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The A Weekly Vol. XLII Southern Israel Newspaper for Southern Jewry 0 <^ ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1967 •oO NO. 8 Anti-Semitic Vandalism Irks Youth of Other Faiths Brotherhood week Underway Throughout All the Nation NEW ORLEANS (JTA)— Prot estant and Catholic high school youths have joined in a project organized by their churches here to restore more than 100 grave markers defaced by vandals in two Jewish cemeteries last month. The vandals painted swastikas and a hammer and sickle in black and red on more than 40 tomb stones at the Dispersed of Judah Cemetery. More than 70 graves were defiled at the Hebrew Rest Cemetery, where the vandals painted on the stones such inscrip tions as “they shall die,” and “Six Million, Was It Enough?,” a reference to the number of Eur opean Jews murdered by the Nazis during the war. The restoration and clean-up of the defaced markers is spon sored jointly by the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans and the New Orleans Federation of Dr. Oppenheimer A-Bomb 'Father' Passes at 62 PRINCETON, N.J. (JTA)—J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Ameri can Jewish physicist who was officially credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb,” died at his home here February 18 at the age of 62. He had been ailing since early last year with cancer of the throat. Dr. Oppenheimer received the Presidential citation and a Medal of Merit for his role in the de velopment of the atomic bomb which, in the words of the war time Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, was “largely due to his genius and the inspiration and leadership he has given to his colleagues.” In 1954, he was stripped of his security clearance by the Atomic Energy Commission because of his alleged association with Com munists. The same agency, how ever, nine years later awarded Dr. Oppenheimer the $50,000 Fermi award for “his outstand ing contributions to theoretical physics and his scientific and 9dc ministrative leadership.” Presi-’* dent Johnson himself presented the award to Dr. Oppenheimer. Born in New York City, the son of a textile merchant who emi grated from Germany, Dr. Op penheimer in later life attributed his active interest in social af fairs to “a continuing smolder ing fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.” He later help ed rescue a number of relatives from the Nazi holocaust, and bring them to the United States. He served as professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton since 1947. Dr. Oppenheimer was actively associated with the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovot, Israel from its inception. He dedi cated the Weizmann Institute of Nuclear Science in 1958; was an honorary Fellow of the Weiz mann Institute, and a member of its board of governors. Ben-Gurion Advisor Dies TEL AVIV (JTA) — Shalom Eshet, 52, military advisor to Pre mier David Ben-Guridn during the War of Independence and, more recently, advisor on indus tries to the Histadrut, Israel’s labor federation, died here last week. Bom in Vienna, he was graduated at the Austrian Mili tary College and served as an Austrian army officer before em igrating to Palestine in 1937. He attained the rank of major in the Jewish Brigade. Churches (Protestant). The Rev. A. W. Townsend, president of the Federation, said the project was undertaken to “protect the sanc tuary of citizens of the past who have contributed enormously to the welfare of this community.” Negro Organ Denies Unified Anti-Semitism CHICAGO (JTA)—The Chica go Daily Defender, one of the na tion’s two Negro daily news papers, came out with an edi torial asserting that “there is no organized anti-Semitism among Negroes.” The paper urged that both Jews and Negroes avoid be coming “over-exercised about superficial interracial frictions.” The editorial was based on a review of an evaluation of Jew- ish-Negro relations made recent ly by Dr. Judd Teller, an observ er of the American Jewish scene, who called tensions between Jews and Negroes “the most fate ful domestic Jewish issue in American history.” The editorial agreed with Dr. Teller that Jews should not leave the battle for the Negro’s civil rights because of occasional Negro expressions of anti-Jewish feelings but other wise did not indicate agreement with Dr. Teller’s view of the significance of the issue. The editorial, dealing specific ally with Negro charges against Jewish businessmen operating in Negro slum areas, declared that the fact was that Jews “do their best to satisfy the wants and needs of their Negro customers” but that “the relationship breaks, down when the Negro buyer is unable to live up to the terms of his commitment.” The editorial said that when, in such cases, the usual “harsh legal procedures” were instituted, the Negro reacted with resent ment and “cries of usury, unfair advantage and gouging.” How ever, the editorial added, the Negro buyer “who does not know his financial limitations and who besides is callous about his obli gations, comes in for sharp criti cism from his own people.” Interfaith Talks Begin on March 5 NEW YORK (JTA)—Stressing that it would not alter its long standing policy of avoiding any interfaith dialogues on purely theological themes, the Synago gue Council of America confirm ed that it will participate in a series of discussions on issues “of universal religious concern” with Protestant and Roman Catholic groups. Rabbi Henry Siegman, execu tive director of the SCA,.said the organization would hold its first formal interfaith discussions on religious views of various prob lems with the Episcopal Church in New York on March 5 and 6, and with the National Council of Churches and the National Con ference of Catholic Bishops in Boston on May 7 and 8. The meeting with Episcopalian leaders next month will deal with family life while the meeting in Boston in May would deal with the role of religious conscience as applied to five specific areas— war and peace, racial justice, society’s economic obligations to its citizens, state aid to religious education and law and religious conscience. NEW YORK (JTA)—Brother hood Week, sponsored by the Na tional Conference of Chris tians and Jews and dedicated to furthering mutual under standing among people of differ ent races and creeds, started February 19 in hundreds of com munities throughout the country with rabbis, ministers and priests participating in ceremonies mark ing the opening of the Week of Which President Johnson is hon orary chairman. In New York, a Brotherhood Service was held in the synago gue of the 141-year-old Congre gation B’nai Jeshurun, at which the Three-Faith Chapels at Ken nedy International Airport were honored by religious representa tives of all three faiths—Protest ant, Catholic and Jewish. Rabbi William Berkowitz, the spiritual leader of the congregation, pre sented the 21st annual Brother hood Awards—bronze medal lions—of the Men’s Club of the congregation to the sponsoring organizations that built the Chapels. The designated recipients were the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis X. FitzGibbon, representing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn; Dr. G. Barrett Rich, 3rd, for the Protestant Council of the City of New York; and Rabbi Harold H. Gordon, executive di rector of the New York Board of Rabbis, for the International Synagogue-New York Board of Rabbis. Charles H. Silver, presi- JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Prime Minister’s office and the Foreign Ministry declared here that there was not “the slightest truth” in alleged security revela tions printed last December by the sensational Israel weekly magazine, Bul(“Stamp”), whose editors have since been tried in secret and sentenced to one-year prison terms. The statement, by the official spokesmen for the Prime Mini ster’s and Foreign Minister’s of fices, reiterated a statement on the subject made by Israel’s Con sul-General in New York, Mi chael Arnon. Mr. Arnon had de clared, after news of the arrest and conviction of the two Bui editors had been revealed by The New York Times, that the stories published by Bui were “a com pletely groundless fabrication.” The men involved are Shmuel Mor, editor of Bui, and Maxim Gillon, an assistaaP'’9ditor. They were arrested December 11, the day their articles were publish ed, violating regulations which require editors in Israel to sub mit for pre-publication clearance any material “affecting the se curity of the state.” The issue of Bui was ordered confiscated, and nearly all copies of the magazine had been confiscated. Evening newspapers featured the story as reported by The New York Times, spreading the story among Israelis who knew nothing of the affair, since •'bottling on the case had been published hereto fore in the Israeli press, although certain political and press circles were aware of the case. (The New York Times article reported that the offending issue of Bui had featured on its cover the question: “Israelis in the Ben Barka affair?” That matter re ferred to the unresolved question about the abduction in Paris in dent of the International Syna gogue is also president of Con gregation B’nai Jeshurun. Dr. Sterling W. Brown, presi dent of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, said in a statement that “the same methods of education, of dialogue, of teaching, of person-to-person communication and reasoned confrontation which have brought about a /hew era of ecumenical understanding in America must be applied with even greater vigor to eradicate the poison of racial prejudice that is disrupting our country today.” President Johnson, in his state ment for Brotherhooid Week, said, "Brotherhood simply means giv ing to others the rights, respect ATLANTA (JTA) —The com munity relations committee of the Atlanta Jewish Community Coun cil will meet to consider a policy 'Statement by the board of trus tees of Agnes Scott College here reaffirming a long-standing pol icy of hiring Christians only for the faculty of the women’s school. The 78-year-old Presbyterian- oriented institution has a number October, 1965, of Mehdi Ben Barka, the Moroccan nationalist politician. However, according to The Times, the story inside the magazine “gave no definite ans wer” to the Ben Barka question.) Israeli circles pointed out that the two men had admitted during their trial that they had based themselves on “gross, security- tied rumors” and had expressed repentance for their acts. In spite of these assurances, the public in terest in the case was substantial and a number of opposition party member of -the Knesset (Parlia ment) may ask the responsible member of the Cabinet for ad ditional details. TEL AVIV (JTA)—Arab vio lence was renewed inside Israel territory near both the Syrian and Jordanian borders last week end, leaving one Syrian soldier dead. The incidents followed the indefinite postponement of furth er meetings of the extraordinary session of the Israel-Syrian Mix ed Armistice Commission. The Syrian soldier was killed in a exchange pf fire with an Israeli pilot in the Hule area, after the patrol spotted the uni formed Syrian crossing into Is rael from the Syrian position of Darbashiye. The armed infiltrator opened fire on the patrol when he was challenged by the Israelis some 500 yards inside Israel terri tory. The patrol returned the fire and killed the Syrian with a hand grenade. The Syrian was armed with a Soviet-made auto matic rifle. Unlike previous instances when and dignity: they deserve. It ia a concept that was woven into the very fabric of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. In recent years, civil’ rights legislation has sought evdh more explicitly to guarantee ^quality for all Ameri cans regardless of raoe, color or creed. Unfortunately, the gap be tween principle and practice still remains. It is our task—and our responsibility—to make certain that the gap Is closed.” Brotherhood Week has been sponsored annually since 1934 by the National Conference, with Americans from the President of the United States through all levels bf citizenship, lending support to its observance. of Jewish students. The board’s position was re ported in the current issue of The Profile, the college newspaper. It stressed the board’s policy of maintaining an environment “dis tinctly favorable to the mainten ance of the faith and practice of the Christian religion.” Wallace McPherson Alston, president of Agnes Scott Coiiege, • in defending the board’s position, said it was his impression that many church- related colleges had similar res trictions on their faculty appoint ments. Charles F. Wittenstein, south eastern area director of the American Jewish Committee, said the Board’s reaffirmation of its hiring policy had “surprised and dismayed” many in Atlanta's Jewish community. He added that it was difficult to understand why a religious test is required of teachers of such non-religious subjects as French, English lit erature and mathematics.” Another Jewish community of ficial pointed out that the college has had many outstanding Jew ish students whom its faculty had always encouraged to join Jew ish organizations, including the Hillel Foundation at nearby Em ory College. the Syrians suffered casualties, Syrian officials agreed to take back the body of the dead soldier. Israel has lodged a complaint over the incident with the Israel- Syrian Mixed Armistice Commis sion. In another incident, near Arad in the Negev, an explosive charge placed under a water pipeline leading to a Jewish National Fund experimental plantation building blew up, but without doing any damage. Footprints of two persons were found leading to the nearby Jordanian border. The terrorists identified them selves by leaving two leaflets, one in Hebrew and one in Arabic, marked with the names, “Pales tine Liberation Movement” and “A1 Asifa” (the military arm of Ahmed Shukairy’s Palestine Lib eration Organization). Israeli Editors Sentenced For "Security Violation” Faculty Restrictions Stun Friends of Agnes Scott Arab Violence Renewed As Peace Talks Suspend