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West Bank' vs. 'Judea, Samaria'
Editor, The Jewish News:
The Detroit Zionist Fed-
eration at great expense
brings in a scholar-in-
residence, Israeli Prof. Dan
Schueftan, to help our
community combat Arab
propaganda.
But what kind of help is it
to constantly refer to the
"West Bank" rather than
"Judea and Samaria?" The
r-- "West Bank" is Jordan's
:lame for the area they il-
legally seized and annexed
in 1948. It includes the Old
City of Jerusalem. The
name "West Bank" indi-
cates that the territory be-
longs to the Arabs and a
Jewish presence is illegal.
The propaganda is
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spread that while Jews
share a religion they are
not a people and a reli-
gion is not entitled to a
country; but the "Pales-
tinians," ' they are a
people and they have
been deprived of their
homeland, "Palestine,"
which we call "Israel."
Many have come to ac-
cept this.
The American Zionist
Federation answered those
PLO supporters by telling
how Jews settled the empty
land and swamps in Pales-
tine, bringing a tremendous
influx of new sources of
livelihood. They tell how
the wages of the Arab
worker was triple of his
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A Definition of Being Jewish
Editor, The Jewish News:
Jewish behavior has been
and still is the backbone of
Jewish faith and thus
Jewish tradition. Labeling
Youngster X as "Jewish" is
an error both because no
single personality trait can
accurately represent an
entire individual and be-
cause Judaism is meaning-
less without reference to
explicit behaviors.
Thus, a more accurate
definition is that Jewish
behavior is a certain re-
sponse tendency toward cul-
tural and religious practices
presumably embedded in
tradition.
This means tradition is
a product of Jewish be-
havior.And con-
sequently,
because
human development be-
gins with imitation and
proceeds to a complex
integration of ideas, so it
can be shown that Jewish
behavior in its early
formative stages assimi-
lates into an individual's
personal identity and
proceeds by complex
integration to an exercise
of Jewish tradition.
Alas, the twain between
identity and tradition could
meet. However, the extent
to which they do meet or
participate in harmbny is
entirely a question of cul-
tural influence. And indeed,
here is where the point of
departure is most profound.
Editor, The Jewish News:
The JTA report on Joseph
Sisco's address to the Na-
tional Executive Commit-
tee of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America on Feb. 21
neglected to mention that
Mr. Sisco emphasized that
"there will have to be some
territorial solution" on the
West Bank and that "Israel
will have to make some ter-
ritorial concessions in the
autonomy negotiations."
Mr. Sisco's statement was
the sour note in his address.
It proved that his views on
the "Palestinian solution"
have not changed. Many
NEC members were very
displeased with his state-
ment but were unable to
elicit a clarification as the
Brandeis Fees
WALTHAM, Mass. —
Citing a continuing rise in
energy, food, building and
maintenance costs, the
Brandeis University Board
of Trustees has approved an
increase in total billed
charges for 1981-1982 tui-
tion, room and board and
health services from the
current $8,550 to $9,800.
brother in Syria and 58
times that of his Egyptian
cousins. They tell how the
many thousands of hungry
Arabs were attracted from
the neighboring countries
and who have become the
"Palestinians" thanks to
the Zionists.
Hymie Cutler
JERUSALEM (JNI) —
Over 71 percent of Israelis
support continued settle-
ments in the administered
territories, according to a
Jerusalem Post poll.
Slightly less than half of
these cited no restrictions in
location or timing.
Over 68 percent would
like to see the Golan
Heights annexed to Israel
immediately and 54 percent
feel that current adminis-
tration policies toward the
Arab residents of Judea and
Samaria either advance or
have no effect on progress
toward peace.
The survey was released
the same week that opposi-
tion leader Shimon Peres
publicly declared that his
Labor Party, if elected,
would not dismantle exist-
ing settlements or slash
their budgets beyond sub-
sistence levels.
Convention Set
Caricatures
for your party
By
SAM FIELD
NEW YORK — Emunah
Women of America will hold
its annual convention May
22-25 at the Pine View
Hotel in Fallsburg, N.Y.
Call
399-1320
3 Million Sephardic Jews
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Of about 14 million Jews
throughout the world, some
three million — about 20
percent — are Sephardim,
according to Prof. Charles
Tapiero, head of the
Sephardi Department of the
World Zionist Organiza-
tion.
The Sephardi Jews form a
majority in Israel, where
they constitute 60 percent of
the population. Of the
700,000 Jews in France,
400,000 are of North Afri-
can background.
About three percent —
200,000 — of the Jewish
population in the United
States is Sephardi. Some 10
percent of the Jewish popu-
lation of Canada is
Sephardi.
Singles Have
Negative View
of Synagogues
CHICAGO (JTA) — The
synagogue, its leadership
and its structure were
viewed negatively by many
Douglas H. Ruben
of the 158 Chicago Jewish
Western Michigan University
single men and women
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questioned in a recent sur-
vey about their affiliation
with religious institutions,
according to the Chicago
question-and-answer period chapter of the American
was cut off shortly after the Jewish Committee.
address.
Sheryl Leonard, chapter
Also, the NEC at its pub- program director, who made
lic affairs portion of the
the study, reported also that
meeting on Feb. 22 went on 30 percent indicated they
record to oppose the sale of had no affiliation.
bomb racks, extra fuel
In reply to the survey
tanks and air-to-air mis-
siles to Saudi Arabia for its question on how the 34 per-
cent males and 66 percent
F-15 planes.
females felt about affilia-
Louis Panush
tion, the response for the
most part was that some
rabbis continue to ignore
the needs of widows and di-
Blood Pressure
vorced Jews and their chil-
Machine Due
dren; that synagoguge
TEL AVIV (JTA) — You membership is too costly for
may soon be able to take single Jews; that the,
your own blood pressure or synagogue is so family and
measure your pulse rate by couple-oriented that the
putting a coin in the slot of single Jew feels rejected;
an Israeli-invented and that singles are discrimi-
manufactured machine in nated against when it comes
your local pharmacy or to positions on a synagogue
supermarket.
executive committee or
The Telkoor firm has pro- board; and that many
duced a coin-operated synagogues have become
machine in which the user places of politics and peer
thrusts his arm into a spe- pressure rather than in-
cial slot and obtains a stitutions stressing the im-
print-out within 30 seconds portance of spirituality, Ms.
giving blood pressure and Leonard reported.
pulse rate. The company
plans to market the
Judgment delayed is
machine in the U.S. and judgment voided.
Europe.
—Talmud
Sisco's Palestine Solution'
Friday, March 6, 1981
There are 30,000 Oriental
Jews in Britain, and one-
third of the 700,000 Jews of
Latin America are of
Sephardi origin. There are
22,000 in Turkey; 12,000 in
Spain, and 12,000 in
Morocco.
Ziskind Gift
to Brandeis U.
WALTHAM, Mass. —
A gift of $70,000 from the
Jacob Ziskind Charitable
Trust of Boston has been
given to Brandeis Univer-
sity. The gift will cover a
four-year period during
which Brandeis will help
sponsor a series of institutes
for Jewish leaders at both
the professional and lay
levels.
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