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TEL AVIV [JCNSl —
Israeli seamen have returned to work after a striice which paralyzed the merchant fleet of some 100 ships for 80 days. If was one of the longest strikes in Israel's history of troubled labor relations, and the cabinet congratulated Meir .Ainit, the. transport
minister, for his firm handling of the stoppage.
The strike Caused losses estimated at S20 million to shipowners and shippers, but this is the first time that the seamen, in their long series of disputes with the shipowners, conceded virtually all of the shipowners' demands.
It is also the first time that the government did not capitulate to the sea-mens" demands, which originally sought pay increases of 70% retroactive to 1976. The seamen also
failed in their attempts to obtain payment for the time, they were on strike.
The seamen, whose pay was estimated to be some 30% higher than that received bv their counter-
Urge full rights
Irma Lindheim, 91,
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NEW YORK [HA] —
Irma Levy Lindheim. who became president of Hadassah in 1926 after Henrietta Szold. the or-gani/aiion'sfounder, ueni to Palestine., and served in that capacity until 1928. has died at the home of her daughter in
Berkeley. Calif She was 91 years old.
A staunch believer in the American pioneering spirit. Mrs. Lindheim identified the early struggle for nationhood in this country with the similar struggle of Jews in Palestine to create a national home.
Post is critical of government's
wage
Ej^cerpts from an editoriai m The Jerusalem Post, dealing with the rash of strikes that' has broksn'oot in Israel:
The obscurity that shrouds the government's wage policy seems to indicate that it has apparently learnt nothing from . the mistakes of the previous government and has added some mishandling of its own. The result is that the economy now faces the thi-eat of a wave of strikes in a nurnber of vital sectors not less severe than the experienced before last year's elections. .
The finance minister seems to believe .that verbal toughness rriay pull him through,' and that the so-called "success" with regard to the 11-week lofig seamen's strike, can serve as a modelfor the public, sector. If this is rneant as a bargaining position, it displays a singular lack of sensitivity to the public mood and a failure to p'er-ceive that it has be.cp;rne outdated.
Instead of trying to hold.
on obdurately to a wage policy that has become, unrealistic. Eriich would have been better advised to use a more generous offer as a lever to obtain the civil servants' agreement to loosen up the traditional rigid structure of the public service.
It might then be possible to introduce labor mobility within the entire sector, to break down at least some of the linkages of one group of workers to others — in short, to take a first step on the way to reforming the public service.
In such a package deal he will no doubt meet with opposition from workers-committees, but he would equally stand a chance of obtaining agreement from others and. last but not least, support- from the Histadrut.
.A native of New York, trained in the field of child study and social service, she made her first trip to Palestine in 1925. visiting numerous Jewish and .Arab settlements from Dan to Becrsheba on horseback. .A record of this trip was incorporated into her book. Immortal Adventure published by Ma-caulay's in 1928.
In 1922 Mrs. Lindheim entered the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, where she was accepted as a candidate for a rabbinical degree. From 1926 to 1928 she was, in addition to being Hadassah president, vice-president of the Zionist Organization of .America and a member of the World Zionist Organization Actions Committee. In 1930, she joined Hasho-mer Hatzair. In 1932, she helped organize the League for Labor Palestine and in 1933 became a member of Histadrut.
.After having madeeight visits to Palestine in six years, Mrs. Lindheim settled there in 1933 as a . member of Kibbiitz .Mish-mar Haemek, on th.e slopes of .Mount Ephraim, where, she remained until her recent illness when she returned to the United •States.
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York,, although the large body of the. Israeli community was "just struggling to get by."
He said the majority of Israelis regarded their residence in New York as temporary-. ".Most believe that a stay in the United States or Canada will enable them to earn enough money to leap-frog over the economic difficulties in Israel once they return."
He noted that this intention to return tends to keep the Israeli community froin mixing with the Jewish community at large. He also said that in the absence of strong religious affiliations. North ■American Jews and Israelis usually define their Jew ish identity in very different ways.
Michel Chokron. a member of the board of directors of the Montreal YM-YWHA. told the JWB workshop that the large numbersof Moroccan immigrants who came to Montreal in 1956 and 1967 encountered a highly organized Jewish community, structured mainly around social services.
Chokron said that Moroccan Je\vs. who had formerly maintained a highly structijred community along different lines, faced
major difficulties in Mon-treial because of the standard "assimilationist approach ' ■ to new Jew ish immigrants. He said the failure of the established Jewish community to consider both the Sephardic and French cultural needs of the Moroccan community had caused "tremendous problems of identity."
The result, he said, was a generation of Moroccan children who. cither because of English language -or .Ashkenazi education, could not relate to the heritage of their parents. "This caused tremendous difficulties within the family and an assimilation rate out of Judaism of more than 50%."
Chokron said that since 196'^. the Moroccan Jewish community has adopted an "integration approach" whose goal is to form a strong francophone Sephardic community within the larger Jewish community. He described the major effort being made to preserve the bond between Moroccan children and their parents, particularly through Ecole Maimonidc. the leading Sephardic day school in Montreal, and Comniun-autc Sepharde du Quebec, now an affiliated agency of Allied Jewish Community Ser\ ices.
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NEW YORK [JONS] —
More than 400,000 pounds of Passover supplies have been sent overseas this year by the Joint Distribution Committee.
The small Jewish community in Egypt received •1.000 kilos of matza, more than five pounds per per-.son, for the small, aged community.
"The community did not have sufficient "facilities for baking its own matza and asked the JDC to provide the needed supplies." Ralph I. Goldman, executive vice-president of the JDC, said.
. JDC President Donald M. Robinson praised the Egyptian government for •■facilitating the shipments of matza."
In all. the JDC shipped 3b".000 pounds of matza. 4".000 poiinds of matza-meal, 220 pounds of shmu-ra matza and 31,000 bottles of sacramental wine to 10 countries: Romania, Greece. Lebanon. Tunisia, Poland. Morocco. Portugal. Yugoslavia, Spain and Egypt.
In addition, the JDC wjU hold a community seder in Vienna for 300-400 Rus-
Solidarity rally planned for Soviet Jewry May 21
NEW YORK [JTA] —
Solidarity Sunday, an annual rally on behalf of Soviet Jews, will be held May 21 at Battery Park, it was announced by Bronx Borough President Robert .Abrams. chairman of the Greater New Y'ork Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Last year the rally at-' tracted more than .200,000 people and organizers are hoping for the same turnout this year:
.According to Abrams:' ■'The rally is being held this vear to underscore
Jewish solidarity and unity. Whether the Cause be Anatoly Scharansky, who has been held for more than a year in a Moscow-prison and faces charges of treason, or other Jews across the w orld who are persecuted; we will rally together to protest injustice wherever it exists and in whatever ugly form it manifests itse:lf."
The case of Scharansky will be a major focal point for.Solidarity Sunday. Although it. was believed that Scharansky might have been brought to trial
at an earlier date, according to Margy-Ruth Davis, executive director, "we have reason to believe that our efforts and the efforts of others involved in the Soviet Jewry movement.may have helped postpone Scharansky's trial as' Soviet authorities consider the implication's it may have in the United State;."
Solidarity Sunday is sponsored by the 85-member organizations of the Greater New York Conference.
LONDON [JCNS] —
.The Board of Deputies for British Jews has written to Ivor Richard, Bri-
, tain's United Nations representative, asking Him to ensure that the Palestine Information Unit, set up at the UN with a budget of $420,000, ' rdoes not be-cprtie a vehicle for the propagation of the aims of the Palestine Liberation Or-
' ganiziation or any of. the other tisrrorist groups as-
/Tsbciared with it."
Michael Fidler, chaii< man of the board's foreign'^ affairs committee,: spoke ih his letter of the "potential dangers of such a unit." He pointed out that the Foreign Office had
J\given an assurance to the Zionist Federation that the /British government would not co-operate with the unit.
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sian Jews, who will have arrived in the west only a day or tw;o jarlier. Children's sedarim will also be organized.
parts in British ships, ac-. cepted the rise of 12.5% offered by the government and the shipowners.
The new agreements cut the seamens' interference in the management of the. shipping companies, and emphasize discipline and the settlement of disputes by arbitration.
On the other hand, the shipowners will reinstate seamen dismissed during the strike, and the crews of ships which were sold because of the strike, will be offered jobs on new ships when they enter service.
Ships in port are unloading cargoes which were held up by court orders during the strike, and the first Israeli ship to said with a cargo since the strike left last week.
I JERUSALEM [JTA] — J
= ; Premier Menachem Begin underwent fours
S hours of intensive heart checkups at Jerusalem's =
= Hadassah Hospital and was pronounce3~ "a §
= healthy man" at the end of them. i
1 "All that we can say is that he is a very healthy i
H man," said Prof. Merv^n Gbtsman, head of |
5 cardiology at the hospital. The tests had been 1
E announced a day in advance to allay fears and i
S speculations. 1
i A hospital spokesman said the tests included 1
5 treading a treadriiill, electrocardiography under =
5 conditions of strain, echochardiography (trans- i,
= mitting impulses of ultra-sound through the body =
1 so that the intracardia structures reflect them) and 1
5 myocardial scintigraphy (the radioactive examina- =
E tion of the function of the heart). =
S Begin was struck by a major heart attack last =
S May, soon after his election victory, and suffered =
5 further complications during the summer. But 1
i since then he has been in good health. S
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