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AJCongress argues reparations
should not be counted as income
New York — Reparations paid
by the West German government
to victims of Nazi persecution
should not be counted as income
and used to deny social security
benefits, says the American
Jewish Congress.
The organization said that the
Social Security Administration
should exempt reparations pay-
ments as is done with personal in-
jury awards and other "tort dam-
ages" received as compensation
for civil loss. The Internal Reve-
nue Service follows this principle
in exempting restitution pay-
ments from income taxes, and
>AJCongress wants the Social Se-
curity Administration to follow
suit.
The AJCongress position was
set forth in an amicus, or "friend
of the court" brief filed with the
United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit. The brief
was submitted on a hearing in the
case of Felicia Grunfeder, a Nazi
- jictim who has been receiving re-
stitution from West Germany and
has been denied disability bene-
fits because the Social Security
Administration considers the re-
.
The AJCongress brief argues
that restitution from the German
government to Holocaust victims
for "damages to body, mind and
spirit" is made "in recognition of a
moral obligation to make
amends" and is not "income" as
defined by Congress when it
passed the Social Security legisla-
tion.
As a young child, Ms. Grun-.
feder lived in the Warsaw ghetto.
Later, she was separated from her
mother and incarcerated in the
Lager Rote-Rose concentration
camps. Her father and other
members of her family were mur-
dered by the Nazis.
Ms. Grunfeder now suffers from
schizophrenia, depression and
neurosis requiring continuing
supervision and treatment. The
disturbances are directly attrib-
uted by her doctors to the experi-
ence of growing up amidst the at-
rocities of the Holocaust.
Youth Aliyah gives kids a chance
13Y JAMIE WAXMAN
Jerusalem — Avi Manos, a 17-
year-old sabra (native-born Is-
raeli), glows with pride as he talks
about Havat Halloar, the Youth
Aliyah village in Jerusalem that
has given him a chance to made it
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!Al Israeli life.
"I've been living and studying
- at Havot Halloar for two years,"
said Avi, as he planed wood in the
village's carpentry shop where he
is developing a marketable skill.
l
. If I had stayed in Ashkelon I
wouldn't be in school today. My
friends all left school and spend
their days on the streets, hanging
around, looking for odd jobs.
"I'm a year away from gradua-
tion and if I do not stay with car-
pentry, I will study interior de-
5ign. I did not even know that field
existed until I came here."
Avi is the youngest of seven
children of Yemenite Jews who
flocked to Israel - in 1949, part of
the massive waves of immigration
that marked the early years of Is-
rael's statehood. The family set-
tled in Ashkelon, a coastal de-
velopment town some 40 miles
south of Tel Aviv.
Avi's parents have been unem-
ployed, in a country with a high
rate of employment, and his fam-
ily lives in cramped quarters. Be-
fore Youth Aliyah came into Avi's
, life, he had little reason to h6pe.
Havat Halloar, which means
"youth farm," is one of more than
100 Youth Aliyah villages, help-
ing 17,400 teenagers find them-
selves, learn academic and voca-
tional skills, gain confidence and
,-develop a sense of personal and
social responsibility.
This particular village provides
learning in reading, writing,
mathematics, computers, carpen-
try, interior design, hotel man-
agement and reception, fashion
and crafts to 313 youngsters.
It represents the newer thrust
of Youth Aliyah, which has
Jewish
200,000
,. helped
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parations payments to be "un-
earned income." The filing was
announced by Paul S. Berger,
chairman of the Governing Coun-
cil of AJCongress.
youngsters in 51 years, including
tens of thousands it rescued from
the Holocaust and brought to
Palestine. Today, 70 percent of
Youth Aliyah's boys and girls are
sabras from distressed neighbor-
hoods.
Youth Aliyah is also reaching
out to American Jewish teena-
gers, hundreds of whom spend a
year of high school study in Israel,
helping bring the next generation
of Israeli and Diaspora Jews
closer together.
Youth Aliyah is administered
under a $52 million allocation in
the Jewish Agency's $400 million
budget, which mainly comes from
American Jews through the
United Jewish Appeal/
community campaign. Diaspora
Jews help people in distressed
neighborhoods through Project
Renewal.
UJA Press Service
Financing halts
nuclear reactor
Tel Aviv (ZINS) — Efforts to
construct an atomic reactor in Is-
rael are being blocked by difficul-
ties in financing. According to
Yediot Ahronot, a number of
capitalists in Israel, led by bil-
lionaire Shaul Eisenberg, are at-
tempting to raise the necessary
funds, but without success.
According to the newspaper, a
number of wealthy Jews from the
United States are ready to invest
$75 million. Eisenberg himself is
prepared to put up $50 million
and a further $100 million was to
have been mobilized in France
where the order for the atomic
reactor would be placed.
It was revealed, however, that
some of the investors demanded
that the Israeli government
guarantee their investment, but
the Israeli government is appar-
ently not ready to furnish that
guarantee.
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