75¢ Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community HE JEWISH NEWS 24 CHESHVAN 5753/NOVEMBER 20, 1992 National Reaction Bias: Still Significant than the United States. Mr. Foxman pointed out that there has been a steady rise in ac- ceptance over the last 28 years in the notion that Jews have too much power in the U.S. — from 11 percent in 1964 to 31 percent in 1992. "It boggles the mind that in 1992 a significant segment of American Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL na- society has bought into the classi- tional director, said at a New York cal canards and stereotypes that news conference Monday at which allege Jewish power," he contin- the survey was made public. "The ued. "It is distressing that the bad news is the nature and con- tent" of anti- Semitism today. Twenty-eight years ago, Mr. Foxinan noted, anti-Semitism was "primarily so- cial," meaning anti-Semites said they did not want to work, live near or marry Jews. MSU students protested the Rev. Louis Farrakhan's speech in 1990. Today, he said, the nature of anti-Semitism has stereotypes so alive in the 1930s, "changed significantly" and is now which led to horrific consequences, more "political," meaning that con- did not die in the ashes of Europe, temporary anti-Semites are more but have found a rebirth in ceive is Jewish likely to an be excess upset by of what they power per- America today. We find it to be sin- ister and dangerous." and more Jewish concern for Israel BIAS page 12 'A new ADL survey finds blacks are more likely to hold strong anti-Semitic beliefs than are white Americans. ;TAFF REPORT wenty percent of American adults hold strongly anti-Semitic views, while another 41 percent hold some anti-Semitic views, accord- ing to a major national survey released this week by the Anti- Defamation League (ADL). The national poll of 1,101 American adults conducted in May found what the ADL termed "a hard core of haters who embrace a wide range of stereotypes, in- cluding 'Jews have too much pow- er' and 'Jews are more loyal to Israel than America.' " When compared with the last ADL survey of this kind, complet- ed 28 years ago, the findings show that the number of Americans who are "most anti-Semitic" has de- clined nine percentage points over the last three decades — a time of large-scale efforts to eradicate anti- Semitic beliefs. `The good news is the numbers are better" than they were in 1964, CLOSE-UP "When you're young you feel like the only gay Jew on earth. I think we need to be a haven of sorts C- for young Jews coming out. Maybe it's .t ` time these closeted individuals learn to live another way. Isn't fear as a motivation the worst way to live your life?" Robert Lebow believes gays and lesbians need a name and a face, just like people with AIDS. But not everyone in Simcha feels so strongly. Local Reaction In Detroit: No Excuses What the ADL says about black-Jewish dialogue in Detroit. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSISTANT EDITOR F rank Sklarsky believes wholeheartedly in dia- logue. He believes in compassion, in under- standing, in building bridges between blacks and Jews. But don't look for Mr. Sklarsky, of West Bloomfield, to be Mr. Whitewash at any black-Jewish get- togethers. If Jews and blacks are to accomplish anything, he says, blacks must be answerable for anti- Semitism in their community, and Jews have to stop "making excuses" for it. Mr. Sklarsky, cochairman of a lo- cal American Jewish Committee black-Jewish dialogue group that re- cently disbanded, was not surprised by the new Anti-Defamation League NO EXCUSES page 28 Inside SPORTS Melting Pot Berkley's soccer team: a good season and an international flavor. page 51 FICTION Jewish Gays And Lesbians Birds Of A Feather Avner's dreams lay far beyond Kfar Dena's turkeys. page 63 Story on page 22 Contents on page 5