SEIKO European styling translates into pure panache. This Seiko watch has stunning pearlized dial with black border and an intricate chain bracelet in brushed and polished gold tones. It is water resistant and features the day and date. He will love it as a gift. Choosing Outside Judaism The religious affiliation of the spouses of people who are Jewish by birth, by year of marriage. Married: 1965 1974 Before 406-5 -- - 9% Other 25% Jewish 89% Convert 2%* Convert * Jewish 69% Other 44% Jewish 49% 1 , c6?6) OFFOALTIMER L SEIKO J Phone 642-5575 30400 Telegraph Rd., Suite 134 Bingham Farms g.F.Wco ert HOURS: Daily: 10-5:30 Thurs: 10-7 Sat: 10-3 $ MIKE GERMANSKY TAMAROFF BUICK • HONDA • NISSAN • IZUZU • DODGE New • Used or Leasing Open Mon. & Thurs. Til 9 42 28585 TELEGRAPH ROAD ACROSS FROM TEL-12 Southfield Open Tues., Wed., Fri. Til 6 353.1300 Other 52% Jewish 43% Convert * Convert * People who converted to Judaism. Source: Council of Jewish Federations ( 198S and after 197571984 Jewish Abandonment, Yet Faith Prevails PHILIP SLOMOVITZ EDITOR EMERITUS n 1984 American Jewry was more deeply stirred than in decades by a book written by researcher David S. Wyman, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It is titled The Abandonment of the Jews, America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945, and it continues to be among the most serious awakening messages in the com- mitments to battling hatreds. It is important for our ge- neration to be aware of more than one abandonment. One that keeps emerging is rep- resented in an article under the title "Debating Inter- marriage and Jewish Sur- vival (front page New York Times April 18) by Peter Steinfels. Because of this challenge, especially as one concerning Jewish survival, it must be considered among subjective abandonments. Because we never abandon survival of faith, we will give it serious attention. The Steinfels article is ac- companied by a chart la- beled "Choosing Outside Judaism." The mixed marriage challenges have never been secrets to us. But these fig- ures merit knowing to con- front the issues involved. There has always been our adherence to a faith that is undeniable. Through the centuries there has always been resor- ting to proclaimed she'arit Yisroel - Remnants of Israel. The remnants could always be attributed to survivalism. This does not mean that we abandon the battle of sur- vivalism against the mixed marriage threat. It means holding fast to faith and making the plea for increas- ed loyalties from our youth. It demands adherence to our cultural and religious lega- cies. We are not losing this battle. The Zionist ideal con- tinues to prove it. Faith as well as the results of one ex- odus after another into Israel proves it. For nearly five years, we have been subjected to endless threats to Israel's very existence, which was instigated by Arab antago- nists and their supporters, It demands adherence to our cultural and religious legacies. which sorrowfully included some Jews who operated as peaceniks and who were misled by distortions and the continuous hatreds of our people and our aspirations. In the course of the spreading of bigotries rela- ting to the Zionist movement and its aims, no secret was made of the desire to wreck the United States-Israel co- operation and friendship. In the hate mongering and regrettable misleading of some Jews into a deplorable pro-Arab sentiment, the se- riousness of Jewish and Israeli commitments to the peace aims were ignored. The heartening counter sen- timents and the strength of the Jewish loyalty to the Zionist commitments were never abandoned. It has borne fruit in em- phasizing the importance of the friendship of the two nations. In the years of hate spreading against Jews and Israel, some members of both houses of Congress gave up their many years of support for Israel. Now we have the reaffirmation that established congressional friendship remains a power- ful national supporting fac- tor for Israel. It is this reaffirmed duo- national idealism that gives us renewed courage in our esteemed friendships. Grants, which assure the continuity of settling in Israel of millions of Jews from lands of oppression, are so vital that details of them should be widely known. They are as summarized by AIPAC: On September 18, the Senate Appropriations Foreign Operations Sub- committee favorably re- ported out the FY 93 foreign aid appropriations bill. The bill, approved in a relatively quick and non- controversial mark-up, in- cludes: $10 billion in loan guarantees over five years for the absorption of im- migrants in Israel; $1.2 billion in earmarked