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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1967
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Battle Flares Up at Suez Canal Emory U. Ah 10115
As Egypt Violates Cease-Fire ^ . - , . n, ».
JERUSALEM (JTA)—After al- The shooting started when the jf* CP S^ J W mM'tM'
moat five weeks of calm in the Egyptians broke out with heavy
Suez Canal area, where Israel
holds the east bank of the water
way while Egypt retains the west
shore, serious fighting broke out
in the region early this week.
Before the exchanges between the
two sides were over, one Israeli
•soldier was killed and another
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New Outbreak
Is Reported
StUI further rupture of the
Mideast cease-fire occurred
after that reported in the ac
companying dispatch. For
three hours, fire was exchang
ed between Israel and Jordan
at the Damiya Bridge crossing
about 18 miles north of Jeri
cho. Israel reported three sol
diers wounded; Jordan two.
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was wounded, the Egyptians hit
an Israeli helicopter attempting
to pick up wounded, and the Is
raelis sank an Egyptian torpedo
boat.
Kennedy Airport’s
New Synagogue
Opens September 10
NEW YORK (WUP)—The In
ternational Synagogue at Kenne
dy Airport—sharing an imposing
compound near the lagoon facing
the Arrival Building with Prot
estant and Roman Catholic
Chapels—will be officially ded
icated on Sunday morning, Sept.
10, U was announced here by
Rabbi Eugene J. Cohen, the new
ly-appointed spiritual leader of
the unique house of worship.
A highlight of the dedication
ceremonies will be the presenta
tion to the Chapel of a rare and
priceless Calcutta, India, Torah
—gift of the- Jewish community
of that city. Edward S. Abraham,
one of the Chapel Board mem
bers and vice president of United
Israel World Union, will make
the presentation on behalf of the
donors and the American cus
todians of several such Torahs,
The Brotherhood S y n a gogue,
whose spiritual leaders are Rab
bis Irving J and A. Allen Block.
artillery fire against Israeli ves
sels sailing the canal near the
eastern shore. Israel fired back
from batteries in the vicinity of
Port Tewfiq. That exchange last
ed an hour and a half.
Later, the Egyptians opened
fire against the Israelis stationed
in the Port Tewfiq area. Israel
fired back. The United Nations
cease-fire observers arranged a
halt to the firing, but Egypt
broke that agreement within five
minutes. It was here that one
Israeli lost his life, and another
was wounded.
The Egyptians then started
shelling Israeli forces in the
Sinai, about six and a half miles
from Port Tewfiq, and then con
tinued to fire in spite of two sep
arate cease-fire arrangements
reached by the United Nations
military observers.
All along the area on and near
the canal, the Egyptians kept up
steady streams of fire with artil
lery and mortar. Israel remained
in possession of Port Tewfiq. The
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Arabs Join Ceremony
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Local
Arab notables in the village of
El Fahem, in Israel, joined of
ficials of Histadrut, the Israeli
federation of labor and an
American donor when a new
youth center for Arab young
sters was dedicated in the town.
The donor is J. M. Lazarus, of
Los Angeles. Mr. Lazarus had
also donated funds for other
youth centers in various parts of
Israel.
Labor Head Accepts
Invitation to UJS.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Aharon
Becker, general secretary of
Histadrut, the Israel federation
of labor, was invited by George
Meany, president of the AFL-CIO
in the United States, to attend
the next AFL-CIO convention, it
was announced here. Mr. Becker
has accepted the invitation.
While in the United States, he
will also help launch the Hista
drut campaign in America.
Plans for the establishment of
a Chair of Judaic Studies as par*
of its MERIT (Mobilizing Educa
tional Resources and Ideas for
Tomorrow) Program goals were
announced by Emory University.
William R. Bowdoin, Atlanta
businessman and chairman of the
Merit Program, said Emory will
seek $500,000 endowment funds
to establish the chair. Dr. Irving
H. Goldstein and Max Ritten-
baum, both Emory alumni from
Atlanta, will serve as co-chair
men of the fund-raising commit
tee now being organized for this
special MERIT Program project.
Emory’s President Sanford S.
Atwood said similar professor
ships for chairs in Jewish learn
ing now exist at leading Amer
ican universities, such as Har
vard, Ycle, Columbia and Van
derbilt.
Dr. Jack Boozer, chairman of
the Department of Religion at
Emory, said the addition of a
noted Jewish scholar would tre
mendously enrich the program of
the department, increasing schol
arships in religion in both range
and depth. “It will strengthen
what we are doing and add ad
ditional dimension. It will enrich
the general education in the arts
and sciences available at Emory.
We, in the Department of Relig
ion, seek and welcome such an
addition.”
“Liberal education demands the
fullest, most comprehensive pres
entation, to all students, of the
religious sources of our tradition.
For this reason, the establish
ment of a professorship of Jew
ish studies is of importance to
both students and faculty at Em
ory College,” Dr. Boozer added.
Dean John Stephens Jr. of Em
ory College (the undergraduate
college of Emory Univeraity)
said: “To his faculty colleagues,
the professor of Jewish studies
will bring a stimulating voice to
broaden and deepen the exchange
of ideas. Working with students
at all levels, he will be a force
in the Emory community for ef
fective teaching qpd understand
ing. The temper of contemporary
religious thought and discussion
makes this a particularly propiti
ous time to establish a chair of
Jewish studies at frnory College.”
In talking about the proposed
chair, Dr. Boozer said the scholar
to be engaged would be available
to teach courses rooted in the
traditions of Judaic thought.
From time to time, a visiting pro
fessor from Hebrew Univeraity in
Jerusalem would assist in teach
ing. Efforts would also be mads
for student exchanges between
Hebrew Univeraity and
he 3aid, “opening the door to
light and new learning.”
Long Spell of Cold War, At Best,
Is Foreseen for Middle East
Name UN Envoy
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yosef
Tekoah, Israel’s 42-year-old
former Ambassador to the Soviet
Union and, previously, to Brazil,
has been named as Israel’s per
manent representative and Am
bassador to the United Nations.
He will succeed Ambassador
Gideon Rafael, who will return
here to become director-general
of the Foreign Ministry.
LONDON (JTA) — A long
period of cold war between the
Arab states and Israel—with the
eventual possibility of a partial
thaw—was foreseen by seasoned
Middle East watchers here fol
lowing the Arab heads of state
conference at Khartoum, the
Sudan. The conference wound up
with an agreement whereby oil-
rich Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and
Libya would chip in some $392,-
000,000 to bail war-bankrupt
Jordan and Egypt out of their
critical economic situation.
The “have” shiekdonas, for
their part, were relieved of
moral obloquy for continuing to
receive royalties for exported oil
from the “western imperialists,”
since the conference accepted the
principle that each Arab state
was at liberty to decide how to
deal with suggestions for oil
Council Offers
To Send Rabbis
embargoes and other economic
measures. This meant, in effect,
that these nations would be free
to continue “business as usual”
with their good customers, Brit
ain and the United States, whom
they had accused of implication
in Israeli "aggression.” " ^
There were many discartoit
aspects of the conference—par
ticularly when the leftist Syrian
region—one of the most milttant-
ly anti-Israel Arab nations—
boycotted the proceedings, Mim
ing the resentment of the Other
Arab states.
But the conference did.
that it was taking i
the civil war in Yemen, in
in effect, Egypt and Saadi
Arabia are engaged in military
action against the other, since
each supports opposing jtfss.
The Yemen ruler voiced , auflpry
protest against this decision,
which, it was hoped, would en
able Egypt to liquidate a costly
adventure.
A/C Condemns
Negro Extremists
To Soviet Union EorBiasResotution
AFTER THE JUMP—On August *1, IH1, l«fcl
celebrated Paratrooper's Day. The Paratroopers,
are dearly beloved by Israelis a# all ages because
ef their exceptional courage, shown In action when
ever and wherever required. Thousands thronged
the beaches of Tel-Aviv in order to watch the aerial
display. In the picture motor boats are seen going
to pick up paratroopers who had dropped into the
sea. (Page 5 for Pre-Jump picture)
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Synagogue Council of America
has offered to send rabbis to the
Soviet Union where, it has found,
the Jews face “the prospect of
being without a single rabbi or
religious , teacher.” Announce
ment of the offer was made by
Rabbi Henry Siegman, executive
vice-president of the Council, and
Prof. Seymour Siegel, of the
Jewish Theological Seminary,
both of whom had just returned
from a visit to the USSR.
The Council’s offer was made
in a letter last week to the Soviet
Embassy in Washington to which
to date, it has not replied. In the
offer, the Council leaders stated
the organization was “prepared
to guarantee that our rabbis and
teachers will not engage in any
activities which are frowned
upon by the Soviet regime and,
of course, by the congregations.”
Rabbi Siegman and Prof.
Siegel noted that, with the recent
death of the rabbi of Kiev, “Jess
than a handful of Rabbis” has
been left in the entire Soviet
Union “and they are old men,
and there is no one to take their
place.” There are not only very
few rabbis, they said, but there
were also no facilities for train
ing rabbis and religious teachers.
They also noted that the Soviet
Union has not carried out |t*
promises to permit publication
of Jewish prayer books.
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Jewish Committee, in
a statement issued here, sharply
assailed a resolution adopted at
the National Convention on
New Politics in Chicago con
demning “the imperialistic Zion
ist war” with a proviso that “tide
is not to imply anti-Semitism.”
The resolution was forced
through at the convention by the
so-called Black Power Caucus, a
group of militant Negroes.
"Anti-Semitism is intolerable,
whether it comes from white or
Negro, and whether ft is ex
pressed. by a convention of the
so-called new politics in Chicago
or by the old politics of Gerald
L. K. Smith and the late George
Lincoln Rockwell,” the American
Jewish Committee statam e n t
stressed. “Nor is It in ny way
mitigated by self-serving denials.
For those who condemn what
they call the imperialist Zion
ist war’ between Israel and the
Arab states tie dearly parroting
the discredited line of anti-Sem
ites within the Soviet and Arab
'•kBP
“This is not to deny that Jews
are sympathetic to the plight of
the millions of American Negroes.
For years now American Jewry,
true to the prophetic tradition,
has been in the vanguard of those
fighting for the rights ef all ml-
noritie# in this country. Toda&
American Jews axe (leading in
wch efforts as the Urban Coali
tion to seek solutions to the agon
izing problems of our cities.”
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