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Study Links Observance, Baltimore Agency Places House Bill Would Help $40,000
NEW YORK — A recent appeal of our board."
Build
Desalting
Plant
97 Jewish Riot Victims
Child's Skill in Hebrew
Another contribution
bill issued to members of Reform
NEWTON, Mass. (JTA) — A re-
search study by a University of
Rochester student, conducted here
has demonstrated that a connec-
tion exists between the degree of
observance in a Jewish home and
success of the child from that home
in learning Hebrew grammar at
his religious school.
The researcher constructed two
scales to measure family commit--;
ment, according to a report in the
Temple Emanuel Bulletin. On one
scale, the synagogue staff rated
member families by Jewish obser-;
vances, attendance at synagogue
and adult education programs and
participation in Jewish organiza-
tional activity. On the second
scale, the pupils rated his own ■
family. Ratings were compared
mathematically with the results :
of a standardized examination of
Hebrew language achievement.
The third factor, that of the intel-
ligence of the pupil, also was
measured to rule out variations
from differing intellectual abilities
of the children.
cani from
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
NEW YORK (JTA)—A total of that would provide United States Jewish congregations for relief of three children of a family
in Sta-
97 Jewish victims of the riots last technical and financial assistance starving Biafran children bas rais- ten Island who went
door to door
ed more than $40,000, it was an-
April in Baltimore slum sections
have been placed in jobs by the
Baltimore Associated Placement
and Guidance Bureau, an affiliate
of the Jewish Occupational Coun-
cil.
Philip M. Hyman, executive di-
rector of the Baltimore agency,
reported that the placements were
part of a wider effort to assist such
Jews, most of them small mer-
chants whose places of business
were wrecked in the rioting and
many of whom are emigres who
survived the Nazi holocaust and
other areas of persecution of Jews.
He reported that the problems in-
volved helping not only elderly
Jewish merchants whose combined
stores and homes were burned out
and who lack skills and money to
help themselves but also those still
running small enterprises who are
held up as often as once a month
with- constant threats of being
killed.
Alumni Friends, Parents
Storm-Tossed Find Haven Start Habonim Group
in Airport Synagogue
NEW YORK—The launching of a
NEW YORK — When the snow- perpetual endowment fund for the
storm hit, Feb. 9, the International benefit of the Habonim youth
Synagogue became a haven for 80 movement took place Feb. 8, at
men, women and children, most of the Americana Hotel in New York
whom had to remain for three City. Detroit was among the cities
represented.
days.
Normally, the synagogue has a ' Over $50,000 was pledged at a
limited supply of food, available founders' reception initiated by the
for lunch to a daily minyan, con- Habonim Alumni Association. The
sisting of airport employes. The Habonim Foundation, Inc. will
airlines were unable to assist, as function as a perpetual endowment
their own stocks of food were de- fund, whose capital will be invest-
pleted within the first day and ed by a board of trustees to insure
they were waiting for fresh de- maximum income commensurate
with full security of principal. in-
liveries by helicopter.
come from the foundation will be
Synagogue "guests," both Jews applied for the benefit of the youth
and Gentiles, sang and prayed.. leadership-training programs of
When the wind abated, men came Habonim.
from neighboring terminals to put
on talis and tefillin. Two people
who provided leadership were Believe Arson Not Cause
Rabbi Eugene J. Cohen, chaplain of NY Yeshiva Blaze
of the synagogue, and Dominick
NEW YORK (JTA) — There
Lesanti, the custodian.
was no suspicion of arson in the
fire at the United Lubavitcher
Yeshiva in Brooklyn which caused
heavy damage to the fourth floor
gymnasium, police reported Mon-
BOSTON (JTA)—Boston will join day. The pupils in the school when
other cities across the United the fire was discovered, who total-
Bostonians Plan to Erect
Memorial to Six Million
States that have erected memorials
to the Six Million. The Association
of New Americans, many of whom
lost entire families to the Nazis,
has established the Zhor Memorial
Foundation which will conduct a
campaign to finance the memorial.
The preliminary design by sculp-
tor Nathan Rappoport contains a
broad, 32-foot arch symbolizing the
rainbow, on which is lettered the
biblical admonition of God follow-
ing the flood that "Never again
shall a holocaust envelope an entire
People."
Above the arch is a pair of hands ;
holding aloft the Tora on which are ;
inscribed Hebrew words relating to
the flood epic. In relief on the un-;
derside of the arch is a tableau
depicting the struggles of the Jews
during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
The foundation also hopes to
build a "living memorial" in the
form of a museum or open air
amphitheater.
yeshiva's building under construe=
Lion on Ocean Parkway to be made
read y f or occupancy within two
months. City authorities promised
to install floodlights for the work
which will be on a 24-hour basis.
Aid for Inner City Youth
Armachoho settlement. The settle-
ment is on land given to the Fala-
shas by the Ethiopian government
on condition that they begin its
cultivation.
The tractor, water tank and
other equipment were purchased
from an Israeli firm. Plans are
being made to hire an agricultural
instructor to- live, with the,wttlers..
Bnai Brith Israel Bond
Sales Top $10 Million
nounced by Earl Morse, chairman to raise the money, $82.27.
of the board of the Union of Amer-
ican Hebrew Congregations
(UAHC), central body of Reform
Judaism in the United States and
Canada.
The call for help came through
the social action department of
the UAHC and, Morse said, "The
response has been deeply heart-
warming. We have received con-
tributions ranging from 60 cents
from two youngsters in Massa-
chusetts, to $1,000 from a member
16—Friday, February 21, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Rhode Island Rabbis
Join Grape Boycott Plea
CRANSTON, R.I. (JTA) — The
Rhode Island Board of Rabbis has
joined its Massachusetts counter-
! part in urging a boycott of Cali-
fornia table grapes as a gesture of
support for striking grape pickers.
Rabbi Jerome Gurland of Cran-
ston, president of the Rhode Island
Organization, issued a statement
backing the boycott organized by
the Farm Workers Organizing
Committee (AFL-CIO) because
"the grape pickers are a vestige
of labor oppression . . . and are
being exploited with substandard
wages and de-humanizing living
conditions." Rabbi Gurland in-
voked the Talmudic injunction
against "Oshek"—"oppression of a
hired man" — as justification for
the boycott call.
Centers Aid Drug Addicts
NEW YORK (JTA)—A National
Jewish Welfare Board official has
reported that drug usage is start-
ing to become a problem for Jew-
ish Community Centers and that,
in a number of cities, Center youth
workers are being asked for help
by teenagers involved in use of
drugs. The report was made to the
58th annual convention of the JWB
New England region at Kiamesha
Lake, N.Y., by Moe Hoffman,
JWB's Washington representative
and consultant to the JWB Public
Affairs Committee. He urged Jew-
ish Centers to develop drug edu-
cation programs for the young
ed more than 100, were safely
evacuated.
The 500 pupils left without a
school, were shifted to classes
Monday in religious schools people and to involve Jewish youth
throughout Brooklyn. Arrange- in planning such programs.
ments have been made for the
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — A tutor-
ing program for ninth to 12th grade
school children in a Pittsburgh pov-
erty area is being conducted by the
YM&YWHA and Irene Kaufman
Centers in cooperation with the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women.
Facilities are being provided by
the Bethesda Church Community
Center which is serving as liaison
between the tutors and the elemen-
tary schools attended by the par-
ticipating children. The Y-IKC is
responsible for program coordina-
Weekly's Readers Help
tion and the NCJW volunteers pro-
Ethiopian Farm Settlement vide on-the-spot supervision.
CHICAGO (JTA) — Funds con-
tributed by the readers of the
weekly Chicago Jewish Sentinel to
assist the Falasha Jews in Ethiopa
have been used to purchase a trac-
tor and other equipment for the
to Israel in the construction of a
nuclear - powered water desalina-
tion plant has been introduced in
the House of Representatives by
Congressman James C. Corman,
California Democrat. The envisag-
ed plant would be capable of pro-
ducing up to 150,000,000 gallons of
fresh water and 400,000 kilowatts
of electricity daily.
Congressman Corman said that
the U.S. Department of Interior
has been assisting Israel since
1964 in a study to determine the
feasibility of the project. He said
that while the study was still in-
complete, "indications are that
there is considerable promise and
a great need for a large-scale nu
clear desalting plant in Israel by
1975."
Slovak Jews Caught
in Czech-Soviet Rift
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Jews in
Slovakia appear to be caught in a
squeeze between resentment of
the Soviet invasion and Communist
Party leader Gustav Husak's deter-
mination to obey the Russians to
the letter, according to a Washing-
ton Post dispatch from Bratislava.
Correspondent Dan Morgan re-
ported that slogans were chalked
on billboards in the city's main
square alleging that "the Jews are
with the Russians" and urging
Slovaks to "unite against the
Jews."
Soldiers washed off the inscrip-
tions as some spectators cried,
"shame," Morgan wrote.
On the other hand, "Slovak in-
tellectuals have been concerned
over what they fear is an anti-
Semitic tone" in the speeches of
Husak.
Method to Spot Tumors,
Maimonides Reports
WASHINGTON — Bnai Brith re-
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Maim-
ported this week Israel Bond pur- onides Medical Center has an-
chases of $10,914,400 in 1968.
nounced that hidden tumors are be-
This marked the second consecu- ing identified with increasing ac-
tive year in which Bnai Brith Bond curacy through a new diagnostic
purchases have exceeded $10,000,- method which combines ultra-
000, Milton Seidenman of Balti- sound and radio-isotope studies for
more, chairman of Bnai Brith's the first time. Dr. Elias Rand of
Israel Bond committee, said. Sales the Department of Medical Serv-
in 1967, spurred by concern over ices said that nearly 100 per cent
the Six-Day War, were a record accuracy had been achieved in
(clinical trials in 30 kidney cases.
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