Page 4-THE NEWS-May, 1986
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
Kibbutz Ends Policy of
Accepting Foreign Volunteers
TEL AVIV (JTA) - De-
gania Aleph, Israel’s oldest
and largest kibbutz, decided
the time has come to end its
18-year-old policy of accepting
foreign volunteers. The
reason: volunteers have a
negative influence on kibbutz
youth and their presence has
led to intermarriage and
emigration.
The volunteers work in the
kibbutz fields and factories for
months at a time in return for
room, board, small amounts of
pocket money and an oppor
tunity to tour Israel at Uttle
expense. Israel’s 200 kibbut
zim play host to about 20,000
volunteers a year, half of them
non-Jews.
Many of the latter are West
Germans or Scandinavians.
They have been coming to
Israel in large numbers since
the 1967 Six-Day War and at
that time, were welcomed both
as staunch friends of Israel
and much-needed volunteer
labor.
Black Hebrews Refused
Entry Into Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) - A
group of 26 Black Hebrews
who had sought to enter Israel
as tourists were returned to
the United States. The In
terior Ministry issued the ex
pulsion order on the grounds
that they were not tourists but
intended to join the Black
Hebrew community in Di-
mona and stay in the country
illegally.
The Black Hebrews claim
that they are the real Jews
while other Jews are im
posters. The government has
restricted permission for
members of the Chicago-based
sect from entering the coun
try. But since the arrival here
some years ago of the first
group, their numbers in Israel
have increased to several hun
dred through illegal entry.
Yordim Returning To Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
growing number of Israelis
who have resided in the U.S.
and Canada for a number of
years are returning to Israel,
despite the precarious eco
nomic situation there. Accord
ing to Israel’s Ministry of
Labor and Social Affairs,
1,700 Israelis returned home
in 1985.
“In the Ministry of Labor’s
delegation in New York there
are presently more than 2,500
files of returning Israelis who
are expected to go back to
Israel during 1986-1987, once
they find employment,” Had
dad said. He added: “Today,
there are many Israelis who
are ready to go home im
mediately, but only if they
were offered a suitable job.”
Kollek Blasts Orthodox
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Two Aguda members of the
City Council stormed out of a
recent Council meeting enrag
ed at Mayor Teddy Kollek,
who had just blasted them and
other Orthodox factions for
their exclusionary policies
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capital.
The Aguda members drew
Kollek’s anger over religious
opposition to a number of ma
jor projects in the city, in
cluding a sports arena and a
Mormon-sponsored education
al center to be constructed ad
jacent to the Hebrew Univer
sity campus on Mt. Scopus.
“You, the Orthodox, you
have a ghetto mentality,”
Kollek decljired. “Jerusalem is
an asset for the entire Jewish
people throughout the world
— Reform, Conservative and
Orthodox. Each and every one
has a share in Jerusalem, not
only the Orthodox,” the
Mayor declared, adding, “my
Jewishness is just as good as
yours.”
Kollek also had sharp criti
cism for the city’s two Chief
Rabbis, who recently distri
buted leaflets warning parents
not to enroll their children in
the Masorati schools which
are loosely affiliated with Con
servative Judaism.
Anti-Semitic Parlor Game
Resurfaces In West Germany
BONN (JTA) — A grotes
que, ghoulish parlor game in
which pawns representing
Jews are sent to death camps
by the throw of dice, has resur
faced in West Germany and
the authorities seem determin
ed to find the persons
responsible.
Copies of the game sent
recently to schools 8uid other
institutions were postmarked
in Darmstadt. The Hesse
public prosecutor has in
stituted proceedings against
individuals still unknown.
The game is called “Jude
Aergre Dich Nicht” (Jew, do
not get angry). It first ap
peared in 1984, drawing ex
pressions of outrage from the
Jewish community and public
figures here and abroad. A
man and a woman accused of
devising the game were
brought to trial. But a court in
Zweibruecken, Saarland, ac
quitted them for lack of
evidence.
This time, the Hesse author
ities have assured Jewish
leaders they wiU do everything
possible to bring those respon
sible to justice. Like the
original game, the new one
consists of a board with six
pawns, each representing one
million Jews. The players cast
dice to move the pawns to
squares labeled with the
names of notorious death
camps.
Exhibit On Jews of China
On Tour of U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA) - An
exhibit of “The Jews of
Kaifeng: Chinese Jews on the
Banks of the Yellow River”
has opened at the Jewish
Museum in New York after
showings in San Francisco and
Miami Beach, as part of its
three-year tour of the U.S.
The exhibit traces the
history of the Jewish com
munity of Kaifeng over a
period of 1,000 years through
artifacts, maps, and photo
graphs.
The community, which prob
ably never numbered more
than 2,000, integrated certain
Chinese customs into their
religious practices — which is
attested to by the incense
burner. It was used to bum in
cense in the synagogue to
honor the memory of dozens of
outstanding Biblical per
sonages as well as Confucious
— revered as a great moral
teacher, writes Poliak, author
of “Mandarins, Jews and Mis
sionaries” (1980).
Street Renamed To
Honor Theologian
BONN (JTA) - The
municipal council of the
university town of Marburg,
overriding objections by local
residents, voted unanimously
last week to rename a street in
honor of Leopold Lucas, a
Jewish theologian who died in
the Theresientadt concentra
tion camp in 1943.
Lucas was the founder in
1902 of an association for
Jewish studies in Marburg,
Householders on the street to
be renamed for him protested
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that they did not want to be
associated with Lucas or his
fate. But Mayor Hanno
Drechsler of Marburg replied
that the street name will be a
reminder of the thousands of
other Marburg Jews who
perished in the Holocaust.
Lucas’ wife, Dorothea, died in
Auschwitz in 1944.
No Lift To Cable Cars
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
Hsiifa municipality's new cable
C£u- system linking the top of
Mt. Carmel with the beach at
Bat Galim, has been sold to a
private consortium for $1.4
million. The purpose of the
s£Je was to circumvent the ban
on Sabbath operation of the
facility imposed by the
government under heavy
pressure from the Orthodox
religious establishment.
Saturday is the only day off
for Israeli workers who might
like to use the cable car to go
to and from the beach. But the
Orthodox say they will not
tolerate a Sabbath desecration
no matter who owns the cable
car. They are supported by
Premier Shimon Peres, who
like all past Prime Ministers
has complied with Orthodox
demands rather than risk a
coalition crisis.
The cable car, idle since com
pletion, has other problems.
The cars are Swiss-made glass
gondolas of the type found at
Alpine resorts. Critics say
they may be fine for the snowy
slopes but not for the intense
heat of the long Israeli sum
mer when passengers are like
ly to broil in the glass cocoons
rather than enjoy the view.
Maimonides Featured In
Worldwide Stamp Salute
NEW YORK (JTA) - Nine
postal agencies around the
world issued special postage
stamps and souvenir sheets in
the past year to conmiemorate
the 850th anniverssu’y of the
birth of the famous Jewish
philosopher and physician,
Maimonides (1135-1204). Post
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