18 Friday, May 10, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0 HAND DRAWN & PAINTED 8 8 State Of The Union free lance cartoonist Continued from Page 16 • watt murals • children's personalized books (including original illustration) • designer cards • framed work referred by: St. Joseph Hospital ((Inn arbor) Henry Ford Hospital 8 8 0 8 Colleen Rosen WONDER WORLD OF COMICS 1 division of Equinox Development, Inc. (313) 363-7243 000000o00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000044 ( 'amanciv OPENING MON., MAY 13 • OUR THIRD LOCATION • Altman • Avedon • Boulanger • Bragg • Bruni • Cleworth • .Coopersmith • Cota • Davis • Delacroix • Dojc • Edwards • Erte • Farber • Fanch • Friedman • Gorman • Haile • Jenkins • Kitchell • Moross • Neiman • Noyer • Pena • Reinhard • Schurr • Secunda • Steinberg • Uzilevsky • Weil • Zoback and many others the CLOSE-UP 0 teers, Simon accrued some of the work is enjoyable. But the necessary legal back- sometimes, fighting for a par- ground for the job at the Uni- ticular principle that he versity of Minnesota, where he strongly believes in involves earned a Ph.D. degree in legal coming to the defense of some- and political philosophy and one whose reasons for seeking social ethics. He received his out the organization's help are bachelor's degree from City less than sincere. So how does an educated, well-rounded College of New York. He hasn't severed his con- man who delights in the cul- nection with the teaching field tural richness of Gilbert and entirely. His wife Mutsuko, a Sullivan operas handle things - native of Japan, is a professor when he must support the at the University of Michigan. owner of a chain of X-rated The couple lives in Ypsilanti. theaters and "adult" book Virtually all the issues the stores in the guise of uphold- ACLU champions are mean- ing the First Amendment? "The question I always ask ingful and challenging, ac- cording to Simon, and most of myself is, 'Is defending such Splitting The Ticket tos HITLER WAS . „,ajpfril Vc.s OML X MILLION LliS S GALLERY Ty AT SUGARTREE 6223 Orchard Lake Rd., N. of Maple 855-0813 Neo-Nazis demonstrate behind police barricades during Israel Independence Day activities in Southfield four years ago. fr a 9tEat 12facE los azt!" 30% OFF FRAMED POSTERS DURING GRAND OPENING FEATURING A LARGE SELECTION BY TODAY'S LEADING ARTISTS Beautiful selection of original Lithographs, Serigraphs, Etchings, Paper Sculpture, Contemporary Oils and various mixed media . . Framed and Un- . framed Dyptych and Typtych Art COMPLETE CUSTOM FRAMING 20% OFF Mery and Sheila Aronoff, proprietors "Neo-Nazis." If one word is capable of driving a wedge between the Jewish community and the American Civil Liberties Union, two groups which share a longstanding, mutual commitment to many causes, then "neo Nazis" is that term. In Detroit, the ACLU's support of the S.S. Action Group's Constitutional rights of free speech and free assembly has rankled area Jews, many of whom are Holocaust survivors or relatives of those who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. And although he realizes how unpleasant the idea may seem, Michi- gan ACLU Executive Di- rector Howard Simon suggests people learn to stomach public demon- strations by such groups. "All minority groups in this country," Simon says, "benefit from strengthen- ing the institutions that protect our civil liberties. It doesn't take a good deal of imagination to see that if you void the rights of the neo-Nazis, then years down the road, other minority groups, includ- ing the Jews, are going to become vulnerable to such actions." The ACLU director was both surprised and dis- couraged this spring when the Detroit City Council rejected by a 7-2 margin a request from the S.S. Ac- tion Group to stage a rally on Belle Isle April 22. The small, but vocal neo-Nazi faction's stated purpose for the rally was to honor Adolph Hitler on the 96th anniversary of his birth. Earlier plans calling for a demonstration in front of the City-County Building downtown were scrapped when the Detroit-Wayne