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attended the second annual
induction dinner of the
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
on July 27 in Los Angeles.
All members of the Jewish
Sports Hall of Fame
selected last year and those
inducted this year will have
their photos and records
perpetuated in a special
building which the U.S.
Committee Sports for Israel
is constructing at the Win-
gate Institute of Physical
Education in Natanya, Is
rael.
The building wil) be
ready for the 1981 Ma, ibia
Games. An instat:ition
service will be heldon the
night of June 7 at tie Win-
gate Institute.
Those honored hcluded
Mel Allen, baseball
sportscaster; Isary Berger,
weightlifting; Lilian Cope-
land, track and field; Bar-
ney Dr.yfuss, baseball;
Marst`l,r1 Goldberg, foot-
ball; 1-1ward Gottlieb, bas-
ketba; Harry Litwak, bas-
kmeetyb a es Laurence "Lon"
i track; 'Ron Mix,
- Nopt lall; and Al Rosen,
baseball.
A special commemora-
tive medal was presented
to Gretel Bergman, who
was refused permission
to practice with the 1936
German Olympic team
and thereby was pre-
vented from participat-
ing in those Games.
Stars from the stage and
screen performed and
helped in the induction
services, but the highlight
of the evening was an ad-
dress made by Alex Dreier,
a war correspondent with
ABC during World War II
who read his essay on
"What Is a Jew?"
Everyone in the audience
was touched, many to tears,
as this non-Jew read his
script which was presented
for the first time six days
after the Six-Day War in Is-
rael.
Dreier today is a sickly
man who gets by with the
aid of a cane but still retains
the beautiful, sonorous
voice of his broadcasting
days during Wb-rld War II
and for many years thereaf-
ter. Here is his understand-
ing as to "What Is a Jew?":
"We think we know.
Whether he calls himself
an Israelite, a German, a
Russian or an American,
he is a man with a special
kind of backbone that
has been tempered by
travail and straightened
and hardened by an un-
releAting determination
to be free. And because
he is free and he is strong
every Jew stands taller
and prouder today than
at any time in the history
of recorded man.
"What is a Jew?
"A tired old man squint-
ing his watery eyes as he
bends over needle and
thread in a corner tailor
shop in an American city. A
tall, sunbronzed young
zealot working in a kibutz
in Israel, a gifted musician
performing in a European
symphony orchestra, an or-
dinary family man with no
medals or high-water
,
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marks in his life. But yet a vast, hostile land that
each is different from his seems to be all muscle but
fellow man. And for has left room for mur12
thousands of years that dif- heart.
ference was turned against
"Am-4 ft is in this context
him. Today . . . that dif-
ference has meant the dif- iiiat we salute and honor Is-
ference between siwival rael, to say as a proud
American acutely aware of
and death . .
"Whether intellectual pr- his own nation's bloody
ime or peasant, today's Jew battles for survival, we rec-
leas done what millions who ognize you for what you are:
went before him tried but a brother in an imperfect
could not do. He has proved world, striving for what we
to the world that to be a Jew strive for — the dignity of
is still something special all men — and their inher-
and something different. ent right to be free. Israel
But the artificial inferiority has caught the torch of lib-
complex that was laminated erty . . . and to her we say
on his psyche by centuries of hold it high. And let no force
oppression is gone forever. on earth ever dim its light
It was blasted away by the much less extinguish its
rise of Israel, a tiny state in flame."
Memories, Not Much Else
for Burma's Last Jews
RANGOON, Burma —
Some 3,000 Jews resided in
Burma prior to Japanese oc-
cupation in 1942 according
to a recent New York Times
story chronicling the de-
mise of the country's once
flourishing Jewish commu-
nity.
Until the arrival of the
Japanese drove most of the
Jews, together with the
British colonial population,
to the safety of India, nearly
two-thirds of the Jewish
community made their
homes in the city of Ran-
goon.
"There were not enough
chairs in the synagogue for
all the people on the High
Holidays," said Reuben Al-
bert, 67, caretaker for the
building which is now used
by a handful of aging men
and women.
Jewish immigration to
Historic Finds
at Ancient Site
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Ex-
cavations at the ancient-site
of Antipatris, east of Petah
Tikva, have uncovered a
number of historic finds, it
was announced by Prof.
Moshe Kochavi of Tel Aviv
University's archeological
department who headed the
excavation team.
The finds included a per-
fectly preserved household
with wine jars, oil lamps,
food and utensils all in
place, as if a housewife had
neatly arranged the pantry
just before a disaster oc-
curred, Kochavi said.
The disaster was the de-
struction of the town in 70
CE by the soldiers of Roman
Emperor Vespasian (69-79
CE) who were there to re-
store order after the
populace organized resis-
tance against the Roman
occupiers.
The household found was
the remains of a house that
collapsed after it was set
afire. The town of Antipat-
ris was built by King Herod
in 9 BCE on the site of the
previous Hellenistic town of
Pegai which was populated
largely by Jews. The name
Pegai is a distortion of the
Hebrew word Afek which
subsequently became the
Arab village _of Fejja.
Burma began in the
1850s. The land on which
the synagogue stands
was given to the commu-
nity by the colonial rul-
ers. Until about 1941, 25
Jewish children were
born in Rangoon each
year. The last entry in the
birth records is dated
1970.
There are approximately
two dozen Jews left in
Burma, with half of them
living in Rangoon. About
400 came back after the
war, but most left when
Burma and Israel gained
their independence in short
succession in 1948.
Most live in abject pov-
erty and owe their living
largely to the, only one
among them who earns a
moderate income — the son
of the former head of the
community, Jacob Samuels.
Samuels, 36, succeeded his
father and continues his
business of renting party
supplies.
The synagogue's treasury
was nearly depleted last
year after a wealthy Swiss
Jew, a frequent visitor, do-
nated more than $1,000 to
have the building white-
washed. But, perhaps sym-
bolic of the community's
problems, the stucco proved
to be too worn to absorb
paint, and replastering the
building cost more than the
original donation.
Orthodox Blast
DST in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Several dozen Orthodox
residents of Jerusalem
gathered • recently in
downtown Jerusalem pro-
testing against the intro-
duction of daylight savings
time — although there was
almost no public desecra-
tion of the Sabbath.
The Orthodox feared that
due to the fact that the Sab-
bath now ended later the
operation of the first show
in the local cinemas (which
begins at 7 p.m., when there
is still light outside) would
cause a mass desecration of
the Sabbath. Cinema own-
ers cancelled- the first show
for this very reason.
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