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AUGUST 9, 1985

SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY

Kahane Wins One
And Loses One

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Court backs his Knesset
motions but MKs ban
'racist' parties from
elections.

Jerusalem (JTA) — The Israeli
Supreme Court ruled last Thursday
that a one-man faction in the Knes-
set may move a vote of no-
confidence. The court ruled that
Kach Knesseter Rabbi Meir Kahane
had been unlawfully prevented from
bringing such a motion.
Justice Aharon Barak added
that although existing legislation
made it clear that an individual MK
could not bring a motion of no-
confidence, a faction could, irrespec-
tive of whether it had a number of
members or as in the case of
Kahane, only one.
The judge rejected the argument
of the state that it was not for the
judicial branch to intervene on mat-
ters of the legislative branch. The

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judge ruled that it was for the sake
of the honor of the Knesset that one
had to defend the rights of single-
man factions. He stated that depriv-
ing a Knesset faction the right to
place motions of no-confidence was
actually crippling such factions.
At the same time as the Sup-
reme Court ruling, the Knesset
voted 60-0 to outlaw anti-democratic
and racist parties from running for
the Knesset. The move was aimed at
Rabbi Kahane's extremist Kach
Party. The law will prevent a party
from presenting a list of candidates
if the party incites racism, negates
Israel's democratic charter or op-
poses its existence as the state of the
Jewish people.
Kahane was absent from the
vote. He was removed from the
Knesset chamber after ignoring re-
peated warnings by Acting Speaker
Aharon Nahamias to refrain from
using Bible quotations in a speech

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Jackiers To Receive
Butzel Award

Detroit's first husband-wife
recipients of Federation's
top honor.

BY ALAN HITSKY
News Editor

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Obituaries

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Danny Raskin

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Singles

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Synagogues
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Joseph Jackier's law career, and
leadership roles in Detroit's Jewish
community for himself and his wife
Edythe, began in the 1930s through
an association with Fred and Henry
Butzel. Fifty years later, the Jac-
kiers have become the first
husband-and-wife team to earn the
Jewish Welfare Federation's Fred M.
Butzel Memorial Award for distin-
guished service to the Jewish and
general communities.
"I came to Detroit from the Uni-
versity of Michigan Law School and
was a research clerk for Henry But-
zel," recalls Jackier. Butzel was a
justice of the Michigan Supreme
Court, and his bachelor brother Fred

Edythe and Joseph Jackier

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played some musical jam sessions
with Jackier on piano and violin.
The Butzels were founders of the
Federation idea in Detroit, and Jac-
kier says the Butzel Award takes on
additional significance for himself
and his wife because of their early
associations.
Actually, Jackier credits Edythe
with their lengthy interest in Jewish
communal causes. "She got us both
started through her work with

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