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Friday, Dec. 8, 1967
THI SOUTHKRN ISRAELIT8
Monks’ Fence-Building
Stopped by High Court
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
High Court of Justice has issued
an injunction to stop Greek
Orthodox monks from erecting
a fence on Mt. Zion which would
cut off the main access route to
Jewish holy places on the his
toric site. The dispute was
brought to the court after em
ployees of the Ministry of Re
ligious Affairs which has some
of its offices on Mt. Zion,
forcibly stopped the monks. The
fence would surround the com
pound which contains the Tomb
of David and the Ministry of
fices. The Greek churchmen
contend that Jews should use an
alternate route to Mt. Zion
through the Zion Gate and East
Jerusalem. This entrance had
been used prior to 1948 but was
part of No-Man’s-Land during
the intervening years of Jordan
ian occupation until the Six-
Day War.
25 U.S. Volunteers
To Work in Israel
NEW YORK (JTA)—Twenty-
five young Americans, including
men and women, have left for
Israel to serve as volunteers aid
ing Israeli recovery projects in
kibbutzim and other areas fac
ing reconstruction problems as
a result of the Six-Day War. The
volunteers, all between the ages
of 18 and 30, are paying their
own way to and from Israel.
They will be in Israel six
months and, while aiding re
construction, will also tour the
country and study Hebrew.
Eight are non-Jews.
Young Democrats Ask
President for Policy
MIAMI (JTA) — The national
convention of the Young Demo
crat Clubs of America unanim
ously adopted a resolution here
calling on President Johnson to
issue again a clear and unquali
fied statement of United States
policy expressing this Govern
ment’s determination to guaran
tee the continued political exist
ence of Israel as a state and to
take “substantial steps to im
plement this policy.”
These steps, the resolution
stated, would include the im
mediate delivery to IsraeLjjf air
craft, munitions and military
equipment “sufficient to bring
that nation’s defense capacity
back to a reliable deterrent
force level.”
OBITUARIES
Mrs. Alvin Cone
Mrs. Alvin Cone, 77, of Louis
ville, Ky., formerly of Atlanta
and Miami, died November 28.
The former Pearl Jacobus of
Hawkinsville, Ga., Mrs. Cone
attended public schools in At
lanta. After her marriage she
lived in Little Rock, Ark., and
again in Atlanta for a number
of years before moving to Miami
where Mr. Cone was president
of the Outdoor Advertising
Corp. of Florida.
Private funeral services were
held in Louisville on November
29.
Survivors include her hus
band; two daughters, Mrs. Al
fred Joseph and Mrs. Nathan
Marx, both of Louisville; a sis
ter, Mrs. L. L. Strasburger, At
lanta, and a brother, Henry
Jacobus, Dallas, Tex.
Louis Aroilin
Louis Aroilin of St. Peters
burg, formerly of Atlanta, died
November 22.
Funeral services were con
ducted on November 24 by
Rabbi David J. Susskind with
interment in Royal Palm Ceme
tery.
Mr. Aroilin was the retired
owner of a wholesale drapery
shop, and had lived in St.
Petersburg for ten years.
Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. W. A. Lingie of Alexandria,
Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Gussie
Forst and Pauline Baer, and a
brother, Herman Erlick.
Sees Situation Worsening Dropsie College Ceremonies
For Jews in Soviet Union Install Dr. Katsh as Head
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The sit
uation of Jews in the Soviet
Union has ‘^grown worse” sinoe
the USSR broke diplomatic re
lations with Israel during last
June’s Six-Day War, Prime Min
ister Levi Eshkol announced last
week, with the Soviet authorities
going so far as to halt the emi
gration of Jews who had previ
ously been promised exit visas.
While the emigration of Rus
sian Jews to Israel, for purposes
of family reunion, had amounted
over a two year period to only
“a thin trickle,” Mr. Eshkol told
the Knesset, the Kremlin’s com
plete stoppage of this emigration
AUGUSTA NEWS
Adas Yeshurun Synagogue will
celebrate its 13(th anniversary
with a banquet at 6:30 p. m. Sun
day, Dec. 10.
Rabbi Abraham I. Rosenberg,
spiritual leader of Congregation
B’nai B’rith Jacob in Savannah,
will be the speaker for |tfhe Bar
Mitzva Anniversary. Maurice
Steinberg will serve as toastmas
ter and Mrs. William Pamerance
as soloist. Aaron Kaplan and
Irvin Levy are chairmen of the
event.
South Africans
See Anti-Semitism
JOHANNESBURG (JTA)—The
25th biennial Congress of the
South African Jewish Board of
Deputies closed here with the
adaption of a report by its execu
tive council that stressed the con
tinued maintenance of inter-com
munity understanding and good
will between Jews and non-Jews,
especially in light of differences
that have developed recently be
tween South Africa and Israel
over the latter’s support of anita-
apartheid policies in the United
Nations.
Reviewing the events of the
past year, the report took note of
anti-Semitic incidents, the most
serious of which was a dash last
April between Jewish youths and
a group of German immigrants
who were trying to celebrate
Hitler’s birthday in a Johannes
burg beer hall. It also cited a
link between local anti-Semitic
groups and disseminators of anti-
Semitic propaganda in the United
States, Britain, Sweden and
South America.
The report emphasized the
sympathetic attitude of the South
African government and people
toward Israel, especially during
the Six-Day War. It pointed out,
however, that “South African
Jewry, despite its ardent Zion
ism, is in no way accountable for
the actions of Israel which, as a
sovereign state, determines its
poliries in light of its own prin
ciples and interests.” The report
expressed regret that “in certain
circles in both countries, there
is lacking a proper understand
ing of the polides and problems
of the respective governments."
Soviet-Egypt Ties
Appear Minimized
By U S. State Dept.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A high
State Department official has
minimized the Soviet military
links with Egypt, stating that the
sinking of the Israeli destroyer
Elath, “seems to have been en
tirely an Egyptian affair.” He
equated the Israeli shelling of
the Suez refinery complex as a
comparable violation of the cease
fire.
William B. Macomber Jr., As
sistant Secretary of State for
Congressional Relations, incorp
orated the Department’s findings
on the role of Soviet military
technicians in Egypt and the
Elath affair, in a letter to Rep.
Seymour Halpem, N. Y. Republi
can. Mr. Macomber said he was
writing in behalf of Secretary of
State Dean Rusk in response to
questions raised by the congress -
since June was “an inhuman
measure, devoid of moral, polit
ical or practical justification."
The subject came before the
Knesset when H. Landau, a Gahal
member, called for open debate
of the topic, objecting to what
he called the Government’s “si
lence” on the issue. The Premier
replied that, prior to last June’s
war, the Government had in
formed the USSR it would never
be silent about the denial to Rus
sian Jewry of its full rights as a
Soviet minority group. “The
plight of Soviet Jewry,” he said,
“is the most painful and the most
burning question for Israel and
for all of world Jewry.”
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — A
pledge to help make Dropsie Col
lege for Hebrew and Cognate
Learning into a center that will
“serve as a storage bouse and
source of Judaism” was voiced
by the institution’s new president,
Dr. Abraham I. Katsh, who was
installed in his office at cere
monies conducted here.
Dr. Katsh became the third
president of Dropede, a post prev
iously held by the late Dr. Cyrus
Adler and, until his retirement
last year after a quarter of a
century as president, by Dr.
Abraham A. Neuman.
A colorful convocation was held
at the University Museum of the
University of Dennsyivtanda for
‘White Paper’
On Holy Site
JERUSALEM (WUP)— Israel
has published a White Paper list
ing the many Jewish holy sites
which the Jordanians had des
ecrated in the past 20 years.
The document was prepared by
a special five-member committee,
which was set up after the Six
Day War to investigate the des
ecrations, including representa
tives of the Foreign, Justice, In
terior and Religious Affairs Min
istries and the Chief Rabbinate.
The White Paper discloses that
most of the 50,000 graves in the
Jewish cemetery on the Mount
of Olives had been desecrated,
and all but the two of the 58
synagogues in the Jewish quarter
of Old Jerusalem were destroy
ed. Moreover, the Jewish ceme
tery in Hebron was completely
razed.
The document further reveals
that the vandalism was systema-
Two Germans Get
Martin Buber Award
LONDON (JTA) — Two Ger
mans, one of them a business
man and the other a former
diplomat, who were responsible
for saving thousands of Jews
from death at Nazi hands dur
ing World War II, have been
named the first recipients of the
peace award to be given by the
Martin Buber Peace Foundation
here.
The men are Oskar Schindler,
p Catholic from Frankfurt, and
Dr. Gerhard Wolf, who was
German Consul in Florence,
Italy, during the war. Dr. Wolf,
who risked his life to prevent
the deportation of Italian Jews,
will not be present for the
award, because of illness.
Gives Details
Desecration
tic, carried out by or with the
approval of the Jordanian auth
orities. Tombstones were used as
building stones by the Jordanian
Army for army camps, artillery
positions and even for latrines.
Dr. Zerah Warhaftig, in an
nouncing the publication of the
White Paper, noted that Para
graph 8 of the now defunct Is
rael-Jordan Armistice Agreement
had guaranteed the Jews the con
tinued use of the Mt. of Olives
oemetery, in addition to access to
the Wailing Wall. “Not only was
this undertaking never honored
by Jordan, which had solemnly
signed it,” he stated, “but it had
committed wanton, wholesale des
ecration in a manner we can only
define as vandalism.”
Dr. Warhaftig completely exon
erated (he Inter-Continental Hotel
from any link to Jordanian des
ecrations on the Mt. of Olives.
The Jordanians had built a park
ing lot over a section of the cem
etery near the Tomb of Absalom
at a considerable distance below
the hotel.
the installation of Dr. Kattah.
More than 125 representatives of
universities, colleges and learned
societies from all parts of the
United States attended the cere
monies. Honorary degrees wore
oonferred on Mrs. Golds Meir,
former Foreign Minister of Is
rael; Pennsylvania Governor Ray
mond P. Shafer; James L. Mich-
ener, a world-renowned American
author; and Dr. William 7. Al
bright, professor of Semitic lang
uages at Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, an archeologist known par
ticularly for his explorations into
the past of Palestine.
“Dropsie College,” said Dr.
Katsh in his presidential address,
“can become a center that will
serve as a storage bouse and
source of Judaism, of fresh in
tellectual Jewish content, will
help replenish end replace the
declining generation of Jew
ish scholars in other parts of the
world with an indigenous group
of American Jewish intellectual
leaders.”
A significant undertaking for
Dropsie, he said, is the training
of scholars for research in the
Jewish field, in order “to rewrite
and reinterpret Jewish history in
the light of the two great ep
isodes which have occurred in the
last quarter of a century — the
Nazi holocaust and the re-eetab-
lishment of the State of Israel."
Dr. Katrti, who roeived his doc
torate of philosophy at Dropsie
CdOege in 1944, recently resigned
his 33-year association with New
York University, where he had
been founder and curator of the
Library of Judaica and Hebralos.
He has also been director of the
Summer Professorial Workshop
in Israel, conducted in coopera
tion with the United States Of
fice of Education. He is a prolific
author and is known among oth
er achievements, tor his micro
filming of the Soviet Union’s vast
Hebrew collection which Includes
many thousands of ancient Jew
ish documents from Russia and
Eastern Europe.
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