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Groups are answering hunger's call
U.S. Jews aid starving Ethiopians
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New York (JTA) — Contribu-
tions exceeding $100,000 have
been donated by members of the
American Jewish Committee to
the agency's Ethiopian Relief
Fund, according to Dr. David
Gordis, AJCommittee executive
vice president. The sum was col-
lected within a week after an ap-
peal made to members by AJ-
Committee President Howard
Friedman.
According to Gordis, 2,000
members have responded to date.
There are approximately 50,000
AJCommittee members nation-
wide. Gordis added that local
chapters soon would launch a
follow-up drive to substantially
increase the amounts already col-
lected.
He said that the monies would
be distributed to three major re-
lief organizations now servicing
drought victims in Ethiopia:
Catholic Relief Services, Church
World Services, and the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee. The JDC will receive the
largest share of the raised funds.
Meanwhile, two Seattle physi-
cians who have just returned from
the Gondar region of Ethiopia,
where they treated Jews and
Christians in the mainly Jewish
villages there, found that medical
care is almost non-existent in the
province's rural area.
Drs. Joseph Schuster and
Jonathan Ostrow, in an interview
with the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, said that starvation was
not a problem in Gondar since the
province was the wheat-growing
area for the country, although a
30 to 35 percent drop in the crop
this year could result in famine
next spring unless there is an im-
provement in the wheat produc-
tion.
"The issue here (in Gondar) is
with a
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"more of a problem in the Jewish
villages" since those young men
who had not been drafted had fled
the country, mainly to Israel.
Dr. Schuster said that all the
Ethiopian Jews they met would
like to go to Israel where one-third
of the Jewish community now
lives. He noted that the Ethiopian
government, which maintains
that it permits freedom of reli-
gion, has banned the teaching or
use of Hebrew which it claims is
being taught for "exodus to Is-
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The two doctors, who had never
been to Ethiopia before, went
there under the auspices of the
Surgical Aid for Children of the
World (SACOW), a private New
York-based medical relief agency.
The trip was paid for by the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions. They said they Were the
first American doctors allowed in
Gondar since Americans were ex-
pelled from Ethiopia by the new
Marxist government ten years
ago.
Fire-damaged
Torahs replaced
in Jerusalem
Jerusalem (JTA) — In a solemn
ceremony attended by thousands,
charred and ruined Torah scrolls
were laid to rest on the Mount of
Olives Sunday. The scrolls were
destroyed in a fire before dawn
Dec. 7 at the synagogue on Mt.
Zion, part of the facilities of the
Diaspora Yeshiva there.
Police have no firm clues to the
blaze. But the fact that damage
was caused to another Jerusalem
synagogue, the Ramban
Synagogue in the Old City, at the
same time, has given rise to suspi-
cions of arson.
Among the scrolls lost on Mt.
Zion was an ancient Torah repu-
tedly belonging to the famed
German medieval scholar, Rabbi
Meir of Rothenburg.
Mayor Teddy Kollek, who pre-
sented a new scroll to the yeshiva
in replacement of a burnt one,
said there could be no levelling of
accusations until firm evidence
was available.
Other mourners included the
two Chief Rabbis, Deputy Pre-
mier and Education and Culture
Minister Yitzhak Navon (Labor),
Minister-Without Portfolio Yosef
Shapiro (Morash), Knesset mem-
bers, and religious and lair lead-
ers.