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AMERICAN
CANCER
SOCIETY'
In his 12 terms in Con-
gress, Rep. John Conyers, D-
Detroit, has often voted
against foreign aid bills that
included funds for Israel. He
even stood out against the
majority in his party and
Congress by opposing the
closing of the Palestinian
Liberation Organization's
New York and Washington
offices.
He has no known Jewish
constituency in his Detroit
district, and no known Jew-
ish financial support. Yet for
some reason, Mr. Conyers
appears to be asking for a
break from the Jewish com-
munity.
In the last year, Mr. Con-
yers met twice with mem-
bers of the Jewish commun-
ity. Most recently, he toured
— at his own request — the
Holocaust Memorial Center
in West Bloomfield.
For two hours, Mr. Con-
yers spoke with Jewish
Community Council Presi-
dent Jeannie Weiner, JC-
Council board members
Kathleen Straus and Robert
Brown, AIPAC's David Vic-
tor and Holocaust Memorial
Center director Rabbi
Charles Rosenzveig.
Mr. Conyers told the group
he is interested in maintain-
ing close ties with the Jew-
ish community, and he sug-
gested that they explore
cultural exchange programs
between the HMC and the
Museum of African History.
"He's been much more
understanding," Mr. Brown
said of Mr. Conyers. "I am
not sure that he is as
unreceptive to Jewish con-
cerns as it has been made to
appear. He has an open
mind."
In recent months, Mr.
Conyers was one of the first
members of Congress to sign
a resolution that requested
that Syria allow Jews to
leave. Mr. Conyers also sup-
ports the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act, which is
designed to protect religious
practices that are barred by
public statute.
If approved by both houses
of Congress, the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act
would overturn a U.S.
Supreme Court decision, Em-
ployment Division V Smith
that curtailed the right to
free exercise of religion.
In Smith, otherwise known
as the Peyote case, the
Supreme Court ruled that
the State of Oregon could
deny unemployment
benefits to persons discharg-
John Conyers
ed from their jobs for using
peyote in Native American
religious ceremonies.
The Smith decision could
apply as well to Jewish re-
ligious practices. For exam-
ple, a school that forbids
students from wearing hats
could prohibit boys from
wearing kippot.
NEWS- Immm•m°
Ansky Judaica
In Amsterdam
Amsterdam (JTA) — An
unusual exhibition of Jewish
relics and artifacts collected
by the Russian-Jewish
writer known as Sh. Ansky
more than 80 years ago went
on display at the Jewish
Historical Museum here.
It is being seen on loan for
the first time outside Russia
and will remain in Amster-
dam until November. The
exhibition will travel after-
wards to Cologne,
Frankfurt, New York and
Israel.
Many museums abroad
had been competing for the
honor of being the first to
mount the exhibition. But it
was the Amsterdam Jewish
museum that managed to
convince the State
Ethnographical Museum in
St. Petersburg, formerly
Leningrad, to lend it the ma-
terial that had been hidden
away for years.
Ansky — or S. An-Ski, as it
is sometimes written — was
the pen name used by writer
and ethnographer Solomon
Rapoport.
He is best know for one
drama above all: The
Dybbuk.
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