Assembly To Discuss
Jews In Distress
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PARKING AND ENTRANCE IN REAR
n these difficult eco-
nomic times, more and
more people are taking
advantage of shelters,
food supplies and commu-
nity services. Jews are no
exception.
The Jewish Community
Council's Delegate
Assembly will discuss
those issues 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 15 at the Max M.
Fisher Building.
The program, "Jews in
Distress," will include
panel representatives
from Jewish Family
Service, Jewish Vocational
Service, Yad Ezra (the
kosher food pantry) and
the Jewish Federation.
Gary Dembs, a founder of
Yad Ezra and a Council
board member, will mod-
erate.
According to informa-
tion from the JFS and
JVS, the number of Jews
taking advantage of ser-
vices and aid has
increased dramatically in
the last few years. All
neighborhoods have been
hit, including wealthier
areas.
Mr. Dembs said the
goals of the program are
three-fold — to identify
the programs already
intact which deal with
issues of hunger, poverty
and homelessness, to iden-
tify the needs specifically,
and to address steps of
action.
"This is about breaking
up myths. We need to get
together, find out what
each agency does and can
be doing," Mr. Dembs
said. "Then the presidents
can return to their agen-
cies and volunteers and
take action." ❑
Morocco Returns
Bodies Of Victims
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel
will hold a state funeral for
the 22 victims of a 1961
accident_ involving the im-
migrant boat Egoz, whose
remains arrived here from
Morocco.
The Egoz went down in
still-unexplained cir-
cumstances off Gibraltar,
and the bodies of the 22 were
washed ashore in Morocco
and buried there.
Efforts have been under
way for several years to
secure the consent of the
Moroccan government for
reinterment in Israel.
The decision of Moroccan
King Hassan II to make a
humanitarian gesture at
this time is clearly linked to
the brightening prospects for
peace in the region, Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin said this week.
"This is another step on
the road to conciliation and
peace between Israel and the
Arab nations," Mr. Rabin
said in a warm message of
gratitude to King Hassan II.
The king's move was a
personal gesture to Mr.
Rabin and to the positive
stance he has taken on the
peace process, according to
Sam Ben-Chitrit, a promi-
nent Israeli activist of
Moroccan origin.
Mr. Ben-Chitrit was in
Morocco for exhumation of
the remains at the Jewish
cemetery at Al-Hussemia,
where the bodies washed up
31 years ago.
King Hassan is known t
have secretly hosted Mr.
Rabin in Morocco during the
Israeli's first term as prime
minister and is presumed to
have met with him since.
Reinterment will take
place at the Mount Herz
cemetery in Jerusalem after
a process of identification.
Relatives of the victims
voiced strong but mixed
emotions at the news of their
arrival in Israel.
"I am shaking with emo
tion," said Arye Ben-
Haroush, 54, of Kiryat Yam,
near Haifa, who lost his
parents, two brothers and a
sister on the Egoz.
"Now, at last, we will have
graves; somewhere to go to
and be with the memories of
our dear ones," he said.