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Jewish Migration Out of the Northeast
Predicted, Along With Population Move
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 21, 1971-13
NEW YORK—A leading sociolo- work toward change in and im- in some respects, provides the
gist predicted here that Jews in provement of the criminal justice "togetherness" that has largely
the United States would continue system in New York City.
disappeared from American Jew-
"to migrate in increasing num-
Norman Podhoretz, author and ish life.
bers away from the Northeastern editor of Commentary, said a
Many Orthodox families, it was
centers of Jewish population—New weakening of the long-standing said, send their children to Jewish
York, Pennsylvania and New Jer- `taboo" against the open expres- day schools and spend more on
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sey," and that this trend would sion of anti-Semitism in the United Jewish education than on synago-
land a growing portion of them in States is a cause for "a certain gue membership. They therefore
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areas without large, long-establish- anxiety" about the security of tend to avoid synagogues that may
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ed Jewish communities.
Jews in this country.
seek funds from their members
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While this movement will open
Podhoretz cited three develop- for a building campaign or that
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up opportunities for greater assimi- ments as examples of the break- have high membership costs.
lation, he added, it need not critic- ing of this taboo: the spread of
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Panel members were concerned
ally alter Jewish life in its basic "anti-Zionist" sentiment among
about
the lack of involvement in
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intellectuals since the Six-Day
Prof. Sidney Goldstein of War; the surfacing of anti-Semi- the synagogue on the part of
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Brown University, in a report tism among Blacks since the New young radical Jews, many of
Residential or Commercial
made public at the 65th annual York City teachers strike of 1968; whom have formed their own small
meeting of the American Jewish and the frequent expressions of groups for experimental worship
Committee at the Waldorf- resentment within the American rather than affiliate with "estab-
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Astoria Hotel, attributed the pre- literary community concerning the lishment" synagogues.
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Dr. Goldstein is a member of the tact with the rabbi that they do
professional advisory group of the
not generally find in larger con-
National Jewish Population Study
gregations.
of the Council of Jewish Federa-
In a report of the American Jew-
tions and Welfare Funds.
ish Committee's Task Force on
Among other trends in American the Future of the Jewish Com-
Jewish life he discerned were the munity in America, it was indicat-
following:
ed that the synagogue was replac-
A slowed rate of growth in the ing the "extended family" that
present population of American was the basis of Jewish life in
Jews, continued losses through America a few generations ago.
intermarriage, a smaller propor-
Today's American synagogue,
tion of the total American popula- report added, is a product of
tion due to shrinking birth levels, alienation from family ties, and
an increase in the proportion of
older persons, a movement out of
small businesses into salaried em-
ployment and a trend toward tech-
nical and executive occupations.
The AJC re-elected Philip E.
Hoffman president. At the same
time, the AJC re-elected Max M.
Fisher of Detroit. chairman of its
executive council. Elected to a
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ninety-
first term as vice president. was
nine persons were arrested, but 33
Lewis S. Grossman of Detroit.
Hoffman condemning the new were freed 'by noon Wednesday,
trials of Jews in Soviet Russia, following six hours of demonstra-
called for renewed efforts to tions and battles with police by
Black Panthers in the
mobilize world opinion to expose self-styled
streets
of
Jerusalem Tuesday
violations of human rights there.
At the same time, Hoffman night. Additional releases were
criticized the "practitioners of expected later.
The demonstrations and fighting
violence" among those opposing
ended at midnight, by which time
Soviet persecution of its Jews. 25 persons—including 10 police-
Their acts, he continued "must men—were injured, none seriously.
be 100 per cent counterproduc- Three Molotov cocktails were
tive."
thrown, one of them injuring a
A group of leading Jewish schol- young man. About 20 shop,, iindows
ars said that Jewish education were smashed along Ben Yehuda
trust move from its strongly class- Street, one of Jerusalem's main
room-centered methodology to a thoroughfares.
comprehensive approach in which
The street fighting began late
the Hebrew school, the home, the Tuesday afternoon when police
local Jewish community, the sum- tried to disperse Panthers who
mer camp, travel, academic Jew- were spreading their demonstra-
ish studies and offbeat Jewish stu- tions beyond the limits specified
dent movements will all play rec- in their permit. The Panthers
ognized roles.
resisted, and police used force.
The scholars had participated in
The demonstrations were the
a year-round Colloquium for Jew- most serious to date by the slum
ish Education at Brandeis Univer- youths, mostly of North African
sity, sponsored by the Lown Grad- and Asian origin, who have adopted
uate Center for Contemporary the style and name of the mili-
Jewish Studies and the American tant American Black Panther
Jewish Committee.
Party. Earlier this month, Pan-
Most colloquium members felt thers engaged in a pitched battle
that the day school is the only in- with police outside Jerusalem po-
strument through which the Jew- lice headquarters after they dis-
ish community can achieve a- fully rupted a folkloric celei,ration by
integrated program of Jewish and North African Jews hi a nearby
secular studies and create a more park.
The Panthers are protesting slum
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