Acculturation-Integration Symposium
Texts Published by Histadrut Institute
Distinguished educators a n d
noted political experts joined in a
symposium sponsored by the
American Histadrut Cultural Ex-
change Institute, and the texts of
the discussions have now been
published by the new Histadrut
Institute (33 E. 67th, NY 21) in a
volume entitled "Acculturation
and Integration."
Edited by Dr. Judd L. Teller,
these texts include exchanges of
views on liberation, immigration,
language problems, cultures in
transition, minorities in politics.
Israeli, American and African
experts participated in the discus-
sions during which the problems
of integration were thoroughly
aired.
African and Israeli experi-
ences were contrasted with
those in the United States, and
the status of the Negro was
`Foreign Legion' Serves
Israel Commercial Fleet
National Myrtle Award Winners
HAIFA—Of a total of 4,858 em-
ployes on Israeli ships, 1,715 or
35 per cent are non-Jews, accord-
ing to an announcement by the
Zim Shipping Line.
Of the 514 on the luxury liner
"Shalom", 165 are non-Jews. There
are 120 non-Jews out of a total
of 142 workers on the liner "Nili."
Among the 102 sea captains em-
ployed by the Israeli fleet, 43 are
non-Jews.
Israeli's commercial fleet now
numbers more than 100 ships
which employ a staff consisting of
members of 40 nations. In this
"foreign legion," Chinese are in
the first place, followed by Span-
iards, Italians, Dutch, Greek and
other nationalities.
analyzed in frank fashion.
Dr. Teller made important com-
ments on the status of Yiddish in
the course of the discussions on
language.
Participants in the symposium
included Dr. Nathan Glazer, Mayor
Navi of Beersheba, Dr. Abraham
G. Duker, Daniel Patrick Moyni-
han, Ben-Zion Ilan and others.
Sidney Shevitz of Detroit chaired
one of the sessions. Another ses-
sion chairman was Dr. Albert B.
Sabin.
Reform Jewish History
The World Union for Progres-
sive Judaism. Ltd., will issue on
Jan. 16 "The Growth of Reform
Judaism: A Source Book of Ameri-
can European Developments 1871-
1948," by W. Gunther Plaut, pub-
lished in 1963. This second volume
of sources on the history of the
Jewish Reform movement carries
forward the account begun in Rab-
Labor Zionists Expand bi Plaut's "Rise of Reform Juda-
ism."
Community Action
The book will be distributed by
Programs in U.S.
the Union of American Hebrew
NEW YORK—Expansion of com- Congregations.
munity action programs on the
American scene is being under- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
taken by the Labor Zionist Or- 14—Friday, December 24, 1965
ganization of America-Poale Zion.
In his announcement, Hy Faine,
national LZOA president, said
that a new national committee has
PARIS (JTA) — The Associa-
been established to implement a
labor Zionist program of action tion of Jewish Repatriates from
and to recommend policy positions North Africa urged French Jewry
in the American Jewish commun- to make possible greater participa-
ity. The committee includes many tion by the repatriates in the work
top Jewish communal workers and and responsibilities of Jewish in-
stitutions and organizations in
laymen.
Judd L. Teller, author and his- France.
torian, will head the committee
The association, holding its an-
charged with intensifying the ac- nual general assembly here, repre-
tivity and broadening the scope of sents the majority of the 100,000
the Labor Zionists in the American repatriates from Algeria and thou-
Jewish and general community. sands more from Morocco and
Dr. Teller is executive vice chair- Tunisia. Its goal is to maintain
man of the American Histadrut close contacts among the Algerian
Cultural Exchange Institute.
newcomers and to further their
The committee, known as the integration into the French com-
Community Action Committee,
munity.
has chosen five issues on which
The meeting was held against
to develop positions by the LZOA
the backdrop of expert Jewish
in the community. The areas are:
opinion that the integration of
Negro-Jewish relations, Soviet
the 100,000 Algerian Jews into
Jewry, the Vatican Council and
the French community has been
interfaith activities, the relation-
one of the most successful in
ship of Germany to the Jewish
history.
people and priorities in the af-
Thanks largely to the work of
fairs of the Jewish community.
Included in the work of the com- the Fonds Sociale Juif Unifie, the
mittee will be the sponsoring of major French Jewish welfare
forums in synagogues and com- agency, and the American Jewish
munity centers and other public Joint Distribution Committee, the
meetings to air these issues facing repatriates have been integrated
the American Jewish community. both c u l t u r ally and socially.
Members of the committee in- Former Algerian Chief Rabbis
clude former Detroiter Joseph David Ashkenazi and Rahmin
Edelman, program director. Far- Naouri are serving as presidents
of the association.
band-Labor Zionist Order.
N. African Jews
Dr. Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe College and former
member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (left), and 'Am-
bassador James M. Nabrit Jr., deputy U.S. representative on the
UN Security Council, on leave from his post as president of Howard
University, are shown with Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson, national presi-
dent of Hadassah, after receiving the organization's Myrtle Wreath
Awards for outstanding contributions in their respective fields. The
awards were presented at a Hadassah luncheon in New York, at-
tended by more than 1,500 Hadassah leaders. Other recipients of
Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Awards were Dr. Oscar I. Janowsky, pro-
fessor of history at City College of the City University of New
York; Mrs. Esther Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Labor; and Ed
Sullivan, TV personality and newspaper columnist. All were honored
for outstanding professional achievements. (See local story, Page 19).
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The association is a member of
Speakers representing newly-
formed communities called on the National Union for Indem-
French Jewry to provide seats for nification which represents most
the repatriates on the governing repatriate organizations.
bodies of French Jewish organiza-
Andre Narboni, former president
tions and pledged in return to of the Algerian Zionist Federa- I
work for maximum cooperation tion, brought greetings from Is-
with those organizations.
rael and from North African Jews
Pierre Attal and Maurice Ayoun, who have settled there. He also
attorneys specializing in compensa- called for closer ties between re-
tion claims, reported on current patriates now living in Israel and
French legislation for indemnifica- France.
tion for Algerian Jews for private
and commnual property abandoned
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Alumni of
the Israel Institute of Technology,
located in Haifa, who are present-
ly in the United States, established
a new organization to be known
as the Technion Alumni Associa-
tion in the United States.
More than 300 people partici-
pated in a luncheon-meeting at the
Statler-Hilton Hotel which initiated
the new group, and which will be
affiliated with the Technion Alum-
ni Association in Israel. It is hoped
to enroll in the new group the
nearly 800 graduates of the Tech-
nion who are now in this country.
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