Competing
For Goals
THIS ISSUE 50c
WISH NEWS
SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY -
OCTOBER 10, 1986 / 7 TISHREI 5747
And Now It's
Shamir's Turn
.
Shimon Peres is scheduled to switch jobs with
" Yitzhak Shamir Tuesday, in a unique move that no
one thought would ever come about
HELEN DAVIS
Special to The Jewish News
Longtime Naamat workers Ruth Miller, Bess Berris, Ann Kaplan,
Evelyn Noveck and Belle Glenner.
Jerusalem — Shimon Peres is
expected to drive today from the
Prime Minister's residence in
Jerusalem to the President's resi-
dence a few blocks away to perform
one of the most bizarre acts in Is-
rael's political history.
With opinion polls showing him
to be the most popular prime minis-
ter Israel has known, Peres will
simply hand in his resignation to
President Herzog and recommend
that his arch political rival, Likud
Party leader Yitzhak Shamir, be in-
vited to form a government.
For Peres, the leader of Israel's
Labor Party, it will be a moment of
bitter reflection, but also one of
triumphal vindication.
The man who has been dogged
throughout his 24-year political
career by accusations of ruthless
ambition and backroom chicanery,
will have proved once and for all
that his word is his bond.
Hardly anyone in Israel believed
that Peres would actually go
through with rotation, that strange
child born out of a shotgun marriage
between the two major political blocs
after both were denied a clear par-
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Pluralistic America
Is Under Fire
Michigan's two Senators warned a local Jewish
delegation to Washington of the serious threat from
those who would "Christianize" America
GARY ROSENBLATT
Editor
Jewish women's
organizations are feeling
the pinch of a
dwindling volunteer corps
Washington — Should you sup-
port a candidate who is pro-Israel
but negative on issues of domestic
concern to American Jews?
That, according to several legis-
lators and political experts who ad-
dressed a Detroit Jewish Welfare
Federation Mission to Washington
this past week, is the crucial politi-
cal question facing the American
Jewish community.
And to Sen. Carl Levin (D-
Mich.), the answer is clear. If a
candidate is for Israel and for school
prayer, then I say he is not for Is-
rael," Levin told more than 80 par-
ticipants in the day-long program.
"My plea to you is to broaden the
definition of what it means to be
pro-Israel. Because if a candidate is
against pluralism in this country,
then Israel is weakened because we,
as American Jews, are weakened.
And Israel's survival depends on our
survival."
Levin stressed this theme in his
address to the largest contingent of
Detroit Jews to participate in the
mission, which has come to be
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