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UN Sets Cut in Forces on
Egyptian-Israel Border
(JTA) — The United Nations
Emergency Force, the police
group that guards the relative
peace between Egypt and Israel,
is being cut down further by the
reduction of its strength from the
present 4,560 men and officers to
3,959, it was announced officially
by the United Nations Secre
tariat.
UNEF’s strength had been
7,000 men and officers. The re
duction by 600 men, it was stated,
is being carried out as the result
of recommendations made recent
ly by a survey team that examined
UNEF*« operations for Secretary*
General U Thant The report had
been adopted by the last General
Assembly, which also approved a
serious reduction in the UNEF
budget. The 1966 budget had
been set at $18,519,000, down by
about $3,500,000 from the 1965
expenditures. The UNEF’s “whit
tling” process has led some dele
gations to fear that further re
ductions in money and personnel
might lead ultimately to the
liquidation of the Force.
The Southern
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Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol. XU ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1966 NO. 7
.... News Briefs LBJ Confers With
Eban on Israel
NEWARK, N.J. — (JTA) — A
society of the Newark Episcopal
■ Diocese served notice today that
church members who took part
in allegedly anti-Semitic and
racist activities of a state Young
Republicans faction may face
excommunication.
TEL AVIV, — (JTA) — A
serious fire in the basement of
an office building at 2 Pinsker
Street, at Moghrabi Square, in
the center of Tel Aviv, caused
injuries to four persons, includ
ing a child, this weekend, in
directly brought the death of a
youth whose scooter collided
with a fire engine on the way to
the conflagration, and forced the
evacuation of surrounding office
buildings.
WASHINGTON — (JTA) —
Dr. Leon Max Lederman, profes
sor of physics at Columbia Uni
versity, was one of 11 recipients
of the National Medal of Science
presented by President Johnson
in a ceremony this weekend in
the White House.
PARIS — (JTA) — A Czecho
slovak television film on anti-
Semitism won the grand prize
this weekend at the sixth inter
national television festival at
Monte Carlo. The film, “Prayer
for Catherine Horowitz,” is the
story of an American-Jewish
woman who is held by the Nazis
for high ransom and then mur
dered in a gas chamber.
Condition Grave
NEW YORK — (JTA) — An
invitation to George Rockwell,
leader of the American Nazi
Party, to speak at the Rockland
Community College, at Spring
Valley, N.Y., on February 25, was
rescinded this weekend by a
vote of student leaders of the
college.
No reason for the students’ ac
tion was announced, but several
students at the meeting warned
of potential disorders as they re
ported on first-hand observations
made at Columbia University last
Wednesday night when Rockwell
did not speak after having been
arrested on an old disorderly
conduct charge.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Presi
dent Johnson received Abba
Eban, the Israeli Foreign Affairs
Minister, at the White House last
week for a 35-minute conversa
tion. The meeting was attended
also by Avraham Harman, the
Israeli Ambassador to the United
States; Ephraim Evron, Minister
at the Israeli Embassy and Rob
ert Komer, deputy special assis
tant to President Johnson.
An Israeli Embassy spokesman
said that the President and Mr.
Eban had a very friendly conver
sation which touched on a num
ber of international questions of
concern to the United States and
Israel. Mr. Eban was also re
ceived by Secretary of State Dean
Rusk. After completing a one-
hour meeting with Mr. Rusk, Mr.
Eban said that he was pleased
by the series of talks he held in
Washington at top levels of the
United States Government, and
that “all matters which concern
Israel have been explained by
me.”
Mr. Eban said he was “happy”
that, despite the preoccupation of
Washington officials with other
matters, they found time for “a
wide-ranging discussion with me
in keeping with the traditional
friendship of the two countries.”
He said the talks involved a gen
eral exchange and survey of
problems of mutual interest. Mr.
Eban also met with Sen. J. W.
Fulbright, chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
at Mr. Fulbright’s office. He was
a luncheon guest of Sen. Stuart
Symington, a member of the For
eign Relations Committee. A
group of Senators and Represen
tatives attended the luncheon.
Mr. Eban then made a visit to
Philadelphia and from there flew
Jail Youth
For Yonkers
Center Fire
YONKERS, N. Y. (JTA)—Sev
enteen-year-old Thomas Ruppert
was held in Yonkers City Jail
on $50,000 bail following his ar
rest on charges of setting fire to
the Yonkers Jewish Community
Center last December 20 causing
the deaths of nine children and
three adults. A hearing will be
held.
The youth was released from a
hospital where he had undergone
17 days of court-ordered psychi
atric examination after allegedly
confessing he set the fire. He had
been in custody of the Westches
ter Family Court until his release
from the hospital when he w*as
immediately arrested.
An attorney filed a motion in
Federal Court in New York City
to prevent Westchester County
officials from prosecuting the
youth. Leonard Rubenfield, the
district attorney, had said previ
ously he would seek a first degree
murder indictment against the
youth.
to Ottawa where he was to meet
with PTime Minister Lester Pear
son. In Philadelphia, he received
an honorary law doctorate from
Temple University, where he de
livered the commencement ad
dress. He also was guest at a re
ception from the Federation of
Jewish Agencies.
The Foreign Minister said fit
the reception that three factors
affected Israel’s security: the bal
ance of strength in the Middle
East, the desire of the Great
Powers to maintain the status
quo there and Arab disunity.
He said that Israel would “pas
sionately welcome” any change
in international ties which would
slow the arms race in the Middle
East but reiterated that Israel
would not lose that race “what
ever the burden.”
In his address at the Univer
sity, where Judge Abraham L.
Friedman of the U. S. Court of
Appeals and Pulitzer prize-win
ning author Michael Richter also
received honorary law doctorates,
Mr. Eban linked the situation in
the Middle East to general world
problems. He said the basic
threat to world peace came from
the lagging pace of development
in Asia, Africa and Latin Amer
ica.
Frank Newburger Jr., Federa
tion president, and Jack Adler, of
the Allied Jewish Appeal greeted
Mr. Eban on behalf of 300 Jew
ish leaders at the reception. The
Foreign Minister proposed to
them formation of a Jewish peace
corps of American youth to serve
in Israel. He also suggested that
an organized program be devel
oped to encourage American Jew
ish college students to do two
years of study in Israel.
Bar Sorority
At Wisconsin U
On Bias Basis
MADISON, Wis., (JTA) — The
University of Wisconsin an
nounced here this week it has
ordered suspension from campus
activities of a sorority, Kappa
Delta, whose national president
has refused to sign a pledge bar
ring discrimination. The suspen
sion is to go into effect in Sep
tember, 1967.
University authorities said the
sorority’s national convention
adopted the pledge at its session
last year, but Mrs. Frederick T.
Morse, president of Kappa Delta,
refused to sign the pledge, declar
ing the move unconstitutional.
The campus authorities said
that the local chapter president
did sign the pledge and that the
local chapter is cooperating with
the activities of the human rights
committee here, formed by mem
bers of the faculty and repre
sentatives of the student body.
The committee noted that the
local Kappa Delta chapter has
four members who are Jewish
and one “pledge” who is Jewish.
Rabbi Morris Adler Shot
In His Synagogue in Detroit
LONDON — (JTA) — Five
Soviet men were sentenced
recently to death in Russia for
taking part in the mass murder
of Jews and others during World
War II in collaboration with the
Nazis. A sixth defendant was
sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The men were charged with
helping to kill 14,000 Jews, sci
entists, women, children, and old
persons in Russia in 1942. The
bodies were found in a mass
grave in the Caucasus after the
war.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Re
ligious Judaism in the Soviet
Union is dying but the Christian
churches “face the future with
confidence” there, an inter-faith
group reported this week on re
turn from a fact-finding tour.
The delegation said that of
three promises made by Soviet
authorities last summer to a dele
gation of American rabbis, only
one is being carried out in part.
The delegation members said that
matzah was being baked in Mos
cow and Leningrad but that there
was no evidence that other Jew
ish communities would have
matzah this year.
On the second promise, the
clergymen said they saw no evi
dence that the yeshiva in Mos
cow would be reopened. They re
ported that the promised 10,000
Hebrew prayerbooks have not
been printed although they got
an indication the books would be
published soon.
They said that the Orthodox
Church, the Baptists and Catho
lic church as in Russia continual
ly press for privileges available
under the Government “guide
lines” but the Jewish leaders do
not follow suit for fear of
“reprisals.”
The Rev. Thurston Davis, a
Jesuit, said what he saw of the
condition of Jewry worried him
“profoundly.” Dr. Harold Bosley,
Minister of Christ Church Metho
dist, said Christian groups in
Russia were “vigorous” but the
Jewish people was “much more
careful.”
DETROIT (JTA)—Rabbi Mor
ris Adler, a nationally known
Jewish leader and one of the most
prominent personalities in local
civic life, was hovering between
life and death here after being
shot on the “bimah” of his syn
agogue Saturday in front of a
packed congregation of 1,500
Rabbi Arthur Schneier of New
York, president of the Appeal of
Conscience Foundation, said re
ligion in general in Russia was
neither dead nor dying “but
Soviet Jewry is dying. The other
religions have young leadership.
The Jewish leadership is old and
operates in an atmosphere of
fear.”
He said he was allowed to give
a Sabbath sermon in the Moscow
Central Synagogue where he
told 700 worshippers that Jews
abroad were aware of their
problems.
Other members of the delega
tion were former Brooklyn
Representative Francis E. Dorn,
and Rev. Eugene E. Culhane, a
Jesuit.
LONDON, (JTA) — The old
prewar synagogue of the famous
Rabbi of Chertkov, in the Tarno-
pol district of the Soviet Union,
has been turned into a restau
rant, while the huge grounds
surrounding the chassidic rebbe’s
former court is now an athletic
field, it was reported here by a
traveler who had just returned
from the USSR.
The report stated that there
are only 30 Jewish families left
now in Chertkov, which had
been an important Jewish center
prior to World War II. The
rabbi’s synagogue according to
the man who visited Chertkov,
had been dosed down as a house
of worship a long time ago. A
second former synagogue in the
town is now used by the muni
cipality as a warehouse.
worshipers. He was shot by a
men tally-disturbed young Jew
whom Rabbi Adler had been
counseling.
His assailant, 23-year-old Rich
ard Wishnetzky, shot himself
after attacking the rabbi. The
youth is also in crtical condition.
Wishnetzky, who graduated from
the University of Michigan in
1964 as one of the highest-rank
ing students in the institution, re
ceiving a Phi Beta Kappa key
and the Woodrow Wilson Fellow
ship, was a student of compara
tive religion, studied recently at
Detroit University, a Catholic in
stitution, and has lectured on
philosophy at Wayne University
here.
The shooting took place during
Ecumenical Sabbath services at
Rabbi Adler’s synagogue, Temple
Shaarey Zedek, a $4,500,000 ed
ifice in suburban Southfield, and
is one of the largest conservative
synagogues in the country.
About 150 Protestants and Cath
olics were attending the services
as guests of Rabbi Adler.
Bar Mitzvah rites were just
being concluded for Steven
Frank, a member of the congre
gation, when Wishnetzky mount
ed the bimah, with a pistol in
one hand. He fired one shot at
the ceiling, and shouted: “In
your seats. Off the pulpit. This
congregation is a travesty and an
abomination. It has made a
mockery by its phoniness and
hypocricy of the beauty and spirit
of Judaism.”
As the congregation sat frozen.
Rabbi Adler advised all who were
on the bimah to get off. Turn
ing to those who were on the
bimah, including Louis Berry,
president of the congregation,
Rabbi Adler told them: “You all
get off. I know the boy. I'll han
dle him.” Just then Wishnetzky
fired four times at the rabbi.
The fourth shot penetrated Rabbi
Adler’s head. Then Wishnetzky
shot a bullet into his own head.
The two were taken to separate
hospitals. The youth had been
hospitalized in two mental insti
tutions but, of late, had been
living at the home of his par
ents.
In USSR
Interfaith Group Says
Religious Judaism Dying