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The Ground Breaking Celebration
on the 15 Acre Site of
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South of Maple Road
West Bloomfield
"Under The Big Top"
Sunday, September 30, 1990
Celebration begins at 2:00 pm
Clowns
Magician
Balloon Making
Child Care Service
Live Klezmer Band
Ceremonial Souvenir
Dignitaries
Refreshments
Sharlene Ungar, President
Sylvia P. Ross, Chairman
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THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 13, 1990 • 7:30 P.M.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1990
I NEWS I
S. African Jews Angered
By Mandela's Opinions
Johannesburg (JTA) — A
leader of the South African
Jewish community has
spoken out forcefully against
statements on Zionism made
this week in Oslo, Norway,
by African National Con-
gress leader Nelson
Mandela.
Mr. Mandela, who was at-
tending a conference there
on "The Anatomy of Hate,"
was asked by Nobel laureate
Elie Wiesel to clarify his
views on the 1975 U.N.
resolution denigrating Zion-
ism as a form of racism.
"If Zionism means the
right of the Jewish state to
retain the territories, which
they have conquered from
others, to refuse to deal with
the acknowledged leaders of
the Palestinians, in par-
ticular with the PLO; if the
Jewish state has decided not
to allow the Arabs in the
conquered territories to ex-
ercise the right of self-
determination; if protest
demonstrations by the youth
of the Arabs are met with
brutal oppression, then of
course we condemn Zionism
in the strongest terms," he
said at a news conference
outside the conference
ballroom.
He then added, "If Zion-
ism, as I believe, means the
struggle by the Jewish peo-
ple for their national home,
for their own state within
secure borders, then Zionism
is a very commendable
movement, which we all
would like to support."
His statements got a chilly
reaction from an Israeli
government official present
at the conference. "I ex-
pected an unequivocal repu-
diation" of the Zionism
resolution from Mr.
Mandela, Israeli Health
Minister Ehud Olmert was
quoted as saying.
Here in Johannesburg,
Solly Sacks, national chair-
man of the South African
Zionist Federation, told
reporters that the entire
South African Jewish com-
munity was "distressed" by
Mr. Mandela's comments,
which he called "totally off
the mark."
"Israel is the most
colorblind society in the
world, made up of Jews from
every corner of the world,"
he said. Zionism, he said, is
not a racist movement but
the national liberation
movement of the Jewish
people.
The Oslo conference,
which began Aug.26 and
ended Aug. 29 with the
release of a declaration
against hatred, was spon-
sored by the Elie Wiesel
Foundation for Humanity
and the Norwegian Nobel
Committee.
Although it was planned
long before the Aug. 2 Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait, the Per-
sian Gulf crisis was a recurr-
ing theme throughout the
conference.
Israeli Palestinian activist
Hanna Siniora, editor of the
East Jerusalem daily Al-
Fajr, proposed sending a
delegation to the Persian
Gulf to talk to Iraqi Presi-
dent Saddam Hussein.
Czechoslovak President
Vaclav Havel offered to go to
the Gulf if asked.
But writer Conor Cruise
O'Brien, an Irish scholar
known for his support for
Israel, maintained that
"dialogue alone is not going
to get Saddam Hussein out
of Kuwait," according to
news reports from Oslo.
Yelena Bonner, a veteran
of the Moscow Helsinki
monitoring group and widow
of human rights activist An-
drei Sakharov, said the focus
on the crisis in the Persian
Gulf had waylaid the con-
ference from its original
goal, to dissect hate and ex-
amine ways of addressing
the problem.
She spoke about the need
to discuss racism, anti-
Semitism, nationalist
dissension and economic
upheaval in the Soviet
Union.
"A lot of the talk here is
just meaningless
platitudes," she said.
Other world leaders pre-
sent at the conference in-
cluded French President
Francois Mitterrand and
former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter.
Population
Figures Out
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel's
population grew by 1.8 per-
cent in 1989, with the
Moslem and Christian com-
munities growing at a faster
rate than the Jewish com-
munity, the Central Bureau
of Statistics reported this
week.
It also said that the Jewish
population in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip is now grow-
ing at a slower rate than it
has in several years.
At the end of 1989, there
were 3,717,000 Jewish
residents of Israel.