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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Soutftern Jewry - Ests**~ l * ’ .
Vol. XLI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1966
Wants More Time
For JDC Efforts
NEW YORK (JTA) — Mayor
John Lindsay has announced that
Louis Broido had resigned as a
$1- a-year Commissioner of the
City Department of Commerce
and Industrial Development to
give more time to his post as
chairman of the American Jew
ish Joint Distribution Commit
tee. The Mayor praised Mr.
Broido’s four years of service as
commissioner and said he would
continue to serve New York City
as a special consultant on land
development.
Students Excused
For Holy Day Absence
BOSTON (JTA)—The Univer
sity of Massachusetts gave spec
ial permission to Jewish students
to be absent on the two days of
Rosh Hashana following protests
over the scheduling of first
classes on the first day of the
Jewish New Year. University of
ficials also indicated that they
would take “all appropriate
steps’’ to avoid a similar conflict
in the future.
Israel Visited
By Many Faiths
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Tourism Ministry released re
cently a survey which showed
that half of all foreign tourists
visiting Israel are Christians and
only 38 percent have been Jews.
One percent belonged to other
faiths and the rest did not in
dicate their faith.
The survey said that while
only a minority of those ques
tioned expressed satisfaction with
Israel’s hotels and restaurants,
their general opinion of Israel
was very favorable. Eighty-eight
percent said they would recom
mend a visit to Israel to their
friends.
Dr. Goldstein Honored
On 70th Birthday
NEW YORK (JTA)—The es
tablishment of a chair at the He
brew University in Jerusalem in
honor of the 70th birthday of Dr.
Israel Goldstein, world chairman
of the Keren Haycsod-United Is
rael Appeal, has been announced
by the American Friends of the
Hebrew University. The chair,
which will be named for Dr.
Goldstein, will be devoted to the
history of the development of the
State of Israel.
Dr. Goldstein was honored at
services at Congregation B’nai
Jeshurun here, where he served
as spiritual leader for 42 years
and where he returns every year
from his home in Jerusalem to
address the congregation during
the High Holy Days as rabbi
emeritus. More than 1,000 wor
shipers turned out at the serv
ices marking Dr. Goldstein’s
birthday.
UN Ball Sponsors
Headed by Daroff
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
Michael Daroff, president and
chairman of the Board of Bo
tany Industries, has been ap
pointed chairman of the Sponsors
Committee for the United Na
tions Ball to be held at New
York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel on
October 21. The proceeds go to
the Association to help its activ
ities in education, research and
dissemination of information.
Serving with Mr. Daroff as
general co-chairmen for the Ball
will be Mrs. Arthur J. Goldberg,
wife of the U. S. Ambassador to
the UN, and Mrs. Francis T. P.
Plimpton, wife of the former
Deputy U. S Ambassador. Pres
ident and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson
are honorary patrons of the Ball.
Rockwell Barred
Again in Chicago
CHICAGO (JTA) — A federal
judge issued an order here ban
ning George Rockwell and his
American Nazi party from
staging planned demonstrations
in Jewish neighborhoods in Chi
cago during the High Holy
Days.
District Judge Joseph Perry, in
issuing the ban, called the party’s
activities “an abuse of free
speech’’ which would “interfere
wh'i the right of ethnic group
members to follow their re
ligion.”
He issued a temporary res
training order banning Nazi
party demonstrations in 26 coun
ties of the Chicago area effective
the first day of the High Holy
Days, for one week. The order
also banned Nazi party members
from mailing or distributing anti-
Jewish hate materials in the
area.
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NO. 38
Prayers for Pea „ nark New
Year for Jews all over the World
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jews
throughout the United States and
the rest of the world ushered in
the New Year of 5727 with
prayers for world peace, Israeli
security and improvement in the
postion of Russian Jewry.
Through arrangements by the
National Jewish Welfare Board,
Rosh Hashana services were con
ducted for Jewish men and wom
en in uniform, in Viet Nam and
at more than 600 other overseas
and domestic installations of the
United States armed forces. Sim
ilar services Ifor armed forces
personnel will be conducted on
Yom Kippur.
The ushering in of the Jewish
New Year was marked by nu
merous appeals in this countrj
to the Soviet authorities in Mos
cow to give equal treatment to
the Jews in the Soviet Union
and restore fully their cultural
and religious rights.
An appeal signed by more than
100 dignitaries in government,
religion, education, business, labor
and professions was published in
The New York Times as a full-
page manifesto by the Appeal of
Conscience Foundation, which is
made up of religious and lay
leaders of the three major faiths
in this country. Signatories in
cluded 35 U. S. Senators, 20 state
governors, and religous leaders
of the Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish faiths.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, presi
dent of the Appeal of Conscience
Foundation, said that sponsors of
the manifesto hoped that the
document would “awaken the
moral conscience of the world to
Goldberg Meets With Leaders
To Clarify President's Views
Copyright, 19 66,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
Inc.
NEW YORK (JTA)— Arthur
J. Goldberg apparently has suc
ceeded in persuading a group of
American Jewish leaders that the
Johnson Administration was not
seeking to create any link be
tween United States policy in
Viet Nam and American Jewish
support of Israel.
Some 40 representatives of
Jewish organizations represented
in the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Or
ganizations met with the United
States Ambassador to the United
Nations. They met to discuss the
furor stirred in the American
Jewish community by reports
that President Johnson had com
plained about Jewish opposition
to his policies in Viet Nam and
that he had linked that opposi
tion with United States aid to Is
rael.
The meeting took place in Mr.
Goldberg's suite in a hotel in
New York, reportedly at the sug
gestion of Rabbi Joachim Prin?,
president of the Conference. Mr.
Goldberg was understood to have
lent his good offices in an effort
to clarify the problems arising
from the reports, which had been
relayed to the press two weeks
ago by Commandor Malcolm Tar-
lov of the Jewish War Veterans.
Mr. Tarlov gave that report after
he and other officials of the JWV
met with the President. Later Mr.
Tarlov issued a statement in an
effort to clarify his report on the
To Raise $1,000,000
For Scholarships
NEW YORK (JTA)—A $1,000,-
000 scholarship fund will be an
nounced at a dinner here on No
vember 2 sponsored by the
American Committee for the
Weizmann Institute of Science in
Israel. Benjamin Abrams, presi
dent of the Emerson Radio and
Phonograph Corporation for 43
years until his retirement last
year, has accepted the chairman
ship of the committee for the din
ner. The event will launch a
month-long series of events for
the fund.
The fund, to be raised in New
York, under Mr. Abrams’ aus
pices, will provide scholarships
of $2,500 for science graduate
students in Israel and in the de
veloping countries to study for
Master’s and doctoral degrees at
the Weizmann Institute Graduate
School in Rehovot.
President’s purported views.
Dr. Prinz described the meet
ing with Mr. Goldberg as “useful
and constructive.” He added that
“we had a full and frank discus
sion on a number of issues of
mutual interest, including the
prospect for peace in Viet Nam,
American-Israel relations and a
variety of other concerns.” He
said that “we are grateful to Am
bassador Goldberg for the op
portunity he afforded us to meet
with him and to exchange views
in an atmosphere of candor and
friendship.
A spokesman for the Ambas
sador described the meeting as
private and said the Ambassador
would not have any statement on
it. In Washington, the White
House maintained complete si
lence on the controversy.
Participants at the meeting
with Mr. Goldberg, who did not
want to give their names, said
that the Ambassador began by
denying that the President had
ever threatened or sought to seek
a quid pro quo from the Jewish
community or any other Amer
ican group in seeking support for
his Viet Nam policy.
Mr. Goldberg reportedly told
the Jewish leaders that the John
son Administration did not seek
to create any link between
United States policy in Viet Nam
and Israel. He reportedly added
that there was something in com
mon between maintaining secur
ity from oppression for small na
tions in the Middle East and in
the Far East.
The general feeling among the
Jewish leaders when Mr. Gold
berg finished it was reported, was
one of relief. The leaders said
that Mr. Goldberg did not try to
“sell” them on the Administra
tion’s policy but rather that he
tried to clear up misunderstand
ings that he felt had arisen.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York
Republican, and Dr. William
Wexler, president of the B’nai
B’rith, also spoke on the issue.
Sen. Javits told a news confer
ence that “I have been backing
the President" on Viet Nam ‘and*
I am a Jewish Senator.” He add
ed that he did not believe the
President had made the state
ments attributed to him by the
JWV but that, even if he did,
“I am sure that it was the result
of irritation and frustration.”
Dr. Wexler said he did not be
lieve the President’s attitude
toward Israel had been affected
by the “presumed attitude of the
American Jewish community
toward the war in Viet Nam.”
the plight of the 3,000,000 Soviet
Jews who are succumbing to a
veritable religious and cultural
disaster which will eventually
result in their complete spiritual
Hundreds of rabbis through-
extinction and annihilation.”
out the United States and Can
ada joined in similar appeals to
the Soviet Government during
the High Holy Days. A “Declara
tion of Rights for Soviet Jewry”
was posted in almost every Jew
ish institution in the United
States during the week between
Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur,
according to Rabbi Israel Miller,
chairman of the American Jew
ish Conference on Soviet Jewry.
The conference is an association
of 25 national Jewish organiza
tions. The declaration also was
read from pulpits during the
High Holy Day services.
In New York, Rabbi Edward
T. Sandrow, president of the local
Board of Rabbis, asked the 900
members of the Board “to offer
special prayers for the 3,000,000
Jews behind the Iron Curtain
with the hope that their spiritual
life will witness a rebirth and
enable them to practice the re
ligion of their fathers so that it
becomes the heritage of their
children.”
Similar High Holy Day ap
peals were offered in Canadian
synagogues according to Rabbi S.
M. Zambrowsky, chairman of the
religious affairs committee of the
Canadian Jewish Congress. Ha
said prayers were offered “bt
hope that the day Is mot tmr on
when the prophecy of old Is ful
filled and ‘all nations and peo
ples will be united in the bonds
of brotherhood and there will be
no more room for discrimination
in any shape or form’.” He add
ed that Soviet Jewry was
“threatened with cultural attri
tion and eventual disappearance
as a community unless there is a
change of policy on the part of
the Government of the Soviet
Union.”
Jewish Groups Stress
Silence of Negro Leaders
Auschwitz Killers
Get Long Sentences
FRANKFURT (JTA) — A
Frankfurt jury court has sent
enced one of the three defendants
in the second trial of Auschwitz
death camp personnel to a life
term in prison and the other two
to prison terms. Joseph Erber,
68, charged with taking part in
the murder of thousands of Jews
in the camp, received the life
sentence. Wilhelm Burger, 61, re
ceived an eight-year term. Ger
hard Neubert, 56, was sentenced
to three and a half years impris
onment. Erber was convicted of
murder in 70 cases. The other
two defendants were convicted
of complicity in murder. Scores
of Auschwitz survivors testified
during the nine-month trial.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Public
support toward the fight for
rights for Negroes is waning
among non-Jews and among
Jews in the United States, due to
recent Negro rioting and extrem
ism, according to a survey con
ducted by The New York Times.
The results of that survey were
made public by the newspaper.
Jewish reaction was summar
ized by the newspaper in talks
with a representative of the
American Jewish Committee and
the Synagogue Council of Amer
ica.
“Civil rights leaders,” said Na
than Perlmutter, director of do
mestic affairs for the American
Jewish Committee, “usually say
that it (the lack of momentum)
is due to whites thinking the bat
tle is over and sitting back. This
may be part of the problem,” he
said, “but another part is white
reaction to black nationalism,
riots and ‘hate whitey’ talk. The
liberal white man knows that he
is as much ‘whitey’ to a maraud
ing hater as the bigoted white
man and this realization is
having its effect,” Mr. Perlmutter
said.
In many parts of the nation,
however, liberal enthusiasm is
ebbing, the Times stressed. It re
ported that in New York, anti-
Semitism among Negroes dis
turbs the Jewish community,
which has long been the financial
backbone of the civil rights
movement, “It isn’t so much that
the anti-Semitic remarks of a
Le-Roi Jones are appalling,” said
Mr. Perlmutter, “it is the silence
on him by Negro leaders.”
At the headquarters of the
Synagogue Council of America,
Rabbi Henry Siegman, the exe
cutive vice president, said, the
“Mount Vernon incident” in
which e Negro member of the
Congress of Racial Equality said
the trouble with Hitler was that
he did not kill enough Jews, had
a “tremendous impact on the
Jewish community. Most of us
realize that we can’t use incidents
like this as an excuse and that
we have to face up to our own
responsibilities,” he said, "but
Negro leaders could make our
job easier by recognizing that
anti-Semitism is a real prob
lem.”
For years, Rabbi Seigman said,
the Synagogue Council had no
special commission on race be
cause it was not needed to
arouse Jewish support for civil
rights activity in the South. But
recently one was ^st^lished to
prepare Jewish neighborhoods for
“integration in their own back
yards.” “I don’t want to make
the picture sound too bleak,”
Rabbi Seigman said, “because
Jewish support for civil rights is
still high, but we do have a prob
lem with disengagement and we
are trying to meet it.”