THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
11•-Friday, Dec. 22, 1972
Mystery Crates
to Jordan Spur
Probe in Dallas
DALLAS (JTA)—Is a Roy-
al Jordanian jet that landed
at Love Field on Monday—
officially to pick up commer-
cial antennas—actually being
loaded up with "top secret
radio-radar missile-tracking
equipment"?
Speculation soared follow-
ing a report in the Dallas
Morning News and a follow-
up investigation by Jimmy
Wisch, editor-publisher of the
Texas Jewish Post.
According to the Morning
News, quoting what it called
a reliable source, about
$2,500,000 in "top-secret ra-
dio-radar missile - tracking
equipment" manufactured by
Collins Radio Co., the largest
maker of sophisticated elec-
tronic
aviation equipment,
was being readied at the air-
field for shipment to Jordan.
The jet had arrived on an
unusual nonstop
Jordan-to-
Dallas flight, supposedly
transporting jet engines to be
overhauled. Round-the-clock
armed guards patrolled the
area.
The United States, which
supplies arms to Israel and
some Arab countries, trains
Jordanian pilots in Texas.
Differing
versions were
provided by the Jordanian
Embassy and State Depart-
ment sources. The Jordanian
minister, Dr. Nasir N. Batay-
neh, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that the Jor-
danian jet was on a chartered
flight from Amman to Dallas
and return. He asserted that
be did not know of any equip- I
ment having been
taken
aboard the jet.
A State Department source '
told the JTA that the Jordan-
ian ALIA airline arrived in
Dallas several days ago and
took
on "ordinary equip-
ment" that had been "long
anticipated" for delivery to
Jordan as part of the ongoing
supply of military equipment
from the U.S. to the Hashe-
mite kingdom.
New Immigrants Hit
Limit on Privileges
JERUSALEM (JTA)-
Spokesmen for immigrant
groups in Israel protested
vehemently over new regu•
lations put Into effect over
the weekend reducing pri-
vileges hitherto granted to
new immigrants.
The rules were promulgat-
ed after Israeli authorities
discovered large-scale frauds
perpetrated by immigrants
found loopholes in the old
regulations.
The Immigrants •ssocla-
tionv, complained that the
vast majority of honest slim
wet-. Being penalized for the
crime, of • few.
The new rules allow only
one duty-free car per family
to be brought into the coun-
try. In addition, immigrants
will no longer be allowed to
receive duty-free parcels from
home ,luring their first three
years in the country. This
was viewed as imposing a
hardship
on young immi-
grants.
Deceit
You can fool some of the
people all 'he time, and all
of the pea; le some of the
arne, but you cannot fool all
of the people all of the time.
—Abraham Lincoln
A Demand for Equity
by the A sunk, riot, of Hebrew Day Schools of Metropolitan Detroit
representing Akira, Beth lehudah and Hiltcl
In 1962, after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of man-hours, the
National Study of Jewish Education (sponsored by the Jewish Welfare Federations), concluded that
"except for the Day School Movement, American Jewish Education is a mile wide and an inch
deep." Thus the validity. the vitality, the success of the Day School idea was vindicated more than
ten years ago.
The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds at its General Assemblies since 1970
adopted and strongly reaffirmed resolutions favoring the inclusion of Day Schools as beneficiaries
of Federation funding. Local Jewish Welfare Federations were urged to move towards "new
planning of Federation'relationships and financial aid to day schools".
The local Federation leadership approved this resolution on the national level! Why does it
keep dragging its feet on the local level'? Why does it categorically reject any meaningful support for
the day schools?
How long must Akira. Beth Vehudalt and Hind Day Schools -wait while the crushing burden of
our deficits, caused by the ever rising costs of quality Jewish education, grows heavier and heavier?
Hoty long must we wait for nu:attic:gni, aid to come from Detroit's Jewish Welfare Federation?
LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING IN SOME OTHER CITIES:
FEDERATION ALLOCATIONS TO THE DAY SCHOOLS IN 1971-72
CITY
AMOUNT
BOSTON
CHICAGO
CLEVELAND
PHILADELPHIA
LOS ANGELES
$113,000.
344,000.
248,000.
282,000.
223,000.
In each of these major cities, there are subsidized programs of afternoon Jewish Studies.
None-the-less, those cities provide significant aid to their Day Schools, as do many other cities, large
and small, across the United States.
•
MEANWHILE, IN DETROIT. THE THREE DAY SCHOOLS WITH AN ENROLLMENT
OF MORE. TITAN 1000 CHILDREN RECEIVE A "FOTAL OF ONLY S39,000, ONLY
S39.00 PER CHILI). ONLY $13,000 PER SCHOOL!
•
The afternoon school system with less children, with Iwo-thirds less hour, of study,
receives $600,000 or 15 times as much at $600 per child!
WHERE IS THE JUSTICE? WHERE IS THE EQUITY? WHERE ARE OUR COMMUNITY PRIORITIES?
WE DEMAND
•
We demand that the organized Jewish Community recognize its true obligation to support
day school education in our community.
•
We demand an end to the current unreasonable imbalance of support favoring minimal
Jewish education, and providing only token support of the maximal program of Day
Schools.
•
While whole generations are lost ht' assimilation, intermarriage and campus missionary
activity, Federation is continuing to ignore the Day Schools which are succeeding in
budding a new strong, proud and knowledgeable generation of American Jews.
How long
must we
wail for our rightful share of the communal dollar?
The Association of I lebrew Day Schools of
Metropolitan Mood
440 Penobscot Building
Telephone: 96I -9445
the second in e cunlmu,1,5series ot educational communications to the Ile
the Day Schools in our community
Jewish Community sponsored by friends of