THE JEWISH NEWS

His Master's Voice

Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspaper, Michigan Press Association, National Edi-
torial Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35,
Mich., VE 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year. Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich. under act of Congress of March
8, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

SIDNEY SHMAIZAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG

Advertising Manager

Business Manager

City Editor

Sabbath Scripttu-al Selections

This Sabbath, the sixteenth day of Adar, 5721, the following Scriptural selections will be read in
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Kee Tissa, Ex. 30:11-34:35. Prophetical portion, I Kings 18:1-39.

Licht Benshen, Friday, March 3, 6:06 p.m.

VOL. XXXLX No. 1

Page Four

March 3, 1961

Moroccan Jewry: How Many Can Be Rescued?

Having lifted restrictions on the emi-
gration of its Jewish subjects, the gov-
ernment of Morocco has opened the way
for escape by tens of thousands of the
remaining 200,000 Moroccan Jews who
are seeking havens of refuge from the
persecutions that are being inflicted upon
them by intolerant - Moslem neighbors.
More than 125,000 Jews already had
fled from Morocco, most of them having
gone to Israel prior to 1956. The restric-
tions that were imposed, as a result of
Arab League pressures, made it difficult
for more than a handful to leave their
homeland since then.
Now the opportunity is provided for
another large migration into Israel, , and
the question to be posed is: will the
means be made available, and will the
necessary transportation be provided for
the poorest among them to leave for per-
manent and secure homes in the Jewish
State? -
It has been indicated that under
exisiting conditions only the wealthy will
be able to migrate, and the poor will
remain in a precarious state. In the in-
stance of the wealthy, there has been
short-sightedness in many lands where,
during periods of persecutions, the diffi-

1961 ORT Day

Paul Hoffman, managing director of
the United Nations Special Fund, having
made a thorough study of activities spon-
sored by ORT—the Organization for
Rehabilitation Through Training—which
has become the largest Jewish-sponsored
vocational training agency in the world,
paid this compliment to this movement
that is currently training 40,000 students
in 663 installations in 20 countries:
"It must be a source of deep pride
to those helping finance ORT's im-
portant programs that the trainees
learn skills which enable them to earn
better livings and break the bonds of "
the hopelessness which was their lot
without those skills. A skill is a preci-
ous possession which cannot be taken
away. And skills are as contagious as
smiles; men with trades . . train others
in their skills. Thus new vistas are
opened for many more people, too-
long held back by history and social
discrimination."
It is a deserving tribute to a great
movement, and it comes appropriately on
the eve of this year's ORT Day, to be ob-
served on - March 8.
ORT's goals are manifold. In the ORT-
sponsored schools, 350,000 have already
been trained for productive pursuits, and
the 40,000 who are attending ORT
classes at this time are being taught
trades ranging from carpentry and metal
work to electronics and laboratory tech-
niques. They learn welding, dressmaking,
fashion-designing and tool-making. Many
of them, "freed from charity" and
provided with skills that enable them to
become self-sustaining, manage to escape
from . persecutions in lands of oppression
either behind the Iron Curtain or under
Moslem rule. Many of them are becoming
useful citizens of Israel.
ORT therefore has well earned the
encomia that go its way, and we heartily
join the movement's many admirers in
greeting ORT on its 1961 Day. The
occasion should serve to inspire renewed
and increased giving to Detroit's Allied
Jewish Campaign, which counts ORT
among its beneficiaries.

culty involved in disposing of properties
has caused many of them to remain in the
lands of their birth, with the result that
many were impoverished when countries
like Romania confiscated their belongings
and they were left without means either
to travel or to remain in their original
homes.
The poor must look to the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee and the United Jew-
ish Appeal to rescue them. To provide
escape for large numbers, tens of
millions of dollars are required for their
transportation and integration, and there-
upon Israel becomes additionally burd-
ened with an influx of new settlers who
are withOut means and who must be
housed, fed, provided with medical aid
and with schooling for their children.
That is how the burdens multiply, and
when a contributor to the United Jewish
Appeal fails to take these needs into ac-
count, the burdens are perpetuated.
A mere lifting of the ban on the emigra-
tion of Jews from Morocco—a condition
that arose from Arab pressures — does
not offer humanitarian solution to a grave
problem. The position of Moroccan Jewry
is very grave. It continues to be accom-
panied by dangers to the lives of a large
community.
It is to be hoped that the death of
Morocco's king will not affect the easing
of the restrictions, since the existing con-
ditions remain intolerable.
In a disturbing account of "The Plight
of the Moroccan Jews," Edmond Taylor,
the European correspondent of the Re-
porter Magazine, who has visited Morocco
several times and has made a thorough
study of the rise of anti-Semitism there,
paints a sad picture. Taylor states in his
article:

"Emigration is a safety valve for Morocco,"
a moderate Jewish leader told me. "It is human
nature to feel frightened whenever you are
penned in.
The vicious circle of fear and repression
became a spiral of tension when Morocco joined
the Arab League in 1958. Not content with
blocking organized emigration, the Moroccan
police started withholding passports from indi-
vidual Jews suspected of seeking to reach
Israel. Then they becan arrestingand some-
times torturing—Jews suspected of conspiracy
to emigrate.
"Another turn of the screw came in the fall
of 1959, when Morocco, in accordance with
Arab League regulations, cut off postal rela-
tions with Israel. Many Moroccan Jews manage
to communicate by indirect means with their
families or friends in Israel, but the postal ban
disturbs them deeply as a symptom of a pro-
gressive malady in the state. 'Eventually they'll
get around to arresting us for conspiracy
against the state every time a Moroccan Jew
encloses a message for his old mother in
Israel in a letter to France,' a middle-class
Jew remarked to me."

This is only part of his long story.
Medievalism still is running rampant in
Morocco, and the 200,000 Jews there
remain in real danger,
Anyone who believed for even a
moment that Jewish responsibilities to-
wards impoverished and oppressed com-
munities have ended was, of course,
wrong. It is Morocco today, and it may be
— Heaven forbid — Algeria and other
areas tomorrow. Therefore our duties as
Jews towards our kinsmen, wherever they
may be, are increasing. The work to assist
in large scale migrations continues. The
need to help Israel remains great. Let us
remember it when we make the decision
on the extent of our contributions and the
amount of labor we will offer to assist in
humanitarian drives in behalf of the
United Jewish Appeal, whose support in
Detroit comes from the Allied Jewish
Campaign.

Ein Gedi Story, Poem, Essays
in New Focus Youth Journal

The latest issue of Focus, the journal for youth leaders, pub-
lished in Jerusalem by the Youth and Hechalutz Department of
the World Zionist Organization, (P. 0. Box 92, Jerusalem) .con-
-tains a number of important essays.
Edited by L Halevy-Levin, this issue of Focus commences with
an evaluation -of "The Situation in the Middle East," by Moshe
Sharett, former Israel Prime Minister. While it faces all issues
that afflict the area, Sharett is optimistic that with a "sober ap-
proach" there may result "a whole gamut of progressive and bene-
ficial activities which in the aggregate would gradually ameliorate
the troubled situation and pave the way towards a better future
for the area and all its peoples."
A "Time to Act" by youth is sounded in an essay by '..the
Hebrew writer, Benzion Benshalom.
The background of the Trumpeldor and Tel Hai affair is
described by S. L. Kirscheribaum. His article adds value to his-
torical research about the important occurrence in the period after
World War I.
Of special interest in this issue is the illustrated article
by Shalom Eilati, "Ten Weeks in Ein Gedi." It is an excellent
description of an Important defense and vacation center in
Israel.
A long poem, "Emek," by. Shin Shalom, appears in Hebrew,
with an English translation.
There is a seaman's story by Yanetz Ramgal, "The Coast of
the Smiling Jews."
Nehemiah Ben Baruch is the author of an essay on "The Re-
ligious Kibbutz Movement."

`From Ararat to Suburbia

"From Ararat to Suburbia" is a most appropriate title for
"The History of the Jewish Community of Buffalo," by Selig Adler
and Thomas E: Connolly. This new Jewish Publication Society
volume commences with the story of Mordecai Manuel Noah, the
famed American Jew who held consular and other government
posts and who had the vision of Zion redeemed. He was a pre-
cursor of Zionism and he undertook to establish a Jewish state
at "Ararat," the name he gave to his hoped-for-state the founda-
tion for which he established near Buffalo.
These and many other important incidents are told in this
new book. The authors relate the personal facts about the settlers
in Buffalo, in addition to describing the movements that arose
in that Jewish community. They tell about the early immigrants
from Germany and Poland, prior to 1861, and their evolution into
an important community.
A fine tribute is paid to the devoted efforts of Elias Rex
Jacobs, editor and publisher of the Buffalo Jewish Review, and
Mrs. Jacobs, who jointly labored to provide Buffalo with a good
English-Jewish newspaper.
Reference also is made to Rabbi Morris Adler, who had a
pulpit in Buffalo before coming to Detroit.
The patterns of community-building described in "From
Ararat to Suburbia make the Adler-Connolly volume most inter-
esting and informative reading.

4 New WSU Publications

Wayne State University Press has just issued four new im-

port ant volumes.

Dr. Harold Basilius, director of the WSU Press, was espe-
cially gratified with the response received at the publication of
"The Jew Within American Society—A Study in Ethnic Indi-
viduality," by C. Bezalel Sherman.
The other three WSU Press volumes that came off the press
last week are: -
"Last Periods of Shakespeare, Racine and Ibsen," by Ken-
neth Muir, King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the
University of Liverpool;
"Monopoly on Wheels—Henry Ford and the Selden Automo-
bile Patent," by William Greenleaf, and a foreword by Allan
Nevins; and
"Congressional Control of Federal Spending," by Robert Ash
Wallace.