This Week in Jewish History
Psychologists Fear Effect on Children Leaving Shelters
TEL AVIV (JTA)--Underground
(From the files of the Jewish 'Telegraphic Agency)
bomb shelters, where children of
40 Years Ago This Week: 1930
the
Beisan Valley settlements have
Cardinal pita, archbishop of Vienna, endorsed the pre-Christmas
boycott of Jewish shops.
The 275th anniversary of the first American Jewish settlement—
In New Amsterdam (New York) in 1655—was celebrated.
The Polish ambassador to the United States assured American
Jewish Committee leaders that czaristic restrictions against Polish
Jews would be removed.
Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassab, was 70.
The Soviet Union decided to transport 4,500 Jews to the Crimea
and 1,419 to Birobidzhan, and to increase the farming land there for
them.
Eight of the nine New York Yiddish theaters closed by an em-
ploye's strike reopened with shows featuring Maurice Schwartz, Boris
Tomashefsky, Molly Picon, Aaron Lebedeff and Michael Michalesko.
The Czernowitz, Romania Jewish community set up a memorial to
David Falik, a student shot dead by an anti-Semite who was acquitted
after his defense said he "deserves not to be condemned but to be
canonized for all time."
Charles K. Harris, composer of songs including "After the Ball,"
died in New York at 65.
The first new Spanish synagogue since the Jewish exile of 1492
opened in Madrid with 30 congregants.
10 Years Ago This Week: 1960
The Israeli Embassy in Washington denied reports that Israel
could produce an atomic bomb, saying its atomic research program
was "directed exclusively to peaceful use." Prof. David Bergman, head
of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, said: "The report is very
flattering, but is grossly exaggerated. Israel's industry is not capable
of such a task."
The centenary of the birth of Jewish Daily Forward founder
Abraham Cahan was marked.
For the first time in 12 years, the General Assembly closed a
refugee debate without passing a resolution, a rebuff to the Arabs.
West Germany offered another $9,600 to complete the restoration
of Anne Frank's home in Amsterdam.
A ministerial committee said former Defense Minister Pinhas
Lavon was not responsible for the 1954 "security mishap" that led to
his resignation.
Richard Baer, the last commander of Auschwitz, was arrested in
Hamburg.
The USSR approved the building of a new synagogue in Leningrad.
Dr. Robert Servatius said Adolf Eichmann would plead not guilty
at his trial in March, 1961. He would "admit the fact" of Jewish
murders but is "convinced he did what he ought to have done."
been sleeping nightly for the past
two years, are being evacuated—
but only gradually in order to ease
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
the shock of adjustment for many
youngsters who can't remember
when they slept on real beds in a
room with windows.
The shelters were built to pro-
tect the lives of children and adults
during two years of almost nightly
shellings from Jordan. The settle
ments of the Beisan and Jordan
valleys were the prime targets of
Arab guerrillas, sometimes joined
by Iraqi and Jordanian artillery,
whose aim seemed to be the ter-
rorization of Israeli civilians.
HUD Grant to Restore
Washington's Oldest
Shul, Bought for $10
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Mayor
Walter Washington has announced
the approval by the Department
of Housing and Urban Development
of a $100,000 matching grant for
the renovation of the district's
oldest synagogue, Adas Israel.
"The restoration of this build-
ing," he said, "will be the final
step in a lengthy effort by the
members of the Jewish Historical
Society (of Greater Washington)
and their friends to rescue the
synagogue from destruction."
The building was dedicated in
1876 in the presence of President
Grant. It became a Greek Or-
thodox Church in 1908 when the
Jewish congregation moved to
larger quarters. More recently
it housed a carry-out food shop.
With the advent of construction
of the district's subway system, the
Transit Authority bought the build-
ing for the system's headquarters.
In March 1969, the structure was
added to the National Register of
Historic Places; but since the
Metro owned the site, the syna-
gogue was mounted on wheels and
moved three blocks, saving it,
Mayor Washington noted, "from
the wrecker's ball."
Under an agreement signed Nov.
19, 1969, the Transit Authority sold
the building to Washington, D.C.,
for $10. Washington then agreed to
lease the synagogue to the his-
torical society for 99 years at $1
a year.
al." The key word seemed to be
survival, because that made
Israel's case valid as opposed,
for instance, to her rejection of
the war in Vietnam. Israel's
cause is just, she said. The war
in Vietnam is not and is a waste.
A woman came in from the
kitchen with coffee, which Bella
drank while standing, r esting
the paper cup on the mantel piece.
She talked about having been in
Israel in 1959 and bow she learned
to re-use the Hebrew she had stud-
ied at the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary's Teachers Institute. She
plans to visit Israel again and to
study its child care program.
From what she remembered, she
said Israel had an excellent pro-
gram which could be adapted to
the United States.
When I called her a populist, she
did not disagree and said it fitted
in with her own idea of herself
as a "humanist." Which led to the
subject- of anti-Semitism:
On the question of the Jews in
the Soviet Union, she called that
a "serious . problem" which had to
be brought before the "court of
world opinion." She said, "we must
bring pressure on the Soviets,"
perhaps as is being done now, al-
though she drew the line on vio-
lence. As a lawyer, Bella said
Soviet Jews, like people the world
over, should have the right of
"ingress and egress."
When Senator-elect Buckley's
name was mentioned, she said,
"He has to represent the 60 per
cent who did not vote for him,"
and carry these ideas to the gov-
ernment.
She and her husband belong to a
synagogue of Conservative persua-
sion—somewhat unlike Bella.
Friday, December 1$, 1970-21
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The border has been quiet
since the Jordanian civil war
ended in a defeat for the guer-
rillas two months ago. But psy-
chologists fear that the transition
from an underground to a normal
Tax Levy Annulled—for
CAMDEN, N.J. (JTA) — The
Jewish Federation of Camden
county has won a court annulment
of a 1970 real estate tax for $53,-
000 on its property in Cherry Hill,
on grounds that the tax had been
charged improperly.
The federation suit had been
joined by a number of organiza-
tions owning property in Camden
county. All had been declared tax
exempt but recently were declar-
ed as subject to local taxes in an
opinion by a New Jersey deputy
state attorney general.
The issue remains open for 1971.
one 18, one 21, both "solid" as she
calls them and by which she does
For a Jewish girl who learned not mean their figures, but their
Yiddish from her grandfather, attitudes toward life.
Bella Abzug's living room is
During the election campaign,
strangely Empire.
Bella also was charged with be-
Mrs. Abzug, the first Jewish con- ing soft on the Arabs and hard
gresswoman, said that during the on Israel. Because she was sup-
recent campaign, which she won ported by the New Democratic
coalition, made up of reform
in New York's 19th district "they
Democratic clubs, she was bait- N
accused me of being an Arab."
Mrs. Abzug, or Bella as every- ed by her opponent whom she
called "the Mister Agnew of
body calls her, is a belter. Like
a singer, she can come on with New York." But she said she
the high notes; she has the facts firmly believed that Israel should
receive American "military and
and she communicates.
economic assistance for surviv-
She is a Momma of two girls,
By JACK SIEGEL
Older children have already
been taken out of the shelters. The
6-8 year olds are now about to be
evacuated.
Extend& dlizat.
Views of Congresswoman Abzug
(A Jewish Telegraphic Agency Feature)
life will create problems, espe-
cially among the younger chil-
dren who regard the shelters as
their real home.
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