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Jewish Federation of
Greater Dallas has reported
that a feasibility study on
whether to build, sponsor
and possibly operate a
group home for mentally re-
tarded Jewish adults will be
conducted by Dr. Jeffrey
Schwamm of the University
of Texas.

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Tay-Sachs Tests Available Egypt, France Reach Accord
to N.J. College Students
on Nuclear Construction

By BEN GALLOB

(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)

Five New Jersey colleges
were visited in 1980 and
more will be visited this
year in a free testing pro-
gram seeking to identify
carriers of Tay Sachs dis-
ease, a malady which
afflicts mainly children of
Ashkenazic Jews during in-
fancy.
The program, which
brings testing equipment to
the campus, was developed
by the pediatric department
of the Medical School of the
College of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey.
Located at the medical
school in Newark, the Tay
Sachs prevention program
is the only one in New Jer-
sey with its own laboratory
for screening, according to
Dr. Frank Desposito, acting
director of the human gene-
tics division and associate
pediatrics professor at the
medical school.
He said the screening
program is available
without charge to all stu-
dents in New Jersey col-
leges and universities. It
is made available by med-
ical teams visiting the
various schools. He said
the traveling inspection
program had been made
possible by the acquisi-
tion of an auto-analyzer
enzyme assay machine
which can handle 60
samples an hour.
Desposito said about one
in 25 Jews is a Tay-Sachs
carrier while the carrier
rate for non-Jews is one in
300. He said most babies
suffering from Tay Sachs
are born into families with
no prior disease history
which means that a family
history free of the disease
does not mean that a nar-

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Some
30,000 nurses and non-
medical personnel returned
to work Feb. 11 after a one-
day strike protesting a

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Christians on
Israel Tours

NEW YORK — A guide
geared to the needs of the
Christian visitor to Israel
was published recently by
the American Jewish
Committee's Israel office in
cooperation with the Israel
Interfaith Committee.
The guide, "Discover
Ecumenical and Interfaith
Israel," surveys Christian,
Jewish, interfaith and gov-
ernment institutions pro-
viding the Christian visitor
with lectures and study
programs, as well as
encounters with co-
religionists, Jews or Mos-
lems, while visiting the
Holy Land.

PARIS (JTA) — France of nuclear reactors, repor-
and Egypt have reached a
tedly cooperated with Israel
tentative agreement for the in the late 1950s to help de-
construction of eight nu- velop Israel's own nuclear
clear power stations in installations at Dimona.
Egypt.
It is understood that the Streisand Link
project, one of the most am-
bitious yet developed by a to Judaism Aids
Third World country, will Fiim Project
provide all of Egypt's elec-
NEW YORK — Barbra
tric needs by the end of the Streisand's "whole reason"
century.
for pursuing her current
French and Egyptian film project "Yentl" agair
sources stressed that the the advice of her advisers
Franco-Egyptian nuclear because of her commitment
cooperation program will be to Judaism," the star's rabbi
geared exclusively to peace- revealed in Ladies' Home
ful usages. Other sources in Journal.
Paris stressed, however,
Based on an Isaac
that the development of a Bashevis
Singer short story,
nuclear industry, the con- the film is about a Jewish
struction of several nuclear girl who disguises herself as
power stations and the op- a boy in order to study the
eration of research Talmud. Miss Streisand's
laboratories will provide advisers feel the 38-year-old
Cairo with the expertise actress is too old for the part
and means to develop a nu- and the appeal of the film,
clear weapon should it chose which requires a large
to do so.
is too limited.
According to the agree- budget,
According to the maga-
ment Egyptian post-
zine, Miss Streisand re-
graduate students and nu- turned to her religion when
clear engineers will be her son Jason was studying
trained in France's nuclear for his Bar Mitzva. The
installations. France, one of •
the world's main exporters ceremony was in January
1980. She became so in-
terested that she scheduled
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parent is free of risk. Tay-
Sachs victims usually die by
the age of five.
Whether or not a Tay
Sachs victim has been con-
ceived can be determined by
amniocentesis, a test per-
formed on fluid in the
womb. Women are urged to
be tested for carrier status
before pregnancy because it
is technically more difficult
to test during pregnancy,
Desposito declared.
He explained that "get-
ting to the college age popu-
lation is one way of dealing
with the 'at risk' individu-
als." He said that since the
start of the testing program
at the medical school, hun-
dreds of carriers have been
identified and eight "at
risk" couples have been in-
formed and counseled. He
said every couple, in which
one or both members is of
East European Jewish
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failed to prevent passage of
the govenment's bill in the
Knesset. It has been re-
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final action.
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Kupat Holim did not join
the strike but threatened to
walk out if the national
health bill becomes law.
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health services at high costs
and the creation of a new
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Histadrut charged that
the purpose of the bill is to
weaken the Labor Party be-
fore the June 30 election.
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Kupat Holim is replaced by
a national health service it
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