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Jewish Yacht Club Sails
Through i'llroubled Waters

DAVID HOLZEL

Staff Writer

The Great Lakes Yacht Club
continues to chart a tenuous
course between its identity as
Detroit's only Jewish boat club
and its belief that membership
should be open to all applicants.
Founded in 1951 by five Jews
who were barred from member-
ship at other local clubs, the
GLYC, due to its open member-
ship policy, now has a 30 per-
cent non-Jewish minority, ac-
cording to Commodore Larry
Aronoff.
Half of those who joined the
club last year were non-Jews,
he said. This apparently alarm-
ed some Jewish club members
who saw the irony that, if the
trend was to continue, Jews
could become the minority, and
could conceivably be barred
from the club.
At the club's annual meeting
last November, the board pro-
posed affirming in the club's
bylaws that GLYC "would
always be a haven for Jewish
boaters!' That weak, non-
binding resolution was voted
down, Aronoff said.
The six most recent members
to join the club are all Jews, and
Aronoff feels that "the momen-
tum is swinging" towards more

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Jews than non-Jews joining the
club "at the moment!'
"We're fighting anti-
Semitism at the same time,"
quipped club member Dr.
Michael Salter.
"The best we can do is to try
to recruit new members of the
Jewish faith," said Dr. William
Edelson, another long-time
member. "What's my alter-
native? The alternative is to
discriminate!'
Must actions designed to pro-
tect one's identity and heritage
necessarily be termed
"discriminatory?"
"The need to protect one's
heritage is important," Dr.
Salter answered. "But the
American sense of freedom
from discrimination is far more
important.
"We're a very liberal-minded
group," he added. "We don't
even put herbacides on the
ground. We are people cogni-
zant of our surroundings and
the environment. In order to
boat, we have to count on the
(physical) environment!'
Will the societal environment
permit the survival of a Jewish
sailing club? GLYC members
say they are not sure.
"Over a long enough period of
time," former commodore Dr.
Paul Goodman admitted, "this
could be the end of a specifical-
ly Jewish yacht club!'

Upsurge In Territories'
Arab Population Seen

Tel Aviv (JTA) — The
Arab population in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip will
number between 1.9 and 2.4
million 15 years from now,
an increase of 44 to 81 per-
cent - despite an anticipated
decline in the fertility rate
and the possibility that more
Arabs will leave the ter-
ritories than enter them, ac-
cording to • a study by the
Central Bureau of Statistics
published Sunday. The Arab
population now is about 1.3
million.
The study, titled "Popula-
tion Forecast for Judea,
Samaria and the Gaza Dis-
trict by 2002," projects an av-
erage annual growth rate of
2.2 to 3.5 percent for the
Arab population.
A bureau spokesman said
it is based on the assumption
that Arab births in the West
Bank will decline from 6.5
per woman in the period
1983-1987 to five per woman
by the period 1998-2002.
In the Gaza Strip, the
number of births per woman

is expected to decline from
7.2 to 5.7. But life expectancy
in both territories will rise
from the current 63 years to
69 years in 1998-2002, the
bureau said.

The study posited three
possible scenarios with re-
spect to population move-
ment: (A) "zero emigration
balance," by which the
number of outgoing residents
will equal the number of in-
coming residents in both ter-
ritories; (B) outgoing resi-
dents will outnumber incom-
ing by 8,000 a year in the
West Bank and by 6,500 a
year in the Gaza District; (C)
a negative emigration rate of
10 percent per 1,000 in both
territories.

According to these assump-
tions, the West Bank Arab
population will total between
1.1 and 1.4 million by 2002
compared to 813,000 at pre-
sent and the Arab population
in the Gaza District will
reach 800,000 compared to
526,000 at present.

