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Jews, Protestants, Catholics
Set Anti-Poverty Body
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Jew
ish, Protestant and Catholic
groups formally established this
week a united front in the war
against poverty by forming an
Interreligious Committee Against
Poverty at a meeting here. Join
ing in the creation of the 45-
member committee were the
Synagogue Council of America in
cooperation with other Jewish
groups, the National Council of
Churches and the national Catho
lic Welfare Conference.
Louis Stem of Essex County,
N. J., past president of the Coun
cil of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds, and Rabbi Sey
mour Cohen of Chicago, president
of the Synagogue Council of
America, are among the co-chair
men of the committee.
The committee will not be a
programming agency but will en
courage, evaluate and coordinate
efforts in the anti-poverty war,
Mr. Stem and Rabbi Cohen de
clared. Jewish groups have been
extremely active in community
action programs against poverty
since the Economic Opportunity
Act was passed in 1964. The
committee will meet at regular
intervals and will have head-
quarjiers here.
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XU
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1966
NO. 4
Briefs...
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Sen.
Everett Dirksen, the Senate mi
nority leader, disclosed he plann
ed to force a fight in the Sen
ate in a bid to overturn the latest
President Johnson, Chief Justice Warren
Take Part in Truman Peace Center Event
U. S. Supreme Court ban on
prayers in public schools. The Il
linois Republican leader told the
Washington chapter of Sigma
Delta Chi, the professional jour
nalism society, that he did not
intend “to let nine men tell 190,-
000,000 Americans, including
children, where and when they
can say their prayers.” He de
clined to reveal any details of
his planned Senate battle.
The action which aroused Sen.
Dirksen was the ruling of the
court last December 13 rejecting
an appeal from a group of par
ents in Queens who had asked
that their children be allowed to
pray voluntarily in their class
room.
MUNICH (JTA)— The news
paper Abend-Zeitung charged
that the Ku Klux Klan has en
rolled 2,000 members among
United States forces stationed in
West Germany and that the
Klansmen have acclaimed Hitler
as “an idol.” U. S. Army head
quarters in Heidelberg denied
knowledge of Klan activity in
West Germany and said that ex
istence of any group within the
Army numbering 2,000 could not
go unnoticed. The Army said it
would not permit KKK activity
of any kind among United States
soldiers.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (JTA)
—Plans to establish in Israel a
Harry S. Truman Center for the
Advancement of Peace, the first
project of its kind, were an
nounced here at ceremonies at
tended by President Johnson
and other dignitaries.
The multi-million dollar cen
ter will be dedicated to the ap
plication of scientific methods to
determine and prevent the causes
of war. Others attending the
ceremonies were the former
President, Chief Justice Earl
Warren and many other leaders
of the United States and Israel.
To be situated on the campus
of the Hebrew University in Jer
usalem, the Center will award
an annual $50,000 Truman Center
Peace Prize as part of its anti
war program
President Johnson devoted his
address at the ceremony to
major domestic and foreign is
sues. He did not mention the
fact that the Truman Center will
be located in Israel. He lauded
Mr. Truman, declaring he had
come to Independence for the oc
casion to be with “one of the
world’s most persistent searchers
for peace.” The ceremony was
held in the auditorium of the
Truman Library here.
Among those attending the
event was a White House group,
more than 30 founders of the
Center, each of whom contributed
$100,000; Dr. Eliahu Elath, pres
ident of the Hebrew University;
Ambassador Arthur Lourie, dep
uty director general of the Israel
Foreign Ministry, who flew here
from Israel as personal represen
tative of Premier Eshkol; Avra-
ham Harman, Israel’s Ambassa
dor to the United States, rep
resenting President Shazar, and
Samuel Rothberg, chairman of
the board of American Friends
of the Hebrew University, spon
sor of the event here.
Chief Justice Warren said that
many nations had great acad
emies devoted to the art of war
but that the Truman Center was
“the only such peace institute I
know of which will be part of a
great university."
Mr. Truman told the assem
blage that “the first order of
mankind is to abolish war” and
that he hoped the Center would
bring to each founder “the en
during satisfaction of having par
ticipated in an undertaking des
igned to save us from ourselves.”
The Center will be housed in
a $10,000,000 structure. It will be
designed through an internation
al architectural competition. It
will be interfaith, interracial and
supranational, governed by an
international board to be chosen
from statesmen, scholars, clergy
men, United Nations officials,
writers and others. There will be
12 permanent faculty chairs de
voted to the study of peace.
Dr. Elath invited Mr. and Mrs.
Truman to see the Truman Cen
ter at work. He said the Center
would carry orf studies and re
search in subjects relating to in
ternational relations, such as in
ternational law, comparative re
ligion, political theory and phil
osophy. He said special projects
would draw on Israel’s experi
ence in social and cultural in
tegration.
He said that the Truman Cen
ter would seek to contribute to
“the friendly relations and bet
ter understanding already hap
pily existing between the Israeli
and American peoples.”
Lourie told the meeting that
Premier Eshkol regretted that he
could not leave Israel to attend
the event because of the pressure
of internal affairs. He lauded
Mr. Truman’s role in helping to
rescue the remnants of the con
centration camps and for his ‘im-
List Founders of
Truman Center
Chattanooga La unches 1966
Welfare Federation Campaign
CHATTANOOGA — Plans to
raise $110,000 in the Chattanoo
ga area for the 1966 Jewish Wel
fare Fund Campaign were an
nounced by Meyer Siskin and
M. B. Seretean, general and as
sociate chairmen of the drive
respectively.
Funds raised in the Campaign
are to be distributed to the
United Jewish Appeal which is
the major beneficiary, other
overseas causes, national agen
cies and a portion of the funds
will be kept locally and region
ally to provide needed services.
Meyer Siskin explained that
the largest part of the funds will
go to provide assistance to a
stepped-up program to help Is
rael absorb 200,000 disadvantaged
immigrants from North African
and Asian countries settled* in 21
new development towns estab
lished throughout Israel. Funds
will also provide large-scale aid
to transport and settle an anti
cipated 55,000 Jewish immigrants
from distressed areas of Europe,
North Africa and Asia, in Igrael
and other lands of the free world.
Increased aid for some 400,000
Jews in dire need in various Mos
lem countries and in Europe is
•Iso required.
M. B. Seretean pointed out
1 “the most crucial human
iblem we face in the coming
is to make substantial prog-
perishable contribution” to the
restoration of Israel. Mr. Lourie
also lauded President Johnson’s
participation, calling him “a most
consistent, sincere and under
standing friend of the Jewish
people and Israel."
Dr. Rothberg introduced the
individual founders. At Mr. Tru
man’s request David Noyes, a
longtime friend and aid, presided.
Messages were received from
Pope Paul, President Marcos of
the Philippines, Prime Minister
Pearson of Canada and other
statesmen. Nathaniel Goldstein,
president of the American
Friends, also spoke.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., (JTA)
—The individual founder* of the
Truman Center were introduced
last week at the inaugural cere
mony held here. Each contribut
ed $100,000 to help establish the
Center. They are:
Mrs. Charlotte Bergman of
New York; Abraham Borman of
Huntington Woods, Mich.; Louis
H. Boyar of Beverly Hills, Calif.;
Yekutiel Federmann of Haifa;
Harold L. Fierman of New York;
George Frankel of Greenwich,
Conn.; Harry H. Frankel of
New York; George Friedland of
Philadelphia; Saul Furman of
New York; Philip J. Goldberg of
New York; Dr. Philip Gotlieb of
Coral Gables, Fla.; Anatol M.
Josepho of Santa Monica, Calif.
Alao, Philip M. Klutznick of
Chicago, Dr. Mortimer M. Kopp
of New York; Stanley S. Lsm-
gendorf of San Francisco; Isidore
Lipschutz of New York; Joseph
Levy of New York, Joseph M.
Mazer of New York; Samuel
Melton of Columbus, O.; Baron de
Hirsch Meyer of Miami Beach;
Jakob Michael of New York;
Joel Ostrowicz of Sao Paulo;
Julius Jack Rosen of Baltimore;
Oscar S. Pattiz of Beverly Hills;
James Ross of Youngstown, O.;
Samuel Rothberg of Peoria, Ill.;
Baron Edmond de Rothschild of
Paris;
Also Mrs. Emma H. Schaver of
Southfield, Mich.; Mark S. Schul-
man of Beverly Hills; Leonard
I. Shankman of New York; Her
bert M. Singer of New York;
Leon H. Sturm an of Rochester,
N. Y., executor of the estate of
Samuel Sturman; Jerry M. Sud-
arsky of Bakersfield, Calif.; Ben
jamin H. Swig of San Francisco;
Abraham F. Wechsler of New
York; Ben Weingart of Los
Angeles, and William Wishnick of
Scarsdale, N.lt
American President Lines
Restores Call of Ship at Haifa
MEYER SISKIN
M. B. SERETEAN
ress on true absorption—absorp
tion in depth—for scores of thou
sands of Israel’s newcomers who
are still socially and economically
disadvanted.” Despite all their
economic and national security
problems Israel’s people have
given haven to more than a mil
lion and a quarter uprooted Jews
—250,000 in the last five years
alone — and have shouldered
most of the financial burden of
absorbing the newcomers. The
very enormity of the continuous
immigration has left many inade
quacies in the obsorption pro
cess.
Mr. Seretean indicated that
there is an expected immigra
tion over the next four years to
Israel Of from 200,000 to 250,000
which will further aggravate the
absorption problem. The absorp
tion problems are most acute in
21 new development towns where
many of the newcomers have
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SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) —
The American President Lines
has now completed all the neces
sary arrangements to have the
luxury liner S. S. President
Roosevelt call, as originally plan
ned, at Haifa, and at the Egyptian
ports of Suez, Port Said and
Alexandria on its first round-the-
world cruise, it was announced
here this week by George Killion,
president of American President
Lines.
The inclusion of Haifa is the
culmination of long efforts by
the company and the helpful co
operation of the governments of
all countries involved, Killion
said. He added that American
President Lines had been led to
believe that there would be dif
ficulties in carrying out this
cruise if the itinerary included
both Arab and Israeli ports.
However, he stated, at no time,
had Egypt declined to permit the
vessel to pass the Suez CanaL
The uncertainties concerning
the itinerary of the President
Roosevelt arose from a misinter
pretation as to the status of the
vessel as a “cruise” ship, he said.
These uncertainties have now all
been resolved through the co
operation of Egypt, of other Arab
governments and of other organ
izations concerned, thus permit
ting the carrying out of the
original plan to have the vessel
call at both Arab and Israeli
ports, Mr. Killion stated.