Uncertain Future Looms for Soviet, Latin Jews,
Haber's Task Force Advises AJCommittee

NEW YORK—Jewish communi-
ties outside the United States, with
the exception of Western Europe..
face an uncertain and perhaps
ominous future in the decade 1
ahead. This is the major import of
a special survey released by the
American Jewish Committee.
The survey, made public at the
AJC's 66th annual meeting at the
Americana llotel, represents the
thinking of a group of scholars '
constituting the Task Force on the
World of the 1970s.
It indicated that while the Jews
of Western Europe will probably
enjoy security, Soviet Jews will
still face repression. Latin Ameri-
can Jewery will be plagued by un-
certainty and alarm, and Israel
will need help and understanding.
William Haber, professor of
economics and adviser to the
executive officers of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, is chairman of
the task force, formed in August
1970.

government-supported elementary
and high schools has helped to re-
duce significantly the tension be-
tween Arabs and ait gws in Israel.

A total of 86,000 were enrolled
in 280 elementary schools, and
12.000 in 41 high schools. These
figures, he said, represent an in-
crease of 6.000 elementary and
1,500 high school students over
last year's enrollment.
One major problem. according

to Band, has been that cf im-

proving teaching. Since about half
of the 4.700 teachers in the Arab
schools are not fully qualified pro-
fessionally, he said service train-
ing courses were instituted last
summer for 720 teachers in 25
study groups in Haifa and Jerusa-
lem. Subsequently, additional
courses were organized in Naza-
reth and Beersheba.

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Zvi Y. Gitelmen, assistant pro-
fessor of political science at U. of
M., also served on the task force.
The report stated that
• There will probably be no sub-
stantial change in the situation
of Jews in the Soviet Union. Jews
elsewhere must continue to keep
the world alert to the fate of Soviet
Jews in an effort to fight injustice
and promote freedom.
• Despite the possibility of re-
newed anti-Semitic agitation, the
actual security of Jews in Western
Europe should remain unimpaired.
Relations with Israel. however,
may deteriorate as West Euro-
pean governments, impatient with
the Middle East stalemate, ...may
cool toward Israel and become
more receptive to pro-Arab and
New Left propaganda. Jewish
communal life in Western Europe
will require encouragement as in-
ter-marriage increases and the
young lose interest.

• Prospects for political stabil-
ity in many Latin American na.
tions are dim and the fate of Latin
American Jewry uncertain. Radi-
calism, disorder and revolution will
continue to characterize many
Latin American countries, and
Jews, as a predominantly middle
class element, will be especially
affected by the inevitable upheav-
als. Latin American Jews will con-
tinue to suffer from confusion of
direction and division of counsel:
their institutions are plagued by
lack of leadership and manpower
and by economic difficulties. They
will continue to need leadership
counsel and communal assistance
from American Jewry and from
Israel.
An authority on Latin American
Jewry, Haim Avni, lecturer at the
Institute of Contemporary Jewry
of the Hebrew University, stated
that the Arab League was stirring
up hostility against Israel and
Latin American Jewry. As a result,
Avni reported, "traditional anti-
Semites now use anti-Zionist slo-
gans, even when the content of
their propaganda is 'classically'
anti-Semitic."
Eugene V. Rostow, Sterling Pro-
fessor of Law at Yale University
Law School and former undersec-
retary of state for political affairs,
charged in a report prepared for
the task force that Egypt's resis-
tance to compromise has been the
major impediment to Middle East
peace.
Rostow declared that "The de-
tails of a peaceful settlement be-
tween Israel and its neighbors
have been exhaustively canvas-
sed. There is no mystery about
them. With a will for peace. they

should be easy to resolve."
Jordan Band, chairman of the
committee en the Middle East,
stated that a sharp increase in the
number of Arab students attending

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