11FUETRUI-IALIVISHIM Peru's Strong Jewish Community Must Resist Changes By WARREN FREEDMAN What Jewish community Jewish world. The net- work of Jewish schools excites 20 percent of its and thd beauty of Lima's membership (or more than Great Synagogue are 1,000 persons) to watch a very impressive. Bar Mitzva on a Friday night? Young Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg, an Israeli-born disciple, is proud of his , fol- lowing in Lima, Peru. He is the youngest of only 30 rabbis serving the nearly one million Jews through- out Latin and South America. He is the official rabbi of the Union Israelita Del Peru. Lima, the capital city of Peru, has many synagogues, of which four are "headed" by young Rabbi Rothenberg. Lima Jewry conducts a wide range of Jewish ac- tivities and include a Bnai Brith group, a Zionist group and a very active Macabee group. There is a Yiddish news- paper. At the third annual Inter-American Macabee Games, this small commun- ity entertained hundreds of Jews from abroad. The Jewish club has a full-sized - soccer field, an Olympic-size basketball court which can seat about 500 in the stands, and an Olympic pool. Of the thousand Jewish families in Peru, only 60 have non-kosher homes! Peruvian Jews (all 5,500 of them) are thirsty for in- volvement with Jewish life. More than 600 Peruvian Jews also subscribe to Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports in Spanish. The Peruvian govern- ment first guaranteed freedom of religion in 1933, and. during these past 45 years Peruvian Jews have organized facilities which compare favorably with any in the , The Asociacion Judia del Peru is an effective "um- brella" organization. Places of Jewish interest in Lima include the Colegio Leon Pinelo on Ave. Juan Peset y Los Munganes. Here students receive intensive courses in Hebrew and it is the center for Jewish youth. There is also Cemetario Is- raelita, Club Hebraica, and Museo De La Inquisitzia. But Peru today is a milit- ary dictatorship intent upon destroying existing - power structures and creating an entirely new 'society. Such basic industries as fishing, banking and insurance have been nationalized since 1968. The small Jewish community , of businessmen and profes- sionals appear to have limited economic oppor- tunities in a society in which 86 percent of the people are Indians and mestizo, and so the Jewish community has dwindled. Anti-Semitism is also increasing, and the Leftist government press is anti-Israel and some- times anti-Jewish. There is also the growing influence of the Arabs and even the Soviets who have made Peru a major base. (Weekly air service via Aeroflot links Lima and Moscow.) !.C.C. License MC125985 spokesman for Lima's Jews by the various congrega- DRIVEAWAY SERVICE is a tall, bald man in his late tions. Hasson admits to con- 4713 Horger at Michigan Ave. 40's named Yaacov HaSson. siderable concern about the P.O. BOX 1264 A Sephardi Jew of Yugoslav long-term future of Peru's Dearborn, Mich. 48126 origin, Hasson was born in Jewish community. Tel. 584-5000 Argentina and emigrated as a young man to Israel. He returned to South America to become a teacher in the Jewish school in Lima, and he remained. He is currently a profes- SELECTED JEWELRY sor of humanistic studies and philosophy at the uni- comPLETE JENNE:lin SERVICE versity, and is considered one of Peru's leading intel- lectuals. He carries the title 13720 W. 9 11ile oak Park. of executive director of the Office of Human Relations \ ear l'oent 4 /like of the Jewish-Community of Peru, for which he receives a modest salary paid jointly deals with the impact of the social and economic reforms enacted by the left-wing military government since 1968. On the other hand, the new opportunities, far from crowding Jews out, have provided a hitherto un- known fluidity to Peruvian Jewish life. Jews have slip- ped rather comfortably into this layer of nouveaux riches in Lima, where the old barriers of race and class seem to have disappeared. For the first time, young Jews can look beyond business, to careers in the profes- sions, in government and management, in the uni- versities and the arts. The acknowledged EARLY DEADLINES The Jewish News has early news and adver- tising deadlines for the issue of Nov. 24. The news deadline is noon today; the display ad- vertising deadline is noon Monday and the classified advertising deadline is 2 p.m. Tues- day. Ahin ewe ter LI 7-5068 We Make Our Own Glasses Pianist Protests JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Pianist Artur Rubenstein, 91, who was in Israel to make an Israeli TV documentary on music, summoned reporters to his hotel after the visit of U.S. Undersecretary of State Harold Saunders to the Mideast. Rubenstein protested U.S. support for Arab i-•'claims to Jerusalem, calling those claims "absolutely in- decent." • HEADQUARTERS FOR ripormeil) LATEST DOMESTIC AND r''. ' IMPORTED FRAME FASHIONS - • PRESCRIPTIONS FOR GLASSES ACCURATELY FILLED • DESIGNER FRAMES 1, • Immediate Repair • Reasonably Priced ROSEN OPTICAL SERVICE 13720 W. 9 MILE nr. COOLIDGE OAK PARK, MICH. LI 7-5068 Mon.-Fri. 9:30-6 Sat. 'til 5 Closed Wednesday 1II 1111111111111111111110111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111112 COURT TIME RACQUET CLUB PRIVATE CLUB MEMBERSHIP Isaac Goldemberg, a Peru-born Jew in his 1977 novel, "The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner" (Pensea Books) has bitterly criticized the Spanish- Catholic culture which has stifled Peruvian and Jewish life. The novel was never published in Peru because it . 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