8 Friday, December 9, 1977
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Begin Makes Commitment to Sephardic
to Probe Problems of Social Inequality
NEW YORK (JTA)--Nes-
sim Gaon, president of the
World Sephardi Federation
(WSF), reported here Sun-
day night that as a result of
the Federation's inter-
vention with Israeli Pre-
mier Menahem Begin, the
Israeli leader gave his
"commitment to convene,
during the year 1978, a
world Jewish conference to
deal specifically with the
problems of poverty and so-
cial inequality in Israel."
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Gaon, of Geneva, ad-
dressed the opening session
of the three-day meeting of
the Federation's presidium
at the Waldorf-Astoria Ho-
tel.
Addressing some 150 lead-
ers of Sephardi and Oriental
communities from Israel,
Europe, Latin America and
the United States, Gaon urg-
ed the Israeli government,
in the event that the Geneva
conference should resume,
to include on its negotiating
team "diplomats or special-
ists who have lived in Arab
lands and who can serve as
a bridge to a more fruitful
dialogue among the nations
of the Near East."
Citing alarming statistics
of what he termed "de-Ju-
daization" in the Diaspora,
Gaon called for concerted
Sephardi efforts to build
more Jewish schools, espe-
cially in France, and to
have Hebrew universally
adopted as a second lan-
guage among all Jews, in
addition "to bringing our
young people closer to the
sacred principles of our
Jewish faith.
Gaon also stated: "It is
not good for Israel to be-
come a nation like any oth-
er. We must intensify our
efforts to bolster the state of
Israel through contribu-
tions, aliya and any meas-
ure to counter the prejudice
and ostracism that some of
our communities have expe-
rienced there."
While praising the im-
provement of the Oriental
status in Israel since the
Begin government came to
office, Gaon was sharply
critical of the World Zionist
Organization, claiming that
"it is not normal that we
should be represented on
the Zionist Executive by
only one out of 22 people."
He called for special ef-
fort during the forthcoming
World Zionist Congress to
have Sephardim assigned to
key positions in the youth
and education departments.
In her introductory re-
marks, Liliane Levy-Winn,
president of the American
Sephardi Federation (ASF),
WASHINGTON—Jews in
the Soviet Union are facing
a future even bleaker than
the dismal present, if the
curent trend in higher edu-
cation continues.
Seven years ago there
were 111,900 Jews in Soviet
universities; today there
are only 66,900—a drop of
more than 40 percent. In
graduate schools, the
decline from 1968 to 1974 has
been 30 percent.
Dr. William Korey, direc-
tor of the New York office
of the Bnai Brith Inter-
national Council, warns "as
the number of Jews admit-
ted to Soviet universities de-
clines, they will decrease in
post-graduate work, eventu-
ally disappearing altogeth-
er."
Dr. Korey, a specialist on
Soviet life, reports that a
new Soviet statistical year-
book shows that Jews today
constitute only 1.3 percent
of the total Soviet student
body in higher education,
contrasted to the high of 13
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percent in 1935.
This year not a single Jew
was admitted to the Univer-
sity of Moscow.
By the late 1960s, a third
of the Soviet Jewish com-
munity were college gradu-
ates. According to the 1970
census, 68 percent of Jews
in the largest union-repub-
lic, the Russian Republic,
were designated "special- '
ists." On the other hand,
only 19 percent of the Great
Russians there held this
title.
Dr. Korey adds that in
1974 a statistical monthly
indicated that although
Jews were less than one
percent of the total Soviet
population, they comprised
14 percent of persons hold-
ing doctorates in science,
"outdistancing in absolute
figures all Soviet nation-
alities except Great Rus-
sians.
The antagonistic attitude
toward Jewish students be-
came evident in 1968 when,
Dr. Korey says, the leading
Polish Communist theo-
retician, Andrezej Werblan,
concluded in an article that
Jews have a "particular
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Gaon said some 500,000
people in Israel are living in
substandard conditions.
"These people are tmde -
privileged socially, econo
ically and educationally,"
he said.
Gaon said that Begin has
promised to eliminate this
problem and his govern-
ment has pledged $600 mil-
lion towards that end if Dia-
spora Jewry raises an equal
amount.
He urged the UJA to fol-
low the example of Keren
Hayesod which recently
pledged to double its . contri-
bution during the next two
or three years.
• His appeal was reinforced
by Robert H. Arnow, chair-
man of the Joint Campaign
and chairman of the board
of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, who pledged that
the UJA will double its ef-
forts and -not tire of this
most important activity."
susceptibility to revision-
ism" and to "Jewish nation-
alism in general and to Zi-
onism in particular."
Werblan contended that
the concentration of Jews in
universities and other cul-
tural institutions had cre-
ated a "bad political atmos-
phere'' and he
recommended "the -coffee-
tion of the irregular ethnic
composition" in higher edu-
cation.
His thesis quickly found
expression in the prestigious
Soviet Academy of Science.
Dr. Korey says that Andrei
Sakharov, the noted Soviet
physicist, attacked the
"backsliding" toward anti-
Semitism at the academy
but was disregarded.
Instead, Korey adds, "a
leading Kremlin ideologue,
V. Mishlin ... for the first
time oficially justified" the
use of quotas in college ad-
missions, Mishlin called for
the number of students to
reflect the percentage of
nationality in the total S
viet population.
This would leave the Jews
with less than one percent,
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She blamed the Sephar-
dim for being remiss "in
allowing the American Jew-
ish community to remain
oblivious to the Sephardi
role in the rebirth of Israel,
to Sephardi needs in Israel
and to the fractionalization
of the social and economic
fabric of the Jewish state."
In a similar vein, Gaon
told a luncheon meeting last
week of the United Jewish
Appeal-Federation Of Jew-
ish Philanthropies Joint
Campaign of Greater New
York that ending the social
gap in Israel must not be
underestimated. He warned
that if the gap is allowed to
continue, it will result in a
"highly polarized society."
He stressed to the au-
dience of UJA-Joint Cam-
paign officers and New
York Sephardi leaders that
"this polarity would con-
stitute a grave threat to
Israel's very existence. We
cannot, must not, sit back
and allow the problem to
grow."
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emphasized the significance
of having this conference in
the United States "in order
to rally the political and
economic power of U.S.
Jewry to our cause."
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