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 And this friendship a little withdrawn or tense for a goes beyond the schoolyard into day or so.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 Largest Selection of Fine not." 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- °ARS monstration, Rev. 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