Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1960 — Page 9
Friday, September 2, 1960
The National Jewish POST and OPINION
N.Y. Puerto Rfcans Developing Symptoms o f Anti-Semitic Virus
NEW YORK CP-O) — A social worker studying New York’s most recent immigration wave— the Puerto Ricans — came across a totally unexpected development. In Puerto Rico, where only a handful of Jews make their home, there is growing antiSemitism. This has resulted, not because of anything New York Jews do or do not do, or the propaganda of U. S. hate groups, hut is due to sentiments expressed by Puerto Ricans returning to the island from New York or coming back on visits. “What has happened,” the social worker told a Jewish Observer and Middle East Review correspondent, ‘‘is that the Puerto Ricans, pouring into New York, had to find the cheapest housing — slums. Who are the landlords? Mainly Jews. “THE PUERTO Ricans have to get jobs, and the only thing they qualify for — at least at the outset — are bottom-of-the-scale, menial jobs in warehouses, stores, and industry. And who are the bosses? Very frequently Jews. “It is a rough life, and you can see how resentment wells over, and the Jews tend to be blamed for the unhappy situation in which the Puerto Rican finds himself.” Jews, of course, with other New Yorkers, are prominent in efforts to improve the lot of the Puerto Ricans, but the language barrier alone is such a problem
that a young Jewish woman psychiatrist from Buenos Aires, who was visiting New York, found herself flooded with job offers from Jewish family services and agencies co-operating in helping Puerto Rican immigrants. THE JEWISH Observer and Middle East Review correspondent reported that with added thought having to be given to the Puerto Rican problem, Jewish organizations in the human rights field are discovering that NegroJewish relations are alsc posing something more of a problem than they used to. Two issues give the question of Negro-Jewish relations some topicality. In Harlem, Negro rights groups demanded that liquor store owners — many Jewish — should employ Negros — and not restrict themselves to white employees. The threat of a boycott was averted when Jewish and Negro leaders got together and worked out a solution. NEGRO FEELINGS towards Jews, the correspondent wrote, was quite pointedly expressed by certain Negro newspapers. Noting.the American Jewish Congress’ picketing of Woolworth’s over the sit-ins issue, these papers commented editorially that, “it was about time.” There has been close collaboration for more than a decade between the leadership of the Negro and Jewish communities on
BIBLICAL SCENES ALMOST PART OF U.S. GREAT SEAL
WASHINGTON (P-O) Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea with Moses and the Israelites standing on the shore might have been part of the Great Seal of the United States instead of the American eagle, if this concept by an early American artist, Hamilton by name, had been accepted.
The proposed seal and other historic treasures are part of a special exhibit on Jewish Contributions to American Law in the B’nai B’rith Exhibit Hall which will be officially opened to the public Aug. 28, by Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Clark.
Nussbaum Will 'Probably 7 Officiate At Sammy Davis Jr/s Wedding
CHICAGO (P-O) — Sammy Davis Jr. disclosed this week that the ceremonies at his upcoming marriage to Swedish actress Mai Britt will “probably” be performed by Dr. Max Nussbaum
of California.
Ceylon's Action Called A Shock TEL AVIV (P-O) — The Israeli daily, Davar, declared that the Ceylonese decision to revoke the accreditation of its envoy here “will cause surprise and amazement not only in Israel, but in the entire world ... It is an unprecedented thing to do when there is no misunderstanding or dispute between two countries . . . This announcement does severe damage to Ceylon’s honor and her standing as a sovereign nation ”
Nussbaum, spiritual leader of Temple Israel in Plollywood is famed for his work in seeking converts to Judaism. Among the more famous of them is actress
Elizabeth Taylor.
Following his benefit appearance at the annual Chicago Urban League Jazz Festival, Davis told The POST and OPINION that he is “looking forward” to his marriage to Miss Britt on
Oct. 1.
(Miss Britt said in London recently that although Davis is a convert to the Jewish faith, she would not convert to Judaism.)
ISRAEL PROTESTS U.A.R TROOPS IN CONGO JERUSALEM (P-O) — Israel protested to the U.N. Secretariat the sending of UAR troops to the Congo.
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civil rights, but there is a growing realization that not enough thought and attention has been given to relationships between the Negro and Jewish man-in-the-street. A few months ago The POST and OPINION and other AngloJewish weeklies printed a report by a Philadelphia Jewish communal leader, Nathan L. Edelstein on Negro-Jewish relations in the North. Edelstein noted that there have been “distressing indications of active anti-Semitism among Northern Negroes and seemingly deliberate efforts to fan its flames by some of their leaders. “STORIES AND editorials in Negro newspapers have implied that Jews are hostile to Negro rights. Some powerful figures, including Negro politicians, have attributed to Jews much of the existing discrimination against Jews,” Edelstein wrote in his -report. Analyzing the cause? of Nego anti-Semitism, Edelstein noted that “contact between Negroes and Jews occurs most frequently along a front peculiarly productive o f friction. The ordinary Negro knows the Jew as a landlord, or rent collector, as an employer, or as a retail shopkeeper whose extension of credit often places the Negro in the status of debtor.”
Juvenile Delinquency In Israel ^ot Serious 7
LONDON (P-O) — Yehuda L. Prag, head of the Israeli Chiminal Investigation Branch, said that juvenile deliniquency in Israel was, contrary to expectations, not very serious. Nearly all juvenile offenses in Israel were against property Less than one per cent were sexMiss Subways Jewish NEW YORK (P-O) — The new Miss Subways here is a girl born in Warsaw the year the Nazis invaded Poland. The new “Meet Miss Subways” poster now being put into all New York Transit Authority rapid-transit trains shows the face of pretty Elizabeth Stern with the following explanation: “Elizabeth was born in Warsaw, Poland — 1939. She was reborn at Idlewild Airport on Nov. 15, 1959. A 20-year search by her father had ended Painful memories of the Ghetto, a war and a long separation would fade. For now, Elizabeth has a father.”
ual offenses and there were no gangs like the Egyptian Cobras and other sundry recreational outlets for wayward boys in New York. Drug addiction among juvenile offenders in Israel was well under one per cent, he said. Prag spoke before the United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders here. Ephraim Millo, director of the juvenile probation service of the Israeli Ministry of Social Welfare, told delegates of a movement in Israel called "Youth for Youth.” High school students, 16-18, were enlisted to work with the social services to help in the rehabilitation of criminals.
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