30-1Fridoy, October 30, 1970
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DMIon. JEWISH NEWS
JNF Bought La nd From Arabs
JERUSALEM — Land which Is-
rael's enemies claim was 'stolen
from the Arabs was wasteland pur-
chased by the Jewish National
Fund and other Jewish bodies, be-
fore 1948, at top prices from rich
Arab landowners, Jacob Tsur,
chairman of the Keren Kayemeth
LeIsrael, stated.
Tsur said that the Zionist move-
ment, in acquiring land for use by
the nation, set the pace for agri-
cultural reform. Were similar pro-
grams of land reclamation to be
followed by other developing states,
it would go far toward relieving
hunger in the world, he added.
The JNF chairman pointed out
that of the 487,500 acres of
land purchased before the estab-
Job Placements Up
CINCINNATI (JTA)—Despite the
tightening labor market, the Jewish
Vocational Service increased its
placement of individuals in jobs by
25 per cent over the paSt two years,
according to a report by, Arthur R.
Friedman, the agency's outgoing
president.
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lishment of the State of Israel, 90
per cent was from absentee Arab
landowners. The vast majority of
this land was swamp or stony
wastes and had never been culti-
vated. After acquisition, the land
served as the basis for the 289
settlements founded before- state-
hood.
Much of the land added since
1948 has been made cultivable
through reclamation, Tsur said,
stating that the Jewish National
Fund reclaims between 6,250 and
7,500 acres of land annually.
Productivity of the land has been
substantially increased through ir-
rigation. Whereas 24 per cent of
the land was irrigated in 1948, now
the figure is 49 per cent. Within
the pre-1967 borders, Jewish farm-
•ers• worked 860,000 acres of agri-
cultural land, upon which have
been established 706 rural settle-
ments with 275,000 inhabitants.
Almost all of this land was re-
claimed by the fund before cultiva-
tion could be undertaken.
Tsur noted that the JNF has
planted 100,000,000 trees, 95,000,000
since the creation of the state. Cov-
ering 430,000 dunams unsuitable for
agriculture, the forests help pro-
tect surrounding land against
storms, serve as recreation sites
and are providing the beginnings
of a local timber industry. The
fund is also restoring 100,000
acres of natural forest lands which
have degenerated because of cen-
turies of abuse. Tsur said that an-
other 500,000 dunams of trees are
needed for the land to reach its
normal level of afforestation.
Black, Jewish Youth
Clean Up Synagogue
Hit by Arson in Boston
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Ford
Foundation has granted nearly
$100,000 to a project sponsored by
the Synagogue Council of America
to ease tension and conflict between
Blacks and Jews in urban areas,
it was announced by Rabbi Solo-
mon J. Sharfman, president of the
Synagogue Council.
Rabbi. Sharfman said the project
was started in 1969 during the New
York City teachers' strike, which
aggravated racial and religious
tensions.
"What the Synagogue Council's
program seeks to do is to encour-
age the formation of coalitions of
religious and lay leaders, Blacks
and Jews, around common prob-
lems of a fundamental nature, such
as housing, crime, narcotics and
education," Rabbi Scharfman said.
Rabbi Henry Siegman, the
council's executive vice presi-
dent, said the Ford grant will
enable it, among other things, to
designate a number of "urban
interns" from among the three
major rabbinic seminaries in
New York to bring together reli-
gious and lay leadership around
specific problems in various
neighborhoods around the city.
Rabbi Scharfman said the Syna-
gogue Council is seeking to reverse
the disintegration of Jewish com-
munities in the inner city and
recognizes that "their continued
existence as decent places in which
to live and grow is linked to the
fate of their neighboring commu-
nities, be they black, Puerto Rican
or whatever, in which all too often
conditions prevail which dehuman-
ize their residents."
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A delegation of Women's American ORT (Organization for Re-
habilitation through Training) members from Michigan region have
just returned from St. Paul, where they attended the organization's
1970 National Board Conference. Michigan delegates, led by Mrs.
Bernard Colton, region president, were Mesdames Donald Marrick,
Henry Pariser, Irvin Kurtz, Max Beal, Donald Thal, William Wetsman,
Alfred Meyers, Paul Borman, Bertram Adler and Jack Rubin.
Dennis and Debbie Silber will host a get-together 7:30 p.m. Sunday
at the Sidney-Hill Northwest Club in honor of candidates Sander Levin,
Philip Hart, Frank Kelly, Richard Austin, G. Mennen Williams and
John Swainson.
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Black-Jewish Coalition Is Boosted
by Synagogue Council With Ford Grant
NEW YORK (JTA)—A group of
37 Black and Jewish teen-agers
worked together to clean out the
debris from three floors of a syna-
gogue in a Boston slum which had
been the target of arson, according
to a report by the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith.
Agudath Israel synagogue, the
oldest synagogue in New England,
is located in the Dorchester area,
once a Jewish section and now a
black ghetto.
The cleanup of the desecrated
synagogue was undertaken by
black members of Youth, Inc., a
neighborhood group and members
of the AZA branch of the Bnai
Brith Youth Organization. The teen-
agers were not strangers. They had
met previously in a dialogue spon-
sored by the ADL to determine
what young people could do to
lessen tensions in the crime-ridden
Matapan-Dorchester area.
A follow-up session was being
planned when the arson against the
synagogue took place. The ADL
said that "it was a natural next
step for the two groups to come
together in meaningful action" to
put the synagogue back into opera-
tion, demonstrating that "in this
changing community, there can be
pride of community and working
for the general good."
Tel Aviv U. to Expel
Students Found-on Dope
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—The senate
of the Tel Aviv University has
adopted a ruling that would per-
manently expel any student found
using narcotics. Every allegation
would first be investigated by the
dean who would reach a decision
subject to appeal by the accused
to a higher university court.
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