THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

56 Friday, September 1, 1919

Akiva Plans Melave Malka

Fashion Show
for Young Adults

Akiva Hebrew Day
School will be the scene of a
melave malka 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, for the Akiva
PTA, board of directors,
Friends of Akiva and
alumni. Dinner will be
served.
PTA officers who will be

The young adult depart-
ment of the Farmington
Community Library will
present a fashion show 7
p.m. Wednesday at the
Farmington Hills branch,
32737 W. 12 Mile.

installed are: Sandra Sin-
gal, president; and Marge
Green, chairman of the
board.
Akiva officers are: DaVid
Tanzman, president; Dr.
Larry Loewenthal, Dr.
Harvey Sabbota and Milton
Duchan, vice presidents;
Ronald Berman, treasurer;
and Dr. David J. Berris, sec-
retary.
Rabbi Henoch Millen, the
new Akiva principal, will
deliver a Dvar Torah. In-
terested persons in the
community are invited at no
charge.

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York.

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Prof. Says Falashas' Plight
Is Exaggerated in the Press

Editor, The Jewish News:
The adverse conditions,
under which the Falashas
are living, are often misrep-
resented and exaggerated.
They are not persecuted for
their religion. The Ethio-
pians are tolerant by na-
ture; also they acknowledge
more willingly than most
Christians, that Chris-
tianity rests on Judaic
foundations to. a very great
extent. Rather than having
animosity towards
Judaism, they have much
affinity with it.
The Falashas, by their
color, language and 'way of
life, are Ethiopians. As they
do not look, speak or behave
differently from the rest of
the population, in spire of
their name signifying
"strangers," they are not
the target of suspicion and
hatred as is often the case of
Jews in the Western world.
There has been no worse-
ning of their position since
the change of regime in
Ethiopia in spite of rumors
to that effect. On the con-
trary, their sutation has
improved in some ways.
The new regime of
Ethiopia has had as yet .
little time to improge the
population's lot. The
most important innova-
tions for alleviating the
life of the Ethiopian
people are: abolition of
serfdom and abolition of
tenancy. The application
of the law is, however,
much more difficult than
its promulgation, due to
the enormous distances,
rugged landscape and
absence of roads.
One reads in the Jewish
press that the Falashas are
singled out for persecution;
that there is violence
against them, that some are
driven off their lands, rob-
bed, captured, raped, even
sold into slavery. Some of
this may be true in remote
areas close to the borders.
The landlords, as anywhere
in the world, did not take
kindly to being dispossessed
and seeing their lands dis-
tributed to peasants, their
former slave-tenants.
There were also instances
in which the landlords, who

Holiday Events
Slated at Center

The Jewish Community
Center will conduct a holi-
day workshop for the entire
family 3 p.m. Sept. 16 and
Oct. 7 in the main Center
library. There is a registra-
tion fee.
The Center library also
will be the scene of a fall
holiday round up for chil-
dren age 6-9 Sept. 20 and
Oct. 11.
Stories and games will
highlight the afternoon. For
information, call the Cen-
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be absorbed there under the
Law of Return.

had turned warlords,
pressed their captives,
former tenants, into service
to increase their own pri-
vate armies fighting the
authorities. The Falashas,
being Jews and having been
well treated by the new re-
gime, invariably refuse to
join and side with the gov-
ernment. For that they are
sometimes made to pay de-
arly and are cruelly mis-
treated by the former land-
lords in the remote and law-
less border regions of
Ethiopia.
To conclude, I wish to
say that the Falashas are
not lukewarm Jews such
as one sees so often in the
West - they are committed
Jews even though ignor-
ant of many of the com-
plexities subsequently
superimposed on the
basic Jewish law. They
observe kashrut, keep
the Sabbath, circumcise
their sons and pray fac-
ing Jerusalem.
Whether persecuted or
not, they are Jews living in
the Diaspora, and have the
right to settle in Israel and

— Prof. Ephriam Yitzhak

(Editor's note: Prof.
Yitzhak, an Ethiopian
Jew and a Harvard
graduate, currently a vis-
iting professor at Hebrew
University, main s
contact with the Falk, As_
in Ethiopia. He presents a
view opposing the condi- _
tions described by
Falasha spokesmen in
this country and in Israel
Their views were ex-
pressed most recently in
The Jewish News of Aug.
31, on Page 1.)

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