WJCongress Charges Syria Persecuting Jews
in Appeal to UN Hmnan Rights Commission
NEW YORK—In a letter to Am- are subject to arbitrary arrest
bassador Andres Aguilar, chair- and to interrogation accompanied
man of the UN Human Rights by torture, which often results in
Commission, meeting in Geneva, paralysis or insanity."
Jews, says Dr. Perlz-
the
the World Jewish Congress called
on the commission to give priority weig, "maintain a precarious ex-
to the item dealing with the right istence in an atmosphere of sus-
to emigrate and to ensure that it tained hostility stimulated by an
will be reached before the meeting educational system whose text-
books are disfigured by the an-
a djourns.
cient and irrational prejudices of
In the letter, Dr. Maurice L. a vicious anti-Semitism. And by a
Perlzweig, representing the World
Jewish Congress at the meeting,
charged that in some Arab states
"the pitiful and defenseless rem-
nants of once great communities
are subjected to brutalities which
would be incredible if the facts
were not fully attested to by eye-
witnesses.
`-`The most ruthless persecution
is today visited on the few thou-
sand Jews who remain in Syria,"
he added. "They are restricted in
their movements and are not al-
lowed on the streets at night. They
Re-Elected to Head
Airport Synagogue
More Facilities
in Vienna Sought
for Soviet Jews
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Jew-
ish Agency's immigration depart-
ment disclosed that it was seek.
ing additional hotel space in Vienna
to accommodate Russian Jews ar-
riving there on their way to Israel.
It also said it would expand
its staff because the larger num-
ber of Jews arriving from the
Soviet Union required additional
personnel to receive them.
Department head Uzi Narkiss
is presently in Vienna to survey
the needs, Jewish Agency sources
said. The number of Jews leaving
'the USSR declined last month but
increased in March. The decline
was attributed to fears by Soviet
authorities that some emigrants
would show up at the world con-
ference on Soviet Jewry in Brus
sels to denounce the treatment of
Jews in Russia.
Reports based on telephone con-
versations with a Jewish source
in Moscow said that Jewish visa
applicants were again being ha-
rassed by *Soviet authorities.
The source said that searches
were carried out in the homes of
10 Jewish families in Sverdlovsk
immediately after they applied for
exit permits. Nevertheless, accord-
ing to the source, the number of
applications is increasing daily.
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TEL AVIV (JTA)—Four ter-
rorists were killed in widely sep-
arated clashes with Israeli patrols,
a military spokesman said.
special refinement of cruelty the
Two on the wanted list were
Jewish children are compelled to gunned down near the Shatti refu-
use these textbooks."
gee camp in the Gaza Strip. Two
more were shot to death on a ridge
Syrian Airline Office Hit;
of Mt. Hermon where a gang from
Leaflets Left at Site Demand
Lebanon was attempting to infil-
Liberation of Syria's Jews
PARIS (JTA) — The windows trate Israeli territory. Israeli
of the Syrian Arab Airlines of- units, firing after the retreating
fice were smashed Sunday night gang, said they may have in-
and leaflets signed "The Fight- flicted more casualties.
A military spokesman reported
ing Jewish Youth," were tsrewn
over the office door and on the
sidewalk outside. Police are in-
vestigating the incident, which
the airline reported only Mon-
day.
The airline office is located
CHICAGO (JTA) — Four agen-
next to the American Express
cies of the Jewish Federation of
Office on the Place de la Opera,
Metropolitan Chicago have joined
normally one of the busiest in-
in a program to help Jewish par-
tersections of Paris. The leaflets
ents cope with problems of drug
called for "The Liberation fo use by their children. One of the
Syria's Jews," and demanded goals is to assist such . parents to
that Damascus authorities end
deal with feelings of panic and
the hardships imposed on Syrian
fear about the problem, according
Jews and allow all who wish to
to Jerome M. Comar, Federation
leave the country to do so.
president.
Chicago Agencies
Focus on Drug Aid
Quebec Legislation
to Enfranchise
Jewish Parents
Charles H. Silver was re-
elected president of the Inter-
national Synagogue in the Tri-
faith Chapel Plaza of the John
F. Kennedy Airport. Rabbi Saul
I. Teplitz was elected chairman
of the board. It was reported at
the annual meeting that during
1970 over 100,000 people visited
the International Synagogue.
Daily services are conducted
with the cooperation of some
4,000 Jewish employes at the
airport who have joined the Air-
port Congregation. The syna-
gogue has a Jewish museum
and a lending library for the
use of travelers and employes.
Jewish Federation in LA
Hits State Welfare Cuts,
Chaplaincy Reductions
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The
Jewish Federation-Council of
Greater Los Angeles has voiced
strong opposition to cutbacks in
Medi-Cal and state welfare pro-
grams. and a Proposed elimina-
tion of three Jewish chaplaincy
positions at state hospitals.
JFC's board of directors en-
dorsed legislation which would re-
store the Medi-Cal reductions
made effective last December and
declared that reduced welfare pay-
ments should not be used to bal-
ance the state's budget.
The board also said that of all
religious groups, only Jewish
chaplains' positions were being
eliminated from the department
of mental hygiene's budget.
According to Robert Weil,
chairman of the JFC's Commu-
nity Relations Committee, "This
is more than a matter of the
loss of three positions. These
cuts constitute an attack on the
professional chaplaincy as such,
and they are the concern of all
religious groups."
Weil said that despite assur-
ances by the governor that no
such changes are planned, the de-
partment is proceeding with the
projected elimination of t h e
services.
At least two Jewish homes for
the aged have had to absorb an
additional $150,000 in costs as a
result of Medi-Cal slashes, it was
renorted.
The JFC board expressed the
opinion that welfare cuts cannot
be imposed without further en-
dangering health and welfare of
thousands of people depending on
society for their survival.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 26, 1971-23
Six Terroiists Killed by Patrols; Arab Jailed
MONTREAL (JTA) — A Quebec
Education Ministry official an-
nounced Tuesday that legislation
is planned to give 40,000 Montreal
Jews the right to vote in elections
for the Protestant School Board
of Montreal, whose schools are
attended by many of their chil-
dren and whose costs are sup-
ported by their property taxes.
Dr. Victor Goldbloom, minister
without portfolio attached to the
education ministry, announced
Tuesday that legislation to enfran-
chise the Jewish parents will be
introduced in the Quebec Assembly
in time for passage for Jewish
participation in the forthcoming
June elections to the board.
Some 20,000 Jewish children,
about 75 per cent of all Jewish
children of school age, attend the
Protestant schools. There are no
nonsectarian public schools in Que-
bec. Schools are under Catholic
and Protestant sponsorship.
Some Jewish children attend
privately sponsored Jewish day
schools. Taxes on property paid
by all resident property owners,
Jews included, finance operations
of the Protestant and Catholic
schools.
No Jewish children attend the
Catholic-sponsored schools, the JTA
was informed.
Dr. Goldbloom said the measure
would "put an end to an anachron-
istic situation where there was
taxation without representation."
The Canadian Jewish Congress,
which has long sought such a
change, said the measure would
end "blatant discrimination."
The experimental project is
being financed by grants from the
federation and the Chicago section
of the National Council of Jewish
Women.
The agencies involved are the
Jewish Community Centers of Chi-
cago, the Jewish Family and Com-
munity Service, the Jewish Voca-
cational Service and the Jewish
Children's Bureau.
More than 25 guidance coun-
selors, psychologists and social
workers are participating in a.
training program sponsored by
the four agencies which is one
phase of the Drug Response
Project. A grant of $15,000 from
the federation and $10,000 from
the NOJW section will also be
used to develop a long-range
prograni of drtig education and
prevention, he said.
One of the first actions was cre-
ation of a "Parent Concern Phone"
directed at a high school area
through which parents can get
counseling and referral service.
that a terrorist was killed earlier
in the El Bourej refugee camp in
the Gaza Strip. The bodies of two
terrorists were discovered in the
Strip near Beth Lahiyah along with
a quantity of firearms. They were
believed to have been killed in a
clash between rival gangs.
Eleven residents in Jenin in
northern Samaria were injured
when a hand grenade was thrown
onto a street. One of the injured
was a 1-year-old infant. Security
forces are investigating the inci-
dent.
Meanwhile, a 24-year-old Arab
was sentenced to 25 years' im-
prisonment by a military tribunal
sitting at Kuneitra. The court
found Abdoul Latif Yousouf Kadri
guilty of armed infiltration into
Israel.
The youth was captured a year
ago in a clash with an Israeli
patrol on the Golan Heights when
he was wounded. A large quan-
tity of military equipment was
found on him.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The coun-
selor to the permanent mission of
Israel to the United Nations told
more than 500 persons at an aliya
conference of the Zionist Organi-
zation of America that the best
answer to the menace of Arab
enmity and their Soviet support-
ers is the ingathering of Jews
from all parts of the world.
Lt. Col. Giora Navon told the
ZOA gathering that Americans
have already had a share in creat-
ing Israeli society and that Ameri-
can aliya influences Israeli society.
He cited Americans' contributions
to the development of sciences
in Israeli institutions of higher
learning and American influence
in kibutzim toward a good life
style.
Former ZOA leader Louis Sit-
koff, who emigrated to Israel,
added that American aliya this
year is anticipated to be about
10,000. In 1970, he said, it was
9,400 Americans who settled in
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