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page 5—THE NEWS—March 1979 News Watch Edited by Marta Garelik THE BOAT PEOPLEj Jerusalem Poet — There are many good reasons why Israel should not offer asylum to Viet namese refugees now bobbing off the inhospitable coasts of east Asia in a number of leaky boats. Not the least of these reasons is the futility of hoping that such a gesture will enhance our image among nations who have resolved to let these hapless refugees drown. Overriding any pragmatic considerations, however, is the cultural fact of Jewish compas sion that goes beyond public relations gimmickry,.and a re cent historical memory of our own boat people who figured so centrally in the most abysmal of our national, tragedies and in our subsequent rise to national independence,-. Prime Minister Begin is to be cpmipended therefore for responding to this call of con science and. for harnessing the powers of Israel’s soyereignty to the fuIfi;Ument of this humanitarian !‘mit?va..” But the act of national altruism should also be accom panied by some practical plan ning. For the imminent arrival of the 100 boat people to whom Israel is granting a safe haven requires concrete steps to help them to adapt to our complex problem-ridden society, and an international campaign that is not self serving but designed to persuade others to follow our ex ample. sj. •, 24,000 RUSSIAN JEWS EX- PECTED THIS YEAR; New York — Tlie sharp rise in the number of Soviet Jews arriving in the U.S. in 1978 — 14,000 —is expected to continue this year and reach 24,000, it was an nounced by Gaynor I. Jacobsoii, executive vice president of HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. The expected figure for 1979 will be almost three times the number who were assisted by HIAS in 1977. KISSINGER ON HIS OWN JEWISH ATTITUDES; Jewish Post — Henry Kissinger unburdened himself, of his Jewish attitudes in a talk at the recent convention of the American Jewish Committee. “My relationship to the Jewish community and to the Jewish people,” he said, “was in evitably a complex one when I was in office. No one could have gone through the experiences of my youth, and my life, without having a poignant reminder of the Jewish destiny. Nobody can have lived in a totalitarian state and left members of his family in concentration camps without knowing that — for the Jewish people, perhaps more than any other — the loss of justice anywhere in the world is a threa^t to their own existence, and peace anywhere is a guarantee for their own future. Obviously, it was my duty as Secretary of State to embed this into the policies of the country that received me as a refugee and gaye me an opportunity to serve my country and my peo ple,in the seniSe that whatever serves peace and justice, serves both of these privileges.” WIFE-BEATING; Jerusalem Post — TEL AVIV — Some 60,- 000 cases of battered wives were reported in 1978, the outgoing chairman of Wizo said at the re cent national convention of the women’s organization. Shula Braude said that Wizo is drafting legislation that will make wife-beating a criminal offense and cited the organization’s establishment of shelters that serve as temporary homes for battered wives. Braude said that in the past four years Wizo has achieved: A law to provide maintenance payments to deserted wives through the National Insurance Institute; a law guaranteeing equal division of property if a marriage breaks up after 10 years; and Wizo services to settlements in the Jordan Valley and northern Sinai. FILM JEWS RACISTS SAYS BRANDO; Jewish Post — NEW YORK — As vicious an at tack on a Jewish group as has been made in years came from a noted actor, Marlon Brando, who charged that Jews in the movie industry are racists who have systematically used the screen to blacken every race but their own. llie Phillipian was in an in terview in the January issue of Playboy Magazine. He said “there has never been a negative screen portrayal of a Jew,” adding that this was because “the Jews are careful to watch out for that, and they have need to.” ‘JUICE WITHOUT JEWS’ FOR EASTERN BLOC; Jeru salem Post — HAIFA — “Anonymous oranges” are again being shipped to Eastern European countries which have no diplomatic relations with Israel. The first shipment of the season, 150,000 cases of un marked oranges, left Haifa Port. The Eastern European coun tries who want the Israeli oranges, but not the labels, pay good prices on condition that the fruit does not carry the “Jaf fa” stamp and comes in un marked cartons. “They want our juice without the Jews,” one stevedore TENANTS FACE EVIC TION FROM HAIFA FLATS SOLD TO FOREIGN IN VESTORS; Jerusalem Post — HAIFA — More than 50 single persons have appealed to Presi dent Yitzhak Navon to in tervene in their behalf with the Jewish Agency controlled com pany which has sent them evic tion notices from their small rental flats in the Kamat Shaul quarter. The tenants — men and women, long-time residents and newcomers — reside in two buildings at No. 1 and No. 3 Rehov Dreyfus, which have been sold to foreign investors. They have lived in the flats from six months to 12 years, paying monthly rents which have in creased every year due to infla tion. ^bour and Social Affairs Minister Israel Katz reportedly assured the tenants in November that the eviction notices had been shelved. The tenants, however, have been told to vacate their flats on the ex(3iration of their one-year leases, and some leases expire this month. In their letter to Navon, the tenants point out that most of them are old persons living on National Insurance and small pensions. But they declare that they all have “perpetual fear of having to move from one apart ment to another, with the high costs that this involves.” BILL WOULD DISCLOSE GIFTS FROM FOREIGNERS; Jewish Post - LOS ANGELES - Aimed at averting a situation such as that at the University of Southern California which accepted a $1 million grant (P-0, Nov. 17) from Saudi Arabia with anti academic freedom strings at tached, legislation requiring California institutions of higher learning which receive funds in excess of $250,000 from foreign sources to make the gifts public has been introduced in the State Senate. The bill would also re quire colleges and universities to disclose the nature of all obligations undertaken in any such contracts. ‘A I .rv j- ' ’ * V . f • 'uA.. ' ,, ' ,1 ■ X,'. ■ y'' 'v' Campers enjoy lunch and relaxation on the grounds of the JCC. Day Camp Story (Continued from Page 1) ’ planned and supervised by a Specialist in each area. Field trips, where appropriate or necessary, will be a pqrt of the group work. Plans are being made for horseback riding for the 4th and 5th graders three mornings a week before camp. This group will meet at the “J” at 8.-00 a.m. and go with an in structor to the riding location and then return to the “J” at 10:00 in time for swimming in struction. There will be an ad ditional fee for horseback riding which will be announced later. Each afternoon the campers will participate in free swim and camp closing with the other groups. This camp is 9:30-3:30 daily, two sessions, each three weeks. Bring a dairy lunch daily except Friday — we provide a special Shabbat lunch. (Op tional lunch plan for Tuesday* Friday — details to be an nounced.) Sign up now for one or both sessions. $110/Session - Members; $150/Session • Non members. . Sign up now for JCC SUMMER CAMP - 1979 REGISTRATION FORM DATE FAMILY NAME NON-MEM . $25.00 Deposit encloacd ADDRESS PHONE GRADE ENTER ING IN SEPT. , SESSION TOTAL CHARGES NOTE; NO CHILD WILL BE ADMITTED TO CAMP UNLESS ALL FEES HAVE BEEN PAID. CAMPER'S NAME SEX BIRTH DATE AGE I II MUNCH- KINS ■ ■ . ■ I ■ ' CAMP SHALOSH CAMP ARBA CAMP MITZVAH 2nd - Bth CAMP ACTIVITY GROUP (2nd'5th only) RPORTR * ART POTPOURRI - yow ehUdr«ii). Thaa* aiuat te AIM o«t and rataraad to tba JCC prior to th« baglnnlng of caaip.
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