WICongress Gets Report
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Iraqi Jews Alone and Terrified
NEW YORK — A report on the
condition of Iraqi Jews has reach-
ed the office here of the World
Jewish Congress. The information
tells of the near complete social
Isolation of the Iraqi Jews.
"Since last November," the re-
port says, ."they have been for-
bidden to leave town, or to change
their residence without special
permission from the police. With
few exceptions they are unable to
work. They have no friends and
feel much bitterness against them.
"Even when in financial difficul-
ties, they are afraid to get money
to live on by selling some of their
furniture for fear of being charg-
ed with attempting to leave the
country. All telephones in the
government when in May it was
announced that regulations re-
stricting the issuance of pass-
ports to Jews would be rescind-
ed. However, in practice the
restriction still stands. Over
1,500 Jews have since applied for
passports, but so far only one
old woman has been granted a
permit.
"On June 12, the Official Gov-
ernment Gazette stated that two
laws which concerned the freezing
of Jewish property would be
abolished. Here, too, the laws are
still on the books, in practice.
"Iraqi Jews do not believe that
the discriminatory measures will
be removed, for approximately 50
Jews arrested in March are pre-
sently being detained in unspeak-
able conditions without even know-
ing the charges against them.
(Ninety Jews had been arrested
after the Six-Day War. Some of
these were released in September
1967; the rest in February 1969.)
"Since June 1967, close to 97 per
cent of all Jewish employes have
been fired from their jobs at gov-
ernment "suggestion." Only Jew-
ish doctors, teachers in Jewish
schools, small shop owners and a
small number of employes are still
allowed to work. An estimated 60
per cent of the Jewish population
has lost its livelihood.
"In spite of their excellent
scholastic records, Jews have not
been accepted—save one girl—in
Iraqi universities since June 1967.
Jews have been expelled from all
clubs. Jewish institutions and so-
cieties have been closed. The gov-
ernment has refused to accept any
relief consignment for the needy
Jews from abroad.
"Emigration," the report con-
cludes, "is the only hope for the
2,500 or 3.000 Jews in Iraq. After
two years of brutality, terrorism,
harrassment and social ostracism,
the Jews want to leave their native
land en masse — even though it
means leaving. all of their posses-
sions behind." (Related story
Pa ge 24.)
homes and offices of Jews—includ-
ing Jewish doctors — have been
cut."
The report continues:
"The world outcry for permis-
sion for Jews to emigrate osten-
sibly had an effect on the Iraqi
Vandals Hit Synagogue,
Cemetery in Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn. (JTA)—Van_
dalism has hit a synagogue in
Waterbury and a Jewish cemetery
near Orange. Police arrested six
Juveniles suspected of breaking
into and damaging Beth Israel
Synagogue in Waterbury and be-
lieve that juveniles may have been
responsible for overturning 200
gravestones in the cemetery owned
by the Beth Israel Synagogue Cen-
ter in Derby.
The Waterbury synagogue was
forced to close its doors ahead of
schedule. Until a new synagogue is
completed, the 62-year-old Ortho-
dox congregation will hold serv-
ices at the Beth David Academy.
Rabbi Jonah Gewirti told the
Connecticut Jewish Ledger that
when he opened the synagogue
In the morning, he found that it
had been broken into from the
rear. Several doors and upstairs
windows had been smashed. In
sanctuary the ark was
the
smashed and its velvet curtain
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sipped.
One Tora handle was broken and
the Eternal Light was smashed.
Rabbi Gewirt2 said he had planned
to take the light and a candelabra
which was stolen to the new syna-
gogue. The youngsters arrested.
age 7 to 14, admitted doing some
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but not all of the damage, police
said.
Damage to the cemetry was esti-
mated at S3,000-54,000 by Donald
W. Mark, president of the Syna-
gogue Center in Derby. He doubted
that juveniles were responsible be
Cause of the weight of the over-
Mined stones.
In Glen Cove, L.T., police were
searching for vandals who broke
Into Temple Tifereth Israel here,
defaced its walls and did other '
damage estimated at $10,000. Ac- 1
Cording to Rabbi David Blumen-1
fell, fire extinguisher fluid was
'prayed on Tora scrolls and walls
and furniture were scrawled with
obscene slogans, religious slurs,
larastikas and peace symbols. He
laid the daubing was done with ink'
taken from the temple's mimeo-
graph machine.
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Residence College
En Be Built Down Under
'Jewish
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) —
The commonwealth government has
granted $310,000 toward the con-
struction of a Jewish residential
College on the campus of the
University of New South Wales, it
Vias annouunced here. The balance
Or the total cost, estimated at
$820,000, will be raised by the
College Foundation under. the
chairmanship of Prof. De Val
Davis.
The Jewish residence will be
built adjacent to similar colleges
of the Anglican and Roman Catho-
lia faiths. It will provide food for
about 80 Jewish live-in students
and will house facilities for Jew-
ish student organizations and the
campus Hillel branch.
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