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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.