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Federations Increase Their Educational Allocations
Prof. Joseph Gutmann's Study Construction
by 76 Per Cent; Many Cities Boost Day Schools Aid
over phis, up $124,000, and IYc
Defines Origin of Synagogue to Start in April NEW YORK — Allocations ' Import is le large cities
1937.1971, Cleveland aliecatiem whir*

18-4ridni,'Eali.'14, 1973 ' ' . THE DETROIT 4EMffSH NE94 1

Dr. Joseph Gutmann, pro- intermingle in the writings
fearer of art history and lit- about this Jewish institution.
••Although the fa ctua l e vi.
erature at Wayne State Uni-
versiiy, offers important ileac* for the origin of the
data on "The Origin of the synagogue is meager, the tit-
Synagogue: The Current erature that has grown up
State of Research," publish- around this difficult question
ed in Berlin in Archaelogis- is vast and formidable.

JERUSALEM (JET) — Is-
rael will build an IL 140,000,-
000 (335,000,000) jet airport
in Etlat capable of handling

intercontinental jets.
Yehuda Rabin, chief of the

to education by 75 Jewish
federations across the coun-
try increased 11i per cent

during the ftve-year period
from 19116 is 1971, rising from
$5,450,000 to $8.640,0011, it
was highlighted in a report

Civil Aviation Ad m inistra - issued by the Council of
lion . said construction would Jewish Federations and Wel-
cher Anzeiger. "Basically both Jewish and • start in April and the airport fare Funds.
At the outset. Dr. Gut- Christian scholars have tak- would be completed within
It was further noted that
f ive • s
mann points to the following en one of three positions:
Ile also reported that IL during this span Federation
viewpoints that have been that the synagogue originated
allocations
for all other local
advanced in else course of in the (Al exilic (i.e., during 5,000,000 ($1,250,000) has been
purposes increased 55 per
historical research: the Babylonian captivity in spent to resurface the run-
cent. In 1971 Jewish Educa-
"No one doubts the import- the 6th Century BCE.), (B) ways at Jerusalem's Atarot
tion accounted for one-fourth
ance of the synagogue in the pre-exilic. or (C) post-exilic Airport so that it can handle
of .411 allocations made by
development of Western roll- period. The place or origin medium-size aircraft of the
Federations_ for local pun-
Wm, but the enigma of its ranges from ancient Judea Super Carevelle and Boeing
origins has opened the path to Babylonia, Egypt, and 727 types. The Jerusalem
The CJF profile Is• based
airport is scheduled to open
for endless speculations so Palestine."
on a five-year review of
that fact and fiction freely
Prof. Gutmann points out next month.
sample
communities and in-
Rabin said the Ellat air-
that "Prof. Solomon Zeldin
port would service intercon- cludes all 13 U.S. cities with
has
stood
almost
alone
in
New Israel School
tinental jets flying directly Jewish populations of more
advocating that the origin of
40,000, except New
to Help Children With the synagogue must be link- from Europe and other than
York; 16 communities with
points.
Jewish
populations ranging
Adjustment Problems ed with the rise of the Phari-
He said it would be built
sees and must be placed in
1/2 miles from 15,000 to 40,000; 27
NEW YORK — Hershel M. Palestine in the post-exilic at one of two sites. 2
from Eilat. The runways will cities with between 5,000 and
Stiskin, president of Summit period "
be laid out so that jets ap- 15,000 Jewish population;
an :
International,
Schools
Dr. Gutman , indicates that
proaching from the Red Sea and 19 communities with less
flounced the establishment of
co:
Prof.
Zei
a student
will not fly over Eilat's re- than 5,000 Jewish population.
the newest of the Summit
Prof. Ellis F. kin, differed sort hotel area and will not
The report shows that the
Network programs, the Sum- with his teach,. contending
interfere with traffic to Jor- smaller sized communities
lierzliya..
Institute
in
mit
that "the Hasmosean revolt
had the highest percentage
dan's Aqaba Airport.
Israel.
in Palestine in the second
Rabin said that plans for growth, with allocations to
Designed as an alternative century BCE was the histor-
the Eilat air terminal Jewish education more than
and supportive high school ; ic crisis that catapulted new
building called for the most doubling during the five-year
P rogram for American 2 '1°1 ' , forces, such as the Phari-
modern equipment and facil- period. In terms of actual
escents, it enables American : •
•
ities in compliance with In- dollars, Federations in Chi-
teenagers affected by home .
Dr. Gutmann reaches these ternational standards.
cago and Philadelphia (and
and/or school adjustment
conclusions:
He conceded that sched- New York, which was not In-
difficulties to participate in
The synagogue, a unique uled international airlines cluded in this study) each
a specially designed residen-
• Pharisaic institution, must have been hesitant about allocated more than $1,000,•
tial program.
000 to Jewish education in
Jewish self-identification is have arisen, according to landing at Jerusalem because
encouraged in its deepest Rivkin, after the Ilasmonean of the political implications 1971, with Cleveland, Detroit
and Los Angeles Federations
sense, and guidance and revolt in 2nd Century BCE. but that there was every in-
approaching that figure.
counseling are provided for Palestine a s a secular meet- dication that charter flights
The mean average growth
the troubled adolescent. Stu- ing house, where discussions would make good use of the
of
15 per cent for the five-
dents at the institute will get of and readings from the Improved facilities. Rabin
period was sustained In
year
also
disclosed
plans
for
the
an American high school 1 Torah and Prophets took
the 1970.71 period which saw
curriculum on a tutorial ; place. At this stage of our construction of an airport
' knowledge, this theory ap• about 17 kilometers (101/2 allocations grow from
basis.
Two-and-a-half years ago, 1 pears to be the most plausi• miles) southeast of Beer- $8,350,000 to $9,640,000.
Stiskin, founder of the Sum. ble offered for the origin of sheba which he said may
An even greater percentage
subsequently become an increase in support of Jewish
mit School in the U. S., emi• the synagogue.
"Leaving
theories
and alternative to Lod, at -present day schools was reported.
grated to Israel where he
speculations behind, what do Israel's only international air-
In an earlier CJF study, It
and a number of his col-
we really know about the or- port.
was revealed that federation
leagues established two rem-
(gins of the synagogue?
edial learning centers, one
"Archaeological evidence,
in Tel Aviv and one in
accepted by most scholars,
Ramat-Gan.
affirms the existence of dis-
The centers now serve
tinct synagogue buildings by
some 150 youngsters on a
the 3rd Century CE. These
part-time treatment basis
The gangland•style murder
buildings, which are •dapta-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Police
and hundreds of others
lions of the Roman basilica, and security officials are In- of Arbitti was the first po-
through its special diagnostic
seem to appear first In the vestigating the possibility of litical murder In Gaza in
program.
Galilee region of Palestine a connection between Monday several months. The victim
For information, write to
and are even dated by some morning's ambush attempt was taken from his home by
Summit, 71.11 112th St,
scholars as early as the late on the life of former Mayor three gunmen before dawn
Forest hills. N. Y. 11375.
2nd Century CE.
Rashid Ismael' el Arbitti, an Sunday. /I i a bullet-riddled
"When the Temple was des• opponent of Shawa who had body was found near a wall
Soviet Jewry Body
troyed in 70 CE, the syna- been mentioned as a possible about a half mile away.
emerged fully triumph- mayoral candidate.
Shawn suffered slight hand
Elects Richard Maass gogue
ant and took the place of the
wounds when two bursts of
NEW YORK—The National Temple as the official religi-
automatic fire struck his red
Conference on Soviet Jewry, oua institution of Ph•risalc- Cabinet Divided
limousine while he was drly.
coordinating body for Soviet Rabbinic Judaism. It came on Dayan's Plan for
Ing from his home to a citrus-
Jews in this country, Corn- now to be called bet ha•te-
packing plant In the Gaza
posed of 34 major national fills (house of prayer) as Port City in Sinai
Strip. He said later that he
Jewish organizations and well as bet ha-k nesset
JERUSALEM (Z I N S) — believed his attackers were
hundreds of local Jewish (synagogue) and developed Moshe Dayan's proposal for Arab terrorists.
community councils, elected
a systematized liturgy along establishment of a port city
Shawa was removed from
Richard Maass as its chair- with regularized ceremonies in the Sinai peninsula, to be
office by Israeli authorities
man, and observances. Replacing known as Yamit. is meeting
last year when he refused to
Maass, who recently suc• the abode of God, the syna-
with mixed reaction from the
extend municipal services to
ceeded Max M. Fisher as gogue became a decentraliz- cabinet.
refugee camps in the Gaza
chairman of the national ex- ed house of the people, where
According to press reports, area.
ecutive council of ;he Ameri- God, through ceremonies and
Dayan's plan envisages a
can Jewish Committee, is ac- prayers — rather than priest-1
On the day of his removal,
tive in a wide variety of hu- ly sacrifices — was petition- new seaside city southwest of Arbitti, a former Gaza court
man rights organizations and ed directly without interme- Gaza, just below Rafiyah, clerk, was elected chairman
efforts close to home. He is diaries, to help insure, not with a settled population of of the local council of the El
250,000 in 25 years.
a member of the housing ad- fertility of the land, but sal-
Shatti refugee quarter, which
Dayan envisions the new had just been incorporated
visory council of the New vation and resurrection of the
Sinai
city
as
the
fourth
into the Gaza municipal
York State Commission on individual Jew in the world
major port facility, in addi- council.
on Human Rights and former to come.
chairman of the Mayor's
"In sum: Archeological tion to the existing ones at
It was believed that terror-
Committee on Minority lions- remains testify to the firm Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat.
ists murdered Arbitti as a

• five-year period,
harrowed by 113 per oral. The
largest &wee fameases &sr•
fag tide awn were Ens Adige&
es. uP 11141,444. Chtenett. an
Werwed of UMW*, eldhulei.

Jews of Arab Lands
Can Register Claims
for Lost Property

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Is-
rael will counter the claims
for lost property by Arab ref-
ugees who fled Israel with

ing of the White Plains Ur- rootedness of this novel insti-
ban Renewal Administration. tution in Judaism about a
lie has been a member of hundred years after its es.
the board of the t rhan tablishment as the official
League of Westchester Coun• place of Jewish worship and
ty for 19 years, serving as perhaps 3(8) years after its
president and as treasurer. histor's emergence."

Finance Minister Pinhas
Sapir is opposed, while Pre-
mier Golda Meir is reported
favoring the plan in prin-
ciple, but not on the vast
scale contemplated by
Dayan.

warning to all other candi-
dates not to collaborate with
Israeli authorities. Arbitti
was the father of 10. His
funeral Sunday was attended
by thousands of Shatti quar-
ter refugees.

over the five-year period

vas

stabilising, with some esimr....,
mualties Wowing • decline. -

The CJF day school study,
based on data gathered by
the American Association fee
Education, further
Jewish

noted a one-year increase
(1970-1971) of 30.2 per cent
similar claims by Jews vOto is allocatioas for day whack,.
have come to Israel born the for the same 10 cities, whilsr,, ,
Arab states, Justice Minister the increase for 35 interme-
Yaacov
Shimshon Shapiro diate-sized cities was 12,6

said.

He announced that his min-
istry was prepared to regis-
ter the claims of Jews from
Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Ye-
men for the property they

per cent.

Over the five-year span be-
ginning in 1967, Federations

in the 35 intermediate-sized •
cities covered in the report

to

left behind, in preparation increased their allocations
for an eventual peace settle- Jewish day schools 105 per
cent. Biggest increases were
ment.
The final claims of Jews reported by the Federations
who came to Israel and in Seattle and Atlanta, each
Arabs who left Israel will be approximately $32,000. The
balanced on the basis of Lynn Federation followed
"property," not "refugee vs. with a $31,000 increase in
refugee," Shapiro told the allocations.
Labor Alignment Knesset
Since the beginning of 1967,
faction.
the first year of the study,
Ile said Israel did not con- communities that have initiat-
sider Jewish arrivals from ed funding for Jewish day
Arab states to be refugees as schools include Baltimore,
the Arab governments classi- Boston, Detroit, Miami, St,
fy Arabs who left Israel.
Louis and Washington, among
The Knesset is in the pro- the large cities.
cess of voting on an amend-
ment to the absentee proper-
ty law which will compen-
Typewriters
sate East Jerusalem Arabs
Foolery Sealed
for property left behind in
$369.99
reg. $750
Israel. The measure passed
'n
Its first reading.
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