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ADL Joins LCBC Budget Review
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Anti-
Defamataon League of B’nai
B’rith has joined in the coopera
tive budget review process of the
Large City Bud»
geting Confer
ence, it was
nounced t h i
week by George
Michelaon, chair
man of the
LCBC.
Welcoming
ADL on
of the 23 com
munity welfare MAX CUBA
funds that make up the LCBC
Mr. Miuhelsori commended the
League for “its wise and states
manlike decision to participate
with 13 other national and over
seas agencies in Uye cooperative
review process.” Mr. Michelaon
said that the necessary studies
of ADL’s program and budget
will be initiated promptly. “Re
ports will be issued,” he said,
“as steps in the analysis are com
pleted and specific recommenda
tions will *£e made only after
thorough cooperative study,”
The LCBC was established in
1948 Participation of the mem
ber communities and cooperating
national and overseas agencies is
voluntary. Recommendations of
the LCBC are advisory in na
ture and each member commun
ity determines for itself the ex
tent of its support for the agen
cies. LCBC reports are distri
buted to non-member commun
ities by the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds.
Cities comprising the LCBC are:
Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Buf
falo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleve
land, Dallas, Denver, Detroit,
Hartford, Houston, Kansas City,
Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee,
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
VoL XXXVIII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1963 1 NO. 10
Aviation Briefs from Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Ministerial Economic Committee
is reconsidering the Government’s
ban on charter flights to Israel
following protests from various
quarters. Among those requesting
a review of the situation was For
eign Minister Golda Meir who ex
pressed concern about the possi
bility that Scandinavian tourists
in the Middle East would visft
only Arab countries and skip Is
rael because of the ban on char
ter flights. The decision to review
the question followed reports of
a sharp drop in hotel reservations
throughout Israel.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Passengers
on El A1 airliners now are offered
the El A1 answer to Scandinavian
smorgasbord and French culinary
specialties— breakfast of bagels
and lox. The bagels will be
brought from the bagel capital of
the world—New York.
Israel Memorializes
Unknown Soldier
On Moses* Yartzeit
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Ths
Seventh Day of Adar, the tra
ditional birth and death an
niversary of Mooes, was mark
ed throughout Israel Sunday
as Memorial Day for the Un
known Soldier.
V
Spotlight on United Jewish Appeal
ALL IN ONE DAT—Less than 24 hoars after they arrive, new immigrants to Israel are moved
into clean, new flats, freshly finished, in some development town. Housing units are built in
part with funds supplied by the United Jewish Appeal to its member agency, the United Israel
Appeal—Jewish Agency for Israel.
This Front Page Emphasis is a part of The Southern Israelite’s cooperation with the Jew
ish Welfare Fund campaign in Atlanta and other Southern communities, whose major bene
ficiary is the UJA.
US Supreme Court
Decision on School
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
United States Supreme Court,
after two days of hearings, took
under advisement this week the
issue of whether classroom use
of Bible reading and recital of
the Lord’s Prayer violated the
Constitution.
A decision is expected before
the close of the current Supreme
Court term in Jane.
The issue involves two cases
appealed from state courts in
Maryland and Pennsylvania. A
total of 66 Jewish organizations,
acting as “friende at the court,
had intervened, holding that
such public school exercises
were unconstitutional. Attor-
neys-general of 19 states argued
on the other side.
Henry W. Sawyer, an attor
ney, representing a Untarian
couple, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L.
Schempp, who have two chil
dren in Abington High School
in Pennsylvania, maintained
that the Pennsylvania law that
permits Bible leading was just
as unconstitutional as the New
York State Regents Prayer
banned by the Supreme Court
last year. Attorney Philip H.
Ward, representing the Abing
ton Township School District,
sought to convince the skeptical
justices that Bible reading in
Pennsylvania was for “moral”
rather than religious purposes.
Justice Arthur J. Goldberg in
terjected that “the Bible, If any
thing, is the greatest religions
Reserves
Prayer
document the world has ever
A Bat yon read it art tor
what it Is hot tor ssmrthhig
else.” Justice Hugo 1* Black
commented that the mart pro
ductive yean of CMhttaalty
were enjoyed when the Govern
ment did net enforce raHgten,
while Christianity's wont yams
occurred when the Government
was linked with rehgte
The other issue arose from an
appeal from a Maryland court
filed by Mrs. M. K. Murray of
Baltimore, concerning daily
reading of the Bible in public
schools. Mrs. Murray, describing
herself as an atheist, said
through her attorney, Leonard
Kerpelman of Baltimore, that
the school opening prayer- was
a religious ceremony nod that
her son had suffered injury for
choosing not to participate. She
claimed the boy was spat on,
assaulted and ostracized.
During the hearings* the Just
ices displayed "-mm 1 interest
In the ease, eight of the nine
Justices entering into active
questioning and debate on the
constitutional issues. J a a 11 e e
Potter Stewart, the lone (teeni
er in the decision outlawing the
New York Regents prayer,
clashed with Justice Hugo L.
Black, author of the majei Itj
ruling.
Most Baltimore parents, said
Justice Stewart, “would like to
have this prayer for the exer
cise of their religion.” Justice
Black responded: “They want
to use the taxpayers’ money to
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State Dept. Expresses Regret Over Barring JTA Writer
(Copyright, 1963, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The State Department of
ficially agreed this week that Milton Friedman, Wash
ington correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
should have been admitted to a background briefing in
the Department on January 28, and attributed his ex
clusion to an official “misunderstanding.”
Assistant Secretary of State Robert Manning, re
plying to the protest made on behalf of the Jewish
Telegraph Agency by Philip Slomovitx, its vice-presi
dent conceded that the matter “should have been handled
more wisely.” Once Mr. Friedman had made known his
desire to attend the briefing, Mr. Manning said, “he
should have been invited. I regret that he was not.”
Mr. Manning said in his reply that he had looked
into the incident at the request at Secretary of State
Dean Rusk and stated, “I can assure you that no af
front to Mr. Friedman or to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency was intended. Nevertheless, a misunderstanding
occurred, and I welcome this opportunity to explain
the circumstances that apparently occasioned it”
TTie State Department official described the back
ground briefings held by the Department from time to
time, and pointed out that invitations to these brief
ings "are likely to range from the all-inclusive down
ward to a handful of correspondents who have a spe
cial interest in a subject or who have been seeking
individual interviews. Attendance at backgrounders is
often limited since it would be impractical in most
cases to invite the 211 correspondents accredited to the
Department.”
“The background briefing in the present case,” Mr.
Manning said, "concerned the resignation of Dr. Joseph
E. Johnson as Special Representative of the Palestine
Concilation Commission. It was set up by the Deputy
Public Affairs Adviser of the Near Eastern and Asian
Affairs with the concurrence of the Bureau of Public
Affairs, and was given by Mr. Robert C. Strong, Di
rector of the Office of Near Eastern Affairs. A small
number of reporters were invited, representing major
American newspapiers and wire services, namely: New
York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun,
Washington Post, Washington Star, Time Magazine,
Associated Press and United Press International.
“The nrinclple followed in compiling this list was
to invito correspondents who cover the Department
regularly and who had been asking questions virtually
every day shoot the Johnson matter. When Mr. Fried
man subsequently inquired about the briefing, he was
told that It was limited to those who had been invited.
This should hare been handled more wisely; once he
had msde known his interest In the subject, he should
have been invited to attend the briefing. I regret that
he was not."
The Assistant Secrtary of State denied that dis
satisfaction in the Department with Mr. Friedman’s re
porting any connection with his exclusion from the
briefing. He said that “in talking with Mr. Friedman,
Mr. Strong explained that he had not determined who
was to be invited to the briefing. Mr. Strong then
mentioned an article written by Mr. Friecknan a short
time ago. Mr. Strong questioned the accuracy of the
repiort on which the article was based, and offered the
services of his office for the purpose of cheekily such
reports in the future. There was no connection between
this part of the discussion and the fact that Mr. Fried
man was not invited to the background briefing. You
may be sure that the Bureau of Public Affairs, the
Office of Near Eastern Affairs and Mr. StrotM would
be most happy to see Mr. Friedman or any other rep
resentative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at toy
time.”
In its formal protest to the Secretary of State
the incident, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
concern that “such acts of discrimination not
peated and that representatives of this
not be barred from access to news being
able to other information media.” The
pointed out that such actions “served to
segments of the American Jewish
formation made public by the
they were esp>ecially concerned and in
the best interests of American policy