Detroit Kibutzniks' Way of Life as They Mark 30th Year in Israel By MEIR JAFFE (Special to The Jewish News) KIBUTZ EIN DOR, Israel — We ascended the hill, 30 years ago. It was in the early days of the Israel War for Independence, on barren soil, thousands of dunams of eroded land, parts had been worked by primitive Arab peasants, plenty of rocks (which afforded us a livelihood — Keren Kayemet fYisrael,JNF, on whose land we were settling, paid us for eight hours a day for picking up rocks that were strewn everywhere and depositing them in the nearby galleys (wadis). We were young, "ingathered" from about 20 countries the world over, most of us fresh from the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, but many of the men battle-experienced veterans of the World War. We had some adult experience behind us. There were those A Sad Day for a Great City When Its Mayor Supports Terrorism who came from concentration camps, from partisan units, from British detention camps in Cyprus. Others had manned "Aliya Bet" boats (illegal immigrant carriers) with refugees from the Nazi period, while others came without permission as illegal immig- rants. The kibutz is a unique life-style. We kibutzniks claim to be realizing a socialist society in this ancient homeland of ours. What other society or country can claim such settlements? The books have not yet been written that will give proper insight into the workings and problematica of the kibutz society. One must live it (and not only for a short period), in order to evaluate properly. We educate differently than the schools where we had studied. Our children are born and raised in a peer society. In a complicated world where the decline of the nuclear (Continued on Page 12) Day Schools Get Their Priorities in Communal Planning THE JEWISH NEWS Commentary, Page 2 A Weekly Review cx:x cif Jewish Events Editorial, Page 4 VOL. LXXIII, No. 19 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30 , July 14, 1978 -Soviet Jewish Activists' Fate Stirring Congressional Action House Sets Hearings on U.S. Nazi Criminals NEW YORK (JTA) — The judiciary subcommittee on immig- ration in the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to hold public hearings beginning Wednesday on the use of Nazi war criminals by American intelligence agencies. This congressional group headed by Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D-Pa.) has indicated its "dissatisfaction" with a recent report by the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, on the hitherto secret employment of Nazis. A GAO report issued on May 15 stated that there was no evidence of a "widespread conspiracy" within the U.S. govern- ment to cover up the Nazi war criminal cases that have been festering for almost 30 years. Charles R. Allen, Jr., an author on Nazi war criminals, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he has been called as a witness by the subcommittee to assist them in determining "which war criminals have been used by what agencies." According to the GAO findings, the CIA admits to having used Nazi war criminals and the FBI admits having "contacted" 44 Nazi war criminals, and further admits to have employed seven of them. These figures are based solely on a total of 111 "sampl- ings" from the list of 252 Nazi criminals the Immigration and Naturalization Service claims are living in the U.S. "I can assure you," Allen said, "that the GAO findings, while helpful, are well short of the mark. I will shortly reveal all of the names of the Nazi war criminals and col- laborators that have been used by the 10 major intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, and also detail how they were used." Allen said that he will make this information available to the judiciary subcommittee and then hold a special press conference in Washington, following the hearings. He is currently working on a new book on Nazi war criminals in America. (Continued on Page 16) WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senators, House members and American and Russian specialists in Soviet affairs called on the Carter Administ- ration Wednesday to take stern practical measures against the Soviet government for staging its show trials of dissidents in defiance of inter- national agreements on human rights, including the Helsinki Act, which both the U.S. and Soviet Union have signed. President Carter on Wednesday afternoon called the charges against Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg "patently false" and said the trials of the two had earned the condemnation "of the entire civilized world." The Soviet Union was roundly condemned in resolutions in both the Senate and House, statements and interviews and in other ways. The U.S. was urged to suspend economic and scientific agreements between the two countries and warn Moscow about meddling with the traditional meaning of the Olympic Games in 1980, particularly with reference to Israel and Russian Jews. The reaction included calls for the U.S. to withdraw from the Helsinki ANATOLY SHCHARANSKY Act itself in retaliation for Soviet violations of it, but Jewish leaders, among others, urged that the U.S. continue its affiliation while acting against the Soviet in other ways. Before an overflow crowd of reporters and spectators at the Rayburn Office Building, the chairman of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Rep. Dante Fascell (D-Fla.) declared the Soviet treatment of the Soviet dissidents and West- ern journalists indicates "an arrogant and inhuman disregard for the promises made nearly three years ago at Helsinki and raise serious questions about international integrity of the Soviet gov- ernment." Sen. Robert Packwood (R-Ore.) was one of the advocates of U.S. withdrawal from the Helsinki accords. But when Fascell put the ques- tion to two witnesses, William Korey, director of the Bnai Brith's inter- national policy research department, and Jerry Goodman, executive director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, both opposed such drastic action. (Continued on Page 8) ALEXANDER GINZBURG $10,602,500 Allocation for Israel, 20 Percent Increase for Day Schools Approved from '78 Campaign Funds Allocation of funds from the 1978 $17,000,000-plus Allied Jewish Cam- paign, approved by the board ofgovernors of the Jewish Welfare Federation at its meeting on June 29, included the sum of $10,602,500 from the Campaign and the Israel Emergency Fund for Israel and in- creases for local and national agencies pro- vided for in the major Greater Detroit fund-raising activities. The largest percentage increase for any group of agencies provided for in the drive was for the day schls. While most of the more than 60 agen- cies which are beneficiaries of the Al- lied Jewish Campaign received in- 'creases in the amount of five to seven percent, Detroit's day schools received increases of 20 percent. The United Hebrew Schools, including the Midrasha and the special UHS-Cong. Shaarey Zedek High School program, re- ceived the largest single agency grant, $827,500 an increase of $41,500. The Jewish Community Center's impro- ving budgetary situation was reflected in an allocation of $825,000 for the corning year. With its fiscal problems in control and capital improvement in place, the Center is expected to be able to agument services to various segments in the com- munity in 1979. In her report from the Culture and Edu- cation Division, chairman Tillie Brand- wine noted that her division seeks to meet the needs of youth. Thus, the three Hillel Foundations at Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State Universities received sizable increases. Dr. Conrad L. Giles, chairman of the community services budgeting and planning division, noted in his report that, in light of the dollars available, the challenge to allocate a reasonable share of the funds to each agency, rela- five to its needs, was a traumatic as- signment. Faced with increasing demands for its agencies' services, coupled with rising costs to maintain these programs, the Community Services Division will appor- tion $1,866,236 among 10 beneficiaries. Included is a $50,000 increase to the Jewish Home for Aged that reflects the impact of inflation and a widening gap be- tween Medicaid income and true costs. At Jewish Federation Apartments, subsidy of the kosher meal program was cited as the reason for a significant rise in funding. (Continued on Page 6)