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The Southern Israelite
Vol. XLIII
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established
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Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, June 14, 1968
Arabs Planning To Exploit
Jerusalem and Human Rights
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No. 24
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
The Arab delegates here, dis
counting the value of the stale
mated and unfruitful Jarring
mission have decided to press
their case against Israel on the
issues of ‘human rights for the
refugees” and the inhabitants in
the occupied areas in addition to
Jerusalem, it was learned here
this week.
The Arab strategy is to exploit
Asks Synagogue
To Back 'Poor' Drive
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi
Jacob P. Rudin, president ctf the
Synagogue Council of America,
called on synagogues through
out the nation to support the
National Mobilization in support
of the Poor People’s Campaign
in Washington on June 19. The
Synagogue Council is the central
coordinating agency for the
three branches of American
Jewry.
Rabbi Rudin urged rabbis and
laymen to be in Washington in
large numbers as “a demonstra
tion of the will of people—white
and black—to bring new light
into the darkness and new hope
to the hearts of the dispirited.”
Albert Vospan, director of so
cial action of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregation,
disclosed that the Reform Jew
ish body is alerting all of its
member temples to rally their
congregants to support the June
19 assembly.
Rabbi Makes Plea
That Women Return
To Modest Attire
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi
Menachem M. Schneerson, the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, urged Jew
ish women to observe the age-
old Jewish tradition of dressing
modestly “despite the undesira
ble winds of our time which
beckon the woman to change her
modest attire.”
The head of the Hasidic dyn
asty addressed his remarks to
more than a thousand women at
the Lubavitcher Center in
Brooklyn.
“While these winds blow how
ever forcefully, and particularly
with the approach of the sum
mer months with its vacation
time and resort areas,” he said,
“it is the duty of each and every
Jewish woman to proudly set
the proper example in this re
gard for others to follow.”
He said “the havoc wrought
by these winds in recent years"
could be observed among the
young and not so young who had
“fallen prey to these undesirable
influences,” he said. “Not only
has it brought them to a spiri
tual void but also to a gorge
effnpty even in the material
sense."
the adopted Security Council and
Teheiran resolutions aimed against
Israel so to gain world public
opinion on their side. It is gen
erally believed here that the cur
rent resumed session may forego
the scheduled debate on the Mid
east crisis, listed as item No. 3,
and adjourn in about two weeks.
Some of the Arabs prefer such
an action which, they hope, will
give them time to prepare for an
all-out onslaught when the reg
ular UN session opens next Sep
tember.
The Arabs also believe Wash
ington may gradually acquiesce to
a Soviet-Indian formula which
would compel Israeli withdrawal
on the guarantee of a UN pres
ence in newlyestablished demil
itarized zones in some of the oc
cupied areas.
Curfew Set Up
To Ease Terror
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A night
curfew was imposed on the so-
called “green line” separating
the Gaza Strip from Israel in the
aftermath of a series of mining
incidents. A mine killed two
members of nearby Kibbutz
Nahal Oz several days ago.
A military spokesman disclosed
that 20 Gaza Strip residents had
been arrested in the past few
days on suspicion of membership
in the sabotage gangs believed
responsible for planting the
mines.
A large cache of submachine
guns, hand grenades and mines
was seized. The curfew was des
cribed as a security measure. The
suspects come from the towns of
Gaza, Rafah and Khan Yunis, all
in the Strip.
Justice Douglas Takes
Post for Histadrut
NEW YORK (JTA)—Associate
Justice William O. Douglas, of
the United States Supreme
Court has accepted the national
chairmanship of the American
Histadrut Cultural Exchange
Institute, it was announced here.
In a statement on assuming
the office, Justice Douglas said
that Histadrut was “probably
more responsible than any other
group for the creation of Israel
and its very existence . . . There
is a great deal that developed
nations can learn from Israel.
Among these is the role of the
labor movement ...” Histadrut
is Israel’s labor federations.
Bound for Israel
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) —
Forty-eight Brazilian Jews are
en route to Israel aboard the
liner Theodor Herzl to settle
there. They comprise the fourth
and largest group of immigrants
to leave Brazil for Israel since
January, 1968. They are mostly
young men and girls under 22
years of age.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The vio
lent anti-Israel hatred in the
Arab world erupted in Los An
geles last week to strike down
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who
had called strongly throughout
his public career for support for
Israel.
A 24-year-old Jerusalem-born
Jordanian Arab student, Sirhan
Bishara Sirhan, was held as the
assailant who fired a volley of
bullets in the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles where Sen. Ken
nedy was celebrating a Presi
dential primary victory in Cali
fornia. Several of the bullets hit
the Senator, who died 24 hours
later.
The assassin was born in Jer
usalem in 1944 when the city
was under British rule. He came
lo the United States on a Jordan
ian passport and was admitted as
a permanent resident at New
York City in 1957. Police in Los
Angeles said he was a student at
Pasadena State College and was
active in anti-Israel agitation car
ried on by the Organization of
Arab Students there.
He was seized at the scene of
the shooting and held in lieu of
bail of $250,000 on six counts of
assault with intent to murder, a
charge changed into murder fol
lowing the death of the Senator.
A neighbor in Pasadena said Sir
han once said he hated the Sen
ator because he was rich and “a
collaborator with Jews.
In Washington, officials who
included Congressmen said it ap
peared Mr. Kennedy’s assassina
tion was a political one moti
vated by Arab fanaticism but
they said instructions had been
Halpern Rips
U. S. Arms Aid
To Jordan
WASHINGTON (JTA)-^ANew
York Congressman has denounced
as “unconscionable’ the shipment
of United States arms, including
tanks and military planes, to Jor
dan, while El Fatah terrorists
based on Jordanian soil raid Is
rael territory and shell Israeli
villages. Rep. Seymour Halpern,
Republican, said he would raise
a question in Congress about the
financing of the arms by Amer
ican taxpayers for terrorist col
laborators abroad.
The State Department confirm
ed the arms shipment. They said
it was part of a “package deal”
reached with Jordan last March,
not related to any immediate mil
itary situation but intended to
maintain the security and stabil
ity of King Hussein’s regime.
Officials refused to divulge the
types of arms but it was reliably
learned that they include 100
Patton M-48 tanks, being shipped
by sea via the Jordanian port of
Aqaba and anti-tank weapons,
mortars, artillery, ammunition
and anti-aircraft equipment, part
of which is being rushed to Jor
dan by U. S. Globemaster trans
port planes
In addition, 12 F-104 Star-
fighter jet fighting planes have
been “consigned” to Jordan for
air defense. Their delivery was
described as “in process.” Hal-
pem said “it would appear that
King Hussein’s reward for re
fusal to enter peace negotiations
and hie obvious collaboration
with terrorist guerrillas is the
supply of American arms financ
ed by U. S. taxpayers.” The Con
gressman added, “this policy is
absurd,”
issued at tpp Government levels
to help spare the Arabs, particu
larly Jordan, from any outburst
of American public opinion
against the Arab peoples.
„ The Administration was re
ported to be deeply concerned
lest the murder affect United
States relations with the pres
umably pro-Western regimes of
Jordan, Tunisia, Lebanon, Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait. Efforts were
being made at the highest levels
to protect Arab diplomats from
possible reprisals and to play
down the apparent fact that the
killing was linked with the
Arab-Israel conflict.
The theory was advanced that
the slaying served the interests
of El Fatah and other Arab ex
tremist groups in that it could
undermine Jordanian King Hus
sein if the United States was
forced to stop arms shipments
and other forms of aid to Jor
dan because of outrage among
American citizens.
At the United Nations, New
York City and UN police were
placed on security alert after
telephone threats against Jor
danian, Syrian and Algerian am
bassadors.
Some legal authorities in
Washington predicted that Sir
han would try to turn his trial
into an anti-Israel propaganda
show, a forum for diatribes
against Israel emcompassing the
Arab refugee problem, the West
Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza oc
cupation and the whole “crime
of Palestine.”
M. T. Mehi, secretary of the
Action Committe on American-
Arab relations, an Arab propa-
Tekoah Scores
Discrimination
In Arab Lands
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)—Discrimination and pers
ecution of Jews is continuing in
the Arab states, especially in
Syria, Egypt and Iraq, Israel
Ambassador Yosef Tekoah re
ported in a letter to Secretary
General U Thant made public
here.
“Recent reports,” declared Mr.
Tekoah, “indicate that a particu
larly serious aggravation has oc
curred in the situation of the
Jewish community of Iraq.”
Noting that after Israel attain
ed its independence in 1948, some
120,000 Iraqi Jews had fled to
Israel. Mr. Tekoah stated that
“the Jews who remained in Iraq
have been subjected to ever
greater restrictions and depriva
tions. These have assumed alarm
ingly grave proportions since the
hostilities of June, 1967. The
Iraqi Government has passed
laws denying Jews their civil lib
erties, theii freedom of move
ment, and the possibility of em
ployment. The Jews of Iraq are
under constant fear for their
lives. The Iraqi authorities, and
particularly the secret police,
threaten them even with mur
der.”
According to Mr. Tekoah, the
Iraqi actions are the first since
the Nazi ar.ti-Jewish laws during
the Hitler regime in which “the
oppression of Jews has been for
mally promulgated" through leg
islation. Mr. Tekoah cited specific
actions taken against the Iraqi
Jews including a legislative prcn
vision which orders “ail Govern
ment and private offices and bus
inesses not to pay out any sums
‘due to the Jews’ but to notify
the Minister instead."
ganda group, told the press that
the shooting “reflects the frus
trations of many Arabs with
American politicians who have
sold the Arabs of Palestine to
the American Jewish voters”
and that Sirhan “may have been
inflamed” by strongly pro-Israel
statements made on June 1 by
Sen. Kennedy in a television de
bate with Sen. Eugene McCar
thy, the Minnesota Democrat who
competed in the California pri
mary.
Press comment in the Arab
states was varied, some express
ing regret over the murder. A1
Kifah, a Beirut newspaper, ex
pressed the view that the slay
ing was a “Jewish plot” design
ed to prevent Sen. Kennedy
from reaching the White House
where he would allegedly have
discovered that “the Jews” were
responsible for the murder of
his brother President John F.
Kennedy.
Israelis, who were stunned by
news of the shooting of Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy, reacted with
profound sorrow as they learned
of the Senator’s death. News of
the assassination attempt, and
identification of the accused
gunman as a Palestinian Arab
from what was formerly the
Jordanian sector of Jerusalem,
made banner headlines and
crowded virtually all other news
off the front pages. Word of Mr.
Kennedy’s death reached Israel
after morning newspapers had
gone to press. But it was broad
cast on radio and spread in min
utes all over the country. Classes
in Israeli schools were interrupt
ed by the news. Teachers set
aside the day’s lessons and gave
their pupils impromptu talks on
Sen. Kennedy and his family.
Harman Tells
At Hebrew U.
Of Expansion
NEW YORK (JTA)— Former
Ambassador Avrahem Hannan,
president of the Hebrew Uni
versity in Jerusalem, has an
nounced that work would begin
next month on construction of
a complex of dormitories on Mt.
Scopus, original site of the uni
versity, to house 2,500 students.
The former envoy to Washing
ton told the annual dinner of the
Society of Founders, honor
group of the American Friends
of the Hebrew University, that
the complex would eventually
accommodate 10,000 students.
Mr. Harman and Maj. Gen.
Yitzhak Rabin, Israel Ambassa
dor in Washington, were the
principal speakers at the func-
tioh at which Nathaniel L. Gold
stein, president of the American
Friends for the past three years,
received the S. Y. Agnon Gold
Medal.
. Mr. Harman noted that the
freshmen who will begin’ their
studies at the Hebrew Univer
sity this fall are for the most
part veterans who had served in
the Army for three years and
were still subject to call-up.
They had, he said, “a strong de
sire to oatcti up on lost time.”
Samuel Rothberg, chairman of
the university’s international
board of governors, recalled that
this year marked the 50th an
niversary of the ceremony at
which Dr. Chaim Weizmann laid
the university’s founda t i o n
stone. Irving Mitchell Felt pre
sided at the dinner.
S. E. Mohelim Create Group
To Raise Brith Milah Standards
Mohelim representing six Southeastern states met in Atlanta on
May 19 to form an organization scheduled to meet regularly during
the year for the purpose of raising the standards of Brith Milah
throughout the South.
Rev. Pincus Aloof, Atlanta, was elected president and coordi
nator; Rabbi Haskel Wachsmann, Jacksonville, vice president; Rev.
Akiva Ostrovsky, Birmingham, treasurer; Rev. H. Roth, Augusta,
and Rev. J. Martin, Memphis, co-chairmen of the board.
A feature of the gathering was a seminar led by three practicing
Atlanta physicians: Dr. Larry Bregman, pediatrician; Dr. Milton
Friedman, hematologist and Dr. Harvey Merlin, urologist. Each of
the physicians discussed new developments in his special field as
they relate to modem ritual circumcision.