18—Friday, June 9, 1972
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Drive Under Way to Find Tay- Sachs Disease Carriers
Ten
WASHINGTON (JTA)
couples and about 300 individuals
have been identified as carriers of
the Tay Sachs disease from among
the approximately 7,000 Jewish
TORONTO (ZINS) — Although I the country. About 55 per cent
men and women who were recently
there are far fewer Jews in
of its youth receives a Pewish
examined in the screening pro-
Canada than in the U.S., Canadian
education as against 18 per f grams conducted in the Washing-
Jewry more than holds its own
cent in the States.
tion and Baltimore areas, officials
vis-a-vis its "big brother" to the
In other respects the Jews of of the John F. Kennedy Institute of
south.
i Canada are enjoying a golden age.
Johns Hopkins Hospital have dis-
In terms of organization, Jewish The minister of finance, two vice closed.
education, preservation of the
ministers and the chief director ! The findings zre based on
Jewish tradition and attraction of
of the government bank are Jews. screenings of about 2.000 persons
youth to the idea of Jewish ' There is a very high percentage in the Washington area and 5,000
of Jew s in universities-15-20 per in Baltimore. The two cities have
identity, Canada has a fine re-
cord.
I cent of the total student popula- a combined Jewish population of
This phenomenon is the result of tion.
, about 250,000.
the fact that the 270,000 Jews in
In 'harp c"ntrast to the frag- •
Additional screenings are to
Canada, most are concentrated in
mentation which characterizes the
take place in the Washington
the two major metropolitan cent-
American-Jewish community, the
area. Tests also are scheduled
ers of Toronto and Montreal. About
Canadian Jewry presents, for the
in other large Jewish communi-
half of 'them are immigrants who • most part, a ',rotted front. Al-
ties in the C.S. znd Canada.
hold fast to the customs of East
though there is some competition
The National Capital Tay Sachs
European Jewry.
and conflict between various Jew-
Foundation estimates that about
ish institutions in Canada, it is a
Canadian Jewry combats the
4.000 unknown Jewish carriers of
far cry from the factionalism ram-
peril of assimilation through a
the disease live in the Washington
pant on the American-Jewish
sast network of Jewish schools,
area and that approximately one
scene.
which are located even in the
in 900 Jewish couples are "at
remotest outlying provinces of
rts!: for Tay Sachs disease to occur
JTA Lists Officers;
in their children."
Canada Jews Combat Assimilation,
Many Are Holding Key Gott. Posts
Detroiter Vier. President
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NEW YORK JTA I—Robert H.
Arnow, president of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, announced
Tuesday the election of four new
members of the JTA board of
directors and electicn of officers
for the 1972-73 year
Philip Slomovitz of Detroit was
re-elected a vice president.
The four new board members
are Max Jacobs of Buffalo, N.Y.;
Ben Zion Leuchter of Vineland,
N J.: Leonard Sloane of New York:
and Gordon B. Zac!cs of Columbus.
Arnow was re-elected president.
Elected as vice-president were Ray-
mond Epstein of Chicago and Wil-
liam Landau of New York.
Abraham Goodman of New Jer-
sey was re-elected 'treasurer;
Julius Berman of New York, secre-
tary; and Jerold C. Hoffberger of
Baltimore, chairMan of the execu-
tive committee.
Israeli Opinion of Nixon
Rises; Military Aid Cited
NEW YORK — The man in the
street in Israel has a higher opin-
ion of President Nixon today than
ever before. This is revealed in a
new puhlic opinion survey, just
conducted there by Public Opinion
Research of Israel Ltd. and re-
ported here by the American
Jewish Committee.
The survey shows that 70 per
cent of those questioned were satis-
fied with President Nixon's attitude
toward Israel, with an additional
23 per cent stating that they were
"more or less" satisfied with him,
In summer 1970, only 23 per
cent of Israelis questioned
ex-
pressed approval of the President.
In explaining the figures, PORI
suggests that the sympathetic view
of Israelis toward Mr. Nixon re-
flects the fact that American and
Israeli views are more in harmony
today than in the past and that
U.S. military shipments are again
flowing to Israel after long and
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LONDON—According to a story
in the Middle East International,
there are nearly 10,000 Arab stu-
dents in the United States, and
most of them are non-activists.
However, there are some, and
these students in 1970 caused a
split in the 8,000-member nation-
wide Organization of Arab Students
over the issue of Israel. The more
conservative Arabs want to limit
hostility to Israel alone.
Activist Palestinian students pre-
fer anonymity as long as their
families are living under Israeli
rule, the article said, adding that
they fear Israeli reprisals and the
jeopardizing of their own chances
of returning home.
Many Arab students who come
to the U.S. follow relatives who
have come before. Many are found
in Detroit, Chicago, Houston and
Los Angeles. In Brooklyn, there are
20,000 Arabs living within a few
blocks of each other.
of the United Zionist-Revisionists
of America but will work inde-
pendently on campuses.
The new group plans to carry on
both campus and community based
activities to promote the Zionist
Revisionist program: democratiza-
tion of the Jewish community,
raising of Jewish national con-
sciousness through education and
free discussion, aliya and an Is-
rael based on social justice and
traditional Jewish values, an Is-
rael that will include the liberated
territories.
Hebrew to Be Taught
in Gaza Strip Schools
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Hebrew will
• be introduced into the curriculum
of Gaza Strip schools next fall and
10 Arab teachers, all graduates
of Cairo University's school of
I Semitic studies, will ta.'ce special
courses this summer that will pre-
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them to teach the subject.
The 10 were selected by the :
Gaza Strip educational authorities !
from a list of about 100 Arab
teachers who applied. The Hebrew
courses were added at the request
of many parents and local authori•
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NEW YORK (JTA)—The forma-
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The Foundation also reports that
"one when both husband and wife
are carriers is the couple at risk
for having a child with the dis-
ease."
It notes further that couples
Zionist Revisionists
Youth Mobilize
protracted discussions.
- However, recent medical
which have had "perfectly norinal
break-
children could still be at risk for throughs make it possible for all
having a Tay Sachs child with a carriers to be detected, the Foun-
dation reports.
subsequent pregnancy."
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