18 Friday, May 3; 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS R & G ASSOCIATES BRASS AND ONYX ACCESSORIES FOR YOUR HOME • OFFICE • GIFTS Roy Rubin Judy Gordon By Appointment 557 5637 - DESIGNER SHOE OUTLET For Men & women BRAND NAME SHOES & BOOTS AT DISCOUNT PRICES! SAVE UP TO 75%! HUNTERS SQUARE Next to Loebmano's 851-4190 Ordard Lk & 14, Farm. Hills 551-0062 SOUTHFIELD PLAZA g1=7 li Ci 1RESUITS. David Wachler & Sons certifiedJeweler,. a Mem. American Gem Society Gemologists Estate Jewelry Buyers Insurance & Estate Appraisers Award Winning Jewelry Designers Downtown Birmingham 540-4622 Renaissance Ctr., Detroit 259-6922 CUSTOM FRAMING Since 1950 Over 9,000 Posters, Prints Reproductions & Original Graphics in Stock •Ready Made Frames, Plastic, Wood, Metal, Ovals, Rounds FIELD ART STUDIO 2646 Coolidge Hwy. is • of 12 Mile) Berkley 399-1320 or 399-1327 HRS: 9-5 Mon.-Sat. or by appointInent V LET'S TALK ... that's right . . . the bottom line No matter how dedicated we are to our jobs and our students, our financial needs are th same as anyone else's — the same as other teachers in the metro area. Yet, after 18 years of representation by the federation, we've gone from the top of the salary list to 74th out of 85 districts in the tri-county area. THE FEDERATION HAS DONE NOTHING TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSSES: • We still have no VISION CARE benefits • LONGEVITY PAY in nearby MEA-represented districts is two to six times what we receive • The federation negotiated $20,000 in life insurance for us while MEA got twice as much in Oak Park and even more in Romulus. The federation's EXCUSE for its poor performance on the economic level at the bargaining table has been that the Detroit Public Schools are in financial trouble. WELL, THAT MAKES THEM NO DIFFERENT FROM SCHOOLS IN NEARLY EVERY DIS- TRICT MEA REPRESENTS, INCLUDING FLINT, JACKSON AND RIVER ROUGE — BUT TEACHERS IN THOSE DISTRICTS HAVE HIGHER SALARIES, BETTER BENEFITS, SMALLER CLASS SIZES AND A MORE SECURE RETIREMENT FUTURE. The FACT is that the federation hasn't been TOUGH ENOUGH, SMART ENOUGH or STRONG ENOUGH to hand on to OUR SHARE of the total school budget. In 1972-73, Detroit classroom teachers' salaries accounted for nearly HALF the district's total expenditures. by 1 982-83, that percentage had dropped to less than 40 PERCENT and this year it's just over 30 PERCENT. ALL BECAUSE THE FEDERATION WAS UNABLE TO HOLD THE LINE IN BARGAINING! THERE IS NO EXCUSE! MORE OF THE SAME ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH ANYMORE MEA'Detroit . . . proven RESULTS, not EXCUSES! ASO—MEA BOOKS Volume Defines Sources Of Anti-Semitic Growth "The Reason for Anti- Semitism," the subtitle to Why the Jews?, is a summary of the hatred that continues in the prejudices leveled at Jewry. Authored by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, this volume, now reis- sued as a paperback by Simon and Schuster's Touchstone Press di- vision, covers the vast field, em- bracing all the aspects of the anti-Semitic hatreds suffered in all ages, through the generations globally. Providing a summary of the topic that endlessly creates inter- est in Jews and the hatreds vent upon them, the authors of Why the Jews?, first published as a paper- back in 1983, admonished: "The Arab and Muslim hatred of Israel has long been dismissed by many in the West as a Jewish problem which ultimately reveals little about Arabs or Muslim states. But gradually it has be- come clear that the hatred of Jewish independence displayed by the Arab Muslim states is not some unrepresentative quirk, but a moral indicator of some preci- sion. "As the Christians of Lebanon, who have suffered far worse from Muslim hatred than have the Jews of Israel, have learned, Arab leaders who call for wars to anni- hilate Zionism are not otherwise tolerant, democracy-loving gent- lemen. Indeed, there is often a di- rect correlation between the feroc- ity of a Muslim leader's hatred of the Jewish state and his hatred of de.mocracy and other Western values. Iran's Khomeini, Libya's Qaddafi, and Iraq's Hussein are three such examples. Conversely, Arab and other Middle Eastern Muslim societies that are less characterized by despotism and wanton cruelty, such as Tunisia and Turkey, are also char- acterized by a greater tolerance of the Jews. "The Soviet Union provides an- other contemporary example of a state whose hostility to Jews is both an indicator of its immoral nature and a warning of the threat it poses to those societies which hold democracy and justice as primary values. Those in the West who regard the Soviet Jewish problem as solely aJewish problem do a terrible disservice to the other religious groups and nationalities in the Soviet Union whose plights are not as pub- licized; and they do the West a "Why the Jews?" by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, Touchstone Press. disservice by preventing it from confronting the evil nature of the Soviet regime. "Jew-hatred and its latest in- carnation, Israel-hatred, are the price Jews pay -for their role in history. They pay it often un- willingly and they live the role, for the most part, unwittingly. But as the great French Catholic theologian Jacques Maritain noted: 'Israel ... is to be found at the very heart of the world's structure, stimulating it, exas- perating it, moving it. Like an alien body, like an activating ferment injected into the mass, it gives the world no peace, it bars slumber, it teaches the world to be discontented and restless as long as the world has not God, it stimu- lates the movement of his tory .. . It is the vocation of Israel which the world hates. "And moral non-Jews who do not heed the universal implica- tions of this hatred are destined to be its victims." This is an important summa- tion in a volume that covers every detail of the challenging situa- tions involving mankind. The paperbacked Why the Jews? merits the best-selling status as much as was enjoyed by the hard cover original book. - P.S. JWB Cites 12 For Books New York — A dozen authors and illustrators have been named winners of JWB 1985 National Jewish Book Awards. Honorees and their categories are: Rabbi Joseph B. Sloveitchik, won the award in the Jewish thought category for Halachic Man; Joan Peters, cited in the Is- rael category for From Time Im- memorial; In the fiction category, Invisible Mending by Frederick Busch; Holocaust, David S. Wyman for Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941 1945; Biography, Maurice Friedman for Martin Buber's Life and Work: The Latter Years 1945 1965; and Jewish history, Naomi W. Cohen for Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States 1830- 1914. Also winning 1985 awards were: Seymour Feldman, in the scholarship category for his trans- - - lation of Levi Ben Gershom's The Wars of the Lord: Book One - Im- mortality of the Soul; Gary Pro- vost and Gail Levine-Friedus, in children's literature, for Good if it Goes: illustrated children's book, Amy Schwartz for Mrs. Moscowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks; visual arts, Evelyn Cohen for The Rothschild Mahzor: Florence, 1492; and Yiddish, Shea Tenen- baum for From Ash and Fire Is Your Crown. Christians Hit Messianic Jews Philadelphia (JTA) — Protes- tant and Catholic leaders have strongly criticized, in an "open letter," a messianic Jewish group, Beth Yeshua, whose proselytizing activities they assert have created tensions in the Overbrook Park area of Philadelphia.