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of Germany. Hussein is a
meglomaniac "of the Arabs,
for the Arabs!' As long as
Hussein does not threaten.
Christian Europe or Jewish
Israel, let him go and unite
the Arabs if he can. But let
him threaten the area of the
Jordan River, and Israel will
unite and fight.
If Hussein can unite the
Arabs with or without raising
the price of oil, let him do it.
If Bush can tolerate the in-
crease in the price of oil, then
let him do it without the
threat to one American boy.
But if Bush cannot stand for
the increase, then look out.
Again American boys will be
dying for nothing.
In your Aug. 3 issue, again
in a bold headline "Jewish
Family Service Opens Bloom-
field Branch." This article
states, "United Jewish
Charities gave JFS $90,000 to
open the new office.
Since only 10 percent of JFS
clients live in the north-
western suburbs, it seems to
me something is wrong with
United Jewish Charities'
priorities. It also seems to me
that, in the first year of the
1990s, the leaders of organ-
ized Jewry in metropolitan
Detroit have lost their con-
cept of what serving the
Jewish community is about.
the badge of true sportsmanship
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Our heritage in sports and precision
craftsmanship has produced a sports watch
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Lenora Noler
Southfield
Michael Drissman
Farmington Hills
Let Us Know
Are Leaders
Serving The Public?
The front page of the June
22 Jewish News read in large,
bold letters: "Local Jewish
Agencies are Tightening
Their Belts for the 1990-91
Fiscal Year!'
Letters must be concise,
typewritten and double-
spaced. Correspondence
must include the signa-
ture, home address and
daytime phone number of
the writer.
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ADL Raps Filmmaker
Lee For 'Stereotypes'
New York — Filmmaker's
Spike Lee's portrayal of two
Jewish jazz club owners in
the new film Mo' Better
Blues is being called anti-
Semitic by both the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith and some leading film
critics.
In his previous three
movies, including last year's
Do The Right Thing, Lee
vividly explored the black
experience and the effects of
racial prejudice in America.
In Mo' Better Blues,his cen-
tral character is a black
trumpet player who tries
unsuccessfully to wheedle a
raise from the two Jewish
owners of the jazz club where
his band performs.
The two-dimensional
depiction of the two
brothers, named Moe and
Josh Flatbush, who appear
in brief scenes throughout
the movie, was sharply
criticized by Abraham Fox-
man, national director of the
ADL.
"Spike Lee's characteriza-
tion of Moe and Josh Flat-
bush as greedy and
unscrupulous club owners
dredges up an age-old and
highly dangerous form of an-
ti-Semitic stereotyping," Mr.
Foxman said. "ADL is dis-
appointed that Spike Lee —
whose success is largely due
to his efforts to break down
racial -stereotypes and pre-
judice — has employed the
same kind of tactics that he
supposedly deplores."
Mr. Foxman told the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency that
he issued the statement in
the same spirit that the Na-
tional Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People and the Urban
League have protested
stereotypical portrayals of
blacks.
"Here's a man who's
creative," Mr. Foxman said
of the black filmmaker, "yet
he falls back on these stereo-
types that are so simplistic
and crude. There are many
ways to portray greedy peo-
ple. He had all kinds of
choices. That's the choice he
made."
Susan Fowler, a spokes-
woman at Mr. Lee's Forty
Acres and a Mule production
company, said the
writer/director was not issu-
ing a statement in response
to the ADL's charges.
Mr.Lee feels that "the movie
speaks for itself," Ms.
Fowler said.
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