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14- Friday, March 1, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ORT Aiding Ethiopia's Falashas
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NEW YORK — The
2,000-year-old Ethiopian
Jewish community, among
the most ancient in the
Diaspora, presently num-
bers some 28,000. The
Falashas live in primitive
conditions in remote moun-
tain villages scattered
throughout the northwest-
ern section of the country.
For the past two years,
ORT has coordinated a re-
lief program for the op-
pressed, impoverished and
long-forgotten black Jews of
Ethiopia, who call them-
selves "Beta Israel" (House
of Israel), and are known to
their neighbors as
"Falashas" (strangers).
David Kessler, chairman of
the Falasha Welfare Asso-
ciation in London, calls the
program, "One of the most
remarkable operations in
Jewish rehabilitation . . .
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being undertaken by a team
of dedicated workers."
Directed by Jean-Claude
Nadjar, who previously
served with ORT in Latin
America, and his chief ad-
ministrator, Ato Kebede
Wogayebu, ORT operates
out of the Ethiopian capital,
Addis Ababa, and employs
180 people. Since the pro-
gram serves the larger
community; funds are
raised from both Jewish and
non-Jewish sources.
Most Falashas earn
their living by farming,
raising cattle, spinning,
weaving and pottery
making. Despite their iso-
lation, they hiive been
able to maintain their
sense of identify and
have preserved tradi-
tional Jewish customs.
Most of the villages have
synagogues, shohets
(ritual slaughterers) who
provide the community
with kosher meat, and
kohanim (priests). They
celebrate Jewish holi-
days and speak some He-
brew (a mixture of bibli-
cal and modern) in addi-
tion to Amharic.
ORT workers!, have as-
sisted the Falashas in im-
proving their agricultural
methods, building modern
health care facilities,
purifying village water
supplies and expanding
local handicrafts and cot-
tage industries, such as pot-
tery, needlework, weaving
and basketry. One highly
successful ORT project has
been the development of na-
tive pottery into an export
product.
- In addition to its voca-
tional training efforts, ORT
sponsors 52 general educa-
tion classes in 19 schools in
the Gondar region. The ap-
proximately 1,500 pupils at
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as well as other subjects.
Arthur Leipzig, director
of photography at C.W. Post
Center of Long Island Uni-
versity, said he came away
from the encounter with the
Falashas with a wonderful
feeling for the "beautiful
people of the Jewish com-
munity in Ethiopia who are
industrious, proud of their
work and interested in con-
tinuing their Jewish tradi-
tions."
"ORT has done a great
job for these people," he
continued. "The ORT
staff works 12 hours a
day. They went into one
village and taught the
people how to use fer-
tilizer, and their crops
doubled in one season.
"ORT is also helping the
Ethiopians to build roads
between villages. Some of
the ORT graduates among
the Falashas now teach
others and some have even
formed a cooperative. The
Falashas enthusiastically
welcome modern ways."
British Aid
Israeli Clinic
,ASHKELON — On Is-
rael's southern Mediterra-
nean coast a British concern
has begun drilling — but
not for oil. Teeth are the
targets in a new dental
facility which recently
opened its doors to the
50,000 citizens of Ashkelon.
The clinic reflects the
on-going "Project Renewal
partnership" that has
evolved between British
Jewry and the residents of
this southern coastal town.
The clinic is staffed by a
full-time local dentist and
nurses, as well as a rotating
team of volunteer English
dentists.
Ashkelon is one of 160
neighborhoods throughout
Israel earmarked for com-
prehensive rehabilitation
through Project Renewal,
the joint effort of the Israel
government, the Jewish
agency and Diaspora Jewry
to eradicate deprivation.
`Ladies' Arrested
TEL AVIV — Israeli
police arrested 23 prosti-
tutes last week during raids
on Tel Aviv bars and night
clubs.
The raids followed com-
plaints by United Nations
soldiers that they had con-
tracteil, venereal disease
from the women.
Reform Women Start Drive
or Equal Role in Religion
NEW YORK — The Re-
form movement, under the
auspices of the Union of
American Hebrew Congre-
gations, has embarked on a
campaign, "Synagogue
Consciousness-Raising:
Programs for the Decade of
Women," dealing with ef-
forts by women to achieve
equality in religion and
religious life.
As part of the campaign,
the UAHC held an inter-
faith consultation at its
headquarters, where or-
dained and lay Catholic,
Jewish and Protestant
women, gathered to chart
strategy and tactics to com-
bat sexism in religion.
At the same time, a pro-
gram kit, "Jewish Options
for the '80s," has been dis-
tributed by the UAHC with
a variety of program ideas
to stimulate thinking and
action about the woman's
role in the religious sphere.
The kit was prepared
by men and women
members of the UAHC
task force on women and
minorities and its task
force on equality of
women in Judaism. The
kit is available at a
charge from the UAHC,
838 Fifth Ave., New York,
10021.
The UAHC also has de-
voted an issue of its youth
publication, Keeping
Posted, to Jewish women's
issues. Entitled "The New
Jewish Woman," the issue
was written by women ac-
tivists who began a decade
ago to examine the role of
the Jewish woman in
Jewish life.
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