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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1966
NO. 41
. . . in Brief
Israel Demand '?» Action
To Halt Syrian Terrorism
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Max
well Silver, a former rabbi, bank
ing executive and veteran Zion
ist, died here at the age of 75.
Together with his late brother,
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Dr. Max
well Silver founded here in 1904
the Dr. Herzl Zion Club, which
became known as the Zionist or
ganization.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Ki-
wanis club of downtown New
York Monday honored the con
gregation of the Spanish and
Portuguese Synagogue of this
city, on the anniversary of the
founding of the oldest Jewish
house of worship in the United
States, more than 300 years ago.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Abra
ham W. Binder, internationally-
known Jewish composer, conduc
tor and music teacher for half a
century died here after a brief
illness. He was 71. Dr. Binder
was bom on New York’s Lower
East Side.
Dr. Binder, who in 1965 re
tired as music director of the
92nd Street YM-YWHA, a post
he assumed in 1917, was music
director of the School of Sacred
Music of the Hebrew Union Col-
lege-Jewish Institute of Religion,
music director of New York’s
Free Synagogue, and honorary
chairman of the National Jewish
Welfare Board Jewish Music
Harry Simonhoff
Dies in Miami
MIAMI (JTA)—Harry Simon
hoff, lawyer, writer and com
munity leader, known for his
works on American Jewish his
tory, died here last week after a
brief illness. He was 75.
Bom in Georgia, Mr. Simon
hoff showed an early interest in
politics and was elected a mem
ber of the South Carolina legis
lature. He later moved to Miami
where he practiced law and be
came active in Miami Jewish life,
particularly in the Zionist move
ment.
He wrote a number of books on
early American Jewish history.
He was a frequent contributor to
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
and the Jewish Floridian of Mi
ami. His material appeared often
in The Southern Israelite maga
zine.
Rabbi Samuel M. Silver, Stam
ford, popular columnist for The
Southern Israelite, has been ap
pointed national chaplain of the
Jewish War Vet
erans of the
United States of
America it was
announced by
Malcolm A. Tar-
lov, natio n a 1
commander.
A veteran of
World War II,
Rabbi Silver
served as chap
lain for the 98th
Infantry Divis
ion before becoming the Jewish
Base Chaplain in Leyte, the Phil
ippine Islands shortly after its in
vasion by forces under Gen.
Douglas Mac Arthur. Rabbi
Silver’s predecessor in the JWV
post was Rabbi Harold Gordon,
of the New York Board of Rab
bi*.
A native of Wilmington, Del*.,
Rabbi Silver was ordained at the
Cincinnnati branch of the He
brew Union College-Jewish Insti
tute of Religion, which ha* be
stowed upon him a Doctor of Di-
Council. He was a prodigious
composer.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The con
traction of a watchtower at Kib
butz Hanita, in Northern Israel,
will be undertaken by the Jew
ish National Fund as a tribute to
Label A. Katz, past president of
B’nai B’rith. Hanita is close to
the Syrian and Lebanese borders,
and is surrounded by 400 acres
of ancient woodland that will be
reforested as part of the tribute
30,000 days of employment and
is seen as an important contri
bution to Israel’s economy.
LONDON (JTA)— More than
10,000 Jews jammed the street in
front of the Moscow Central Syn
agogue last weekend, dancing
and singing in observance of
Simchat Torah, the joyous fes
tival marking the conclusion of
the holiday season, it was report
ed here from the Soviet capital.
The crowd, mostly young Jews,
was larger and seemed more
carefree than in previous years,
the report said.
FIRST HIGH-LEVEL TALKS
Israel Spain
Discuss Deal
On Oranges
MADRID (WUP)—Spain which
has not yet established diplomatic
relations with the Jewish State,
this past week entered into high-
level talk* with Israel on the
question of the mutual sale of
oranges in the European Econom
ic Community.
The talks represented the first
important exchange on any issue
between the two countries.
Israel’s Minister of Agriculture,
Haim Gvati, conferred with his
Spanish counterpart on the prob
lem and came to a basic agree
ment.
Both Spain and Israel are con
fronted with a similar problem
—selling their oranges in Europe
in competition with Italy, a
member of the Common Market.
Having applied for associate
membership in the market, they
must in the meantime face the
European group’s tariff barrier.
vinity degree. He served as di
rector of the B’nai B’rith Hillel
Foundation of the University of
Maryland before the war and
after it as assistant rabbi at the
Euclid Avenue Temple, Cleve
land.
For six years Rabbi Silver
edited the magazine, “American
Judaism,” official publication of
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations. He is vice presi
dent of the Temple of Under
standing, a project for the es
tablishment of an all-faith struc
ture in Washington, D. C. He
writes a nationally syndicated
column, "Silver Lining” for the
Seven Arts Feature Syndicate of
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
and a digest of the Yiddish press
for the National Jewish Post and
Opinion.
Dr. Silver has been at Temple
Sinai, Stamford, Conn., for seven
years. He and his wife, the form
er Elaine Shapiro, of Bridgeport,
Conn., are the parents of five
boys. In Stamford he is part of
a weekly radio program called
“The Reverend, the Priest and
the Rabbi.”
UNITED NATIONS, NY.
(JTA)—In a series of swift, ur
gent moves today — including
meetings with Secretary General
U Thant and Lord Caradon of
Britain, this month’s president of
the Security Council, a letter to
the entire membership of the
Security Council, and a heavily
attended press conference here—
Israel’s Foreign Minister Abba
Eban called upon the interna
tional community to take im
mediate and “urgent” action to
persuade Syria to halt its attacks
against Israel without recorse to
lengthy debates. Mr. Eban de
clared that he has requested “im
mediate action, today and to
morrow.”
In the letter to the Security
Council, signed by Ambassador
Michael S. Comay, Israel’s perm
anent representative here, the
15-member body was told: “My
Government must reaffirm its
duty to take whatever measures
may be necessary for the defense
of its citizens and the integrity
of its borders.”
Mr. Eban said he had informed
the Secretary General and Lord
Caradon that Israel views the
latest series of El Fatah attacks,
in Jerusalem and at Shaar Hago-
lan, in northern Israel, resulting
in four deaths and six other
casualties, as having been defin
itely “promoted, instigated and
executed by the Syrian Govern
ment”
Mr. Eban charged that “Syria
PEACE CORPS-ER
BLOWS SHOFAR
IN TARIJA
HARTFORD (JTA) — It may
be some time before there will
be a more strange—and even
perhaps more satisfying—Rosh
Hashana observance than that of
Charles Teller of West Hartford.
Charles has started the second
half of a two-year assignment for
the Peace Corps. He is doing his
stint in the Bolivian town of
Tarija. According to a letter to his
parents published by the Jewish
Ledger here, it turned out that
he was the only Jew in the An
dean mountain valley area who
could blow the shofar and chant
the haftoras. So he did.
The synagogue is located in a
single room near the Central
Plaza of Tarija. In it assembled
12 men and 11 women, and one
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Holy Day highlights’
child for the services. Two of
Tarija’s Jews were too bedridden
to come to services. One was the
mayor of Tarija for 18 years
and by all accounts the best the
town ever had.
Two men were flown in from
Cochabamba and from Buenos
Aires to make up a minyan.
Charles then led the only high
holy day services for miles
around. There was no rabbi. The
cantor hailed originally from
Danzig and other congregants
were from Damascus, Berlin,
Paris, Prague and West Hart-
f o r d—a mixture of Litvaks
Galitzianers and Sephardim all
praying together and keeping the
tradition alive in remote Bolivia.
Originally, they had come to
Bolivia in flight from the Nazis
when Bolivia was about the only
country willing to accept Jews.
They could not take the cold and
high altitude of La Paz and drift
ed down to the valley.
is trying to embroil the other
Arab governments, especially
Jordan,” in the expansion and
broadening of the tensions on the
Israeli borders. “The Arab fron
tiers facing Israel are always Just
as turbulent or just as quiet as
the Arab governments want them
to be,” Mr. Eban said.. “On the
Syrian frontier, we believe, there
is a desire to keep the borders
in turbulence. By any definition,
this is a serious international
situation."
The letter to the Security
Council did not request a meet
ing of the body, Mr. Eban said,
in reply to questions as to why
Israel is not seeking a Council
meeting at this time: “We have
neither ruled out nor have we de
cided on whether or not to re
quest a meeting of the Coun
cil. That will depend on how the
situation develops. Our need is
for urgent action, today and to
morrow. We must have urgent
action, speedy action, unimpeded
by debate.”
When asked what form of in
ternational action Israel is seek
ing, Mr. Eban declared: “The
Secretary General has a special
status in relation to the entire
situation because the United Na
tions had participated in the ne
gotiations for the conclusion of
the Armistice Agreements^ in
1949, including our Armistice
Agreement with Syria. Under
that agreement, Syria has a legal
obligation to prevent—I repeat,
to prevent—the continued ter
rorist incursions into our terri
tory.
“Syria has made no secret of
the fact that it is tied Intimately
to the El Fatah raids. The
Damascus Radio interrupted a
regular broadcast on October 9
by reading ‘Communique No. 53
of the General Staff of El-Assefa
(El Fatah), reporting the ex
plosions under an apartment
house on the outskirts of Jerusa
lem. It is significant to note that
the Damascus Radio is govern
ment-owned and that the details
it reported in the El Fatah ‘com
munique’ were absolutely accu
rate.”
Mr. Eban said he will continue
his conversations with other
members of the Security CounciL
Asked whether he will also dis-
CHICAGO (JTA)— City code
amendments introduced recently
in the Chicago City Council
which would make it unlawful to
display the swastika, robes, uni
forms and symbols of the Nazi
and the Ku Klux Klan, and
would specifically prohibit the
distribution of hate literature di
rected against race or religion.
The amendments, which were in
troduced by Alderman Jack
Sperling, would spell out pro
hibitions against racial or anti-
religious incitements and apply
them to the Nazis and the Ku
Klux Klan. The City Ordinanoe
already generally bars provoca
tive acts and displays.
Voicing support for the pro
posed amendments, the Chicago
Sentinel, an Anglo-Jewish week
ly, in an editorial by editor-pub
lisher J. I. Fishbein, said that
“when the Nazis and Klanamen
preach their philosophy of hatred,
violence and genocide, it is in-
cuss the matter with the Soviet
representative here, he replied
emphatically: “Ye*."
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Israel Government mounted
Tuesday a major diplomatic ef
fort to impress on the major
powers and the United Nations
the gravity with which it viewed
a new and death-dealing Syrian
incursion.
Four members of an Israeli
border patrol were killed Satur
day night and two were wound
ed, when their jeep hit a mine
believed planted by members of
the El Fatah terrorist organiza
tion coming from Syria, in what
was regarded as one of the worst
border incidents in recent years.
That incident was the second in
48 hours. About midnight, Satur
day, infiltrators whose tracks
to the Jordanian border planted
explosives in the Romema Elite
suburb in Jerusalem. The blasts
severely damaged two buildings
and injured four persons.
VIETNAMESE REVKAUS
Moshe Dayan
Briefed Marines
Vietnam Army
Vietnam — as a “correspondent”
for Israel’s Ma’ario—Motive Da
yan, clad in battle garb, accom
panied unit* of both the U. S.
Army into several arses at con
flict against the Vietcang brief
ing high officers in the tactics
of guerilla warfare baeed on his
own experiences in the Haganah
and m Chief of Staff of the Is
rael Defense Forces.
This fact was revealed to the
WUP reporter recently by Nguy
en Ngoc T.lnh, director of the of
ficial Vietnam Government press,
who arrived in the U. S. for a
brief visit.
Mr. Linh had met Dayan In
Vietnam and had been in close
touch with him throughout his
visit in the battle-scorched coun
try.
Mr. Linh also expressed the
view that the war in Vietnam
is taking a turn for the better.
He based this opinion on the mas
sive destruction of Vietcong sup
ply bases in the North.
evitable that people are going to
resort to violence to protect
themselves against the possible
repetition of the most barbarous
acts in history.”
Swastika
Choice
CHICAGO (JTA)—Two young
men arrested for street fighting
while wearing Nazi swastika em
blems on their jackets were given
a choice in a court here of pay
ing $200 fines or reading a book
on the evils of Nazism. Judge
Saul Epton, of Boys Court, of
fered the choice to Gene Kubiaik,
19 and Daniel Kametz, 21, ar
rested.
The judge said: “If you did
not learn what the swastika
stands for in school, then per
haps the court should continue
your education in that area.”
TSI Columnist Named
National JWV Chaplain
Chicago May Ban Display
Of Hate Symbols