Ground Broken for Center in France; NEW YORK—A ground-breaking ceremony in Aix-en-Provence has launched the construction of the 60th Jewish center to be built in France since the end of World War II, it was announced by Sam- uel L. Haber, executive vice chair- man of the Joint Distribution Com- mittee. Half of the cost of the center. which will come to about $180,000, will he borne equally by the JDC. with United Jewish Appeal Funds, J DC Helping Train I 50 Youth Leaders and the Fonds Social Juif Unific (FSJU), the French Jewish fund- raising agency, Ilaber said. In addition, close to $15,000 has been made available from funds allocated previously by the Con- ference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. and more than $27,000 has been 'contributed by the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. The re- mainder is being raised by the Jewish community of Aix-en- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, July 17, 1970-15 Provence, which numbers some ters in 11 countries. Much of the 1,500 members, Haber added. I rebuilding, he said, was made The United Foundation Labor Aix-en-Provence is a univer- possible by the technical and finan- Participation Committee includes sity town containing a large cial assistance of the .1DC and the 21 leaders representing all ele- number of Jewish students and Claims Conference. ments of organized labor. is famous for its annual music While it was possible to replace festivals. Turning over the first brick and mortar destroyed during spade of earth was the French the war. Ilaber observed that the Jewish composer, Darius Mil- European Jewish communities haud. have been unable thus far to re- REMEMBER Ilaber noted that Western Eur- : place virtually an entire genera- ope today, 25 years after the Holo- , tion of Jewish leaders and corn- THOSE caust, has nearly 100 Jewish cen- munal workers annihilated by the YOU LOVED Nazis. The shortage might be met to WITH A a limited extent by bringing in professionals from other countries. MEMORIAL GIFT appearance of neighborhoods, us- Haber said, but it was more im- ing capital budget funds for ni•n• portant to train local people TO THE lighting, park benches and repairs. In France he continued, the Rabbi Schrage , who will relin- FSJU and the .IDC have launched AMERICAN quish his directorship of the Neigh- an intensive program to train 159 CANCER borhood Youth Corps on Sept. 1 Jewish community , youth leaders to devote full attention to the between the ages of 18 to 25 from SOCIETY Neighborhood Action Program, the largest centers—Paris. Lyons, will report to Lewis M. Feldstein, Marseilles. Bordeaux and Toul- executive assistant to the mayor ouse. ('curses have been started C for neighborhood government. in all five cities with FSJU and Mayor Lindsay, elaborating on JDC sharing the costs. the importance of the action pro- gram, called it "an innovative ef- fort that recognizes the individu- ality of each neighborhood of our city," and added: "Sam Schrage knows our city's communities, is sensitive to their needs, and, most Has a better price for the car with a better idea important, is able to get things done." Rabbi Schrage is a farmer as- sistant executive director of the New York City Youth Board. Rabbi Schrage to Head Neighborhood Action Program NEW YORK, (.ITA) — R a b I, i Samuel Schrage of Brooklyn, ad- ministrator of the city's Neighbor- hood Youth Corps, the largest youth-staffed anti-poverty program in the nation, has been appointed director of the new Neighborhood Action Program in the Bronx, de- signed as "another step to estab- lish more responsive mechanisms to bring government to the neigh- borhoods," according to Mayor .John V. Lindsay, who made the Schrage appointment on the recom- mendation of Marvin Schick, his assistant for intergroup relations. The pilot project will center on the neighborhoods of Washington Heights, Manhattan; Laurelton and South Jamaica, Queens, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx. Rabbi Schrage, who is 34 years old and will be earning $23,00.1 from the city, will have "authority in every area" of those neighbor- hoods, Schack told the Jewish Tele- graphic Agency. Schick said that while Rabbi Schrage will deal with non-Jew ish as well as Jewish residents, the chief goals of the new pro- gram are the elimination of the "very serious problems" faced by Jews who are willing to re- main in integrated neighbor. hoods but are afraid to. Of the six neighborhoods in- Israelis Told U.S. Aware volved, three—Crown Heights, East Flatbush and Washington Heights of Responsibility to Her —are predominantly Jewish. JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The U.S. The action program will also con- government and the American pub- centrate on improving the physical tic are aware of their responsibil- - by to strengthen Israel, Arthur Burns, chairman of the U.S. Fed- eral Reserve Board said. He spoke at Lydda Airport prior • to his departure for home follow- ing a short visit. lie also said, "Israel has - made great strides forward in her econ- omic development but there were some indications causing concern" because of the strain on the econ- omy caused by the war effort. While in Isrfiel, Burns held talks with the governor and senior of- ficials on the Bank of Israel and was awarded an honorary doctor- ate in philosophy by Hebrew Uni- I versity. Hal Shinsky NORTHLAND FORD LI. 8-0800 Treat your family to )) the Easy Spreaders ( German, 19, Admits Damage to Synagogue BONN, (JTA)—The West Ger- man police announced that they had arrested a 19-year-old German who had admitted that last month he had broken into a Munich syna- gogue. desecrated Torah scrolls and caused other damage. A police spokesman said no poli- tical motives or anti-Semitic senti- ments were involved. He also said the young man was not connected with the burning of the Jewish Home for the Aged in Munich last February in which seven men and women died. German Jewish community lead- ers, on the other hand, have con- tended that only anti-Semites would have caused the outrage at the synagogue and other acts of van- dalism of Jewish religious institu- tions.