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Tli« k .Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. xu
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1966
(iirl Student in S. F. Assaults
Nazi; Wins Wide Sympathy
Coca-Cola Iss
Franchise for
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SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — A
19-year-old University of Cali
fornia student, Miss Lynda Kool-
ish, was notified that she is to
appear before Berkeley City
Judge Floyd C. Talbott on May
11, on charges of assault and bat
tery growing out of an attack
she made against a uniformed
member of the American —Nazi
Party, who had tried to address
students at the university campus
gates.
Miss Koolish told the Jewish
Community Bulletin here that,
when she saw the man in a
s t o r m-trooper’s uniform, and
heard him “harangue against
Jews and America,” she could
not contain herself and “an un-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
United States Embassy in Israel
has invited a group of editors of
newspapers in Israel to visit
South Viet Nam to observe the
war there, and the Cabinet has
decided that the Israel Govern
controllable impulse moved me to
kick him in the pants.” She said
that she has a friend who sur
vived Auschwitz and another
friend who lost both of her par
ents in that death camp. “I have
pleaded, not guilty,” she said, “be
cause I believe my action was
understandable."
The student said, that, since
she was arrested for kicking the
Nazi, she had received many let
ters applauding her action, some
coming from men in the armed
forces, and some containing mon
ey for her defense. She is de
fended by Herbert Donaldson, of
San Francisco. “Of course, I’ve
returned the money,” she said.
press.
It was reported here that form
er Gen. Moshe Dayan, a popular
Israeli war hero, was among the
Israelis invited to make the trip
as a correspondent for an Israeli
newspaper. Gen. Dayan had, at
NEW YORK (JTA)—The issue
of whether the Coca-Cola Export
Corporation has bowed to the
Arab boycott against Israel,
when it refused to grant a fran
chise to the Israeli firm, Tempo
Soft Drinks Company, was set
tled when the Coca-Cola com
pany announced that it had
agreed to grant such a franchise
to Abraham Feinberg, noted Jew
ish leader and business executive,
whose associates in the venture
will be Israeli citizens. Mr. Fein
berg is president of the Israel
Bond Organization.
A statement issued by James
A. Farley, chairman of the Coca-
Cola Export Corporation, said
that in 1949, Mr. Feinberg, with
a group of associates, received
approval from the Coca-Cola
Company of his application to
bottle Coca-Cola in Israel. "Be
cause of the difficult hard cur
rency situation at that time, Mr.
Feinberg and his associates were
unable to get Israeli Government
approval and subsequently with
drew their application in 1950,”
the statement pointed out, adding
that “Mr. Feinberg has never lost
his interest and, as recently as
March 31, predating the current
controversy, advised me of his
continuing serious interest and
renewed his request for a franch
ise.”
“In reply to Mr. Feinberg’s let
ter to me of March 31, a repres
entative of the Coca-Cola Com
pany advised him on April 1 that
we would be pleased to discuss
the matter with him upon his
return from Israel in mid-April,” ,
Mr. Farley declared. He an
nounced that J. Paul Austin,
president of the Coca-Cola Com
pany and Mr. Feinberg met to
gether and “agreed to exchange
letters of intent which is normal
procedure when a corporation
enters into negotiations to estab
lish a new franchise. Mr. Morris
Abram, president of the Amer
ican Jewish Committee, was most
helpful in working with both
parties,” he emphasized.
Mr. Abram issued a statement
declaring that he had examined
the file of correspondence be
tween Mr. Feinberg and the
Coca-Cola Export Corporation,
which goes back to 1949. “There
is no evidence in that file, from
then to the present, of any re
luctance by Coca-Cola to do busi
ness in Israel with a respected
and stable group of investors,”
the American Jewish Committee
president declared.
The Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith, which accused Coca-
Cola of bowing to the Arab boy
cott in denying a franchise to
Tempo Soft Drink Co., of Israel,
said after Mr. Farley’s announce
ment that it was "delighted” with
the Coca-Cola decision.
Jerusalem (jta>—The Is
rael Government was expected
here to grant facilities for a Coca-
Cola plant in Israel under regu
lations which encourage foreign
investors. In general, the Govern
ment has not been encouraging
the establishment of industries
aimed exclusively at production
of goods for current consumption,
and not exportable. However, it
is generally believed that, should
a Coca-Cola plant be established
in a development area, the usual
facilities for "approved concerns”
would be granted.
Recently, the Zenith Company,
of the United States, was grant
ed plant facilities after it had
agreed to establish a television
set factory at either Beersheba or
Nazareth, both of which are in
cluded among development areas.
U. S. Invites Israeli Editors
To Visit South Viet Mam
ment has no authority to inter
vene it was learned here.
Minister of Health Israel Barz-
ilai brought the issue before the
Cabinet, asking whether it was
advisable to permit Israeli jour
nalists to accept the invitation.
first, reportedly accepted the in
vitation, but then rescinded this
acceptance, fearing that if he
went to South Viet Nam at the
behest of the Americans, this
might be deemed Israeli political
involvement. Several of the Is
69 Senators Back Protest of Red
Mistreatment of Jews in Russia
Foreign Minister Abba Eban then
told the Cabinet that there was
no authority for the Government
to intervene in a trip involving
representatives of the Israeli
raeli newspapers have accepted
the invitation and have an
nounced the names of top mem
bers of their staffs who will go
to South Viet Nam.
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)—More
than two-thirds of the members
of the U. S. Senate—69 Senators
—registered their ’staunt support
of the American Jewish Com
munity’s protests against the anti*
Semitic policies of the Soviet
Union.”
The Senators took that stand
in a statement issued in connec
tion with the opening here of a
national leadership conference
under auspices of the American
Jewish Conference on Soviet
Jewry. The Conference, compris
ing 400 Jewish leaders of 25 na
tional organizations, proclaimed
a Declaration of Rights for So
viet Jewry in historic Congress
Hall, where the American Bill of
Rights was added to the Consti
tution in 1791.
The statement declared that
“the plight of Soviet Jewry has
long been a concern of the United
States Senate. On more than one
occasion, the Senate adopted res
olutions expressing sympathy for
the Jews living in the Soviet
Union and condemning the Soviet
policy of discrimination against
Jewish culture, religion and com
munity."
For these reasons, the state
ment said, the signers consider
ed it fitting as Senators, “to reg
ister our staunt support" of the
American Jewish community s
protests. The statement added
that “we must continually di
rect the world’s attention to this
state of affairs and put forward
the insistent demand that the 3,-
000,000 Jews of the Soviet Union
be allowed to live creatively and
in dignity as Jews.”
Declaring that the facts of anti-
Jewish discrimination had been
“ably presented by the American
Jewish Conference on Soviet
Jewry,” the Senators stressed
that Soviet policy “seems to be
aiming at the obliteration of the
Jewish community and Jewish
culture."
“This must be vigorously pro
tested-not only by those who
value and revere the ancient
Jewish tradition and civilization,
but also by every person who
respects the fundamental human
right of a group to live in peace
and security,” the statement con
tinued. "There are tens of thous
ands of Jews who desire—after
decades of sorrow and tragedy—
to be rejoined with their broken
families in the United States, in
Israel and other countries.”
Therefore, the statement said, the
Senators strongly supported a
plea to the Soviet authorities to
make this possible.
The list of the senators indi
cated wide American interest in
the fate of Soviet Jewry. The sig
natories are: Gordon Allott, Col
orado; E. L. Bartlett, Alaska;
Birch Bayh, Indiana; Wallace F.
Bennett, Utah; J. Caleb Bogg,
Delaware; Daniel B. Brewster,
Maryland; Quentin N. Burdick,
N. Dakota; Harry F. Byrd Jr.,
Virginia; Robert C. Byrd, West
Virginia; Howard W. Cannon,
Nevada; Clifford P. Case, New
Jersey; Joseph S. Clark, Pennsyl
vania; John Sherman Cooper,
Kentucky; Thomas J. Dodd, Con-
LONDON (JTA)—Jordan au
thorities have arrested 500 Arab
refugees and seized secret arms
caches to prevent new terrorist
raids against Israel, Beirut dis
patches reported here. Jordan
was said to fear Israeli reprisals
and possible political upheaval.
There was no confirmation of
the reports which said that those
arrested in Jordan were mem
bers of the Communist Party and
the Palestine Liberation Organi
zation. The Beirut dispatches
said Jordanian Government cen
sors prevented news agencies
from reporting the arrests from
Amman. One report said that
those arrested were engaged in
secret commando training for
necticut; Peter H. Dominick, Col
orado; Paul H. Douglas, Illinois;
Paul J. Fannin, Arizonia; Hiram
L. Fong, Hawaii; Ernest Gruen-
ing, Alaska;
Also Philip A. Hart, Michigan;
Vance Hartke, Indiana; Spessard
L. Holland, Florida; Roman L.
Hruska, Nebraska; Daniel K. In-
ouye, Hawaii; Henry M. Jackson,
Washington; Jacob M. Javits,
New York; Edward M. Kennedy,
Massachusetts; Robert F. Kenne
dy, New York; Thomas H. Kuch-
ei, California; Frank J. Lausche,
Ohio; Edward V. Long, Missouri;
Warren G. Magnuson, Washing
ton; Eugene J. McCarthy, Minn
esota; John L. McClellan, Arkan
sas; Gale W. McGree, Wyoming;
George McGovern, South Dakota;
Thomas J. McIntyre, New Hamp
shire; Lee Metcalf, Montana;
Jack Miller, Iowa;
Also Walter F. Mondale, Minn
esota; A. S. Monroney, Oklaho
ma; Joseph M. Montoya, New
Mexico; Wayne Morse, Oregon;
Thruston B. Morton, Kentucky;
Continued on page 8
new terrorist raids into Israel.
In Israel, officials blamed El
Fatah terrorists for an explosion
which caused only minor dam
age to a water pumping station
at a settlement not far from the
Jordanian border, ^south of the
Dead Sea. Israel complained to
the United Nations Israel-Jordan
Mixed Armistice Commission. It
was the first El Fatah action in
three months. The officials said
that the saboteurs crossed over
from Jordan to plant the explos
ives in the pumping station of the
Ein Yehav settlement. Tracks of
two persons leading to the Jor
danian border were found by the
Israelis.
Film on Crucifixion Evokes
Fresh Protests from Jews
NEW YORK (JTA)— A film
portraying the crucifixion of
Jesus, cited by critics as "reek
ing with hatred" and productive
of anti-Semitic reactions brought
fresh protests from a Jewish
source.
"The Redeemer" is being
shown commercially by Bob
O’Connell Jr., a Dallas independ
ent distributor after major film
distributors refused to handle it.
The three-hour film was as
sembled from a series of fifteen
30-minute segments made in
Spain about 10 years ago by Jos
eph Breen Jr., for Family Thea
ter, an organization headed by a
Father Patrick Peyton.
The 15 segments, called "The
Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary,”
were described by one group of
Jewish viewers as "the most in
flammatory depiction of the cru
cifixion" any of (hem had ever
seen. A group which saw the
screening of the completed ver
sion, said it was “offensive and
reeking with hatred.” A rabbi
called it so damaging that "not
even 10,000 classrooms hours will
be able to erase the visual and
psychic experience.”
Some changes were made in
the film before it was commer
cially released to lessen the im
pact of some scenes but the over
all affect was still considered
damaging. A prologue and a brief
epilogue were added to clarify the
Catholic position since the Ecu
menical Council but, in the opin
ion of viewers, these additional
items did not greatly lessen the
anti-Jewish effect of the film.
Showings of the completed and
revised version began in Dallas a
year ago and have been held in
other southwest cities and in eas
tern cities.
The newest dispute developed
when plans were announced for
a showing of the film in Minne
sota with endorsement from the
Archdiocese of St. Paul. Samuel
Scheiner, executive director of
the Minnesota Jewish Commun
ity Relation Council, asked Arch
bishop Leo Binz to reconsider the
endorsement which constituted
an invitation to Catholics to see
the film.
Stressing that his letter was
not to urge censorship of the film.
Scheiner cited the Vatican Coun
cil’s declaration on Jews and
added that he was conveying
Jewish reactions to the film so
that the prelate could preview
it "and evaluate its effect on
Catholic youngsters.” The com
munity relations executive said
the children and other viewers
would be exposed to a film
"which perpetuates the age-old
hatreds and prejudices which
have been borne by the Jews Ire-
cause of the inflammatory de
piction of the crucifixion."
Jordan Reported Holding 500
Arabs to Prevent Raids on Israel