,
Lower East Side
N.Y. Melting Pot,
More Than Slum
NEW YORK—The Lower East
Side of New York is well known to.
Jews, who once considered it the
haven to which they escaped from
the old country.
Today, if one were to follow the
Hassidic elder down Clinton St.,
he would pass the Council of
Puerto Rican and Hispanic Organi-
zations of the Lower East Side. '
On Norfolk St., he would see, the
Velazquez Grocery, a Cliinee hand
laundry and the Lipschutz Kosher
Wines Co.
The melting pot has seen waves
of Irish, Chinese, German, Italian,
Jewish and now Puerto Rican im-
migration. It is still beset by the
problems of poverty: slums, unem-
ployment and a high crime rate,
particularly in juvenile --delinquen-
cy. Narcotics addiction is a grow-
ing evil.
This is the picture of the Low-
er East Side painted by Neil
Sheehan in the New York Times.
He adds, however, there is a note
of hope. MobilizatiOn for Youth,
Inc., has taken a 67-block section
here for a large-scale attack on
juvenile delinquency. And more
and more Greenwich Village
artists are moving here to escape
high Village rents.
Puerto Ricans have ''replaced
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what was once the largest Jewish
community in America on the Low-
er East Side; about 55 per cent of
the public school pupils in the area
are now Puerto Rican.
On Saturdays and Sundays, how:
ever, "the shopping areas are
crowded with uptown apartment
dwellers and suburbanites" look-
ing for bargains at the sidewalk
stalls and clothing store s. The
ultra-Orthodox Hassidic Jewish
community also remains, and Rat-
ner's Dairy Restaurant on Delan-
cey St. "still draws patrons from
throughout Manhattan to taste its
cheese blintzes, potato dumplings
and cold borscht."
Harvard Jewish Students
`Vague' on Judaism
CLINTON, Conn. (JTA) — The
majority of Jewish students at
Harvard College have "a strong
sense of belonging to Judaism,"
but most of them "have a vague
knowledge of Judaism and in-
frequently participate in Jewish
causes and problems," the 11th an-
nual convention of the Student
Zionist Organization was told here.
The report was made after a sur-
vey by Jonas Galper, a Harvard
graduate now studying at the Al-
bert Einstein College of Medicine
of Yeshiva University, in New
York.
Galper, who conducted the stir
vey with the help of SZO and Dr.
Stanley King, director of the Har-
vard Student Study, said his poll
showed that 65 per cent of the
Jewish students at Harvard would
intermarry. '
On the question of dating, he
reported, 45 per cent of the Jew-
ish men polled said they would
date only Jewish girls, 45 per
cent said they would date girls
regardless of religion, while 10
per cent asserted they would
date only non-Jewish girls.
In answers to other questions,
90 per cent said they are in-
terested in visiting Israel; 27 per
cent said it was important to ob-
serve kashruth; and 66 per cent
said it was important to observe
the Jewish holidays.
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