THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 5, 1969-51 Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CEIH: put him in?" asked one commuter Only in California, surmises Paul of another. ."1.et me put it this Nathan, could this happen: He ran way." was the answer. ••l'm stilt into a crestfallen Pasadena father going lo the P:T.A. meetings under who just had been adyised his only an assumed name." • son, a student at Cal Tech, had Back from a visit to Tel Aviv, flunked golf- • * Danny Kaye claims he found a fine At a zipper display: "Grand Chinese restaurant there. And when he cracked open the fortune opening sale." • On a plastic surgeon's shingle: cookie at the end of his repast, the "Business as -usual during altera- message was "Don't read: EAT!'! up)rn,ht 1969. by Bennett Cert. Dis- tions." tributed by King Features Syndicate. At a canoe rental shop at Lake Hopatcong: "No tipping allowed." 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Except for a few of the older but getting visas and immigrant Curacao was wrested from Spain in 1634. Twelve years later. Peter generation both among the Sefara- status in other countries is still the Stuyvesant, Governor of Nieuw dim and the Ashkenazim, the dif- key, most difficult to - find. As re- Amsterdam (New York), was ap- ference in synagogue ritual means ' centiy as March of this year, the pointed also as director over Cu- little, and the difference in his- chairman, who is also the Honor- racao and helped to develop that torical development on the island ary Consul for Israel, was in Mex- island as an important economic becomes less important. Integra- ico at his own expense to' seek link in Dutch trade in the new tion goes 011 apace, and it helps to government acceptance of more world. including the slave trade bring the two parts of the Jewish transient or permanent Cuban Jew- together. In ish refugees. It is this kind of closer which brought many African ne- community addition to other functions which warm heart, deep understanding, groes to the island. it performs, the Bnai Brith lodge and effective effort which reflects It was in those early years that, at one time, there were more has served as a bridge. Within it the attitude of the whole commu- Jews, some 1,800, in Curacao than the groups have learned to know nity, in regard to which the differ- and appreciate each.other: It and ences between them are forgotten. there were in New York. During these years since 1998 it Curacao served as a kind of dis the two synagogues form the pat- tribution center for the slave trade, tern of the organized community was the Ashkenazi Jews who were warmest in their responses to through whom all functions are since the soil of the island could Israel's needs, through United Is- not support an agricultural econ- performed. * * * rael Appeal and Bonds. The Sefara- omy, and did not therefore need' When the Jews in Cuba (then dim had been too distant from the slave workers. On the other hand. the Dutch traders found it a ne- 10,000 and now some 1,800) began insecurities and upheavels of two cessary concomitant of their social to emigrate, the very geographic world wars in Europe. They were status to have a large retinue of position of Curacao as well as the so secure in their integrated mode slave servants. The descendants of strength of its Jewish community ' of life including a full social ac- these slaves now represent 85 per gave it the special role of a tran- ceptance. It was not that they did cent of the 13.500 people who live sient area. The whole communit), not understand the need, they sim- in Curacao. They were emanci- was behind this - effort to help. The ply could not be blamed for not pated in 1863, almost at the same three organizations formed a Jew- ' being able to feel intensely that time as emancipation in the U.S.A., ish community council under the which was happening until the Six but as a generation later than leadership of one of its most re- Day War in 1967. H was then that emancipation of slaves in the Bri- spected citizens, and did, as indeed they awakened to their responsibil- it is still doing, a remarkable job. j ities. They were, alter all, people tish West Indian islands. * * * At this moment only the hard core of conscience. The Jewish community, now some 750 individuals, is more than 300 years old. An historian wrote: Hanuka Greetings "Around the year 1656, a quarter of a century after the island had fallen into the hands of the Dutch Protestants, the white population was increased by the arrival of 342-7000 15000 W. 7 Mile quite a large number of Sephardic Jews, mostly from Holland and from Recife, a Northeastern city of Brazil. "Most of them were Portuguese A Happy and Healthy Hanuka who had been banished from their country by the Inquisition after an attempt to force them to enter the Catholic Church had failed. The Council of Nineteen ruled that Detroit, Michigan these Jews should become citizens of the new colony. These Jews were of the greatest economic impor- tance for Curacao." Holiday Good Wishes This Jewish community re- mained homogeneous for more than two and a half centuries, Carling's Black Label Beer— though not without internal changes. 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Though only the older Mikve Israel synagogue building is used, both buildings are considered Best Wishes for a Happy Hanuka historic sites as is the old ceme- to Our Friends and Patrons tery. • • • The third synagogue building in the community, Shaare Zedek, was TA 6-6600 built 10 years ago, although its 3511 West Fort Street Ashkenazi adherents began settling in Curacao some 40 years ago. - i2 itas c tuts o (Liu SUZJ9120 W/00QA9009_90004 0 0 0 0 QS 0 0 They struggled for a living. Shah- of at, kashrut and other observances o Holiday Good Cheer were pot primary. They gathered for group worship in each others' a homes, rather than in the estab- lished synagogues, not only be- Detroit, Michigan . cause they were really not made a 13821 Elmira welcome. In the eyes of the Sefara- 0 dim, these 'foreign' Jews were a a tossoortatisoaaatioosociaossisoosottomossocisoatiasostre strange breed. 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