Jewish News, Its Editor Win First Smolar Award

Boris Smolar

TORONTO—The Detroit Jewish News and its editor, Philip Slomovitz, are the winners of', the first
Smolar Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, established by the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds in honor of Boris Smolar, editor emeritus of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The selections were announced here by Jerold C. Hoffberger of Baltimore, chairman of the CJF board
of judges for the Smolar Award, who will make the presentation to Slomovitz at the CJF general ,assembly
banquet Saturday night at the Royal York Hotel here.
A delegation of close to 70, the largest on record, is representing Detroit at the sessions of thd 41st CIF
general assembly. There are more than 1,800 delegates here from communities throughout the United States
and Canada.

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Terrorists
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November 10, 1972

Iraqi, Syrian Jews' Plight Adds
New Concern for Their Safety

Many Jews Switched, but Most
Voted Democratic, Returns Show

By WILLIAM SAPHIRE
JTA Staff Writer
NEW YORK (JTA)—Roughly twice as many Jews voted for President

Nixon Tuesday as voted for him in 1968, election returns indicated as of
this week.
While a precise tally of the Jewish vote was not yet available nation-
wide and may not be for several days, returns from some key districts
showed that while Mr. Nixon succeeded in doubling his Jewish vote in his
landslide victory, a majority of Jewish voters still favored the Democratic
candidate, Sen. George McGovern.

Book Fair Opens
Saturday Night

The annual Jewish Book
Fair, sponsored by the Jew-
ish Center in cooperation
with a number of major
organizations, opens Satur-
day evening with Robert
St. John as guest speaker.
Prominent authors will ad-
dress numerous s essions
during the coming eight
days. A book exhibit, chil-
dren's performances a n d
musical programs will be
among the added features
of this year's Book Fair.

According to the emerging picture, Mr.
Nixon pulled 40 per cent of the Jewish
vote nationally. These results are almost
exactly the reverse of the general elec-
tion returns which gave the President
his overwhelming victory.

Returns available so far showed that
the heaviest volume of Jewish votes for
Mr. Nixon was registered in areas beset
by racial tensions. The President won
25 per cent of Michigan's Jewish vote,
compared to 10-12 per cent four years
ago. Busing with its racial overtones has
been a major issue in Detroit, Flint and
Pontiac. Similarly, Brooklyn's heavily
Jewish Canarsie district, which is in the
throes of a busing controversy, gave Mr.
Nixon 54 per cent of its vote, compared
to 23 per cent in 1968.
In another heavily Jewish Brooklyn

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NEW YORK (JTA)—Abraham el-Saigh, a prominent Iraqi Jew, has been ki"cd
in what the head of the American Committee for the Rescue and Resettlemen' of
Iraqi Jews (AMCOR) calls "a political murder."
Dr. Heskel Haddad, who reported the incident Monday, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that Saigh was found dead in his home in Baghdad with no signs of
burglary or forced entry. He said Saigh was one of 100 Iraqi Jews who would have
been barred from leaving- the country even if general emigration permission were
accorded Iraqi Jews.
Dr. Haddad also reported that eight Jews at the top of the list of 100 have
"disappeared" in Baghdad, and AMCOR has "assumed they were arrested." They are
Dr. Ezra Khazzan, a physician; Jacob Aix' el-Aziz, a lawyer; Jacob and Shaul Rijuan,
brothers; Shaul Shamash and Azoori Shamash, unrelated; Victor Ezra Daoud; and an
unidentified man from Basra.
AMCOR said that the Jewish population of Iraq has decreased from 3,500 in
1967 to 600-700 now, with around 300 of them old and around 400 waiting to leave on
passports. Since 1967, more than 2,500 Jews have left Iraq on passports or illegally.
AMCOR described Iraqi Jewry's present situation as "worsened."
Seventy demonstrators rallied Monday outside the Iraqi Mission here, protesting.
the' treatment of Iraqi Jews.
The approximately 4,500 Jews remaining in Syria still are denied basic human
rights and some continue to be beaten and imprisoned on various pretexts, it v as
reported by the Committee of Concern for Minorities in. Arab countries, a nonsectarian
American group headed by Gen. (Ret.) Lucius D. Clay.
According to the committee, the identity cards of Jews still carry the notation
"Misawi" (Jewish) in large red letters on bothsides, arid Syrian Jews are no.t allowed
to travel freely within the country and cannot go abroad, even for medical fi-eatment
Even Jews with foreign citizenship andpassports are not allowed to leave.
The committee reported further that Jews cannot work in government offices,
public companies, or banks, and cannot conduct an export or import business.
Government and army personnel have been ordered not to buy in Jewish-owned
stores, and Jews cannot sell their houses or other real estate. When they die, the
government seizes their property.

A Salute to and a Blessing for the President

Faith in America's Future

From Stephen Vincent Benet's "Listen to the People"

Our voice is not one voice but many voices,
Not one man's not the greatest, but the people's.
The blue sky and the fifty states of the people,
Many in easy times, but one in the pinch.
Our voice is all the objectors and dissenters,
And they sink and are lost in the groundswell
of the people,
Once the people rouse, once the people wake
and listen.
We are the people. Listen to us now.
Say you we're puny? We built Boulder Dam.
We built Grand Coulee and the T.V.A.
We built them out of freedom and our sweat.
We made the seas of wheat, the seas of corn.
We made five states a sea of wheat and corn.
We built the cities and the skyscrapers; but it
wasn't enough.
We lost our way for a while, but we've found
Our way.
We know it and we'll hold it and we'll keep it.
We'll tell it to the world. We're saying it:
Freedom to speak and pray,
Freedom from want and fear—
That's what we're building.

Tuesday's verdict—Vox poptili, vor
the voice of the people (is) the voice of God—is,
as of Wednesday morning, accepted as the voice
of the entire American nation. With the accept-
able old Latin rule for political conduct, we now
settle down again for unified action by all
Americans, under the retained leadership, to
carry on the task for peace, for the improvement
of the lot of the less fortunate in our economic
system, for a determined aim to establish good
will among all faiths, all who stem from differ.
ing racial and national backgrounds.
Richard Milhouse Nixon continues in the
Presidency for another four years commencing
on Jan. 20. Under his administration, all of us
are committed to labor for the welfare of the
entire nation and to strive for amity that will
bring us the respect of the entire world.
We retain the right to differ with the Chief
Executive and to criticize our legislators in the
established American traditions.
In this spirit we always pray for the Presi-
dent's welfare.
We salute President Richard Milhouse Nixon.
May he and our entire Nation be blessed in
the spirit of our American ideals!

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