Boris Smolar's

Leaflet in Yiddish Advises Aged,
Poor Jews How to Get Food Aid

NEW YORK—With the co-
operation of the American
Jewish Committee, the -U.S.
Department of Agriculture
has issued and distributed a
le a f 1 e t telling in Yiddish
how poor people may obtain
food stamps and thus obtain
more and better food.
The leaflet is expected to
enlarge the number of poor
J e w s , especially older in
dividuals, participating in the
food stamp program. Here-
tofore, few people in neigh-
borhoods where there are
large numbers of Jews have
purchased or used food
stamps.

The Agriculture Depart-
ment leaflet includes infor-
mation on the following: Who

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Air Clash With Syrian Aim's
Was Two-Phase Battle: Peled

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

42—Friday, Sept. 21, 1973

can get food stamps: how
does a family find out about
food stamps; how does a
family get food stamps; how
are food stamps used; are
all families treated the same
way in this program; and
how can a county get this
program started. The leaflet
is printed in blue and is in
large type, so as to be more
easily read by those with
poor vision.

'Between You
... and Me'

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Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1973, JTA Inc.)

THE SCHOOL SEASON: The Jewish school season opened

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Last
week's Israeli-Syrian air bat-
tle in which 13 Syrian MIG-
21s and one Israeli Mirage
were downed was a two-phase
battle, Israeli Air Command-
er Gen. Benyamin Peled dis-
closed.
He said the first phase oc-
curred when 16 Syrian MIGs
attacked an Israeli patrol
over international waters.
Nine MIGs were shot down
and one Israeli Mirage was
hit and its pilot bailed out.
The second phase occur-
red when four Syrian MIGs
tried to interfere with the
rescue operation and were
shot down, Peled said.

told reporter that he was hit
by either a rocket or cannon
after he shot down one MIG.
He said he didn't see the
plane that him him. He shut
off his engine, glided to a
lower altitude and ejected
at about 10,000 feet.
The pilot spent two hours
in a rubber dinghy until he
was rescued by an Israeli
helicopter.
The helicopter also res-
cued a downed Syrian pilot
who was floating in his own
dinghy not far from the Is-
raeli. He was hospitalized
and reported in good condi-
tion.

with about 450,000 pupils in Jewish schools of all types.
This is about 25 per cent less than only five years ago—a
fact which should provide much food for thought to those
who are interested in Jewish continuity.
During the last five years, the Jewish school system
has been losing each year, five or more per cent of the
total number of children attending Jewish schools; not
T h e Agriculture Depart- to speak of children of school age who were never enrolled
ment had the leaflet pre- in Jewish schools.
pared and it was checked
It is estimated that more than 1,300,000 Jewish chil-
for orthographic and stylistic
accuracy by the Committee dren in the 3-17 year age range are eligible for Jewish
In all, more than 30 Is-
Slander is worse than the
for the Implementation of education. Of them, more than 440,000 are of elementary
raeli and Syrian aircraft weapons of war: the latte-
school
age,
8-12
and
about
440,000
of
high
school
age
of
the Standardized Yiddish Or-
thography of Columbia Uni- 13-17. Altogether, the children in the 347 year age range were engaged in the battle. damage from near, the f,
represented 24 per cent of the entire Jewish population. How The Israeli planes were mer from afar.—Peah.
versity.
Phantoms and Mirages.
Copies of the leaflet may solid will Jewish communal life he 20 years from now if the
The rescued Israeli pilot,
present
yearly
five
per
cent
drop
in
Jewish
school
enroll-
be obtained without charge
whose name and rank were
from the Food Stamp Divi- ment continues?
Experts in the American Association for Jewish Edu- withheld for security reasons,
sion, Food and Nutrition Ser-
1•:=9
vice, Department of Agricul- cation—of which Robert Arnow is president and Dr. Isaac ci=4
ture, Washington, D. C. 20250. Toubin executive vice-president—cannot establish with cer-
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of children in Jewish schools. The decline in Jewish births
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RESTORATIONS
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TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Soviet country, but it is already affecting the number of children
authorities refused to honor of school age.
Another reason for the decline in Jewish school enroll-
the last will and testament of
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Jewish tradition, in the old is estimated at $300 a year or more. If the school is main-
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schools are now congregational—the parents must be mem-
munity.
Soviet officials insisted that bers of the congregation. This involves an additional $300-
the rabbi be interred in the $500 a year. If there are two or three children of .school‘
new cemetery which was set age in the family, the cost of their Jewish education reaches
aside for the burial of Jews even a higher total.
Quite a number of parents are not religious but want
and non-Jews. Protests and
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authorities agreed to permit drop in the number of pupils in Jewish schools. One of
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There, the number of pupils does not show any drop in
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puts a heavy financial burden on the Orthodox and Con-
servative education systems. Tuition alone cannot cover
their budgets. Efforts are being made by interested Jewish
religious groups to secure state support for their all-day
educational institutions. In this they go hand-in-hand with
the Catholic school system which embraces a huge num-
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vision of separation of church and state would be violated
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country are beginning to subsidize their local all-day Jewish
schools. Only a few years ago, they too, were opposed to
financing all-day schools. Now one can find quite a number
of federations which recognize the right of all-day schools
to allocations from Jewish communal funds. There are
even federations which cover part of the tuition when
parents cannot afford to pa. Such support ranges in some
communities from $25 to $500 a year for each child.
The change in attitude toward the Jewish all-day
schools by the federations came after an appeal voiced
by Max Fisher, the outstanding Jewish leader. He called
upon the organized Jewish communities to show a better
understanding of the importance and the needs of the all-
day Jewish school.

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