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JEWISH NEW
SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY
THIS ISSUE 50c
SEPTEMBER 12, 1986 / 8 ELUL 5746
Istanbul, Karachi
Terrorism Linked
Paris and Tel Aviv (JTA) — The
machinegun and grenade attack by
two Arab terrorists on the Neve
Shalom synagogue in Istanbul last
Saturday morning, which took the
lives of at least 21 Sabbath worship-
pers and wounded four, bore the
stamp of the Abu Nidal gang, a dis-
sident faction of the PLO based in
Syria, according to experts on inter-
national terrorism in Israel and
other countries.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres,
expressing outrage and revulsion at
what was probably the bloodiest
synagogue massacre since the Nazi
era, vowed on an Israel television
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interview that "We will not rest
until we cut off this murderous
hand." He added that "whoever hesi-
tates about American responses or
Israeli responses can now learn a
lesson," a reference to the U.S.
bombing of Libya last April in retal-
iation for terrorist acts against
American nationals.
Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir declared that "Israel has to
constantly conduct an aggressive
war against all the terror organiza-
tions in every place and at every
time to prevent them from carrying
out beastly attacks like this one."
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Mental Facility Hit
On Religious Rights
DAVID HOLZEL
Staff Writer
An ongoing controversy over the
treatment of six Jewish patients at
the Northville Regional Psychiatric
Hospital remains unresolved, with
the rabbi who serves Jewish patients
arguing that their constitutional
rights are being violated by the in-
stitution, and the facility's director
maintaining that Northville's Jews
are treated the same as non-Jewish
patients.
The imbroglio revolves around
three NRPH Jewish residents who
wish to attend Shabbat services.
Rabbi Martin Gordon of the Livonia
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Jewish Congregation currently
serves as rabbi of NRPH, spending
four hours per week there. He con-
ducts religious servies on Thursday
mornings, but believes that North-
ville's Jewish patients "are entitled
to Sabbath services."
NRPH's administration consid-
ers the Thursday morning services
to be the weekly Jewish Sabbath
service, even though the service is
not conducted on the Sabbath.
To solve the problem, Rabbi
Gordon offered to host the three
Jews at his synagogue on Friday
nights. The patients were accom-
panied by two attendants from the
Northville staff. These Shabbat vis-
its went on for a number of weeks,
according to Rabbi Gordon, until
they were halted by Dr. Walter
Brown, director of NRPH.
"He's arguing against it on a fi-
nancial basis," Rabbi Gordon said. "I
don't feel to have two attendants and
a car for two hours is that much of
an imposition."
Dr. Brown disagreed. Besides
the shortage of manpower and the
scarcity of funds, paying staff to ac-
company Jewish patients to the
Livonia Jewish Congregation on
Friday nights would necessitate pay-
ing overtime, he told The Jewish
News. The synagogue visits were
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