NEW YORK—The Joint Distri- receive by far the largest portion
bution Committee will provide of the grant.
The JDC allocation also in-
$2,850,000 during 1972 toward the
cludes provision for substantial
overseas vocational training pro-
funds to be used by ORT in
grams of ORT, the Organization
for Rehabilitation through Train- France for job skills, education
and other training programs for
ing, it was announced by officials
North African refugees. ORT
of both organizations.
trade schools, apprentice pro-
The 1972 allocation is an increase
grams for youth and courses for
of $250,000 over last year, reflect-
adults have been greatly en-
ing primarily increased needs in larged to meet the needs of 300,-
Israel. It will also help finance 000 arrivals of recent years.
technical education, youth welfare,
JDC, the major American wel-
and economic rehabilitation serv- fare agency aiding distressed Jews
ices of ORT in Europe, North abroad, receives its funds from the
Africa, Iran and India.
campaigns of the United Jewish
Over 65,000 persons in 20 coun- AppeaL ORT is the principal
tries are expected to receive ORT agency affording vocational educa-
aid during the year, for which the tion to Jews overseas.
1972 ORT budget is $23,116,800.
The two-agency pact was an-
ORT services in Israel, with nounced by Edward Ginsberg, JDC
schools in 50 cities and towns, com- chairman; Samuel L. Haber, JDC
prising the biggest vocational executive vice chairman; Dr. 'Wil-
school system in the country, will liam Haber, president of the
American ORT Federation; and
Max A. Braude, ORT director-
HERE'S THE BARGAIN
general.
BUY IN HEALTHFUL
This latest agreement is the 26th
FOOD
consecutive annual understanding
between the JDC and ORT. JDC
has made over $43,300,000 avail-
able to ORT in the past 25 years
to assist the vocational training
of over 550,000 persons.
The agreement specifies that the
American ORT Federation will re-
frain from conducting independent
fund-raising campaigns in the
United States. ORT will, however,
VITAMINS, LOW
continue its membership activities.
CHOLESTEROL, EASY TO
DIGEST—NUTRITIOUS-
DELICIOUS
MADRID (JTA)—The small Je‘k-
ish community in Madrid—about
2,000 in a population of over 1,500.-
000—has rarely been a source of
news. This week, however, the
Jews in the Spanish capital let it
be known that they were alive and
kicking—each other.
For years the community has
been trying to get itself officially
recognized by the Spanish au-
thorities.
Its chances were seriously jeo-
pardized by a serious internal dis-
pute which threatens to split the
community into two bodies, one
Sephardic (Oriental) and the other
Ashkenazic (European Jews).
The Sephardim, who number
1,500 against 500 Ashkenazic
Jews, hold 75 per cent of the
seats in the Jewish Community
Council. The Ashkenazim, led
by former community president
Max Malin, want the by-laws
changed to allow the election of
a president by the council alone
instead of by the entire commu-
nity as is the current practice.
The issue led to a bitter con-
frontation at a community coun-
cil meeting. Sam Ben Sadon-
Laredo, the Sephardic incumbent,
refused Mazim official status at
the meeting on grounds that he
was more than three months be-
hind in his dues.
In the ensuing shouting, the 60-
man Ashkenazic contingent walked
out.
Madrid's rabbi, Benito Garzon,
is attempting to get the two sides
to
reach a compromise, so far
The ball of liberty is now so well
in motion that it will roll round the without success.
globe.—Thongs Jefferson.
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JERUSALEM — Famous for its
medical and therapeutic qualities,
the Dead Sea resort at Ein Bokek
recently was the scene of an ex-
ercise in human relations between
Jews and Arabs from Acre. They
gathered under the auspices of
the Hebrew University's Martin
Buber Center for Adult Education
to launch an Arab-Jewish cultural
center in their town.
Some two dozen Acre residents,
half Arabs and half Jews, par-
ticipated in the two-day seminar
which included plenary sessions,
lectures on intergroup relations,
a tour to Ein Gedi and Masada,
and a session of group dynamics
exercises. Taking part were mem-
bers of the Acre municipality, busi-
nessmen, educators and community
leaders from Acre and university
representatives.
According to Adult Education
Center director Kalman Yaron, the
group constitutes the founding com-
mittee of the Acre Arab-Jewish
Cultural Center, which the Acre
municipality has provided with
quarters in the center of town.
• C C
JERUSALEM — "H ebro n, the
Profile of a Historic Town," is the
title of a book in Hebrew which
was presented to Hebron's mayor,
Sheikh Mohammed All Ja'abari,
by the authors, Prof. Yehuda Kar-
(non, Hebrew University associate
Professor of geography, and Avsha-
lom Shmueli, a doctoral student
in the university's department of
geozraphy.
The 146-page book is an analysis
of the town, based upon its histori-
cal and social development and
stressing the impact of the Hebron
vineyards and hilly topography on
the society and economy of the
town throughout history.
Prof. Karmon inscribed a dedica-
tion to Mayor Ja'abari in the book,
and the mayor responded with
thanks, calling the book a con-
tribution to the "meeting of hearts"
between the two populations.
The road to ruin is always kept
in good repair, and the travelers
pay the expense of it.
—Josh Billing
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
D4YENU
Friday, March 24, 1972
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BY HENRY LEONARD
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AMC to Give OUT $2,850,000 Split Threatens
for Overseas Programs in 1972 Spanish Jews
443
"Morris hid the matzoh so well,
he can't find it himself!"
Ugandan Army Officers Held;
Link to Charges Against Israel?
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Reports
that several officers in the Ugan-
dan Army have been detained
seemed to bear out the opinion
here that President Idi Amin's re-
cent accusations against Israel
were partly due to intern al
troubles.
The Jerusalem Post said that
Amin's charges of an Israel con-
spiracy against his regime prob-
ably stemmed from motives un-
connected with Israel.
In the Sneaset, Foreign Mini-
ster Abba Eban said the govern.
ment was still clarifying the is-
sues. He said Uganda had not
satisfactorily replied to Israeli
representations made in the wake
of Amin's accusations, which a
foreign ministry spokesman here
called "grave" and a "cause of
great concern."
Amin, who recently visited Israel
and has been thought friendly
to it, alleged that Israeli nationals
in Kampala, Uganda's capital were
trying to return to the Presidency
Dr. Milton Obote, deposed by Maj.
Gen. Amin while Dr. Obote was
in Singapore.
Amin then joined with Libyan
leader Col. uammar el-Quaddafi
in a statement taking the Arab
view on Israeli withdrawal.
Trieste Holocaust Victims
Memorialized in Forest
A wood bearing the names of the
Holocaust victims of the Jewish
community of Trieste, Italy, has
been planted by the Jewish Nation.
al Fund in the Martyrs' Forest in
the Judean Hills.
The famous Jewish community
of Trieste, which has many sages,
among them the famous Bible com-
mentator Rabbi David Luzzatto,
was practically destroyed in 1943
when the Nazis annexed the city
to the German Reich.
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