THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israel's Foreign Currency Reserves November 28, 1975 61 Ford Urged to Act on Behalf of Syrian Jews TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Ac- cording to official accounts, Israel's foreign currency reserves stand at $1.1 bil- lion. However, no less than $800 million in foreign ex- change is the result of de- posits by foreigners in Is- rael's banks and her branches abroad, as indi- cated by the Central Statist- ical Bureau. This means that if all for- eign depositors were to withdraw their funds, Israel Ad be left with only $300 ..:JAon in foreign exchange.- At the same time, a Finance Ministry spokesman, while confirming this fact, ex- plained that this was not an accurate picture. He stated that only a por- tion of these $800 million are short-term deposits. Most of them, he said, are long-term deposits of four to five years. WASHINGTON (JTA) — A delegation of Jewish lead- ers gave Undersecretary of State Joseph Sisco a petition signed by 292,000 Ameri- cans urging President Ford to "intervene personally" to help end the "persecution" of Jews in Syria. Rabbi Israel Miller, chair- man of the Conference of Presidents of Major Ameri- can Jewish Organizations who led the delegation, made the presentation in Sisco's office in the State Department. The petition called on Ford "to intervene person- ally using the power and prestige of your office to urge the President of Syria to cease the persecution of the Jews of Syria and to ensure their human rights and dignity". Ford was also urged "to request the Syrian government to permit the emigration of Syrian Jews." According to the peti- tion, there are 4,500 Jews Columbia Scholar Heads WJC Desk NEW YORK — Dr. Stisan sertation, and has spent sev- Gitelson, a research asso- eral summers in various ciate at Columbia Univer- parts of Africa. She was a -sity's Middle East Institute, lecturer at the Hebrew Uni was appointed director of versity of Jerusalem from the African and Asian Af- 1970-1975, and has lectured fairs Desk of the World at several American univ- Jewish Congress. ersities. The WJC Executive de- Dr. Gitelson spent a year cided last month to move in East Africa in 1968 on re- the desk from London to search for her doctoral dis- New York. in Syria. They were de- scribed as subject to "arbitrary arrest, impris- onment and restriction of movement, constant police surveillance, severe eco- nomic restrictions and special identification cards marked with the word "Jew." These are only some of the indigni- ties inflicted on these un- fortunate people." Meanwhile, in separate statements, Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Andrei Sakharov and 122 Soviet CJFWF Publishes Family Life Guide NEW YORK — "Guide to Jewish Family Life Educa- tion Programming" has been published by the Insti- tute of Jewish Life, a divi- sion of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, to help individuals and families deal with stress situations and crises effectively. The guide offers struc- tured planning—assistance for JewiSh organizations such as family services, Jewish centers, schools and synagogues. Copies are available from the Institute for Jewish Life, 315 Park Ave. South, New York, N.Y. 10010. Hebrew Schools Set Summer Plan Jews from 16 cities de- nounced the UN vote brand- ing Zionism as racism, ac- cording to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The SSSJ charged that the Kremlin had begun a campaign, before the UN resolution was passed, to characterize Judaism itself as "racist" and tie Zionism with Nazism. Prof. Sakharov, who has repeatedly spoken out for Jews harrassed and jailed for seeking exit to Israel, stated that the General As- sembly vote "will only con- tribute to the anti-Semitic tendencies in many coun- tries and lend them the form of international law. It is no less important that this resolution indirectly rejects the right of the state of Israel to exist, this con- tradicting both the spirit and the letter of the most important decisions made by the UN in regard to this matter." became active accomplices in crimes" as "the black- est crime of the Zionists committed by them against their own people." It also was reported that Jackie Kennedy Onassis, as well as almost every other member of a recent Carne- gie Hall audience, took a fake "program" describing persecution of Russian Jews as members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry demonstrated at the per- formance of the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. The youths, some wearing signs, said that they had come "to show that a true Soviet-American detente will not be achieved until the Kremlin ceases orches- trating its symphony of hate against Jews and Is- rael." The fake "program" which Mrs. Onassis and the others received quoted recent articles in Soviet, newspapers describing "The Kremlin could not "the very racist character wait; •already a month be- of Judaism," and listed fore the UN vote it linked names of Russian Jews, Judaism, Zionism and including musicans, forci- Nazism as an unholy alli-, bly refused permission to a-rice," the SSSJ charged. leave for Israel. The An article by B. Antonov, "program" also detailed "Tortures in Israeli Pris- Jewish suffering in Soviet ons" in the Oct. 4 issue of labor camps and asked Sovietskaya Moldezh, den- why Prof. Sakharov could ounces "the very racist not even travel to Oslo to character of Judaism, the receive his Nobel- Peace official ideology of the Prize. As the demonstrators Zionist state." Eleven days later, "The Black left, an "I'm Proud to Be a Alliance" by M. Petrov in Zionist" bumper sticker re- Rabochaya Gazeta de- mained attached to the scribed "the vile deal be- large "Moscow State Sym- tween the Zionists and the phony. Orchestra" sign dis- Hitlerites and how they played in front of the hall. NEW YORK — Dr. Jo- seph Kaminetsky, national director of Torah Umeso- rah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools,- I revealed a plan whereby N4y4OtiMtbttOCTb MCKI111-1; senior students in rabbini- tb IISPAt1 He-11,--2 • --3 cal seminaries in major ur- , ban communities would btiocIti— flPOLlt10 H M, adopt for the summer months Hebrew Day Tfin Schools in smaller commu- nities away from the Jewish CP population mainstream cor- ridor on the Northeast i; MAS CPeViSbl WKOK Coast. This "buddy" type system BetieNg veiHRI LIMA 2; of continuing education in- formally will be utilized 3ANHAA CreAligg iliKOAA, —3 ; during the summer months TeXt14110M for students and their fami- lies including their parents, when education normally is This entry application for universities in the at a standstill. Ukraine was found to be discriminatory against Jews open 4. •mtietmoro ro yilestioro 3A6eLetit151: — a subscription to THE JEWISH NEWS 17515 W. NINE MILE ROAD Suite 865 Southfield, Michigan 48075 r THE JEWISH NEWS 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd. Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 Gentlemen: Please send gift subscription to: Name Address State City ❑ $10 enclosed . From: Zip Code Yeshiva Schools Have Uniform Test since it asks students to identify themselves by national- ity, according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The card reads: "Nationality: Russian-1; Ukrainian- 2; Jew-3; Other-4." The SSSJ said that acceptance into a university for those who mark "Jew" is extremely difficult. NEW YORK — Students interested in attending a Yeshiva high school need no longer take separate exami- nations for each school to which they apply because of the development of a uni- form entrance examination procedure administered by the Board of Jewish Educa- tion of Greater New York in cooperation with the Na- tional Commission on Torah Education.- Now in its second year, the testing service enables eighth grade day school students to take only one ex- amination in general stud- ies and one test in Judaic Studies when applying for admission to any of the 20 Yeshiva University and Stern College students were member schools of the Yeshiva High Schools Prin- joined by members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Je- cipals' Council of Metropoli- wry at a mock funeral at the gates of the UN in protest of the recent UN resolution equating Zionism with racism. tan New York.