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Installation, Ameritech activation and minimum 90 day service required. THE DAVID OPPENHEIM FAMILY TEACHERS' INSTITUTE Cordially invites you to attend a lecture by DR. DAVID ELKIND entitled A SYMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHILD DATE: Sunday, December 6, 1987 PLACE: Jewish Community Center 6600 West Maple West Bloomfield, Michigan TIME: 1 1:00 P.M. Luncheon and Registration 1:45 P.M. Presentation of 1987 Teacher Research Grants and Lecture by Dr. Elkind For further information call the United Hebrew Schools at 354-1050 The Jewish Teachers of Metropolitan Detroit are grateful to Dr. Patricia Oppenheim Levin and the David Oppenheim Family for establishing a special teachers institute for the enhancement of Jewish education. Jewish Defense League Seeks Moderate Image LIONEL ROLFE L os Angeles — Is the national chairman of the Jewish Defense League getting mellow in his middle age? Iry Rubin asserts that JDL, now based in Los Angeles, will cease disrupting speeches in synagogues by lef- tists and even outright Arab PLO supporters. "We had no right to disrupt these events, and we have caused ourselves more grief as an organization by doing that than anything else," he said in a recent interview. "If rabbis want to invite PLO speakers and New Jewish Agenda speakers, that should not be our business, even if they won't let us speak," he continued. Rubin explained that he doesn't want JDL dismissed as a bunch of hooligans, even if toughness is not necessari- ly bad. "We have been called the 'Jewish Black Panthers'," he noted. "Well, there's a basic thing in the animal world — one panther will not mess with another panther." Still, JDL under his leader- ship is undergoing some changes. "I'm picking my issues more carefully. I want to stay with American issues, and get away from the Middle East. We want to be the Guar- dian Angels of the Jewish people," he said. "Listen, I would be a hypocrite telling Israel what to do with its Arabs. Sure I advocate a cer- tain policy, but it's not worth a bucket of warm worm spit if I'm not in the State of Israel." Rubin may have mellowed, but he still looks like a golem. He's well over six feet tall, with a rugged, strong face that looks a bit like an un- finished sculpture. Rubin gives the sense of living on the edge of a perennial rage, and combined with his size, there's something in- timidating about him. But he's now four decades old, and there is a certain mellowness to him that you didn't see just a few years ago. He does not deny that perhaps some of his passion has ebbed. And he has become more sensitive to the fact that he still doesn't get much respect from the Jewish hierarchy. None of this is meant to im- ply that he no longer cares about the fate of Jews. For ex- ample, by most accounts, the recent news conference at which Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley came out strong- ly against Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan can be explained in part by Rubin, who insisted on get- ting an answer from the mayor about Farrakhan. Of course, he's not very diplomatic. Establishment Jewish organizations might think that most of what he does is counterproductive at best, but he has a following. He insists that he does not believe in breaking the law, although he is willing to go to jail for civil disobedience. It's just that he says he is not a. proponent of violence, even if there's always the suggestion of it around him. For example, last year the FBI at first blamed Rubin and the JDL in the bombing murder of Arab-American The JDL was never meant to be a permanent organization. That's what's wrong with Jewish organizations. They never die. and Palestinian activist Alex Odeh in Santa Ana, Calif. Rubin said to charge him with the crime, or face a lawsuit. Although he had made rather ugly and certain tasteless comments about the murder, the FBI never ar- rested him. The City of Los Angeles recently demanded the right not to have to defend itself from Rubin's suit against it on the grounds of national security. Cities, obviously, don't usually invoke national security in lawsuits. Rubin sued the city because he said its police department sent an agent into the JDL to en- courage the group to perform outrageous acts of violence. The city claimed it can't open its files on JDL because it would harm national security. The American Civil Liberties Union took on Rubin's case. The city's position was recently denied by a higher court, and Rubin, who has not always been a big fan of the ACLU for its defense of the free speech rights of the Klan, neo-Nazis and other anti- Semitic groups, admits that he now sees the need for the organization. Rubin's wife Shelley says