Thursday, July 14, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Samaritans to Get
Assistance from JDC
NEW YORK—Some 200 Sam-
aritans in Nablus, Palestine, a
people who ,represent a living
link with the Bible, but who are
now faced with starvation and
possible extinction as an after-
math of the recent Palestine con-
flict, will receive emergency aid
from the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, major American agency
aiding distressed Jews abroad.
Muses A. Leavitt, executive
vice-chairman of the JDC, an-
nounced July 9, that following
an urgent plea for help in behalf
of the Samaritans, the JDC had
voted an emergency appropria-
tion of $1,200 monthly to feed and
assist the group.
PLEAS REJECTED
The JDC was advised, accord-
, ing to Leavitt, that other relief
bodies now assisting Arabs in the
Nablus region, which is Arab
held, had rejected pleas of help
from the Samaritans, on the
grounds that they were not war
refugees. The Samaritans, who
tend flocks and work at simple
crafts, had their usual means of
earning a livelihood disrupted in
the recent Arab-Jewish fighting.
The 200 Samaritans of Nablus,
representing 40 families, are
credited with being direct de-
scendents of a once . populous peo-
ple which figures prominently in
both the Old and New Testa-
ments. Inbreeding, war and dis-
aster, extended over 27 centuries,
has reduced the Samaritans to
their present small number.
Originally,
the
Samaritans
were settled in central Palestine
in the year 719 B.C., by Shalinan-
assets king of Assyria, to occupy
Israel Alters
Customs Rules
WASHINGTON—New customs
regulations have gone into effect
in Israel, Gideon Strauss, Consul
in charge of commercial affairs,
announced.
The customs charge on food
gift parcels has been sharply re-
duced from 30 percent ad valorem
to a nominal figure of 25 cents
Jor each 4.4 pounds (40 Israeli
mils per kilogram).
Immigrants will be exempt
from luxury taxes on their per-
sonal effects and equipment. On
used motor vehicles, immigrants
will in the future pay a flat duty
cd 30 percent ad valorem, and
the previous specific duty and
luxury tax will no longer be
levied.
A new method of computation
wilt reduce the amount of luxury
tax which applies to gifts of elec-
trical appliances, cars. etc. It will
be computed on the basis of the
Cost of the article including in-
surance and freight to Israel and
customs duty.
Romanians Fire
8 'Pro-Zionists'
BUCHAREST— (WNS) —Eight
teachers in the recently formed
government-sponeored Jew i s h
.schools here and at Yassi have
been fired from their posts be-
cause they failed to impress their
pupils with the "menace" repre-
sented by Zionism.
Two female teachers were dis-
missed because they criticized a
r sober u textbooks published
by the Soviet government press
for use in Jewish schools, The
teachers were said to have as-
serted that the orthography em-
ployed in those books made it
impossible for children to learn
how to read and write a good
Yiddish.
At the same time it was an-
nounced that the Yiddish theater
at Yassi had been given the rank
.. a state theater with the em-
pk)yes going on the government
payroll.
Ir• get the worthwhile news
tint. read the sprightly Jewish
Chronicle.
Page Five
Lauds Israeli Music
Mrs. N. Markowitz will repre-
sent the Molly Segal Auxiliary
at the convention of the Jewish
Consumptive Relief Society at
Denver, Colo., Aug. 12-14. A spe-
cial meeting has been called by
Mrs. M. Shapiro, president, for
Tuesday in Mrs. Markowitz'
honor.
territories left vacant by the 10
tribes of Israel forceably exiled
by conquerors to distant lands.
These came to be known as the
Ten Lost Tribes.
ONCE HAD TEMPLE
The Samaritans, in the course
of centuries, adopted the Five
Books of Moses as the basis of
their religion, and once had a
Holy Temple. The Samaritans
are not, however, regarded as
Jews by Rabbinical authorities,
Leavitt pointed out, though their
religion resembles a primitive
form of Judaism.
The colorful Samaritan observ-
ance of Passover, celebrating the
Exodus of the Jews from Egypt,
however, was formerly a stand-
ard attraction for tourists in the
Holy Land, who journeyed to
Nablus to witness the religious
rites.
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ture Alliance, known as YIKUF, foundation, in New York City. Praising the foundation's activities
because the organization had In recording and disseminating a broad repertoire of Israeli music,
"ignored the pogrom which Sov- Frisch referred to this program as "outstanding in scope and most
iet Russia has been conducting promising of bringing about a closer bond between Israel and
against Jewish publications and
Jewri e s outside of its physical boundaries."
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