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.