20 Friday, November 19, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Bnai Brith President Blumberg Meets Romanian Leader on Jewish Emigration
WASHINGTON — A . this month between Pres-
promise to spur tourism ident Nicholae
to Romania, and an ur- Ceausescu and David M.
gent plea for accelerated Blumberg, president of
Jewish emigration, high- Bnai Brith.
Details of the meeting
lighted a 80-minute meet-
ing in Bucharest earlier that took place Nov. 4
Tarbuth Expands Media Programs
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
substantial expansion of
the media program of the
Tarbuth Foundation for
the Advancement of He-
brew Culture is planned
for the 1976-77 season, ac-
cording to Dr. Abraham
Goodman, president. He
said the new schedule in-
volves seven series of
programs, with 13 parts
each, for cable television,
an Israel music program
for radio, film strips and
,
continuation of the He-
brew Culture Caravan.
Dr. Goodman said all of
the TV programs, both
current and past, are
available on 3/4-inch vid-
eotape casettes and three
are available for public
service telecasts and for
use by Jewish organiza-
tions and educational
groups. Information is
available from the Tar-
buth Foundation. Two
Penn Plaza, N.Y., N.Y.
were disclosed Tuesday in
a report to Bnai Brith's
board of governors.
Blumberg, accompanied
by his wife and Dr.
William Korey, Bnai
Brith's director of inter-
national affairs, spent six
days in Romania at the
invitation of its govern-
ment.
Blumberg described
the session with
Ceausescu — an unusu-
ally long one between a
head of state and a non-
governmental represen-
tative — as "very cordial"
and, for the most part,
"focused on issues of con-
cern to the Jewish com-
munity."
It was "also satisfying"
to be assured by
Ceausescu and other offi-
cials of continued govern-
ment support for Jewish
cultural and religious in-
stitutions in the country,
Blumberg said.
The Bnai Brith leader
added that he had told
Ceausescu of "our con-
cern and disappoint-
ment" over the diminish-
ing rate of Jewish emig-
ration — less than one-
half of what it was in 1974
— and that he "could not
accept" Ceausescu's re-
sponse that Romania's
Jewish community of
some 60,000 had become
"a shrinking base" for the
number of Jews seeking
to emigrate. "The evi-
dence within the Roma-
nian Jewish community is
otherwise," Blumberg
declared.
He also cited, however,
the "relative freedom" of
Jewish communal life in
Romania in contrast to
most other Eastern
European countries "as a
very positive aspect, a
tribute to Rabbi Moses
Rosen as the communal
leader, and a circum-
stance that encourages
closer relationships be-
tween Western and
Romanian Jewry."
In that respect, he said,
Bnai Brith would pro-
mote increased Jewish
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