Friday, January 8, 1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
U.S. Anti-Semitic Incidents Double Again for 3rd Year
(Continued from Page 1)
nationwide.
Spurred by ADL regional
offices around the country,
he said, several law
enforcement authorities
have established "bias un-
its - and have cooperated
with ADL in special pro-
grams to help boost security
at religious institutions.
The latest ADL audit fig-
ures show a continuing up-
ward trend in the number of
reported anti-Semitic inci-
dents, which have steadily
-risen since 129 were re-
, )orted in 1979. New York,
for the second straight year,
led the nation with 326 re-
ported incidents in. 1981,
followed by California with
150, New Jersey with 94
and Massachusetts with 59.
Maryland, which re-
corded only one incident
in last year's survey, had
51 incidents during 1981.
Other states with a sig-
nificant number of oc-
curences were Pennsyl-
vania (50), Michigan (29),
Illinois (28), Minnesota
(26), Virginia (25) and
Florida (24).
The audit, prepared by
ADL's Civil Rights Division
and based on reports from
the agency's 27 regional
offices around the country,
revealed that less than
three percent of the 974 in-
cidents involved arson or
firebombings; most were
swastika daubings, anti-
Jewish graffiti and similar
acts. These were in addition
to the 350 incidents involv-
ing bodily assaults of an
anti-Semitic nature against
Jews, Jew-baiting har-
rassments or threats by
phone or mail directed at
individual Jews or Jewish
institutions. This class of
incident was first monitored
last year.
Perlmutter said that
some of the increase in the
audit figures resulted from
better reporting_ by Jewish
communities and greater
attention by police. But he
observed that evidence
exists revealing that many
anti-Semitic incidents go
unreported.
He asserted that "what-
ever the number, the inci-
dents must not be seen in
isolation but rather in the
context of other threats to
the Jewish community both
here and abroad and in the
context of rising levels of
violence against persons
and property that increas-
ingly characterize our
times."
The ADL survey dis-
closed that 73 persons
were arrested in connec-
tion with the anti-Semitic
vandalism, with 62 — 85
percent — of them aged
20 or under. Six of the 11
adults arrested were
connected to an aborted
plot by a group of
.
Klansmen and neo-Nazis
to bomb a synagogue in
Nashville, Tenn. That
episode and the arrest of
a terror suspect in In-
diana, who claimed
membership in the Ku
Klux Klan, were the only
reported episodes linked
to organized hate groups.
ing to incidents directed
against racial, religious or
ethnic groups (Maryland);
• Civil remedies for vic-
tims of certain forms of reli-
gious vandalism (New
York, Oregon and Washing-
ton);
• Increased penalties for
cross burning (Maryland).
Perlmutter said that the
Perlmutter observed that ADL "model" bill was de-
the eight states which veloped to provide states
enacted the new laws deal- that do not have such legis-
ing with the problem of lation with a single, com-
religiously-motivated van- prehensive method for deal-
dalism had experienced ing with this problem. He
two-thirds of the anti- added that the "model" bill
Semitic incidents recorded implements recom-
in the audit. Some of these mendations made by an
laws call for increased crim- ADL task force convened,
inal penalties for those following last year's audit,
found guilty of vandalizing to examine the sharp in-
houses of worship or crease in anti-Semitic inci-
cemeteries. Examples in- dents recorded in 1980.
clude the measures enacted
Among other things,
by Arizona and California.
Other laws require proof of the panel of educators,
law enforcement officials
criminal intent to harass,
and social scientists
intimidate or terrorize an
urged
that the perpet-
individual on the basis of
rators
—
most commonly
race, religion- or national
teen-agers — should be
origin before a conviction
"de-glamorized" among
can be obtained. Examples
their
peers with stiffer
of such measures are those
sentences, including fi-
adopted in New Jersey, New
nancial restitution to the
York, Oregon, Rhode Island
victims of anti-Semitic
and Washington.
acts. The "model" law
Additional aspects of the would enable victims to
new laws provide for:
sue for punitive damages
• Creation of a state and, in the case of crimes
commission to study reli- by minors, makes par-
gious, racial and ethnic ents liable for the actions
harassment (Rhode Island); of their children.
• Collection of data relat-
"The new laws demon-
strate an effort to control
only one of the several
threats to Jewish security,"
Perlmutter said, "but there
are other problems which
have serious implications
movement with its tradi- for Jews." Among these are:
• The disturbingly high
tion of a stronger central
authority, to allow its percentage of Americans
children to move to their who all too readily accept
parents' apartments as of anti-Semitic stereotypes;
• The injection of anti-
six years ago.
Semitism
into debates on
The Kibutz Artzi, which
U.S. foreign policy;
remained outside the
• The organized anti-
United Kibutz Movement,
Semitic
hate movements in
held a special educational
Parents, Children Now Reside
Together on Israeli Kibutzim
By AVI GANBAB
World Zionist Press Service
O
collective education is to
cultivate those values
around which the kibutz is
structured, the experience
of communal living in the
childrens' houses provided
around the clock framework
for learning by doing.
JERUSALEM — A long-
standing tradition on kibut-
zim, the separation of par-
' ents and children, is slowly
disappearing from the Is-
raeli scene.
On a significant number
Proponents of the oppo-
of kibutzim the children site view who wanted their
sleep in their parents' children to sleep in the same
apartments and that apartment as themselves
number is growing steadily. answer that argument by
Most of the kibutzim pointing out that where the
which maintain family children sleep need not af-
sleeping arrangements fect the basic premises of
have made the change from kibutz education — what
communal sleeping ar- they do when they are
rangements for children awake does. Kibutz chil-
during the past decade. dren who sleep in their par-
However, the history of ents' aparements spend al-
family sleeping ar- most as much time with
rangements on kibutz dates their peer group as those
back much earlier, to the who sleep in the children's
beginnings of kibutz history houses.
itself in Degania Aleph, the
Until six years ago, all of
"mother of kibutzim"
the kibutzim in which the
founded in 1909.
In the early years of children slept in their par-
kibutz, the children slept ents' apartments spend al-
with their families as a members of the Ikhud Hak-
matter of necessity. vutzot Vehakibutzim
There was no point to set- movement. This movement
_ ping up special childrens' has always proclaimed its
dormitories until there belief in pluralism and left
were enough children to the decision on where the
children sleep to the indi-
justify the effort.
vidual
kibutz.
Degania Aleph never in-
In 1976, 43 percent of its
stituted communal sleeping
arrangements for its chil- member kibutzim had
dren, but from 1920 on the family sleeping ar-
majority of kibutzim have rangements. Today that
done so. Indeed many figure has climed past 60
kibutzniks grew to believe percent, an indication of
that the kibutz ideal of col- the growing trend in
lective education could not kibutz life styles. Another
function effectively without indication is the decision
it. After all, if the goal of of the kibutz Hameukhad
conference to review its
stand on the issue of where
the children should sleep in
June last year. Some 80 per-
cent of the delegates voted
to allow each kibutz to
determine its sleeping ar-
rangements on its own.
Since that vote, Kibutz
Snir has implemented the
change and petitioned the
Artzi executive committee
for associate membership.
Haim Lavie of Kibutz
Maabarot, who heads the
Kibutz Artzi education de-
partment, believes that the
question of where the chil-
dren sleep is one of princi-
ple. "Since the kibutz sees
education as a central factor
in the maintenance of its
existence, the kibutz as a
community must be in-
volved."
The real question, which
is occupying the sociologists
of the kibutz as well as the
broad membership of this
dynamic movement is— are
both systems of sleeping ar-
rangements for children
compatible with the basic
values with which the
kibutz stands or falls? Only
time can answer this vital
and controversial question.
the United States;
• The global
anti-
Semitic propaganda cam-
paign conducted by the
Soviet Union and various
Arab regimes, exemplified
by a number of United
Nations resolutions, includ-
ing the one equating
Zionism with racism;
• The continuing peril
confronting the people of Is-
rael, with whose destiny the
fate of Jews everywhere is
inextricably linked.
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By
SAM FIELD
call
399-1320
For the Jewish People of Detroit
Urgent Plea for Help
as printed in the Jerusalem Post
A
large fire, which broke out in the Jewish Quarter of
Jerusalem on Wednesday, December 2, 1981, severely
burned a mother of three young children. She is presently on
the critical list in Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, but she
succeeded in saving her children. All the family's belongings
were destroyed, and the apartment, which they occupied
temporarily, is no longer habitable. They have no home and
they need your support.
We appeal to our Jewish brethren to participate in saving the
family.
Rabbi Sh. Messas, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.
Rabbi S. Z. Broide, Rosh Yeshivat Hevron.
Rabbi A. Y. Zeleznik, Rosh Yeshivat Etz Chaim.
Rabbi Y. Sh. Elyashiv — "I subscribe to the above appeal."
Rabbi Sh. Z. Auerbach, Rosh Yeshivat Kol Torah — "I also
subscribe to the above appeal."
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Harishon Lezion, Chief Rabbi of Israel —
"I also subscribe to the above appeal, and hereby declare that
all those who aid the-abovementioned family will be blessed
with all the blessings of the Torah, with happiness, wealth,
honour and all goodness."
Donations may be sent to any of the following:
1. Rabbi A. Nebenzahl, Rabbi of the Jewish Quarter, 9 Rehov
Batei Mahse, Old City, Jerusalem.
2. Rabbi Y. Neuwirt, P.O.B. 16044, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem.
3. Rabbi R. Shmuelevitz, 19 Rehov Sorotzkin, Kiryat Itri,
Jerusalem.
4. Rabbi S. Raphael, Rabbi of Kiryat Moshe, 20 Rehov Nisen-
baum, Jerusalem.
Or directly to the fund of the Committee to Save the Family,
(Keren Leshikum Nifge'ei Hasrefa), acct. no. 438886, Mizrahi
Bank, Old City branch, Jerusalem. (Deposits may be made at
any Mizrahi bank in Israel, and forwarded to the above ac-
count).
Assistance for this tragically affected family is -being
mobilized here by Maxine Bensman, 16400 North Park Drive,
Apartment 618, telephone 557-5467. Checks should be pay-
able to Simach Abramson. To expedite immediate transfer of
funds to the needy family, please mail checks immediately to
Mrs. Maxine Bensman.
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