Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1977 Page: 2 of 24
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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1977 PAGE 2
Aliya Figures Show 33% Rise
Of Newcomers From Australia
1
JERUSALEM [JTA] —
Recently published official
aliya figures show a 33
percent rise in the number
of newcomers from Argen-
tina and a leap of some 180
percent in arrivals from
South Africa where racial
strife threatens the coun-
try. The figures for the
period January-August
1977, compared with the
same period last year, were
Latin America, 2278 —
1692; South Africa, 1021
180.
The figures were collated
by the Jewish Agency’s
aliya department and pre-
sented by its head Uzi
Narkiss at a recent meeting
of the Agency Executive.
Overall aliya figures for the
same period show a slight
rise, 13,495 compared to
12,716 in the same period
last year. The proportion of
Soviet olim among these
was 4719, 163 more than in
the same period last year.
October
CALENDAR
DALLAS
OCTOBER 1
Chai B'nai B'rith Women Fund Raiser
OCTOBER 2
Jewish Community Center Sukkah-Mobile
JCC Psychological Film Series
Shearith Israel Succoth Celebration
Tiferet Israei Brotherhood
OCTOBER 4
Brandeis Opening Luncheon
OCTOBER 5
Evening NCJW General Meeting
Emanu-EI Wednesday Evening Series
OCTOBER 6
Richardson-Pleno NCJW Study Group
Pioneer Women
NCJW General Meeting
Shalom Scholars Forum-Jakob Petuchowski speaker
Helping Hands Workshop at Akiba
Sabra Hadessah Garage Sale
OCTObER 7
Helping Hands Workshop at Akiba
Sabra Hadessah Garage Sale
OCTOBER 8
Jewish Community Center's Couples Club
OCTOBER 9
JCC Psychological Film Series
Sheairth Israel Brotherhood
B'nai B'rith Men No. 197 Membership Brunch
OCTOBER 10
S.I. Sisterhood Women's Institute
Temple Shalom Study Meeting
OCTOBER 11
Shearith Israel Sisterhood Women's Institute
OCTOBER 12
Shearith Israel Sisterhood Women's Institute
Akiba PTA - "Meet the Teachers"
ORT - Dallas Day Chapter Board
AMC Board
Shalom Hadassah Board
Mizrachi Board
Dvora Hadassah Board
B'nai B'rith Men Lodge No. 197
George A. Levy BB No. I8II General Meeting
OCTOBER 13
Richardson-Plano Section NCJW
JCC "Particularly for Parents" Course
ORT Region - Bunch of Lunch
OCTOBER 14
Tiferet Israel Brotherhood Installation
OCTOBER 15
Dallas Chapter Hadassah Big Gifts Dinner
White Rock Couples Club
Beth Torah Social
OCTOBER 16
Beth Torah Brunch
JCC Psychological Film Series
ADL Program
OCTOBER 17
Shearith israei Sisterhood Institute
Mizrachi
Emanu-EI Brotherhood Dinner
OCTOBER 18
Shearith Israel Sisterhood Institute
Chai Pioneer Board
Akiba PTA - New Mothers Coffee
Beth Torah Sisterhood
Emanu-EI Sisterhood
OCTOBER 19
Shearith Israel Sisterhood Institute
BBW Leadership Training for Eden BBW
Chai BBW New Members Coffee
NCJW Membership Coffee
Big D BBW
OCTOBER 20
Richardson-Plano NCJW Study Group
Israel Bond Dinner
Louis Kreditor ZOA Meeting
Richardson Piano NCJW Garage Sale
Shalom Hadassah Garage Sale
OCTOBER 21
Richardson Plano NCJW Garage Sale
Shalom Hadassah Garage Sale
Shearith Israel Veterans Day Dinner
OCTOBER 22
New Leadership Israel Bonds
OCTOBER 23
JCC Psychological Film Series
Sabra Hadassah Theatre Party
OCTOBER 24
Shearith Israel Sisterhood Institute
Brandeis New Member Coffee
Starlight BBW General Meeting
SMU-Dept. of Religion—Scott-Hawkins
Lecture in Humanities—Rabbi Arthur Green
OCTOBER 25
Shearith Israel Sisterhood Institute
Dallas Chapter Hadassah
Chai BBW Study Group
OCTOBER 26
Shearith Israel Sisterhood Institute
NCJW Membership Coffee
ORT Dallas Day Group
AMC Meeting
Mizrachi Donor
Evening NCJW Senior Citizens Project
Dvora Hadassah
OCTOBER 27
Shearith Israel Sisterhood Home Decorating Class
ADL/JCC Community Forum
OCTOBER 29
Tiferet israel Jewish Ruach Concert
OCTOBER 30
Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary No. 256
Jewish War Veterans No. 256
OCTOBER 31
Golden Acreas Annual Meeting
Shearith Israel Sisterhood Institute
FORT WORTH
OCTOBER 3
Brandeis Women - Greek Cooking
Home of Mrs. Rachel Goldman-Reservations
OCTOBER 6
Ladies Auxiliary Board
OCTOBER 9
NCSY Group - Dallas Outing
Israel Bond Dinner
Honoring Miriam and Shookie Labovitz
OCTOBER 10
Brandeis Women
Sylvia Wolens on "Creative Living"
OCTOBER 11
NCJW Board
Auxiliary Luncheon
BBYO Board
OCTOBER 12
NCJW Area Institute
OCTOBER 13
Hadassah
OCTOBER 15
Mid Cities BB Progressive Dinner and
Membership Drive
OCTOBER 16
Center Film Series '
Hester Street"
OCTOBER 19
B'nai 8'rith Women
OCTOBER 24
Federation Volunteers for General Assembly
Brandeis Women - Hadassah White, speaker
B'nai B'rith Board
OCTOBER 25
Beth-El Sisterhood Donor
Federation Volunteers for General Assembly
Lilah Tov BBW
OCTOBER 26
Federation Volunteers for General Assembly
B'nai B'rith Women Board and Meeting
OCTOBER 27
Center Board
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Immigrants' Descendants Protest
Sacco-Vanzetti Action By Dukakis
BY ROBERT E. SEGAL
So hysterical has been
the protest against the
action taken by Massachu-
setts Governor Michael S.
Dukakis in connection with
the 50th anniversary of the
electrocution of Nicola Sac-
co and Batolomeo Vanzetti
that a lesson for all children
and grandchildren of Amer-
; ican immigrants seems des-
! tined to be lost. And more’s
the shame.
rulings issued since the
1920s, the governor’s proc-
lamation is sound. In his
own comment on the docu-
ment, Dukakis asserted it
was obviously impossible to
change history, adding that,
this did not preclude the
right to “express an out-
rage at what happened in
the light of the serious
problems at the trial and
the atmosphere which sur-
rounded it.”
League.
For cries of anquish and
finger pointing by some
Massachusetts politicians,
professional patriots, and
others unschooled in the
history of bigotry in Amer-
ica may succeed in closing
out badly needed under-
standing of wrongs commit-
ted against American im-
migrants.
Governor Dukakis, him-
self of Greek ancestry and
an astute searcher after
facts in the Sacco-Vanzetti
i case, has been accused of
granting posthumous par-
dons to the two Italian
immigrants and of denigra-
ting ongoing judicial prac-
tices in the state. He did
nothing of the kind. In
essense, all that he did was
to issue a public commen-
tary, asserting that, by
today’s standards, the shoe-
maker and fish peddler who
died in the electric chair in
Charlestown, did not re-
i ceive a fair trial. In the
perspective of legislation
The governor went fur-
ther: he underscored injust-
ice visited on innocent men
and women during the
notorious raids by A.
Mitchell Palmer who served
as one of Woodrow Wilson’s
attorneys general when
hatred of the foreign born
reached fearsome heights.
The Sacco-Vanzetti arrests
occurred in 1920. In that
year, Palmer in a single
night arrested 4000 people
in 33 different cities, so
convinced was he that these
were anarchists swinging at
the pillars of government.
Much to his dismay, no shot
was fired, no bomb explod-
ed, no be whiskered denizen
of that time laid a finger on
the Department of Justice.
Dukakis recalled further
that A. Lawrence Lowell,
president of Harvard, a key
figure in the long process of
reviewing the conduct and
findings of the trial for
Governor Alvan T. Fuller,
was one of the leaders of
For years ahead, the
official handling of the
Sacco-Vanzetti arrests, con-
victions and executions will
be debated; but for this
time, a scant 50 years after
the national convulsion
over the trial and its
review, all who harbor in
their hearts compassion for
refugees and a sense of
fraternity for newcomers to
a hostile environment will
reflect soberly on the
accident of history sparing
themselves the hell of
enacted and Supreme Court the Immigration Restriction hatred.
Yadin Says Coalition Negotiations
With Likud Terminated, DIMC Opposes
BY GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Prof. Yigael Yadin declared
that coalition negotiations
with Likud were terminat-
ed and his Democratic
Movement for Change
(DMC) would not “under
the present circumstances,”
be a part of the coalition
government. He said the
DMC was preparing for an
active role as an opposition
party.
electoral districts for that
purpose. It rejected a Likud
compromise of 10 districts.
But according to Yadin,
Begin’s latest proposal was
to refer the matter to a
ministerial committee that
would work out an electoral
Yadin reacted angrily at
a Knesset press conference
today to a statement by
Premier Mena hem Begin
last week blaming the DMC
for the deadlock in negotia-
tions that had been going
on intermittently since last
summer. He accused Begin
of supplying false informa-
tion and half truths. He said
that during the last round of
talks that began 10 days
ago, Likud retreated from
its earlier offers on the two
major issues — the Ministry
for Social Betterment port-
folio and electoral reform.
AMSTERDAM [WNS] -
The monumental 70-year-
old synagogue building in
Groningen, which has stood
empty for two years, will
become a culture center.
The building will be pre-
served by a government
and municipal subsidy after
a committee of Groningen
citizens, largely non-Jew-
ish, campaigned against
having the building torn
The fundamental function
of ritual is the hallowing
of life.
—Robert Gordis
The latter was the es-
sence of the DMC’s election
campaign. The new party
wants direct elections to
the Knesset to replace the
present system of party
lists and proposed that the
country be divided into 16
Letter To The Editor
Dear Sir:
I
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Here we come to a key
that should open for many
of us a vista of appreciation
for one of the great lessons m
of history. For New Eng- B
landers, illustrious in name B
and fearful of the possible
dilution of their standards
and bases for civic and
political supremacy, were
the pacesetters in efforts to
halt the flow of newcomers
from Russia, Italy, and
other nations offensive to
their sensibilities. Presi-
dent Lowell, Henry Lee
Higginson, Joseph Lee, and
dozens of other Brahmins
gave substantial support to
the Immigration Restriction
acts of 1921 and 1924,
forerunners of the McCar-
ran-Walter act. Racist quo-
tas were set, Anglo-Saxon
supremacy was extolled,
and fear and hatred of
strangers in the American
civic arena were feverishly
generated.
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reform “within a period of
one to two years.” Yadin m
said “This was adding insult B|
to injury because it was IP
obvious from the compo-
sition of the committee that
it would finally agree to 10
regions which we rejected
in the first place.”
Synagogue Building in Groningen m
Renovated For Culture Center i
down. During the Nazi
occupation most of the
Groningen Jews were de-
ported to their deaths.
Since the war the syna-
gogue has been too large Sj
for the remaining small fl|
Jewish community.
In the spirit of good wishes
for the New Year, I want to
express my appreciation for
the successful journal you
are producing. You are
serving a valuable purpose
in the community.
Your editorials are right
on the mark. May your
health enable you to con-
tinue your good work for1
many years.
With best
shalom,
wishes and
Samuel C. Blumenthal
Dallas
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