14 Friday, January 9, 1981

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The World Zionist Congress
Executive will renew allo-
cations to the World Union
of Jewish Students (WUJS)
that had been halted some
time ago. The executive de-
cided that WZO chairman
Leon Dulzin and treasurer
Akiva Levinsky should
exert their influence to
renew the allocations or
find other ways and means
to guarantee the proper
functioning of WUJS.

642-5575

My Father's Dream

By MAURICE CROLL, M.D.

"Next Year in Jerusalem"
So many years of hopeful prayers
Ended with full meaning
Our hearts were pure in joy
When we recited with our love.

"Next Year in Jerusalem"
This little narrow strip of land
An oasis of hope of future
Now established once again
As the promised land
To Israel.

How little did we know then
That each hallowed inch of love
Paid for in Jewish Blood
Again and again and again
And the bitter years of
Centuries Pas

From the Golden Days of King
David and King Solomon
• And the Kings of Judah
From the time of endless conquerors
The Babylonians, Macedonians, Egyptians,
Seleucids, Greeks, Ijasmoneans, Romans,
Byzanting, Pgrsians, Mamelukes, Ottoman
Turks, 8Attish,-, acid Jordanians
• And now once again
We may dwell in the'land of
King David and Solomon.

GENEVA (JTA) — The
Swiss-Israel Chamber of
Commerce reported that
during the first six months
of 1980 Switzerland ex-
ported to Israel goods worth
773.6 million Swiss Francs
(approximately $386 mil-
lion). This included 639.5
million francs worth of
uncut diamonds. During the
same period, the Chamber
of Commerce added, Swit-
zerland imported from Is-
rael 170.9 million francs
worth of goods.

dnd Mine 1948

Praying silently in suppliant stance
His hands locked before his face
Rocking slightly back and forth
As in a trance of abject reverie
In direct commune with God.
I watched in stunned silence
I spoke no words
There was no need
An eerie silence hung heavy
Like a huge blanket covering all.

From the sides I watched spellbound
Two large giant tears
Slowly descended upon his face.

Ne'er before had I ever seen
My father cry
No longer could I contain myself

"Pa" I said "Why do you cry"
So torn was I

Slowly he drew his hands down
"Just think" he said "Moshe.
In my lifetime — I have lived to see
In my day — Israel — Jerusalem."
He choked, the tears of joy
Poured down upon his face
And a bright knowing smile
Broke through from him to me.

Settlement Without Settlers:
Sad Case of Moshav Eidan

By MARGERY
GREENFIELD

The long journey of the
garin (settlement group)
began in Toronto in the
spring of 1978. With the
help of shlikhim and under
the guidance of a represen-
tative of the moshav move-
ment, the families gathered
to form a new agricultural
settlement.
Only married, Jewish
immigrants from an
English-speaking country
were considered and "mixed
couples" — Israelis married
to Americans or Canadians
— were encouraged to par-
ticipate. Meetings and
workshops were held to
troduce the settlers to v
another and to moshav life.

United Jewish Appeal

MOSHAV EIDAN, Israel
— Moshav Eidan is a set-
tlement without settlers.
Thirty young families
from the United States and
Canada were scheduled to
establish a community here
in June 1979, but deep cuts
in the Jewish Agency's
rural settlement program
— funded by Keren
Hayesod campaigns the
world over, and by United
Jewish Appeal-Federation
campaigns in the United
States — have delayed oc-
cupancy.
In addition, the prolonged
wait in temporary housing
causes a crisis in commit-
ment among members of the
group. Only half of the
families originally re-
cruited for Moshav Eidan
remain in the Arava. The
others have moved into Is-
rael's cities or left the coun-
try.
The settlers of Moshav
Eidan are not idle while
they wait to establish
themselves in their new
home. While living at
Mercaz Sapir, the
regional center for the
Arava, the families re-
ceive intensive agricul-
tural training from gov-
ernment experts and vet-
erans of the moshav ex-
perience, and study He-
brew in an ulpan.
At the same time, an ab-
sorption committee is
actively seeking new
families and screening
applicants to replace the
"drop-outs" from Moshav
Eidan, and a planning
committee struggles over
priorities and the details of
implementing future goals.
An agricultural study group
is translating technical
materials from Hebrew to
English and holds weekly
sessions on the practical
lessons learned in the fields •

The families made the
arduous trip to Israel
only to run headlong into
a first of many financial
setbacks caused by a
runaway national
economy and reductions
in funds available for the
program from the Jewish
Agency budget.

,

The settlement's eco-
nomic difficulties were
further aggravated by what
has proved to be the high
price of peace with Egypt.
Massive dislocations in the --
defense and civilian sectors
mandated by the Israel-
Egypt peace treaty
squeezed spending for set-
tlements such as Moshav
Eidan even tighter as funds
were diverted to dismantl-
ing settlements in the Sinai,
establishing new settle-
ments in the Negev and
Galilee, and meeting other
government and private
sector expenses necessi-
tated -by peace.
As weeks of delay
lengthened into months,
one half of the garin aban-
doned the project. Thirty
adults and their 15 children
who remain have been
toughened by their experi-
ence, but remain optimistic
and enthusiastic.

.

When will it end.
This recurring holocaust of little men
Who born into hate
Die unheralded, unhonored, judged
In the hallowed majestic halls
Of common justice unto men.

Once again it begins to raise
Its ugly demented head
In this our land of Liberty.
So well do I remember
When this land of Israel
Once again bought in blood
Now declared in the brotherhood
Of nations — Our homeland — A state
The year was "48"

My father, Reb Hillel, most orthodox
May he rest forever in eternal peace
In the arms of our Lord
When first he heard that Israel
Had been accepted into the U.N.
Sat on a barren wooden chair
In complete and absolute silence
In our appointed prayer room.

Even then my youthful years
Began to glow
And I began to understand .
"Next Year in Jerusalem"

It said so very much
Of the bloody years of our history
And in these words of beauty
That echo and reecho
From the four corners of the earth
All our lives are wrapped together
Into one.

Oh Israel — Oh Jerusalem, one land
Fly high your flag with pride
High above the land
For all the world to see
This land of love and hope
The promised land
Of all eternity
"Next Year in Jerusalem."

P.S. Israel and Jerusalem are used
interchangeably. To me they
are one and always have been.

Jerusalem. (Yerushalayim) means city
of Hope — It is so aptly named.

New immigrants undergo agricultural training at
Mercaz Sapir.

