that the 6.7 percent increase was far smaller than the 19.2 percent increase in 1980 and 15.8 in- crease in 1981. There were 84 persons arrested by law enforcement authorities in 1984 in connection with 51 in- cidents, the ADL said, com- pared with a total figure of 115 persons arrested in 55 inci- dents in 1983. Meanwhile, Lobenthal cautioned that the survey is not necessarily an accurate barometer of actual hatred towards Jews in. the United States. "Because the audit is based on reported incidents, fluctuations in the figures may indicate an increase or decrease in awareness of anti-Semitism and not anti- Semitism itself." Interfaith Event Rome (JTA) — More than 200 Italian Christians and Jews, both scholars and non-academics par- ticipated in the fifth annual Jewish-Christian Colloquium held last month at the Benedic- tine Monastery of Camaldoli. "The Gift of the Torah" as an in- tegral part of the religious heri- tage of both Christians and Jews was the theme of the gathering. Dr. Leon Feldman, consultant on inter-religious affairs for the Synagogue Council of America, addressed the colloquium on "Liv- ing the Torah — American Judaism Today." Other speakers at lecture sessions, discussions, and workshops included Jewish and Catholic specialists in and authors of works in Jewish studies.