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Jewish Groups Form Lawyers
Corps to Serve in South
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The
American Jewish Committee
and the American Jewish
Congress are among seven
major civil rights organiza
tions that have joined in
forming corps of volunteer
lawyers who will serve in the
deep South this summer to
protect the legal rights of
anti-segregation demonstra
tors and Negroes seeking the
right to vote. Edwin J. Lukas,
national affairs director
of the American Jewish Com-
mitee and Leo Pfeffer. A. I.
Congress general counsel, are
among the founding members
of the Lawyers Constitution
al Defense Committe, a kind
of “Lawyers corps” modeled
after the Peace Corps.
Leading Catholic and Pro
testant constitutional authori
ties, along with the major
anti-segregation groups, are
participating in the group,
which will operate in Ala
bama, Florida, Georgia, Loui
siana and Mississippi from
June 15 to September 30.
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol. XXXIX
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1964
NO. n
micom x Has change of Heart Arrest Jewish Congress Leaders
Says Negroes Should Af WoH(fs Faj p,^ eted Jordan
Emulate The Jews
NEW YORK, (WUP)—"Hie American Jews have raised their own
status in this country through their philosophical, cultural and psycho
logical migration to Israel."
Thus declared Malcolm X at a press conference here last week fol
lowing his return from a pilgrimage to Mecca and African natiora.
Calling upon American Negroes to emulate the Jews, Malcolm X—
hitherto looked upon as being anti-Semitic and the cause of anti-Semitism
in Harlem—added that "the Jews have strengthened their own group
consciousness and their own individual consciousness as Jews through
their strong emotional attachment to the State of Israel. This close asso
ciation with Israel,” he added, "has intensified the individual Jew’s per
sonal identification with the great Jewish historical tradition, and he knows
who he is as a man. This knowledge of one’s self has enabled the Jew
to become a highly effective man in this society and explains the psy
chological foundations of his tremendous success.”
Stating that the Jews are heirs to one of the world’s greatest tradi
tions, Malcolm X said that “they are conscious of this tradition, proud
of it, and in a sense can never feel inferior to any other people. This
is not true of the American Negroes, who don’t know their past and
are therefore made to feel inferior.”
Macon Sets New Record
For Israel Bond Sales
MAOON — The Macon Jewish
Community this past week help
ed set a new Israel Bond sales
record when over $25,000 in Is
rael Bonds were sold. Headlining
the Dinner program was Milt
Moss.
Serving as Toastmaster for the
dinner was Dr. Julian Morgen-
stem, president emeritus of the
Hebrew Union College.
Dr. Morgenstern spoke eloqu
ently, relating the needs of Israel
and what the American Jewish
Community can do to assist them
through State of Israel Bonds.
William A. Greenebaum served
as chairman of the Macon Is
rael Bond Campaign.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Rabbi Joac
him Print, president of the Ameri
can Jewish Congress, and 11 other
persons, including his wife and
other national officers of the AJC,
were arrested Monday at the New
York World’s Fair after they staged
a picketing demonstration m front
of the Fair’s Jordanian Pavilion,
protesting against a mural painting
in the Jordanian exhibit which they
termed a “Mbel” against Israel and
the Jewish people.
They were arraigned before Judge
Bernard Dub in, of the Criminal
Court of Queens County, and paroled
without bail in their own recogniz
ance, pending the filing of motions
by their special counsel, Howard M.
Squadron. He told Judge Dub in be
will challenge the constitutionality
of the Fair’s ban against picketing.
Hie case was adjourned to June 16.
Dr. Prinz had previously re
quested a permit to picket the
Jordanian pavilion, and was de
nied such authorization by Robert
Moses, president of the Fair.
Hiis morning, Dr. Prinz and the
eleven others appeared at the Fair
entrance with picket signs. Police
men told them they would not be
admitted with the banners. They
then left the signs and entered the
Fair grounds. Proceeding to the
front of the Jordanian pavilion,
they started marching to and fro.
One of their number, C. Irving
Dwork, national secretary of the
American Jewish Congress, lifted a
picketing sign reading: "Hie
American Jewish Congress Urges
Peace Through Understanding —
Jordan Incites War Through Bigo
try.” Hie Fair’s official slogan is
"Peace Through Understanding.’’
When a Fair security officer
ordered Mr. Dwork to lower the
banner, and the latter refused to
do so, all members of the group
were arrested. All but Mr. Dwork
were charged with disorderly con
duct. He was charged additionally
with "resisting arrest."
Those arrested, in addition to
Rabbi and Mrs. Prinz and Mr.
Dwork, included: Theodore Bikel,
a prominent singer and actor;
Theodore Kolirti, a national vice
president of the AJC; Mrs. Howard
Levine; Harry Schaefer, another
AJC national vice president; James
H. Scheuer, chairman of the AJC
executive committee; Mrs. Benja
min Spiegel; Mrs. Martin Stein
berg; and two other national vice
presdents, Robert Wecfasler and
Theodore Mann.
Rabbi Prim aai al the ethers
were held ia the Fair’s pence de
tention ream far ever as hoar,
then takes la a police wagoa, hand
cuffed, to the Qaeeaa Ceaaty Court
House. There, they were placed la
sae cell They were provided with
loach, cewetstlag of seep aad bread
hot were set gives aay spsiaa. For
three hours, aatll their arraigameat,
they sat er stood hi their cell, stag
ing various esags iarindtag an aid
Negro spiritual, "Go Down, Mooes.”
Prior to entering the Fair grounds.
Dr. Prinz issued a statement in
which he declared that the material
displayed in the Jordanian pavilion
wae "designed to obscure the truth
about Arab refugees.” He called
the mural “offeurive and malici
ous,” saying it was "a cynical ef
fort ta use the refugees for politi
cal purposes, a libel ef the Jewkh
people." Hie AJC, he said, “pro
tests the use of the World’s Fair to
promote hate propaganda."
European Parliament Hails
EEC Pact With Israel
Brooklyn Jewry Starts
Patrol Against Thugs
Associated Press Dispatch
NEW YORK—A fear-ridden com
munity of Jews in Brooklyn is op
erating a mghtly radio car patrol
to protect its 66,000 people from
marauders. Jewish leaders charge
the attackers come from a predom
inantly Negro Bedford-Stuyvesant
section, which adjoins the Jewish
neighborhood.
Bach of four cars with two-way
radios is manned by six young men
over 21—“all strong’’ although not
armed—says Rabbi Samuel Schrage,
a leader among the Haskhc Jews in
Ocwn Heights.
Rabbi Schrage said the patrol cars
are used primarily to provent trou
ble.
“In case of trouble, our people try
to overwhelm the attackers by sheer
weight of numbers If it is beyond
their capacity, they cat! us on the
radio and we call the police,” the
Rabbi said.
The Hasidic Jews decided recent
ly to fight their tom centers and
formed a group of about 100 volun
teers named the Maccabees of the
Community.
The Maccabees were a Jewish
family that led a fight for religious
freedom when the king of Syria at
tempted to force Greek culture upon
Judea in the second century, B.C.
Hasidic men wear beards, side
curls, wide-brimmed Mack hats and
long black coats — customs they
brought from the old world.
Rabbi Schrage said the tightly knit
community in Crown Heists—one of
several Hasidic neighborhoods in
Brooklyn—has been virtually house
bound by fear since it heard that
a rabbi’s wife had been dragged
from her apartment at knife-point
try a man who tried to rape her two
weeks ago.
Beatings and robbings of a num
ber of men and women in the neigh
borhood led the religious and com
munity leaden to organize the radio
car patrol. A group of Negroes re
cently attacked children at a Jew
ish religious school headed by Rabbi
Schrage.
Hasidic leaden are reluctant to
identify their tormentors as Negroes
But they say that most attacks are
made by residents of the Bedford-
stuyvesant section.
Non-Jewish sympathizers — 12
whiles and 8 Negroes—have volun
teered to man the radio patrol cars
on Friday nights, the start of the
Jewish Sabbath. The can operate
from 3 p m. to 5 a. m. They make
regular radio reports to Maccabees
of the Community headquarters on
street conditions.
The telephone number of the
patrol headquarters is being circu
lated throughout the community so
that Jewish residents who plan to
be out at night can call for protec
tion.
Bias Among Realtors
CHICAGO. (JTA) — Anti-Jew ish
bias still exists among real estate
operators in the suburbs north of
this city. A. Abbot Rosen, Chicago
director of the B’nai B’nith’s Anti-
Defamation League, has charged
here.
Addressing a conference on "ac
ceptance and exclusion” of Jews,
sponsored by Lake Forest College
and the ADL, Mr. Rosen declared
that it has been estimated that at
least three of 10 properties recently
offered for sale or rent in the
Evanston-North Shore district were
"closed to Jews” as well as to
Negroes.
"Of the hundreds of complaints
of housing discrimination against
Jews on the North Shore which we
have received,” he said, “there has
always been a real estate firm
articulating the restrictions. Real
tors have imposed restrictions on
their own initiative. They see in
such actions nothing inconsistent
with their plea of ‘freedom for
property owners’."
L
STRASBOURG (JTA)—The Euro
pean Parliament consisting of 142
parliamentary members of a num
ber of European countries approved
here this week a resolution bailing
the trade pact between Israel and
the European Economic Community
and urging that the EEC take fur
ther steps to protect Israeli exports
which were excluded from the agree
ment.
The resolution proposed tint the
agreement be considered “a first
step in commercial and economic
relations” between the ax-nation
Buromart and Israel and k noted
"that nothing yet has been decided
about certain problems which are of
fundamental interest to Israel.” The
resolution labeled as “imperative’'
that any future agreements “with
other third country exporters of
oranges do not include, in the mat
ter of importing of oranges by the
EEC, any (fec-rims natory ruling with
regard to Israel.”
Some members of the Parliament,
in discussion preceding adoption of
the resolution, called for ackntaskm
of Israel into the Eunomart as an
associate but the resolution did not
go that far. It referred to the mix
ed committee set up under the pact
Ruben stein Honored
JERUSALEUM, (JTA) — The He
brew University this week formally
opened its new Department of
Musicology In the presence of the
famed American pianist, Arthur
Rifoenstein. The Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra has endowed a chair in
honor of Mr. Ruhenstein. who al
ways refused to accept fees for his
many appearances with the orch-
to knptement the agreement and
hear any Israeli complaints and it
urged that the mixed rnmrnkfne also
be given authority to formulate
proposals "with a view to extending
its fields of implementation” and to
suggest "efficient formulae to aotve
pending queattons.”
The Parliament met in plenary
session to dtecues a report by P. A.
Blatsse, president of the EEC ex
ternal trade commission, in which
he stressed the political importance
at the HEC-Israei agreement despite
“its mode contents.” The agreement
provides tariff conccariona on a num
ber of Israeli exports to Euromart-
Like other' aai(i i, he described
the fact as only a beginning, a first
step in EBC-hraei relations, and
he added that It was necessary for
Israel to f until we to develop exports
of Its oranges to the Buromart coun
tries. The pact does not Include
tariff conceations on oranges.
Two of the speakers touched on
the political aspects of Israel’s re
lationship wttfa the EEC. Louis Ter-
rennoire. a done awn Hate of French
President Charles de Gaulle and
former French Cabinet member, se
verely criticised Soviet Premier
Khrushchev for Ms anti-Israel dec
larations in Gabo this week. He call
ed lor European support for Israel
“at this difficult hour In her Ms-
troy.”
The Gflutist leader afoo dted tbs
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against Israel and that be wm
therefore happy shout the "psBtioal
value” of the EEC lwnei apwneat
He skid also that while bsswdb-
•ppofatod fay the “peor contents” of
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