THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 26, 1976, 19
New '60 Minutes' Syria Broadcast Lashed
not — one who still lives in
Syria, the other who was
identified by name and
whose family remains in
that country. As was inevi-
table with any Syrian Jews
subject to government re-
prisal, both described the
joys of Jewish life in Syria,
repeating in essence what
Hertzberg said, "The the first 'Sixty Minutes'
testimony of this witness program had reported,"
was instructive because it Hertzberg said.
confirmed our argument
The picture of Syrian Je-
that when Syrian Jews are wry, although more accur-
in a position . to speak ate and better balanced
freely, they will verify our than the broadcast a year
assertion that members of ago, still gives a somewhat
this community are de- more positive slant to the
%
- :yrived of basic human story than was warranted,
ights and are under con- according to the American
- tant surveillance of the Jewish Committee.
secret police."
George E. Gruen, the
Hertzberg noted that "to AJCommittee's director of
answer the one witness who Israel and Middle East Af-
could speak freely, Wallace fairs, commended Wallace
presented the testimony of for correcting the erroneous
two Syrian Jews who could impression left by some of
his previous comments, but
also pointed out that Wal-
lace still did not fully convey
the sense of insecurity felt
beginner & strategy
by Syrian Jews, despite the
recent economic improve-
ment and easing of certain
aft. or eve. classes
internal restrictions.
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first broadcast, Wallace did
present an interview with a
Syrian Jew outside the
country who could speak
freely. In Wallace's own
words, this unnamed wit-
ness 'asked to be photo-
graphed in shadow to pro-
tect his family back home.' "
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is dependent upon the good
will of the rulers and is not
yet firmly based on a legal
tradition respecting hu-
man rights," Gruen
stated.
On the plus side, the
AJCommittee expressed
approval of the fact that
Wallace identified Syria as
a "police state," calling it "a
poor country by our stand-
ards — difficult, totalitar-
ian — and for Jews it is
more difficult than for the
others."
Gruen also regretted the
fact, for instance, that the
program was concerned
primarily with "Jews who
are successful in business or
the professions," and did
not deal with "any of the es-
timated 200 Jewish families
in Damascus who report-
edly live close to or below
th,e poverty line" even
though the program noted
that "the average per capita
income for all Syrians is less
than $10 a week."
Gruen also regretted that
the program did not directly
retract a statement in the
previous program which
"Even if one shares Mr. claimed that "four young
Wallace's impression that Syrian Jews were executed
life has been getting some- for espionage in 1969.' .The
what better for Jews in AJCommittee, he stated,
Syria under President As- "pointed out that this al-
sad's rule and that there leged incident was unknown
are no apparent signs of to any of our reliable
blatant physical persecu- sources and that even the
tion at present, we believe Syrian ambassador in
that their situation re- Washington had categori-
mains precarious, since it cally denied that any Syrian
Jews had been tried or exe-
cuted for espionage."
Fortunately, some
things never change.
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did thousands of years ago.
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America n-Hebrew
Prose Anthology
Is Printed by BJE
NEW YORK — Life in
America, as portrayed by
Hebrew poets and prose
writers, is the subject of a
new anthology published by
the Jewish Educator Press
(JEP) of the Board of Jew-
ish Education of Greater
New York, entitled
"Americana in United
States Hebrew Literature."
Compiled and edited by
Elchanan Indelman, the
72-page anthology is a part
of JEP's series of Bicenten-
nial publications. It con-
tains excerpts from the
writings of Hebrew poets
and prose writers who are
still active on the American
scene. Among'the poets rep-
resented are Gershon Ro-
senzweig, Shimon Ginsberg,
Hillel Bavli and Elchanan
Indelman. The prose writers
represented are S. L.
_Blank, Reuven Valenrod and
Bernard Isaacs.
The poems and stories se-
lected for the anthology look
at life in America, past and
present. Some of the topics
portrayed are "A Jewish
Peddler," "An Indian Tribe
Struggles for Its Survival,"
"Love of Nature and the
Bible," and poems about
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and Maine.
"Americana in United
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is available from BJE's
Board of Jewish Education,
426 West 58th St., N.Y.
10019.
WIMBE ASSOCIATES
The AJCommittee chal-
lenged Wallace's assump-
tion that the comments he
elicited from the Syrian
Jews he interviewed were
candid because he had
been "permitted to talk to
anyone we wanted, many
of them in private."
People who have experi-
enced totalitarian govern-
ment have pointed out,
Gruen stated, that "Amer-
icans, such as Mike Wallace
and his CBS colleagues, who
have lived their entire lives
in freedom, cannot really
appreciate the sense of inse-
curity and fear that is sec-
ond nature to a person who
has grown up in a police
state and which, therefore,
colors his every action and
conversation."
He noted that the "con-
tinuing spotlight of public
attention that has been fo-
cussed on the problem of
Syrian Jewry by responsible
persons with a humanitar-
ian concern for their plight
and by representatives of
the media, such as CBS,
have helped bring about the
measure of improvement
reported by Mr. Wallace."
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8 small white onions, peeled
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4 scallions, sliced crosswise
I teaspoon salt
,/$ teaspoon pepper
2 cups dry white wine
V2 pound small mushroom caps
2 tablespoons potato starch
2 tablespoons water
Chopped parsley
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