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f H K SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, April 1, 1966
Pare Ten
Koffee Klatch
by VIDA
GOLDGAR
One big reason I don’t person
ally subscribe to the “Vanishing
American Jew" theory is prob
ably what I like to call the “Van
ishing American Hinterland.’’
Every day I see more and more
signs that the hinterland as it was
known 20 or 30 years ago doesn't
exist anymore as the outpost of
American Jewry.
This was brought home force
fully as a result of my work this
year with our Temple Teens. Last
month a couple from Rome, Ga.,
drove the 120 odd mile round trip
to Atlanta one evening just to
transport six young people to
meet with our teen group. Up in
Rome, with only 22 Jewish fam
ilies, they even have a synagogue
with visiting student rabbis con
ducting services. With such efforts
■ It sure isf
Tint’s why
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The Vanishing
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as they make, wouldn’t surprise
me a bit if they soon find their
community drawing more fam
ilies who just need to see that it
can be done.
This sort of thing goes on all
over the country. It seems to me
that the determination of the
Jews in the small towns to keep
their Jewish identification for
themselves and their children
usually puts us big city dwellers
to shame.
Another community example of
thi^ Jewish spirit is Fitzgerald,
Ga., which can proudly claim
Morris Abram, U. S. representa
tive to the United Nations Com
mission on Human Rights and
national pres’dent of the Amer
ican Jewish Committee, as a na
tive son. Fitzgerald Congregation
draws its membership not only
from its own town but from Jews
of several other small nearby
towns as well, pooling their re
sources and efforts into a vital,
active whole which might well be
emulated by the urbanites.
When it’s too much trouble for
us to drive cross-town, these
hardy souls may drive many
miles. Fewer in number, they try
harder.
Today, modem science with its
television, highspeed highways
and modem automobiles, direct
dialing telephones, closed circuit
hookups and such, has made
many of the former problems of
the small-town Jew almost negli
gible obstacles. Even so, effort is
necessary. In turn, effort requires
ideological conviction.
These same miracles of mod
em science have altered another
aspect of the so-called isolated
life. Their non-Jewish townsfel-
lows are exposed through all
communications media to a bet
ter understanding of the Jew.
Not that this always leads to true
Brotherhood, but the door is open
for those who care.
In one high school with only
two or three Jewish students out
of 1800, I was amazed recently
when the director of a folk-danc
ing exhibition started her intro
duction with—“The Jewish peo
ple have been scattered all over
the world for centuries. Customs
from many countries make up
their heritage ..." With a little
more explanation, the music rose
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and these children took off on a
very spirited Horah, with the on
lookers clapping time.
And not a Jewish girl in the
bunch. A Negro girl yes!A Mex
ican girl—yes! Possibly even an
Iranian girl. But a Jewish girl?—
Not one. Yet, their execution of
the Horah might have done any
Israeli group proud. And in their
study of the origins of the dance,
that door of understanding open-
Israel Starts
Training Police
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
inaugurated a five-month course
of training policemen from Afri
can countries in general police
work, especially in traffic con
trol. The first group of Africans,
10 Ethiopians, was enrolled in the
course. All are officers in the
Ethiopian police corps, several of
them being deputy superinten
dents of police.
One hundred members of the
army of Nepal, being trained as
parachutists by the Israeli army,
staged their first mass jump at
their training base “somewhere
in Israel." To mark the occas
ion, their commander, Major
Yaduban, of the Royal Nepalese
Army, presented a gift to the Is
raeli Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen.
Yitzhak Rabin. The gift was a
Gurkha knife in a velvet, pearl-
studded sheath.
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