Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Increasing Jewish College St udent Population,
Demographic Changes
in Jewish Year Book
...
In proportion to their numbers, estimated at something over 335,- part, of the city's Jewish popula-
tion, making out-of-town enroll-
almost three times as many Jews 000.
In 1935, 105,000 Jews attended
ment financially feasible: to the
For the first time, many English-Jewish newspapers are taking a in the United States go to college
college out of a total college
growth of the New York State uni-
strong stand in behalf of one Presidential candidate and in opposition as do college-age men and women
Population of 1,148,000, for a 9.3
vresity system; and to liberalized
to another. in the population generally.
percentage
figure.
However,
only
admissions policies in many private
It is an understandable reaction.
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Statistics establishing that close
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American
men
every
one in
colleges, especially but not exclu-
The New York Ttimes political analysts believe that 97 per cent of to 80 per cent of Jewish men and
and women, Jewish and non-
sively in the East.
the Jewish voters will support President Johnson.
. women of c o I 1 e g e age attend
Jewish,
of
college
age
was
in
Large increases in Jewish enroll-
Since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's candidacy for the Presi- , schools of higher learning, where-
college at that time, and the
dency, Jews have, in the main, supported the Democratic candidates.as
ment have been noted in colleges
the general figure is 27 per
.
There were marked deviations in support of President Eisenhower. But cent, appear in an article. "Jewish percentage of Jews of college
in other parts of the U.S., notably
age attending college was con-
there were always large numbers of Jews in the Republican ranks. College Students in the United
New England, the Middle Atlantic
siderably
under
the
present
fig-
Never before, however has a near-unanimous sentiment been felt in be
states (New York, New Jersey, and
Alfred J ospe, di rec t or
States." by Alfd
nre.
half of the Democratic' candidate. Why?
Pennsylvania), California, sections
The rapid rise in Jewish college of the Southwest, and Florida.
The answer is a simple one. Jewish voters are leaning towards the Bnai
of program
and Foundations.
resources of the
Brith Hillel
enrollment since then, Jospe finds,
liberals and the moderates. True: Jews have voted according to their
Jospe predicts that the ratio of
economic status: but even those who were motivated only by their Milo- The article is featured in the has been accompanied by stslastan- Jewish college students to the gen-
ence did not and could not support extremists who either wore white 1964 American Jewish Year Book, tial shifts in the geographic distri- I eral college population will reach
hoods or advocated bigotry. published jointly by the American bution of Jewish students. Where a peak within the next five to eight
Senator Barry Goldwater personally rates high among his col- Jewish Committee and the Jewish 53 per cent of all Jewish students years, then gradually decline.
leagues and all who know him in Washington and in Arizona. He is Publication Society.
in the U.S. in 1935 were enrolled
He quotes U.S. Government
likeable. Ile is a friendly man. His intimate friends will affirm that he
In 1963, a total of 4,420,000 stu- in New York City schools, this predictions of
college enroll-
is much kindlier in private life than he sounds on the political platform. dents—just above one-quarter of figure had dropped to 28 per cent ments of 5,257,000 in 1965, '7,-
But Barry Goldwater is the candidate of the elements on the right all Americans between 18 and 24 by 1963. New York City, though,
007,000 in 1970, and 8,677,000 in
who are creating fears in the hearts of men. He is the darling of the —were enrolled in public and pri- w i t h 76,000 still represents the
1975.
Birchites. He does not condone the white hoods. but he has the blessings vale schools of higher education 1 largest concentration of Jewish
In addition to its statistical anal-
of the Ku Klux Klan.
in the United States. Of this nurn-lcollege students in any city in the
ysis of Jewish college enrollment,
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Such a candidate is not acceptable to those who strive for the per- ber. 275,000. or a little more than I world.
the article details the history and
p etuation of the basic American principles:
And if Barry Goldwater were not the candidate of the rightists who 6 per cent, were Jewish. But this' Jospe attributes this decline in
growth of Jewish student organiza-
9 75,000 Jewish total represented I New York City's share of the total
Lions. including the Zeta Beta- Tau
have captured his party. he still could not he acceptable as long as his ,
close to 80 per cent of the total ! Jewish college population to in-
running mate is so passionately opposed to liberalized immigration ,., e\‘ .
fraternity. student Zionist societies,
..
si
-
ash population
of college
college age, creased economic - • starlet ng on _ne
1
policies.
the Menorah movement and the
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It is true that Persident Johnson voted for the McCarran Walter
' Hillel Foundations.
as
Act which was adopted over President Truman's veto in 1952. But Presi-
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A mong the interesting popula-
dent Johnson's position on immigration problems was altered long ago.
! tion figures•reported are those:
He now takes his place with all who clamor for liberalized immigration
The estimated world Jewish pop-
s
.
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policies—with Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, with the views that
ulation at the end of 1963 was 13,e
were propagated by President Kennedy. Both Goldwater and Miller take
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire '
Means were studied during the 121,000. The three largest Jewish
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to The Jewish News)
the opposite view and they must be viewed as unacceptable on this as
communities were. in the U.S., the
i n c ome l.
con erence
well. as on many other issues that are basic to American idealism.
GENEVA — The United Hias
v Soviet Union. and Israel. together
The Democratic Party supports liberalized immigration proposals Service expects to aid in the re- maintain the traditional Hias pol-, accounting for more than 75 per
officially. This is in itself sufficient to assure leaning towards the Demo-
, icy of never permitting a refugee cent of the world total Only four
crate candidate. Jews no longer have anything to gain as a group from settlement of more than 11,
l with a visa to be stranded. One I other countries had Jewish popu-
a more liberal immieration program. A large-scale flow of new Jewish Jewish refugees in 1965, a 25 per
)aligns of more than 200.000:
immigrants
imierants to this country is inconceivable. But there is a basic prin- cent increase over the 8,000 re-, international
hundred leaders
In the
field
of
refugee
work
took
, France. Great Britain. Argentina,
(•iple involved that must be protected, and candidates who lean towards fugees slated for resettlement part in the workshops. They in { and Canada.
-
the most unjust and reactionary aPproaches to the issue should not during 1964, James P. Rice of ,
Harry Berge and Mrs. Al-
The Jew
population in the
receive the support of our electorate.
New York, Hias executive direc- bert Speed of New York, H ias1 U.S. is esti ted at 3.600,000. Of
The position of Jews—and of the Jewish press—becomes most under- tor, reported- Wednesday.
vice presidents; Harry M. Fried-, , this number, 2.517.330 are in New
standable when we take into account these factors. when we consider
He outlined Hias plans at the man. Hias comptroller: Gaynor York State. New York City has a
that Senator Goldwater has become so extremely evangelical in the mat-
Jacobson, director of has Eu- , Jewish population of 1.836,000,
tens relating to the Supreme Court and its decision in defense of the conclusion of a four-day confer-
ropean
and
North Kage,
African
opera- N a s s a u County 372.000, West-
Church-State Separation idea.
ence here held to mark the 80th eons;
and
Joseph
executive
chester 131.000. and Suffolk 42,-
In earlier times. Yiddish newspapers took strong stands in support anniversary of the resettlement , Li --
director of Canadian Jewish Aid 000, for a total .lewish population
of certain candidates. The now defunct Tageblatt was Republican. The agency. He said most of those to
Services.
in Greater New York of 2.381,000.
.
Tog was Democratic. The Forward, in pre-Roosevelt days. was Socialist, be resettled in 1965 were re-
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A total of 2,420,000 Jews were
fugees joining relatives in the
and is now Democratic. The English-Jewish press was non-partisan.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller pro- estimated to be in the S o v i e t
The situation has changed and. as we have indicated. understand- United States, Canada, Australia
and Western Europe.
claimed Oct. 7 as United Hias Day Union, and 320.000 in the Soviet
able.
Many issue often enter into the political discussion. It is so vital
The executive director said that in New York State in connection bloc.
From July I. 1962. to Dec. 31,
for America that Our two-party system should be protected and per- the sharp upward trend in migra- with the celebration.
petuated! But the only way that it can he assured is by eliminating the Lion was coming at a time when
In his proclamation. the Gover- 1963 • a total of 84.000 Jews, most
rightists from control and by seeking a return of the Republican Party income of Hias from intergovern- nor noted that Hias had "assisted of them from North Africa and a
to its moderates. Then we shall again have a normalized approach to mental and international sources in rescuing and resettling in the few Jewish communities in Europe,
political issues, in .Jewish and in all other ranks. was decreasing. He noted also United States and other countries emigrated to Israel. bringing that
There are so many good Republicans—Keating in New York, many
to
that 1964 was the last year in of the free Western world more country's Jewish population
in our own midst. We can not forget their splendid services. their sense, which
2.143.000.
of justice. They should not be punished for the control of their
pay
;
hich
the
agency
would
receive
than
3,000.000
survivors
of
wars.
party funds from West German repara- pogroms and political upheavals."
South
th America's ' 685,000 J e w s
by elements who threaten our liberties.
include 450,000 in Argentina (with
lions through the Conference on
The
Governor
also
designated
In the best interests of a two-party system, it is necessary that Jewish Material Claims Against Oct.
in the 300,000 in Buenos . Aires), 130,000
4 as Interfaith
faith Day
bigotry should be rejected and rightism repudiated. -Barry Goldwater G
ermany,
representing 15 per state. The proclamation said it was in Brazil, 45.000 in Uruguay, and
supports and suffers from such ills in .his
is party and he has made it
cent of the agency's budget of -encoura ging to report that, in sev- 30 • 000 in Chile .,
logical for our press to reject him—for accepting the views and the
1 $2,500,000.
era) communities of our state, con- - Other large concentrations of
support of elements who are menacing our freedoms.
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gregations of Catholics, Protestants Jews were: France, 500,000; Great
and Jews give an admirable and Britain, 450,000: Canada, 254,000;
On his visit in Chicago, Senator Barry Goldwater told a group of ,
practicable expression to this spirit South Africa, 116,000; Morocco,
Poles in a Polish Center about his grandfather who had come from ! Israel Chief of Staff
by gathering at regular intervals 100,000; Iran, 80.000; Australia,
Poland. He did not tell them that the language his grandfather spoke
Q
ays Military Strength in fraternal assembly." 67,000.
was Yiddish and that the reason for his emigration may well have S
*fen the constant pogrom threats that were faced by Jews in Poland.
Can Deter the Arabs .
The Political Setting and the Jewish Press
rtias to Increase Resettlemertt Lases -
P it Hike
11 000 Next Year
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State Department Regulations for National Anthems
TEL AVIV (JTA) — General
With the new year we commence a series of public functions at Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's chief of
which the question always is raised as to the propriety" of giving staff, stressed that Israel must
preference to our own national anthem to that of a foreign nation continue to build its military
—in the instance of Jewish interest the latter applies to Hatikvah. strength to deter the Arabs from
Congressman John D. Dingell has informed us: "The State Depart-
Speaking at a regional defense
ment advises me that when a foreign dignitary is present the anthem
of his country is played before our national anthem as a matter of meeting in central Israel, Gen.
courtesy." Rep. Dingell also sends us the following official statement: Rabin cited the recent article in
Whenever a foreign national anthem is played it is followed Al Abram, the Egyptian daily,
by the national anthem of the United States. This procedure is which said that the Arabs could
also prescribed by' the Department of Defense for the Armed not attack Israel now because it
Services.
was
too strong.
On February 15, 1962, Congressman Joel T. Broyhill of
He said that "it is our duty to
Virginia introduced House Joint Resolution 630 in an effort to • ensure that such ideas will pre-
standardize the words. music and the placing of our national wail among the Arabs," and added
anthem on any program. Paragraph 4 of this resolution reads that it was Israeli military
as follows:
strength which prevented the
"4. The anthem should always be performed in a manner that Arabs from carrying out threats
gives it due honor and respect. It should never be performed as to attack Israel over its Negev
part of a medley or in circumstances where its importance as a irrigation project through the Na-
national symbol is in any way cheapened. Its use to build dramatic tional Water Carrier.
effects, wholly subsidiary to its fundamental purpose, should be
In an earlier address to a class
discouraged. On the other hand, if the anthem is performed in
of graduating cadets, Gen. Rabin
a suitable spirit. the exact point at which it is introduced in a
reiterated
the need for the foster-
program is of little significance, and depending upon the cir-
ing and molding of Israel's de-
cumstances of the performance, it may conceivably come at the
fense posture.
beginning, middle, or end of a program."
We offer this as a guide to organizational programming com-
mittees—to obviate misunderstandings that inevitably arise in our THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
community.
2—Friday, October 9, 1964
'Between You
... and Me'
Boris Smolar's
(Copyright, 1964, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Communal Affairs
A survey conducted by the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds established that approximately 1,500 young men and
women now participate in Jewish community leadership training pro-
grams in 60 cities . . . An earlier study revealed that 80 percent of
all graduates of leadership training programs were participating
directly in community service . . . There appears to be no decline now
in the percentage of graduates participating in community service ...
They are serving on the boards of the local Jewish federations and of
functional agencies as well as in fund-raising campaigns . . . The
growing core of future community leaders exists because of the
systematic planning of federations to recruit and train those who
have revealed real leadership potentials . • . This is being done under
the direction of the CJFWF National Committee on Leadership Devel-
opment . . . The National Committee provides stimulation and con-
sultation to individual cities, taking into consideration the special
requirements of each community .. . More than 40 communities have
so far established annual Community Leadership Development Awards,
under wihch the award winners are sent to the CJFWF General
Assembly each year, enabling them to participate in deliberations
and decisions which influence the course - of Jewish life . . . These
communities include Detroit and Flint.