THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

40 Friday, November 23, 1979

Elizur: Combining Sport
and Religion in Israel

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By EVA BASNIZKI

World Zionist Organization

JERUSALEM — Sport is
still a relatively new form of
organized recreation among
religious Jews, both in Is-
rael and the diaspora. It
comes, therefore, a a pleas-
ant surprise, to find an
organization which not only
provides this kind of ac-
tivity for religious Israelis,
but is also highly successful
in competitive amateur
sport — Elizur, the Sports
Organization for Religious
Youth, based in Tel Aviv.
It was founded in 1933 by
Rabbi Meir Berlin, of
Hapoel Hamizrachi, today
part of the National Reli-
gious Party, and some of his

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associates, among them
Jewish Agency Executive
member S.S. Shragai.
In the beginning the ac-
tivities centered purely on
sports, but Elizur began to
adopt a different role when
the true situation in Nazi .
Europe emerged in the thir-
ties and early forties Elizur
became a branch of the
Haganah, the underground
defense force in Jewish
Palestine. Under the cover
of sports activities, the
young boys and girls
secretly trained for combat.
They became a small army
in disguise.
The end of the war came,
with all its horrible revela-
tions. Palestine was still
closed to most Jews while
those who desperately tried
to crash the gates, were
often caught by the British
and deported to new camps.
But some did get through,
many with the help of
Elizur, whose boat club be-
came a link in the well-
organized chain of the
Jewish population's effort
in Palestine, to get as many
fellow Jews into the country,
as possible.
In 1948, with the estab- '
lishment of the state of Is-
rael, Elizur returned to
its original goal as a
sports organization. Ex-
panding rapidly in the
1950s and 1960s it now
has 120 branches all over
Israel, in cities, towns,
villages and kibbutzim.
Elizur can be found in
places where other well
known sport organizations
do not exist = in those out-
lying settlements and de-
velopment towns with a
mainly North African popu-
lation, to whom sport is a
relatively new adventure. It
is often in these small com-
munities that outstanding
talents are discovered, some
of whom may even become
national heroes.

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down to 5,500 and the d5,-'
cline continued. In 1979,
the Jewish population or`
Rhodesia-Zimbabwe was
estimated at 2,300.
Over 60 percent of the
community is over 50 years
of age," report said
"There are 500 Jewish chi:2-
dren in the whole of
Rhodesia," nevertheless the
Sharon Day School in Salis-
bury and the Carlin
School in Bulaway
tinue to function, the former
with 81 pupils, the latte
with 69.
Salisbury is the only cen
ter in the country where an
afternoon school continu es
to function. Non-Jews and
non-whites have recent1: -
been admitted to the day
schools-.
"There has been a merger
of the Progressive and Or
thodox communities in
Bulawayo, where there is no
rabbi or shochet. Salisbury
has a rabbi cum cantor and
he serves both cities," the
WJC reported.
But "In spite of the steady
outflow, there has been
some expansion in com,-
munal institutions and
facilities. A new synagogue_
was completed in Salisbury
in 1977. A home for the aged -
was completed in 1976.

Tradition Requires Bread
on Table When Saying Brah,a

By RABBI SAMUEL FOX

(Copyright 1979, JTA Inc.)

Jewish tradition requires
that at least one piece of
bread remain on the table
when reciting the grace
after meals (Birchat haMa-
zon) for a number of rea-
sons.
One is that this practice
reminds us of the biblical
requirement to leave a
small plot of the field un-
harvested for the poor (i.e.
Peah). The parallel in to-
day's life would be that one
must always leave some-
thing for the poor who may
unexpectedly come into
one's area and find nothing
left for them to eat.
Some claim it is done so
that the blessing of the fu-
ture be a continuation of the
blessing of the past. It is also
claimed that this practice is
an expression of modesty,
claiming that the Almighty
has already given us more
than enough in whatever
simmorfr

He has provided for us.
It is also mentioned that
this practice is a means of
displaying our preparation
for the future so- that we do
not consume everything we
have at one time because no
one knows what the future
will bring and one should
thus spare some of what he
has for future situations.

Yeshiva Museum
Receives Grant

NEW YORK The Yeshiva.
University Museum has
been awarded a $10,09,8,
grant by the Federation
Fund for Jewish Education
of the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies towards the
development of a model
program in museum educa-
tion.
The program is being
coordinated by Susan
Fleminger, educational di-
rector of the Museum.

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Some 85 years after the first
Jewish congregation was
established in Rhodesia, the
2,000 Jews who still remain
in that strife-torn southern
African nation are struggl-
ing to maintain a fully func-
tioning community. There
are synagogues, day and af-
ternoon schools, a home for
the aged, a central repre-
sentative body and a Zionist
movement.
But their future seems
bleak and their survival de-
pends on whether whites in
general can have an accept-
able future as a minority in
a Black-ruled Rhodesia-
Zimbabwe, according to a
recent report published by
the World Jewish Congress.
Organized Jewish life in
Rhodesia dates back to 1894
when about 20 Jews were
among the purchasers of
land in Bulawayo. They es-
tablished their congrega-
tions a year later. The
majority of the newcomers
were from Russia and
Lithuania, later joined by
Sephardic Jews. In 1,900
there were 400 Jews in
Rhodesia, the WJC re-
ported.
By 1921, the Jewish
community numbered
1,289; in 1936, 4;760; and
in 1961 it reached a peak

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