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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
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Vol. XUI
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, October 20, 1967
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No. 42
Prayers Of World Seek Solace
For Oppressed Jews In Russia
NEW YORK (JTA) —The plight
of Jews in the Soviet Union and
in Arab countries dominated the
Yom Kippur prayers of Jews in
the free world this past week.
The presidents of 24 national
organizations comprising the
American Jewish Conference on
Soviet Jewry and key leaders
from 125 Jewish communities in
30 states, met in Washington to
demand that Soviet authorities
end their policy of denying re
ligious, cultural and communal
rights to the 3,000,000 Jews of
the Soviet Union.
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman
of the Conference, told the Jew
ish leaders that “token conces
sions” for Soviet Jewry prior to
the June war had been succeed
ed by a “hysterical and vicious
anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-
Zionist camp aign” indicating
“further deterioration" of the
situation of Soviet Jewry.
He oalled on Soviet leaders to
end the “irrational factors” which
have determined policy toward
Russian Jews to secure their fu
ture and allow them self-realiza
tion “as Jews, ss citizens and as
human beings."
Later 25 of the leaders met
with Presidential Adviser Walt
Rostow and other United States
officials at the White House.
Rabbi Miller said that Mr. Ros
tow expressed “sympathetic
awareness” of the problems of
Soviet Jews.
The Jewish leaders called for
implementation by President
Johnson of prior promises to seek
easement of the pressures on So
viet Jews and asked the Admin
istration to communicate to the
Soviet Union “concern for the
continuing plight of Soviet Jew
ry.” The White House meeting
lasted nearly an hour.
CHECKING IN AND OUT—After a series of non-cooperative acts,
the military government imposed a number of stiff restriction*
on the West Bank town of Nablus. Each and ovary car which
leaves or enters the town is examined and checked by the
police and the army.
Largest UJA Study Mission
Takes Off For Israel Survey
NEW YORK (JTA) — Nearly
600 American Jewish community
leaders from 80 cities left Ken
nedy Airport this week on a
United Jewish Appeal mission to
Israel to study problems of im
migrant absorption and welfare
arising from the new hardens
placed on Israel as a result of
the Six-Day War.
The mission, described as the
largest in UJA history, is being
led by Max M. Fisher, of De
troit, UJA general chairman; Ed
ward Ginsberg, of Cleveland, as
sociate general chairman; and
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, exec
utive yjee chairman. Participants
filled three planes. They were to
join several hundred others who
arrived in Israel earlier for the
mission, which ends on October
31.
In a pre-departure statement,
Mr. Fisher said that the purpose
of the mission “is to observe at
first hand one of the war’s most
serious effects — the dislocation
and forced curtailment of Israel’s
broad program of social services
for the hundreds of thousands of
Jewish immigrants whom the
UJA has helped bring to Israel,
end for whose absorption into the
social and economic life .of that
country the UJA shares respon
sibility.”
Rabbi Friedman pointed out
that the eno/mOus cost of Israel’s
recent war effort and its after-
math has severely burdened Is
rael’s taxpayers who will not be
able to provide as much of the
funds as they previously have
done to meet the social costs of
absorbing the newcomers. He es
timated that there are some 535,-
000 immigrants in Israel still fully
or partially dependent on social
aid.
Bialystok Police
On Trial In Germany
BONN (JTA) — Fourteen
members of a German police
unit accused of the mass murder
of Jews in the Bialystok ghetto
in 1941, have gone on trial in
Wuppertal.
They are charged with having
set fire to the main synagogue
in the Polish city on June 27,
1941, after forcing at least 800
Jews into the building. The
Jews were burned alive when
the synagogue was drenched
with benzine and ignited with
hand grenades.
New Zionist Groups
LONDON (JTA) — Seven new
Zionist groups, with a total
membership of 2,000 have affili
ated with the British Zionist
Federation during August and
September, Harold Miller, acting
chairman of the Federation, has
reported. He credited the new
mood in Anglo-Jewry evoked by
the May-June Israel crisis and
war for the additions to the
Zionist movement here.
Terrorist Raid
Blasts Calm
Of Holy Day
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Israeli
soldiers, deep in prayer at a de
fense post in the Beisan Valley,
rushed to their guns last Sat
urday when their Yom Kippur
services were interrupted by tank
and artillery fire from across the
Jordan River. One soldier was
injured in the heavy exchange
of fire that followed.
According to an Army spokes
man, Israeli tanks soared direct
hits on the Jordanian police sta
tion at Sheikh Hossein, where the
attack originated.
The spokesman said that the
incident was one of several that
shattered the High Holy Day
calm in the west bank region,
and caused damage to buildings
and vehicles. Kibbutz Meoz
Chaim, in the Beisan Valley, was
the target of an El Fatah terror
ist attack which damaged the
dining hall and a transformer
building, and set fire to a half
track.
The Army spokesman said that
the Yom Kippur attack occurred
near the Sheikh Hossein bridge,
15 miles south of Lake Tiberias,
shortly after 8 a. m. While some
Israeli soldiers were at their
posts, others were conducting
services in a makeshift synagogue
when the Jordanians opened fire.
The worshipers dropped their
prayer shawls and prayer books,
and immediately joined the other
soldiers at the gun positions.
These men were fasting, but
they fed ammunition to machine-
guns and fuel and shells to the
tanks, the Army spokesman said.
When the action ended, the men
returned to their prayers and fin
ished the Yom Kippur service
with the traditional shofar blast
UN Council
May Be Arena
For Debate
united nations, n. .Y.
(JTA)—With the “high priority’
debate on the Middle East crisis
in the General Assembly post*-
poned for at least a week, stren
uous efforts were under way
here to work out some kind of
formula, to be laid before the
Security Council, to which both
Israel and the Arab states could
agree so as to get the Israeli-
Arab dispute off dead center.
The Assembly, which has been
in session since September 19,
had been scheduled to open de
bate on the Middle East crisis,
as a matter of “urgency.” How
ever, Cemeliu Manescu, of Ru
mania, president of the Assem
bly, announced suspension of all
plenary meet tings “for a short
while.”
Secretary-General Thant told
correspondents here that he ex
pected direct talks to open be
tween United States and Egyp
tian diplomats that might lead to
definitive UN action in the Coun
cil, adding there had been “prog
ress” in the talks between the
USA and Egypt. However, a
spokesman for the U.S. delegation
did not name Egypt as the UN
member with which the Wash
ington diplomats would discuss
the issue, saying only that the
USA is continuing to discuss with
various delegations the possibility
of finding a basis for Arab-Israeli
agreement.
Dr. King Strongly Repudiates
Anti-Semitic Declaration
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Mar
tin Luther King Jr., head of the
Southern Christian leadership
Conference, has dwvninocd black
separatism and anti-Semitism
and repudiated die anti-Israel
position taken by the New Pol
itics Convention in Chicago last
month.
The Negro leader said anti-
Semitism was “inunoral" and
was being used to divide Negro
and Jew “who have collectively
collaborated in the struggle for
justice.”
Dr. King’s statement came in
reply to a letter from Morris
B. Abram, president of the
American Jewish Committee, and
the presidents of nine Jewish or
ganizations affiliated in the Na
tional Community Relatione Ad
visory Council. They had drawn
his attention to the anti-Israel
declaration adopted at the Chi-
rm
cage convention at which Dr.
King bad been tBC ofNttng
speaker, and bad asked him to
dissociate himself from the' con
vention stand.
In his reply, Dr. King noted
that be bad left the convention
early and pointed out that the
8CLC staff members there had
been “the most vigorous arid
articulate opponents at Hie afan-
pUstic resolution on this teiMla
East question.” Be said tent, if
be had been there during the dis
cussion, *1 would have made it
crystal (tear that 1 could. not
have supported any resolution
calling for black aeparattam or
calling for a condemnation of Is
rael and an unqualified endorse
ment of the policy of the Arab
powers.”
Dr. King stated that the 8CLC
had “expressly, frequently, and
vigorously denounced eqiti-Seini-
tism and wQl continue to do so."
“It’s Up To Israel And Arabs”
Says Fedorenko Of Dispute
UNITED NATIONS (WUF) —
“It’s up to the parties themselves,
the Arabs and the Israelis, to set
tle their own dispute. No ana can
do it for them.”
Thus replied Nicolai T.' Fedo
renko, the Soviet Ambassador to
the UN, to a question posed on a
possible solution to the Middle
East conflict at a Rumanian re
ception given by the Deputy Min
ister of Foreign Affairs of Ru
mania to his Foreign Minister
Comeliu Manescu who was un
animously elected to the presiden
cy of the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly.
Enjoying a nice slice of white
turkey, the tall and handsome
Fedorenko appeared in a goodly
mood. (At receptions, the Soviet
Ambassador is one of tbe most
friendly and sociable people one
can find, making it difficult to
believe that this is the same men
who spews those harsh and bit
ter words in Assembly debates. 1
However, when the question of
the Middle East was raised:
“What future do you see to a so
lution?” his expression changed
it. was one of both disgust and
disappointment— disappointment,
undoubtedly, at Arab intransig
ence as well as st Israeli stub-
bomess.
He wasn’t certain whether a
Security Council meeting would
be invoked. His whole attitude
was to the effect: “I don’t give a
damn!"
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