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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Establ* rU
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1967
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NO. 10
Israeli Students In Protest
At Government Censorship
JERUSALEM — An all-out
offensive against Government
censorship of the press has been
launched here by the Israeli
Students Union which announced
that the last issue of its organ,
Nitzot (Sparks), was forced to
eliminate a cartoon found offen
sive by two representatives of
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol’s of
fice.
The incident is the second in
volving Government censorship
revealed here recently. A week
ago, it was discovered that two
editors of the illustrated maga
zine Bui (Stamp) had been
secretly tried, coWicted, and
sentenced to one-year prison
terms for publishing material
found by the Government to have
violated the State Security law.
According to the Students
Union, publication of the last
issue of Nizot was held up when
the editors of the student pub-
Syria Charges
lication refused to eliminate a
cartoon to which the Premier’s
representatives, Adi Jaffe and
Sharon Keidan, objected. The is
sue was finally released today,
with the cartoon deleted.
The lead editorial in the inde
pendent and influential morning
daily, HSSfretz, criticized the
censorship and revealed that even
Haaretz was censored when it
was forbidden to run a story
about a meeting of the Students
Union on the cartoon matter.
Maariv, the leading evening
daily, said today that the latest
instance of Government censor
ship of the press “presents an un
wholesome trend” forcing Israeli
citizens to' complain to the for
eign press, asking the latter “to
right what they believe is
wrong.” At the same time, how
ever, Maariv deplored the “stub
born refusal” of the student
paper to agree to the elimination
of the cartoon, and regretted the
fact that the students made the
affair public.
Political Pearls, Isi .^ambnds
To Sparkle at ZOA Briefing Sunday
Art Exhibit. Trade Fair, Experts to
Share Program Spotlighting Jewish State
Region
The ZOA Conference on “Peace
in the Middle East”, scheduled
for Sunday, March 12, at the At
lanta Jewish Community Center
between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. will
offer as an added public service
an art and trade exhibit. This
special feature will present a
visual demonstration of the tre
mendous forward strides which
have been made in these specific
areas by the State of Israel since
its establishment.
Chiefly responsible for this dis
play is the Committee on Trade
with Israel of the Atlanta Zionist
District, headed by Henry Bim-
brey; Miss Polly Marston, cul- ■* collection of coins, and Dr. Larry
of the Southeast Region ZOA
office in Atlanta.
Trade exhibits will consist of
$100,000 worth of jewelry import
ed annually by the firm of Ben
Hyman Jewelers; wines from Ben
Lemer, imported by United Dis
tributors; a wide variety of
novelties, imported by H. Sun
shine; imports of men’s clothing,
exhibited by Joe I. Zimmerman.
In the field of the arts the
Murray S. Greenfield Galleries of
New York will have a special dis
play of paintings and works of
art by famous Israeli artists. The
Israel Tourist Office, headed by
Amnon Gil-Ad, will show a fine
tural arts director of the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center; and
Harry Sanders, associate director
Bregman, president of the Atlanta
Zionist District, will exhibit his
collection of Israeli stamps.
The briefing session, which will
be led by such important public
figures as former Congressman
James A. Mackay of the Fourth
Georgia Congressional District;
David Horowitz, president of the
Foreign Press Association; Harry
Torczyner, chairman of the ZOA
Public Affairs Committee; Wil
liam D. Wolle, representative of
the U.S. Department of State;
and Rabbi Jerome Unger, direc
tor of the ZOA Public Affairs
Department, will hear greetings
from Hon. Zeev Boneh, Israel
Consul General for the Southeast
ern states and opening remarks
from Dr. Larry Bregman, presi
dent of the Atlanta Zionist Dis
trict. The Zionist Youth Organiza
tions will be represented by their
regional director, Frank Farben-
bloom.
Dr. Sidney Q. Janus and Robert
M. Travis, co-chairmen of the N
Conference, will preside.
Israel Strays David Ben-Gurion Begins Compensation
From Agenda Whirlwind American Tour 96,000 Jobless
UNITED NATIONS N.Y.
(JTA)—Apparently preparing its
excuses for scuttling the extra
ordinary session of the Israeli-
Syrian Mixed Armistice Commis
sion—which is now stymied by
Syrian refusals to adhere to that
session’s one-point agenda—Syria
has presented a lengthy letter to
the Security Council here, charg
ing that Israel has “strayed
away” from the agenda.
The letter, dated February 23
but just made public here, ac
cused Israel of insisting on “fin
alizing” her alleged military oc
cupation of the demilitarized
zones on the Syrian-Israeli fron
tiers, building up “military forti
fications" in the area, refusing to
remove those installations after
being requested to do so by Unit
ed Nations military observers,
and expelling “Arab farmers
from their villages.”
The ISMAC’s extraordinary
session was convened by U.N.
Secretary-General U Thant after
a proposal by Lt. Gen. Odd Bull,
chief of staff of the United Na
tions Truce Supervision Organi
zation. The U.N. feared the pos
sible outbreak of large-scale war
fare on the Israeli-Syrian bord
ers. After three meetings of
ISMAC, Gen. Bull adjourned the
session just as it was ready to
hold a fourth meeting because
Syria insisted on broadening the
agenda.
NEW YORK (JTA) — David
Ben-Gurion was visibly moved
by an announcement by the Is
rael Education Fund of the
United Jewish ^Appeal that the
Fund will build a high school
at the regional educational cen
ter in the Negev foundied by Is
rael’s first Prime Miiytter.
The announcement \was made
at a dinner in his h^nor given
by the Fund in the fiYst formal
event of a three-week Whirlwint
tour of the United States by the
80-year-old elder statesn
the UJA and other Israel
grams.
An entourage of dignitaries
greeted the Israeli leader when
he and his party arrived at Ken
nedy Airport on an El A1 plane
direct from Lydda Airport. He
immediately voiced his gratitude
to the four Presidents who have
in office since Israel’s re-birth in
1948 ■— Truman, Eisenhower, the
late John Kennedy and President
Johnson.
In addition to New York, Mr.
Ben-Gurion’s itinerary includes
Miami. Philadelphia, Chicago,
Los Angeles and Boston for the
UJA and the Israel Education
Fund The UJA’s current cam
paign for $75,620,000 will be de
voted mainly to welfare, health
and rehabilitation programs to
speed the social and economic ab
sorption of the new immigrant.
Mr. Ben-Gurion will be the
guest of college students and fac
ulty members of the following
institutions of higher learning:
Hebrew Union College—Jewish
Institute of Religion, Jewish
Theological Seminary, Yeshiva
University and New York Uni
versity, in New York City; Drop-
sie and Gratz Colleges in Phila
delphia; the B’nai B’rith Hillel
Foundations of the University of
Southern California and Univer
sity of California in Los Ange
les; the University of Illinois and
other universities in the Chicago
area; and in Boston, the Boston
Hebrew College, Harvard Univer
sity, Brandeis University and
Boston University.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
had 96,000 unemployed persons
by the end of 1966, out of a total
labor force of 857,000, Yigal'Al-
lon, Minister of Labor, reported
here to the Knesset (Parliament).
Going into those figures, during
the Knesset’s budget debate, he
noted that by the end of 1965
the unemployed in Israel num
bered 32,000.
“These data, looked at in the
perspective of Israel’s current ec
onomic recession, revealed the
weakness of Israel’s economy, and
force us to the moment of truth,”
he declared. “This truth must be
found by reducing living stand
ards, transferring service workers
into production work, and raising
the country’s productivity.”
Spanish Catholics and Jews
Unite in Historic Service
MADRID (JTA)—Max Mazin,
president of the Madrid Jewish
Community, preached a sermon
here recently from the lectern in
a Catholic church, after a cantor
and a priest had alternated in in
toning verses from Psalms, ac
companied by the organ in the
vast Augustinian - conducted
Church of Santa Rita.
Southern JWB Chooses Hot Springs
For Biennial Parley, Institute
Hot Springs National Park, Ar
kansas, has been chosen as the
site for the 1967 Biennial Con
ference and Institute of the Sou
thern Region of the National Jew
ish Welfare Board (JWB) to be
held on April 14-16, 1967.
Mitchell Bush of Chattanooga
is president of the Southern Re-
gion-JWB, and Joe H. Golman
of Dallas is conference chairman.
The Conference-Institute this
year will be an "in depth” con
sideration of the meaning of
membership and participation.
The theme is: “Emphasis 1967—
The Meaning of Membership and
Participation in the Center! In
the Military!”
The growing importance and
significance of serving young
adults in the military service will
be explored through the theme.
"Two Years in the Military—Is
This A ‘Lost Weekend’ in Jewish
Life?”
Chaplains on active duty, aux
iliary chaplains, chairmen and
members of JWB Armed Services
Committees, Jewish Community
Center Board and Committee
‘members, and professional staff
members will be attending. All
members of the community inter
ested in the work of JWB are
invited to participate .
In addition to Mr. Bush, the
work of the Southern Region -rs
directed by its Board of Gover
nors and the following officers:
Mrs. Milton Sirkin, Miami Beach,
honorary president; Joe H. Gol
man, Dallas, president-elect; A.
Budd Cutler, Miami, Gilbert S.
Fox of Nashville, Dr. Marvin C.
Goldstein of Atlanta, Robert Ross
of San Antonio, and Milton Wein
stein of Atlanta, vice presidents;
Paul L. Schwartz,. Memphis, sec
retary; Karl Friedman, Birming- !
ham, treasurer.
Nathan Loshak is administra
tive regional consultant for the
Southern Region of JWB. Her
man Lebovitz is regional consul
tant.
For the first time in history,
Jews and Catholics participated
in what they called a “Judeo-
Christian Paraliturgy,” a service
in which the Jewish and Catho
lic liturgies were recited in paral
lel versions to illustrate the spirit
of ecumenism.
The event was conducted be
fore a crowded congregation of
about 2,000 persons, with the first
two rows of pews reserved for
“the Jewi^i brethren.” The oc
casion was organized by the Jew-
ish-Christian Friendship Society
of Madrid, of which Mr. Mazin
and the Rev. Vicente Serrano, a
young Augustinian priest, are the
chairmen.
The Psalms were recited by
Simon Amar, a 38-year-old
Moroccan Jew who is the cantor
of the Madrid Synagogue. After
he had intoned some Psalms in
Hebrew, other verses were chant
ed in Latin and Spanish by the
Rev. Jesus Alvarez, pastor of
Santa Rita. The cantor, wearing
a black yarmulke, was accom
panied by a small choir of Jew
ish youths. Also participating in
the services were Samuel Tole-
dano, a vice-president of the
Madrid Synagogue, and the Rev.
Candelas Moriones, provincial of
the Augustinian Order.
Asked to Aid
In Israel
He proposed that unemployment
compensation be paid “at least
during the transition period” to
persons registering at labor ex
changes but unable to find work.
The compensation, he said, should
range from $35 monthly to a
single person to $78 a month to
the heads of large families. In
addition, he said, family allow
ances should be paid by the So
cial Insurance Institute.
In evaluating the current reces
sion, the Labor Minister said that
the economic difficultes are now
“more than half-way over.” lie
predicted that unemployment will
gradually decrease in 1967, while
production and export figures
will continue to rise.
Top Negro Writers
In Strong Blast
At Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two
prominent Negro intellectuals —
James Baldwin, author, and Ossie
Davis, actor and playwright —
sharply condemned Negro anti-
Semitism in letters published by
“Freedomwavs,” a quarterly re
view of the Negro freedom move
ment. Both attacked also the
Negro monthly, “Liberator,” and
a writer for the latter magazine.
Eddie Ellis, for an article in “Lib
erator” last year which, accord
ing to Mr. Baldwin and Mr.
Davis, had virtually called for “a
war against the Jews.”
Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Davis had
resigned from the advisory board
of “Liberator” because of the El
lis article, and demanded that
“Liberator” print their retorts.
Having been refused such pub
lication in the monthly, they sent
their letters to ‘Freedomways”
and made the replies available
in advance to the American Jew
ish Committee.
“I think it is distinctly un
helpful. and I think it is im
moral,” wrote Mr. Baldwin, “to
blame Harlem on the Jew.” Mr.
Davis assailed the “wild and un
supported contentions” in the
article, “Semibsm in the Black
Ghetto,” stating: “Whatever Jews
are guilty of exploiting Harlem
are not guilty because they are
Jews but because — along with
many Catholics, Protest a n ts ,
Negro and white—they are ex
ploiters.”