I . I ' . 11 J£Wl SH Hl STOR 1 CAL ASSOC•- R • l • 209 ANGELL ST•- Support .Read By Jewish More Than Agencies 35,000 With Your PeopJe Membership THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEW/SH WEEKLY IN R. /. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. VOL,LIV-.NO, 32 ·FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1970 15c PER_COPY 16 PAGES Report Virtually No Celebration Reports Indicate Despite Trouble, Israel Has Of High Holy Days In Poland U. S. Prime Source Ninth Record Tourist Month Of Immigration TEL AVIV - Despite a A Ir II n e s serving Israel LONDON 'There was In I 968 under the guise '1 anti­ September marred by aerial showed a very mixed picture virtually no celebration of the Zionism. Jews were purged from TEL AVIV - Official records hijackings, the Jordan civil war following the hijackings that took High Holy Days or the Sukkos virtually every public office and released here Indicated that the and a ch o I er a scare In place In early Sep_!ember. El Al, holiday by the few remainlng responsible position, especially lht!ted States has become the Jerusalem, Israel managed to which foiled a piracy attempt Jews In Poland, according to In the commW!lcatlons media. prime source of Immigration to rack up another record tourist when Its on-board security word re ac hlng here 'from Most Polish Jews have emigrated Israel. In the first nine months of month, Its ninth In succession. guards went Into action, Warsaw. The only religious to Western European coimtries. 1970, 6,129 Americans settled In Official figures show that reported a dramatic 53'lp Increase services were thpse organized by 'The Yiddish State 'Theater In 8 In September volume, with the residents of Jewish homes tor W a rs aw opened Its season Israel, account1!!g for more than total of 30,522 visitors arrived In 20 percent of the Immigrants who Israel last month, compared with passenger traffic zooming from the aged In Warsaw and Lodz on dlrecdy after Yorn Klppur as It 29,638 In the 1969 month to Rosh Hashana and Yc;>m Ktppur. has done traditionally for years. arrived this year. 29,500 tn the 1969 month. If the 1lle 3,729 Jews who emigrated - 1,000-visltors-a-day rate keeps 45,294 this year. But there was nothing new In the 'IWA, which next to the Israel Unlike past years when many repertoire which consists of from France, ranked France up, 1970 will go down In the books the t national carrier hauls the largest younger Jews from outside adaptations of the classical second In llS of nations as Israel's best tourist year. number of air travelers to and sending persons to Israel. During tne January-September attended the services at the Ylddl sh wrl ter s and old bnml:;ratlon from the lhtlted from Israel, showed a gain of 20% homes, the worship this year was mainstays of the Yiddish theater States has been on the Increase 1970 per I od' Isr a e I has In Its Tel Aviv traffic last rnonth. confined to the Inmates. Most such as Peretz Hlrshbeln and since the Six-Day war. Following registered a total of 353,385 Swlssalr reports that Its volume young and middle aged Jews have Abraham Goldfaden. 1lle holidays the war of Independence In 1948 tourists, a J11mp of ~ over the for September grew by close to departed Poland during the past were Ignored by localauthorltles, up until 1967 only 8 llnle more comparable span last year. 30% over the same period a year two years In the wake of an some of whom had been Invited by than one percent of the Though traffic Is still setting ago. the Jewish clubs In Warsaw, officially Inspired anti-Jewish Immigrants, an annual Influx of records here, the Impact Is not Both carriers had planes campaign Instituted by the regime Lodtz and Bialystok. 600 to 1,200 came from the as strongly felt because of hijacked to Jordan last month and lht!ted States and approximately Increases In over-all capacity. subsequently put guards aboard half left Israel la!Er. The figure For the first part of the their aircraft. Hadassah, Students Clash rose to 2,094 In 1967 and to 4,617 Jewish High Holy Days, hotel The general forecast for In 1968. In 1969, figures Indicated occupancy In Tel Aviv was tourism here In the remaining a rise to 6,020. generally down by 20 - 30<,I; from part of October and rest of Over Question Of Soviet Jewry Retired persons comprised a last year's levels. In Jerusalem, November Is rather clouded. NEW YORK - Mrs. Max from you. You as youth have no large percentage of Americans where a cholera scare further Many cancellations followed the Schenk, president of Hadassah, right to come and see us. You· emigrating here prior to the Six- dampened vi sl tor volume, hijackings and the Jordan civil criticized the Student Struggle for should be Involved, but work Day War, while the number of business was off 25 - 50<,I; on the strife, but some bookings have Soviet Jewry last week as being through the organized channels. highly educa!Ed and skilled people average. been resisted. Intransigent, misguided and There are conventional ways of In their prime was at a minimum. Now the average age Is 34, and 38 1/ . Immature. In an Interview the doing It." head of the Women's Zionist But Mrs. Schenk said she percent are pr'1esslonals or Organization of America would be willing to meet again h I g h I y skilled workers; the Kidnapped Israeli Becomes expressed outrage at the SSSJ' s with the students on -the average In Israeli society Is 13 "storming the building" to "tell recommend a ti on of Rabbi percent. 1lle Six-Day War Almost Forgotten Victim us what to do" about the plight of Herschel Schachter, chairman of created a new awareness and Soviet Jewry. the American Jewish Conference consciousness of Jewish tradition TEL AVIV· Nearly II months Lebanese government responsible "'They are very young kids on Soviet Jewry. "We are and culture among Americans after he was kidnapped by Arab because his kidnappers came with very decent and honorable constantly In tnuch wl th Rabbi who had never been formally guerrillas In the dead of the night from Lebanese territory. The Intentions-, but a little Schachter," she added. Mrs. affiliated with the Zionist from his watchman's post at government so far has publicly m Is guided," she declared, Schenk said the SSSJ members movement of Jewish groups In Metullah, In Upper. Galilee, 50 retused to negotiate with the adding: "Certainly youth Isn't acted as If "Soviet Jewry Is going this country, officials said. year old Shmuel Rosenwasser has guerrillas. going to tell us what to do. I don't to the gas chamber because of become an almost forgotten The I r Identification with victim of the deadly Middle East have to prove Hadassah's Hadassah." Israel was stimulated largely by st rug gl e. Efforts, so far 700 Orthodox Take Interests In all matters that their great concern when the concern world Jewry." Arabs threatened to annihilate the fruitless, to secure his release Part In Study-Groups The group presented their Wa-rsaw Cemetery state In 1967 and by their elation were overshadowed by the wave case for Increased Hadassah of airline hijackings In September NEW YORK - Seven hundred over the Jewish victory, Orthodox youths and adults activity on Soviet Jewry to Mrs: In Need Of Repairs according to the report. 'Ihls love and the subsequent ~nse Rose Matzkln, head of the Zionist negotiations for the release of the participated In study programs In LONDON - The Gensza St. and pride of Israel has been Israel this year under the Affairs Committee, ·and to Mrs. coupled with some nearly 300 passengers and crew c emetery, the only Jewish members held hostage by auspices of the Torah Education· Schenk. 1lle suggestion~ were for dlsllluslonment with the U.S. an ''internal committee to insure Institution In Warsaw that the terrorists In Jordan. and Culture · Oeparonent of the Nazis did not have time to "If immigration increases." a Jewish Agency, It was ,announced massive attendan~ at rallJes": new arrival said, "you'll have to Then Israel released two high destroy, Is In a state of serious ranking Algerian nationals It had by Dr, Emanuel Rackman, Jewish the allotment of "meaningful thank the Black Panthers and the funds" to the American and New disrepair, f1lled with litter and detained last August when their Agency . Executive member and overgrown with weeds, the other Jew-haters who are making British airliner landed at Lydda. chairman of the ·Torah York Jewish Conferences on life In America hell." Soviet Jewry, of which Hadassah Y I d d I i; h weekly Folkstlmme Mrs. Ida Rosenwasser said the Department' sAdvlsory Is a charter member: the regular rePQrted from Warsaw this week. 1lle continuing Ar ab-Israeli freeing of the Algerians raised Committee. distribution of " Soviet Jewry The periodical, a publication war has not discouraged hopes she would soon see her Zvl Assael, flrector of the action programs" to local of the Jewish Culrural and Social Americans from settling. "In husband. But apparently there Torah Department In North Hadassah chapters, and the Association, attributed the poor America our borders are safe but was no exchange agreement. Mrs. America,· said that 400 students, state of the burial ground to the appointment of a fulltlme 0 Rosenwasser spoke to newsmen educators and rabbis participated fact that- most Jews have left our cities aren't, another said.