Call for Nominees for the 8th Annual
BERMAN AWARD
for Outstanding Professional Service
created by Mandell and Madeleine Berman
Congress Funds Sought
For New U.S. Embassy
Eligibility for Nomination:
honoring a Jewish communal
professional employed
by the
Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit
or a Federation beneficiary
All Jewish communal professionals
employed by Federation, its agen-
cies, or its beneficiaries, who have
been working in the Detroit Jewish
community a minimum of five years.
Criteria for Selection:
The recipient of the Berman Award must demonstrate the highest
professional standards in his/her chosen field. That professional
must have:
• made a contribution to the general good of the Jewish community
• demonstrated leadership and innovation to his/her profession
• applied creativity, dedication, knowledge and care to providing
services to the Jewish
community
Nomination Process:
Presentation Date:
Submit nominations by letter to the
Selection Committee. Names of the
nominees will remain confidential,
and they may be renominated in
subsequent years.
August 1995, in
conjunction with a
reception of the Jewish
Federation Board of
Governors
Send nominations to:
Michael Berke — Confidential
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
PO Box 2030
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-2030
Deadline for Nominations:
June 30, 1995
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Washington (JTA) — Senate Ma-
jority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan.,
will ask Congress for money to
begin building a U.S. Embassy in
Jerusalem next year.
Mr. Dole plans to introduce
legislation that would force the
State Department to move the
embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem before May 31, 1999.
Construction must begin before
the end of 1996, according to a
draft of the Jerusalem Embassy
Relocation Implementation Act
of 1995.
That provision is controversial
because it would mean that work
on the new embassy would begin
before the "final status" of
Jerusalem is determined.
Israel and the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization are sched-
uled to begin negotiations on
final-status issues, including the
fate of Jerusalem, next year and
to finish the talks by 1999.
Although the U.S. ambassador
would not move from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem until the status of
Jerusalem is resolved in those ne-
gotiations, the construction
"would be a symbolic gesture sup-
porting a unified Jerusalem un-
der Israeli control," said one
congressional aide familiar with
the proposal.
The latest effort goes one step
further than a letter that 93 sen-
ators sent to Secretary of State
Warren Christopher last month
calling for the United States to
move its embassy to Jerusalem
at the end of the final status
talks More than 260 members of
the House have signed a similar
letter.
The embassy would most like-
ly be built on a parcel of land in
western Jerusalem that the Unit-
ed States bought last year. At the
time, the State Department said
any future development of the
site would be for "a place where
a very senior diplomat would
live." Officials refused to say
whether the plot would be used
for an embassy.
Mr. Dole was expected to un-
veil his proposal in an address
here to the American Israel Pub-
lic Affairs Committee, the pro-Is-
rael lobby.
The State Department has op-
posed any plans to move the em-
bassy, citing concerns that any
effort could derail the Middle
East peace process.
PLO leader Yassir Arafat
claims eastern Jerusalem as the
capital of a future Palestinian
state, while Israel maintains that
an undivided Jerusalem will re-
main its eternal capital.
Mr. Arafat attacked the Dole
proposal, saying, 'These latest at-
tempts to move the American
Embassy to Jerusalem are dan-
gerous and in violation of previ-
ous U.S. administration
decisions."
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin told reporters after meet-
ing with Secretary of State War-
ren Christopher that the location
of the U.S. Embassy does not af-
fect Israel's claim to Jerusalem.
'We live by our laws," Mr. Ra-
bin said. "We have got our posi-
tion. If the other countries,
including the United States, have
not recognized [the unification of
Jerusalem] for the last 27 — by
now almost 28 — years, it's their
problem."
Mr. Christopher refused to say
whether he supported Mr. Dole's
initiative.
`The parties to the Declaration
of Principles themselves have
confined the issue of Jerusalem
The location of the
U.S. Embassy does
not affect Israel's
claim to Jerusalem
according to Mr.
Rabin.
to the second part of the negotia-
tions," Mr. Christopher said, re-
ferring to the Israeli-Palestinian
agreement signed on the White
House lawn in September 1993.
In Jerusalem, meanwhile,
Communications Minister Shu-
lamit Aloni said even though Is-
rael wants all the embassies to
be in Jerusalem someday, now is
"not the right time."
Ms. Aloni, who heads the left-
wing Meretz bloc, said beginning
construction on a U.S. Embassy
in Jerusalem next year "has a
smell of provocation and even in-
volvement in negotiations that
must be between us and the
Palestinians."
The latest flap over moving the
U.S. Embassy comes as Pales-
tinians continue to protest Israel's
move to seize prime Arab-owned
land in eastern Jerusalem. State
Department spokesman Nicholas
Burns said of the Israeli move,
"It's difficult to see how this type
of action, this land confiscation,
can be helpful at this time in the
negotiations."
For their part, Palestinians re-
taliated by trying to build onto
the Orient House, the Palestin-
ian Authority's de-facto office in
Jerusalem, without obtaining
needed permits. Israeli authori-
ties forced builders to halt con-
struction and ordered an illegal
addition torn down.