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The Popes and Zionism — 80 Years After.. .See story Page 2
Texas Jewish Post
VOLUME 39 NO. 4
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1985 2 SHEVAT 5745
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jess joajin Anti-Semitism Rises in 1984
According to the latest ADL report, anti-Semitic vandalism and other
assaults and/or threats against Jews, Jewish institutions or property rose
in 1984.
Similar incidents had decreased in 1982 and 1983. Data compiled from
ADL’s 30 field offices showed that there were 715 incidents of vandalism
against Jews in 1984. This accounted for an increase of 5.7 percent over
1983’s 70 acts of violence.
In 1984, there were 32 serious crimes compared to 23 in 1983. These
included 17 cases of arson and attempted arson, compared to 13 the
previous year; three bombings as against none in 1983; one attempted
bombing — the same as in 1983 — and 11 cemetery desecrations,
compared to 9 for the previous year.
In other assaults or threats, tabulated separately, the survey showed 369
incidents — an increase of, 5.4 percent over the 1983 figure of 350.
Five states had the most vandalism episodes: New York, 237; California,
99; Maryland, 69; New Jersey, 56, and Florida, 48. 32 states and the District
of Columbia were involved in the incidents.
National Director Nathan Perlmutter said the 1984 figures are
U.S. Strikes Hard At Israel
Warns Of Financial Loss
Over West Bank Ethiopians
BYJOSEPH POLAKOFF
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - The
Reagan Administration has
jolted its smooth relation-
ship with Israeli Prime
Minister Shimon Peres.
Washington also has indi-
rectly warned that there are
limits to the use of funds
contributed by American
Jews to agencies in Israel
caring for immigrants and
needy.
This harsh U.S. attitude is
not so starkly stated official-
ly either in Washington or
Jerusalem. It has come
about because the Peres
Government decided to es-
tablish one of its five
processing centers for
Ethiopian refugees in Kiryat
Arba, the Jewish commun-
ity outside of Hebron on the
West Bank. The other four
centers for the approximate-
ly 10,000 Ethiopians in Israel
are within Israel’s pre-1967
borders. These centers pro-
vide medical care, job
training and education.
The State Department
warned the Peres Govern-
ment that unless it closed
inside
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Arthur Goldberg: Years of Shame - A Conspiracy of Silence.......2
Dallas Doings......................................3
Postorials, Opinions, etc...............................4
Singles Scene.....................................7
delicious recipes..................................10
Herbert Luft: Film Folk..............................14
Jerry Wolens: A Traveller’s Notebook: Finding Alex Haley........16
Around The Town..................................17
The Saga of ORT
60 Years of Rescue
And Rehabilitation
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down the Kiryat Arba
center and stopped Ethio-
pian Jews from making
homes in the West Bank or
the Golan Heights, Israel
would be financially penaliz-
ed. The penalty would be
withholding the fifteen mil-
lion dollars the U.S. has ap-
propriated for use this fiscal
year to help Ethiopians and
other refugees in Israel.
Another penalty was that
private American contribu-
tions to Israel would be
impeded.
Not since the Eisenhower
See U. S. Warns, page 11
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TRAINING ETHIOPIAN JEWS IN ISRAEL ORT is currently operating schools and training programs for
Ethiopian Jews newly arrived in Israel. Fields being taught at ORT schools in Natanya and Kiriyat
Gat include: accounting, biology, drawing, metalwork, and dressmaking. The special programs will be a
topic of the American ORT Federation National Conference, Januaiy 25-27.
BY BORIS SMOLAR
[Editor-in-chief emeritus, JTA
[Copyright 1985, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
THE AMERICAN ORT AT 60: Sixty
years ago, when the American ORT
Federation — which holds its national
convention January 25-27 in New York —
was formed, Jews in this country hardly
knew that ORT was already in exis-
tence for more than 40 years. It is in fact
one of the oldest Jewish organiza-
tions in the world.
ORT was established in Czarist Russia
in 1880 by a group of prominent Jewish
leaders and philanthropists in St. Peters-
burg, then the capital of Russia, and now
known as Leningrad. Its purpose was to
provide vocational and technical train-
ing for the masses of Jews in Russia who
lived in great poverty under the Czarist
regime. They were restricted to reside in
certain areas of the country; tens of
See 60 Years, page 11
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