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Mon.-Sat. 10-5:30 • Thurs. 10-8 • Repairs done on premises • 737-2333 Visa, American Express, Mastercard, Diners Club • Free Gift Wrap • Cash Refunds 20 FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1988 Affiliation Report Continued from preceding page Conrad Giles emphasized during the meeting that "Federation had moved for- ward" on the commission's conclusions even while the study was being conducted. Giles listed programs sug- gested by the study that have already been implemented. These include Jewish Ex- periences For Families, the upcoming move of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization to the Jewish Community Center and closer cooperation between the two agencies, stronger Jewish programs at the Fresh Air Society and the kashering of its camps at Or- tonville and Brighton, strengthening the respon- sibilities of the community shaliach and starting a high school in Israel program, Judaic studies programs at Wayne State University and the University of Michigan and the formation of a U-M center for Jewish communal personnel development. `Jew' Is Changed In Japanese Dictionary WILLY STERN T okyo — Japanese publishing companies have agreed to change dictionary anti-Semitic definitions of "Jew" after a group of concerned Jewish residents in Ibkyo pointed out the problem. The publishers said the definitions, which included such terms as "miserly," "pawnbrokers" and "stingy," were an honest mistake and that they were unaware that such words were not synonymous with "Jew." A survey of 105 Japanese dictionaries revealed that two-thirds had definitions that ranged from mildly of- fensive to extremely anti- Semitic. The problem is par- ticularly acute in Japan, where dictionaries play a more integral role in every- day life than in the West. In the autumn of 1985, the International Committee for Cross-Cultural Relations was set up by concerned Jews in Tokyo to try to change these definitions. Committee spokeswoman Eve Kaplan said the final results will not be known for years. Still, Kaplan, who holds a graduate degree in Japanese affairs from Harvard University and reads and speaks Japanese, said she expects "significant results." The committee met some resistance at first. But, said Kaplan, "when we explained that calling Jews 'miserly and usurious' was similar to calling the Japanese 'yellow- skinned, greedy, economic animals,' they got the point." Many of the changes cannot be made until the dictionaries undergo another printing, ac- cording to a major Japanese publishing house. The publisher said the definitions were taken directly from earlier Japanese dictionaries, NNThich in turn were copied from foreign dictionaries. "It was an honestly imported mistake," he said. The action by the commit- tee to change dictionary en- tries stands in stark contrast to the lack of effort by the Jewish community in Tokyo to combat the spate of anti- Semitic literature that has spread in Japan in the last two years. Many of these books have become best- sellers. Books on Jews represented 1 percent of book sales in Japan during 1987. Many short-term Jewish residents in Japan, including students and teachers, as well as business and trade ex- ecutives, have expressed discontent with the lack of ac- tion taken by the Jewish leadership in combatting the anti-Semitic book boom. They cite an unwillingness to rock the boat on the part of the permanent Jewish communi- ty and the Jewish elders in Tokyo. But the official Jewish leadership in Tokyo says the anti-Semitism is a passing fad. The leaders maintain that vocal efforts to squash the anti-Jewish books will on- ly call attention to a problem that would otherwise fade away. Jewish Telegraphic Agency Israel Watches Saudis Closely Jerusalem — Israel must keep a close watch on Saudi Arabian efforts to obtain nuclear and chemical weapons, but at the same time, in the absence of clear evidence that the Saudis are equipping themselves with nuclear weapons or are preparing to deploy chemical weapons on a significant scale, Israel should refrain from taking any actions against the Saudis. So stated Dr. Alex Bligh, a scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at a