THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
26 Friday, May 1, 1982
Sephardic Jews in U.S. Are Concentrated in 11 Cities
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)
A recent report has esti-
mated there are some
200,000 Sephardic Jews in
the United States and that
from 45,000 to 65,000 are
active in Sephardic activi-
ties through a Sephardic
synagogue, organization or
institution.
The report, in a recent
issue of "Sephardi World,"
said the principal cities of
Sephardic residence are
New York, Los Angeles,
Miami, Seattle, San Fran-
cisco, Chicago, Atlanta,
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The report said there are
currently more than 50
Sephardic synagogues, 35
organizations and seven
educational instituttions,
not including the national
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York.
Brazil Leader Lauds Israel
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)
— President Joao Baptista
Figueiredo told a delegation
of American Jewish Com-
mittee officials that "I hold
the people of Israel in high
esteem."
In a 40-minute meeting
with the delegation, headed
by AJCommittee president
Maynard Wishner, the
president recalled that be-
fore taking office, while he
was a general in the army,
he spent six weeks in Israel,
including two days in a
kibutz near the Golan
Heights.
He said he was "deeply
impressed" by Israel's hard
working people, especially
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Organization.
the kibutzniks.
Figueiredo also
praised Brazil's Jewish
community which he said
was "fully integrated into
the economic, industrial,
academic and political
life of the country."
He also assured the dele-
gation -that no Brazilian
government would tolerate
any kind of discrimination
against Jews or any other
ethnic group.
While in Brazil, the AJ-
Committe delegation also
met with the Archbishop of
Rio de Janeiro, Dom
Eugenio Salles, who told the
11-member group that he
will order all the churches
in his archdiocese to delete
from prayers and textbooks
all remaining negative
references to Jews.
The delegation, which is
on a study mission of Jewish
life in South America, will
also visit Argentina, Chile
and Uruguay where they
will meet with the nations'
presidents and Jewish
communal leaders.
Episcopal Woman Aids HUC-JIR
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
bequest from an Episcopa-
lian woman has made the
Hebrew Union College -
Jewish Institute of Religion
(HUC-JIR), the Reform
seminary, part-owner of a
thriving import-export
firm, Dr. Alfred Gottschalk,
Rabbi Predicts
Drop in Jewish
College Students
WASHINGTON —
Jewish enrollment at
America's colleges and uni-
versities will drop signific-
antly and the pattern will
change dramatically
through the remainder of
the 20th Century, a Bnai
Brith Hillel Foundations
officer predicted.
Rabbi William D.
Rudolph, director of per-
sonnel services for the in-
ternational Jewish campus
organization and a former
director of the Hillel unit at
the University of Michigan,
told a meeting of the Hillel
Commission here that the
transformation will be the
result of two factors: the de-
cline in the Jewish birth
rate and the rising cost of a
college education.
president of the HUC-JIR;
has reported.
The bequest was made in
the will of Florence Gerdau,
a resident of West Reddiner-, ,
Conn. who died last July 69
at the age of 77.
The bequest was made
also to the Protestant
Episcopal Church and the
U.S. Catholic Conference.
Each beneficiary is to re-
ceive $100,000 in dividends
annually.
Israeli Runner -
Finishes Eighth
RAMAT GAN (JNI)
Zehava Shmueli was tlie
eighth woman to f • in
the 86th annual
_
Marathon last month.
The mother of two set an
Israeli record with a time of
two hours and 44 minutes
and was the second foreign
woman to cross the finish
line. Israel's other official
entry, Yair Karni, placed
46th among more than
7,000 official male entries.
It cannot be too often re-
peated that it is not help;- ,
but obstacles, not facilities,
but difficulties that make
men.
—W. Mathews
Women's League
Publishes New
Calendar-Diary
NEW YORK — The
Women's League for Con-
servative Judaism has pub-
lished a pocket-sized
calendar-diary for 5743
(1982-1983).
The pages of the calendar
are illustrated with reprod-
uctions of manuscript pages
from the rare book room of
the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America. The
spiral bound publication
also includes Sabbath and
holiday - candlelighting
times, Torah and Haftorah
portions and several
- blessings.
The calendar-diaries are
available for a nominal
charge from the Women's
League for Conservative
Judaism, 48 E. 74th St.,
New York, N.Y. 10021.
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Generals Urge
Avoiding War
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Two former Israeli chiefs-
of-staff, Haim Bar-Lev and
Mordechai Giir, told report-
ers recently that Israel
should not go to war over
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Bar-Lev argued that al-
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