Aswan Dam Floods
Egypt With Problems.,
Half-Jewish Board Rules Brooklyn Poverty Agency
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, Merck 12, 1971
of the com-
NEW YORK (JTA)—Nine Jews agency, the Council Against Pover- held to "involve more
PARIS (ZINS)—The highly-touted
munity," and that Levine be dis-
Aswan Dam is proving to be a flop, and three Blacks recently were ty (CDA), is the operating arm of missed "to prevent further polari-
according to a story in the inter- elected to the 36-man board of the the council.
zation of the races" in Crown
Some 30 members of the Jew-
national Herald Tribune, published Crown Heights Community Corp-
Heights. A spokesman for Mayor
ish Defense League patrolled the
oration in Brooklyn, one of the 26
in Paris.
Lindsay's office said then there was
18
polling
sites
in
stores,
schools
Noting that the dam was built anti-poverty agencies in New York
no basis for putting the anti-poverty
and public libraries. A spokes.
with Soviet aid—one of the largest City, in a day of voting reportedly
agency into receivership and the
EWRITER
man for the Jewish Community
and most expensive in the world— free from any incident. The elec-
CO.
chairman of the anti - poverty
Council, an umbrella organiza-
the report states that it also is he tion, scheduled for a year ago, had
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agency, Allan Fischer, said Levine
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of Meyers
tion for Jewish agencies and in-
most damaging of all such proj- been postponed because of tensions
had the full confidence of the
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stitutions in the Crown Heights
ects in underdeveloped countries.
between Jews and Blacks in the
board.
area, told the JTA that a num-
area over distribution of funds for
It cites the warning in 1960 by
projects for poor residents of the' ber of Jewish residents had
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Arab hydrologist Dr. Abdul Azi
asked the JDL to provide pa-
area.
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Achmad, who criticized the As-
trols for the voting and that the
Simon Levine, the agency's black
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wan Dam plans as unsuitable
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executive director, told the Jewish ; JDL members had worked close-
for Egypt and warned that it
formolweor. Fancy colored shirts and flared
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ly with the Jewish Community
Telegraphic Agency that the elec-
pants available for rent or sale.
would have tragic consequences
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Council
and
with
the
police,
with
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lion
results,
which
are
subject
to
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The Egyptian expert foresaw that verification by the city's Commu- ' whom JDL members have fre-
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quently been at odds in recent
the Nile waters, despite all the nity Development Agency, main-
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months.
massive concrete and steel, would tained the prior 50-50 Jewish and
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Levine said that about 8,000
actually be attenuated and would black representation on the board.
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never even reach their destination.1 Crown Heights is one of two of the I votes were cast by an estimated
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The result, he said, would be that city's 26 officially designated pov- 5,000 voters. Each voter is entitled
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THE OCCASION
According to the Tribune it would which funds for projects are chan- that about 75 per cent of the voters ,6oaseecto
cioatibeeecieeeeeelleoecieeeeeee ars-so
now seem that those dire prophe- nelled by the city's policy-making I were Jewish. The Jewish Commu-
agency for poverty programs. The I nity Council worked vigorously to
cies are coming true.
get Jewish residents out to the
Polls during the 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
voting period. The JTA was told
that the turnout represented about
ten per cent of Crown Heights
residents eligible to vote and that
percentage was contrasted with the
- approximately four per cent of resi-
I dents who voted for the local com-
munity school board.
Editor - in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
The anti-poverty agency sponsors
(Copyright 1971, JTA Inc.)
; a recorded telephone program for
community news
DANGER SIGNALS: Danger now looms over Jewish communal
A reliable source told the JTA
life in the ABC countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile—of South America. that a challenge to the voting re-
This is not due to any anti-Semitic developments; the Jews in those sults was expected from State Sen.
JOIN OUR CIRCLE OF SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
countries actually fear no anti-Semitism. The dangerous crisis is pre- Waldaba Stewart, Brooklyn Demo-
JUST 15 MIN. FROM SOUTHFIELD — VIA X WAY
cipitated by economic conditions.
crat, who demanded last January
For decades, Jews in these countries—mostly immigrants of the that the anti-poverty agency be
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Czarist period in Russia and the Nazi period in Europe—have felt closed until an election could be
SEE HARRY ABRAM OR LARRY STERN
themselves comfortable. They contributed to the economic development
of their country of residence, and established and maintained Jewish
institutions of which they were proud. They gave generously for their
own communal needs and were very responsive to the needs of Israel.
They felt secure.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Dr.
Not so now.
Samuel L. Haber, executive vice chairman of the Joint Distribution John R. Hubbard, president of the
Committee, just paid a visit to the Jewish communities in Argentina, University of Southern California,
Brazil and Chile to evaluate matters on the spot. He returned to New is on a visit to Israel in the com-
York with gloomy impressions. He sums them up in one word— pany of Dr. Alfred Gottschalk,
Insecurity. lie found the Jews in the ABC countries in a mood of acting president of the Hebrew
restlessness and insecurity.
Union College—Jewish Institute of
Jews in Latin America have always looked upon the Jewish com- Religion.
munity in the United States as the "older brother" and a source for
They are attending a conference
communal guidance. The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare of educators from among the 55
Funds in New York has even established an exchange program with American institutions of higher
the Jewish leadership in the large communities in Latin America. The learning which are in the con-
American Jewish Committee, too, has been conducting a program of sortium supporting and engaging
service to communities in Latin America for many years.
in archeological activities of the
This time, however, the need of the communities in Argentina, college's biblical and archeological
Brazil and Chile—and also Uruguay—is different. It is no more a school in Jerusalem,
question of advancing and cementing Jewish communal life in these
The conference opened Monday
countries, but of maintaining the existing positions. The entire face at the Jerusalem school, which re-
of Argentine Jewry—the fifth largest in the world after the United ceives support from the Smith-
States, Israel, the Soviet Union and France—may change if something
sonian Institute.
is not done urgently to save its exemplary Jewish school system from
Dr. Gottschalk, former dean of
collapse. Jewish institutions in Brazil and Chile may disappear, if
the college's California school,
nothing is done to come to the aid of their existence.
became the college's new head
following the death Feb. 12 of
SAD STORY: The saddest story Haber brought from his trip is
Dr. Nelson Glueck,
that of the sudden dramatic breakdown of Jewish communal life in
USC, a member of the con-
Argentina.
A proud and prospering Jewish community, the Jews in Buenos sortium, and HUC enj^: - a close
academic
relationship established
Aires are now experiencing a collapse of morale. It started with finan-
years ago by Drs. Glueck and Gott-
cial scandals that brought about the closing of Jewish cooperatives
which were the strongholds of small Jewish business people. Overnight, schalk with Dr. Norman Topping.
thousands of depositors in these banks lost their life savings and Dr. Hubbard said that its academic
found themselves penniless and in a desperate situation. Business firms ties with HUC will become even
dependent on credit from the collapsed banks went bankrupt in a stronger this year with the open-
large number. Real estate builders suddenly found themselves unable ing of the college's new California
school adjacent to the USC cam-
to complete their building plans and lost their investments.
The number of Jewish families who became unemployed as a pus.
The USC president joined the
result of this calamity runs in the thousands. A good many of them
constitute a problem for the community as victims who suddenly other American educators at the
consortium conference in touring
became dependent on communal assistance.
One of the major- victims of the Jewish tragedy in Argentina is the Jewish state.
the Jewish school system which is considered one of the best in the
world. The number of schools has been drastically reduced and several Grenade Explosion Hurts
hundred teachers dismissed.
Two Israeli Soldiers and
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Boris Smolar's
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IF YOU DIDN'T BUY YOUR LAST CAR
AT SHORE — YOU LOST MONEY
TW. 1-0600
Educators Convene
at HUC in Jerusalem
EYES ON CHILE: Not all Jews in Argentina think of emigration, Civilian, Eight Residents
but some do. And not only to Israel. The same can be noticed also in
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A grenade
Brazil where the economic situation is becoming more and more com- explosion in the market place at
plicated. The shadow of events in Chile, from where. the better-off Dier El Balah in the Gaza Strip
Jews are leaving ever since Marxist Dr. Salvador Allende became wounded two Israeli soldiers, an
president, hangs heavily over the middle class and wealthier elements Israeli civilian and eight local resi-
of Jewry in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
dents recently.
No Jew in Chile charges the Allende regime with anti-Semitism.
An Israeli border policeman dis-
The Marxist president is far from being anti-Jewish. But he is a friend covered the -bodies of two Arab
and admirer of Fidel Castro, the ruler in Havana. And the more than terrorists near Kibutz Baram close
30,000 Jews in Chile fear that they may race the same fate as the Jews to the Lebanese border. Weapons
in Cuba where, though not being molested as Jews, they lost all they and sabotage devices were found
possessed. Jews in Chile are, therefore, uprooting themselves. Some near the bodies. The terrorists
leave for Israel, some move to Spain, some go to Germany, some were bclieved.to have been killed
proceed to the United States. and some can be found in the neighbor- by their own explosives while on
ing South American countries where there is no Left regime as yet. a sabotage mission.
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