The Neighborhood Project
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to a free

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Training Class
Tuesday, February 13

6:45 - 9 p.m.

Jewish Community Center
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
15110 W. Ten Mile, Oak Park

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How to qualify for a home mortgage
How to understand a credit report
How to budget your money
How to fill out a purchase agreement
How to choose a lender and a real estate agent
How to apply for a mortgage

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Peace activist Abie Nathan comes to Atlanta
to enlist support for a peace center in Jerusalem.

DAVID HOLZEL SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

bie Nathan made a name cornerstone laying of a planned
for himself as the owner of International Center for Peace
the Peace Ship which for and Tolerance in Jerusalem. The
years sailed the Mediter- $20 million center will com-
ranean and broadcast a mix of memorate the losses humanity
rock and roll and messages of suffered by the assassinations of
Arab-Israeli reconciliation. He Yitzhak Rabin, Martin Luther
met with Yassir Arafat — not King, John F. Kennedy, Anwar
once but three times — when Sadat and Mahatma Gandhi.
"When visitors walk out [of the
that was not only against Israeli
law, but the moral equivalant of center], they'll have a feeling
supping with Hitler. He went to against violence," says Mr.
Nathan, who be-
jail for that.
came a pacifist dis-
After the peace
ciple of Gandhi
breakthroughs in
while growing up in
recent years, Mr.
India.
Nathan ceased
His experience as
broadcast of the
a bomber pilot in Is-
Voice of Peace and
rael's 1948 War of
gave his ship a sea-
Independence
man's funeral off Is-
turned him into a
rael's coast.
relentless peace ac-
So has Arab ac-
tivist. "When I saw
ceptance of the Jew-
the havoc I created
ish state taken the
... I was shattered,"
wind out of the peace
he says.
activist's sails? Not Abie Nathan: W ants a
Seeing the Mid-
at all, says a smiling monument for peace.
dle East finally
Mr. Nathan, a fit 68-
year-old dressed more like a busi- catch up with his vision gives him
nessman than a challenger of the "a feeling of fulfillment." But
what he calls his lonely journey
establishment.
He's touring the United States came at a personal cost. Would it
on a business campaign. He's in have been easier to concentrate
Atlanta with a briefcase full of on career and family and just
plans and a head full of ideas. wait for peace to come? No, he
(One is to ban the import and says without a pause. "If people
manufacture of war toys in Is- like me had not started some-
rael.) Primarily, he's come to in- thing, we wouldn't be where we
vite Coretta Scott King to the are today." ❑

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Jerusalem (JTA) — Prime Min-
ister Shimon Peres drew wide-
spread criticism from opposition
leaders after he said that Israel
would give up its nuclear capa-
bility in exchange for regional
peace.
In remarks to Israeli newspa-
per editors in Tel Aviv, Mr. Peres
said that Israel would be willing
to "give up the atom" if it were
able to achieve peace with its
Arab neighbors.
"Give me peace, we will give
up the nuclear capability. That's
the whole story," he said.
Mr. Peres refused to say
whether he was referring specif-
ically to Israeli nuclear weapons
— the existence of which Israeli
officials have refused to confirm
or deny.
But he added that Israel want-
ed to keep its neighbors guessing

whether it had nuclear weapons,
saying that this in itself served
as a deterrent.
"As long as the suspicion itself
can serve as a deterrent weapon,
let them suspect," he said.
Opposition leaders, along with
some media commentators, crit-
icized Mr. Peres for what they
said was careless talk, and for go-
ing too far to appease the Arabs.
The Likud Party issued a
statement saying, 'The ease with
which Peres volunteers to dis-
mantle Israel's nuclear potential
is additional testimony to his il-
lusion of a new Middle East in
which this government is im-
prisoned."
Knesset member Rehavam
Ze'evi, of the far-right Moledet
Party, lashed out at Mr. Peres for
endangering national security in

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