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Friday, July 8, 1966
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Former Cenfer President Named
Southern JWB Region Consultant
West German- Leader
Confers in New York
Herman A. Lebovitz, a former
president of the Chattanooga
Jewish Community Center who
went back to school in his mid-
30s to become a trained social
worker, is returning to the South
to counsel other center presi
dents, board members and pro
fessional Center workers in his
new role as regional consultant
of the National Jewish Welfare
Board’s (JWB) Southern Region.
Mitchell Bush-, president of
JWB’s Southern Region and a
former president of the Chatta
nooga Jewish Community Cen
ter. and Sanford Solender, JWB
executive vice president, this
week announced Mr. Lebovitz’s
appointment as associate to Na
than L o s h a k, administrative
regional consultant of the South
ern Region.
Mr. Lebovitz, who will assume
his new post September 1, is re
turning to the South from Chi
cago where he has been director
of the Rogers Park Jewish Com
munity Center of the Jewish
Community Centers of Chicago,
and the latter’s consultant to the
Chicago JWB Armed Services
Council.
Together with Mr. Loshak, Mr.
Lebov'itz will advise boards and
professional staffs of the 23
JWB-affiliated Jewish Commun
ity Centers and YM-YWHAs in
the ten-state Southern Region
and make available to them
HERMAN LEBOVITZ
JWB’s specialized services in all
areas of programming, admini
stration and manpower recruit
ing and placement. They will also
provide consultative services to
Centers and JWB Armed Forces
and Veterans Service Commit
tees in carrying out programs for
military personnel and their de
pendents and for hospitalized
veterans and in meeting JWB’s
USO responsibilities.
The Southern Region covers
North and South Carolina, Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi,
and Texas, and is one of eight
JWB regions in the United
States.
Mr. Lebovitz, a native of Chat
tanooga, received his BA from
the University of Chattanooga in
1947 and an MS in economics
and personnel from the Univer
sity of Tennessee in 1950. In
Chattanooga he was also a trus
tee of B’nai Zion Synagogue,
published a weekly suburban
newspaper, taught economics and
sociology at the University of
Chattanooga and was director of
instruction at McKenzie College.
In the mid-1950s, Mr. Lebovitz
determined to enter social work
professionally. With the aid of
scholarships from the Nashville
Council of Community Agencies,
the Nashville Jewish Community
Center and the National Associa
tion of Jewish Center Workers,
he completed 1 two years of grad
uate study at the University of
Tennessee and received an MS
degree in social work in 1960.
While studying he served as pro
gram director of the Nashville
Jewish Community Center. Af
ter he received his graduate de
gree he was named to the staff
of the Jewish Community Cen
ters of Chicago.
Mr. Lebovitz’s wife is a regist
ered nurse. The couple has three
children, age 14, 11 and 8. He
will make his headquarters at
311 Forsyth Building, Atlanta,
where JWB’s Southern Region
office is located.
de Gaulle Discusses Mid-East
Stability with Soviet Leaders
JERUSALEM (JTA)— French
President Charles de Gaulle
stressed the need for Big Power
guarantee of the territorial in
tegrity of the states in the Mid
dle East, in discussing the Near
East region on his visit to Mos
cow with Leonid I. Brezhnev,
general secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party, it was report
ed here. The report, broadcast
here over Kol Israel, Israel’s gov
ernment-owned radio network,
came from the network’s corres
pondent who is a member of the
news corps that accompanied
President de Gaulle to Moscow.
During one of their talks in
Moscow, the Kol Israel corres
pondent reported, Mr. Brezhnev
told President de Gaulle that the
Soviet Union maintains good re
lations with the countries in the
Middle East and wants peace in
the area. Gen. de Gaulle then
said that France also has good
relations with the countries in
the Middle East, mentioning Is
rael specifically among the states
in that region.
The French leader then stress
ed the need for maintaining the
territorial status quo in the Mid
dle East. France, along with the
United States and Britain, is a
partner to the Tripartite Declara
tion for the guarantee of the
Middle East borders issued by the
three powers in 1950. Israel’s
Ambassador to Paris, Walter
Eytan, was understood to have
requested in a visit to the French
Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve
de Murville, recently, that Presi
dent de Gaulle raise the point of
including the USSR in the 1950
Declaration.
Lamarhav, organ of Achdut
Avodah, the party that entered
into a political alignment last
year with the dominant Mapai
Party, reported that Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol will
request a meeting with I’rcsi-
dent de Gaulle in the near
future. The principal aim of that
meeting would reportedly be a
discussion of France's attitude
toward Israel’s desire to become
an associate member of the Eur
opean Economic Community.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry
sources were not prepared to dis
cuss that report. However, it
was indicated that Israel will
launch a strong political and di
plomatic offensive on that issue
soon in the capitals of the six
Euromart states— France, West
Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Belgium and Luxembourg.
Israel is disappointed over
what officials here call the "mea
ger and disappointing" results of
its long drive to establish a link
with the EEC. In the view of the
Israeli officials, firmer action
than ever must be undertaken to
assure Israel’s ability to export
goods to the Euromart countries,
and such results can be achieved
only through associate member
ship in the EEC.
(In Brussels, headquarters of
the Euromart, a joint committee
of the EEC and Israel signed a
protocol defining Israel's current
link with the EEC. which Israels
delegation called "a disappoint
ment." The protocol was signed
after a warm debate in which
Israel pointed out that the
present trade arrang e m ents
between Israel and the Euro
mart are too limited. Israel s
delegation told the joint
committee that only associate
EEC membership would resolve
the mutual trade concerns of Is
rael and the EEC members.)
could increase its
SI00.000,000 a year.
?xports by
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Dr.
Rainer Barzel, majority leader of
the West German Bundestag,
met separately recently with the
Conference of Presidents of Ma
jor American Jewish Organiza
tions and with leaders of the
American Jewish Committee for
discussions of German-Jewish
relations.
He told the Conference of
Presidents that the problem
“should not be used from a poli
tical vantage but from a moral
point of view.” He emphasized
that he saw a special role for
West Germany in the industrial
development of Israel.
Dr. Barzel, who is deputy
chairman of Chancellor Ludwig
Erhard’s Christian Democratic
Union, asked that recognition be
given to the achievements of the
postwar German democracy and
stressed that half of the present
population was born after Hitler
came to power. In introducing
Dr. Barzel, Dr. Joachim Prinz,
chairman of the Presidents Con
ference, said that it was impor
tant that West Germany “recog
nizes its moral obligation to the
Jewish people and the State of
Israel,” as the “heir to a Euro
pean Jewry that is lost forever.”
Dr. Barzel discussed three
topics with the American Jewish
Committee leaders, headed by
President Morris B. Abram.
These were elimination of a sta
tute of limitations for war
crimes; expansion of the Com
mittee’s German Educator Pro
gram, designed to promote civic
education for democracy in West
Germany; and the start of a
seven-year research program in
to group hatred by the Center for
Research in Collective Psycho
pathology, which will study the
Nazi mass murders.
Mr
sion on Human Rights, reminded
Dr. Barzel that proposals for
elimination of all statutes of
limitation for Nazi war crimes
will soon be debated at the UN.
Dr. Barzel agreed that further
consideration of the issue in the
Bundestag was in order. Mr.
Abram submitted a memorandum
on expansion of the educator
program, now in its seventh
year. He said the problem of
political education of the young
Germans involved immunizing
them against resnascent right
radicalism, and to promote an
“appreciation of cultural minor
ities in a pluralist society so
that they understand that diver
sity is enriching to a nation.”
LONDON, (JTA) — John
Cardinal Heenan, Archbishop of
Westminister and leader of Brit
ish Catholics, announced the
formation in England of a na-,
tional commission to implement
the recent decree adopted by the
Vatican Ecumenical Council
aimed at better relations be
tween the Catholic Church and
the Jewish religion. He named
Christopher Hollis, a well-known
Catholic layman, as chairman of
the commission. Mr. Hollis, a
writer and journalist, and a
former member of Parliament,
is one of the leaders of pro
gressive Catholicism in this
country.
ZENITH IN ISRAEL
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Zenith
Radio Corporation announced
that production of 23-inch black-
and-white television receivers
will begin soon in Israel. Joseph
S. Wright, president, said a new
company, Overseas Radio Cor
poration, is scheduled to begin
production later this year. Dur
ing construction of a new plant
in Jerusalem, the sets will be
Abram, U.S. representative manufactured in rented facilities
to the United Nations Commis- nearby.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Finance
Minister Pinhas Sapir reported
here that the Government was
working on a plan to end unem
ployment within two to three
years. He also said the Govern
ment believed a period of res
traint" was essential to prevent
a strain on Israel's balance of
payments.
The Finance Minister linked
the campaign against joblessness
with greater exports in two ad
dresses, one at a meeting of the
Mapai kibbutz movement and the
other given at the opening session
of the first meeting of the World
Council of Associations of Bi-Na
tional Chambers of Commerce.
He told the Mapai meeting that
the new anti-unemployment pro
gram would be part of a drive to
step up production for export. He
said Israel’s efforts to restrain
the economy was not a goal in
itself but rather an instrument
“to strengthen those branches re
quiring such treatment.” He re
iterated his belief that Israel
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