Mobile School Promotes
Education on West Coast
Hias Director
The Great Miracle -of the Immigrant Pleads for East
Driven froin Eastern Europe by complishments, millions of people Europe Migrants
will live healthier, happier lives.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, August 19, 1966
social upheavals, persecution, and
a changing economy, over 2,000,•
000 Jews arrived in American
ports between the 1870s and 1924.
They came here with their families
to start a new life. This year, the
American Jewish Archives has
issued three new posters — "Jew-
ish Immigrants Arrive in New
York Harbor," "A Busy Street on
the Old East Side," and "The
Sweatshop" — to commemorate
the East European Jewish immi-
grant experience in turn-of-the-
century America.
Today there are few profes-
sional or commercial undertak-
ings in which the descendants of
these 2,000,000 immigrant Jews
from Eastern Europe are not rep-
resented. Their descendants form
the bulk of the 6,000,000 American
Jews of our generation. Many of
America's Nobel Prize Winners
are of East European stock: Isidor
I. Rabi, Selman . A. Waksman,
Joshua Lederberg, Jonas E. Salk,
and Albert B. Sabin. Because of
their scientific and medical ac-
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—A rec-
There were courageous, imagin-
ative, generous people like Samuel ommendation that potential im-
Goldwyn, David Sarnoff, Ben migrants to the United States
Shahn, Jascha Heifetz, Helena from Eastern European countries
Rubenstein, Stephen S. Wise, and be given an opportunity "to pur-
Isaac B. Singer. The record of sue their immigration without the
achievement by their children and need to seek a job in advance in
grandchildren is no 'less illustri- the U.S. and without the need of
ous, as one can see in reviewing a complicated labor certificate,"
the careers of men like Arthur was made at a Senate subcom-
Goldberg and Abraham Ribicoff.
mittee hearing.
Many of the immigrants who
The recommendation was voiced
came here from Lithuania and by Gaynor I. Jacobson, executive
Poland, Galicia and Romania, Rus- director of the United Hias Serv-
sia and Hu n g a r y, were poor, ice, who testified before the Sen-
skilled in no craft. Because they ate Subcommittee on Refugees
had been petty traders at home, and Escapees. "These persons de-
many of them carried on the same
sire to come here to join rela-
type of business here on the
streets of New York's lower East tives or to live in a free and
Side. They sold clothes, notions, democratic society. Certainly they
are not coming to the U.S. to
food, hardware, textiles — any-
thing to make a few pennies in compete with American labor nor
order to survive and to help edu- to lower American working stan-
cate their children. It was a heart- dards," he said.
braking way to keep body and soul
Jacobson commended the U.S.
together, but they persisted until Department of Labor for "amend-
they - and their families had inte- ing its regulations and procedures
grated themselves into the Ameri- to alleviate many of the hard-
can economy.
ships," caused by labor certifica-
tion provisions in the new law.
Many East European immi-
"However, the fact remains that
grants had to endure unfair and
Unsanitary conditions in the gar- one section of the Immigration
and Nationality Act, as presently
ment shops. With no strong
written, does prevent many per-
unions to protect them, men,
sons who are now in Eastern Euro-
women and children literally
"sweated" to survive. By 1910
pean countries from obtaining
they had begun building the visas," he said.
great unions that would ulti-
The United Hias director rec-
mately guarantee them decent
ommended to the subcommittee,
living conditions and a satis-
headed by Senator Edward M.
factory wage.
Kennedy (D. Mass.) that the sec-
Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, eminent tion of the immigration law deal-
Jewish historian and Director of ing with labor certification be
the American Jewish Archives, restored to its original version
has said, "Today, as a result, the which "gave the Secretary of Labor
American is the best dressed per- sufficient authority to protect
son in the world."
American standards of labor."
The American labor movement He also recommended that: 1. The
profited greatly from the leader- United States should finally be-
ship of men like Samuel Gompers come a signatory to the United
David Dubinsky and Sidney Hill- Nations Convention on Refugees;
man.
2. The 1966 United Nations Day
The history of these immigrant dedication to the cause of refu-
Americans is a miraculous success gees be endorsed and proclaimed
story, well documented in the files by our government; and 3. The
of the American Jewish Archives
experience and know-how of all
on the Cincinnati campus of the
voluntary and public agencies be
Hebrew Union College-Jewish - In-
better. utilized in carrying out
stitute of Religion.
refugee ,programs.
Jacobson commended the sub-
Yeshiva U. Becomes Part committee
"for its deep 'interest
of Communications
and sympathetic understanding of
Network It Helped Start the plight of migrants and refu-
NEW YORK — The Information gees who look to the U.S. and
Retrieval Center on the Disad- other countries of the free world
vantaged of Yeshiva University for an opportunity to begin new
has become a member of- 4 newly lives as free men." He spoke
formed national communications warmly of the cooperation and
network that collects and dis- support given United Hias by the
seminates information about re- Intergovernmental Committee for
search-related materials in the European M i g r a t i o n, United
States Escapee Program and the
area of education.
The network, established by the United Nations High Commis-
U.S. Office of Education and cen- sioner for Refugees. He urged
to restore the re-
tered in Washington, is organized the government
duction in U.S. Government alloca-
along lines the university helped to
tions to these agencies.
pioneer when it formed an Inform-
ation Retrieval Center on the Dis-
Sir George Albu, a nineteenth
advantaged in 1964 at its Ferkauf
Graduate School of Humanities and century Jewish mining industrial-
ist in South Africa, was a pioneer
Social Sciences.
in the technical development of
gold mining. (JTA)
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Jewish
communities throughout California
are now being visited by a mobile
classroom for Jewish education in-
troduced by the Lubavitcher Hasi-
dic movement in Los Angeles, to
promote religious teaching among
Jewish school children outside of
their public schools but within a
reasonable distance from these
schools.
The children receive their in-
struction in a large trailer which
has a seating capacity of 35 pupils.
The trailer has been rebuilt into
a classroom with seats, black-
boards and even a small library.
During a school day the mobile
classroom makes it possible to
accommodate 200 children daily.
The program has been in operation
in the city of Los Angeles for about
a year, and its success has stimu-
lated the visiting of the "class-
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THE BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
Cordially Invites Registration for the Fall Term
Southfield Branch in Adlai E. Stevenson School
27777 Lahser Rd.—between 11
& 12 Mile Rds.
Kindergarten (Age 4) through Grade 4 (Age 9)
Confirmaiion Department (Grades 9 and 10) at
Synagogue
18000 Wyoming Avenue
Classes begin Sunday, Sept. - 11
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CLASSES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT
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Synagogue Branch
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7045 Curtis
and Eleven Mile Road
From Kindergarten Through High School and Confirmation
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• Religious Training
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Junior Congregation services at both branches
sponsored by the Adas Shalom Synagogue
Efficient transportation from all suburbs
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UN 4-7474
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