I NEWS I ARON A FAIR! k.OIS ■ Cs Official Says U.S. Jews' Security Is In Place BEN GALLOB 4139 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 44 FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1989 Exercise regularly. WERE HG iTING FOR YOUR !FE American Heart Association ‘r , A 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? "