Jewish, Arab Students in ORT Schools
Welding Friendships in Workshops
Peaceful and progressive co-, the town of Lod itself, in which
existence between Jewish and non- amity between Jewish and Arab
Jewish citizens is a fact of every- citizens has long been the. rule.
day life in virtually every sphere Most of the Jews came to Lod as
in Israel. 1 new immigrants after 1948, while
A graphic example is found in most of the Arabs had been estab-
the field of education: here the lished there for generations. The
experience of ORT schools, in two groups adapted themselves
which there are several hundred peaceably to modern Lod's way of
students from minority groups life.
School director Arie Reich-
(Arab, Druze, Circassian), is par-
ticularly relevant.
man of the ORT Lvovitch Tech-
nical Center in Natanya, points
Some of the minority-group stu-
out that " ... Scholastic achieve-
dents attend ORT vocational high
ments of Arab students who
schools and apprenticeship cen-
study
side by side with Jewish
ters with predominantly Jewish
boys, tend to rise to a some-
student bodies. Others attend ORT
what
higher
level than those of
vocational high schools which
students in all-minority group
serve minority groups exclusively,
schools.
This
may indicate a
such as ORT-Nazareth for Arab
sense of rivalry — but when it
boys, ORT-Abu Ghosh for Arab
takes
this
form,
we do not dis-
boys and girls and ORT-Isifya for
courage it."
Druze boys and girls.
This
is
confirmed
by Gideon
Of greatest interest, perhaps,
Lazar, supervisor of the carpen-
are the ORT schools in which
Israeli Arabs form a minority try school at ORT-Natanya, in
student group. Without excep- which all the school's present
Arab students are enrolled: "The
tion, the directors of these
Arab boys frequently work harder
schools say personal relations
and take better care of the equip-
between Jewish and Arab young-
ment than some of the Jewish boys
sters are good, and in some
do. As for hostility in day-to-day
cases, excellent.
relations, it simply does not exist
Avigdor Shachan, director of the here! I haven't seen it more than
ORT-Zale Vocational High School 10 years of supervising this de-
in Lod, said "An Arab boy is more partment. Sometimes the mood of
likely to strike up a friendship the Arab students is affected by
with a Jewish boy than with an. news dispatches, and they may be
other Arab. And this friendship a little withdrawn or tense for a
goes beyond the schoolyard into day or so. But most of the time,
leisure hours 'on the street' and they are -just like all the other
often into the homes."
students. They go on group trips,
ORT-Zale undoubtedly reflects take part in the regular weekly
class discussions on current affairs
and express themselves freely—
even on 'political issues, whether
they agree with the majority or
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American & Imported
A number of Arab graduates of
the ORT-Natanya Carpentry
School are now directors or super-
visors in Arab trade schools in
various parts of Israel.
Israel Gets Praise From the Organizer of Vietnam Victory Rally
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel mentary and his association with Demands for victory in Vietnam
was hailed at a mass demonstra-1 the radical right. His rally drew were coupled with denunciations of
tion demanding victory in Vietnam contingents from such extremist liberals, socialists, sex education in
here. Included in the crowd, var- 1 groups as the Minutemen, the Na- schools and a n t i-segregationists.
icusly estimated at between 15,000 tional States Rights Party and the Many Confederate flags were seen
and 50,000, were about a doien National Youth Alliance. In the in the crowd.
swastika-wearing members of the main the marchers appeared to be
National Socialist White Peoples followers of former Gov. George
In most areas of Michigan, there
Party, formerly known as the C. Wallace, of Alabama, an un- is a high demand for pick-your-
American Nazi Party, who car-. successful presidential candidate own strawberries and raspberries
tied placards denouncing President. in 1968.
each year, say MSU horticulturists.
Nixon as a "No Win Swine" and
proclaiming, "Marxism is Jewish." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 10, 1970 - 17
But the organizer of the de-
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monstration, Rev. Carl McIntire,
a fundamentalist preacher, told
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Monument, "We stand for Is-
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population explosion and environ-
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