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The Southern Israel? A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — ,tf\0 Vol. XU ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1966 t oo u °' — 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- (Continned on paee 3) 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 (Continued on page 2) 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)