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CUSTOM FURNITURE WALL UNITS BEDSETS KITCHENS "Where Design And Quality Become One!" 2266 Franklin Rd., Bloomfield Hills (313)858-8050 COATS UNLIMITED TAX WRITE-OFFS GOT A QUESTION? — Jewish Information Service Sterling Heights Sterling Place 37680 Van Dyke at 16 1/2 Mile 939-0700 Oak Park Lincoln Center, Greenfield at 10 , /, Mile 968-2060 West Bloomfield Orchard Mall, Orchard Lake at Maple (15 Mile) • 855-9955 76 FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1989 Call 967 - HELP Monday-Friday 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. for used Computer Equipment Donate to J.C.C. Ann Arbor For free pick-up call: 971-0990 Tel Aviv (JTA) — Direct flights between Israel and Moscow may be a step closer. Senior officials of El Al, Israel's national airline, were discussing the issue with of- ficials of the Soviet airline Aeroflot in Vienna this week. Both sides have agreed to examine the possibility of a Moscow-Tel Aviv air link. Transport Minister Moshe Katsav disclosed last week that Israel asked for the talks two months ago, but the Soviet response came only last week. The Israelis are proposing direct flights to Moscow, noting that some 25,000 peo- ple travel between Israel and the USSR each year. It is not known whether Aeroflot would establish flights to Israel if a commer- cial aviation agreement is reached or whether El Al would merely be given land- ing rights in Moscow. Meanwhile, El Al has pull- ed out of an international con- ference on air safety to be held in Israel next month. The airline, which boasts the most sophisticated and ef- fective anti-terrorist measures of any world airline, withdrew its sponsorship of the conference reportedly be- cause the public forum might disclose secrets of value to would-be aerial hijackers and bombers. Conference organizers stressed that any secret or restricted information would be confined to closed-door sessions. Israeli security experts were disturbed by the recent display at a news conference of a booby-trapped radio-tape receiver and a suitcase. It was manufactured by a private aircraft security firm, which will be a major partici- pant in the air safety confer- ence. The idea apparently is that demonstrating the technol- ogy available to terrorists will help devise counter-measures. Kids to Church Or Synagogue? Toronto (JTA) — Can a Jewish father who takes his children to the synagogue on Saturdays stop his separated Roman Chatholic wife from taking them to Mass on Sundays? The Ontario Supreme Court will hear the custody case in February. Canadian courts have generally recognized the right of the custodial parent to determine the religious up- bringing of the children. But that is starting to change, as judges begin to place more importance on the relation- ship of the non-custodial parent — usually the father — and his children. The mother in this case con- verted to Judaism when she married, but has since return- ed to the Catholic faith. She wants to baptize her 11-year- old son and his younger sister and register them in catechism classes. The father wants his son to have Bar Mitzvah lessons as he approaches the age of 13. He is seeking custody of the children, in part because of the dispute over which religion will prevail in their upbringing. At least one in four Jews marries outside the faith in Canada. The rate is much higher in the United States. Shin Bet Gets More Power Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Inner Cabinet has given the Shin Bet more extensive power to combat the Palestinian upris- ing in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It has also accepted a number of assumptions which seem to add up to an increas- ed reliance on force, according to a report in Ma'ariv last week. Shin Bet, Israel's top secret internal security agency, has been given ministerial authorization to be more ac- tively involved in foiling planned attacks, apprehen- ding the terrorists responsi- ble for them and gathering high quality intelligence. Shultz Slated For ADL Award New York (JTA) — Secretary of State George Shultz will be presented the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith's Klinghoffer Award in June 1989 for his contribu- tions in combatting terrorism. The award is given by the ADL's Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foun- dation, which was organized after the 1985 murder of Leon Klinghoffer aboard the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Klinghoffer's daughters, Il- sa and Lisa, cited Shultz's decision earlier this month to deny PLO leader Yassir Arafat a U.S. visa, which would have allowed him to ad- dress the U.N. General Assembly in New York.