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Dr. Farber Wins
Lasker Award For
Cancer Research
new YORK (JTA)—Dr. Sid
ney Farber of the Harvard Med
ical School has been named as a
recipient of one of this year’s two
Albert Lasker Medical Research
Awards of the Albert and Mary
Lasker Foundation. The other
winner is Dr. George E. Palade
of Rockefeller University. Each
received $10,000 at presentation
ceremonies last week.
A pioneer in the chemical treat
ment of cancer, Dr. Farber re
ceived the award for a number of
achievements, including the dis
covery of actionmycin D as an
effective antibiotic against a
form of cancer known as Wilms’
tumor; and the discovery that
aminopterin and methotrexate
are effective in checking acute
leukemia.
Cafholic-Jewish
iue Said
Unconvincing
NEW YORK (JTA)—Interfaith
dialogues and other programs
aimed at bringing Catholics and
Jews closer together have had
little or no effect in changing
deeply held positions on birth
control, public funds for paroch
ial schools and other church-
state issues, the American Jewish
Congress reported.
Despite the new look in Cath-
olic-Jewish relations since the
Ecumenical Council, differences
between the two groups remain
“as wide as ever” on both public
and theological questions, it was
stated. Howard M. Squadron,
chairman of the Commission on
Law and Social Action of the
AJCongress, said he was neither
surprised nor disappointed” that
closer ties had not led to fewer
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NO. 47
Dialogi
Heads Synagogue Women
KIAMESHA LAKE, N. Y.
(JTA) — Mrs. Sol Henkind of
Scarsdale was elected president
of the National Women’s League
of the United Synagogue of Amer
ica at the organization’s national
convention. She succeeds Mrs.
Albert Fried who served the past
four years.
Not Guilty Is Plea
In Sculptor’s Death
JERUSALEM (JTA)— An of
ficial of the Ministry for Religious
Affairs pleaded not guilty to
charges of negligence in the death
of David Palombo, the interna
tionally-known Israeli sculptor
who was killed last August when
his scooter crashed into a chain
across the road to Mount Zion on
a Saturday night.
The magistrate ordered the
trial to start in January for Rab
bi Amram Blau, who is in charge
of Mount Zion maintenance. One
of his assignments is to block the
road on the Sabbath. The indict
ment charged that Rabbi Blau
failed to take necessary measures
to warn drivers after the chain
was put in place on that Sab
bath.
differences.
"Dialogue does not have to res
ult in agreement,” he declared.
“It does serve a useful purpose
by exposing different points of
view to rational exploration ra
ther than emotional explosions.”
He added however that it was
“not unusual for Jews and Cath
olics to oppose each other at a
public hearing on an issue of
church-state separation in the
morning and sit around a table
the same evening in interfaith
dialogue. This is a healthy de
velopment,” he commented. “It is
healthy that the two groups
should meet together in civilized
discourse and it is healthy that
neither group should feel it must
abandon principle as the price of
interfaith harmony."
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CJFWF Cites A
To Israel as Major Need
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The
five-day 35th General Assembly
of the Council of Jewish Federa
tions and Welfare Funds closed
here with the adoption of res
olutions on a wide range of prob
lems facing American Jewry and
with the election of Louis J. Fox
of Baltimore as president.
One of the major resolutions
adopted by the Assembly stress
ed the urgency of the needs of
Jewish communities overseas and
urged that these communities be
provided “intensive and massive”
aid. “The needs are sharpened by
Israel’s current economic crisis,”
the resolution emphasized. It rec
ommended that absorption pro
grams to bring immigrants to
self-support should be greatly in
tensified, especially in assisting
Israel to absorb more than 200,-
000 newcomers. “Such welfare,
help, vocational and educational
programs are of critical impor
tance, regardless of the fluctua
tions in the volume of current
immigration,” the resolution de-
Rabbi Takes Over
As New York Mayor
NEW YORK (JTA)—Rabbi
Julia G. Neumann, spiritual
leader of Congregation Zich-
ron Moshe, served as the
Night Mayor of New York
last week as part of Mayor
Lindsay's program of provid
ing a senior city executive an
hand at City Hall each night
of the week. Rabbi Neumann
is chaplain of the New York
City Transit Police Detective
Division and is spiritual ad
viser for the Shotrim Society
of the Housing Police.
Neo-Nazi Election Gains
Stir Fears in Germany
BONN (JTA)—A revival of an
aggressive form of German na
tionalism was foreseen in polit
ical circles here following the
capture by the extreme rightist
National Democratic Party of 15
out of 204 seats in the Bavarian
legislature as a result of recent
state elections. Leaders of the
party had predicted they would
win 14 seats.
The National Democratic Party
—considered as a neo-Nazi group
—obtained in the elections in Ba
varia at least 10 per cent of the
total vote. This was considered
here a very big victory, especial
ly coming after the success of
this party in the Hesse state elec
tions two weks ago. The fact that
the neo-Nazis gained such
strength first in Hesse and now
in Bavaria despite the fact that
there is still no unemployment in
West Germany, is taken as an in
dication that neo-Nazism is gain
ing more and more ground in the
country.
Former Vice-Chancellor Eric
Mende told the Jewish Tele
graphic Agency correspondent
nere that he is sure that the Na
tional Democratic Party will have
similar gains in the forthcoming
state elections in all other sec
tions in the country. Leaders of
the National Democratic Party,
speaking on television, denied
that they are Nazis or that they
are protecting Nazi war crimin
als. They asserted that they are
a “democratic party” and resent
ed the fact that they are labeled
as neo-Nazis In the German press.
At a press conference, Karl
Gunther von Hase, the spokesman
of the Bonn Government for the
press, said that the gains of the
National Democratic Party in the
Bavarian elections should not be
overestimated in foreign coun
tries, nor should they be under
estimated in Germany. German
democracy,” he said, "has proven
its stability in recent years and
could handle extremist elements.”
Asked whether the National
Democratic Party was not anti-
Semitic, von Hase replied that
there was no evidence that the
neo-Nazis party as such was an
ti-Semitic. To a further question
as to whether speeches made on
behalf of the National Democratic
Party did not prove its anti-
Semitism, he said that this did
not prove that the party as a
whole was anti-Semitic.
He told the foreign correspon
dents attending the press confer
ence that the National Democra
tic Party has 18,000 members. The
general feeling in the country is
that despite attempts on the part
of the Bonn Government to min
imize the successes of the neo-
Nazi party, further gains of the
latter are to be expected.
dared.
It was recommended that the
fund raising and operations of all
Israel’s universities "which are
rapidly proliferating,” should be
coordinated in the United States
and in Israel within and among
the institutions. It also urged that
there should be a continuous in
crease of information on over
seas needs and services, to help
increase American Jewish un
derstanding and support.
The resolutions were adopted
following two sessions devoted to
overseas needs, at which Israel’s
economy and the impact of
changes anticipated in 1967 in
Jewish immigration in general
were discussed. Speakers includ
ed Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman,
executive vice-chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal; Charles
Jordan, executive vice-chairman
of the Joint Distribution Com
mittee; Max A. Braude, executive
head of the World ORT Union;
Murray Gurfein, president of
United HIAS Service; Dr. Wil
liam Haber, president of the
American ORT Federation; Gott
lieb Hammer, executive vice-
chairman of the United Israel Ap
peal Inc.; S. P. Goldberg, of the
Council of JeVvish Federations
and Welfare Funds; Gaynor Ja
cobson, executive director of the
United HIAS Service; I. L. Ken-
en of the American Israel Pub
lic Affairs Committee and others.
Dr. Haber told the CJFWF As
sembly banquet session that the
nature of the An mean economy
will inevitably create serious
challenges for the Jewish com
munity. Dr. Haber, who la a dean
at the University of Michigan,
said that, to begin with, the fan
tastic increases In demand for
trained personnel in the social
service field, in administration, in
planning, and in the health area
creates immediately a tremendous
competition for the limited per
sonnel now available.
"The financial capacity of the
American community as a result
of the current affluence, as well
as of the immediate and long out
look, imposes upon all of us—
upon every budget committee in
every town and city—an obli
gation to reexamine the alloca
tions of the philanthropic dollar
as between local and overseas re
quirements,” Dr. Haber empha
sized. ‘The crisis in Israel, the
needs of Jews in France, the de
veloping problems in a dozen oth
er areas compel us as Jews—just
as it compels the United States
Government as an affluent so
ciety — to aid overseas Jewish
communities which need help
more than most.”
“We have in recent years shown
a large sense of responsibility and
a capacity to shore up weak com-
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munities and institutions in more
than a dozen countries,” Dr. Haber
added. “We have at the same
time built a vigorous, secure and
strong Jewish community in our
free country. Our own sense of
economic well-being compels us
to ask whether the time has not
come for us to reexamine the de
gree to which our philathropic
dollar is properly allocated as be
tween our needs at home and the
demands overseas. I think it is
not.”
Dr. Haber said also he rec
ognized the direct responsibility
at home in Jewish education, in
training personnel for Jewish in
stitutions, as well as the respon
sibility to the youth, to the aged,
to hospitals and to other Jewish
programs. “The momentum,” he
said, “will assure the continua
tion of these programs.”
The United Nations and the
world’s major powers were crit
icized at a plenary session for
failing to bring peace to the Mid
dle East. The criticism was voiced
by Irving Kane, chairman of the
CJFWF Overseas Committee, who
emphasized that “the overriding
problem facing Israel and ipdeed
the whole world in this h6ur is
the problem of peace.” He point
ed out that 18 years after the es
tablishment of the State of Israel,
the country still finds itself sur
rounded by neighboring states
who openly call for and plan for
Israel’s destruction.
“There is a difference between
open aggression and self-defense,”
Mr. Kane added. “There is a dif-
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those who want to live at Mace
with them. It is time the trailed
Nations and our own country rec
ognize these difflerenoe* aad exert
the great influence ofs&ttjcb they
are capable to bring about a just
and durable peace. The time is
now.”
The delegates were told at
another session that successful
campaigning can only be a prod
uct of an effective Jewish com
munity and that an effective Jew
ish community can only be the
response of a sensitivity to hu
man needs, combined with the
relevance of its institutions. These
points were made by Irving Blum
of Baltimore, chairman of the
CJFWF Campaign Services Com
mittee.
Concern over the unmet needs
in American Jewiah education
was expressed at the Assembly
which adopted a resolution em
phasizing that “the strengthening
of Jewish education in quality
and effectiveness is of the utmost
importance to the future of our
Jewish communities in America.”
The resolution noted that a
CJFWF committee on Jewish ed
ucation had worked actively for
a program for the recruitment,
training and utilization of teach
ers, administrators and specialists
in the field of Jewish education,
and for the organization and fi
nancing of post-elementary Jew
ish education. The CJFWF resolu
tion recommended that the com
mittee continue along those lines.
Dr. Benjamin B. Rosenberg,
executive director of the Com
bined Jewish Philanthropies of
Greater Boston, addressing a ses
sion of the Assembly, urged that
Jewish central community organ-i
izations "should place Jewish
education high on the agenda for
planning, for support and for ac
tion and not simply high on the
agenda of conferences.” He said
that there seemed to be a crisis
in both the quality and the auan-
tity of teaching personnel ip
Jewish schools.
Taking note of the critical
shortages in personnel for Jewish
health and welfare agencies, the
Assembly adopted a resolution
railing for the recruitment, train-,
ing and placement of additional
mannower. The resolution enmha-t
s<zed that no problem facing Jew-j
ish communal services was more
serious than the shortage of pro-1
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