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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XXXVII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1962
NO. 15
"7; 1 ' , One-Third of NYC Aged Jews
I o send 100,000 Against Israel . „ - , ,, . . ° _
In 1 rouble, b ederation neports
Bella, the Algerian provisional
Vice-Premier, declared this week
in Cairo that the FLN, the form
er Algerian underground rebel
movement, was ready to send
100,000 of its soldiers into bat
tle for “the liberation of Pal
estine.”
Ben Bella, who was released
from a French prison last month
as part of the peace agreement
reached between the Algerian na-
naUonalists and French at Evian,
made the statement to the Middle
East News Agency. He said “the
Palestinian people” should be or
ganized in a front of national lib
eration similar to the one created
in Algeria.
“It is equally necessary,” he
said, “that a Palestine liberation
army should be formed to serve
as an avant garde for the Arab
liberation of Palestine. The Arab
revolution in Algeria, which has
learned the significance of fight
ing for the dignity of one coun
try and one people is ready to
engage 100,000 of its soldiers in
the battle for the liberation of
Palestine.” He added: “I would
like to tell m,v Arab brothers that
we in Algeria do not consider our
revolution to be over as long as
the liberation of Palestine is not
achieved. I will be happy if I
am given a chance to be one of
those Arab soldiers who will ef
fectively participate in the lib
eration of Palestine.”
He then proceeded to discuss
the “dangers” of Zionism with
which “we have met during our
long years of struggle. We had
to suffer from the acts of Zion
ism which have conspired with
imperialists against our people.”
He said that by Zionists he meant
not only the Zionists in Israel but
also those in France and Algeria,
adding that the Zionists consti
tuted one of the “main forces
which are now behind the fascist
OAS,” the secret European under
ground army in Algeria.
The Ben Bella statement
evoked anxiety among both Jew
ish and non-Jewlsh groups in
France. The French paper L’Aur-
ore declared that, according to
the FLN leader, the Algerians
“have learned from the revolu
tionary experience of the United
Arab Republic and it can only
be hoped that the Algerians will
also learn from the experience of
the Egyptians that Israel is prep
ared to defend itsel fand that it
will not be easy to conquer the
Jewish State.”
French political sources sug
gested that the Ben Bella state
ment was a personal bid to re
gain some of the limelight and
prestige he might have lost dur
ing his detention. They called his
declaration that “of an opposition
member” and not that of a vice-
premier of the Algerian provis
ional government.
These sources said that the
FLN, confronted with immediate
and major problems in the shift
of Algeria to independence, would
be unabie to give anything more
than verbal assistance to the Mid
dle East Arab states. While it
was believed that an independent
Algeria would join the Arab Lea
gue eventually, the possibility of
an FLN combination with Egypt
against Israel was dismissed by
all French experts.
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Pres
ident Kennedy formally “install
ed” Stephen Lutz, of Newark,
N. J., a 15-year-old high school
honor student who regularly at
tends morning services at an
Orthodox synagogue, as “Boy of
the Year” selected from 600,000
members of the Boys’ Clubs of
America. The President cited
young Lutz as the nation’s “finest
example of juvenile decency.”
An excellent student, outstand
ing youth leader and tireless
civic worker, Stephen won top
honors among candidates sub
mitted in the 16th annual Junior
Citizenship project by some 600
Boys’ Clubs throughout the
country. He hopes to become a
surgeon and is already enrolled
in the “Future Physicians of
America” society.
Winning “Boy of the Year”
honors will help him achieve
that ambition, since the award
carries with it a $500 scholarship
NEW YORK (JTA) — “By
every index — money, health,
housing, employment, education
and recreational opportunity, and
social adjustment— one-third of
New York’s 250,000 aged Jews
are in dire trouble.”
Such is the assertion made by
the Federation of Jewish Phil
anthropies of New York in a mas
sive study issued by Lawrence
A. Wien, president, and Richman
Proskauer, vice - president and
study chairman. Entitled “The
Jewish Aged of New York—Their
Present and Future,” the two-
year research is described as “the
first fully comprehensive ap
proach to the needs of Jewish
aged ever made.” To meet their
needs, Federation proposes im
mediate objectives:
1. A new 500-bed hospital for
the long-term senile and chronic
sick aged at a cost of $6,250,000,
funds for which are being sought
by Federation’s Building Fund.
from the Reader’s Digest Foun
dation. This is part of some $2,-
700 in scholarships annually
made available by the Founda
tion to stimulate interest in high
er education among less privi
leged Boys’ Club members.
Prior to his selection as na
tional “Boy of the Year,” young
Lutz established a reputation
throughout the Newark area for
outstanding achievements as a
student, athlete, youth leader and
community service worker. Now
a sophomore at Newark's West
Side High School, his scholastic
honors include consistent honor
roll membership with a straight
“A” average; member of the stu
dent council and swimming
team; reporter for the school
newspaper, violinist with the
school orchestra, member and
leader of Failure Physicians of
America and Future Scientists of
America.
2. Relocation of the existing
350-bed Home and Hosptal of the
Daughters of Israel to the vicin
ity of Hillside and Long Island
Jewish Hospitals to create the
first complex of geriatric, psy
chiatric and medical institution
in the United States. The Build
ing Fund seeks $4,500,000 for this
project.
3. Establishment of a $500,000
camp for the elderly, to offer
vacation opportunities to some
2,500 persons annually.
In addition to the immediate
$11,250,000 currently sought,
Federation says that long-term
objectives for the aged would
cost many millions more. These
include: Creation of a second $6,-
250,000 five hundred bed hospi
tal; conversion of over 2,500 beds
from present domiciliary use to
use in active programs for the
chronic sick; organization of hos
pital out-patients units to serve
1,000 aged annually, and estab
lishment of mental health, place
ment and guidance, family serv
ice and home care and other units
to serve from 1,000 to 10,000 per
sons each year.
Specifically, the Federation
program calls here for expanded
units for service to aged at fam
ily agencies to serve at least 10,-
000 annually, establishment of co
ordinated medical and home
maker services in the community
to serve, with municipal aid, 1,-
000 annually; provision of min
imum care quarters, for those
who do not require institutional
ization but for whom assurance
of care must be offered, and cre
ation of “later years” education
programs for families and leaders.
For these projects, immediate
study is proposed to be follow
ed by gradual development within
one, three, or five-year periods.
The Federation also announced
that the aged study had resulted
in two major gifts to create in
tensive programs for aged per
sons which will enable them to
live in the community by assur
ing adequate medical, social serv
ice and recreational assistance.
The Henrietta and Stuard Hirsch-
man Foundation gave $1,000,000
and the Isabella Freedman Foun
dation $200,000 to establish this
program.
JDC Ships Passover
Supplies to France
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Joint
Distribution Committee shipped
an additional 30,000 pounds of
matzoh to France to enable new
ly arrived Jewish migrants and
refugees to observe the Passover
holidays, it was announced this
week by Edward M. M. Warburg,
JDC chairman. This brings the
total of Passover shipments to
France to more than 101,000
pounds, most of it sent earlier
this year.
In all, JDC has distributed
nearly 220,000 pounds of special
foods to needy Jews throughout
the world for the observance of
Passover. The new emergency
shipment to France is in addition
to 71,323 pounds of matzoh
ordered by the JDC office for
France last December and shipp
ed to the country some time ago,
Mr. Warburg declared. “There
has been an influx of newcomers
into France recently from many
countries of Europe and North
Africa, unsurpassed since the
period immediately after the
war,” he said.
Jewish communities to which
shipments of Passover foods
have been made include those of
Albania, Austria, Belgium,
Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain
and Yugoslavia, as well as Latin
American countries. In Poland,
matzoh is baked and sold by the
Kehillah, the official Jewish re
ligious body, with equipment
provided originally by JDC,
which also pays for distribution
to those Jews who cannot afford
to pay. Jews receiving help from
JDC in Israel and the Moslem
countries of North Africa and the
Near East are given special cash
grants to enable them to purch
ase locally the extra supplies
needed for observance of the
holiday.
Newark Jewish Youth Named
America's 'Boy of Year'
Marcus Foresees Radical Changes In II. S. Jewish Life in Next 40 Years
PITTSBURGH, (JTA)—Jewish
life in the United States will
change radically over the next
40 years as a result of strongly
developing economic, cultural,
educational, religious and organ
izational trends that have
emerged within the last decade,
it was predicted here this week
by Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, noted
Jewish historian and past presi
dent of the Central Conference
of American Rabbis, rabbinical
body of Reform Judaism.
Dr. Marcus, who is president
of the American Jewish Histori
cal Society, spoke at a two-day
conference and seminar spon
sored by the CCAR. He cited 10
recent trends which he s&id are
beginning to alter American Jew
ish life. He listed these as fol
lows:
1 With the decline of Ortho
dox and classical Reform Juda
ism, the Conservatives and Neo-
Reformers will bring about a
distinctive type of American
Judaism The American Judaism
of the future will continue to
have Conservative and Reform
institutional bodies but will be
marked by similar rituals, forms
of worship and religious mores.
1. The Jewish community is
beginnng to open its doors more
widely than ever before to any
one who calls himself a Jew.
This tolerance will increase rath
er than abate, especially in view
of the rapid growth of inter
marriage.
3. The rapid rise of Parochial
and private schools in the future
to cope with the decline of the
public school system due to lack
of public funds will give impetus
to the rise of Jewish parochial
schools.
4 The Jewish community now
served by some 90 independent
privately owned weekly news
papers will be served by news
papers owned and controlled by
the community itself. These
newspapers will have no editorial
policy There will be a truce on
all ideological differences in the
interest of maintaining commun
al peace, even if it has to come
at this price.
5. Jews will be found largely
in the suburbs. They will feel
themselves far more secure than
at any time in the past, either in
Europe or America. As a result,
today’s Jewish defense agencies
will turn to the work of streng
thening the community from
within, building its morale, rath
er than to meeting outside cal
umnies, threats and discrimina
tions.
6 The work now being done
on a large scale by Jewish phil
anthropic and health agencies
will pass to govenment with the
widening of the social security
system and the rise of socialized
medicine. The basic problem to
be faced by the Jewish communi
ty in the next generation will
be gerontological, the problem of
the aged. This was no problem
in the past because of the gen
eral low expectancy of life.
7. The Jewish community will
also develop vocational services
on a broad community level to
cope with the increasing automa
tion of American economic life.
The Jewish community, which
today has twee as many college
graduates proportionately as does
the non-Jewish community, will
seek to solve the problem of
sybernation through better edu
cation and the development of
needed skills.
8. There will take place over
the next 40 years the final
emergence of the Jewish Com
munity Center and YMHA as the
suburban club of the Jewish mid
dle classes. Huge million dollar
buildings will rise incorporating
health clubs, bowling alleys, and
kosher-style snack bars. These
will be a far cry from the alum
settlement houses, of the late
19th and early 20th centuries.
9. The numerous Jewish agen
cies that proliferate on the
American scene as independent
bodies will be subordinated in
each community to an over-all
Jewish Community Council that
will coordinate the activities of
those agencies deemed necessary,
and will control their budgets.
The Council will be concerned
with the welfare of the comunity
as a whole, raising funds cen
trally for local, national and
overseas causes. The Council
will be representative of all ele
ments in the community.
10. The synagogue will contin
ue to occupy a primary place.
The synagogue was central in
Jewish communal life during the
first days of Jewish settlement in
America over 300 years ago, and
has never lost its place in mo
tivating Jewish life and in serv
ing, if necessary, as a place of
dissent.