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How Now, And in Jerusalem
The so-called liberals and progressives in America get a
chuckle over what has become known as the WASPS. These
are the simon-pure, than-which-there-are-no-than-whicher?
Hoi polio—the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Society, the
anointed.
Now comes news of a condominium apartment hotel,
offering the plush type of dwelling facilities to foreign resi
dents and newcomers in Israel. The Jerusalem apartments are
being sold—would you believe it?—by the Anglo-Saxon Real
Estate Agency Ltd. From this distance, we cannot make any
inference of gentlemen’s agreement or nuances of restrictive
changes. But the anomoly is too obvious to overlook.
This Week in History!
(From the files of the JTA)
40 Years Ago: 1931
For the first time, the Russian Commissariat of Education en
dorsed the “very important” anti-religious campaign of the Militant
Atheists.
Registration was closed for Jewish settlement in Birobidjan.
Jewish tombstones in Berlin were desecrated with Hitlerite slo
gans by two 11-year-old boys.
Two days of Arab-sparked clashes with the police in Nablus
resulted in the jailing of 22 ringleaders.
Eleven years after his death, the estate of banker Jacob Schiff
was finally evaluated—at 34.4 million net
Poland’s eldest Jew, Zalman Sokolovitch, active as a merchant
to the end, died at 110.
Another Jewish suicide in financially troubled Poland was
registered when a 70-year-old man jumped from a fourth-story
window.
Hungary’s new Cabinet included three outspoken anti-Semities.
Lord Passfield, promulgator of the British White Paper res
tricting Jewish immigration to Palestine, resigned.
10 Year8 Ago: 1961
The World Jewish Congress’ Political Dept, said the situation
of Soviet Jews “remains acute and difficult.”
South Africa’s first two locally trained rabbis were ordained in
Johannesburg.
Composer Aaron Copland received the Edward MacDowell
Medal as President Kennedy called him “a significant force in the
cultural life of this nation and the world community.”
A committee report to Aleph Zadik Aleph, the boys’ division
of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, declared: “It is a sad com
mentary on the current status of the Jewish home that the only
way young people can fulfill their needs for Jewish education, or
to find out what Judaism has to offer them, is to join organiza
tions.”
A Jewish tombstone of the eighth century, bearing a Hebrew
inscription, was reported unearthed in the People’s Republic of
China. ’ ’
Mose M. Feld, a newsboy-tumed-millionaire-industrialist who
headed the Houston Jewish Community Council and the Houston
United Jewish Campaign, died at 61.
Mapai won 42 of the Israeli Knesset’s 120 seats, a loss of five.
“Sovietish Heimland” became the first Yiddish publication al
lowed in the USSR in 13 years. Editor Aron Vergelis said this
proved the government’s encouragement of Yiddish culture.
Lawrence Wien, president of the Federation of Jewish Phil
anthropies of New York, bought the Empire State Building from
Col. Henry Crown, a Jewish industrialist of Chicago, for $65 mil
lion, a record for a single structure.
The U. S. Post Office ruled that defamatory post cards mailed
by American Nazis violated postal statutes.
JEWISH
CALENDAR
*ROSH HASHANA
•HOSHANA RABBA
Sept. 20-21,
Oct. 10, Sunday
Monday, Tuesday
♦SHEMINI ATZERET
•YOM KIPP UR
Oct 11, Monday
•SIMHAT TORAH
Sept 29, Wednesday
Oct 12, Tuesday
•SUKKOT
*HANUKA
Oct 4-5,
Dec. 13-20
Monday, Tuesday
Monday-Monday
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Seven Arts Features
Jewish Telegraphic
Agency
World Union *>ree»
Friday, Aug. 27, 1971
BORIS SMOLAR
"between you and me
ACADEMIC MOODS
The treatment of Jews fti the Soviet Union and
the existence of Israel, are among the subjects most
stimulating to Jewish college youth. Other impor
tant issues of concern to the campus and the Jewish
community are: 1. The quality of Jewish life; 2. Jew
ish continuity; 3. Jewish education; and 4. Young
leadership development.
This is brought out in a memorandum by the
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fund’s
Committee on College Youth and Faculty Programs.
The Committee is composed of about 180 lay, pro
fessional, student and faculty representatives from
more than 75 communities. Its chairman is Mrs.
Lawrence J. Weinberg, of Los Angeles, t'he chair
man of its program advisory body is Dr. John Slaw-
son. Various sections of this committee serve spec
ialized functions within the overall concern of the
national body.
There are currently at least 30 Federations which
—in addition to the CJWFW national commtitee—have
local College Youth and Faculty Committees func
tioning or are contemplating developing them. Rapid
progress has been made during the past two years
in the development by various communities of their
local College Youth and Faculty programs which
aim to strengthen Jewish identity. This is reflected
in the CJFWF memorandum. In some instances
Federations have been responsive to campus initia
tive; in other settings, the campuses have responded
to the overtures of the Federations. The memoran
dum gives an overview of all programs conducted
on behalf of the College Youth and Faculty Com
mittees throughout the United States.
* * *
DRAMATIC ACTION
In their interest in the fate of Soviet Jewry, Jew
ish students are highly articulate. However they are
not adherents of the line taken by the Jewish De
fense League. They are opposed to terrorist acts or
anything that is not within the laws of the United
States. They participate in protest demonstrations
against the Soviet treatment of Jews; they print
and disseminate literature on this subject; they
dramatize in many ways the equally geshuine but
staid and reserved efforts of Jews who are a gen
eration or two older. Their active interest is con
sidered as being of great significance.
There is an important and legitimate difference
between the student youth groups and the adult
organizations with regard to indicating their stand
on the suppression of Jewish rights in the Soviet
Union. But liaison between the two exists and co
ordination of effort is practiced. The central student
body which deals with matters concerning the rights
of Soviet Jewry is affiliated with the American Jew
ish Conference on Soviet Jewry in which all major
Jewish groups are represented. Local student bodies
active in the fight for Soviet Jewry function in all
major Jewish communities.
The interest of the Jewish college youth in Israel
finds its expression—among other things—in enor
mous growth of organized travel to Israel. Some
25,000 youths of college and high school age have
this year visited Israel, a good many of them for
study programs there.
It is estimated in the CJFWF memorandum that,
this year approximately 10,000 young people were
sent to Israel under community auspices. Part or
all of their expenses were underwritten by Federa
tions, Bureaus of Jewish Education, synagogues and
other community groups. The trips may be as short
as two weeks, or may cover a semester or a full
academic year’s study.
At least 15,000 college and high school students
have gone this year to Israel quite independently
of any formal community-planned programs. They
arranged their own trips. There are currently about
25,000 American Jewish students in Israeli colleges
and universities.
The CJFWF memorandum points out that little
or no organized oommunity or campus effort has
been made to draw the bulk of these high school
and college youths into Jewishly oriented programs
upon their return home. “This needs to be done,”
the memorandum stresses.
* * *
COMMUNAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Most interesting are the facts related in the
memorandum on how students and faculty members
have been attracted to Jewish activities in various
cities through the country. In Boston, for instance,
an “umbrella” organization covering more than 20
student groups, was brought into existence. In New
York, the Federation has this year financed the es
tablishment of a Jewish Association of College
Youth. Other communities have created Commission
on Campus Affairs, Jewish Student Services, Youth
Commissions and other similar bodies.
Jewish student newspapers are now appearing in
various colleges and universities nation-wide. They
claim a readership of more than 350,000. Free Uni
versities, which offer courses in all phases of Jewish
life and scholarship are now functioning in a num
ber of Jewish communities. Some of the worked out
cooperative arrangments with local universities
under which the students receive academic credits.
Others, where no academic credit is given, are also
attracting students who had not previously partici
pated in any Jewish activities on their campuses.
The Hillel Foundations have also inaugurated this
year various “no-oredit” courses on the campuses.
Hillel remains the dominant center for those
Jewish students who have been traditionally par
ticularly the case in campuses away from large
metropolitan areas. Local College Youth and Facul
ty Committees cooperate fully with the Hillel locally
or nationally through the B’nai B’rith Hillel Founda
tions headquarters in Washington. About 45 major
Federations last year contributed 40 percent of the
total of Hillel budgets. They also allocated funds to
non-Hillel programs benefiting college-age youth.
The percentage of Jewish youth in the colleges
and universities who are becoming Jewishly-interest-
ed is not yet what it should be, but the College
Youth and Faculty programs are making substantial
progress in reaching the students. There is good
reason to believe that the forthcoming academic
season will Increase the ranks of J ewishly-interested
students as well as of members of the faculty.
The CJFWF memorandum reveals that its na
tional committee on College Youth and Faculty has
held a number of meetings devoted to the Jewish
aspects of the New Left phenomenon on the campus.
The New Left is largely pro-Arab and anti-Israel.
Tragically, the Jewish students involved in the New-
Left are bright, aggressive, articulate and energetic.
Their influence exceeds their numbers. The CJFWF
College Youth and Faculty Committee—and the
American Jewish Committee in particular—have
given extended consideration to this problem.
Copyright 1971, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.
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