Agency's 'Ship to Settlement' Policy
Speeds Israel Immigrant Absorption
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-33 Zionism Among Groups
Friday, September 16, 1955
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JERUSALEM — A ship-load of
immigrants arrived at Haifa early
one recent morning, most of them
from North Africa.
Those from the big urban cen-
ters — Casablanca, Algiers, Oran
and Tunis — spoke French and
were dressed in the Western
manner. Others, hailing from the
tiny Atlas Mountain villages and
remote desert towns of Tunisia
and Tripoli, wore the white robes
and . baggy trousers common to
the Near East. Their language
was Arabic.
There was a note of urgency
in the arrival of these immi-
grants. The flames of nationalism
erupting and igniting mob vio-
lence in parts of North Africa
create a precarious situation for
all minorities, particularly the
Jews.
Within the next fcw months,
Israel expects a greatly in-
creased influx from these
trouble spots.
The new system of bringing
immigrants - directly from their
point of landing to permanent
homes streamlines the difficult
absorption task and makes it pos-
sible to handle more people in a
shorter period of time.
By mid-morning, the newcom-
ers had been processed. They
boarded a fleet of buses which
moved from the port area through
the heavy traffic of downtown
Haifa.
Part of the fleet turned right
and entered the highway to the
Sharon coastal plain and points
south. The other vehicles moved
eastward to the lush Emek and
Beisan valley farmlands and the
Galilee hills beyond.
By late afternoon, the new im-
migrants — about 1,000 strong —
were settled in permanent homes
in a score of agricultural settle-
, ments and villages dotting the
land from the Negev and the
Judean foothills to the shores of
Lake Kinneret and the Huleh.
These people had had their
first glimpse of Israel at dawn
from the deck of an Israeli
passenger liner. At sunset, they
were already "homesteaders."
Their dwellings, though modest,
were suitably furnished when
they arrived. Housewives were
delighted to find the new homes
equipped with cooking and clean-
ing utensils. Even more impor-
tant, there was an eight-day fog.d
supply for each member of the
family.
If these families from the ghet-
tos of Morocco. and the mud vil-
lages of the Sahara fringe knew
anything of fairy tales, they
might have believed that their
good fortune was the work of
someone with a magic wand.
Actually, it was the result of
Months of planning, organiza-
tion, papei-work and building on
the part of the Jewish Agency's
Absorption and Agricultural Col-
onization Departments.
These departments form the
backbone- of the Jewish Agency's
many activities in Israel. They
are responsible for giving each
immigrant family that arrived
the friendly assistance and initial
"boost" on the road to a fruitful
life in their new land.
According to the Absorption
Department's report to the
Zionist Actions Committee,
which met last month in
Jerusalem, a total of 25,844 im-
migrants landed in Israel dur-
ing the past twelve months.
About 80 percent of them have
since been absorbed in agri-
cultural settlements and in _
frontier development areas.
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The Jewish Agency's "ship to
settlement" program was started
about two years ago. It was the
fruit of long and, at times, bitter
experience. It was made possible
by Israel's greatly improved
economy and increased supply
of building materials. The system
now works with the precision of
a Swiss watch.
Priest Opposes Blessing
Of Brandeis Chapel
BOSTON, (JTA)—Police here
intervened to break up a scuffle
which resulted from a placard
message exhibited in Boston
Common by followers of Rev.
Leonard Feeney • charging dese-
cration at Brandeis University.
The placard read: "Catholics
of Boston, stop the Jews from
dishonoring and desecrating the
Blessed Sacrament at Brandeis
University."
The disturbance occurred when
some bystanders objected to the
placard, carried by Rev. Feeney
himself, and handbills which
were being distributed by his
followers. The handbills de-
nounced a Brandeis University
project to have Archbishop Rich-
ard J. Cushing, Roman Catholic
prelate of this city, bless the new
Catholic chapel at Brandeis.
The University announced
that Archbishop Cushing would
celebrate the first mass and bless
and dedicate the chapel.
Father Feeney was silenced by
Archbishop Cushing three years
ago for publicly supporting a
charge that heresy was being
taught at Boston College, a Jesuit
institution.
Father Feeney contended that
Boston College compromised of-
ficial church teaching when it
suggested that salvation was pos-
sible outside the Roman Catholic
Church. Later, Father Feeney
was dismissed from the Jesuit
order.
He has set up his own center—
St. Benedict's in Cambridge,
Mass.,—where he and a group of
young followers have continued
their activities. Many of the St.
Benedict Center publications
have been labeled anti-Semitic in
the past.
South Africans Fight
Assimilationist Trends
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) — A
decision to establish a special
youth department to combat in-
creasing assimiliative trends
among adolescent Jewish youth
was unanimously voted at' the
20th 'congress of the South Af-
rican Jewish Board of Deputies.
Efforts will be made to inter-
est unaffiliated youth in commu-
nal and cultural endeavors, it
was announced, and the board in
its youth program, will seek to
carry out its work in cooperation
and consultation with other
agencies.
E. J. C. Horowitz, chairman of
the board, paid tribute to the
youth activities carried on in
South Africa by the Zionists, but
said that additional efforts had
proved necessary. After contro-
versy in past years on the ques-
tion, it was now recognized, he
said, that the board had the right
and duty to enter this work. It
did so, he added, with the best
of intentions not to compete with
organizations already active in
the field.
Horowitz stressed. that the cen-
tral role of the board was to
strengthen Jewish communal life.
He noted improvement in rela-
tions between the Jewish com-
munity and other sections of the
population.
A resolution protesting the
arming of the Arab States by the
Western .Powers without ade-
quate guarantees for Israel's se-
curity was adopted by the con-
gress.
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and Feliks Gross, Brooklyn Col-
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Participating in the Sympo-
sium are 12 contributing au-
thors, each an expert in the
field he treats, including Agu-
dism, Assimilationism, Bundism,
Territorialism, Volkism and
Zionism in all its ramifications.
The
political kit fts
and
theories enunciated by the Jew-
ish people in modern times are
explained in the book, "Struggle
for Tomorrow: Modern Political
Ideologies of the Jewish Pe'o-
ple."
Published by Arts, Inc., of
New York City, the 300-page
informative volume is edited by
Basil J. Vlavianos, professor of
The Pinsker Progressive
Aid Society
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you and yoUr. family. May the New Year
bring to you and yours all the good bless-
ings of -Peace, Heilth, Joy and Happiness.
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Harry Berman, Vice President
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German Cross of Merit
NUREMBERG, (JTA) — Adolf
Hamburger, a local Jewish mer-
chant, has been awarded the
West German Federal Cross of
Merit in recognition of his work
in rebuilding the Frankfurt' Jew-
ish community after the end of
the Hitler regime'.
The community, which Ham-
burger heads, numbers 175 per-
sons, including less than 10 chil-
dren and adults up to the age of
30. Twenty-five years ago, the
community was 7,500 strong.
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