Israeli Sportsmen Are Barred From Holland, Indonesia Events
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
TEL AVIV—Israeli sports making hectic efforts to re-
federations officials were verse the decisions barring
Israeli sportsmen from two
sports events — the one in
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Holland and the other in
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The first nyet came from
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Djakarta, which has to be
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Moroccan Jewish Music Taped
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next month. The Indonesian
Tennis Federation has an-
nounced that, based upon a
governmental decision, Is-
raeli tennis players will be
barred from participating in
the championship. If the In-
ternational Tennis Federation
would insist that Israel has
to participate, then Indonesia
would withdraw her offer to
be host to the tournament.
sharpshotters were invited to
participate in the European
Championship for Sharpshoot-
ers outside the official frame-
work of the championship as
Israel belongs to the Asian
Federation. Israeli sharp-
shooters arrived in Holland,
and one even participated in
the youth tournament. How-
ever, prior to beginning of
main competition, a meeting
of participating countries vot-
Israeli Tennis Association ed 10 (mainly Communist
has urgently cabled the In- countries) to 9 against Israeli
ternational and Asian Tennis presence.
Federation , asking to with-
draw recognition of the
Israel is making renewed
games should Israel be pre- efforts now to shift from the
vented from participating. Asian to European Federa-
Moreover it has been de- tion of Shooting.
manded that the seat of the
next Tennis Federation meet.
I doubt the wisdom of be-
ing is changed from Djak-
ing
too wise, and I see much
arta to another place.
wisdom in some folly. — El-
As to Holland, the Israeli bert Hubbard.
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PARIS — A representative
sampling of Moroccan
Jewry's rich tradition of re-
ligious and folk music —
dying out as that community
has dwindled from more than
260,000 to less than 25,000 in
the past two decades — has
been set down in a special
three-hour tape recording
just completed for the Euro-
pean office of the American
Jewish Committee.
To preserve this music,
much of which is custom-
arily handed down by oral
tradition only, the AJC asked
Victor Malka,.son of a former
grand rabbi of Casablanca,
to create a tape anthology of
typical chants and melodies.
The resulting program in-
cludes not only p'rayers and
religious poems set to music
and chants for the High Holi-
days and other festivals, but
also popular Juaeo-Arabic
tunes and Moroccan melodies
currently being played in
Israel.
One of the most striking
characteristics of present-
day Moroccan Jewish liturgy
is its fidelity to Iberic
sources, to "ala," music
born in Andalusia in Moorish
times and brought to North
Africa by the emigres from
Spain, according to a brief
note on the history of Moroc-
can Jewish music accom-
panying the AJC-sponsored
tape anthology.
Jewish musicians helped
give rise- to this music 1,000
years ago • and later, when
coming from Spain to
Morocco. adapted the AndaJ
lusian strains so similar to
the flamenco couplets they
knew from Granada and
Malaga to classic Hebrew
texts. Such Jewish liturgical
selections, indeed, have acted
as caretaker for Andalusian
music that eventually dis-
appeared in Islam.
The tape-anthology selec-
tions testify to the widely
varied origin of Moroccan
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NEW YORK — Moslems
have taken over some form-
erly Christian-held civil serv-
ice posts, shaking the deli-
cate political balance in Leb-
anon.
The shakeup, long under
discussion, is seen by some
Lebanese as the most signifi-
can't change since the coun-
try gained independence from
a French mandate during
World War II, the New York
Times reported.
_Since Lebanon's independ-
ence, political and top appoint-
ive posts have been distrib-
uted proportionally, accord-
ing to the long-outdated 1932
census, among Maronites
and other Christians, Sunni
Moslems, Shiite Moslems,
Druze and minorities includ-
ing Armenians. Traditionally,
the president is a Maronite,
the premier a Sunni Moslem
and the speaker of parlia-
ment a' Shiite Moslem.
The 1932 census shows the
ratio of Christians over non-
Christians as 6 to 5. Power
has been distributed accord-
ingly. However, Moslems
who maintain a higher birth
rate, now believe that they
are in the majority.
Friday, March 1, 1974-17
Jewish music. This includes
Berber as well as Iberic
strains and even, according
to some authorities, melodies
descending directly from the
Second Temple, brought by
Jews who came to North
Africa in the early centuries
of the Common Era, and
Selihot melodies dating from
the 6th Century similar to
Middle Age song.
--- Represented in the anthol-
ogy, too, are the "bakkahot,"
the supplications, interpreted
by carefully rehearsed choral
groups singing away for
hours from 2 a.m. until it
was time for the regular Sat-
urday prayers. During these
religious wakes, "mahia,"
the strong local drink re-
sembling -vodka, was served.
Or—after the rabbis forbade
this because it could lead to
drunkenness — mint tea.
Such "wakes" once were
customary throughout Moroc-
co but today take place only
in Casablanca, irregularly.
Such bakkahot attained dis-
tinction in Morocco thanks to
a rabbi poet, David Bouzaglo,
who re-established the au-
thentic traditional melodies.
Rabbi Bouzaglo, who is blind
and now lives in Israel, is
recognized as one of the
great experts on Andalusian
music. The anthology in-
cludes several pieces sung by
the rabbi or his disciples.
Hungarian Ghetto
Liberation Marked
BUDAPEST (JTA)—Seven
top Communist Party offi-
cials, along with members
of the Jewish community,
attended a ceremony recent-
ly commemorating the Rus-
sian liberation of Jews from
the Budapest "ghetto" in
World War II.
In what some observers
called a rare happening in
Communist countries, the
party officials accompanied
the group to the. synagogue
of Budapest, where the cere-
mony ended.
Released when the Red
Army arrived, Jews had been
confined to the downtown
Budapest "ghetto" and were
going to be put on trains
and deported to German
camps.
Dutch Up Payments
to Victims of Nazis
AMSTERDAM (J T A) —
Government monthly com-
pensation payments to vic-
tims of Nazi persecution in
The Netherlands during
World War II have been
raised to 1,500 guilders to off-
set the rise in the cost of liv-
ing.
The increase will also ap-
ply to ,payments to victims of
Japanese persecution in the
Dutch East Indies during this
period.
Seven thousand of the 23,000
compensation payment appli-
cations in The Netherlands
were made by Jews.
Since processing so many
applications is long, the gov-
ernment has agreed to make
advance monthly payments to
those whose applications
have been under review long-
er than eight months.