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.1 a i VI. x n o a a us x VoL XLU The Southern Israelite A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1 ^ %0 ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1967 Na m 0 #ffi ***5§& —w 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 ************************ 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. la**************.^****-*** 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 Continued on page 4 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.” , ■ ” ; '