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The Southern Israel?
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry —
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Vol. XU
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1966
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NO. 13
For Intermarriage
Hillel Leader Debunks Blame
Of College environment
Largest Number or Jews in Uniform
Since Korea Pace Passover Festival
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation’s
annual national commissioners’
meeting recently heard a report
disputing contentions that a col
lege environment creates a pre-
disposition to intermarriage
among Jews.
A Hillel analysis said: “The
Jewish community deceives it
self if it singles out the college
campus as the focus of the prob
lem.” The analysis questioned
conclusions on the extent of in
termarriage among college-edu
cated Jews reported in recent
studies. Dr. Alfred Jospe, Hillel’s
director of program and re
sources, debunked studies which
alleged that college attendance
tended to raise levels of inter
marriage.
Dr. Jospe said that “the process
of a Jewish youth’s retention or
alienation from his faith starts
long before he is ready for col
lege—in the home, in school, in
synagogue, in the presence or
absence of a meaningful Jewish
experience in the milieu from
which he emerges. The college
experience may fortify or modify
a young person’s attitudes in this
regard, but it doesn’t create
them.”
“All that can be reasonably
said, "Rabbi Jospe declared, “is
that, inasmuch as 80 percent of
the third generation of Jews are
college students, it is inevitable
that a high proportion are found
among the 17.9 percent of the
third generation who are inter
married.”
Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, former
national Hillel director, said a
“disproportionately high” num
ber of Jewish students is engaged
in civil rights and other social
action movements, but most are
unaffiliated with synagogues or
institutional Jewish life. He said
they are motivated by Jewish
values of compassion and commit
ment to freedom, although they
are more often unaware of the
Jewish component in their own
actions.
He said many such Jewish
youth “are scornful of the in
nocuous and vapid institutional
ism they knew in their home
communities. The tragedy is
sharpened by the fact that they
are among our most precious
young people, sensitive to human
values.”
The rabbi stressed that “when
they do encounter a Jewish in
stitution actively engaged in the
battle for human rights or na
tional integrity, they are heart
ened and sometimes move to re
examine their preconceptions
about Jewish life.”
NEW YORK—The largest num
ber of American Jews in uniform
since the signing of the 1953 Ko
rean truce will celebrate this
Passover in Vietnam and at more
than 600 other overseas and
stateside LI. S. military installa
tions through arrangements made
by the National Jewish Welfare
Board (JWB). Many of these men
became members of the Armed
Forces since the recent military
build-up resulting from the fight
ing in Vietnam and will be
spending their first Passover
away from home.
Passover, the world’s oldest
festival of freedom, begins this
year at sundown Monday, April
4.
JWB is also making it possible
for the wives and children of
married Jewish GIs as well as
for men aboard Naval vessels and
and troop transports, those as
signed to missile bases and track
ing statiorfs and patients in Vet
erans Administration hospitals in
the United States to observe the
eight-day festival.
Chaplain Alan M. Greenspan,
recently assigned to the U. S.
UN Body Bans Limitations
On Nazi War Crime Trials
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA) — By an overwhelming
vote, the United Nations Com
mission of Human Rights, hold
ing its annual session here, adopt
ed a resolution calling for a Con
vention on the banning of sta
tutes of limitations regarding the
trial and punishment of war
criminals and persons charged
with crimes against humanity.
The resolution also called upon
all states “to take any measures
necessary” to prevent the enact
ment of such statutes of limita
tions, “to continue their efforts to
assure the arrest, extradition and
punishment” of such war crim
inals, and to make available to
other governments any documen
tation available regarding war
crimes and crimes against hu
manity.
The resolution, spearheaded by
Israel and solidly backed, among
others, by the United States and
France, was adopted by the 21-
member body by a vote of 19 in
favor, with none against. Iraq, a
member of the Commission, ab
stained, while Sweden, also a mem
ber, was noted as “absent.” The
three Communist members of the
Commission— the USSR, Poland
and Ukraine—were among those
voting in favor.
Another clause in the resolu
tion called upon the Secretary-
General of the United Nations to
provide to the Commission a
thorough study of the arrests,
trials and punishment of war
criminals and those charged with
crimes against humanity. The
Commission voted to give the
drafting of the Convention high
est priority before its next
session, scheduled to be held a
year from now in Geneva. The
plan calls for the Commission’s
parent body, the Economic and
Social Council, to receive the
final Convention draft in 1967,
in time for action by the entire
United Nations General Assem
bly in the fall of 1967.
The issue of banning statutes
of limitations regarding war
crimes came into sharp focus
here last spring, when efforts
were made by the West German
Parliament to allow a previous
statute to come into force on
May 8, 1965, the 20th anniver
sary of Hitler’s defeat by the Al
lies. Through such a cut-off date,
major Nazi criminals not yet
caught or tried would have es
caped trial. The Bonn Parliament,
noting the alarm of many Jew
ish and other organizations
around the world, finally compro
mised, and set a new deadline,
permitting trials for major Nazi
war criminals until December
31, 169. The Convention recom
mended by the Human Rights
Commission will, if enacted be
fore the latter date, make it pos
sible to try war criminals at any
time in the future, beyond the
end of 1969.
Ga
. Governor Lashes Out at Hate
Merchants as Cowards, Egotists
Yarmuikes OK In
N. Y. Public School
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
right of Jewish pupils in New
York City public schools to wear
yarmulkes during school attend
ance was upheld this week by
School Superintendent Bernard
E. Donovan in a rebuff to the
Board of Education’s legal de
partment.
The Superintendent's reversal
of his legal experts followed the
accidental discovery by Mayor
John V. Lindsay that such a ban
existed. On a visit to the Bronx
High School of Science, the
Mayor was asked if he knew that
the skullcaps were banned in a
Manhattan high school. The
Mayor said it was news to him
and promised an inquiry.
Military Command in Vietnam,
arrived in Saigon a few weeks
before Passover, replacing Chap
lain Richard E. Dryer, who is
being transferred to Germany.
Chaplain Greenspan and the two
other Jewish chaplains now
serving in Vietnam, Chaplain
Robert L. Reiner and Chaplain
Harry Z. Schreiner,, will conduct
Passover services (Sedarim) for
the growing number of Jewish
military personnel in that area.
■ Thpough Army cooperation, all
of the Jewish servicemen from II
Corps, including men from the
First Cavalry Division, the 2(jth
Infantry Division and the 101st
Airborne Division, will be
brought to Nha Trang, Vietnam,
for Passover observances in the
USO Club. The waitresses, KPs
and cooks will be Vietnamese.
Chaplain Schreiner, in a report
to the JWB Commission on Jew
ish Chaplaincy, noting that
“Passover overseas is always a
major project, especially in coun
tries like Vietnam,” said “Ours
in Nha Trang will "be no excep
tion.”
Chaplain Reiner, in his apprai
sal of the importance of holidays
like Passover to men under com
bat conditions, reported that
“since these holidays are tradi
tionally celebrated within the
family, loneliness is inevitable,
leading men to identify more
closely with the ceremonials rep
resentative of family and com
munity.”
Two Jewish chaplains will fly
to military bases in the North
and South Atlantic on special
Passover missions. Chapla : n Al
len S. Kaplan of Offutt Air Force
Base, Nebraska, will conduct
Passover services in the Azores
and Bermuda. Chaplain Barry D.
Sahwartz, stationed at Wostover
Air Force Base, Mass., will pre
side at Passover services at Goose
Bay, Labrador, and Harmon Air
Force Base, Newfoundland.
Through arrangements mode by
JWB’s Commission on Jewish
Chaplaincy, Rabbi Baruch
Brownstein of San Francisco will
officiate at Sednnm for tramees
at Fort Ord, Calif., to which no
regular Jewish chaplain is pres
ently assigned. Because of mili-
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Governor Sanders, speaking
before the recent annual meeting
of B’nai B’rith lodges of Atlan
ta, struck out against "merchants
of hate” (presumably the Klan),
“who create their filth from the
natural and normal differences
among men as to politics, relig
ion and race.”
“I say with sorrow that I know
of one such hate group that has
established itself in my own home
city,” he declared. “I say to them
and to any others in Georgia
that we will not tolerate their
unreason and their defiances of
all that is good and natural in
the human relation.
“We know that these pitiful
men are afraid . . not of those
groups they scorn but of
themselves. They are cowards
who cannot admit their coward
ice to themselves . . . they fear
what has been called the ‘human
condition.’
“They wish to be super-human,
to be men of stone, to be logical
computers rising above petty
emotions. In short, they want to
be anything and everything but
a man.
“You of B’nai B’rith are famil
iar with the evils of such men .
. . and you have worked to
cleanse society of their evil and
to heal their mental sickness. For
this effort you deserve the ap
preciation of your fellow citi
zens.”
The Governor’s talk was the
highlight of the meeting session
dinner when these new' officers
were installed by Joseph H.
Hanehrow, Wilson, N. C., District
first vice president.
Harris Jacobs, Atlanta, presi
dent, succeeding Nathan Jay of
Athens; Dr. A. J. Kravtm, Co
lumbus, president-elect; Anchel
Samuels, Savannah, first vice
president; Ben Hyman, Atlanta,
secretary; Nathan Jay, treasurer.
Louis Black of Savannah, Dr.
Kravtin and Mr. Jacobs were
elected to the District Board of
Governors from Georgia.
The new state association
president is one of his commun
ity’s leading young attorneys. He
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G u bernatoria I Ifuni or
This is the precise way Governor Car! E. Sanders told it at
the recent annual meeting of the Georgia Association of B’nai
B’rith Lodges:
“It seems this inquiring reporter was sampling public opinion
at a popular hotel in Miami when he confronted a Yiddishe buba.
“Tell me, buba,” sought the interviewer, "what do you think
of Red China?”
The buba scratched her head. “Well," she offered after some
hesitation, “well, it wouldn’t go good with the Sha-BOS tablecloth.”
And again in his talk:
One of our astronauts was asked after the trouble aloft had
prompted an emergency and early splash down, "llow did you
feel up there with everything going wrong?”
“Well,” retorted the astronaut, “how wmuld you feel atop
150,000 different component parts, each one purchased from the
lowest bidder!”
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITES CORRESPONDENT DAVID
HOROWITZ ESCORTS ISRAEL'S NATHAN AROUND THE
UNITED NATIONS FACILITIES. (SEE PAGE 5)