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Reform Movement PreparesThird Settlement in Israel

By YITZHAK RABI

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NEW YORK (JTA) — A
new Reform village on a
mountain top in the Galilee
is in the process of being
formed, according to Haim
Sharett, the chief shaliakh
(emissary) of the kibutz
movement to Reform Jud-
aism in the United States.
He said that 50 families
are already prepared to
form the garin (nucleus) of
the village that will be
called Har Halutz. Within
the next year about 20
families are expected to
move to Israel and stay in
absorption centers in prep-
aration for their settling in
Har Halutz. The first
settlers are expected to ar-
rive and live in temporary

houses in the village in the
center of Galilee at the be-
ginning of 1985, Sharett
said.
Har Halutz village will be
the third Reform settlement
in Israel. The earlier two,
Lotan and Yahel, were es-
tablished in the last few
years. Sharett, a member of
Kibutz Hamadia in the Beit
Shean Valley and son of the
late Premier and Foreign
Minister Moshe Sharett,
said the new village is
planned to accommodate up
to 400 families and married
couples.
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"Har Halutz will be a
free enterprise commu-
nity and not a kibutz,"
Sharett stressed during
an interview with the

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Telegraphic
Agency. "As such, each
family will be responsible
for its own income. The
livelihood of members of
Har Halutz will be based
on outside work, in the
nearby cities, towns and
moshavim."

The site of the village is
about an hour's drive from
Haifa and only 15 minutes'
drive from the growing city
of Carmiel, noted Sharett
who initiated the project
and personally located the
mountain site, for the vil-
lage. •
"In addition," he said,
"the village will be located
near the Tefen Industrial
Park, a source for jobs for
many of the professional
would-be settlers, among
them chemists, doctors,
engineers, builders and
students." The park is about
15 minutes' drive from Har
Halutz. The children of the
village are expected to
attend school in Carmiel.
At the beginning,.the
residents of the village will
live in temporary houses —
each about 500-square feet
— that will be provided by

the Jewish Agency, Sharett
said. For the construction of
permanent housing the
residents will receive a
mortgage of $27,800 from
the Israel government at
very convenient terms that
would enable them to build
an 850-square foot home for
each family.
Those interested in
larger and more elabo-
rate homes will be able to
build them at their own
expense, Sharett said.
He noted that Har Halutz
will have a Reform syna-
gogue and the "atmosphere"
of life in the village will be

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in line with the ideas of the
Reform movement. He said
,that although he sees him-
self as a "secular" Jew, he
has learned "to respect
the ideology of Reform
Judaism.
"We are in the midst of
organizing and preparing
for this exciting project of
Har Halutz," Sharett said.
He added that the recruit-
ing efforts for the village are
ri high gear and that he will
continue to be associated
with the project upon his re-
turn to Israel next April
after having served as
shaliakh for three years.

BUFFALO (JTA) — Buf-
falo Jewish families
struggling with the con-
tinuing impact of the eco-
nomic decline can now turn
to a special "Care Line" es-
tablished at the Jewish
Family Service (JFS) to
help them find jobs and
Meet family emergencies.

Faction is the demon of
discordarmed with power to
do endless mischief, and in-
tent only on destroying
whatever opposes its pro-
gress. Woe to that state in
which it has found an
entrance.
— Crabbe

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By Don McEvoy

"WITH ENEMIES LIKE THESE

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ornetimes it is your enemies,
who, . unintentionally, say
the very nicest things about you.
The president of the National Con-
ference of Christians and Jews receiv-
•
ed .a letter the other day from the
Commander
of a militant hate group.
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Naturally, he had a number of rather
nasty things to say about her arts' the
organization she leads. Then he add-
ed this marvelous line. which I want
to publish far and wide:
"It is no secret that your group is
'everywhere in the forefront of, the
smear against upright Americans,
men such as the late Senator. Joseph
McCarthy, Gerald . I...K. Smith,
Commander George Lincoln
Rockwell, and everyone else with the
temerity to speak up for his race and
his country."
McCarthy you probably
recognize. No comment necessary.
Gerald L.K. Smith was the fiery anti-
Semitic radio preacher of the 30s and
40s whO wanted the USA in the war
on' the side of Hitler. Rockwell, of
course, is the late but unlamented
founder of the American Nazi Party.
"It , is no secret that your group is
everywhere in the forefront" • of the
opposition to men like this. Wow!
That is about the . nicest thing
anybody ever said about us. Our own
public relations department would be
much too modest to make such a
claim in our own behalf. It is good to
know that those who oppose us --
those who peddle prejudice instead of •
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efforts so highly.
I have been an employee of the
NCCJ for nearly a quarter of a cen-
tury. I am committed to its quiet,
responsible, persevering educational
approach to the elimination of in-
tergroup prejudice and discrimina-
tion. I've had a love affair with this
idea since- I first heard a minister,
priest and rabbi speaking together in
a Brotherhood Week assembly pro-
gram in a high school in Tulsa in
1941. When the opportunity arose
later to join this organization profes-
sionally I joyfully cast my lot.
But there are times when one
despairs about the snail's pace of pro-
gress. Advancement can be measured
over the generation, but not day by
day. Once in a while one wonders it
it's worth the effort. We've learned to
soar in the sky like eagles, and swim
the ocean like fishes; but will we Aver
learn to walk on the earth like
brothers and sisters?
After all these years, guys like the
writer of the aforementioned letter
are still with us. Today they are
anachronisms, throwbacks to an
earlier era, but they are still there.
They don't muster the popular sup-
port or pose the present threat they
did a few decades ago, but they are
still there.
I'm glad they know we are still
here, too. •
As President Jacqueline Wexler
noted. when she read the letter,
"With enemies like these, who needs
friends?

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