You are invited to
The Institute for Single
Jewish Mothers Conference
a community-wide free event
Sunday, October 22, 1995
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield
Grey En te rta in men t
Featuring Claudia Shear,
actress and author of "Blown Sideways Through Life"
Workshops
1. Attitude "Affect"iveness: Combating Negativity with Jo Bruce
2. Single Parenthood: Trials and Rewards with Dr. Neil Kalter
3. Spiritual Survival For You and Your Family - panel discussion
Free developmentally appropriate child care by reservation only.
Registration required call (810) 354-1050
The Institute for Single Jewish Mothers (I.S.J.M.), is a program of Jewish Experiences for Families
(J.E.F.F.). J.E.F.F. is a division of the Agency for Jewish Education. I.S.J.M. is a recipient of the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Max M. Fisher Community Foundation.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Center and The Jewish News
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Israeli Factories
In China
Job Seeker Rate
Declines
Jerusalem — Shoul Eisenberg,
who controls the Israel Corpora-
tion, and Yossi Maiman, the
owner of Merhav, signed agree-
ments to establish factories in
China.
Mr. Eisenberg plans to con-
struct a hydrothermal power sta-
tion as part of a large irrigation
project in China.
Merhav signed an agreement
to establish an oil manufactur-
ing and vegetable drying factory.
The deals were signed in the
presence of Chou Yubeng, the
Chinese minister of water
resources.
Agriculture Minister Ya'acov
Tsur and Mr. Yubeng signed a
joint cooperation agreement in
the water and irrigation field.
According to the deal, Israel
and China will cooperate in
using new technologies and
water-saving technics.
Jerusalem — The number of job
seekers registered by the Em-
ployment Service during June
was down 0.8 percent from the
previous month, following sev-
eral months of increases, the La-
bor and Social Affairs Ministry
reported.
But for the whole second quar-
ter, the number ofjob-seekers was
up 7.8 percent, compared to the
first quarter of the year. This rep-
resented the reversal of a trend of
quarterly decreases in the num-
ber of job-seekers that had been
measured from the end of 1992.
Meanwhile, the number of for-
eign workers rose last month to
71,600. From now on, no more
permits will be given employers
to bring workers from abroad.
This is expected to increase the
number of Palestinian workers
in Israel.
The number of new immi-
grants seeking work in June was
10,000, down nearly a thousand
from the previous month.
Trade Restrictions
Will Be Eased
Jerusalem — Although the issue
of removing all obstacles to U.S.
agricultural exports has not been
resolved, Israel has agreed to
ease some of the existing re-
strictions on agricultural trade,
Industry and Trade Ministry
Foreign Trade Administration
director Zohar Peri said.
Mr. Peri and his American
counterpart, Assistant U.S.
Trade Representative Tim
Richards, concluded their peri-
odic joint trade discussions un-
der the framework of the Free
Trade Area (FTA) deal between
the two countries.
The major sticking point that
was the focus of the discussions
is the future of agricultural trade
under the agreement.
The agreement, as it now
stands, allows both countries to
protect their agricultural sectors
with non-tariff trade barriers.
However, under the World Trade
Organization's (WTO) regula-
tions, all non-tariffbarriers have
to be converted into tariffs.
The problem is that the FTA
agreement, as of this year, has
eliminated all customs between
the countries. The United States
is insisting, therefore, that Israel
adhere to both requirements and
totally open its agricultural mar-
ket to U.S. exports.
Mr. Peri said the U.S. position
is untenable, since both the PTA
and WTO provisions explicitly
make allowances for protecting
agriculture.
He added that the issue could
not be resolved during this
round, since the U.S. officials did
not have the authority to change
their position.
Mr. Peri said that in early Au-
gust, discussions will continue.
French Jews
Train Rabbis
Paris (JTA) — The French Jew-
ish community intends to create
a rabbinical seminar to train rab-
bis for communities in Eastern
Europe, particularly those of the
former Soviet bloc.
The Consistoire Central, the
body responsible for the religious
needs of French Jews, made the
announcement.
Explaining the need for the
new program, Paris Chief Rabbi
Alain Goldmann, also of the Paris
Consistoire, an affiliate of the
Consistoire Central, said, "In
Warsaw, the rabbi in charge of
the community is an [older] Is-
raeli of Polish origin. He will soon
retire. In Moscow, the rabbi
comes also from Israel. In Ro-
mania, there are almost no rab-
bis at all."
Rabbi Goldmann added: 'We
know there is a strong demand
for religious leaders in all those
countries of the former Commu-
nist bloc. We think it is the duty
of the French community, the
most important one in Western
Europe, to provide for the needs
of the Jews of the rest of our con-
tinent."
The chief rabbi said a search
would begin for candidates in all
the countries of the region and
that their training would take
place at the Paris Rabbinical
Seminar, which ordains about 10
rabbis annually.
The Council of Europe, an as-
sembly of 21 European parlia-
mentary democracies, is expected
to provide partial funding for the
program as part of a larger pro-
ject to train leaders for Eastern
Europe.