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The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
in cooperation with
The Jewish Community Center
JEWS IN AMERICAN CINEMA
1898 - 1989
A Unique Photographic Exhibition
Author, The Jewish Image in American Film
MARCH OF THE LIVING
JEWISH TEENS AGES 16.20
Experience YOM HASHOAH — Holocaust Remembrance Day in Auschwitz
Celebrate HOM HA'ATSMAUT Israel Independence Day in Israel
APRIL 22 • MAY 4, 1990
An informative meeting with video tape about the program
will be held
Thursday, December 14 — 7:30 P.M.
United Hebrew Schools
Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Building
21550 West Twelve Mile Road
Southfield, MI 48076
For further information, contact Rabbi Bruce D. Aft, Agency for Jewish Education — 352.7117
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FRIDAY:LECEMBER.8,-1989
Polls Show Who
Israelis Trust
Tel Aviv (JTA) — A recent
poll indicates that Israelis
trust the armed forces, the
courts, universities, police
and the rabbinate, but have
little faith in politicians, the
Histadrut, the press and big
business.
The survey was carried out
by Israeli Democracy, a
publication of Tel Aviv Uni-
versity's Diaspora Institute.
"The supposition behind
this (trust index)," explained
Professor Ephraim
Yuchtman-Ya'ar, dean of
the TAU Faculty of Social
Sciences, "is that the vital-
ity of democracy in a country
facing an ongoing struggle
to survive depends, primari-
ly, on the faith placed by its
citizens in the central in-
stitutions on which it was
founded."
Confidence in 12 institu-
tions was measured in the
surveys, taken in July'1987
and August 1989. Approx-
imately 1,200 Jewish
respondents aged 18 and
over were contacted, ex-
cluding residents of kibbut-
zim and the territories.
Ya'ar attributed the in-
crease of trust in the police
to their involvement in na-
tional security matters.
Higher marks for the rab-
binate indicate a
strengthening of the
religious trend in Israeli
society.
Ya'ar suggested that in-
stitutions such as political
parties, seen as serving
narrow interests, rate less
trust than those perceived as
serving society as a whole.
Peres Seeking •
'Peace Front'
Jerusalem (JTA) — Labor
Party leader Shimon Peres
has announced that he will
try to create a "peace front"
with the religious parties in
the Likud-led coalition
government.
Peres, who is vice premier
and finance minister, did not
indicate which parties he
had in mind when he made
his proposal in a last week to
the Labor Party's dovish
Mashov faction.
But Peres is said to feel an
affinity with the ultra- Or-
thodox Shas and Degel
HaTorah parties, which, like
Labor, support territorial
compromise in principle.
"Labor has two alter-
natives for the future,"
Peres told his party col-
leagues, "to go with the
Likud, and then be dragged