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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ADL Director
French Jewry Looks to Its New Chief Rabbi
NEW YORK — Samuel
Lewis Gaber, director of the
Pennsylvania - West Vir-
ginia - Delaware office of
the Anti-Demamation
League of Bnai Brith, has
been appointed director of
the agency's Palm Beach
County, Fla., regional
office.
By BEN FRANK
PARIS (JTA) — All over
France, Jewish eyes are
turned toward Rabbi Rene
Samuel Sirat who is the new
chief rabbi of the Jewish
community of France, the
fourth largest Jewish com-
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Sirat, who is 50 years old, more then 600 organiza-
is an educator, scholar and tions and associations, for a
intellectual. His academic Jewish population of about
credentials are impressive 700,000.
indeed. That is why the
His target is to reach out
French Jewish community to those who have no ties at
is hoping he can stem the all to Judaism.
high tide of assimilation
A professor, Sirat has
and intermarriage, the lat-
had
much experience
ter of which is believed to be
with young people and
higher than the often- students.
For many
quoted U.S. rate of 48 per-
years,
he
has
been in-
cent.
volved in academic af-
Sirat's goal is to stress fairs at the Sorbonne. He
education. He wants to dou- was director of the He-
ble the number of kinder-
gartens, day schools and brew section there and
the man most responsible
secondary schools that now
for the development of
exist in France. Today,
there are more than 50 day Hebrew studies on the
university level. He sits
schools, more than 200 as chairman of PhD can-
Talmud Torahs, several didates in Hebrew and is
hundred synagogues and president of the Inter-
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Sirat has the distinction of
being the first Sephardic
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they are united, despite all
that, Sirat's election was
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Jews who are the over-
whelming majority today in
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Today, it is Sirat, as well
as Baron Alain de
Rothschild, chairman of the
Representative Council of
Jewish Organizations in
France (CRIF), who speak
for French Jewry and, when
necessary, make "repre-
sentations" to the French
government.
and over again, he repeated
that he feels that American
Jewish and French Jewish
leaders should meet more
often and noted that it is a
"pity" that the American
Jewish community is not
familiar with the French
Jewish community.
The American Jewish
community is the largest in
the Western world; France
is the second, Sirat ob-
served. Yet, contact be-
tween "the great Jewish
communities in the DiaS
pora," he said, "occurs onl ■
in Israel."
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Sirat has declared that
his program includes
fighting racism aimed
against Jews, as well as
against non-Jews. We
also are against racism
aimed against Arabs or
blacks," he added. He
was pleased at the huge
mass demonstration in
Paris that turned out to
protest tilt bombing of
the synagogue in Rue
Copernic last October.
"The feelings were warm
and they stirred us all,"
he stated. "Still, the
community must be vig-
ilant."
Representing 700,000
Jews, the rabbi hopes for
stronger bridges with
American Jewry. He wants
American Jews to know the
French community. And he
had a special message to
American Jews: "Don't
forget us, we exist." Over
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