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FAU'sh of Ethiopian Jewry R . I, Jewish Historical Assoc iation 11 Inside: 130 sessions Street Local News, pages 2-3 Providence , RI 02906 From the Editor, page 4 Aroun~ T.own, page 9 THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEWISH WEEKLY IN R.I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. VOLUME LXXII, NUMBER 2 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1984 30e PER COPY Efforts Underway To Rescue Workers Strike at Jewish Home And Resettle Ethiopian Jews by Michael Berenbaum J ewish Week I 4 The rescue of a substantial number of Ethiopian Jews is under way, it appears from interviews with government officials, Jewish professionals and activists on behalf of Ethiopian Jewry. Sources in United Jewish Appeal who refused to be identified by name suggest that the United Jewish Appeal has made a decision to launch a special fund-raising campaign for the rescue and resettlement FAU'SH of Ethiopian Jewry. The figure mentioned is $60 million. Travellers just returning from Israel JEWRY estimate the average age of the rescued Jews as 14. Many of them are small the numbers of Jews now reaching Israel children, and they arrive in rags, without not be published. baggage. ''They are frail, very thin, but In the past, the Israeli government has Workers in a picket line outside the Jewish Home for the Aged in,Providence. their stomachs are not distended," one been accused of dragging its feet. Activists by Robert Israel residents, running t he building. Many of traveller said. "Their arms and legs are on behalf of Ethiopian J ewry now express -A group of workers stood outside in the them stayed through the night. If t hey see like sticks. But they are a regal people. satisfaction wit h the scale of the rescue damp chill blocking the parking lot of the t here is a need to do something, they've Many of them never walked down steps. effort. Jewish Home for t he Aged in Providence taken it upon t hemselves to do it. Many of They have to be taught how to negotiate Catastrophe Of Biblical Proportions earlier this week, picket signs attached to the volunteers are doctors and nurses and them." What seemed to have brought about this t heir coats. Stan Israel - no relation to they've helped considerably. Everything is sudden immigration is the drought which U.S. government officials indicate that this writer - the union's area director, running smoothl}'." has devastated Ethiopia. this country will pay a significant share of said that Home officials have refused to One volunteer, Bella Dubinsky, was According to Rep. Gary Ackerman the transportation and medical expenses meet with the union. Visibly angry, he vacuuming the area near the gift shop, involved in the resettlement efforts. (D-Queens), who returned from Ethiopia said the motivating reason behind the while another was answering the The UJ A cabinet has been meeting to this past weekend, more than 300,000 decision to strike was that he and t he telephone. While I was at the Home, a Ethiopians have starved to death and the determine the size of the campaign and its others in the picket line felt they had a steady stream of volunteers could be seen, number may reach millions. " It's a relationship to other fund-raising drives right to make a better living. attending to the needs of the residents. on behalf of Israel. Current plans project catastrophe of monumental, biblical " At all the other Jewish Homes in New Volunteer Efforts Successful that the cost of the ,rescue and proportions," he said. " It seems like the England," Israel said, "the pay is much " We are running a near to normal forces of nature have conspired to wreak resettlement project will exceed $100 higher. There are people here bringing operation," William Edelstein, t he million. havoc on the lives of the people." home only $150.00 a week and that's just Home's executive director told me. " I Efforts to alleviate mass starvation are Economic Austerity In Israel not enough to live on these days if you're a guess you could say its because we had The resettlement project has begun at a now under way. Last week, the American head of household. The last time we spoke proper planning." Jewish Joint Distribution Gommittee had time of economic austerity in Israel. Wage to the Home officials, their idea of Edelstein was referring to an open and price controls have been imposed', the received permission to operate feeding negotiation was to raise our salaries in letter that appeared in the Herald stations in the Gondar, the home of most government has cut its budget by $1.5 nickles, and so we're standing outside preceding t he strike that called on of the surviving Ethiopian Jews. One billion, subsidies have been drastically with our picket signs. Their offer is hollow volunteers from the -community to come official said that Joint may feed as many reduced, and, for the first time in recent at best. 100% of nothing is still nothing." forth and assist in the daily operations at years, there is a specter of large-scale as 400,000 people. On strike are 240 members of District the Home. unemployment. The responsibility of Previously, the Jqint, which is the 1199 of t he New England Health Care "T he important thing to stress," American Jewry looms large in this rescue American Jewish community's Employees Union. T hese workers Edelstein said, "is that we need volunteers effort. counterpart to Protestant and Catholic represent 80 percent of t he employees at throughout the strike, not just on t he first Israeli officials have expressed concern relief agencies, was denied permission to the Jewish Home. The local includes day, but that their help has to be with the magnitude of the problem of work in the region. nurses and nurses aides, dietary aides, continuous, until the strike is settled. Tbe resettling educationally . deprived and Israel has launched a national drive to housekeepers a nd laundry and area hospitals have been fantastic. Many unskilled immigrants. One Israeli help the victims of the Ethiopian drought. maintenance workers. When asked if the of these hospitals we've had really no suggested t hat the country may have to Protest Community Insensitivity members of the union were prepared to contact wit h before this, but they've return to t.pe maabarot of the 1950s, which During the past month, protests on strike indefinitely, Israel sai«;I, " We are banded together and helped considerably. will nevertheless appear as palaces to behalf of Ethiopian Jewry disrupted the prepared to stay on strike as long as we T he worst part is for the residents, there Ethiopian villagers. Nevertheless, Israelis opening meeting of the General Assembly have to until a settlement is reached. We is no questiori about that. It takes them ate certain that Ethiopian resettlement of the Council of Jewish Federations in have a strike fund we can draw on if days, months, years to adjust to being here wi ll be "a proud chapter in the history of Toronto. American Association for necessary, so no one here will be left - and to be uprooted, that brings about a our people." . Ethiopian J ewry leaders had charged that wit hout financial help." fearful reaction." Citing "the extreme sensitivity of the "established community ,yas Residents Relocated When asked how negotiations were officialdom in the area," officials stressed insensitive to. the problem." Shoshana On Monday t his week, 130 elderly going and that t he strikers had accused the need for secrecy until the operation is · Cardin, the incoming president of CJF, residents were relocated to area hospitals Home officials of refusing to meet with completed. T hey specifically asked that responded, "We a re doing everything we where they could continue to recieve them, Edelstein said, "We've put in a call ·t he names of the countries involved and can without jeopardizing ariyone." medical treatment. Watching t he to them that they've refused to answer. residents board the van in the cold was a We've offered them a 9.5 percent pay Thousands Of Falashas Rescued· sad sight. Dressed in heavy winter coats increase spread over t hree years, which and shivering as the automat ic doors of they've also rejected. There has got to be (JTA) - In a dramatic, secret operation, together to set up the complex logistic for the home opened and closed, the residents flexibility on both sides. T he truth of the Israel · has rescued thousands of black the humanitarian mission. American I watched were clearly t raumatized by the matter is that we just don't have the Ethiopian J ews - who claim a bloodline officials also urged news organizations move. financial base. T he community gives us reaching back 2000 years to t he union qf that found out about the operation, not to "This is so upsett ing," one resident, an money, that's true, but they cannot give the queen of Sheba and King Solomon - print the· story prematurely and. thereby elderly woman, told me. "This is my and give and give - the well runs dry. from refugee camps in Sudan where many jeopardize its continuation. home. I live here. This is my life here. I And here at the Jewish Home for the were dying. The first large-scale airlift, of 1000 a · shouldn't have to move. It's wrong." Aged, workers are paid significantly larger Unmarked planes landing at night at week, started on November 24. During the For the remaining 130 residents still t han any nursing home in the state." Khartoum and boats pulling in early stages of the expanded exodus, a living in the Home, life seems to be going Meanwhile, outside the home, the surreptiously along the Red Sea coast near senior American official commented: on as usual.
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