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What will our children and grandchildren have in common as Jews? Religious polarization is one of the most serious internal problems facing American Jews today. There have always been differences of opinion among Jews, but now there seems to be a new and dangerous tone of incivility that threatens a breakdown in communication. A group of lay people active in American Jewish communal and religious life have been meeting together over the past year under the auspices of the Detroit chapter of AJC. Their respective affiliations reflect the diversity of contem- porary Judaism — Orthodoxy, Conservative, Reform and Secular. They all feel a common sense of Jewishness and an abiding commitment to Jewish continuity, Jewish spiritual and ethical values and Jewish unity. The American Jewish Committee has developed an intra Jewish Dialogue which attempts to depolarize Jewish life by facilitating contact and discussion through a public forum between all branches of the Jewish community. You are invited to listen to these four representatives and par- ticipate in an open forum on Jewish belief. NO CHARGE AMP /1111P•111 _ 34 _ FRIDAY, PUBLIC INVITED THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE DETROIT CHAPTER DECEMBER 4, 1987 White House Under Pressure To Keep Rights On Agenda JAMES DAVID BESSER Washington Correspondent A s the meeting be- tween Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan ap- proaches, there has been a wave of quiet but persistent pressure on the Administra- tion to keep human rights at the forefront of the summit agenda. A good part of this pressure has come from Con- gress — and surprisingly, these efforts have been made without the political grand- standing that tends to characterize congressional in- volvement in the Soviet-U.S. dialogue. "If there is an issue right now in the House, it's the issue of human rights as a part of the summit," said an analyst for a congressional committee dealing with the Middle East. "There is a strong feeling here that human rights should be a basic part of the discussion. There is a lot of contact with people in the Administration; members are sending strong signals to the Administration not to let this component of the summit get overlooked in the euphoria over an arms pact." According to this source, there is also a lingering frustration over how the Ad- ministration . communicated the results of earlier human rights discussions. Before the preliminary meetings be- tween Secretary of State Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze earlier in the year, there was much talk from the Adminis- tration about the importance of human rights issues in the discussions. But later, several key members of Congress, in- cluding Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R-NY), privately ex- pressed their frustration that few specifics were forthcom- ing about how the two leaders dealt with these complex issues. Congressional interest in the mobilization has been fueled by political legwork on the part of the Soviet Jewry organizations. "We've con- tacted every House and Senate office by letter and by phone," said Mark Levin, Washington representative of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ). "All of the groups have been briefing people on the Hill. There has also been a lot of activity by the Congressional Coalition Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland in October 1986. Will the president press for human rights? for Soviet Jews, a group in which Sens. Sarbanes and Lugar, and Reps. Kemp and Stokes have been very active!' Levin emphasized the re- markable unity that has characterized the mobiliza- tion planning process. "There have been problems with things like deciding who would speak, who would sit on the stage, that sort of thing. We're trying to cover all the bases, in terms of ideology; we want to show that this is a unique coalition, that everyone from a Ken- nedy to a Kemp is involved. It's a very complex setup. But I've been surprised at how well people with very dif- ferent viewpoints have worked together for a com- mon goal!' On the Hill, there seems to be a growing sense that the summit may produce signifi- cant results in the human rights area. "I personally feel that while the summit will focus on arms control, there will also be significance in terms of regional and human rights issues," said a House staffer who has worked regularly with Soviet Jewry groups. "Among the profes- sionals on the Hill, there's a feeling that there may be some real progress on these issues. I think people may be surprised." But Soviet Jewry groups cautioned against inflated ex- pectations — and against see- ing the Mobilization as the culmination of the Soviet Jewry movement. "It's impor- tant that we start thinking about where we go after the summit," warned Mark Levin. "After it's over, the balloon will be stretched just about as far as it will go, in terms of energy and emotion. It will be up to us to translate all that into a continuing momentum that will keep on going until the basic issues facing Soviet Jews are re- solved." Gorbachev Rejects More Emigration Washington — Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev rejected increased emigration of Soviet Jews and questioned the motives of the United States in its campaign for Soviet Jewish emigration. Gorbachev, in an interview with NBC-TV News last Mon- day, Gorbachev said of the United States campaign on behalf of Soviet Jews, "What they're organizing is a brain drain. And of course we're protecting ourselves. That's No. 1. Then, secondly, we will never accept a condition when the people are being exhorted from outside to leave their country." The pre-summit interview was taped in Moscow. Gor- bachev was asked specifically about the 4000 Soviet Jews whose visas have been de- layed for a long time. He answered that "right now we have among those who have not received permission only those who cannot leave because of state security reasons. There are no other reasons,"