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THIS ISSUE 60(P

SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY

AUGUST 5, 1988 / 22 AV 5748

Chicago's Black-Jewish
Tension Not Seen In Detroit

ELIZABETH KAPLAN

Staff Writer

Faced with escalating tensions
between blacks and Jews in Chicago,
leaders of both communities late last
week issued a statement denouncing
bigotry and began planning programs
to focus on the "historic ties" between
the two groups.
Yet the hostilities do not appear

to have carried over to Detroit which, Pontiac. "And we've both been
like Chicago, has sizeable black and repressed and oppressed — blacks as
Jewish communities. In interviews, slaves and Jews who were murdered
few blacks here said they sense any in Germany!'
Yet Jones, 27, added that "It
serious problems between blacks and
seems like the things on which we
Jews.
In fact, most blacks interviewed work together have lessened. You just
said they feel the two groups share don't see blacks and Jews working
together on a lot of projects!'
the same goals and close ties.
Richard Lobenthal, Michigan
"Blacks and Jews do have a com-
mon agenda," said Frank Jones of regional director of the Anti-
Defamation League, said one reason
the two groups may seem to be less
unified is that the goals which bound
blacks and Jews 20 years ago "are no
longer terribly germane!' Blacks are
no longer relegated to the back seats
of buses, nor do they have to face ben-
ches marked "Whites Only!'
hearts and minds — of the West Bank
At the same time, the face of the
black community has both diversified
Palestinians?
In his dramatic, 30-minute televi- and become more public, Lobenthal
sion address, Hussein said he was said. "Blacks of all stripes political-
breaking Jordan's legal and ad- ly" often find a forum for their views
ministrative ties with the Israeli- on television.
Some of these may be views to
occupied territory and ending the uni-
ty between the west bank and the which the black community does not
east bank of the Jordan River — his wish to respond. Blacks don't feel that
just because another black makes
own Hashemite kingdom.
The PLO, he acknowledged, was radical statements, they are obligated

The Hussein Gambit:
What Does It Mean?

HELEN DAVIS

Israel Correspondent

Jerusalem — What is Jordan's
King Hussein up to?
Is he really severing his
kingdom's 40-year-old link with the
West Bank, as he appeared to indicate
in an address to his people last Sun-
day? Or is he playing out an elaborate
end-game with PLO chairman Yassir
Arafat for the control — if not the

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South Africa's
Jews

are torn between
their affluent
lifestyles and the
growing problems
of apartheid