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The Detroit Jewish News, 1980-01-18

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12 Friday, landau 18, 1980

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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Residents of East
Jerusalem and the West
Bank have been in an up-
roar for nearly two weeks
after the government
notified the Arab-owned
East Jerusalem Electric Co.
that it intends to purchase
the utility in one year.
On Monday, some 500
demonstrators gathered
outside the Co. building to
protest the government's
decision. The demon-
strators spent the day hear-
ing telegrams of support
and singing songs.
Energy Minister Yitzhak
Modai said the decision was
purely technical and was
made because the company
has been unable to serve its
customers adequately.
But West Bank leaders
and executives of the
company immediately

denounced it as a politi-
cal move aimed at tight-
ening Israel's grip on the
territory and vowed to
fight it in the Israeli
courts and abroad if
necessary.
The electric company is
owned by Arab
municipalities on the West
Bank and receives a stipend
from the Jordanian gov-
ernment although it has op-
erated under Israeli rule
since 1967. It supplies elec-
tric power to Jewish
neighborhoods in East
Jerusalem as well as to the
Arab sections and to Jewish
settlements on the West
Bank and Arab villages.
Its concession extends for
a radius of 20 miles, cen-
tered on the Old City of
Jerusalem and it serves
about 60,000 customers in
all.

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BONN (JTA) — West
Germany's Parliament has
agreed, in principle, to pay
new reparations to Jewish
victims of Nazism. These
reparations would be the
last payment to Jewish sur-
vivors of the Holocaust.
But the proposed addi-
tional payments have be-
come entangled with efforts
to discuss restoration of the
pension rights of Hitler-era

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civil servants never cleared
by the de-Nazification
courts.
Before Christmas, the
Christian Democratic oppo-
sition in Parliament gained
backing for a plan to pay
$255 million in new repara-
tions but only in exchange
for debate on the fate of
other groups affected by the
Nazi era.

The debate, scheduled
for March 31, would dis-
cuss possible benefits for
Gypsies and others who
did not get any repara-
tions but also to former
career military officers,
members of the SS elite
guard and Nazi civil ser-
vants.
An agreement in princi-
ple was reached to include
. the reparations for Jews in a
supplementary budget for
1980 but in conjunction
with a discussion of pen-
sions for Germans not
cleared by de-Nazification
courts.
The agreement calls for
making $139 million avail-
able to Jewish victims in
1980, with additional
grants of $58 million in each
of the two following years.
Of this total, $23 million
would go to the Jewish
community in West Ger-
many and the balance to the
Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against
Germany, which is headed
by Dr. Nahum Goldmann.

Collin Arrested
By Chicago Police

CHICAGO — Frank Col-
lin, who was recently re-
moved from his post as head
of the National Socialist
Party of America (neo-
Nazis), has been arrested by
Chicago police on charges of
sexually abusing young
boys.
While in office, Collin
succeeded in overturning
three court ordinances that
prohibited his group from
marching in the predomin-
antly Jewish Chicago sub-
urb of Skokie.

Boris Smolar's

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Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

SOVIET IMMIGRANT IDENTITY: More and more
the question is now being posed as to whether the Jewish
immigrants from the Soviet Union, after being absorbed by
Jewish communities in this country, are displaying an
interest in becoming integrated Jewishly.
The Council of Jewish Federations is now engaged in
finding the answers to this question. About four months
ago, the CJF started to distribute a questionnaire to federa-
tions for the purpose of determining the extent to which
Soviet Jewish immigrant families identify as members of
the Jewish community.
The findings drawn from the survey show that a sig-
nificant number of Soviet Jewish immigrants acknowledge
their Jewishness and have a desire to understand it better.
However, their first priority is economic survival.
CHILDREN IN DAY SCHOOLS: This survey is only
the beginning of a national research effort by the CJF to
determine the extent to which the immigrants from the
Soviet Union are becoming participants in the American
Jewish community.
The present limited study has established that in each
of the large and intermediate Jewish communities there
were Soviet Jewish children enrolled in Jewish day schools.
Smaller communities indicated that where there was a
Jewish day school, Soviet Jewish children were enrolled.
Most of the communities indicated that those Soviet
children not enrolled in day schools are attending after-
noon schools or one-day-a-week schools.
Some 85 percent of the communities questioned stated
that Soviet Jewish families were affiliated with
synagogues in those communities. As a rule, the
synagogues provided free membership to the immigrants
for the first year. The communities reported that after the
first year of free membership, there were very few Soviet
Jewish families paying membership dues. However, even
after membership was terminated, participation by Soviet
Jews at High Holiday services was extensive. They also
reported that the newcomers did participate in synagogue
programs when congregations reached out to them.
The 16 largest communities stated that Soviet teena-
gers participate in activities of local Jewish youth groups
and congregation groups, however in small numbers. In the
intermediate and small communities, 43 percent of the
communities reported some involvement on the part of
teenagers in youth activities.
INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY: Ninety-four
percent of the communities reported that Soviet Jewish
families were enrolled in Jewish Community Centers.
This high degree of enrollment can be attributed to the
fact that Soviet families are being given free membership
for the first year. Thereafter many families receive partial
scholarships. For the most part, once the first year of free
membership expired, paid membership renewals were few.
The nature of the involvement of the newcomers included:
sports recreational activities, day camp and resident camp,
weekly teen clubs, Shabaton programs, holiday workshops.
center committees and senior citizens activities.
Approximately 56 percent of the communities reported
that Soviet Jews have served as volunteers in Jewish com-
munal organizations. Their number was small, but their
involvement includes serving as translators and trier-
preters; members of the federation JeWish resettlement
committees; members of Russian self help clubs; and -.
unteers in the nutrition programs of the Jewish community
centers.
Participation of the newcomers in adult Jewish ow
-
izations- is reported to be slight. But 67 percent of
communities-stated that they had conducted communit; -
wide celebrations for such holidays as Hanuka, Puri m.
Passover and Simhat Torah.
SOCIAL CONTACTS: Soviet Jewish families live
mostly in clusters with each other and in neighborhoods
apart from indigenousjewish families. Their involvement
with indigenous families is therefore reduced. However, 69
percent of the communities reported that informal social
involvement of Soviet Jews with other Jewish families does
exist through hospitality programs whereby immigrant
families are invited to the homes of American families on
Shabat and other Jewish holidays. As a result of such
social contacts, many of the families have developed rela-
tionships which are sustained beyond the resettlement
period.

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Cabinet Confirms Ben-Elissar

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Eliahu Ben-Elissar, a 48-
year-old scholar who
entered Herut Party politics
and became one of Premier
Menahem Begin's top aides,

was confirmed by the
Cabinet Sunday, as Israel's
first Ambassador to Egypt.

He will assume his post in
Cairo on Feb. 26.

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