THIS WEEKEND!
Your last chance to enjoy
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ISRAELI
FILM
FESTIVAL
Highly acclaimed films representing the best in drama, romance and
comedy from Israel's vibrant and innovative motion picture industry!
presented by
THE AMERICA-ISRAEL CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE OF MICHIGAN
Michael H. Traison, President
Exclusive engagement at The Maple Theatre
Maple Road (15 Mile) at Telegraph Road
Saturday, April 12, 10:00pm
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COMEDY. When a romantic dreamer pursues a beautiful actress, the entire neigh-
borhood becomes involved.
Sunday, April 13, 2:00pm
THE SUMMER OF AVIYA
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DRAMA. A ten-year-old Holocaust survivor yearns for a normal childhood in newly
independent Israel. (*)
4:00pm
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DRAMA. Sequel to "Summer." Aviya and other
Holocaust youngsters seek escape from their pasts. (*)
6:00pm Repeated by popular demand
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DRAMA. Four young defenders of modern Israel are
caught in a crossfire of conflicting loyalties.
8:00pm
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DRAMA. In making a film about her life, a young woman discovers new meaning to
her existence.
Films are in Hebrew with English subtitles.
For mature audiences. An asterisk (*) indicates films that may be suitable for ages 14 or older.
Admission $7 for each performance.
Tickets at the box office, or call (810) 258-9270
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Jess Hordes:
Negative reaction.
semblance of justice to aging Holo-
caust survivors, also will look into
charges that some $6 million de-
posited by Holocaust victims be-
fore the war and seized by
American authorities was never
returned to victims, their heirs or
Jewish restitution organizations.
Much of the money in question
was caught up when American of-
ficials seized German assets in
American banks — assets that in-
cluded some private deposits by
individuals who eventually were
murdered by the Nazis.
The issue was raised in a letter
to Mr. Eizenstat by Seymour J.
Rubin, a former State Department
lawyer and representative of Jew-
ish groups who helped negotiate
a 1959 settlement by Congress
providing $500,000 in restitution.
Now, Mr. Rubin claims that the
amount of that agreement was
"paltry," and said that it should be
re-evaluated.
"Our assertion was that many
of the so-called German assets
seized during the war were Jew-
ish assets," Mr. Rubin said in an
interview. "Nobody showed up to
claim them because in many cas-
es the depositors were extermi-
nated." -
Mr. Rubin, representing the
American Jewish Committee at
the time, argued that some of the
seized money should be turned
over to Jewish restitution organi-
zations. Congress agreed — but
the $6 million originally request-
ed was pared down to $500,000.
The recent spate of stories
about Switzerland's sluggish re-
sponse to pleas for restitution con-
vinced Mr. Rubin to raise the issue
of this country's inadequate re-
sponse to demands for restitution.
In a sense, American officials
after the war faced a similar
dilemma to the one faced by Swiss
bankers: how to determine own-
ership of assets when no heirs sur-
vived — although, unlike the
Swiss, the U.S. government and
the banks did not pocket the mon-
ey, but used it for other war
claims. Still, Mr. Rubin argued,
the time has come for officials in
Washington to face up to the gov-
ernment's inadequate response
before the last survivors die.
Are We All Alone?
Israel's leaders ponder mixed messages from the
United States but clear ones from the Arabs.
INA FRIEDMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
nce
again an uncomfort-
able mild anxiety attack or
fear of "creeping isolation"
has been gnawing at Is-
rael's psyche. It's been sparked
by messages of anger and affront
from three different sources.
They're expressed with vary-
ing degrees of vehemence, though
rarely politely.
The source closest to home is
obviously the Palestinians. At
this writing, Palestinian Au-
thority head Yassir Arafat was
still not talking to Binyamin Ne-
tanyahu.
But the real problem was the
break in contacts between the Is-
raeli and Palestinian security ser-
vices — the glue that holds the
peace process together. Low-lev-
el contacts continue in the field,
and in places like Hebron that's
nothing to sneeze at. High-level
contacts have also resumed be-
tween Israeli officers and Mo-
hammed Dahlan, the head of the
Palestinian Preventive Securi-
ty in Gaza. But his counterpart
O
in the West Bank, the powerful
Col. Jebril Rajoub, continues to
snub the Shabak, or Israel's gen-
eral security services.
The reason for the enduring
cold shoulder is the harsh
charges cast by top Israeli com-
manders, including Chief of Staff
Amnon Shahak and Intelligence
Chief Moshe Ya'alon. Col. Rajoub
was particularly outraged at be-
ing described (by an intelligence
officer) as "a thug in a suit and
tie." The day before that insult,
he had promised Avigdor Kaha-
lani, Israel's minister of internal
security, to do whatever he could
to stop the Palestinian riots.
Col. Rajoub can actually do
quite a lot. But he won't do much
if peeved. Neither will his es-
teemed colleagues. And that
makes Israelis nervous.
The second source of harsh
messages is the broader Arab
world. Meeting in Rabat, the
Jerusalem Committee asked the
Arab states to reconsider their
relations with Israel. Eytan Ben-