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1976 CITY TAXES
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
New York agency, Serv-
ice for the Foreign Born
(SFB), which has been
handling special immi-
gration needs of Jewish
migrants to the United
States for 74 years, is
being terminated as of
Dec. 31 under an ar-
rangement in which its
caseload is being turned
over to six New York City
Jewish agencies.
The union representing
the SFB employes has
challenged the transition
as a threat to future
Jewish migrants to this
country, a charge in turn
rejected by spokesmen
for the transition agen-
cies.
SFB, described by the
New York section of the
National Council of
Jewish Women as one of
its community service
projects, is being termi-
nated, according to Mrs.
Sidney A. Bernstein,
president of the section,
because the section could
no longer meet its share
of the financing of SFB's
$200,000 annual budget.
The section has pro-
vided 20 percent of that
budget, with the balance of
$160,000 provided by the
Joint Distribution Corn-
Hebrew U. Parley
Looks at America
ALL SECOND-HALF 1976 CITY
TAX BILLS HAVE BEEN MAILED
•
NY Jewish Service Agency
Folds From Lack of Funding
If you have not received your Second-half City of Detroit
tax bill, please notify us by phoning 224-3560, by mail,
or in person at Room 136 (first floor) City-County Build-
ing. Failure to receive a bill will not defer payment of
penalty or interest charges.
When requesting a tax bill, please give us WARD AND
ITEM NUMBER of the property.
SECOND-HALF PAYABLE TO
JANUARY 15, 1977*
*(City offices will be closed Saturday, January 15, 1977,
therefore, taxes may be paid without interest or penalty
through January 17, 1977. City offices will be closed
January 14, 1977 in honor of Martin Luther King.)
RONALD G. WILLIAMS,
TREASURER, CITY OF DETROIT
JERUSALEM — "ThE
American Experience in
Historical Perspective"
was the title of a confer-
ence held this week at the
Hebrew University of
Jerusalem as part of its
observance of the United
States Bicentennial.
Scholars from the U.S,.
joined their Hebrew Uni-
versity counterparts at
the conference to probe
such themes as: after 200
years, prophesies and
their outcome; the con-
ceptions and reality of the
American polity; immi-
gration and ethnicity in
American society; the
U.S. and the world com-
munity; higher education
in American society; and
America facing the fu-
ture.
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mittee. The JDC termi-
nated its subvention when
the section ended its sup-
port.
Mrs. Bernstein said the
six agencies had agreed
to cooperate in dividing
responsibility for the
services heretofore pro-
vided by SFB. The agen-
cies are HIAS, the NeW
York Assoc ',ion for New
Americans (NYANA),
and four member agen-
cies of the New York Fed-
eration of Jewish Philan-
thropies — the Jewish
Family Service, the
Jewish Association for
Services to the Aged, the
Jewish Qommunity Serv-
ices of Long Island and
Westchester Community
Services.
•Israeli Arab
Received Medal
JERUSALEM (ZINS)
— Kamel Evad Khamdi,
an Israeli Arab from
western Galilee (who died
recently), was revealed to
be the recipient of a
medal for bravery after
the Yom, Kippur War.
Althotigh Israel Radio
broadcast the
announcement of the
award it did not mention
Khamdi's name, for his
own security.
Khamdi in fact, never
revealed the secret of his
award to his two wives
and 20 children, for fear of
betrayal.
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Atomic Is .sue
to Be Problem
WASHINGTON (ZINS)
— Political observers be-
lieve that Israel - can ex-
pect difficulties from the
Carter Administration
because Israel has not
signed the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Agreement.
During the election
campaign, • Carter
stressed that under his
leadership America
would not supply atomic
technology to any coun-
tries that would not sign
the international agree-
ment and would not ob-
lige themselves to fulfill
all the bylaws of the In-
ternational Atomic
Commission.
IDB Offering
Oversubscribed
NEW YORK — IDB
Bankholding Corp. Ltd.,
whose principal sub-
sidiary is Israel Discount
Bank Ltd., announced
the successful completion
of an offering in Israel of
Its new class of prefer-
ence shares.
The company sold to
the public 690,000 prefer-
ence "A" shares and to
institutional investors
600,000 preference "A"
shares.
The company also sold
210,000 preference. "A"
shares and warrants to
employees of its sub-
siddiries in Israel.
The company reported
that the offering was
oversubscribed by the
public in Israel by 700 per
cent. In view of the over-
subscription, applicants
were allotted 15 percent
of the number of shares
requested.
'Second-Class Status' Is Seen
as Convert's Biggest Problem
BY BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
A New Jersey woman,
born into a Christian fam-
ily, who converted to
Judaism, has echoed a
frequently - expressed
reaction of other converts
that "the most far-
reaching and difficult
problem the convert must
face is the second-class
status he is often given by
the Jewish community."
Mrs. Marcia Falconer
also asserted that it was
"no wonder some con-
verts feel the word 'con-
vert' is a stigma and try to
hide their origins."
Mrs. Falconer, who
lives with her husband —
who is not a convert but
who she declared cooper-
ates with her unreser-
vedly in providing a full
Jewish environment for
the couple's school-age
son and daughter — de-
scribed the events lead-
ing to her decision to con-
vert and her experiences
as a convert in a recent
issue of Keeping Posted, a
publication of the Union
of American Hebrew
Congregations, the as-
sociation of Reform
synagogues. The entire
issue was devoted to the
topic of conversion.
In a note to the reader,
the editor posed the ques-
tion: "If a man or woman
sincerely desires to join
the Jewish people and
share our faith, and is will-
ing to undergo conversion,
why should we be
standoffish or hostile?"
The editor added that Mrs.
Falconer's account "tes-
tifies about the kind of
pain that born-Jews some-
times inflict upon Jews-
by-choice."
Mrs. Falconer declared
that "even the most sin-
cere and devoted convert
may come face up to the
ugly situation where,
after 15 or 20 years as a
Jew, sisterhood- officer,
member of Hadassah,
fund-raiser and Israel
supporter, she suddenly
discovers that her chil-
dren are considered only
half-Jewish." She added
that this could happen
even in situations "where
the father is a born Jew
and the mother converted
before the children were
born."
Mrs. Falconer was cone
verted by a Reform rabbi
and is a member of the
Monmouth Reform Tem-
ple of New Shrewsbury.
The issue posed by Mrs.
Falconer's use of the term
"half-Jewish" was raised
by the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency with a
spokesman for the Cen-
tral Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis, the associa-
tion of Reform rabbis.
Under Jewish Religious
Law, Halakha, the categ-
ory of "half-Jewish" does
not exist; an individual is
either Jewish or not
Jewish. Since Mrs. Fal-
coner was converted be-
fore her children were
born, those. children,
halakhically, are Jewish.
But in Reform Judaism
the issue of Jewish status
varies with the individual
rabbi.
The CCAR spokesman
agreed that Mrs. Falconer
was probably describing a
social, rather than a reli-
gious situation in her de-
scription of reactions by
born-Jews to converts and
their families. But she re-
ported that she herself had
experienced "only mini-
mal, and for the most part,
unconscious rejection"
and expressed the hope
and belief that "the situa-
tion is beginning to change
as more and more new
Jews enter the Jewish
community."
She commented tha
"the transition from one
culture to another is dif-
ficult enough without
feeling that no matter
how hard you try to you
can never really become a
part of your chosen way of
life." She added that
"many born-Jews are ig-
norant of the fact that
converts do not want to be
singled out for special
help. Much like the wo-
men's movement, we do
not want a *protected
status, but only to be ac-
cepted and treated as
equals."
She declared that she
was a Jew who felt it was
"a privilege" to be a
member of the Jewish
people and that she iden-
tified with Jews
"everywhere. I feel most
comfortable in the com-
pany of my Jewish peers
and I believe very
strongly in the future of
Judaism."
Nevertheless, she said
she was opposed to active
proselytizing but that she
did feel that born Jews
"should be more recep-
tive to Gentiles who are
interested in things
Jewish — Hebrew, Yid-
,' dish, Jewish culture, etc."
— and that they should
"make a point" of asking
the Jewish community to
adopt that attitude.
Israel Is Hiding
Phantom's Smoke
WASHINGTON — Is-
rael is incorporating a
General Electric low-
smoke combustor in the
GE J79 jet engines it
builds under license for
its F-4 Phantom jets. -
According to Aviation
Week and Space Technol-
ogy magazine, the new
device eliminates aircraft
smoke trails which are
highly visible in the usu-
ally clear skies of the
Mideast. The U.S. has not
yet adopted this device .
for its Phantoms.
American Named
Technion Fellow
a
HAIFA — Leon Lidow
of Beverly Hills, Calif.,
was invested as honorary
fellow of the Technion —
Israel Institute of
Technology at a cere-
mony in the Technion's
Senate. House.
The Lidow Building for
Research in Physics and
the Lidow Chair in Solid
State Physics, as well as
many other gifts to the
Technion during the past
quarter of a century,
were made possible by
contributions to the Tech-
ion by Lidow and his son,
Eric.
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