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Friday, Fab. 14, 1969
Iraq
graphed an appeal to Mitchell
(from page 1) Sharp, Canadian Minister for Ex
ternal Affairs, asking his aid to
prevent further trials of Jewi In
Iraq, the release of the remaining
Iraqi Jews and the observance
by Iraq of UN resolutions call
ing for humane treatment for
civilian prisoners. In Toronto,
more than 2,000 attended an
open-air prayer meeting for the
Iraqi Jews. In West Orange,
N.J. local Christian religious
leaders joined in a demonstration
sponsored by the Jewish Com
munity Council of Essex
(Newark and suburbs) and its
Community Relations Commit
tee. A memorial service was held
for all 14 victims, including the
five Moslems and Christians.
In New York, police arrested
10 persons as an emotion-charged
crowd estimated at 10,000 massed
in front of the Iraqi Mission to
the UN in a demonstration or
ganized by the Conference of
Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations. A memo
rial service for the nine executed
Iraqi Jews was held at Kehilath
Jeshurun Synagogue. Rabbi Her-
schel M. Schacter, chairman of
the conference, said that the
demonstration was “the greatest
act of Jewish solidarity since the
Six-Day War.” He said the dem
onstration recalled the anti-Nazi
rallies in Madison Square Gar
den during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
The Very Rev. Adrian Herbert,
representing Archbishop Terence
Cook, and Rev. Howard Moody
of Judson Memorial Church, par
ticipated in the memorial service
conducted by Rabbi Haskell
Lookstein. Bayard Rustin, Negro
leader, accompanied Rabbi Sch
acter in depositing a letter on the
steps of the Iraqi Mission asking
men, since it had failed to exert
enough pressure on Iraq to block
the executions.
In Venezuela, Msgr. Jose Rin
con Bonilla, Auxiliary Bishop of
Caracas, and Father Pedro Bam-
ola, dean of the faculty of
humanities of the Catholic Uni
versity, took part in a mass
meeting to protest the execu
tions. Leaders of the Venezuelan
Jewish community appealed to
the Venezuelan Government to
help prevent further executions
and to seek permission for the
Jews to leave Iraq, Syria and
Egypt. In Rio de Janiero, special
prayers were being recited in all
synagogues for the well being
of the Iraqian Jews.
In Hamilton, Ont., ihoj-e than
a thousand Jews — a quarter of
the entire Jewish comrpunity —
attended a demonstration organ
ized by the Hamilton Council of
Jewish Organizations. They tele-
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that the Jews be permitted to
leave Iraq.
The Human Rights Committee
of the United States association,
a private organization, declared
at an emergency meeting in New
York that Thant should send to
Iraq immediately a special UN
representative to observe any
new trails and to inquire into the
circumstancs of the trials and ex
ecutions of the 14 Iraqis. Repre
sentatives of more than 400 non
governmental organizations ac
credited to the UN attended. The
statement also asked the UN
Commission on Human Rights,
meeting in Geneva on Feb. 14,
to create machinery to investi
gate “these human right viola
tions” in Iraq.
Samuel Bronfman ,a vice-
president of the WJC, urged that
the “collective moral pressure of
the international community” be
mobilized to-bring about the emi
gration of remaining In
Arab countries! He cited the
approximately 3,000 Jews in
Iraq, the 1,000 Jews left in Egypt
and the 4,000 in Syria who were
“unwanted, harassed and humil
iated.” Israel Foreign Minister
Abba Eban said the only hope
for those Jews was their com
plete removal. The six-million
member West German Trade
Union Association sent a letter to
Thant urging the UN to use its
influence to make sure that such
atrocities as the executions were
not repeated.
Hamid Amir-Dagh, an Iraqi
living in London, charged this
week that the Baghdad trials
were conducted by a court which
pre-supposed the guilt of the 14
defendants, shouted down their
protestations of innocence and
apparently intimidated them into
making confessions. He made
the charge in a letter published
in the Guardian.
The Negro mayors of two mid
west cities — Mayor Carl
Stokes of Cleveland and Mayor
Richard Hatcher of Gary — de
nounced the hangings. In New
York, some 1,000 workers, in
cluding Negroes and Puerto
Ricans, picketed the Iraq Mission
to the UN and presented a state
ment denouncing “the obscene
spectacle of the festive behavior
of 200,000 Iraqis” who witnessed
the hangings. The picketing was
sponsored by the American
Trade Union Council for Hista-
drut.
BARRY’ FARBER, nationally
known radio personality, will
be a guest speaker at the Dis
tinguished Service Award
Dinner of B’nai B’rith Satur
day, Feb. 22, at the Progressive
Club. A Phi Beta Kappa at the
University of North Carolina,
Farber is also qualified as an
interpreter in 12 languages.
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Religion and Science
Wasn’t it interesting that the
Book of Genesis received such
nioe “publicity” during the moon
shot?
Those intrepid
astronauts were
trying to tell the
world that sci
ence and relig-i
ion are not at*
odds; they are
partners.
The more we
learn about the
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all.
Some people who absorb a lit
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to the Bible with “aw.” Others,
like the moon-men, react with
“awe.”
Could the symmetries of the
cosmos, so reliable that you can
thrust an object thousands of
miles into space and know that
you can count on certain laws
to work, be the product of
chance?
So it was fitting that the new
heroes of space should pay tri
bute to Genesis, the story which
tells us that the world, despite its
diversities, is one.
Some there are who cavil at
the space program. They say it
is true "lunacy” to make lunar
shots when money is needed to
cure canoer and misery In the
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Perhaps an auxiliary by-prod
uct of the space exploration pro
gram will be the rediscovery of
the truth of the statements in the
Bible that the world is One and,
if men will live up the mandates
of the Bible, humanity can also
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B^nai BVith
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18.2% for 1969
WASHINGTON (JTA)— B’nai
B’rith has increased its annual
budget 18.2 percent to a record
$15,684,558 for its 1969 opera
tions.
The B’nai B’rith board of gov
ernors, concluding its annual
meeting here, also allocated $6,-
629,750 of the budget for its spec
ialized teen-age, college campus
and career counseling activities,
an increase of $702,582 over 1968
allocations. B’nai B’rith Hillel
Foundations were authorized to
spend $3,008,192 this year — the
first time in the 48 year history
Of the campus program that its
budget reached the $3 million
mark.
The board also approved the
establishment of the Hillel Foun
dations program at six additional
colleges, raising the number of
campuses served to 273. The six
schools are Connecticut College,
New London; Old Dominion Col
lege, Norfolk, Va.; Quinnipiac
College in Hamden, Conn.;; Uni
versity of Sussex in Britain; the
University of Sao Pauli in Brazil;
and University of Haifa in Israel.
A part-time Hillel program at
Southern Illinois, University in
Carbondale, Ill., which now has
some 2,500 Jewish students, was
advanced to full-time status.
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