I NEWS Immwm Vatican Praised On Auschwitz May the coming year be one filled with health, happiness and prosperity for all our friends and family. THE ALLANS NORMAN, LARRY & DANIE The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harris Mainster, President, Michigan Chapter Shayna Silverman, Michigan Director American Friends of The Hebrew University 29100 Northwestern Highway, Suite #120, Southfield, Michigan 48034 (313) 357-0510 To All Our Valued Clients and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. WISHING ALL THEIR FRIENDS AND CLIENTS A MOST HAPPY & HEALTHY NEW YEAR! 851.9390 Bloomfield Plaza • Maple at Telegraph ERA RYMAL SYMES COMPANY REALTORS To All Our Relatives, Friends and Customers, Our wish for a year filled with happiness health and prosperity. WISHING ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS A HEALTHY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR -.4 av • .4 .1 .14 VSS t, la.•• .11 .> Z.11 ai a ....A.J.21.1a gar t■ ',JUL as-111 EMERY'S Creative Jewelers Master Goldsmiths Emery, Natalie, Terri, Howard, Rob, Michel, Alison and Staff 144 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989 fire st one 6725 ORCHARD LAKE RD. WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48322 (313) 626.2322 Happy New Year To All Of Our Friends 28927 Southfield Rd. Lathrup Village, MI 424-8767 UI PIFTTED 120 East 4th St. Rochester, MI 651-6060 New York(JTA) — Jewish leaders were gratified by the Vatican's public endorse- ment Sept. 19 of a 1987 ac- cord calling for the reloca- tion of the Carmelite con- vent at Auschwitz. They were particularly pleased by its offer to con- tribute funds to establish an interfaith center away from the grounds of the former death camp, where the Car- melite nuns are to be relocated. Those who had urged a freeze in relations with the Vatican until the issue was resolved called Tuesday for a restoration of formal talks with the Catholic Church. Relations between Jews and the church have deterio- rated since Feb. 22, the date by which the convent was to have been moved. The dead- line, specified in the 1987 accord, passed with little sign of progress in relocating the convent. Jewish leaders had re- peatedly called for Pope John Paul II to state his support for the 1987 agree- ment, which was signed in Geneva by nine 'world Jew- ish leaders and nine repre- sentatives of the Catholic Church, including four Eu- ropean cardinals. But for more than a year, the Vatican remained silent on the matter, apparently deferring to the Catholic Church in Poland, which the pope formerly headed. That silence was broken Tuesday, when Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, pres- ident of the Vatican Com- mission for Religious Rela- tions With Judaism, issued a statement offering to con- tribute financially to the construction of the interfaith center. "The Holy See is convinced that such a center would contribute in a significant manner to the development of good relations between Christians and Jews," the statement read. "In order to support the realization of this important but costly project, the Holy See is prepared to make its own financial contribution," it said. The head of the Polish Church, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, had raised the finan- cial issue as one of the obsta- cles to the removal and relocation of the convent. Tuesday's Vatican state- ment refers to a remark made by the pope in an ad- dress to the Jewish commu-