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43.5 million pints of blood froth
Blood Program
In the 20 years since the in- voluntary donors. Of this,
20,400,000 was for national de-
By SELWYN RAAB
food flown in, according to auguration of its Army-Navy fense, the remainder for civil-
Blood Donor Service, the Amer-
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Sasso
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
ican Red Cross has procured ian use.
"I don't know of any other
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin
Islands.—This island boasts of family that gets kosher food,"
having the oldest Jewish com- the rabbi said. "You can buy
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munity in the Western Hemi- some canned kosher food, but
that's
all.
We
have
no
slaugh-
sphere, but that community may
be dying. The island's sole terer and no fresh kosher
meat. Last year, a salesman
Rabbi says:
Coffee - Tea - Pancake Syrup
for a kosher provisions com-
Only a handful of the 175
pany came here and offered
At
Your Neighborhood Market
Jews here attend Sabbath
to hhve kosher food flown in.
services.
I'm afraid no one was inter-
Kosher food is virtually
ested."
unobtainable.
Rabbi Sasso wants to conduct
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Few parents attempt to give religious instruction classes, but
their children religious train- he can't find enough students.
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Intermarriage on the islands,
The Hebrew language is the rabbi believes, is contrib-
unknown to Jews on the is- uting to the decline of the Jew-
land.
ish community's spiritual en-
Marriage with non-Jews is thusiasm.
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increasing.
The most optimistic sign
Jews have lived in the three Rabbi Sasso sees for the com-
U.S. Virgin Islands of St. munity is the arrival in the last
Thomas (the major island), St. 10 years of about six Jewish
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John and St. Croix since the families from the States. "We
Danes settled St. Thomas in even hear Yiddish spoken here
1665. The first Jews came as now," he said. "I never heard
traders and merchants, and it before."
Rabbi Sasso's dilemma was
some of the 50 Jewish families
now here can trace their fam- evident at a recent Friday night
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300 Riopelle St.
ilies back to the original set- service. Inside the synagogue—
which was rebuilt in 1833 on
tlers.
In 1917, the U.S purchased the site of an older one de-
the three Caribbean Islands, stroyed by fire in 1804—Rabbi
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about 1500 miles from New Sasso, in canonical robes, waited
in the pulpit for the congrega-
York, for $25 million.
tion to assemble.
Jews have prospered finan-
About 30 worshipers. only 15
cially and politically here. The
Dealers in Mercury Outboard Motors and Fiber Glass Boats
present governor. Ralph M. men and women from St. Thom-
as, attended. One of the women,
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Paiewonsky, is Jewish, and his
community leader, wore a
family is one of the oldest on a
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this sun-drenched island. Two Christmas corsage. At the end
other Jews have been V.I. gov- of the half-hour service. Rabbi
Sasso noted that a cruise ship
ernors, one under Danish rule.
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out of New York would dock
The islands' Jewish spiritual
leader is silver-thatched, 68- early the next morning in St.
year-old Rabbi Moses D. Sasso. Thomas. He said many Jews
He has made his home in St, from the ship were expected to
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Thomas since 1914, and his an - attend Saturday services.
'Please," he pleaded, his
cestors have .either lived in the
2852 Eighteenth St.
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voice almost cracking. "Please
Virgin Islands or in other parts come to
services tomorrow so
of the West Indies for more
these good people from the
than 200 years,
ship won't have to ask: 'Where
Proudly showing a visitor St.
are the Jews that live here?
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Thomas' 128-year-old Sephardic
Why don't they come to this
synagogue—whose floor is cov-
beautiful and ancient syna-
ered with sand to commemorate gogue?"
the Jews wandering in the Sinai
Although Jews have encoun-
Desert — Rabbi Sasso reflected
tered little overt discrimination
on the past and future of his
since the islands were settled,
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congregation:
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"We have thrived in the past. Rabbi Sasso and other leaders
w
The feeling of Jewishness was were disturbed by an incident
strong here. However, I'm not last year. It concerned charges
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too certain of the future. Maybe that, on St. Croix, the second
most populous of the islands,
its a new generation with
realtors were attempting to pre-
changing beliefs and fewer spit- vent Jews and Negroes from
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itual ties. Maybe its the same
"gentle-
in other places. But I'm not sure buying homes through
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whether a Jewish community men's agreements."
The alleged bias led to the
will always continue in the
enactment of a broad civil rights
Virgin Islands."
act by the V.I Legislature. The
Rabbi Sasso said attendance
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measure was praised by the
at Sabbath services has declined
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37 - THE DETROIT JEWISH N EWS -- Friday, April 20, 1962

Some folks spend a dollar's
worth of time trying to save a
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