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Three-time Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman will por- tray Mrs. Meir. Appearing with her will be Robert Loggia as Anwar Sadat; Yossi Garber as Moshe Dayan; Judy Davis as the young Golda; Jack Thompson as Ben Ariel, a composite of Golda's male companions; Leonard Nimoy as her husband, Morris Meyerson; and Anne Jacksoi as her confidante, Mrs. Lou Kaddar. * * * Jewry on the Air This Week's Radio and Television Programs YIDDISH IS HEIMISH: 6:30 p.m. Monday, WCAR (1090), an all-Yiddish pro- gram of music, news, inter- views and other features with Hy Shenkman. * * * CAFE SHALOM: 7 p.m. Monday, WCAR (1090), music, news and features from Israel plus community announcements, with Bella Greenbaum, Fay Knoll and Masha Silver. RELIGIOUS SCOPE: * * * 10:20 a.m. Sunday, Channel IF NOT NOW: 12:40 p.m. 9, Rabbi Jonathan V. Plaut will moderate a program of Thursday, WDET-FM (101.9), Dr. Jeffrey Kottler, Jewish interest. . author of "Mouthing Off;" * * * will be interviewed. JEWISH COMMU- NITY HIGHLIGHTS: 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Channel Jewish Fiction 2, as part of "Sunday in De- Lecture Series troit," Jules Doneson, a vet- eran of Israel's War of Inde:: at Fla. College pendence, will talk about MIAMI — 13-week lec- the war with host Ken Sid- ture series, "From Assimi- low. lation to Affirmation — American Jewish Fiction," * * * will be presented by Bis- COFFEE WITH HY: 6 cayne College beginning p.m. Monday, WCAR next month. The series, which is being (1090), a program of inter- est to the Jewish commu- coordinated by Rabbi Rubin nity, moderated by Hy R. Dobin, will also air over a Miamirradio station. Shenkman. THE JEWISH SOUND: 6:15 a.m. Sunday, WMJC- FM (95) and 8 a.m. Sunday WNIC-AM (1310). Rabbi Yitschak Kagan is the mod- erator. * * * RELIGION - IN THE NEWS: 9:05 a.m. Sunday, CKWW (580), Rabbi Jona- than V. Plaut i_s the mod- erator. * * * Falashas Seek Close Ties, Kinship With World Jewry, Jackier Reports Ethiopian Jewry, now numbering some 28,000, looks to world Jewry, with emphasis on the Jews of the United States, for kinship and for strengthening the relationships with Jewish communities. Lawrence Jackier, who was a member of a tourist group of 15 American Jews who visited for a period of nine days with the Falashas, indicated such desires among the deepen- ing identifications of a once-forgotten Jewish group whose traditional de- votions mark a continuity of perpetuating traditions and religious loyalties based on strict laws enunciated in the Holy Scriptures. "We found a community living economically as, if they were in the 10th Cen- tury," Jackier said. "Yet their devotion to the Bible was tinged with so much loyalty that it seemed like another miracle of the sur- vival of Jews in remotest countries." Jackier said the Falashas read the weekly prescribed Bible por- tions in accordance with the traditional cycles covering the entire text of the Five Books of Moses, but they have been so far removed from their people that they are un- aware of the Talmud or anything else. Enumerating the Jewish traditions adhered to by the Falashas, Jackier said that among-the very impressive was their strict adherence to the dietary laws of -kas- hrut. He spoke wifE some in Hebrew, another indica- tion, he pointed out, of devo- tion and survival, and with others he conversed in their native tongue through in- terpreters. The Falashas' economic conditions were described by Jackier -as deplorable. "They live in mud huts of the type described by histo- rians of 10 'centuries ago," he said, "yet they struggle to eke out a livelihood ag- riculturally, sustaining themselves in their faith." "They hope for an in- creased interest in them by their fellow Jews, especially those in the United States and in Israel," Jackier said. The American Jewish Year Books listed . the population records as 120,000 — in Abyssinia — in 1900. The 1936 figure is given as 51,000. Now, Jackier reports, it is es- timated that their number is possibly 28,000. In an analysis of the im- pressions by the group of 15 tourists, reporting on their visits with the Falashas, Jackier stated the follow- ing: The chaotic conditions of Ethiopia have left the- Falasha community in- creasingly demoralized and fearful about their future, this situation mainly due to new restrictions on the LAWRENCE JAC KIE R main body of the Ethiopian Jewish population in the centers located in the Gon- dar area, in which the bulk of the Jewish population of Ethiopia is found. Ethiopian Jews are lo- cated in an area of Africa characterized by great polit- ical instability. Ethiopian Jews face disintegration' as a group due to increased persecution coming from both revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces as well as other forms of repression from the cen- tral and Gondar govern- ments. The revolutionary Marxist government of Chairman Mengistu is relatively impervious to foreign influence and tends to xenophobia in its attitudes toward the- West, particularly the United States. The U.S. has only tenuous dip- lomatic relations at the present with the Ethio- pian government. Repre- sentation is only on the charge level since the June 1980 expulsion of the U.S. Ambassador. Israel' has had no official diplomatic ties since 1973. Despite the considerable dependence on the USSR, even the Russians too are looked upon with great sus- picion by the Mengistu gov- ernment. There are about 12,000-14,000 Cuban troops in Ethiopia; 1,300 Soviet military advisers and East German "advisers" play a key role in the secret policy apparatus. Since January, the situa- tion within Ethiopia has be- come more volatile and dis- ordered, especially in the north, because of the inten- sity of a bloody war against the secessionist forces of Eritrea. At -the same time, tensions including military between Ethiopia and Somalia still smolder, a situation that began over five years ago. On at least three sides, those Moslem countries neighboring Ethiopia are rabidly anti- Israel. Pressures on the central government are especially severe with respect to a ref- ugee situation of almost a million refugees found on the Somalia-Ethiopia bor- der and a similar number of the Sudanese-Ethiopian Borders. Conditions in these refugee camps are marked by hunger and dis- ease. Hundreds of Falashas are intermingled among these refugees in these areas. , The total reality of Ethiopia impedes the op- portunities for massive rescue of Ethiopian Jews. In spite of these enormous obstacles to rescue efforts the strong commitment of Israeli Prithe Minister Menahem Begin and his govern- ment to the rescue of the Falashas has been demonstrated. That commitment was reaf- firmed in the prime minister's telegram to the 1982 plenum of the Na- tional Jewish Commu- nity Relations Advisory Council in which he said: "The government of the day in Israel took the momentous decision to bring home all our Falasha brethren and it is doing its utmost — persistently and to carry without let up out this plan." While American and world Jewry in the last three years have increas- ingly recognized Ethiopian Jews as a priority on the world community agenda, the utmost discretion in voluntary action is . impera- tive. The Jewish commu- nity's profound concern and commitment must be tem- pered with careful regard for the dangers to Ethiopian Jews inherent in the com- plexities of the military, political and diplomatic volatility of the Horn of Af- rica. There must be special sensitivity to the desires of Ethiopian Jews, who, above all, recognize their vul- nerability and the conse- — quences of public condem- nation of the central gov- ernment of Ethiopia or of its neighbors. Such restraint, how- ever difficult-and frus- trating, must be coupled with world Jewry giving the rescue and relief of Falashas scattered over 450 villages in Ethiopia a high priority. Appropri- ate resources must be mobilized to this end. The NJCRAC recom-' - mends special emphasis on interpretihg to the Jewish community the extreme complexity of this formida- ble situation and why there is a critical need for cir- cumspection. Care must be taken by all who engage in such in- terpretations to assure ac- curacy and precision in the presentation of the facts. Public actions or public statements for the media should be avoided. These judgments reflect assessments of those American Jewish leaders who recently visited Ethiopia. Ethiopian Jewish leadership holds similar views. Within this framework, member agen- cies should consult with the NJCRAC Committee on Ethiopian Jews about pro- posals for educational and community relations ef- forts. Jackier will report on his discussions with the Falasha leaders at the an- nual conference of the United Jewish Appeal to be held in Washington next month. Brandeis Selects Detroiter Ellen Cantor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Can- tor of Birmingham, has been awarded the Saval- Sachar Scholarship of Brandeis University. A junior at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Miss Cantor will use the scholarship to study paint- ing in Spain this summer. The scholarship is named for Abraham Sachar, the first president of Brandeis University. Miss Cantor was the artist-in-residence at the Jewish Home for Aged- Borman Hall from De- cember 1980 to January 1981. Under-a-grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, she • de- Syria Blamed in Paris Bombing PARIS (JTA) — A power- ful bomb exploded in a car parked on a busy street in the heart of Paris last Thursday, killing a 33- year-old pregnant woman and injuring 63 persons, 10 of them seriously. French officials im- mediately blamed the Sy- rian secret service and Interior Minister Gaston Defferre ordered the expul- sion of two senior diplomats at the Syrian Embassy. ELLEN CANTOR veloped programs in drawing and painting for the residents. She is a National Gold Key Scholastic Art Awards winner, and was graduated from Andover High School and the Shaarey Zedek He- brew High School. As a counselor at Camp Tamarack, Miss Cantor taught classes in drawing and painting. She studied with the Birmingham- , Bloomfield Art Association and at Interlochen. The first yeshiva was founded by Jochanan ben Zakkai as a refuge for Jewish Law while Jerus- laem was beseiged by the Romans.