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Vol XL
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1965
Jewish Refugees from Cuba
Land in Florida in Small Boat
MM|p HIAS SERVICE
Congress Magazine
Editor Retires
NEW YORK — (JTA) -
Samuel Caplan, editor of Con
gress Bi-Weekly since its estab
lishment as a weekly 25 years
ago, retired from that post
with the final issue under his
editorship, appearing this
week. The issue is a special 32-
page literary edition of the
magazine, which is published
by the American Jewish Con
gress.
Eshkol v
Time for
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Presi
dent Zalman Shazar this week
granted to Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol a two-week extension, to
January 9, of his original man
date to form a new Government.
Israel must have a new Cabinet
as a result of the elections last
Cushing Says Declaration
On Jews Only A 'Start'
eign Press As
sociation.
MIAMI, Fla. — Free, after their hazardous eleven hour Journey from
Cuba in a small boat, are Moisei Ojalvo (left), his wife, Basla (2nd
right) and her mother, 83-year old Mrs. Pesiel Frleder (center). The
Ojalvos, the first of two Jewish families to arrive since Castro relaxed
his regime’s exit ban recently, were reunited with their children,
Regina and Jacobo (above) who awaited them here. On arrival the
refugees were taken immediately to the United Hlas Service office at
the Cuban Refugee Center for resettlement assistance. In accordance ,
With government regulations, efforts are being made to resettle the !
refugees outside the Florida area. The Greater Miami Jewish Federa*
tlon Is the local cooperating agency in the United Hlas program.
NEW YORK (JTA)— Richard
Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of
Boston, was on record as believing
that the Ecumenical Council
promulgation on Catholic-Jewish
relations was “only a beginning”
for Catholics “to go further and
to take out of Christian literature
all that reflects upon the Jewish
people.
The Cardinal’s view was con
tained in a letter he sent in reply
to one from Charles H. Silver,
former president of the New York
Board of Education and a person-
Function of Rabbis Ebbing
In Communal Life—Hertzberg
NEW YORK (WUP) — The
American rabbi, as we know him
today, is on his way out.
This is the view of Dr. Arthur
Hertzberg himself an outstand
ing U. S. Rabbi, the spiritual
leader of Temple Emanu-EI of
Englewood, New Jersey.
Dr. Hertzberg’s critical views
are expressed in the January is
sue of “Midstream,” a formerly
Foreign Press
Elects 1 Sis
Correspondent
David Horowitz, the New
York and United Nations cor
respondent for
Southern Is-
Quarterly of Jewish opinion which,
starting with the current issue,
has become a Monthly. It is pub-
lshed by the Herzl Foundation
under the chairmanship of Dr.
Emanuel Neumann.
Dr. Hertzberg maintains that
the religious function of the rab
bi is ‘becoming ever more vest
igial.” Like the priests of anci
ent Israel, he notes, today’s rab
bis will be replaced by other
leaders. They are steadily losing
influence, he adds, and becoming
less and less of a factor in the life
of the American community.
In reply to his own question.
"Can the rabbinate survive in its
present form and with Its present
functions, Rabbi Hertzberg says:
"I think not! The rabbinate that
Jews have known for two millen
nia ended in America within the
last decade This hardly noticed
event is as historic a turning as
the beginnings of the rabbinate in
ancient Israel, when the priests
of the Temple lost leadership of
Judaism to the nascent class of
Pharisaic teachers . . ”
Rabbi Hertzberg described the
rabbi cf today as higher salaried
and less powerful than his pred
ecessor of a generation ago. He is
“no longer the only learned man
in his congregation" and is less
scholarly than his predecessor.
He is less a religious leader and
more an administrator and a pas
toral psychiatrist . . . Because
Jews will not come to synagogues
in great numbers to pray,” Hertz
berg adds, the rabbi has become
a book reviewer, an entertainer,
a commentator on cultural and
political life.”
Rabbi Hertzberg’s critique of
the American rabbi will undoubt
edly open up a hornet’s nest and
lead to a new dialogue on the
actual role the rabbis play in
Jewish communal life.
Dr. Hertzberg is a member of
the faculty at Columbia Univer
sity.
al friend of the prelate. Mr.
Silver had written to the Cardinal
to thank him for seeking Mr.
Silver’s advice before going to
Rome for the final session of the
Council this fall and for "the val
iant and uncompromising stand”
the Cardinal took in battling for
a strong draft declaration on
Jews. The final approved version,
which is now formal Catholic doc
trine, repudiates the charge of
collective guilt of the Jewish peo
ple in the crucifixion of Jesus
and deplores anti-Semitism.
The Cardinal wrote also that
the declaration was "not perfect"
but that “it is a good start. Peo
ple will forget this declaration as
years ago on but we must not
forget to follow it up to the end
that all terrible said about the
Jews in Christian literature or
all the evil insinuation against
them must be eradicated,” Card
inal Cushing stressed.
Hanukali for
Uniformed
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish
personnel in the United States
armed forces stationed throughout
the world received more than
50,000 gift-wrapped packages for
Hanukah sent by local groups in
this country affailiated with the
Women’s Organizations’ Services
of the National Jewish Welfare
Board. Many of the recipients of
the gifts and supplies for Han
ukah parties were Jewish service
men on duty in Vietnam.
Hunders of gifts, including Jew
ish books, records, sliver mezuzot
and Stars of David on chains, as
well as refreshments, were sent
to Chaplains Richard E Dryer,
Robert Louis Reiner and Harry
Continued on page 5
Erhard Confers With B'nai B rith Group
A journalist Horowitz
for 35 years, Mr. Horowitz, who
was born in Sweden, is also one
of the founders of the UN Cor
respondents Circle and two
years ago was cited by Sigma
Delta Chi for distinguished UN
reporting.
Other members elected to the
Executive Committee of the
FPA were: vice presidents —
Jeffrey Blylh (London Daily
Mail) and Jean-Paul Freyss
(Agence France Prcsse); gen
eral secretary John Cappelli
(Paese Sera of Italy); assis
tant general secretary Pal Ri
per (Hungarian Radio); treas
urer Horaeio Estol (Clarin,
Buenos Aires)
The Committee members in
clude: Peter Barnett (Austral
ian Broadcasting Commission);
Vladlen Dubovik ( Moscow
Radio); Sabina Lict z m a n n
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zoi-
tung, Germany); Max Tnk
(Dutch Radio and TV); Edwin
Tctlow (British Publications);
Fred Vaz Dias (Netherlands
Newspapers), and Richard Yaf-
fe (Al Hamishmar, Tel Aviv).
West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard re
affirmed his eountry’s continuing moral obligations
to Jewish people during Washington meeting with
Dr. William A. Wexler, president of B’nai B’rith
(renter), other B’nai B’rith leaders. The delegation
protested reeent cutbaek in indemnification pro
gram and releetanec of Bonn to begin meaningful
talks witli Israel on an economic agreement. At
left are Maurice Weinstein, chairman of the B’nai
B’rith International Couneil, and Rabbi Jay
Kaufman, executive vice president of B’nai B’rith.
I)r. Wexler will speak in Atlanta on February 8.
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.g, More
Condition
month in which the Mapai-
Achdut Avoda alignment won a
plurality of 45 of 120 seats in the
Knesset (Parliament). The
original mandate expired Dec. 26.
Under Israeli law, the mandate
cannot be extended beyond the
new deadline. The present Cabi
net forms a caretaker Govern
ment.
The main obstacle to Mr. Esh-
kol’s efforts to form a broad
coalition continues to be the in
sistence by the National Religi
ous Party that Israel’s newly
built port at Ashdod, south of
Tel Aviv, shut down all opera
tions on Saturdays. Mr. Eshkol
insists that permits to operate the
Ashdod facilities on the Sabbath
be ruled on by the Ministerial
Committee, as is the case with
Israel’s other ports.
Without the National Religious
Party and the Poalei Agudat
Israel, which were part of the
outgoing coalition, Mr. Eshkol
could form only a very narrow
coalition comprising, in addition
to the alignment, the Independent
Liberals, Mapam and the Mapai-
affiliated Arab lists. This coali
tion would have only a slim ma
jority in the current Knesset.
The Mapai Secretariat author
ized Mr. Eshkol to go ahead with
a new coalition without the re
ligious parties if the latter con
tinue to insist on conditions un
acceptable to the Premier. The
Secretariat also urged the Pre
mier to present a new Govern
ment next week.
Christain Arabs
Cross into Jordan
For Christmas
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
record number of Christian
Arabs, tourists and pilgrims, es
timated at over 5,000, crossed
into Jordan last weekend to
spend Christmas with relatives
and to visit Christian shrines.
In accordance with the yearly
practice, the visitors spent 48
hours in Jordan before return
ing to Israel through the
Mandelbaum Gate.
In Israel, Christmas was cele
brated at Christian centers of
worship throughout the country.
The major observance took place
at the New Church of the Anun-
ciation in Nazareth. In that city
hotels and tourist accomodations
were filled to capacity. Over
1,100 British tourists including
600 school children, landed in
Haifa shortly before Christmas
eve to spend three days sight
seeing in Israel.
Dallas Jews Clash
With IXazi Pickets
At Hand Dinner
DALLAS (JTA) — Three men,
two of them professed members
of the American Nazi Party,
were arrested when guests ar
riving at the Statler-Hilton Hotel
for a dinner conducted on behalf
of Israel bonds, clashed with five
uniformed, swastika - wearing
members of the Nazi group. All
were liter released by the pol
ice.
The Nazis picketed the hotel,
where the Israel Foundation med
allion was awarded to Morris B
Zale as a member of the com
munity who has done most in
the last year “to advance the ec
onomic interests of Israel.” The
clash took place when the Nazis
displayed placards proclaiming
anti-Semitic slogans.