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VOL. 56 NO. 23
JUNE8.1978-SIVAN3
Skokie Gives
<    Nazis Permit
For March
CHICAGO (WNS) — The
Skokie Village Council has
approved a permit for a Jane
25 march by tire tiny Chicago-based National Socialist Party. But the Council
has announced that it will
ask the United States Su-
. preme Court for a stay on the
march: At the same time,
the Council also granted the
Public Affairs Committee
(PAC) of the United Jewish
Fund of Chicago a permit to
stage a counter-demonstration in the Chicago suburb
which has a large Jewish
population including some
7000 Holocaust survivors. Attorneys for Skokie are working on legal papers to submit
to the U.S. Supreme Court to
appeal the ruling by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
which held that the village
could not bah the inarch.
(CONTINUEDON PAGE6)
Begin Government Under Attack
From DMC, Two Former Premiers
Everyone Is Jogging
Pictured above, David Valinsky, the Center's direc- ,
tor of physical education, recently interviewing Dr.
Daniel Zidel about his favorite sport—jogging.
(See Story Page 12)
Navon Inaugurated As President;
Urges Sadat To Resume Negotiations
JERUSALEM (WNS) -
Yitzhak Navon was inaugurated May 29 as Israel's
fifth President and the first
of Sephardic background.
The ceremony took place at
sunset, as required by Jewish tradition, before a
packed Knesset chamber. In
his address, Navon, a 57-
year-old former Labor MK,
appealed to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to resume
the peace negotiations. He
"stressed that too much hope
has already been planted in .
the hearts of Israelis-and
Egyptians for peace to let
then down now. Navon noted
that every Israeli govern- .
ment and every political
party sincerely sought
peace. The differences between them was-only over
the extent of the risk Israel'
should take for itself in the
pursuit of this goal, he said.
Navon said Israel's three
most pressing problems are
peace and relations with the"
Arab world; aliya and relations with diaspora Jewry
and Israel's cultural and
moral standards. He warned
that material inducement
would never increase aliya
by itself since only a moral
and spiritual challenge' to
young jews will bring them
to live in Israel.
. The new ■ President declared that after "thirty
years of building the State, it
is now time to build the nation. , .After 30 years of fostering quantity, it is now
. time to put the accent pn
quality."
Outgoing President
Ephraim Katzir, who refused' to seek the office
again, said it' was his privilege to serve for five fateful
years starting with the Yom
Kippur War and ending with
the first direct negotiations
with Egypt. He stressed the
need to close the social and
cultural gap in Israeli society. He noted that the President's residence has been a
house and home for Israelis
and Jews of all'walks of life
and he was sure that Navon
would continue the tradition.
President Carter sent a message of "congratulations for
a job well done" to Katzir.
Katzir, a biochemist, is expected to resume his teaching and research work at the
Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
Israel radio and television
broadcast the inauguration
live and the TV program was
in color. Navon delivered a
message in Arabic over
radio and TV. Some 3000 persons attended the inauguration festivities although only
about 1500 had been invited.
Navon and his,wife Ofira
spent hours shaking hands.
But the stars of the evening
were their two. children,
Nira, 5, and Erez, 4, who
kept asking, "Daddy, are
you President yet?" When
the Navons move into the
Presidential residence after
renovations are completed,
they will be the first occupants with young children.
MeanwhUe the new Pres
ident has already gone on
record as being opposed.to
having the powers of his office expanded as has been
proposed by former Foreign
Minister Yigal AUon and
others.- He said he would do
his job "on the assumption
that the existing power-
should suffice to carry out
what I have in mind/' he explained.
TEL AVTV (WNS) — The
government of Premier
Menachem Begin was under
attack June 1 from the
Democratic Movement for
Change (DMC), a member
of the government coalition,
for not being forthcoming
enough in peace talks and
from former Premiers
Golda Meir and Yitzhak
Rabin of the opposition
Labor Parry for offering to
give up top much. The DMC
served notice by a 42-10 vote
that it would seriously consider leaving the coalition
unless the government took
a more moderate policy. A
36-30 majority also favored a
clause that questioned the
credibility of the government's negotiating position
and criticized its settlement
policies. The resolution was
presented by Transport Minister Meir Amit, who said
while in the United States recently, "I could explain Israel's security needs, the
question of not returning to
the 1967 borders. I could not
explain the logic of settlements, semi-settlements or
ghost settlements." Deputy
Premier' Yigael Yadin prefers to remain in the coalition government. He and
Justice Minister Shmuel
Tamir did hot participate in
the DMC balloting but they
agreed to allow the vote. The
DMC resolution said that
security considerations and
preservation of Israel's Jewish democratic character
should be the only guiding
Sisco Predicts Crucial
Point Will Be In Oct.
WASHINGTON (WNS) -
The "critical point" at which
the Middle East could tilt
toward war or peace will be
in October when the United
Nations Security Council will
have to renew the mandate
of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) in the
Sinai, former Undersecretary of State Joseph Sisco
predicted here May 31. "I
' think that will be a period of
high tension," Sisco, now
president of American University, told 150 participants
at a three-day symposium on
the Mideast sponsored by the
American Histadrut cultural
Exchange Institute and the
AFL-CIO at the George
Meany Center in Silver
Spring, Md. Sisco said he
was "not' as pessimistic as
some" since he said that despite the present impasse
neither   Israeli   Premier
Menachem Begin nor Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
"are willing to say that the
peace process has come to
end." He also asserted his
belief that' "tiiere is no diminution" of America's historical commitment to the security and survival of Israel.
Sisco stressed that the U.S.
policy in the Mideast must
be viewed in the context of
America's position as a
global power. He said the
U.S. influence in the Arab
world is greater than that of
the Soviet Union. The Arabs
understand- that "while the
Soviet Union can help the
Arabs make war by providing military assistance, it is
only the U.S. that can make
the peace in the area," Sisco
said. He said the reason is
that "we are the only power
that is acceptable to both
sides." .   >
principle in negotiations.
Mrs. Meir in an hour-long
television interview said that
while she had no reason to
doubt Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat's sincerity in
seeking peace, arrangements had to be made for the
defense of Israel's borders in
case Sadat was replaced by
a "less friendly" leader. For
this reason she objected to
Israel's plan for total withdrawal from the Sinai and
Begin's plan tctprovide West
Bank and Gaza residents
with self-rule. She said this
could very easily lead to the
creation of a Palestinian
State and was a threat to the
basic goal of a Jewish state
with a Jewish majority:
"Some people give too little
too late," she said. "Begin
had given too much too
early,"
Rabin,! speaking at Tel
Aviv University's . Shiloah
.Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, charged that the
Begin government has inadvertently fallen into a trap
and had agreed substantially
to withdraw from all Arab
areas occupied in the Six
Day War. He also said the
government had agreed to
the establishment of a
"Palestinian entity" linked
to Jordan.
Beth Shalom Establishes A
Religious Education Program
A religious school providing instruction to children
from kindergarten through
tenth grade is being organized by Beth Shalom and will
begin classes in September.
Beth Shalom, a reform
congregation founded last
December; will conduct
classes at the Jewish Center,
1125 College Ave. Classrooms occupied during the
week by Center pre-schoolers will be converted each
Sunday for use by the Beth
Shalom Religious School.
Classes will start Sept 24
ahd meet approximately 30
Sundays from 10 a.m. to
noon during the 1978-79
school year. The boards of
trustees of Beth Shalom and
the Jewish Center have approved the arrangement
'-^li&schoal .wiD be organized into four classes: primary (kindergarten through
second grade), intermediate
(third through fifth grades),
junior high (sixth through
eighth grades) and confirmation (ninth and tenth
grades).
Confirmation from the
new religious school will require a minimum of two consecutive years of attendance; the ninth and tenth
grades. For the 1978-79
school year only this requirement will be eased to permit
Daniel W. Bennett
confirmation after completing just the tenth grade.
The school will employ
open classroom techniques'
to delve into a wide-ranging
curriculum that will involve
students in Jewish history,
culture, religion and current
events. -.';,■.„,. v.*;.;
Appointment of Daniel W.
Bennett as principal of the
religious school was announced by James B. Feibel,
piraidentofBethShalom.
Mr. Bennett, a teaching
assistant in history at Ohio
State University where he is
studying for his PhJ)., has
had considerable experience
in teaching and working with
young   Jewish   students,
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Jewish Center
Annual Meeting
Wed., June 14
8 p.m.
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