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Friday, September 20, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
May the coming
May the coming
year be filled
year be filled
with health and
with health and
happiness for
happiness for
all our family
all our family
and friends
and friends
Joyce & Hank Booke
Garin & Kelly
Agoura, Calif.
Jack & Rowe Berman
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
Rebecca Adaskin
The Behrmanns
Judy, Robin & Randy
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to all
our friends
and relatives
to all
our friends
and relatives
Minna & Sam Chimoff
Bruce, Hedy, Seth &
Kayla Jacobson
NEWS
Immersion
Protest Grows
Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Ethiopian immigrant commu-
nity's week-long sit-in strike
outside the offices of. the Chief
Rabbinate Council was joined
last week by dozens of members
of the Reform Jewish commu-
nity in Israel who brought with
them food, cold drinks and flow-
ers.
Rabbi Asher Hirsch, world
secretary of the Reform move-
ment, said the fight of the
Ethiopians for equal treatment
as Jews was also the fight of the
Reform community. The immig-
rants began the sit-in strike a
week ago to protest the chief
Rabbinate's insistence that they
undergo ritual immersion, a
religious conversion rite, before
they are allowed to marry.
The Ethiopians, all devout
practicing Jews, regard this de-
mand as humiliating and insult-
ing because it questions their
authenticity as Jews. They
voted last week to continue the
strike despite appeals by Pre-
mier Shimon Peres and the Di-
rector General of the Religious
Affairs Ministry to end it.
Meanwhile, they have won an
"order nisi" from the Supreme
Court requiring the Chief Rab-
binate to show cause why the
Ethiopian immigrants must
undergo ritual conversion.
Rabbi Hirsch said, "We regard
them as Jews for all intents and
purposes. It was already decided
they are Jews. We brought them
to Israel and therefore we must
treat them as full Jews."
We wish our tam)/ and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
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Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness
Sophie & Harry Aronovitz ,
Sam & Minnie Berman
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
Rochelle & Eddie Chinsky
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
Henia & Miriam Ciesla
The Blaz Family
Jerry, Ilene, Alisa & Neal
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
The Dean's—Harold, Rosalie,
Rhonda, Steven & Michelle
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Relatives
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We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
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. We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
"Fritz" & Alice Fridson
May the New Year Bring
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
To All Our Friends
Benjamin & Esther Halpern
and Family
Health,
Joy, Prosperity
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Good in Life
Mr. & Mrs. Gustav Berenholz
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We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
Esther & Ben Kawer
,
and Everything
$23 Billion
GNP Possible
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
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Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness
The Goldman's
Howard, Linda, Tracie & David
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Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's
gross national product (GNP) for
1985 has been estimated at
$22-23 billion, with one quarter
of that going to defense and
defense-related needs, by Prof.
Eitan Berglass, a leading
economist. Prof. Burglass made
the estimate in a report to a
joint panel of the Knesset's
Foreign Affair and Security
Committee and Finafice Com-
mittee.
Prof. Berglass pointed out
that while the defense budget
itself consumes a somewhat
smaller proportion of the GNP,
that is illusory because national
defense includes many expendi-
tures which are not in the de-
fense budget. He cited several
examples. One is payments to
reserve soldiers for time spent
on active duty which is paid out
of the National Insurance Insti-
tute's budget.
Prof. Berglass noted that Is
rael also pays about $1 billion
per year in interest and princi-
pal on military assistance loans
from the United States. That
burden has been eased. In the
last two years Washington has
provided military aid to Israel
in the form of grants which are
not repayable. But Israel con-
tinues to pay back earlier mili-
tary loans.