. . . . THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -We do know that they are extremely upset." Last week's demonstration made the front page of The New York Times and virtually every other U.S. big city daily. Expressly because of this kind of public relations success, some observers suggest that Ethiopian activists are being • manipulated by experienced, non-Ethiopian operatives. Vocal Jewish activist groups have long accused the Israeli government of being indif- ferent to the plight of Ethi- opian Jews. Others maintain that the demonstrations have been organized by a small but outspoken segment of young Ethiopian Jews who are pro- Marxist and anti-religious. Prime Minister Peres, inter- viewed on Israeli radio, said, "I will try to meet with the chief rabbis and see how the We let them exercise their folklore . . . But all groups lose something of what they bring to Israel. What's important is for us to accept them as they are, and then they will choose according to their own free will what they keep." months before moving into the general society, the Ethio- pians generally need a full year and a half of intensive orienta- tion before they can leave the security of an absorption facility. This drastically com- pounds expense to the Jewish Agency. Even afterward, authorities report an unwill- ingness on the part of some Ethiopians to leave absorption centers and follow employ- ment possibilities. They at- tribute this partly to the need for a support system, and partly to the Ethiopians' tradi- tional attachment to land where they settle and cluster in extended family groupings. Perhaps the most visible successes of absorption can be seen among youth. On a recent visit to Talpiot, a Youth Aliyah village located in the countryside between Haifa and Tel Aviv, I hardly recog- nized in the clean, energetic, bright youngsters I encoun- tered there the same filthy, diseased, albeit engaging and quick-witted kinds of young- sters, I had seen only a few months earlier in Ethiopia. Already these children are reading and writing Hebrew, davenrng, wearing blue jeans, posting pictures of Michael Jackson on their dormitory walls and declaring that they want to be just like their Israeli-born contemporaries. Talpiot began receiving Ethiopian youth in 1977, one of the first residential institu- tions to be involved in their ab- sorption. Today, 60 Ethiopian boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 16 live and suffering of the Ethiopian study at Talpiot alongside 95 Jews can be prevented. When other pupils from Israel and 20 the immigration from Ethi- other countries, including (ac- opia began, the rabbinate cording to a map at the school showed much understanding. tracing countries of origin) In- I must check what happened dia, Yemen, China and the United States. Fifty more along the way." students are ex- Even with much more "un- Ethiopian petted to enroll at Talpiot derstanding," it is doubtful p& this year after they pro- whether the full set of re- later gress initial absorp- ligious and cultural problems tion at through centers. confronting Ethiopians and Altogether, the network of Israelis will yeild to quick 'or Aliyah schools in Israel easy solutions. Some diffi- Youth (mostly residential, but more vulties seem inevitable, in any and more offering day facil- substantial migration. In addi- ities) is educating 19,000 tion there is a wide gulf imp young people, of whom about orating Israel — a techno- 1,500 currently are Ethio- logical marvel, despite its cur- pians. BY the year's end, ac- rent economic straits — and cording to Elie Amit„ Youth Ethiopia, one of the least Aliyah national director, developed of the so-called about 2,000 youth of Ethio- "devfloping" countries. plan mien will be attending Despite this, the Israelis Youth Aliyah schools. Most onstrate, are either orphans or arrived report, and dem remarkable progrees in in. without their parents, to 'tans of the Ethlo• No one is giving out official 7 the young, f es for the number of . bac, to titian )1 6,000 ,Jews to to 4 I I I but most t Opor. t eon Ethioslan sad some 2,000 arrived pro. "7„. -- • Friday, July 26, 1985 17 Make it easy on yourself! Let Pamela Swift, Ltd. dress you head to toe for that special occasion, wedding or bat/bar mitzvah. PAM E LA SV/IT, LTD. 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