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XXXVI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1961
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NO. 11
Jewish Teen-Agers
Polled on Views
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The ma
jority of Jewish boys and girls
in Conservative congregation in
the United States and Canada
are opposed to inter-dating, plan
to keep kosher homes when they
marry and do not approve of ac
tive attempts to convert non-
Jews to Judaism.
These were some of the results
in the first student opinion poll
conducted by Our Age, the teen
age magazine of the United
Synagogue of America Commis
sion on Jewish Education. Over
2,800 boys and girls between the
ages of 12 and 16, in 80 Ameri
can cities and Canada, were
questioned. While 70 percent ex
pressed a desire to visit Israel,
few planned to settle there per
manently.
Although the majority of those
sampled opposed inter-dating,
boys had more liberal views on
the subject than girls, 48 percent
of the boys believing it proper
for Jewish boys to date non-
Jewish girls. On the question of
kashruth, however, boys and
girls joined in favor of keeping
kosher homes after marriage
Jewish Youth Urged
To Join ‘Pe*ce Corps’
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Hailing
President Kennedy's proposal for
the creation of a permanent
Youth Peace Corps to aid, by
their technical skiU l underde
veloped countries, Max Dressier,
president of the Zionist Organ
ization of America, issued an ap
peal to American Jewish young
men and women to enlist in the
Peace Corps giving as their
preference service in the under
developed areas of Israel such as
the Negev, the hills of Judaea
and the Eastern Galilee.
SjOOO Christians
From France
To Visit Israel
PARIS, (WUP) —The French
"Club Mediterranee”—a popular
institution which organizes spe
cial vacation trips during the
summer season along the Medi
terranean shores for its 150,000
members, has decided to include
Israel in its itinerary and is
presently engaged in creating a
“Vacation Village” in the Jew
ish State. 3,000 members, mostly
Christians, have already signed
up for a vacation in Israel this
year.
Senate Confirms
Meriwether to Post
Vote is 67 to 18
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Presi
dent Kennedy expressed confid
ence this week that Charles M.
Meriwether—confirmed- by a 67
to 18 Senate vote despite charges
of racism—would do a good job
as a director of the United States
Export-Import Bank.
The 18 who voted ^gainst con
firmation Included”" lTOerUfs of
both parties. Senator Wayne
Morse, Oregon Democrat, told
the Senate he had no doubt that
if President Kennedy had known
at the time Mr. Meriwether was
named all that has since been
discovered, "he wouldn’t have
made the nomination in the first
place.”
The attack on the Meriwether
nomination was opened by Sen.
Javits who said Meriwether had
shown a "lacl^ of sensitivity to
the public policy of the United
States.” It was vigorously press-
. ed by Senator Wayne B. Morse,
Oregon Democrat, who charged
that Meriwether had a police
record which the Senate should
consider before confirming him
in an important post. He read
into the record an editorial from
a leading Alabama newspaper
protesting against Meriwether’s
nomination.
When Senator Ernest Gruen-
mg, Alaska Democrat, suggested
, that since Meriwether’s views
had international implicate ns,
the appointment be referred to
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee, Senator Robertson angrily
asked him if he had made a simi
lar suggestion when the Senate
acted on nomination of a Jew
from New York. He did not
identify the nominee but was be
lieve dto have referred to Har
old Linder, newly confirmed
chairman of the Export-Import
Bank.
Parties Maneuver tor Election
In Israel Cabinet Crisis
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Presi
dent Ben-Zvi give up this week
his efforts to resolve by negotia
tion Israel’s six-week-long Gov
ernment crisis, setting the stage
for new general elections which
may feature major new party
alignments on Israel’s political
scene.
The President began prepara
tion of a letter of notification to
Knesset Speaker Kaddish Luz to
be read to the House. After that
procedure, debate was scheduled
to begin on bills calling for dis-
Simon Rif kind
To Head
Railway Study
WASHINGTON, (JTA)— Pre
sident Kennedy has appointed a
prominent Jewish leader, Simon
H. Rifkind, of New York, to
head a commission to study the
railway industry’s work rules
and practices. The commission
was established by the White
House because of the long and
bitter argument between rail
roads and rail unions over work
rules.
Mr. Rifkind, born in Russia In
1901, served as Adviser on Jew
ish Affairs to the U, 8. Army
in Europe and is a leader of the
American Jewish Committee. He
served as chairman of a com
mission established by the Zionist
Organization of America to re
vise its constitution.
Mr. Rifkind, former U. S.
District Court judge, will replace
former Secretary of Labor James
P. Mitchell as head of the im
portant commission. President
Kennedy said he felt “great plea
sure that a man of Judge Rif-
kind’s great competence and in
tegrity would accept the chair
manship.”
Georgians Will Aid
Peace Corps Creation
Funds Raised for
Hebrew University at
Miami Conference
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., (JTA)—
A $12,000,000 goal of funds to be
raised by the American Friends
of the Hebrew University for the
completion of the University’s
campus in Jerusalem, was an
nounced here at the closing ses
sion of the group’s four-day con
ference.
Leonard Ratner, vice-president
of the organization, also announc
ed a gift of $350,000 by George
Levin of South Orange, N. J.,
and Maurice Levin of Miami
Beach, to be used for the con
struction of a physics building
on the Jerusalem campus.
A $150J)00 contribution to
endow a chair in child psychol
ogy, I was announced by Philip
M. Klutznick, Sam Beber and
Nathan Manilow, all of Park
Forest, Illinois, was announced.
Several new members of the
Society of Founders of the Univ
ersity, individuals who have con
tributed $25,000 or more, were
initiated.
Morris Abram, outstanding At
lanta attorney, has been named
by President John Kennedy to
aid in organizing the Peace
Corps.
Mr. Abram, a former president
of the Atlanta Chapter of the
American J e w i s h Committee,
has been identified with the
fight for civil and human rights
on a local, regional and national
level for many years. He has
worked closely with the ADL in
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legal capacities.
He was one of the prosecutors
for the United States at the War
Criminals trials in Nuernberg.
His post in Washington is only
expected to last a few months
since he will devote himself to
legal aspects involved in crea
tion of the new agency and in
its continuance overseas. After
these matters have crystalized, it
is expected he will return to pri
vate practice in Atlanta. He is a
member of the firm of Heyman,
Abram A Young.
The Atlanta attorney has been
working closely with President
Kennedy’s Brother-in-law, Sar
gent Shriver, in the preliminaries
for creating tl>e Peace Corps.
A native of Fitzgerald, Ga.,
Mr. Abram won a Rhodes Scho
larship to Oxford, England,
while a student at the Univer
sity Of Georgia.
In 1954, he made a bid for a
post in Congress from the Fifth
District and although he carried
Fulton County, he was defeated
in the two neighboring counties
For the last several years, he
has headed the Citizens Crime
Committee of Atlanta. In 1969,
he was elected a trustee of the
Twentieth Century Fund, which
specializes in research and edu
cational activities In economic
and social problems.
solution of Parliament and the
holding of new elections.
Rejection of the President’s
concilation proposals made elec
tions inevitable and the National
R e 1 i g i o us party indicated It
would support in the Knesset the
Mapai bill to set August 29 as
the date. Such support would
make passage of the Mapai elec
tion bill certain.
Party officials spoke of “keep
ing the list open for other ele
ments who participated in the
fight for democracy,” an obvious
reference to Mapai supporters of
Mr. Lavon, who was ousted un
der pressure from Mr. Ben-Gur-
ioq from his post of secretary-
general of the Histadrut, Israel’s
Labor Federation.
The General Zionists executive
board approved a report recom
mending creation of a new Lib
eral party of General Zionists,
Progressives and a group of in
tellectuals hitherto without party
commitments who spoke up dur
ing the ouster battle against Mr.
Lavon. General Zionist leaders
denied they had agreed to name
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president
of the World Zionist Organiza-
N.Y. Rabbis Approve
Rockefeller's Plan
Aid to Students
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The New
York Board of Rabbis said here
this week that Governor Nelson
Rockefeller’^ student incentive
plan, as revised, did not violate
the church-state separation pro
visions of the Constitution. The
Board, which is an association
of 750 Orthodox, Conservative
and Reform rabbis in the New
York area, had objected to the
Governor’s original proposal on
the grounds that it might be
used to provide funds for sec
tarian colleges.
The original plan would have
provided $200 in aid to every
student paying more than $500
a year in tuition. The revised
proposal provides $100 to $300,
depending on 'need, to those
students who meet academic
tests and who pay more than
$200 a year tuition. “The merit
test, the means test and the
awarding of the scholarships di
rectly to the students on the high
school level, remove this legis
lation from the area of church-
state conflict,” the Boarcj said.
tion, as head of the _ .
Liberal party. Tha denial was
made in response to leparti Etat
Dr. Goldmann would b»
the poet, if tha marnnr waa <
pleted and if Dr. OolteMt
tied in Iaraul.
Toynbee Again Likens
Israelis to Nazis
On Arab lame
WEST CHESTER, Pa* (JTA)
—British historian Arnold Toyn
bee reiterated at a public moat
ing here this week his charge
that the treatment of tha Arabe
by Israel was morally egutvalant
to the Nazi genocide against
European Jews. He was sharply
challenged By the local rabbi.
Dr. Toynbee made tha atate-
ment in reply to a question fol
lowing his delivery of the an
nual Philipps Memorial lecture
at West Chester State College
here. The audience of 1,061 waa
mostly non-Jewish.
Rabbi Jerome Chervin of Con
gregation Kaaher Israel, the only
synagogue in West Chester, arose
when Dr. Toynbee reiterated Ida
charge and said it waa his obli
gation to “clarify a **
of history” for Dr. T
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Rabbi Chervin said ht WOuld
not go so far as to call Prodtaaor
Toynbee an out-and-out anti-
Semite, though he did cite atate-
menti by Professor William Al
bright and other lnliTieftiisl
leaders who have asserted that
Dr. Toynbee has a definite nega
tive attitude toward Israel and
Judaism.
The rabbi said the equation of
the “cold and calculated annihi
lation” of 6,000,000 European
Jews and the Israeli treatment
of the Arabs following invasion
of Israel by the “Arab warlords”
was “utterly ridiculous.” He also
said Dr. Toynbee“should open his
eyes to the fact that 160,000
Arabs now live in Israel as first
class citizens” and that Araba
served in the Knesset, Israel’s
Parliament.
Professor Toynbee replied that
the fact that he was against
something or criticized some
thing, in this case, Israel, did not
“ipso facto” make him an anti-
Semite. Rabbi Chervin replied
that he had not accused the his
torian of anti-Semitism but with
being “misguided, unjust and
biased.”
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