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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Wattenberg's 'Real America' Blasts Jewish Wealth Myth
urbanites into the calmer
suburbs. For the elderly,
and often defenseless, the
tragedy is compounded.
Many elderly Orthodox
Jews in New York no
longer go to late-
afternoon services be-
cause they must return
home after dark and fear
mugging, beating and
humiliation."
Discussing "Black Pro-
gress and Liberal Rhet-
oric." Wattenbere asks
how does "a group"—An
ethnic group, a religious
group, a racial group —
make "progress" and.adds
wisely: "Is 'progress' de-
fined as a situation when a
whole group is seen mov-
ing up and out of poverty
or when only a substantial
fraction moves up and out,
If the whole group must go
up and out, then even the
Jews haven't made it yet."
One of the reasons the
American Jewish Com-
mittee lobbies for high
Social Security rates is
because such a high prop-
ortion of elderly Jews are
still in poverty — despite
the generally acknow-
ledged success story of
American Jews. What is
true for the Jews is true
as well for the Irish and
BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
If Ben Wattenberg did
not have a single other
fact to add in his latest
version of "The Real
America" he would be
hailed for having per-
formed a monumental
favor for truth and light
in pointing out rich
America does have poor
Jews who fear crime in
*he slums in which they
.ist and they require
like others in pov-
erty.
"The Real America,"
however, has myriad
facts beyond those on
Jews and is, as someone
has said, "a brilliant look
at the facts against the
myths of American life."
His bits about poor Jews
are especially essential
facts that should be
handy at the least to
every welfare worker to
quote directly to those
who think all Jews are
rich and powerful.
Writing on crime, Wat-
tenberg says: "triple-
padlocked doors, drug
addicts, muggings, rape,
shakedown of school
children for lunch money
are enough to drive many
of the best intentioned
the WASPs — much suc-
cess and some failure,
each chronicled in our lit-
erature, our politics and
our industry." -
Wattenberg has a pun-
gent footnote in discus-
sing a questionnaire on
women's liberation. Not-
ing that 74 percent of
American women think
that "having a loving
husband who is able to
take care of me is much
more important to me
than making it on my
own," Wattenberg points
out:
"These feelings do not
seem to be restricted to
American women.
"In Israel, a land where
sexual equality has long
been a well-established
and certainly well-
publicized doctrine, a sur-
vey team of Hebrew Uni-
versity sociologists found
that 75 percent of married
women from Jerusalem
and Tel Aviv responded af-
firmatively to this state-
ment: 'A good mother and
a good homemaker is a
woman's most noble goal.'
Which may prove what has
long been suspected:
American females are no-
thing but Jewish mothers
in station wagons."
Wattenberg, who has
written extensively on
demographic and politi-
cal matters, is one of
those few Washing-
tonians who goes behind
the prefab platitudes
concocted by publicity
people to fit a politician's
policy. A teacher and
business -consultant, he
has worked for President
Johnson and Senators
Hubert Humphrey and
Henry M. Jackson, and is
founder and co-chairman
of of the Coalition for a
Democratic Majority.
New AZF Shaliakh
NEW YORK — Naha-
man Baharav of Haifa,
Israel, personnel director
for the University of
Haifa, has been ap-
pointed WZO shaliakh
representative to the
American Zionist Feder-
ation.
Baharav will help for-
mulate AZF educational
and public affairs pro-
grams and organize new
groups and develop proj-
ects on both national and
local levels.
Friday September 3, 1976 29
Yeshiva University Press
Publishes 10 New Volumes
NEW YORK — Yeshiva
University Press, depart-
ment of
publications, has announced
the publication of 10 new
volumes for this fall,
making a total of 37 titles
available from the press.
The books, including two
new volumes in the "Studies
in Judaica" series and one in
"Studies in Torah Judaism,"
deal with such topics as
Jewish philosophy, labor
legislation and the Bible and
Talmud, Jews in the Orient
during World War II, and
the philosophy of Ger-
sonides.
Among the new books
are: "Studies in Judaica," in
honor of Dr. Samuel Belkin
as scholar and educator,
edited by Dr. Leon D.
Stitskin; "Joshua Finkel
Festschrift," edited by Dr.
Sidney B. Hoenig -and- Dr.'
Leon Stitskin; "Studies in
Jewish Thought," by Dr.
David S. Shapiro; "The
Japanese, the Nazis and the
Jews," by Dr. David
Kranzler; "Jewish
Philosophy: A Study in Per-
sonalism," by Dr. Leon
Stitskin; "Labor Legislation
in the Bible and Talmud,"
by Dr. Israel H. Weisfeld.
Also "Providence in the
Philosophy of Gersonides,"
by Dr. J. David Bleich; and
"Modern Medicine and
Jewish Law," third edition,
by Dr. Fred Rosner.
Forthcoming titles in-
clude: "Falaquera's Sefer
Hamevaggesh," (The
Seeker), translated and
edited by Dr. M. Herschel,
and "Jubilee Volume in
Honor of Dr. Samuel
Belkin," Dr. Chaim Leaf,
editor, Dr. Moshe Carmilly,
assistant editor.
S. Africa TV Signs
Pact With Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
South African TV has
signed a contract with the
Herzeliya Studios for the
production of five half-
hour documentary films
on Israel and its holy
sites.
The series will be fea-
tured on the South Afri-
can National network.
The agreement was an-
nounced here by Robert
Schmidt, director of re-
ligious programs of South
Africa's radio and TV.
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