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Latin American Jews Unite, Get AJCommittee Aid

NEW YORK — More
than 90 percent of Latin
America's 800,000 Jews live
in Argentina, Brazil, Chile
and Mexico, another 7,200
reside in several small
countries in Central
America. The latter, num-
erically small and widely
scattered, receive scant at-
tention from Jews in other
lands. -
In 1963, six of these small
Jewish communities — in
Panama (450 families),
Guatemala and Costa Rica
(300 families each), El Sal-
vador (70), Honduras (30),
and Nicaragua (17)
oined together to form the
Federacion de .Com-
unidades Judias de Centro
America y Panama
(FEDECO) to provide
mutual cooperation and as-
sistance in maintaining
their Jewish - heritage and
coping with the education
and cultural deprivation of
their young people.
In June 1978 in Panama
City; FEDECO held its
ninth convention. The 200
participants included
American Jewish Commit-
tee staffers David Geller
and Sergio Nudelstejer and
representatives of the
World Jewish Congress,
Bnai Brith International
and the World Zionist
Organization.
Central America's
Jewish organizations
enjoy cordial relations
with their governments,
and friendly contacts
with the church. Indi-
vidual Jews and Chris-

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tians get on very well to-
gether, anti-Semitic inci-
dents are rare. However,
the area's pervasive
political instability — as
demonstrated most re-
cently in Nicaragua and
El Salvador — makes
Jews feel vulnerable, and
there is also concern
about Arab pressures on
Central American na-
tions, thus far unsuc-
cessful, to adopt anti-
Israel foreign policies.

The internal problems
troubling these Jewish
communities are familiar:
assimilation, intermar-
riage, low birth rates, emig-
ration, inadequate Jewish
education, a shortage of
rabbis and trained com-
munal-workers. The small-
est communities, which can
least afford it, are suffering
the greatest population de-
cline.
To deal with these issues,
FEDECO will try to

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250,000 Illiterate

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
quarter of a million persons
in Israel are unable to read
or write, President Yitzhak
Navon told a meeting of
religious soldiers who are to
serve as teachers in de-
velopment towns.

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