Friday, May 15, 1981 29 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS for Samuel, Jean Frankel Jerusalem School Named has electives in drama, Torah reading, archeology Boris Smolar's `Between You . . . and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA JERUSALEM — The curricula in the areas of Bi- dance, music, sports, _ arts, and others. cornerstone was laid Tues- ble, holidays and prayer and day for a new, two-story school building for Bet Sefer Mamlachti Bet-Givat Shap- ira (Traditional). Attending the ceremonies for the five- year-old school were De- troiters Samuel and Jean Frankel, for whom the building will be named. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek was one of the dig- nitaries at the event, which was also attended by Educa- tion Ministry officials. The school began five years ago with 33 stu- dents, and now has 300. It describes itself as com- mitted to a "pluralistic approach and the foster- (ALSO HALLS, OFFICES, ETC.) ing of an understanding between Jews of various backgrounds and obser- DELICIOUS FOOD ELEGANTLY SERVED vances." It has been called a model PERSONALLY SUPERVISED BY school by Israel Minister of Education Zevuluri" Ham- SHIRLEE BLOOM mer. It has created original (Copyright 1981, JT-4,--Inc.) JDC IN ACTION: The Joint Distribution Committee — the lifeline of the American Jewish community around the world — came to its two-day semi-annual meeting in New York this week with a number of important achieve- ments. Outstanding among them are the re-establishment of direct JDC aid to Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia and to the remnant of the Jewish community in Egypt. The direct relations with the communities of these two countries have been established with the approval of the respective governments following visits made early this year to Prague and Cairo by Henry Taub, JDC president, and Ralph Goldman, executive vice president. This is the first time in 30 years that the JDC established association with the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia; the JDC office in Prague had been ordered closed by the authorities in 1950. It is also the first time since the Arab war against Israel that the JDC was permitted to provide relief for the Jews in the country directly. The Jewish community in Czechoslovakia is one of the oldest Jewish communities in Europe; Jews have been liv- ing in Prague for more than 1,000 years. The legend of the "Golem" originated in Prague at the end of the 16th Cen- tury to prevent anti-Jewish disturbances. With the resumption of direct contact with the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia, the JDC is now operating practically in all Communist countries in Eastern Europe, except the Soviet Union. The government of Poland, which ousted the JDC in 1967, has now, at its own initiative, indicated willingness to permit the JDC to resume its relief program for the approximately 5,000 Jews who still live in Poland. NEW JDC GOALS: The JDC leadership came to its semi-annual meeting with new goals. One of them is to reach distant and isolated small communities in corners of the globe where very small numbers of Jews live. Another goal is to explore the idea of establishing an international committee for enhancing communication and cooperation between JDC and the leadership of Jewish communities in other free countries. The JDC has been extending help to distant com- munities like in China, Ethiopia, India — but not to others. JDC leaders feel that the relief agency should become more responsive in Burma where a very small Jewish commu- nity functions in Rangoon, as well as in other distant places. The idea of establishing an international committee emanates from a recent visit to Australia by Donald Robin- son, chairman of the JDC board, and Henry Zucker, Ameri- can Jewish social worker and member of the JDC execu- tive. They went to Australia to study Jewish life there, and were warmly received by the Jewish community leaders in Melbourne and Sidney where 65,000 of Australia's 70,000 Jewish population live. The report brought by them to the JDC executive in New York emphasizes that the Jewish communities in Australia love their country and are optimistic. Jews there can be found as leaders in business, commercial, profes- sional, artistic and political life. The current governor gen- eral of the country, Sir Zelman Cowen, is Jewish, as was one prior governor general, Sir Isaac Isaacs. The JDC leaders also established that Jewish reli- gious, health, welfare and cultural institutions in Au stralia do quite well, and that they compare favorably in quality with their American counterparts. Also, that fund-raising for Israel — which is not tax deductible — is substantial. Australia, which has already absorbed some 4,300 refugees from the Soviet Union, stands ready to admit as many Jews from the USSR as wish to immigrate _ into the country. At the same time, the JDC leaders established that assimilation is becoming a problem for the Jewish commu- nity in Australia, and that the Jewish community in Mel- bourne is greatly affected by an increase of the Arab popu- lation — some 17,000 Lebanese, mostly Christian, came into Australia last year. The Arab community in Australia today already exceeds the Jewish community. Jewish leaders in Australia feel isolated to a certain extent because of the country's long distance from the main Jewish centers in the world. 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