Colonization Group
to Aid New Projects
in Israel and France

LONDON (JTA) — The Jewish
Colonization Association (ICA) an-
nounced here that a series of proj-
ects in Israel and grants to Israeli
institutions will account for the
largest share of its budget in 1968.
But the ICA is also maintaining its
traditional support of institutions
outside of Israel involved in the
resettlement, training and educa-
tion of needy Jews, the announce-
ment said.
The ICA is a philanthropic so-
ciety established by Baron Maurice
de Hirsch in London in 1891. Its
purpose then, as now, was to assist
Jews to emigrate from countries
where they suffered persecution or
economic hardships, to resettle
them elsewhere and find them pro-
ductive employment. It established
large Jewish agricultural settle-
ments in Argentina. Activities in
Israel have claimed an increas-
ingly larger share of the associa-
tion's budget since that nation was
founded nearly 20 years ago, the
report said.
The ICA has allocated over 150,-
000 pounds sterling ($360,(00) in
1968 to a housing fund established
in Paris to find homes for Jewish
families from North Africa. To
date, ICA, along with other organ-
izations that it helps, has found
homes for more than 12,000 North
African Jews, the report said. In
addition, it will share with the
United Hias Service the cost of
transporting Jews to new home-
lands from Eastern Europe, North
Africa and the Arab countries.
It will aid the Alliance Israelite
Universelle, which maintains a net-
work of Jewish schools in various
African and Asian countries, and
will contribute to the general
budget of the World ORT Union,
Organization f o r Rehabilitation
Through Training.

Friday, February 16, 1968-3
Orthodox Jews Leave Toronto 'Y' THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Over Branch Opening on Sabbath Kenya Delegate Denies Slur at Israel

TORONTO (JTA)—A group of
Orthodox Jews opposed to the new
Sabbath day recreation program
introduced at the YM & YWHA
here is withdrawing from mem-
bership in the Health Club of the
Y's northern branch, it was re-
ported.
Last week Y President Alex
Fisher, answering a protest by 15
local rabbis against the Y's new
policy of remaining open on Sat-
urday afternoons said the innova-
tion was "unique" and that it
"will not Conflict in any way with
Sabbath services." He also said
that more emphasis will be put on
"spirtual values."
Rabbi Moses Burak of Beth
Jacob synagogue here, said that
many of the 700 Orthodox Jews
who are members of the Y's
Bathurst Street branch have
turned in their membership
cards to protest the Sabbath pro-
gram. He criticized the Saturday
program "as an opening wedge
that will lead to outright viola-
tion of the Sabbath." Objecting
to the program providing spirit-
ual instruction, the rabbis said
that "religion is not their field,
they can't be relied on in this
complex area."
Fisher said that no resignations
have been turned in by board

members because of the program.
He reiterated his statement of last
week that the program was intro-
duced to keep Jewish youngsters
away from trouble at Yorkville,
Toronto's "hippie" area and also
to ease overcrowding at the Y on
Sundays. While some 70 Ys in the
United States have Sabbath pro-
grams, Winnipeg has been, for the
last 18 years, the only area in
Canada where a Y has had a Sab-
bath program.
Fisher said there will be more
emphasis on "spiritual values,
sports will be non-competitive and
the snack bar will be closed."
The earlier protest by 15 rabbis,
including one Reform and six Con-
servative, charged the Y in its
cultural and social programs has
progressively reduced the Jewish
element, moving further away
from identification with Judaism."
They also complained that the Y's
snack bar does not observe the
dietary laws.
Fisher said he welcomed help
from the rabbis to improve the
Y program if it "doesn't have
enough spiritual content." He
declared that the Y wanted to
service young Jewish people "in
a meaningful way and keep them
from the trouble some are getting
into on Saturdays" at Yorkville.

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

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NEW DELHI (JTA)—The Ken-
yan delegation to the United Na-
tions Conference on Trade and De-
velopment (UNCTAD) has demand-
ed a retraction and apology from
Indian newspapers which reported
that Kenya had been among the
Asian, African and Communist
bloc nations that walked out of the
chamber when the Israeli delega-

tion chief, Zeev Sharef, delivered
his first speech last week.
The acting head of the Kenyan
delegation told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency Tuesday that there
was no walk out by his delegation
and in fact there were two repre-
rentatives of Kenya in the chamber
when Sharef spoke. He said that
Kenya wants to steer clear of in-
volvement of the Arab-Israeli dis-
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