THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 20 Friday, August 24, 1919 Immigration, Drop-Out Rate Up Some Reminiscing in August Rafael Kotlowitz, head of JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jewish Agency has re- the Jewish Agency immi- ported a 57 percent increase gration and absorption de- in aliya in the first seven partment, said, however, months of this year. The that a continued increase in number of immigrants the number of Soviet Jewish reached 21,012, compared dropouts in Vienna was also to 13,354 in the same period recorded. Out of the 4,068 Jews leaving the USSR in last year. July, only 1,300 arrived in Israel, a dropout rate of 70 COMPLETE ALTERATIONS percent, which is a new re- Reasonable Prices cord in the number of drop- outs. The number of Soviet Cleaners & Tailors immigrants this year so far Expert Cleaning is 10,058 compared to 5,979 last year, an increase of 68 Lowest Prices Also percent. 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CBS's choice of Miss Red- grave for the role of Fania Fenelon Goldstein, whose memoirs are being dramatized in the proposed TV film, "Playing for Time," was subject to sharp criti- cism from Jewish groups and Mrs. Goldstein for her pro-Palestinian activities. The network defended its choice of Miss Redgrave to play Mrs. Goldstein, saying she had been chosen strictly on acting ability. FOR ITSELF 559-8209 OUR REPUTATION SPEAKS Since 1952 24700 Northwestern Hwy. decreased by 22 percent. Kotlowitz noted in his report that there is an in- crease in the shortage of housing for immigrants, and unless an early solu- tion is found there would be no more room in the absorption center and other transition facilities for olim. Sonie 15,663 immigrants are currently staying in 80 absorption centers throughout the country, waiting for their housing. Many- of them have been staying there for more than a year, he said. The shortage in immig- rant housing continues de- spite the opening in July of three new absorption cen- ters in Afula, Ofakim and Ashkelon, Kotlowitz re- ported. ! MONTREAL (JTA) -- Egypt has informed the In- ternational Civil Aviation Organization that the state of war between Israel and Egypt has been terminated by ratification of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty on March 26. _LAST NINE DAYS FROM FRI., AUG. 24 Everything in the studio! Sherwood Studios FINE FURNITURE TO LIVE WITH Tel-Twelve Mall, 12 Mile / Tele ra OPEN SUNDAY 12 5 • 10-9 Mn.- . • - By DAVID SCHWARTZ worthless — and yet he was sitting in an adjacent performed a valuable office to Weizmann talking With all the talk these function in some ways, in on the telephone to days of various ways of exposing various kinds of Jerusalem. A friend of meeting the energy crisis, it stupidity. Angoff was Weizmann came in and is interesting to recall that then his right hand in heard the shouting. Theodor Herzl had some editing the American "Who is that shouting?" ideas. In his book "Altneu- Mercury. he asked Weizmann. land," Herzl, with the eye of "Weisgal is talking to But Angoff did other an engineer, taking note of things. He taught literature Jerusalem," said Weiz- the fact that the Dead Sea at Fairleigh Dickinson Col- mann. region is the lowest point lege in New Jersey. He was "Why doesn't he use the below sea level, suggested also the author of numerous telephone?" asked the that immense energies bociks dealing with Jewish friend. might be released if the life and many thought them Stories like these are not "drop" were used. Compari- very good. recorded in history. This is sons were made by Herzl I suspect that Angoff too bad. They give a tasti- with the Niagara water might have entertained the ness to pastevents. * * * power. idea that some day he might "Altneuland" is hardly get the Nobel Prize. Per- Maybe the program read today, but it had a very haps, with a turn of luck, he about Jews soon to be interesting fate. The book might have. shown on television will became a city. When the * * * enlighten the public Zionists were building their Time marches on and about Jewish history and first city, Sokolow, the there is only history to re- life. The fact that Abba Zionist leader, suggested call it, but history doesn't Eban will be in charge is that it be named after the remember too much. a good omen, but there is book. So Tel Aviv got its one story which I am sure We got to thinking will not be told, and yet it name, Tel, meaning hill, about Meyer Weisgal the standing for old and Aviv, seems to me to deserve a meaning springtime, for other day. Behind the place. new. Old New Land became scenes, he was no incon- It is of the time when the siderable force in Jewish Tel Aviv. life. He was the editor of British government issued * * * the Balfour Deblaration. The recent passing of the New Palestine and later when the Jewish Weizmann wanted it Charles Angoff removes the man who wes the state came into being, he translated at once into right hand of H.L. was the chief assistant of French and German at the Mencken. One of the Weizmann in the building same time it was published off-Broadway shows of of the Rehovot scientific in English. He summoned today is "The Impossible institution, known as the his secretary, a fine lin- Mr. Mencken." Some 30 Weizmann Institute of guist, but she had only a short time before giving or 40 years ago, no one Science. was better known among He was very vocal. He birth to a little boy. She American intellectuals never needed a microphone. couldn't leave the infant than Mencken. He was a You always knew when he alone. So she bundled him complete social reactio- was around. One of the up and took him with her to Weizmann's office. nary — his political and stories about him was of the The little infant was economic views, in my time when he was with Abba Eban. opinion, were entirely Weizmann in New York. He (Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.) Vanished Generation Memories in Lewin's Turning of the Tide' Samuel Lewin left many legacies as a Yiddish author of note. A native of Poland, he lived in Berlin from 1920 to 1933. Then, upon the ad- vent of Hitler on the politi- cal scene, he had the experi- ence of many flights, to Au- stria, France, Switzerland and Holland, before coming to the United States in 1935. He died in 1959. He wrote many novels that left their mark upon a generation of Yiddish readers. His "Turning of the Tide," written in Yiddish 20 years ago, now draws re- newed attention to him in the translation by Joseph Leftwich, published by A.S. Barnes. This novel testifies to an era of changes, to transfor- mations from the time when the faithful and devout dominated the Jewish scene, to the later stages of descendants of the pious being tempted by the libera- tive powers of modernized Europe and the Western world. "The Turning of the Tide" assumes impor- tance as a definitive por- trayal of life in the shtetl, of the piety that influenced the lives of Jews in the Old World. In spite of the economic difficulties, the threats from the outside world, the synagogue domi- nated the Jews whose faith sustained them. Then came the changes, and these, too, are described skillfully by the writer whose personal involve- ments lent realism to the re- flections that make his work so deeply moving as reminiscences of experi- ences of a generation that has vanished but whose memories linger. P.S. Norwegian Group Captures Terrorists in Metulla Battle TEL AVIV (JTA) — A Norwegian contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) captured nine terrorists Monday in a clash with a terrorist group. Norwegian soldiers in Metulla said a band of about 15 terrorists entered the Norwegian-controlled area on the way south. When the Palestinians were ordered to halt, they opened fire on the UNIFIL contingent. In the subsequent fight and pursuit the Norwegians captured nine of the ter- rorists and were searching for the others. Maj. Saad Haddad, leader of the Christian militia, who has been critical of the UN forces sent a cable of congratulations to the commander of the Norwe- gian troops. But the UN turned down his demand that the terrorists be turned over to him. The prisoners, were to be taken to the UN headquarters in Tyre: In a related incident, Israeli air force planes at- tacked terrorist bases in south Lebanon. All planes returned safely to base. An army com- munique said that Israeli planes attacked two targets considered to be departure bases for ter- rorists on their way to at- tacks in Israel. One of the targets was Ras el Ein, on the Mediterranean, south of Rashidiyeh in the Tyre area, and the other was in "Fatahland." Meanwhile, the UN has promised Israel to work out some arrangements whereby Israelis going to the Umm Hashiba station in Sinai will not be checked out by members of the UN Truce Supervisory Organ- ization (UNTSO), which has replaced the UN Emer- gency Force at the station. Israel has rejected the use of UNTSO in Sinai.