Young American Falasha Jews
To Join Settlement in Israel

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RABBI MATTHEW CONDUCTING SERVICE

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NEW YORK, (AJP)—A third
young couple, members of Beth
H a t p h l a h Congregation, the
central synagogue for New York
City's more than 1,500 "black
Jews", has left here for Israel
where they plan joining a set-
tlement, their . spiritual leader,
Rabbi Wentworth Matthew dis-
closed.
Rabbi Matthew, who has or-
ganized America's Falasha Jews,
originally from Ethiopia, into a
growing community, expressed
deep concern over the future
perpetuation of the faith among
Negro Jews - here. Enrollment at
his little. Hebrew school, where
the youngsters are instructed
twice weekly in the rituals of
orthodox Judaism or what Rabbi
Matthew terms "real Judaism",
has dropped to a meager 30
k pupils.
"M a n y • of our youth are
reaching the marriageable age,"
Rabbi Matthew told an Ameri-
can Jewish Press reporter, "and
we're hoping the. congregation
will have some newcomers be-
fore too long."
Taking a long-range view of
building the American. Ethio-
pian Jewish community, Rabbi
Matthew disclosed that several
of the congregation's youth plan
opening a kosher meat shop in
the near future to serve New
York's Negro Jews. Thus far,
members of - the congregation
have purchased their meats at
kosher butcher shops, none too
numerous, in the Harlem neigh-
borhood.
Zionists throughout the years,
the American Falasha Jews have
visited Israel. Rabbi Matthew
himself spent a number of years
in Tel Aviv where he received
his smicha (ordainment).
A number of the Negro Jewish
youth are interested in going to
Israel and three couples have
already settled in the Jewish
State, said Rabbi Matthews.
Beginning his Ethiopian Jew-

ORT to Hear Review
Of Gunther's New Book

The Michigan Region of the
Women's American Ort will
meet Monday, at the Davison
Jewish Center. Members and
guests are invited to attend this
open meeting. A dessert lunch-
eon will be served at 12:30 p.m.,
followed by a book review.
Speaker will be Helen Esser
Fenton, who will review John
Gunther's 1 atest book "Roose-
velt in Retrospect—A Profile in
History."

Israel On Travel Board
TEL AVIV—(ISI)—Israel will
serve as the Middle East repre-
sentative on the 15-nation Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Inter-
national U n i o n of Official
T r a v el Organizations. The
Union has an advisory status in
the United Nations and is the
first international organization
to which Israel was elected a
member.

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ish group in the United States
shortly after his marriage in
1916, Rabbi Matthew's congrega-
tion has branched out to in-
clude smaller groups in Brook- ,
lyn, the, Bronx and a second
body in Manhattan.
New York's "black Jews" and
that's the title afforded them
by Rabbi Matthew—are strictly
orthodox. All Jewish holidays
are reverently observed by the
American Falashas. Diet a r y
laws a r e maintained in the
strictest manner. The Falashas,
Rabbi Matthew added, h a v e
gained the respect of their fel-
low Negroes and face little anti-
Semitism.

THE JEWISH NEWS-5

Reunion in
Israel

Friday, December 15, 1950

JNF to Start Working
On Huge Reclamation
Project in the Spring

Captain ISHAK
TESSLER of t h e

JERUSALEMN, (JTA)—Imme-
diately after the rainy season
ends next spring the Jewish Na-
tional Fund will begin work on
one of the greatest land recla-
mation projects, ever undertak-
en in Israel—the draining of the
vast Huleh swamp — Dr. Abra
ham Grannot, world head of the
JNF, told a press conference.
The project will be accom-
plished in three stages, he stat-
ed, and will make available for
agriculture 60,000 dunams (15,-
000 acres) of rich land. The first
stage in the program will be the
widening of the beds of the
Jordan and Tura Rivers and the
creation of a huge basin where
the two converge. Completion
of this task will guarantee the
Huleh area against flooding and
will provide over 100,000,000
cubic yards of water for irriga-
tion purposes elSewhere.
Dr. Grannot also announced
that the JNF has acquired from
the Israel goVernment 1,100,000
dunams of ;land abandoned by
the Arabs and is negotiating
with various churches for the
purchase of other lands. One
such sale has given the organ-
ization land in the center of
Jerusalem formerly owned by
the Moravian brothers. The JNF
now owns 2,100,000 dunams of
land on which 250,000 people
live.
Referring to the finances of
the organization, the director
said that it has obtained a total
of $37,000,000 in loans in various
countries and its budget for the
coming year will be approxi-
mately $14,000,000 pounds ($39,-
200,000). He also said that the
Jubilee celebrations of the JNF
will officially begin with the
convention of the American JNF
in Washington next January.

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