THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Aguda Israel Faction Quits
Council Over Amphitheater
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Aguda Israel faction
quit the Jerusalem City
Council last weekend to
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protest the construction of
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an amphitheater near the
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Jewish quarter of the Old
City which might present
JDC IN POLAND: Jews in Poland — the tiny Jewish productions
that would of-
community of about 6,000 remnants of the 3,500,000 Jews fend religious sensibilities.
who lived in Poland before the Nazi occupation force anni-
Menahem Porush,
hilated them — had a joyous Seder this Passover amidst chairman of the Aguda
years of gloom and depression. They were reunited with the
Joint Distribution Committee after 15 years of separation. Party in Jerusalem, said
there would be violence un-
, The JDC, which had conducted relief operations in less the municipality de-
oland since World War I, was welcomed by the Commu- stroys the amphitheater
nist government in Poland in 1945, after the liberation of
which is nearing comple-
the country, but was expelled in 1949. It was invited back in tion.
1957 by the Communist regime primarily to care for Jews
Although the departure
repatriated from the "SovietUnion. However, it was expel- of the five Aguda Council
led again in 1967, after the Six-Day War in which the USSR members leaves Mayor
took an aggressive anti-Israel stand emulated by Poland, Teddy Kollek with a com-
resulting in forcing practically all the repatriated Jews to fortable majority of 19 of his
leave Poland. Only the elderly and the sick who had supporters in the 31-
nowhere to go remained in the country.
member body, it has been
The Polish government has changed its attitude. It his policy to keep the Aguda
invited the JDC to resume its relief activities for the re- within his coalition as a
maining needy Jews who are scattered in 14 cities.
means to defuse tension be-.
For the Jews in Poland, the resumptoin of the JDC tween the Orthodox and
relief activities meant not only aid in food for the helpless secular elements in the city.
— which is in itself important in a country where there are
A municipality spokes-
food difficulties — but that it also brought an end to their man indicated that the city
isolation.
had already given in to reli-
MOSCOW THE EXCEPTION: The JDC will be gious pressures by banning
operating in Poland through the 14 small communities. It theatrical productions at
will support a number of communal kitchens and will also
distribute cash relief through the local communities to
more than 2,000 heads of families. It will also improve the Saudi Oil
medical aid for the sick and elderly, and will finance Jewish Revenue Up
cultural projects. This year the JDC will spend $500,000 in
NEW YORK — Saudi
Poland. The sum will obviously be increased in accordance Arabia made $101.2 billion
with the need of the Jews there.
from the export of oil last
One by one, the JDC is re-entering practically all the year, some 20 percent more
Communist countries where it has been banned for years, than the 1980 figure, ac-
except in the Soviet Union, where there is the largest cording to the Saudi Ara-
Jewish population in Europe and where the receiving of a bian Monetary Agency.
package of food or clothing from abroad is a great relief
Saudi oil revenues have
even for working people in any part of the country. -
more than doubled since
The JDC has been conducting direct relief operations 1979 with the country now
in Romania through the federation of the Jewish com- producing 9.8 million
munities there since 1967, after being expelled in 1946. barrels of oil each day, the
During the last two years it succeeded in reaching agree- agency claimed.
ments with Hungary and Czechoslovakia. In Yugoslavia,
JDC activities have never been disturbed. In Bulgaria, the
JDC had quit its relief operations of its own accord, after
the bulk.of the Jews had emigrated to Israel freely. There
are very few Jews today in Bulgaria and their relatiires in
Israel are permitted to maintain contact with them and
even to visit.
The return of the JDC to Poland on Passover coincides
with the observance of the 39th anniversary of the heroic
Jewish uprising against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto
which started on Passover. The heroism of the Warsaw
fighters, as well as the memory of the 6,000,000 Jews killed
by the Nazis in Europe, is commemorated every year in
Jewish homes throughout the world at the Seder with reci-
tations which have become part- of the Haggada.
The Polish government indicated to JDC leaders that
it intends to make arrangements for a special commemoraz
tion next Passover of the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising. It also disassociated itself from the anti-
Semitic propaganda now being conducted in Poland in con-
nection with the internal strife there. Highest government
officials in their talks with JDC leaders, condemned this
propaganda.
Music by
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the amphitheater and in-
corporating it into a public
park.
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