Glott snow KOSHER MIAMI BEACH'S NO. 1 LUXURY KOSHER HOTEL 7, 0 r Reserve Now For The • Serving Delicious Glatt Kosher Cuisine • Olympic Heated Pool - Private Beach • Oceanfront • Boardwalk • Exciting Entertainment-Dansing-Shows • Color TV in All Rooms • Private Tennis Courts • Rooms With Balconies • Health Spa-Solarium Steam Room-Sauna PASSOVER SPECIAL RATES FOR LONG STAYS • Start at your front door avoid the hassle at the airport and getting there! Holidays A Truly Unique Experience • Beautifully Furnished EFFICIENCIES Available ROYAL CAB Phone TOLL FREE:1-800-327-8169 Your Hosts, the 3201 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33140 Berkowitz Family 17415 WEST TEN MILE RD. SOUTHFIELD, MI 48075 559-1972 Call us now for special rates with this ad RIDE WITH THIS WINTER, EXPERIENCE ARIZONA STATEWIDE LIMOUSINE AT ITS BEST. YOUR FAVORITE STARS DO! • • • • • • • • • • FRANK SINATRA BOB HOPE LIZA MINELLI BILL COSBY DENNIS DEMBS 41, NEIL DIAMOND BILLY JOEL WHITNEY HOUSTON RON SHERR JOAN RIVERS Stay at one of our luxurious apart- ment communities with the best amenities—and pay less than for a hotel! Double your vacation dollar . and your stay. DISCOUNT AIRPORT LIMOUSINE SERVICE FOR RESERVATIONS CALL TOLL FREE VISA • SEATS 6 COMFORTABLY • ALL-NEW STRETCH LIMOS • UNIFORMED CHAUFFEURS • PROFESSIONAL & PUNCTUAL Scottsdale La Privada 1-800-826-2501 Tucson Mission Palms 1-800-777-PALM Oracle Villa 1-800-888-4552 Sonoran Terrace 1-800-999-5760 885-LIMO e.fiatewicle (5466) canoust. rte IPISDS GET MARTS • . Michigan's Largest & Finest . Gfervtc Call The Jewish News 354-6060 ltil) Wel) LEISURE TIME TOURS In NY State (718) 145-98 BREWER BLVD., QUEENS, N.Y. 11434 528-0700, out of State TOLL FREE 800-223-2624 DELUXE KOSHER PASSOVER TOURS WORLD "7 WIDE 3 FRESHLY PREPARED GLATT KOSHER MEALS DAILY • 2TRADITIONAL SEDER SERVICES • TOP NAME ENTERTAMENT Dominican Republic Bahamas AMBASSADOR BEACH California RACQUET CLUB Palm Springs THE NEWPORTER Newport Beach Vermont THE EQUINOX NY-NJ-PA St. Thomas CHATEAU RESORT VIRGIN ISLE HOTEL DOMINICAN CONCORDE Camelback, PA Florida HARBOR ISLAND SPA FONTAINEBLEAU HILTON INNISBROOK RESORT SHERATON BAL HARBOUR SANS SOUCI PALM BEACH HILTON Long Branch, NJ RYE TOWN HILTON Rye, NY TAMIMENT RESORT Pocono Mts., PA Hilton Head RADISSON RESORT Puerto Rico LA CONCHA Hungary BUDAPEST All meals freshly prepared under strict Orthodox Rabbinical Supervision. All meats Glatt from New York and from Chassidishe Schechita. Cholov Yisroel available upon request. ATLAS AMBASSADOR KOSHER PASSOVER TOURS 25 W. 43 Street, NYC 10036, (212) 575-8840 Outside N.Y. State Toll Free 1-800-752-8000 50 FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1988 I THE DIASPORA 1 GOING TO THE AIRPORT? BUSINESS OR VACATION Italian Jews Update Their Place In Society R yearly budget for Jewish com- Union of munal life hope this will en- Italian Jewish Corn- tice recalcitrants to pay up. munities has updated The union's traditional its relationship with the method of taxation is, Italian government, more however, a sore issue for many clearly defining the roles of Italian Jews. religion and state, and has According to the 1930 law, altered its own internal community membership of all structure. Jews was compulsory, as was One hundred delegates their taxation. Community representing the 40,000 tax offices had the right to re- Italian Jews ratified during a quire members to hand in special congress the "Intesa," copies of their national the agreement with the income-tax declarations, and government, and hammered to investigate members if out the communal "Statute." their declarations were "in- If approved as expected by congruent", in which case the the Italian parliament, the "contributing capacity" of two measures would together replace a 1930 law signed by - members could be "ascertain- - ed by member's lifestyle." Jewish representatives and the then-premiere of Italy, Taxes were imposed on a Benito Mussolini. progressive scale based on "While we need an internal this assumed income, but statute," said Enrico members could protest. If Modigliani, president of the they lost, however, govern- special congress, "the Intesa ment officials could be called was necessary principally on (and at times were) to hock because there is a church- furniture or other valuables. state concordat. Only three years ago, a Li- According to Italy's post- byan Jewish immigrant, war constitution, all religions Nahum Msir, sued the Rome enjoy "equal freedom before Jewish community and got the law," but separate articles the Italian Supreme Court to pertain to Catholicism and to cancel the article stating "all "other religions." Jews who reside in the ter- The Catholic church is ritory of a community belong represented by the Vatican — to it by law:' a foreign state — and Although the new statute is therefore by a binational con- modeled on the 1930 law, cordat. Other religions are ex- some basic ideological pected to organize their own modifications have been in- communities and regulate corporated. Members are now their relations with the state invited to estimate their own through separate Intesa. taxes on voluntary declara- Some of the most signifi- tions, and the reference to cant of the Intesa's 34 articles their "lifestyle" has been relate to the application of cancelled. Councils no longer constitutional guarantees for may hock individuals fur- religious liberty: the right to niture, although they may observe the Sabbath and still demand copies of tax other holidays; the right to of- returns or other information fer rabbinical assistance to if they find the community Jews in hospitals, old-age members' statements "in- homes, prisons and the army; congruent." acceptance by the state of The final version of the new marriages performed by rab- Statute represents a corn- bis according to Jewish tradi- promise. tion; allowing students to A pre-congress clash bet- skip courses in Catholicism ween the Italian rabbinate offered in Italian schools, and self-defined lay Jews on which "should take place in the "regular religious con- hours that will not have duct" required for election discriminatory effects"; and had threatened to split the to allow communities to congress. reserve the right to respond to The final result is a highly requests for teachers in increased rabbinic represen- Judaism for the public tation in the decision-making schools, also after hours. and judiciary functions of Another article deemed im- community councils. And portant by community council makers should be leaders allows Jewish com- "vouchers for the continuity munity taxes to be deducted of Jewish life and pledge that up to ten percent from tax- during their terms in office able income in federal taxes, they will comport themselves but not to exceed 7.5 million in a manner not in contrast lire (about $6,100). with Jewish law and tradi- Those who work in the of- tion." fices that try to balance the Jewish Telegraphic Agency ome — The