Friday, March 6, 1964—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-40
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Boris Smolar's
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New Day School to Open Here in September;
Yeshivat Akiva to Go Through. Sixth Grade
Hebrew Day School—will con- him into intelligent and purpose-
duct a full elementary school ful contact with the world in
pro g r am for kindergarten which he lives.
through 6th grades beginning
The broad program of Jewish
in September.
Istudies is designed not only to
(Copyright, 1964, Jewish
The course of general studies.
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
will be designed in accordance i mpart knowledge but to culti-
with the requirements of thelvate an appreciation of religious
Hias at 80
Most of the American-born Jews know what the United Hias
local Boards of Education and' values and traditions and a de-
Michigan Department of Public sire to live accordingly. The
Service has done during recent years in helping Jews from Cuba
and other countries who found their way to the United States. .. .
Instruction. Both in content and course of study will include:
method, attention will be direct- Prayers, Hebrew language and
They also know of the efforts which the United Hias has made
and is making in European countries to enable the emigration of
ed to newer trends in elemen- literature, H u m a s h, Rashi,
Jews from there to the United States, Latin America, Australia
tary education which aim to fur- Prophets, Mishna, Gemora,
and other lands ... However, not all of them are aware of the fact
ther the child's growth and bring laws and practices, history and
that their parents and grandparents had actually been assisted by
music.
the Hias—which now starts its SOth year of existence—to come to
"The Akiva School will aim
this country. . . . This was in the years when hundreds of thou-
to provide each child with a well
sands of Jewish immigrants came to the United States from
rounded education that will en-
Czarist Russia, Galicia, Romania and other East European coun-
able him to live as an intelligent,
tries where they lived in misery ana under constant persecution.
knowledgeable, and self-respect-
Every day ships were coming from Europe with thousands of Jew-
ing Jew in America — loyal to
ish immigrants who did not know a word of English, and many of
the ideals and traditions of
whom did not even know where Their first meal in America would
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
Mrs. Meir also was asked Torah as well as to the heritage
to The Jewish News)
come from. . . . They landed in Ellis Island—which was symbolic-
about the effects of the visit of American democracy," the
ally called "The Isle of Tears"—thousands of them in fear that
LONDON—Mrs. Golda 1Vleir, in January to Israel by Pope
they may be returned from there. back to their native lands, and Israel's foreign minister, de - Paul VI. She said Israel had trustees state.
The founding board of gov-
that they may never enter "the Golden Land" of the United States.
Glared Monday night on a na- been honored to have the Pope
ernors indicated that the move
... In those years no immigration quota existed. . . . The doors of
tionwide television interview but that one should not' expect • to establish the Akiva Hebrew
the United States were open, but immigrants were checked first
that Israel would go through overnight changes in the Mid- Day School was taken in re-
at Ellis Island before being permitted to land in New York. . . In with
its national irrigation proj- dle East because of the visit.
sponse to widespread interest
the first two years alone of this century—in 1901-1902—some 200,- ect and that if the Arabs tried
Mrs. Meir added that the on the part of many parents in
000 Jewish immigrants arrived, all of them penniless and helpless. to prevent the project by force
. . Later, in the years after the notorious Kishinev pogrom in "we shall defend ourselves Israel-Arab deadlock would the suburban areas for the kind
Czarist Russia, the waves of Jewish immigration continued to whenever attacked and . for continue until the Arabs de- of Day School program being
swell with every year.. . Between 1904 and 1910 almost 700,000 whatever reason."
cided that Israel existed and offered. "The Day School move-
Jewish immigrants reached this country, all of them do need of
ment has already proven itself .
She was asked whether an would continue to exist.
aid, many of them in need of care and shelter. . . . It was during
as meeting the needs of the
those years that the Hias became the most popular organization effort to enlist the support of
She said it was for the great American Jewish community. A
the British government for the powers and also the smaller school of the caliber envisioned
among Jews. . . .
project, which will tap the Jor- ones to impress on the Arab by its founders is destined to fill
Enviable Record
No wonder that the name of Hias was on the lips of every dan River, was one of the rea- rulers that just as war was no many unmet needs of Detroit
solution to world problems, it Jewry," the sponsors declared.
Jew in the United States ever since the organization started func- sons for her visit to Britain.
tioning 80 years ago. . .. As Jewish immigration to this country
She replied that she was no solution to Middle East
For the academic year 1964-
continued to grow, the services of Hias became more and more
thought the British did not problems.
65, the Akiva school will be lo-
part and parcel of American Jewry which in those years had no need any persuasion. She
Mrs. Meir lunched Tuesday cated at 19161 Schaefer (Labor
organized Jewish communities. . . . On the eve of World War I,
pointed out that the project with Foreign Secretary R. A. Zionist Building), with a perma-
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, a total of 130,000 was within the agreed alloca- Butler and later went with the nent sites being planned for Oak
Jews entered the country. . . . No smaller were the number of tion and that "not one drop foreign secretary to meet with Park or Southfield. Additional
Jewish immigrants that entered in the preceeding years. , . . The more" was being taken that Premier Sir Alec Douglas- information, registration forms,
outbreak of World War I naturally brought about a decrease in was originally allocated to Home. It was indicated that or a general brochure may be
Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe; but, as soon as the war
Israel under the plan devel- both meetings were very friend- obtained by calling 342-9119 dur-
was over, the waves of immigration resumed in full force. . . . It oped ten years ago by the late ly and that there were useful ing the hours of 1 to 4 p.m. on
was then that Hias appointed Adolph Held as its first European Eric Johnston, as a special exchanges of views.
.Mondays through Thursdays.
director and sent him to Europe to organize the Hias emigration
emissary of the then-Presi-
work there. . . . The large influx of Jewish immigrants after World
dent Eisenhower.
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a year—also a substantial number of newcomers. . . . Three years
later, the immigration law underwent a further revision which had at the technical level by both
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reduced the number of Jewish immigrants to a little more than the Arab countries and Israel
10,000 a year. . . . However, the emergence of the Nazi regime but later rejected by the Arab
brought a renewed wave of Jewish immigration to the United governments.
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These new immigrants were assisted from 1946 to 1954 by a new
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century, many American-born Jewish families are aware of the
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benefits which their immigrant parents have received from the establishment
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Hias. . .. Their respect for the Hias and its 80-year-old record of area of the new state. However,
it
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to
bring
the
aid to newcomers finds expression in the allocations which Jewish resolution into effect. The oppor- bitrhip roLpp_ `1I1''
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making every year for the United Hias. . . . Also in Hias member- fense Force crossed the desert
ship dues in New York City Which exceed $100,000 a year.
and conquered the city (1949),
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The formation of a new He-
brew day school to serve
the greater Detroit area was
announced by its board of trus-
tees consisting of David I. Ber-
ris, Mrs. David Dombey, Rabbi
Hayim Donin, Dr. Jacob Gold-
man, Rabbi James I. Gordon,
Rabbi Israel J. Halpern, Dr.
Max Kapustin, Ithmar Koenigs-
berg, Dr. Charles Levi, Seymour
Ribat, Elliott Stieman and Phil-
lip Stollman.
The 11eNAT institution, to be
known. as Yeshivat Akiva—Akiva
'British Need No Persuasion
to Back Our Water Project,'
Golida Meir Claims on TV
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Pride of U. S. Jewry
The United Hias Service enters its 80th year of existence, as
a global Jewish migration agency, with a budget of about $2,500,-
000 a year and with plans to render services in 1964 to about
42,000 Jews in need of mig ,_'ation and related aid . . . The wide
recognition and high reputation acquired by the Hias during the
80 years of its excellent work is best seen from the fact that con-
tributing to its budget are not only the Jewish Federation and
Welfare Funds, but also governmental and intergovernmental
agencies and Jewish organizations and communities abroad, not to
speak of the United Jewish Appeal.... The Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against Germany will this year make its annual
contribution of more than $300,000 but this will be the last grant
made by this organization, because of the end of German repara-
tions payments in 1964. . .. There is no question that American
Jewry, proud of the record of Hias in all the 80 years of its exist-
ence, and aware that migration is still a problem for Jews in
numerous countries, will financially back the Hias efforts to the
highest extent.... Murray I. Gurfein, president of Hias, is one of
the most respected Jewish leaders in this country.... So is Edwin
Rosenberg, chairman of its National Council. . . . So are Ben
Touster and Carlos L. Israels, the two former chairmen of the
United Hias who are now associate chairmen of the Board. . . .
James P. Rice, the executive director, has a long reputation as one
of the most able Jewish social workers who directed JDC relief
activities in Germany after the liberation of the Jews from the
Nazi camps there. . Not forgotten by those who remember the
earlier years of the Hias and United I-lias are the late John L.
ti.stein and Jacob Massel, who were the pillars of the old Hias
after World War I. . . . Also
Dr. Jameg -rtheavy immigration
d a te , European director of the Hias, and
Abner Bregman,
`^ United Hias.
and since then Eilat began to
develop as a city. Immigrants
were transferred there, mines
were developed, mainly copper
mining in Timna, fishing , was
developed, and Eilat was also
turned into a tourist city.
The Port of Eilat is of first
class financial and defense im-
portance. Through this port was
carried on the connections with
friendly countries in Asia and
Africa. Through the Port of
Eilat about 200,000 tons of
freight was carried, which was
about 6% of the freight handled
by all the ports of the country.
It is working on a temporary
basis, until a modern port is built,
which will be put into use by
the end of 1964. The ships arriv-
ing in Eilat will be able to load
and unload much easier than
now. In 1957 the manager of the
port of Le Havre, France, was
invited to the country to prepare
plans for the building of a new
port in Eilat. In the beginning
of 1962 the plans were approved
and construction began. The port
will have all the necessary serv-
ices: warehouses, cold-storage
for fish, coming from the Red
Sea, and a dock for ship repair-
ing The general port will also
contain the petroleum port, fbr
Eilat has become the supply
center for petroleum to Israel.
With the establishment of the
"Israel Port Authority," that
supervises all the ports of Israel,
the port of Eilat, too, came under
its supervision, control and man-
agement.
Translation of Hebrew column
Published by Brith Ivrith Olamith
Jerusalem.
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