THE JEWISH NEWS
SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY
- THIS ISSUE 50c
JANUARY 16, 1987 I 6 TEVET 5747
Michigan, Israel Hail
Economic Agreement
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Pact will be a model for ties between Israel
and other states of the United States
DAVID HOLZEL
Staff Writer
The State of Michigan and the
State of Israel agreed this week to es-
tablish ongoing commercial relations.
At a press conference in Detroit Tues-
day, Doug Ross, director of Michigan's
Commerce Department, hailed the
plan to "mix ideas, capital and people
which will make both Israel and
Michigan richer."
David Litvak, Israel's trade
commissioner to the United States,
explained that the agreement will
serve as a model for relations between
Israel and other American states in
the areas of trade, industry, high
It takes a lot of stamina, courage
and just plain smarts to survive
plebe year at the U.S. Naval
Academy, and 11 Jewish
midshipmen are showing they
have the right stuff
technology and research and develop-
ment. Expanding Israel's economic
ties will aid the Jewish State in its goal
of economic independence, but will
benefit both sides as well, Litvak said.
The agreement is a "step further
than exporting goods," Ross em-
phasized. "We want to explore how we
can commercially trade new business
ideas. We'd like to give Israelis a place
to plant new ideas."
Michigan's manufacturers are
looking for ways to modernize and for
the new products to produce, he con-
tinued, saying that there are new de-
velopments at Technion and Weiz-
mann institutes in Israel which might
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Dispute Resumes
Over Kahane Visit
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Rabbi Meir Kahane's local sponsors and Detroit's
Jewish establishment trade opinions again
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The yearly war of words between
Rabbi Meir Kahane of Israel's Kach
Party and the organized Jewish com-
munity in the United States has been
renewed in advance of Kahane's fun-
draising appearance in Detroit on Jan.
28.
The local chapter of the Jewish
Idea, a group of Kahane supporters,
has been advertising Kahane's ap-
pearance for several weeks with at-
tacks on Detroit's Jewish leadership
and its rabbis. Today's ad, for the first
time, announces the time and place of
Kahane's meeting — 8 p.m. Jan. 28 at
Southfield's Ramada Inn.
Harriet Drissman, president of
Jewish Idea, asked "five or six"
synagogues in the Detroit area to host
the Kahane meeting, but all refused.
The presidents of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, Dr. Conrad Giles, and
the Jewish Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit, Leon Cohan, is-
sued a joint statement this week de-
ploring Kahane and his visit. "We are
opposed to any group that advocates
racism and condones violence and ter-
rorism," they said. Kahane, founder of
the Jewish Defense League in the U.S.
and the Kach Party's only representa-
tive in the Israeli Knesset, advocates
the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel,
Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Israel's
President Chaim Herzog refused to
meet with him last year because
Kahane incited violence against Is-
raeli Arabs. The Knesset also passed a
yet-to-be tested law banning from
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Torah Portion
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Zionist Assembly
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