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E. Berlin Residents Struggle to Retain Their Jewishness
BONN — Although the
Jewish community in East
Berlin has dwindled to less
than 350 persons, it does not
look as if it's dying, accord-
ing to an article by Mark
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If the tradition of including the Jewish
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invariably followed; sufficient resources would
be accumulated to ensure the future of the
young Jewish State on a sound basis of land
de'velopment, -social 'welfare, and ;justice.
Wood in the Jerusalem
Post.
During the past three
years, the synagouge has
been completely refur-
bished and a new library
has been built in an effort to
keep Jewish culture alive.
Of the 170,000 Jewish
people who made Berlin one
of Europe's biggest and liv-
liest Jewish centers in the
early 1930s, only 5,000 re-
assembled in the city follow-
ing World War II. With
many of the remaining resi-
dents more than 80 years
old, the population figure
could be down to 150 within
the next decade, according
to Peter Kirchner, a leader
in the community.
"We've increased con-
tacts to strengthen the
community spirit and are
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The NCC, PLO and Reagan
You may want your bequest to be
dedicated to afforestation, to a village, a
Nachlah, to a children's play area, to perpetual
yahrzeit or kaddish, or to some form of
permanent tribute in the names of persons
dear to you.
It was a remarkable study
in moral contrasts. On the
very day that the National
Council of Churches
adopted its Middle East pol-
icy statement, President-
elect Ronald Reagan held a
press conference during
which the declared his
views on the Middle East.
On Nov. 6, the NCC's
general board called on the
PLO either to amend its
1968 National Covenant or
"make an unambiguous
statement recognizing Is-
rael as a sovereign state and
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(A Seven Arts Feature)
TO THE
ENTIRE COMMUNITY
CODE-A-PHONE
paying a lot of attention links with the 6,000
Telephone Answering Systems
to religious education for member Jewish community
the 11 children in the in West Berlin. Ties be-
te.
group," Kirchner said of tween the groups have been
the effort to keep the severed since 1953 and Kir-
community from totally chner hopes that the West
Berlin rabbi will soon come
disappearing.
across regularly for serv-
Communist ices, since East Berlin has
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ular state funds. Holocaust ularly) Kirchner feels it is
systems.
survivors receive a $700 per vital to strengthen Jewish
month pension (four times faith among the young, on
the standard rate for the whom the survival of one of
elderly) and the govern- Europe's smallest Jewish
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The East Berlin commur,
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Jewish state." At the same
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time, the NCC said, Israel
must officially recognize the
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right of the Palestinians to
create a, PLO state apart
from any federation with
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The NCC also called on
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LAWRENCE M. ALLAN
negotiations without insist-
President
ing that the PLO give up its
terrorism as a precondition.
GEMOLOGIST DIAMONTOLOGIST
contrast,
By
President-elect Reagan,
when asked about the
same PLO, said, "I think
the PLO has proven that
it is a terrorist organiza-
tion. And I have said re-
peatedly I separate the
PLO from the Palestinian
refugees. No one ever
elected the PLO."
In a major policy address
on the Middle East deliv-
ered on Sept. 4, Gov. Reagan
was even more forthright.
"The PLO is said to repre-
sent the Palestinian refu-
gees. It represents no one
but the leaders who estab-
lished it as a means of or-
ganizing aggression against
Israel, and has murdered
more Palestinians than it
has Israelis. They are ter-
rorists and they should be
identified as such. If others
wish to deal with them, let it
be on their heads. And let
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them be willing to pay the
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for Immigration?
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Ac-
cording to figures published
by the Bank of Israel, immi-
gration to Israel increased
and emigration from Israel
decreased under the Likud
government of Prime
Minister Menahem Begin.
Immigration figures
showed: 1974 - 33,000; 1975
- 20,000; 1976 - 20,000; 1977
- 22,000; 1978 - 28,000; 1979
- 39,000.
Emigration figures for
the same years were: 1974 -
19,000; 1975 - 20,000; 1976
- 13,000; 1977 - 14,600; 1978
- 12,000; 1979 - 7,900.
Likud won the Knesset
elections in May
1977.
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