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A joke current among the Jews now leaving Poland is about the former high-ranking Polish Communist of Jewish descent who announces his intention to emigrate to Israel. His former colleagues are shocked, but he explains: "If I die here, people will always say, 'Here is buried a dirty Jew.' But if I die in Israel, they will pass ray grave and say. "Here is buried a Polish Communist.' And I. want (o (lie as a Poli.sh Com-miuiisf.'"
The story reflects tlie atlitiuie of many of the refuiiees from pDlainl whom 1 met in Seaiidinavia. .Some 1.500 of them arc—in Denmark, mainly in Copenliat',cn, and ri)n;.:lily tlie same number in >oulh-i';n Sweden.
Both countrie-. Denmarl; without re.slriction and Sweden more >eleelively, have opened their borders to these .Jewish refiijjees. both because they need lorcisn labour, and al>-o for humanitarian i-c.i.sons, in the best Seandina\ian tr.ftlilion.
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Wliy have these Jews ;^one to Sweden and Denmark instead of joining the others in Israel'.' They become \eiy agpre^sive ulien this question is put to them. ropI> in'.; with another question : Why don't iyoK go to Israel ? "
But there are more reasoned an-unrs; loo. A group of students in .Maimi). Sweden, has now begun to publish a duplicated magazine ealled Spojrzenia (Views). Its first issue tries to deal w ith the matter.
Writing cynically of the " aliya " to. Copenhasen (the woid is noim-aliy used only of emigration to Israel).. Spojrzenia divides the refugees mto lour groups. These are :
Foniicr hi;;h ranking di.^ni-taiie.- in Ptdond's adinini.^ralion and academic life. These people are eommitted Comuuini.st- and therefore totally alien, if not hostile, to Israel ;
People who have contracted mi.\ed niarriaces. Many refugees liave nnn-Je\vi>h ■\vi\es or niulhers (.Jewesses v.itii non-Jew i-h Ini'^bands find it vei.v (iif ficult to obtain exit permits for their spouses). They had just discovered th.it thev wore
llenryk KowaJski, a Jewish refugee from Poland, has boon awarded one of Denmark's most coveted seliolar-sJiips, in recognition of hh brilliance as a violinist
secondela>s citizens in I'oiand What will their .-tatus he in Israel? The question. " Who is a Jew ?^" is eon^tanlly \)i-\n'i a.sked.
.Many of the inmiicrinii- .iro young people, inainlv stddinl-. They want to complete their studies, and fear th;it in I-iae! they will have to ji'in the .Arir.x instead
The final ?!oiip cnn^i-t- of opportunists who si.ucd u\ Poland for reason- of rsped;-eney. Tluy believe tlu.t anv Western country oul-ide I r;'el will be more suitable fm ;n
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Spojrzcnia's analysis i- b .ine oiit by my own experience. I adilrr-sed a large gathering of relmees in Copenhagen, and the two (|ue>tions most vehementl% aruued were: "Who is a /:w'.'"' and "Why is Israeli propai;;:nda so vicious .'igain-t us'.' After al! we harl to leave Poland because of our loyally to Israel in IflfiT : "
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communities arc trying to find answers to both these (luestinn. In Copenhagen, especially, under the atimirabic leadership of IJal-b: Bent Melchior. efforts are being made to integrate the I'cfusees into the community in any way they wishTo be intcsrided.
Kabbi Melehior has establi-bt d a special olTiee in the enmmunil;. I" lorgc linl^s between the " old ' and the " new " Jews.
In Sweden too, werk of a siniil.n-kind is being done. The s.ime issue of Spojrzenia announces that the Jewish community in Malmo has appointed a special social worker to' deal with the Polish refugees.
The Jewish Student Society in Sloekholm arranged a ver> successful seminar for the students amouiz the refugees. The magazine it-elf is being produced with the help of tlie community. Ulscnchanted
. Ne\er11ieless. manv riluuics .'.re di-cnehantcd. The next is.sue of Spojrzenia will cairy an Miicle called. "Jews in Sweden-.Are we only on Creeling Tcrsns ';■ ' The small Jewish conuniuiities in Denmark and Sweden h.a\e manv prob-Icm.s of their own. assimilation and intermarriage among them, and it is not easy to integrate a foreign a-similated group of people who have contracted riiixed marriages.
In addition, the refugees Ihen-■ehes are "difluult." They had stayed in Poland because tiiey d:d not wisli to be .Jews, but Cetieiai .Moczar and , other antiscmii(s foicibly reminded them of their ,Icw ishncss.
Nevertheless, emotionally, thev are still bound to Poland, ami many of Ihcm—quite unre.distie-ally—still hop-; to be allowed to return.
At the moment, it is expedient for them to a.'-sociale Iher.iselyes with the Jewish eommunily, but is very doubtful whether many will allow themselves to be inle-giatcd into their host eommunilii
TARGETS OF TERRORIST BOMBING.- Israeli actor Assaf Dayan, left, son of defense minister Moshe Dayan talks to El Al hostesses at Munich airport after bombing attack by . Arab terrorists. Hannah Maron (inset) an Israeli actress was iniured during the attack and her condition remains critical.
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Ashdod - A four-member official delegation of the Ethiopian Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which visited the Ashdod Port recently, said their Government "was considering the possibility of sending port workers to Ashdod to receive training.
A c c 0 m p 1 n i e d-by Haim Laskov, Director of Ports Authority, the-delegation heard talks on the advantages of the land bridge between Ashdod and Eilat. Tiiis land bridge is currently being used instead of the Suez Canal for the transport of goods between Europe and Africa. Consignmetits of tractors from Rumania to Ethiopia, and coffee from Ethiopia toRumania, already have passed through the Israel land bridge.
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Considerable emphasis is placed on aggressiveness in training, arid Israel has become one of the most advanc-
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But perhaps the most m-teresting aspect of Zahal is that although it is intimately entwmed with every facet of life in Israel, it scrupulously refrains from any interference .in public life.
Israel disposes today one of the most battle-trained armies in the world, in many ways a model of efficiency, and certainly the Air Force with the highest combat experience in the world. She is faced on all sides by enemies and IS in a state of constant war along the frontiers. By all standards she should be a modern Sparta, with at best a militaristic regime. Instead, she IS probably one of the mostdemocratic and free societies ever to have existed ip-history in time of war. This is in, many ways Israel's miracle.
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GHARMING THEM AT THE IMPERIAL ROOM. - Tony Sandler and Ralph Young, the singing sensations thai have appeared —on the major TV shows both in the Unitod Slates and Europe, They wjll be at the Royal Vlork's ^Imperial Room until February 28th.
I'ake a suave Kuropt-aii, add one American troiii tlio Br(in.\, tlic'ii t;oiitly blond two fine bai'itont' vuicos, and you get Sandler & Youilg, wtio will be at tlie Royal York'.s Imperial Room for two weeks start-in-', February 16th.
WhHi certain things in life are nic-ant to be, fate has a w;jy of steppini; in at jiisttiie right iiiuiiient. Kate did just that ill Milan, Italy in 1963. AiiK-rican born and raised Ralph Young, wa.s sent to Italy to reliuar.sf' for a reyue to Ik? pr(_'.seiitfdirr the Duiicii Hotel in Las Vega.s, Nevada. Thfif he met Tony Sandler, a iiativo Ik'lgiaii, who wis also
HEART TRANSPLANT
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Israel's first lieart trails^ plant took place on the afternoon and evening of Dec. 5.
On that day, two patients were wheeled into adjoining operating theatres- on the third floor (i.e. ground, first, second) o^^BeilinsonHospital in Petah Tikva, and at approximately 3:30 p.m. the twin operations began. . (me was dead: the other !iad been hovering between life and death for several months, and it was the heart of the first, transplanted into the body of the second, which was going to serve as the instrument to save his life.
It took about 45 minutes to open the chests of both and the two surgeons were in constant contact -- through a "runner" -- closely following the pace of the work of ttie other. The team removing the heart wastieaded by Dr. Jack Solomon, first assistant to Professor Morris Levi, who tieaded tlie second team wliich was to transplant the heart into the chest of Yitzhak Sulam, 41, an employee of Bank Leumi. During the critical time when Sulam "'had no lieart" --his own had been removed and the new one had not yet been sewed in the work of pumping his blotxl through his body and of injecting oxygen into it was performed by a heart-lung machine.
The ventricles and auricles and the shafts of the aorta and the pulmonary arteries were stitched on. At 7 p.m..ttie operationwas finished. Sulam was moved into a specially sterilized room since his normal disease-fighting mechanism had been deliberately weakened to prevent his body from rejecting the foreign lieart. This was the world's 101st heart transplant. There were no innovations here. Yet Is-r..plis were deeply iinpip<;-. sed and began following the progress of the patient with a keen interest.
To tell the truth. Professor Levi had, in the same operating theatre, performec many more delicate and complex operations on the heart. He had repaired congenital heart defects^ He had installed valves; he had (in other fields) transplanted kidneys, which, most surgeons agree, is a much more difficult and complicated operation than transplanting a heart.
Much of the public interest stems from the fact that the "heart" has been considered in a special light throughout history: as the seat of love, of hate, of all the tender and bitter emotions. It was believed that the heart was the most important organ in ttie body — although nobody can live without liver; kidneys or brain. To doctors, the-heart is merely a pump.
The operation demanded a certain conjunction ofevents-which occur infrequently.
First, a skilled open-heart surgeon must be available and highly trained. Prof. Levi, 43, had returned from Minneapd^is, Minnesotta, in 1964 to join Beilinson, a Ku-pat Holim hospital. In the U.S. he had studied the possibility of performing such an operation: one of his colleagues there was Prof. Christian Barnard. .
The next problem was to . imd a person willing to undergo such an operation. Prof. Levi was "ready one year ago to perform such an operation.?' He had one candidate, . but she "lecided agaidsl itie operation,, and, has since.died. There IS only a, 50-50 chance of survival W4ih4he new heart.
Theh Sulam appeared on the scene. He had been in and out of hospitals, could not work. He waS' admitted two months ago to internal medicine "C" which is headed by Prof. Yosef ("Jojo") Rosenfeld and stayed there a montti. It was determined that he suffered from cor- . onary occlusions with widespread damage to the lieart muscle: the papillary muscle was ruptured; he had a severe aneurysm oftlieleft ven-
.Soj'ir of the heart transplant team at Beilinson.
tricle. Mis ctiances of survival were slight. Tliise.xplain-ed to him, he agreed to undergo the operation, and he was moved to Prof. Levi's department. His family were alerted, and ttiree relatives came from aljroad: a brother and sister from France, a sister from the C.S.
The wait for a donor began. He would have to be fairly young; his heart must be sound; his l)lo<xi and tissue must match, as closely as possiljle, tliat of the recipient. The vital issue: should the family be asked if they were willinc to donate his heart' At Beilinsun, as in most tiospitals, it was decided not to ask; legally, there is no need to.
As one senior physician said: "Few families, no matter what their attitudes, can agree to such an act as their relative lies dying. They hope against all reason that he will live and do not want to discuss his death. There are oiily a few precious minutes, -- literally only minutes — to remove the heart after his death for transplant. And even after he dies, most fani-ilies would not agree. It takes a family highly oriented to-
wards thiS' particular problem willingly to contemplate the "heart" of theif'relative beating in another person's body.
There have been demonstrations at Tel Hashomer against the transplanting of the corneas of eyes. There was a not last year at Kaplan as the result of a post mortem. Everything was done at Beilinson to keep the name of the donor secret. Dr. Pinhas Koren, medical director at Beilinson said: "When names of believed donors began turning up in the newspapers, doctors at Beilinson actually feared for their safety."
Ttiere was still another reason. In the U.S. some donors' families have made monetary demands on the recipient, or his family.
Beilinson finally made sure that there was a sharp distinction between the operating team which needed the heart, and the attending physicians which pronounced the donor "dead". Only when ■•cerebral death'', the stoppage of all brain iunction was confirmed, did the operation to remove the heart begin.
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lured tor tlie .same revue. . 1-riPiii . tlie .start. Tuny and • Kaiph l)ecame •j.uihI friends and a.s.tliey worked more and muri.' toRether, they foiind their voices blendiii[r int^ a ricli and unique sound.
One nii'Jit. a prcxlucer from tlie Folies Heri^ere beard them and he quickly siL;ned them to do one of their nimil)-ers in the new edition of his show oiienini; at the Tropi-cana Hotel in I.as Vegas. In the three minutes of allotted time ttiey completely rapti-vated audiences.
Sandler & Young's Ilar-rah's openini! at Lake Tahoe was liiglilif,'hted in- the fart that comedian Phil Silvers, who had seen tlieiii rehearse, asked to intrwjuce tliem on opening iiiglit. Their debut was an auspicious success. Phil Silvers mentioned Tony and IJalpli to Polly Bergen. Polly and her hu.sbaii'l caught their act at the Sahara one evening and were so impressed witli Tony and Ralph that the team was immediately signed to appear,with tier at ttie Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas. Ttiis enga ,e-ment was a smashing success and was the first of many engagements the three would make togetlier.
Wherever tliey have performed, including top spots such as the Plaza Hotel, N.Y., Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas; The Drake, Chicago; Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco; El San Juan, Puerto Rico; Qtieen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, they have been offered return engagements. Their TV credits include Ed Sullivan, Andy Williams,' Johnny Carson, Hollywood Palace, a special with Four Star Productions, Today Show, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, Dean Martin and Red Skelton.
An evening oi poetry was held recently at the Global Village Theater. Participating in the program were author Irvmg Layton, professor of English at York University. Penelope, a pop song writer, film producer and poet also recited some of her original works. The third member of the trio was William Hawkins, a writer of music, songs and poetry. His, The Gift of Space, a collection of poems will be published shortly.
The National Ballet are now refiearsing for a West-•ern Ontario tour. Hamilton, London and Windsor will see the popular production of
Swan Lake and the latter two will also see two new ballets, The Lesson and Le Ll»up. Preparations for the National Ba'llet's triptoOsa-ka, Japan for Expo'70 in May are now underway. The company will perform during Canada Week and will give a .special performanceonCan-ada Day accompanied by the KCMP band. The National Ballet has the additional honor of being the only ballet company in the world to perform at the international fair. . .
The National Ballet will pre.sent two programs, -Homeo and Juliet and a mixed program including Four Temperaments, Le Loupand Sf>litair'.-.
Frankie Laine c\psed his tliird annual two-week engagement in the Hooka.' Ladder Club at the Seaway Beverly Hills Motor Hotel recently and on departing left a cheque for $2,015.00 for Mr. J. D. Sneddon, Administrator for the Toronto Sick Children's Hospital.
This is ttie second year that Mr. Laine has spent his Ix:-tween show time seated in the Hotel Lobby autographing albums and accepting donations for ttie Hospital.
A Late Night Kevue to be tield in the Town Hall of ttie Sl Lawrence Center for the Arts liegins on Tuesday, March 24th and will run, for a limited time.
"The Revue," says Ted War bur ton, the producer "will be a series of sketcties and musical material - fast moving, pertinent and most definitely entertaining."
"The name of Avery Sch-rieber came up during discussion about potential directors, we approactied him and he agreed to direct the show. Scfirieber is a talented and funny performer and director. He worked e.xtensi-vely with the Second City Revue in Chicago.
This past week the Hillel Foundation at the University of Toronto has beenpresent-ing Neil Simon's hilarious musical "Little Me" at Hart House.
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