THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 20, 1968-5
Year Book Relates Living Hell Endured
by Jews in Arab Nations After '67 War
Hillel Director Warns Pittfalls in Ecumen.ium
GROSSINGER, N.Y. (JTA) — A
tri-faith look at the "alienated col-
lege student" suggested that his
political and cultural radicalisms
are "religiously motivated," that
he is uniquely evolving a "counter-
culture" to existing styles which
could transform American so-
ciety, and that he presents "both
challenge and opportunity" to the
campus ministry.
An Episcopal minister, a Roman
Catholic priest and a rabbi, par-
ticipating in a symposium that
opened the annual directors' con-
ference of the Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation were agreed that the
present-day college element "alien-
ated from adult social concepts
and practices" is in many respects
"the most spiritually sensitive gen-
eration that has appeared on the
campus in a long, long time.
essential stake in the social
change," Rabbi Frimer declared.
"But their contribution must be
made not in universalistic terms
but within the clearly defined con-
text of the Jewish tradition." He
emphasized that his primary re-
sponsibility on the campus was "to
keep Jewish students Jews" and
that he did not engage in social
action "for its own sake" but as
an expression of "Jewish tradi-
tion, history and experience."
Father Phelan, critical of the
failure of the university to "gather
in its community," said this task
evolved on its chaplaincy but "it
is impossible to create a com-
munity of service on the campus
without shared responsibilities and
an ecumenical spirit." Defining
campus ecumenism in terms that
would not "impose on any faith's
theological doctrines" he urged a
greater responsiveness among Hil-
lel directors to such cooperative
action.
All three symposium speakers
identified the campus minister as
having a marginal status not un-
like that of alienated students.
"The college chaplain," said Rev.
Bloy, "is professionally anomalous
to the academic community on the
one side and his established
church or synagogue on the
other." Urging the chaplaincy to
relate to the alienated student
group, Rev. Bloy said that "their
being outside the establishment
enables the Christian campus
minister and Hillel director to be
constructive theologians with a
group whose alienation has be-
come a force for sweeping change
that "can do the most good or the
most harm."
"All Jews were forced to kneel Universelle school in Damascus
and put their elbows on the floor. was permitted to open in Septem-
Prison officers and trustees then ber.
Lebanon's 6,000 Jews were al-
jumped up and down on their
backs, kicked them, and beat them lowed to emigrate with laissez-
with canes and leather straps." passers in place of passports. Lat-
That is the kind of treatment er, however, criticism of this
Egyptian Jewish males faced as policy in the press on the ground
the Cairo government rounded that it might be helping Israel led
them up and imprisoned them in to tightening of emigration pro-
the Middle East crisis of May, 1967 cedures. Half of the country's
The sufferings Jews in Arab na- Jews left by the end of 1967, leav-
tions faced as a result of the ing 3,000 behind.
The British Protectorate of
looking for
Arab-Israeli conflict of 1967 are
Aden, now the South Yemen
described in "Jews in Arab Coun-
more
Popular Republic, had 138 Jews
tries," an article by Abraham S.
in June 1967. Mobs attacked the
clients.
Karlikow appearing in the 1968
Jewish quarter on June 12,
Jewish Year Book.
beating an elderly man to death.
The Year Book is jointly pub-
All Jews were later flown to
---- Need
The Rev. Martin E. Bloy Jr.,
lished by the American Jewish
London.
executive director of the Church
Committee and the Jewish Publi-
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Karlikow
mentions
that
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gov-
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cation Society of America. Karl-
kow is foreign affairs consultant ernments of Morocco and Tunisia bridge, Mass.; Father Thomas
of the European office of the did make an effort to protect their Phelan, Catholic chaplain at Rens-
Jewish populations, but that selaer Polytechnic Institute in
American Jewish Committee.
In May 1967, Egypt had a Jew- neighboring Algeria, like most Troy, N.Y.; and Dr. Norman
Frimer, Hillel's national coordina-
ish population of 2,500 concen- Arab states, did not.
trated - in Cairo and Alexandria.
tor for Metropolitan New York,
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also agreed on the need for active
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Jews of foreign nationality were
involvement by campus chaplains
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Injuries
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and their respective student con-
SANTIAGO (JTA) — Police are stituencies in "the social revolu-
to Abou-Zanbal prison, which
Jingle along with "Bell Bottom
investigating two Molotov cocktail tion" gripping the college com-
Karlikow describes:
"Altogether some 350 Jewish bombings here. One of the explo- munity.
Flairs" for the New Year ! Co-
prisoners were housed in five sives was hurled at dawn Sunday
But Rabbi Frimer, responding to
cells. In each of these complete- at the Jewish Hungarian Club.
ordinated
sportswear for the
a
call
by
the
Christian
clergymen
ly bare cells, originally meant for Fire caused damage before it was
for a broadly ecumenical effort on
20-25 prisoners, were 70 Jews who extinguished.
young at heart at Mr. Roberts
the
campus,
warned
against
any
had to sleep on the floor in alter-
That night an automobile be-
nate rows with legs overlapping in i longing to a member of the Bene approaches "in which the ecumen-
order to fit into the available Israel (Indian Jewish) community ical effort becomes a pitfall to the
space. For the first five weeks was bombed, with fire damages particularistic identity of Jewish
prisoners were kept locked in their estimated at $500. No one was hurt participants."
"Jews and Judaism have an
cells; finally they were permitted in either incident.
to take a half-hour walk in the
prison courtyard. They received
only two aluminum dishes and had
to eat with their fingers or other-
wise gulp down their food. Many
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December, 1967, there were an
estimated 1,000 to 1,200 Jews
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Libyan Jews "suffered more in
death and destruction as a result
of the Arab-Israeli conflict than
any other Jewish community in
the Middle East," Karlikow writes.
At the end of 1967, all but 220
Jews had fled, and these were ex-
pected to do so soon. Libya's 4,-
000 Jews previously had been for-
bidden to emigrate and were trap-
ped in the mob violence that
broke out June 5 with news of the
Arab-Israeli war. Mobs murder-
ed at least 10 Jews, Karlikow re-
ports, and burned Jewish shops.
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ban in mid-June, allowing Jews to
leave, but with nothing but a
little cash and some personal be-
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