Pastoral Care Institute Is Dedicated
French Jewry's Status Revolutionized, Survey Shows
During the 20 years since the
end of World War II, the French
Jewish community has risen from
a population of 150,000 to more
than 500,000, and has become the
fourth largest Jewish community
in the world.
The make-up of this community
has changed from one predomin-
ately Ashkenazic to at least- 50 per
cent Sephardic as a result of the
influx of Jewish emigrants from
North Africa.
This shift has had a dramatic
effect on Jewish identity of the
community, "which has become
more aware of Judaism and Jew-
ish tradition than at any time in
recent history."
These are highlights of a report
on French Jewry—with emphasis
on the impact of North African im-
migration — prepared by the Paris
Office of the American Jewish
The new Pastoral Care and Human Relations Institute of the Committee.
New York Board of Rabbis was dedicated by New York's Governor
The Paris office is also head-
Nelson A. Rockefeller, in the headquarters of the board, 10 E. '73rd quarters for the Community Serv-
St., New York. This institute, made possible through a grant of the ice Program, established in Europe
Brookdale Foundation, will focus its efforts at orienting clergymen in 1958 by AJC, Alliance Israelite
of all faiths to enable them to properly refer their congregants who Universelle and Anglo-Jewish As-
are seeking help in these four problem areas: mental illness, mental
sociation to spur a waning sense
retardation, aging and addiction. In the photo (from left) are Gover-
of Jewish identity among Europe's
nor Rockefeller, B. Davis Schwartz, trustee of the Brookdale Founda- surviving Jews.
tion, and Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow, president of the New York
The report states that North
Board of Rabbis.
African Jews who have come to
France are integrating well into
the general life of that country
because "they speak French and
have beeen educated in French
schools; many have had business
ties with metropolitan France; a
large number are well-educated
NEW YORK—A comprehensive determined if a couple are carriers and come from the upper-socio-
economic levels."
research program designed to find since they may have one, two or
-
structure. When Community - Serv-
ice drew up its Guide to France in
1961, it listed 80 cities and towns
with some Jewish community
structure. In the same area today
there are more than 130 Jewish
communities. If one were to in-
clude the Paris suburbs, then there
now exist about 70 Jewish com-
munities that did not exist five
or six years ago."
Presently, according to the re-
port, there is about one rabbi for
every 5,000 Jews in France, but
rabbis are quite unequally distri-
buted. Another 50 or so are re-
quired, it is estimated by the Cen-
tral Consistory.
The first vegetable harvested in
Michigan fields each spring is
asparagus. Production last year
amounted to about 9,500 tons which
producers sold for more than $3,-
000,000.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, June 3, 1966
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the cause and a means of control- even more normal children before
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genetic disease which predomi- I more dysautonomic children in one
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tor A. McKusick, professor of medi- in every aspect of the child's life
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by this summer.
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researchers are trying to deter-
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mine the number of cases in the
United States, the ancestry of lecting and disseminating informa-
tion about the condition, and by
the parents and the proportion
providing a forum for parents to
of children affected in a family.
learn from one another.
In the second stage of the study,
As a result of the research to
- the researchers will, through a
complete study of the anatomy, try date, several new drugs have
to locate the defect causing the been found to be of help in alle-
disorder which, while not fatal in viation of some of the disease's
symptoms. Psychiatric help . has
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some of the children, who, find-
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The final phase of the study,
emotional stress.
which will be divided into two
parts, is designed to localize the
The research problems are ex-
site of the defect and find a means ceedingly complex, but each new
of controlling the condition.
bit of knowledge, as it unfolds
Working with Dr. McKusick are from the laboratories, is laying a
Dr. Peter Brunt and Dr. M. Mah- foundation towards an understand-
lovdji, as well as several leading ing of the basic cause of the dis-
neurOphysiolog,ists, neuro-anatom- ease.
ists and orthopedists at Johns Hop-
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kins. Mrs. Myra Harris, a register- couragingly slow, for familial dy-
ed nurse, is traveling around the sautonomia, like any other disease,
United States interviewing parents must be understood before it can
of dysautonomic children.
be cured.
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The report adds: "In the general
French community, such grumb-
ling as was heard when newcomers
started competing for jobs and
housing was directed against all
`les pieds noirs' (the black feet),
the French popular term for North
African colonists."
The reports asserts that the
French press, literature and theater
have all "reflected a largely posi-
tive interest in the Jew."
The report points out that in
the past native French Jewry
has tended toward assimilation.
However, the new infusion of
more "Jewish conscious" Jews
has caused the French Jewish
community structure to improve,
Jewish voluntary agencies have
grown, and the Jewish commu-
nities which were mainly cen-
tered in Paris and Alsace-Lor-
raine, have spread thTottghout
France.
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therefore, French Judaism is more
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