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Alissa had to' learii -th"read the
Haftorah, learning to chant the
tunes as the boys do. That her
daughter could not demonstrate
her abilities is not a concern for
-Rosenbaum."
I said that „,my daughter
chanted from the Prophets, just
as a boy chants from the Haf-
torah, and she did demonstrate
her ability to chant. Thus, I had
no reason to be concerned.

Millie Rosenbaum

AZF Campaign
Is Opposed

I always look forward, each
Friday, to receiving The Jewish
News. But, the one I received
Dec. 27 really woke me up.
Your page 56 headline read: "
ZOA At Odds With AZF."
I am a member of 'the Na-
tional Executive Committee of
the Zionist Organization Of
America. I am wholeheartedly
in agreement with the ZOA in
opposing the American Zionist
Federation wanting a member-
ship campaign of its own.
In 1970, I had the pleasure of
representing the ZOA at the
founding convention of the
American Zionist Federation in
Philadelphia. The main purpose
of organizing a Zionist federa-
tion was to put all the different
Zionist organizations under the
umbrella of "one organization,"
so that when it came 'to major
problems we should speak with
one voice. It was never intended
for the AZF to have an indepen-
dent existence. Its purpose was
to get the Je7ish people in
America to join a Zionist or-
ganization of its choice. As each
group would be strengthened,
the federation could be
strengthened.
It is true that the AZF has
not reached its potential. But,
what they want to do will result
in the demise of the confedera-
tion. If the AZF is self-destroyed
it will not hurt the Zionist cause

Leonard L. Radner

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And Rabbi Kahane

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Two ominous facts appeared
in The Jewish News (Dec. 27)
which must not b'e overlooked or
ignored. First, the Israel Central
Bureau of Statistics reported
that the Arab birthrate in Israel
and the territories outnumbered
the Jewish birthrate even
though the Jews outnumber the
Arabs by almost 75 percent.
Second, a Haifa University sur-
vey found that 58 percent of
Arabs with Israeli citizenship
condone PLO terrorist attacks
on Israel.
Important facts, yet anyone
who dwells on these facts and
concludes that the Arabs of Is-
rael are a menace is labelled a
"resist fascist" or worse. Witness
the campaign against Rabbi
Meir Kahane of the Israeli

Knesset. Both the Israel gov-
ernment and the American es-'
tablishment 'close the door to
him and refuse dialogue, but
neither can 'escape the above
facts and the resultant questions
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While the leadership strives
to avoid Kahane and the issue,
the Arabs themselves may - force
consideration of Israel's future
as a Jewish state or majorita-
rian democracy. According, to a
Knight-Ridder report (Free
Press Dec. 30), it is the younger
generation of Arabs, the product
of high Arab birthrates, not
waiting •for PLO direction, who
spread fear among the Jewish
opulace of Israel. As the repor-
er noted, "their (Arab) rage and
ring have bred terrorist vio-
lence." And as an Israeli milit-
ary spokesman pointed out, it is
a phenomenon of the local
people taking action for them-
selves ... ,
So tired is the Jewish leader-
ship that they seek the "moder-
ate" Arab willing to rescue them
from their own inability to cope
with the natural outcome of
Zionism — a truly Jewish state,
of Jews, or Jews, by Jews. •

Michael Drissman
Committee for the Jewish Idea

Detroiters Fight
Anti-Arab Bias

Birmingham Temple Rabbi
Sherwin Wine, Howard Simon,
executive director of the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union in
Michigan and local New Jewish
Agenda representative Al
Fishman are among the Detroit-
area residents who have joined
national coalition to publicize re- -
cent attacks on Arab-American
organizations.
Rabbi Wine, who is serving as a
co-chairman of The Ad Hoc Coali-
tion Against Terrorism in
America, said the group hopes to
foster cooperation between Arabs
and Jews in the fight against ter-
rorism in the U.S.
The Coalition ran a full-page
advertisement in Sunday's New
York Times which ,called atten-
tion to recent firebombings at the
offices of the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination committee
in Boston, Washington and Santa
Ana, Calif. There-have been no
attacks reported on the Detroit of-
fices of the ADC. •
Other Detroit-area members of
the 'coalition include. Detroit
Mayor Coleman Young; U.S.
Reps. Jhhn Conyers (D-Detroit)
and Gehrge Crockett Jr. (D-
Detroit); Livonia Mayor Edward
McNamara;! Wayne County' Cir-
cuit Judge Thomas J. Foley;
Winston Lan, xecutive secret-
ary of the Detro4 NAACP; Imam
Mohamad Jawad Chirri, director
of the Islamic Center of America;
Warren David, executive director
of the. Arab American Media Soci-
ety; attorney Abdeen Jabara; De-
troit City Council member
Maryann Mahaffey; andthe Ref.
William Gepford, of Dearborn's
Littlefield Presbyterian Church.

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