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Price determined at lease inception. 15,000 miles per yr. limit on leases. 110/mile excess (12,000 miles, 100 on Imports). Lessee responsible for excessive wear & tear. Sale ends Nov. 18, 1994, at 6 p.m. Denver (JTA)— Beyond the mu- tual suspicion and hostility, there are issues on which Jews and Muslims can make common cause, representatives of the two groups said at a recent conference here. The conference on "Women, Families and Children in Islamic and Judaic Traditions," was primarily an academic one. Professors of Islamic and Ju- daic studies, anthropologists and ethnographers, all presented pa- pers on their own topics of ex- pertise. They spoke, for example, about "The Status of Sephardic Women in Salonika in the Period of 19th Century Modernization" and "Gendering and Engendering in the post-Independence Novel in Islamic Senegal." More pragmatic issues were addressed in a session titled "Muslim-Jewish Dialogue: Strategic Ways to Proceed." According to Rabbi A. James Rudin, director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, the American Jew- ish community and the emerging Muslim community in the Unit- ed States should work together on public policy issues of mutual benefit. They include: issues under the bioethics rubric, like assisted sui- cide, organ transplant and sur- rogate parenting; public education; immigration and big- otry. There is also a joint stake in fighting "the exclusivist agenda of the religious right, whose lead- ers want to make this a Christ- ian America," said Rabbi Rudin. "We have to say as loud as we can that Jews and Muslims be- long in America and that Amer- ica belongs to us," he said. Salam al-Maryati, director of the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council, spoke at the same session about the sense of vulnerability and victimization that Muslims feel in America,where the terms Mus- lim, Arab and terrorist tend to be considered synonymous. The Muslim community in the United States is relatively young and small, about one-third the size of the Jewish community here. "We are where the Jewish community was 100 years ago, with our handicaps, fears and prejudices," said Mr. Maryati, who left the conference early to join President Clinton's en- tourage to the peace treaty sign- ing between Jordan and Israel. Mr. Maryati said there is a widespread perception among American Muslims that Jews control the media and politics, and "that the Jews are out to at- tack Islam." The relationship between the two groups in the United States is colored, and in part shaped, by events in the Middle East. The rapprochement between Israel and Jordan, and the his- toric treaty with the Palestinians, combined with Muslims' in- creasing numbers in the United States, have led to new interest on the part of the Jewish com- munity in establishing a rela- tionship. But, as was clear at the con- ference, the tensions that con- tinue to play out in the Middle East impact developments on American soil and feed the level of mutual suspicion. The FBI and Justice Depart- ment are investigating some Muslim groups in America in an effort to stop money from the United States from flowing to Hamas, the terrorist group re- sponsible for several recent ter- rorist acts on Israeli soil. Conference Joins Arabs and Jews. Mr. Maryati decried the Amer- ican government's investigation of Muslim groups as "part of a Likud campaign" against Mus- lims and celled it "a form of scape- goating." He said that if individuals are suspected, then they, rather than institutions, should be prosecut- ed. "Once you start talking about institutions you have crossed that fine line to scapegoating religious groups," he said. Muslim-Jewish relations in America are in their infancy, said Rabbi Rudin, who called them "the new frontier in interreligious affairs." Rabbi Rudin cautioned that it will take a lot of work and a lot of time to work past the mutual sus- picion that is a natural outgrowth of the years of enmity in the Mid- dle East. "Americans are always want- ing a quick fix, but that doesn't work in human relations," he said. It requires "an enormous amount of sorting out, of un- packing baggage," said Rabbi Rudin. Other conference participants included Fathi Osman, a scholar in residence at the Islamic Cen- ter of Southern California.