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The Soul horn Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - EstahJ^J e'fSoSS'Sfi
Vol. XL1I
Atlanta, Georgia, December 15, 1967
All-Out,No-Limit
Set Up by UJA
Drive
for 1968
NEW YORK (JTA) — A mas
sive, "no limit’’ fund-raising drive
will be conducted by the United
Jewish Appeal in 1968 to meet
the “crucial human needs in Is
rael and 30 other countries
throughout the world.”
Edward Ginsberg, of Cleveland,
announced the plans for the “no
limit” campaign at the dosing
session of the UJA’s national con
ference here. Mr. Ginsberg had
just been elected general chair
man of the UJA, succeeding Max
M. Fisher, of Detroit, who had
held that poet eknoe 1965. Other
principal officers chosen by the
parley, with 3,000 Jewish Leaders
from all over the United States
and Canada in attendance, were
Mrs. Jennie Jones, Detroit, who
was reelected national chairman
of the UJA’s women’s division;
and Herbert J. Garon, of New
Orleans, elected chairman of the
Young Leadership Cabinet.
The \ conference heard an ad
dress by Maj. Gen. Itzhak Rabin,
chief of staff of Israel’s defense
forces, who asserted that, while
Israel was “pursuing peace with
all its might.” the war with the
Arabs is not over, but Israel is
confident it oan meet a new test
of arms" if only our most faithful
ally, the Jewish people, will be a
full partner and will accept the
significance of thi6 responsibility.”
Other major addresses were
delivered by Baron Elie de Roths
child, of Paris; Sir Barnett Jan-
ner, of London; Dr. Moses Rosen,
of Bucharest, chief rabbi of Ru
mania; Gregorio Shapiro, of Mex
ico City; Ary eh L. Pincus, of Jer
usalem, chairman of the Jewish
Agency; Mr. Fisher; Mrs. Jones;
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, exe
cutive vice chairman of the UJA,
and Louis Broido, chairman of
the Joint Distribution Commit
tee.
Rabbi Friedman announced
that Ithe Israel Emergency Fund,
parently the same planes that Is
rael bought and partially paid
for before the June war, but
which President de Gaulle re
fused to deliver.)
The Foreign Minister noted
that units of the Iraqi army
moved into Jordan on the eve
of the war, were on (heir way
to the West Bank, and were de
ployed for action when Jordan
accepted the United Nations cease
fire, thus ending military action
on thaft front. He painted out
further that Iraq was one of the
combatant nations approched by
UN Secretary-General U Thant
with the UN cease-fire proposals,
and had agreed to comply with
any agreement accepted by Jor
dan.
Eban: Iraq Is a Combatant,
Not Entitled to French Jets
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Foreign
Minister Abba Eban told the Cab
inet here that Iraq, which will
receive jet fighter-bombers from
France, was indeed a combatant
in last June's Six-Day War, dis
puting France's contention that
only non-combatant nations will
get French arms, now that her
embargo on the shipment of arms
to the Middle East has been lift
ed.
Mr. Eban, speaking at a dosed
session, said that, on the first
day of the war, an Iraqi plane
bombed the coastal town of Ne-
anya and was shot down, and
that further Iraqi air incursions
over Israel ceased only when an
Iraqi airfield near the Iraq-Jor-
dan border was bombed by Is
raeli planes.
(It was announced in Paris
earlier that Iraq will receive 50
Mirage V jet fighter bombers, ap-
Writer Tells
Of Jewish Woe
In Arab Lands
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “The
remnants of the Jewish com
munities in the Arab world lead
a shackled existence, uncertain
of tomorrow and fearful for their
lives and property,” Andrew
Borowiec, foreign correspondent
of the Washington Evening Star,
has reported from Beirut.
The writer added that “lack
of prospects for an early settle
ment of the Araib-Israeli dead
lock makes their position even
more precarious. They are the
easiest targets of Arab wrath
and vengeance, the permanent
and religious feuds.”
Borowiec maintained that 20
years ago Jews in the Arab
world numbered one million per
sons who “formed their own
tightly knit communities and, to
a great extent, dominated com
merce and trade.” Those staying
in Arab lands, he said, were
merchants or professionals whose
“material existence is frequently
much better than that of the
Arabs but the fear of being at
the constant mercy of Arab
governments and crowds makes
their life a nerve-wracking
nightmare.”
The Star concluded that “there
is no doubt that the Jewish pres
ence in the Arab world is wit
nessing its last years.”
launched by the UJA last June
to underwrite the costs of Israel’s
humanitarian progran®, which
Israelis could not meet because
of the enormous costs of the Six-
Day War, will be continued dur
ing 1968.
The UJA campaign in 1968,
Mr. Ginsberg said, will be the
first in the UJA’s 30-year his
tory without a fixed goal “for the
reason , that the needs are too
great to be circumscribed by any
goal.” Since its inception, the UJA
has raised $2 billion for Jewish
rescue, relief and reconstruction
programs in Israel and 30 other
countries around the world. The
funds to be raised in 1968, he
said, will be devoted to these two
high-priority areas of Jewish
needs:
(1) The crucial human needs
that must be met on behalf of
more than 400,000 Jewish immi
grants now living in Israel, as
well as for the 25,000 other new
comers whose arrival is anticipat
ed in 1968; (2) To carry on exist
ing programs outside of Israel, on
behalf of more than 400,000
Jews, principally in Europe,
North Africa and the Middle
East.
Mr. Ginsberg is a senior part
ner in a prominent Cleveland law
firm. In his home community he
has served as general chairman
of the Jewish Federation’s 1960
and 1961 campaigns; and is a
Federation trustee, and chairman
of Its budget committee. On the
national level he is a trustee of
the United Israel Appeal, and a
member of the board of directors
of the JDC.
Gen. Rabin told the confer
ence, ait its annual dinner, that
Israel now faces “the greatest test '
to which the Jewish people have
been put since the destruction of
the second Jewish commonwealth
by the Ramans in the year 70
of the Christian Era.”
TSI Editor and Publisher
Wins Award for Reporting
Adolph Rosenberg, editor and
publisher of The Southern
Israelite, has been named the
recipient of Dixie Business’ 1967
award for “Public Service in
Reporting,” it has been an
nounced by Hubert F. Lee, edi
tor of the business magazine
which sponsors the annual
journalistic honor.
In his letter to Mr. Rosenberg
to apprise him of the recogni
tion, Mr. Lee said the date of
announcement had been ad
vanced “because of the extraor
dinary events in history that are
represented in your being cast
in the role of ‘war correspond
ent’ and ‘editorial ambassador
to Israel,’ before and during the
high moments of history in
June of 1967.”
Fourth Sub
Put To Sea
HAIFA (WUP)-Israel’s fourth
submarine, bought from the Brit
ish Navy and commissioned at
Portsmouth last month after a
two-year refit, has been put to
see tor trials in the hands at its
now Israeli crew. Named Dakar,
the 1,280-ton vessel is a sister-
sub of the Leviathan which was
commissioned in May just before
the Six-Day War.
In making his general an
nouncement of the award to his
readers, Mr. Lee wrote:
“Editor Rosenberg, as presi
dent of the American Jewish
Press Association, was in Israel
for the Association’s annual con
vention when the June 5, 1967
war broke out. He was cast into
the role of war correspondent in
a high spot in history.
“The delegation of editors he
headed brought the only boost
from the outside to the Jewish
nation; only history can say what
effect the encouragement had at
n most psychological moment in
Israeli history.”
Past winners of the Dixie
Business award include Keeler
McCartney, The Atlanta Consti
tution, 1952; Ralph O’Leary,
Houston, Texas, Post, 1953; Max
B. Shelton, Houston AP Bureau,
1954; no award, 1955; Stephen
Trumbull, Miami Herald, 1956;
John Pennington, Atlanta Journ
al, 1957; Ted Pearson and Ed
Lee, Mobile, Ala., Press Register,
1958; Jack Nelson, now of the
Los Angeles Times, 1959; Norman
Shavin and Mike Edwards, At
lanta Journal-Constitution, 1960;
Martha Frances Brown, DeKalb
New Era-Record, 1961; Hal
Hendrix, Miami News, 1962;
Charles Pou, Atlanta Journal,
1963; Paul Jasper, Pensacola
News, 1964; The American News
Correspondent, 1965, and Ray
Moore, WSB-TV, 1966.
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No. 50
Finar->^Y' .asissippi
New Targets of Bigot,Terror
NEW YORK (WUP) — Jack
Nelson of the N.Y. Poet reports
from Jackson, Mississippi, that the
small Jewish community in that
city "lives in terror” and that “its
rabbi is under constant police
protection.”
Nelson further discloses that
“several Jewish families have
hired private detectives to patrol
their neighborhoods. Three bomb
ings—including one that shatter
ed the house of Rabbi Perry E.
Nussbaum— have occurred since
October 20, when a Federal jury
convicted seven Ku Klux Klans-
men of conspiring In the 1964
Neshoba County lynching of
three cavil nights workers—a ver
dict some some observers thought
would help curb terrorism.
Correspondent Nelson sees a
shift in terrorism from Negroes
to white Mississippians, especial
ly to Jews. "The Jewish commun
ity,” he says, ‘‘is finally feeling
the strong undercurrent of anti-
Semitism.”
Rabbi Nussbaum, who was in
terviewed by the Post writer, told
Nelson thait “no mare then five”
of the 150 Jewish families in
Nasser’s Health
Said Failing
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
Dejected and brooding over his
defeat in the Six-Day War, Ga-
mal Abdel Nasser, a diabetic for
years, is worrying his doctors
wbo have ordered that he take
a complete rest, it was learned
Jackson have promoted civil
rights and they toad been "mod
erately active.”
"Why then were his home and
synagogue bombed?” Nelson asks.
“Why have Nussbaum and his
wife, Irene, who have moved
three times since the November
21 bombing of their borne—al
ways under police or FBI protec
tion— been threatened repeated
ly?”
The Poet writer comes up with
but one answer — “anti-Semit
ism.”
Rabbi Nussbaum pointed to the
feat thait the atmosphere was in
flamed by "a lot of bigotry and
distribution of anti-Semitic lit
erature” during the recent gu
bernatorial campaign.”
Israel Unafraid
Of Any Soviet Arms
HAIFA (JTA)—Labor Minister
Yigal Alton has warned Egypt
against any attempt to resume
the Middle East war, and said
that even the massive presence
of Soviet military power in the
Middle East will not defter Israel
from acting in legitimate self-de
fense.
Mr. Alton, a hero of the 1948-
49 War of Liberation, said in an
interview with a Haifa newspaper
that "every weapon that Egypt
can purchase or produce with the
aid of a big power, Israel oan
match with or without big pow
er assistance.” He added that it
. . would he catastrophic far Egypt
from a reliable source- bom Ih* ^ Ae-exmtile Suez Canal
Egyptian dictator has failed to under theiRusion that it has
respond to daily doses of insulin. quantitative superiority.
Looks to Future...
NEW CHIEF or 8TAFT—Brigadier General Hahn Bar Lev
cently been named Chief ol Staff of Israeli Defease Forces,
lng Maj. Gen. Itzhak Rabin, reportedly scheduled to bo
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