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Anierican. Aliya Matehes Last Year, While. British :and" French Rates
JERUSALEM. (JTA).-4mmigra-
tion from North and South America
has kept pace during the first
eight months of this year with
last year's record numbers, but
immigration from Britain and
France is off by about a third,
Jewish Agency Chairman Louis A.
Pincus reported at a news con-
ference.
He said that 9,500 immigrants
came from North America in
1970 and arrivals between Jan
nary and August 1971 were in
the same proportion.
The number of immigrants from
Latin America has- risen by 20
per cent in the same period, he
said.
Pincus attributed the decline of
olim from France to the shortage
of housing units for large families;
The Jewish community in Fiance
was almost doubled by arrivals
from North Africa folio w I ng
Algerian independence, - most of
them families with many children.
Pincus added that the same
explanation was not valid for
Britain. He said there was sim-
ply "a receding of the wave
after it reached its crest" and -
the next year might produce a
new record.
Immigration from the United
Kingdom amounted to 1,330 in
1968 and 1,960 last year. The 1970
figure from France was 5,200 and
from Latin America 4,500.
U.S. and Canada. He noted that
last year's figure included several
thousand "yordium"—Iaraelis re-
turning home after having spent
seven or more years abroad who
ers aroused widespread indignation
in Israel against the Orthodox es-
tablishment.
Should the review panel uphold
the decision of the religious
court, the youngsters would be
permanently forbidden to wed in
Israel, and should they contract
civil marriages outs
ide the coun-
try, their children would be
branded "Illegitimate" by the Is-
raeli rabbis: .
Premier Golda Meir reportedly
gave the Langers "assurances" re-
garding their status,
The nature of the assurances
was not divulged but apparently_
hinged on the fact that Rabbi -Gor-
en is a likely candidate for the
post of Ashkenazic chief rabbi in
next year's rabbinical elections: He
has demonstrated a' lessrigid
stance in the case than most Of his
colleagues.
.
The Langers were •ruled 'illegit-
imate" by a religious court because Aged Italian-Hero ,
there was no conclusive evidence
of the death of their mother's first Fails in Mission:
husband, who disappeared in Eu-
rope during World War II.
According to religious law, chil- to Find Survivor
dren born out of wedlock can mar-
MILDREDi• Ps.- ''(JTA)—Samuel
ry only other "illegitimates." The Panichi -waited 14 weeki for a
rabbinical authorities' refusal to is- letter or -a telephone call to let
*
Golda Seen Challenging
Religious Establishinent
TEL AVIV (JTA) — - Premier
Golda Meir delivered an oblique
challenge to Israel's Orthodox re-
ligious establishment Tuesday to
come to terms with the modern
world.
"The trouble with this genera-
tion is that it is lacking a strong,
courageous, spiritual ' rabbinical
leader wt• would take,up the chal-
lenge of making the necessary
adaptations so that Jews—all Jews,
and any Jew—can live as Jews,"
Mrs. Meir told an audience of high
school students in a Jezreel Valley
settlement.
The matter came up when the
preinier was questioned about a
case that has stirred most Is-
raelis—the refusal by the rab-
binical authorities to issue mar-
riage licenses to a brother and
Sister who, according to religious
law, were born out of wedlock.
_ She said, "A spiritual authority
-either single or a group of rabbis
—must study the situation of the
Jewish people in the last 2,000
years and somehow—I know that
takes courage—a way- must be
found to preserve Judaism and at
the same time enable Jews to live
in our times as Jews."
-
lrOUTWON'T
Dr. Israel Goldstein
to Present Seholarehip
Pincus was particularly jubilant to Old Congregation
over-the immigration rise from the
Case of `Illegitimate' Brother 9 Sister
to-Be Reviewed.by Rabbinical Council
- -
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A su- sue marriage licenses to the Lang-
preme rabbinical council will re-
view the case of a brother and sis-
ter forbidden by a rabbinical court
to marry partners "of their choice
because the court branded them
"illegitimate" according, to reli-
gious law.
All but one of the elders on the
council has agreed to serve on the
review panel. Previously, all had
refused.
The reversal was attributed to
the personal intervention of De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan in
the case of Hannoch and Miryam
Langer, troth members of Israel's
armed forces.
Former chief chaplain Rabbi
Shlomo Goren, now chief rabbi of
Tel Aviv, studied the case and
announced recently that he had
found new material warranting
the appointment of a panel to re-
view the ruling of the lower re-
ligious court.
were granted new immigrant privi- identical to the itilmber during
the correspondbqr ::perm` - 1.
urges;
.
This year, the immigrant status year. Last year's total. lonisigra- ,
has been withdrawn and the man- tion was 42,000.
her of returning Israelis- has de- According to the 'published end- -
creased so that there is actnally ings of a research team, 8.7. per
an increase of "genuine" olim cent of all immigrants leave Israel.
Jewish Agency officialq say-ene
from North America Pincus said
number of lima- of the reasons is that many new',
The*
'grams
to
the
comers
are _run/name& and that
arrived : ; up
rovtg .
end of August was 28,250, almost until last year, almostno_ o p asin
housing
sions had been made
single Pecsqns-
him hnow that , his - trip, from Italy
to the United States was not in
vein. .
But several days ago the 83
year-old man returned to his home:
in Pianello de Cagli in the pro-
vince of Pesaro, his mission unac-
complished. - --
He had come to this country
to find the son of a Jewish cou-
ple killed by the Fascists during
World _War Panichl, as re-
ported In the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, had been instrumental
in saving Jews. _
One couple, Joseph and Emma
Goldberg, were killed despite
Panichi's efforts. One of the - Jews
he led to safety was the Goldbergs'
son. Panichi came to this country
because he knew that the son had
served in the U.S. Army- and had
come to America. He did not' re-
member the son's name.
Panichi wanted 'desperately to
get in touch with the son, who he
believes is living in New York, to
let him know where 'Joseph and
Emma Goldberg are buried.
"No one called, no one wrote,
no one rang •the doorbell to
respond to my brother's search,"
End Panichi told the JTA.
"He was-, disappointed and felt
that he had failed in his mission,
in the one consuming goal that he
wanted to accomplish in his life-
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr: Israel
Goldstein, rabbi emeritus of Cong.
Bnai Joshuruit and former world
chairman of Keren Hayesod-tinited
Israel Appeg," Will mark his 75th
birthday by presenting a gift in-
stead of receiving one.
s, His birthday gift to the congre-
gation- which he served as rabbi
for 42 years from- 1918 to 1960,
will be a 575,000 -religious_schol-
arship fund which he personally
raised among congregants . and
friends. -
The fund will provide 100 free
scholarships annually= in the Bnai
Jeshurun afternoon religious school.
A religious service honoring Dr.
Goldstein will be held In the gyms-
Dr. Goldstein's career, span-
ning a period of 53 years, has
encompassed „a broad spectrum
-of activities, Including the presi-
dency of if:Bemis and secular
organizations in the United Statel.
- As a committed Zionist, who
played an influential role in the
establishment of the state of Is-
rael, he has made his home id
Jerusalem since his retirement
from the' congregation „at the end
of 1960: ..
, For-;the- past decade, he has
served as world chaliman Of Keren
HayesoclaJnitect ,'` Israel Appeal,
based'in Jerusalem. He resigned
from this post last 'June to de-
vote himself to Torah—study and
writing. He plans to write several
books which were started and tem-
porarily laid aside, dealing with
aspects of Jewish life with which
he has been associated.
His 75th birthday has brought
Dr. Goldstein two honors — a doc-
torafe is HebreW letters from
Drolisie 'University in Philadel-
phia, his natire city, and a doc-
torate -in- philosophy from the He-
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