MENU
Moetzet Hapoalot Educates Moslems
remainder. Each woman con- Tamra, Kfar Yasif, Shfar Am,
By PHILIP GILLON
"And a Light Was Turned tributed a piece of handiwork. Goosh Halav and Umm El
Tamra is a pretty little vil- Fahm.
On in The Darkness and It
In each case the men had to
lage
of 5,000 inhabitants set in
Awakened the Women," sang
15 young Arab girls on the the olive groves and rocky hills be persuaded first to give their
makeshift stage in the school of Upper Galilee. In this , village consent to education for their
El
hall of the Israel Arab village no less than 250 women belong womenfolk. When Umm
to the Moetzet Hapoalot-Pioneer Fahm, a village of , 8,000 in-
of Tamra.
habitants, 120 women had fin-
The little choir was made up Women Club.
It had taken a great deal of ished courses, the men thought
of teen-agers who had partici-
this was an adequate number.
pated in a six-month sewing pleading and persuasion be- "Do you want the women to be
fore
the
Sheikh
of
the
nearby
course given by Moetzet Hapoa-
better than the men?" they
lot (Pioneer Women's sister or- Druze • Village of Julis would asked.
agree
to
the
opening
of
the
ganization in Israel). Wearing
They had to be reassured
the dresses they had sewn first of these girls' clubs in that the women were in fact
themselves, the girls pirouetted the .non-Jewish sectors of Is
way behind the men and that
proudly, each graduate showing rael. Until then the Arabs the men could check this by at-
held
firmly
to
the
belief
that
off her own dress to best ad-
women had to stay borne— tending the Moetzet Hapoalot
vantage.
and it didn't matter if they club in the village. They were
The dresses were sewn_ in were ignorant. After much dis- reassured and the club is pro-
Western style.
cussion it was finally agreed gressing.
But although the women are to open a club in the Sheikh's
The stereotype of the Arab
members of Moetzet Hapoalot, house. Each morning 15 damsel depicts the lowly situa-
where they are learning arith- heavily-veiled young girls of tion of the woman in the old
metic, reading and writing Ara- 16 or 17 could be seen trip- Middle East—the pitcher and
bic, Hebrew, home economics, ping gently through the vil- the veil were symbols of servi-
sewing and embroidery, the in- lage in their long flowing tude.
In modern Israel the tap has
, tensity of their Moslem belief white robes.
replaced the well as the pipe-
remains unaffected.
After nine months the girls
The ceremony at Tamra had had finished the first course. lines have reached into every
a double purpose: To mark the All pleas for the holding of a Arab home. The veil and the
40th nnniversary of Moetzet second course were of no avail. pitcher on the head are disap-
Hapoalot as well as a graduation The Sheikh decreed that the pearing. Those girls singing so
ceremony for the girls of the girls had learned enough and happily in the Moetzet Hapoalpt-
Pioneer Women clubhouse are
sewing group.
the club was to be closed. symbols of emergent women in
At Tamra there are no less Broken-hearted, the women had a renascent land.
than five classes of reading to agree.
and writing in Arabic con-
But news of the opening of
ducted .by Moetzet Hapoalot the girls' club in Julis had S. African Jewish
and Pioneer Women. One, at- traveled fast. Soon Moetzet Hap- Parley Vows Loyalty
tended by 10 women, is an oalot was allowed to open an-
evening class for the benefit other girls' club in the village to Future Republic
of mothers who cannot leave of Ussafia, not far from Julis.
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) —
their young children during Here the consent was given by Delegates to the second national
the day. Their husbands baby- the chairman of the Local Coun- conference of the South African
sit at home four evenings a cil, a Mr. Leviv, who is now a Orthodox Congregations, unan-
week between six and eight, member of Knesset. He wel- imously endorsed a statement
while their wives to go les- comed the suggestion of month- by the organization's chairman,
sons.
ly lectures on general topics. Dr. Israel Bershon, pledging
One husband • explained in The girls were even allowed to "loyalty to the future Republic
matter-of-fact tones that he beat go on a trip to Tel Aviv where of South Africa."
The statement said "we shall
his wife to make her go to these they were shown around the
lessons. "I wasn't going to let Histadrut headquarters, • visited continue to work in the future,
her be less educated than my factories, museums and the as in the past, for the good of
the country." The Union of
neighbor's wife," he explained. zoological gardens.
Then came trouble. A deputa- South Africa, which recently
Some time later, when the pupil
gave birth to another child, she tion of fifty Sheikhs (among took itself out of the British
refused to giVe up her lessons, them the Sheikh of Julis) came Commonwealth, will become a
even though father by this time to Mr.-Leviv and demanded that republic soon under the present
was finding baby-sitting quite a the club be closed. But Leviv South African Government.
Bershon told the delegates:
had always been a fighter for
tough proposition.
"We
are meeting at a time
the
freedom
of
women.
He
ex-
Recently the women of Tamra
decided that the little wooden plained to the Sheikhs that he when our country is passing
but used as a clubhouse was in- had only started the club be- through a period of stress and
adequate for their needs. Being cause Julis had led the way. strain, and is being attacked
told by the Moetzet Hapoalot The girls had fallen in love with in many quarters. The Jewish
that $2,000 was required to build the whole idea and he neither community at no time aligned
itself with any particular party
a modern, attractive new club- could nor would terminate or section, and has not taken
house, they set out on their own something which - was bringing a uniform stand on queitions
initiative to raise this sum of so much benefit to his village.
Since then Moetzet Hapoa- agitating the _political scene.
money. They collected donations
lot
Pioneer Women has man- But it is my pleasant duty to
from villagers. which amounted
our appreciation to the
to $750. Then they decided to aged to set up seven more record
present Government for its fair
organize a market to earn the Arabic girls' clubs, all of treatment
of the Jewish com-
them meeting a tremendous
Poor Richard says: There's one urge for women's emancipa- munity.
sure way to save, and that's be- tion and education which is
fore you get it—through payroll sweeping through all the Arab Anti-Jewish Teacher
savings where E bonds can be communities in Israel. These
bought the easy, automatic way. clubs are in Haifa, Nazareth, in England Refuses
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State Dept. Aide's Leniency on Arab
Boycott Provokes Jewish Protests
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —Dele- ' citizens."
The American Jewish Congress
gations of two different Jewish
organizations held separate meet- delegation urged Hays to protect
ings with high officials of the the rights of American Jewish
State Department' in connection travelers and businessmen from
with recent statements indicating religious discrimination by Arab
acquiescence by the State Depart- governments. Representing the
ment in Arab boycott and block- AJC were Julian Freeman, of In-
dianapolis, chairman of its Com-
ade tactics.
mission on International Affairs;
Rabbi Philip S. Berns
ael Pub- ouis B. Shector, of Baltimore, co-
ident of the Americ
irman of the Commission; and
I. L.
lic Affairs Co
p Baum of New York, the
director,
Kenen, its e
ission's director.
Talbot, Assist-
called on Phi
of State for Near
ant Secret.
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the Ar boycott
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LONDON, (JTA)—Colin Jor-
dan, Coventry schoolteacher
whose ouster from the educa-
tional system is being demanded
ome parents at Coventry, on
unds that he is an or-
the neo-Fascist British
arty, indicated here
fight the attempts
dismissed.
ade a statement here
"there is no question
y influencing the students 1
and to the aims of the
National Party." He said
of quit his post at the
school or seek transfer
school voluntarily.
became known as an
r for the neo-Fascist
ere two weeks ago when,
seven other members of his
was fined in a London
rying violently anti-
ers in front of the
ater here, while a
being held corn-
the martyrdom of
of the Warsaw Ghetto
gainst the Nazis.
successful man knows
value of time—he seizes
d enjoys every moment of it.
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