, 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 Early Deadlines for Jewish News Copy During Four Holiday Weeks Paul L. Sherizen Due to Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kipper and Sukkot, there will be early deadlines for issues to be pUblished during the coming month. Copy for the issue of Sept. 11 must be in Our- hands before 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 4. Because of Yom Kipper, which occurs on Sept. 16, all copy must reach us before 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 14, for the issue of Sept. 18. Sukkot festival days are on Sept. 21 and 22 and Sept. 28 and 29, and copy for the issues of Sept. 25 and Oct. 2 must be in our hands before 3 p.m. on Sept. 18 and Sept. 25, re- spectively. Deadline for all classified ads for the issue of Sept. 18 must reach us no later than at noon Tuesday Sept. 15. Man •of the Month IT IS A PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THAT PAUL L. SHERIZEN HAS received the Mon-of-the-month award as the most outstand- ing Representative of our Detroit-Gold agency for the month. of August. The award is in recognition of his excellent service to his policy-holders and our Agency during the month of August. RUBEN GOLD, C L U. - GENERAL AGENT , 20800 Greenfield Road Classified advertisements will be accepted at The Jewish News- office, 17100 West Seven Mile Road, telephone VE 8-9364, on Sunday morning, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. 564-5275 Oak Park MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL zvb Agawam* Comport. OP MIMI I St" IBA, A er“ v meat - 0111114116MINO 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. You're proud of him. What better way to let him know than with a personal Bar Mitzvah gift check—made out and signed by you! So thoughtfuL So convenient. An NBD Bar Mitzvah gift check comes with its own gift folder, mailing envelope, and— for your own records—a gift check stub. And each check costs just 350. Get your sift Checks from your nearest National Bank of Detroit office. 7X, Only two states, California and Pennsylvania, have laws concern- ing what can go inside stuffed toys sold in those states. en imeicr o Oa eft. 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