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Friday, May 30, 1986
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Friedman Ends Term
As AJC President
Washington (JTA) — Howard
Friedman ended his three years
as president of the American
Jewish Committee last week by
praising the increasing growth
of diversity of opinion on all
issues by the American Jewish
community. Friedman spoke at
the closing banquet of the
AJCommittee's 80th anniver-
sary annual meeting.
There has been a "false
perception" of the Jewish corn-
munity as a single issue corn-
munity partly "bolstered by the
tendency in our community to
create structures that purport
to speak with a single Jewish
voice," Friedman said.
"While our various umbrella
organizations render many im-
• portant services, the American
Jewish Committee has always
been uneasy about participation
in such structures because we
strongly believe there is not, and
should not be,a single voice for
American Jewry," he explained.
"The need to avoid an ar-
tificial unanimity of Jewish
opinion is more acute on issues
of deep Jewish interest. Our ef-
forts with regard to such issues
are for more credible and effec-
tive when it is clear that we have
come to our positions from a
diversity of viewpoints and
without any structural party
line."
Friedman noted that "while
Jewish history and tradition do
provide a unique perspective On
many public questions, in-
cluding a devotion to peace, a
concern for the poor and disad-
vantaged, and a deep and
abiding commitment to the pro-
tection and security of the State
of Israel, there is no one 'Jewish
answer' to any of these ques-
tions."
Theodore Ellenoff, a New
York lawyer, was elected presi-
dent to succeed Friedman, a Los
Angeles lawyer. .
In another development,
Secretary of State George
Howard Friedman
Shultz addressed the annual
meeting on President Reagan's
proposed $354 billion missile
sale to Saudi Arabia. The vote
to sustain or override the Presi-
dent's veto of the resolution
adopted by Congress rejecting
the sale has "an added dimen-
sion," Shultz said.
He said it would not be
"simply a vote on Saudi arms,
but a vote on whether we want
to say to our President that we
support him and the world can
see that the President, in the
clutch, will have support on
something that he feels very
deeply about."
It takes a two-thirds vote of
both the Senate and House to
override a Presidential veto. The
Saudi sale was rejected by a 73
to 22 vote of the Senate and a
356 to 62 vote of the House. The
White House is concentrating
on the Senate where it must get
12 Senators opposed to the sale
to change their vote.
Shultz, who was presented
with the AJCommittee's high-
est award, the American Liber-
ties Medallion, urged support of
the sale to the Saudis in the con-
text of support for the U.S.
strike against Libya.
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Jerusalem (JTA) — A ranking
legal authority's pointby-point
rejection of objections raised by
the Orthodox religious estab-
lishment and letters to the 120
members of the Knesset from
150 U.S. Congressmen, includ-
ing some of Israel's staunchest
supporters, appeared last week-
end to clear the way for the con-
troversial Mormon University
Center under construction on
Mt. Scopus.
Orthodox Jews in Israel and
abroad have been waging a
relentless campaign against the
project on grounds that it will
be a center for missionary ac-
tivities. The Mormon Center is
sponsored by Brigham Young
University (BYU) of Provo,
Utah, affiliated with the Mor-
mon Church. It was approved
by the former Likud-led govern-
ment and by the Jerusalem
municipality. But the Orthodox
have been demanding that the
building license and all other
permits be revoked.
Deputy Attorney General
Yoram Bar-Sela was asked by a
special ministerial committee to
review the project. His findings
appeared to demolish the argu-
ments by religious Jews who
have cited the Mormon faith's
long record of proselytizing as
grounds for their fears. While
the Church admits its members
are enjoined to seek converts, it