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January 13, 1989 - Image 44

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1989-01-13

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Official Says U.S. Jews'
Security Is In Place

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Special to The Jewish News

JAMBOREE

SUNDAY

January 15, 1989
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Maple/Drake Jewish
• Community Center
Shiffman Hall

Special Feature - An amazing trampoline and juggling
act performed by the Motor City Jaguars.

The Jamboree is when camp comes to you in the city. We'll
have carnival booths where you can play games of chance
or test your skill for prizes. We'll have craff booths like weav-
ing, ceramics, and candlemaking. We'll serve popcorn,
snow cones and refreshments . . Everything, including the
raffle tickets for door prizes are free!
Register for camp at the Jamboree and you'll still be
eligible for a raffle drawing that will award (3) $500.00
discounts off any summer program!!!
The Fresh Air Society, in cooperation with B.B.Y.O., will be col-
lecting the following items for the homeless at the entrance
to Shittman Hall: hats, gloves, coats, scarves, sweaters,
toothbrushes, tooth paste, soap, shampoo, etc.

.

B.B.Y.O. Project Reach

Responsibility everywhere to aid and care for the homeless.

JEFFREY T.

KLEIN

Previously associated at
10%2 Mile and Coolidge, Oak Park

NOW IN THE PRIVATE PRACTICE
OF PODIATRY

Affiliated with St. John selectare
provider and Sinai Hospital of Detroit.

ASSOCIATE OF AMERICAN COLLEGE
OF FOOT SURGEONS
Hours By
Detroit Southfield Plymouth Community Center
Appointment 934.1155 559.6068
453.8510

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career professional in
the field of monitor-
ing anti-Semitic
developments is convinced
that Jewish security is not at
risk in modern America.
Jerome Chanes suggested
that there' may be "a con-
siderable quotient of naivete
in the worries of American
Jews about such incidents."
Chanes, associate director
for domestic concerns of the
National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council,
offered an in-depth analysis
on "Anti-Semitism in the
U.S.: An Update," in the cur-
rent issue of Congress Mon-
thly, the publication of the
American Jewish Congress, a
NJCRAC 'affiliate. NJCRAC
is an umbrella agency for 11
national community relations
groups and 113 local com-
munity councils.
Despite his comment about
"naivete," he stressed his
strong belief that "the grass
roots" of American Jewry is
reacting to "very real situa-
tions."
He said those Jews "are con-
stantly telling us profes-
sionals important things, and
my view is that we profes-
sionals should be listening to
them very carefully, as we
always try to do."
But with that axiom stated
for the professionals, he said
he would reiterate his belief
that "the fundamental securi-
ty of American Jews, and of
other minority groups, re-
mains strong in this society."
Chanes said that "in-
stances of anti-Semitism and
Jewish security can be view-
ed as concentric circles and
thus intimately related."
Nevertheless, he added, it
was vital to make a distinc-
tion between Jewish security
and the occurrence of a
number of anti-Semitic in-
cidents which might be
perceived as a threat to that
security.
For very real reasons, he
declared, Jewish historical ex-
periences often lead to very
strong reactions by Jews to
such incidents.
But at the same time,
"there is evidence from a
range of data on different
criteria which we use to
measure the seriousness of a
given anti-Semitic act," that
Jewish security remains
strong in America.
The bulk of his Congress
Monthly analysiS concerned
hostile developments he felt

Jews should be properly con-
cerned about.
Chanes listed the Aryan
Nations and The Order, two
white-supremicist groups,
broken up by federal prosecu-
tion. He reported that the
number of anti-Semitic in-
cidents had increased slight-
ly in the United States during
the past two years, and that
political anti-Semitism "occa-
sionally raised its abhorrent
head."

Other examples were the
Steve Cokely episode in
Chicago, in which the then
aide to Mayor Eugene Sawyer
asserted that Jewish doctors
were injecting black babies
with AIDS, and "the anti-
Semitic fallout" created by
the Martin Scorscese film on
Jesus.
Chanes also cited evidence
of anti-Semitic attitudes
among blacks, stemming
perhaps from the feeling that
Jews were excluding them
from competition for profes-
sional and academic
opportunities.
Nevertheless, he declared,
"one can't escape the
statistics?'
He said the long-term
downward trend of anti-
Semitism during recent years
— with occasional blips, such
as the increase during the
past two years — had con-
tinued during recent years
and that most observers ex-
pected the downward trend to
continue.
Among the "blips" he listed
the Iran-cotra scandal, "with
its Israel connection," the
Ivan Boesky securities scan-
dal; the arrest and conviction
of Jewish officials in New
York; and, "most significant,"
the Pollard spy case, "evoking
again the 'dual loyalty' issue."
Chanes said none of these
events "resulted in an in-
crease in overt expressions of
anti-Semitism in this coun-
try."
On the contrary, a Roper
poll conducted for the
American Jewish Committee
in early 1987, immediately
after the Pollard case broke,
"indicated no scapegoating of
Jews and no decline in public
support of Israel." He
reported that it was on the
"dual loyalty"issue that the
polling results were "most
dramatic." In fact, "more than
twice as many respondents in
the 1987 Roper poll (49 per-
cent) disagreed than agreed
(24 percent) with the state-
ment 'most American Jews
are more loyal to Israel than
to the United States? "

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