Verbal Attack on Jews Deplored 12 Marrano Families Home at Last
BROOKLYN (JTA) — An attack
on Jews made in the course of an
address about two weeks ago at
Brooklyn College by a black edu-
cator, James Garrett, has stirred
up a controversy among students,
faculty members, college officials
and religious leaders on the cam-
pus.
The controversy was kindled by
a report in a recent issue of Kings-
man, the Brooklyn College student
newspaper, which stated that Gar-
rett, director of the Center for
Black Education in Washington,
D.C., had told a meeting of the
Martin Luther King Jr. lecture
series at the college that, "It is
the Je in particular who has kept
the blac man under chains."
In th aftermath, John W.
Mueller,
esident of Brooklyn
College, stn
that although he
was not certain of the veracity
of the reported statement, he
nevertheless decried "racism or
any other form of prejudice
which has taken place at Brook-
lyn College."
Prof. Daniel E. Mayers, chair-
man of the Afro-American Insti-
tute, claimed that Garrett's state-
ments were totally distorted in the
news account and contended that
to "impute to Mr. Garrett the idi-
otic remark that the 'Jew controls
the means, services and owns the
land' is downright insulting."
Mayers insisted that Garret had
said that white people have op-
pressed black people and that in
the course of his remarks, "Mr.
Garrett identified certain groups
of whites," which included Jews,
as agents of oppression.
Moreover, Mayers wrote, Gar-
rett had also condemned black op-
pressors. Victor Roth, the student
who reported the statement by
Garrett in the Kingsman. replied
to Mayers' charges of distortion
by reiterating his report and
added:
"Mr. Garrett did not just casual-
ly mention the Jews. He singled
them out as the people who are in
true control of this country and
thereby the white man most re-
sponsible for the black man's
plight in this country. Also men-
tioned was the large Jewish popu-
lation at Brooklyn College."
New Home Dedicated
for Jewish-Sponsored
Child Treatment Center
NEW YORK (JTA) — A new
home for Childville, a non-sec-
tarian treatment center for sev-
erely disturbed young children.
which recently was consolidated
with the Jewish Child Care As-
sociation of New York, was ded-
icated here this week. The treat-
ment center had been located in
the Williamsburg section of Brook-
lyn at a site it had outgrown, ac-
cording to Norman Rosow, presi-
dent of the JCCA.
The new Childville building was
acquired, remodeled and refur-
nished at a total cost of .more
than $1,000,000. Of that sum,
$500,000 was contributed by Salim
Lewis. chairman of the board of
the Federation of Jewish Philan-
thropies. Other funds were raised
under the leadership of Mrs.
Lewis, former president of the
treatment center and now chair-
man of the JCCA Childville com-
mittee. The new residence has liv-
ing quarters for 45 children aged
six years and older, plus facilities
for schooling, treatment and recre-
ation. In addition to the eight-story
building, constructed in 1929 as
the Samaritan Home for the Aged,
Childville acquired an adjoining
small apartment building in which
the treatment center will take over
several floors for crafts and home
economics rooms and for staff
quarters. The new building pro-
vides space for a public school.
P.S. 368, especially geared to teach
emotionally troubled children.
We are cold to others only when
we are duly in ourselves ;—William
Hazlift.
HAIFA (JTA) — Twelve Mar-
Roth noted that Garrett referred rano families, a total of 71 men,
specifically to the Jewish people women and children, descendents
as "they" and "those people." In of the Marranos of Spain whose
a statement about Rosh Hashana,
Roth continued, the black educa-
tor said that when "they" cele-
brated their New Year, all the pub-
lic schools and stores were closed,
thereby demonstrating Jewish con-
trol of almost all goods and serv-
ices in the area in which he re-
sides (Washington, D.C.).
"He (Mr. Garrett) said in effect,
that society was at a standstill
during this holiday period," Roth
replied to Mayers' letter. "Not
one other ethnic or religious holi-
day was mentioned by Mr. Gar-
rett."
Rabbi Norman E. Frirner, na-
tional coordinator for Hillel af-
fairs in the New York area and
spokesman for the Bnal Brith
Hillel Foundation on the college
campus, and his associate, Rab-
bi Frank E. Fischer, in a letter
sent to Kingsman for its next
issue, expressed their disen-
chantment and disappointment
with Mayers' letter, which did
not officially disassociate the
Afro-American department from
Garrett's remarks.
forebears had lived for centuries
in Italy, arrived here last week
as immigrants.
The centuries of fearful and
secretive observance of Jewish
practices ended for these immi-
grants as they stepped onto Israeli
soil.
Contrary to most other Marra-
nos, these families and their fore-
fathers never forgot their Jewish-
ness, kept their homes kosher and
always married within their own
group.
For centuries, the antecedents
of these Marranos had lived in
central Italy and Sicily ostensibly
as gentiles, not practicing Judaism
publicly out of fear that acknowl-
edgeing their faith might make
them targets of anti-Semitic at-
tacks by the Catholic population.
After the establishment of Is-
rael, they contacted the Jewish
Agency and some 15 years ago
moved to the vicinity of Liege,
Belgium, where they found em-
ployment as coal miners while
taking instructions in Judaism as
preparation for their immigration
to Israel.
They expressed regret that
A major obstacle was their
Mayers "did not avail himself of refusal to undergo ritual con-
the opportunity to focus on the version, claiming they were Jews
substantive issue of general rac-
by right. They were formally
ism against Jews."
readmitted to Judaism without
In referring to ambiguity of ritual conversion after exhaus-
Mayers' statement, the two Bnai tive rabbinical Inquiries in the
Brith rabbis noted that an official local records of Palermo and
disassociation "would have been Pescara confirmed their claims.
welcome and reassuring." It would
have, they continued, "cleared
some of the tension in the air and
certainly aided the sorely-needed
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The 71 Marranos have been
given housing in Beersheba and
eventually, most of them intend
to take employment at the Timna
copper mines near Eilat.
The Jewish Agency is in the
process of trying to restore other
Marrano families in Belgium and
Italy to the Jewish people.
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