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June 19, 1970 - Image 6

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1970-06-19

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6—Friday, June 19, 1970

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Population Study Indicates
Demographic Crisis in Jewry

Demographic studies conducted
by the Hebrew University jointly
with the Institute of Jewish Affairs
of the World Jewish Congress
brought to light valuable data
regarding Jewish occupational
roles, fertility, mixed marriages
and a variety of other subjects
relating to the Jewish position in
the world today..
A volume containing results of
the research, edited by U. O.
Schmelz and P. Glikson, contains
reports on studies by expert
demographers, in signed articles,
from the following countries:
U.S., Canada, Australia, Latin
America, United Kingdom, Bel-
gium, Italy-, Franc e, Poland,
Czechoslovakia and Germany:
A demographic crisis is re-
vealed in the studies, resulting
from withdrawals from Jewry-
and vast increases in outmar-
riages. It is concluded in this
work that there is no reliable
data on the number of Jews in
the world today but in the light
of the demographic factors the
claim of 13,500,000 Jews is con-
sidered too high and had to be
treated with caution.
Israel's importance as a fact-
provider is emphasized. There are
extensive descriptions of popula-
tion movements and the figures
on outmarriages are especially re-
vealing.
As proof of the existence of a
Jewish demographic crisis, Co-
Editor Schmelz of this volume
points to the low fertility- among
Jews and the abnormal age struc-
ture with a deficiency of young
adults as a result of the Nazi
holocaust.
An especially disturbing fact
is that in the U.S. the fertility
of Jews is 30 per cent below
normal considered insufficient
for natural replacement.
An introduction by Prof. Roberto
Bachi points to the difficulties of
Jewish demographic research since
the Second World War. Only 24
countries of the world list the
Jews as religious or ethnic groups.
The editors included a survey of
current research efforts aiming to
overcome this intricate problem
as well as an exhaustive bibliog-
raphy for the period of 1961 to
1968, listing all available source
material.
The authors estimate that 51 per

75 Moscow Jews
Write Thant for
Aid to Emigrate

LONDON (JTA) — Seventy-five
Muscovite Jews wrote last week to
United Nations Secretary General
U Thant seeking his aid on emi-
gration to Israel.
Copies of their letter were sent
to the Soviet Foreign Ministry and
to the UN Information Office, both
in Moscow.
Thant is scheduled to meet there
later this month with Swedish Am-
bassador Gunnar V. Jarring, -his
special Middle East envoy, on the
-.question of resuming Dr. Jarring's
peace mission.

The letter to Thant declared
in part: "All of us are laborers.
The majority lost their relatives
who fought against fascism. Many
of our relatives perished in fas-
cist concentration camps. Today
many of us are subjected to hu-
miliation for the mere desire to
go to Israel, lose our jobs and
are deprived of the right to good
working conditions."
The 75 signers—most of whom

described themselves as "engi-
neers" and all of whom listed
their addresses as well as their
narnes—said they did not seek ap-
proval of a Jewish "national life"
in the Soviet Union. "We ask only
one thing," they wrote. "Let those
Jews who want to go to Israel."

cent of world Jewry live in the
Western Hemisphere (45 per cent
in USA and Canada); 18 per cent
in the Soviet Union and another
2 per cent in the Communist bloc
countries; 7 per cent in Western
Europe; and 17.5 per cent in Israel.
Three countries—the USA, USSR
and Israel—account for nearly 80
per cent of the total Jewish peo-
ple; 94 per cent of world Jewry
live in 10 countries. The rest is
spread all over the world in small
communities.

Parochiaid
AJ Congress Applauds R.I. Court Decision Against
the high court warned against "an

NEW YORK — The American
Jewish Congress hailed as a "land-
mark decision" a unanimous ruling
handed down by the Federal Dis-
trict Court in Providence, R. I.,
declaring unconstitutional a 1969
Rhode Island law that authorized
the state to pay part of the salaries
of parochial school teachers.
Leo Pfeffer, special counsel for
the AJC and chief attorney in the
case, said the court's 3-to-0 ruling
was "the first decision based on
a record of testimony and evidence
showing how the religious atmo-
sphere so permeates a parochial
school system as to make public
subsidies to such schools a viola-
tion of the first amendment."

The Congress and the Amer.
ican Civil Liberties Union spon- excessive government entangle-
sored the test case, known as ment with religion."
DiCenso v. Robinson, which chal-
lenged a 1969 Rhode Island stat-
ute calling for "salary supyde-
ments" to nonpublic school teach-
ers. The act included an appro-
priation of $375,000 in state
funds to pay 15 per cent of the
salaries of non-public school
teachers of secular subjects.
24611 Greenfield Rd.
In welcoming the decision, Pfef-
OPEN SUNDAY
fer noted that the ruling was the
first handed down by any federal
10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
court which applies the test of con-
For payment of Pledges
stitutionality- set forth by the U.S.
352-770
Supreme Court in the Walz case.
In that decision, issued on May 4,

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