M & M DRUGS & IMPORTS 96 _ ''''''''''\ '`Cs .4''''''''''"2 .„.r `Ws"'''"**"*".4•8'M , 1 ..... k •••,' V. 4 " \l' \ '` t `.I 16 ' 8 1976 20% OFF SPECIALS 25214 Greenfield N. of 10 Mile Aguda Threatens To Quit Coalition YVES SAINT 3-IN-1 CASIO LAURENT ROBOT CLOCKS DUFFLE BAGS (AC100) TRAVEL BAGS ON WHEELS SALE ENDS AUGUST 1st Hours: Sun. -Fri. '1 0- 7 Shommer Shabbos BE A WINNER, PLAY THE CLASSIFIEDS NEWS Call The Jewish News Today • 354-6060 H ER AL WHOLESAL ARTISTIC BRASS Jerusalem (JTA) — The Aguda Israel Party has stirred a tempest in the Knesset by thretening last week to quit the unity coalition government for what it claims is lack of con- sideration for the concerns of Or- thodox Jews on the part of Labor and Likud. Menachem Porush, one of the Aguda's two Knesset members, said that his party had suffered "the last straw?' Israel Radio reported that Aguda has been ordered to leave the coalition by two of its most venerable sages, the Hasidic Rabbi of Gur and Rabbi Eliezer Schach. They also ordered the party's other MK, Avraham Shapiro, to resign his post as chairman of the Knesset's Finance Committee. There was no official confirma- tion of those reports and Porush did not specify his party's grievances. But they are believed to stem in part from disciplinary action taken against him for abusive remarks from the Knesset floor against Knesset speaker Shlomo Hillel. Porush was suspended from five con- secutive plenary sessions after he refused to apologize to the speaker. Aguda's hackles were also raised by a motion introduced in the Knesset by Geula Cohen of the ultra-nationalist lbhiya Par- ty urging the government to abolish deferral of military ser- vice for yeshiva students. Cohen also demanded that all women be required to do military ser- vice or some form of national service. lehiya is an opposition party. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, relying for the govern- ment, cited the long-standing status quo that relieves yeshiva students from military duties and exempts Orthodox women from service. But Rabin obvious- ly agrees in principle with Cohen on this matter and did not con- ceal it in his remarks, further arousing the Aguda's anger. The contretemps with Porush steamed from a recent debate over religious-secular tensions in Israel. The Aguda MK was of- fended by remarks by Hillel critical of religious zealots who have been vandalizing bus shelters because they object to what they consider "lewd" advertising posters. Porush accused the speaker of "incitement against ultra- Orthodox Jews" and used what other MKs described as "un- bridled and slanderous lan- guage?' It was deleted from the Knesset record but later pub- lished in the press. Aguda is a minor party and the only coalition party which, owing to it religious doctrine, does not sit in the Cabinet. 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'Ibrnoto (JTA) — The Board of Education of Waterloo County (Ontario,) one of the largest school boards in Canada, last week suspended teaching Shake- speare's "The Merchant of Venice" pending a decision by the Education Ministry, or the Ontario .Human Rights Com- mission as to whether the Shakespeare play is anti- Semitic. But the coalition of Jewish and non-Jewish parents which had complained to the board that Jewish children were taunted and harassed in classes where the play was taught pro- tested that the school board went too far. "It's censorship of the worst kind," said Dr. Mona Zentner, leader of the inter-faith parents' coalition which wanted "The Merchant of Venice" eliminated only from the curriculum of intermediate grades 7 to 10. "They're finally recognizing there's a problem but it's not what we wanted," Zentner said. The Board of Education voted 10 to 8 to remove the play from the intermediate grades but also banned it, at least temporarily, from the higher grades. The issue, which has been simmering since 1966, came to a head in Waterloo recently. Jewish and Christian pupils described prejudice apparently fueled by the play in which Shylock, a Jewish money-lender, demands a pound of flesh from a Christian debtor. According to the pupils, Jewish classmates were called names, had swastikas carved on their desks and had pennies tossed at them. The Waterloo county case was the second of its kind in Ontario. Earlier, the Lakehead County Board of Education removed the play from the ninth grade cur- riculum after parents protested. Toledo Park Is Dedicated Toledo (JTA) — The Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo has dedicated a Holocaust Memorial Park-featuring the sculpture "For This the Earth Mourns." The park was established with a grant in memory of David Stone by the foundation bearing his name.