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Friday, Sap!. 5, 1969
THE SOUTHERN ISRAHJTE
Pip Fhra
ZOA Reelects Torczyner,
Calls on US Arms to Israel
LOS ANGELES (JTA)— Res
olutions calling on the United
States to provide Israel with the
weapons needed for its defense
and calling on United Nations
Secretary-General U Thant and
the United States Government
for action to secure the release
of the Israeli passengers of the
hijacked TWA plane still held
captive by Syria were adopted
at the closing sessions of the 72nd
national convention of the Zion
ist Organization of America.
If Mr. Thant fails to succeed
in this, the resolution stated, the
United Nations “must ratify any
measures taken by Israel for the
upholding of international law.”
The resolution called for immed
iate and forceful response by the
United States “to the act of Arab
piracy committed against an
American airliner and its pas
sengers.”
Another resolution, dealing
with the continued difficulties
along the cease-fire lines, “con
demned the voluntary blindness
of the UN to the willful viola
tions of the cease-fire by the
Arab states and the partisanship
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Cohen found was that the typ
ical sermon is likely to evoke
hostility among prisoners when
they feel they are being “talked
to rather than talked with.”
Rabbi Cohen therefore creates,
instead of such sermons, “dia
logue experiences concerning
topics of contemporary concern,
as well as the weekly Torah
portion.” He said he found it
suprising how often the known
intellectual talent of such pris
oners “overtake the conversa
tions” which proceed in the
same direction that a sermon
does “but without any of the
hostility.”
Because most Jewish penal
Institution chaplains are con
tracted on a part-time basis,
there are gaps between the
chaplain’s visits and during vac
ations. However, he reported,
the on-going program he directs
“creates enough momentum so
that during these absences, the
men conduct their own services
and involve the new inmates
within the program.”
of the resolutions passed by a
biased Security Council.”
The convention re-elected Jac
ques Torczyner of New York
president by acclamation after
first amending the constitution
to permit him to serve another
term and after Rabbi Max I.
Kirschblum withdrew as a
candidate.
The convention also decided on
a large scale program to combat
Arab propaganda on the college
campus’ by a program of infor
mation for students and faculty
on developments in the Middle
East.
It recommended establishment
of a Kiryat ZOA near a major
Israeli city to provide homes and
commercial premises for immi
grants and temporary Visitors
from America. The contention
expressed full support Jr aliyah
for people of all ages put stress
ed that maximum encouragement
must be given to the immigra
tion of young America Jews. In
this connection, it decided, de-
Knoxville’s
Temple Has
New Rabbi
Rabbi Matthew I. Derby has
assumed the pulpit of Temple
Beth El of Knoxville, one of the
oldest Reform Congregations in
the United States, now celebrat
ing its 107th year. Prior to coming
to Knoxville Rabbi Derby served
as assistant rabbi and then the
congregation’s first associate rab
bi of Congregation Temple Judea
in Philadelphia. There he was a
member of the Executive Board
of the Northwest Philadelphia
Mental Health and Retardation
committee working to establish
a Mental Health Clinic in con
nection with one of Philadelphia’s
largest medical hospitals. He was
a member of the faculty of Gratz
College, serving as an instructor
of Jewish Literatture. Education
and Religion. He served as re
gional director and rabbinic ad
visor to the Pennsylvania Fed
eration of Temple Youth and
also served as chairman of the
Youth Referal Program of the
city of Philadelphia, a volunteer
organization under city auspices,
which worked to prevent juvenile
delinquency and encouraging ju
venile decency.
Rabbi Derby is a member of
the Central Conference of Amer
ican Rabbis, the National Associ
ation of Temple Educators, the
Religious Education Association
of America, and a former mem
ber on the Commission of Hand
icapped Children of Philadelphia,
and Board of Rabbis. Rabbi Der
by has 'also served as as air force
chaplain on Okinawa and rabbi
in Sommerville, N. J. He has
written several Confirmation
Cantatas and is editor of a high
school text on the Nazi Holo
caust entitled, “Lest We For
get.”
Rabbi Derby is a native Bos
tonian. He did his undergraduate
work at Brandeis University, and
seminary training at the Union
of American Hebrew College-
Jewish Institute of Religion in
Cincinnati. He is married to the
former Susan Slate of Cam
bridge, Mass., and they have two
children, Frank and .Elanna, and
are presently residing in West
Hills.
Now put a guy with guts
on the School Board.
Howard E. Klein.
velopmcnt of accommodations at
the Mollie Goodman Academic
Israel for the Western World, will
not permit the Soviet Union and
its client states to endanger the
stability and the future of the
High School in Israel “be accel
erated for maximum development
of its capacity.”
In his acceptance speech, Mr.
Torczyner welcomed the fact
that the organization was united
despite the contest that had
taken place over its leadership
and stressed the need for the
Zionist movement at this critical
time.
Earlier, Sen. Harrison A. Wil
liams Jr., of New Jersey, told the
convention that “United States ef
forts in the Middle East must be
centered on one basic premise—
Israel’s right to life as a state.
The other issues,” he said, “im
portant as they are, can be
solved. Perhaps they can even
be negotiated. But life itself, the
continued integrity of the State
of Israel, must be non-negotia-
ble.”
In its resolution on arms for
Israel, the convention expressed
the hope that “Ahjerican states-
To Study Drug
Use By Teenagers
NEW ORLEANS (JTA)— The
Jewish Children’s Home Service
of New Orleans plans to make a
study of the effects of drug use
by Jewish teenagers in the seven-
state southern area it serves,
Carol B. Hart, its president an
nounced.
The agency operates in coop
eration with local Jewish agencies
in its service area. He said the
first step would be collection of
information from the local Jew
ish organizations cn the effects
of family relationships of the use
and experimentation with drugs
by teenage family members. He
said it was hoped that the infor
mation would provide clues for
casework treatment of affected
Jewish families.
The study will seek to determ
ine the extent to which the drug
problem is being brought to the
attention of the Jewish casework
agencies, he said.
man ship, recognizing the impor
tance of the sovereign state of
Middle East.”
President Nixon, in a message
read to the convention, stressed
that his Administration accorded
a high priority to permanent
peace In the Middle East and de
clared that the United States was
firmly committed to maintaining
“friendly relations with the peo
ple of Israel and, indeed, with
all the peoples of the Middle
East.” The President praised the
ZOA for strengthening Israel’s
social and economic foundations
and the cultural ties between
“its people and their friends in
America,” tasks which he des
cribed as “in the highest Amer
ican tradition.”
Before his election, Mr. Nixon
in .statement* to B’nai BMth and
to the ZOA, had declared his con
viction that Israel required a
“technological military margin”
to offset Arab numerical superi
ority. 1
Mrs. Rita Hauser, U. S. rep
resentative on the United Nations
Human Rights Gommis s i o n ,
warned Israel and its friends to
counter Arab propaganda depict
ing the Jewish State as an op
pressive occupying power. She
warned that the Arab line “is
becoming increasingly credible
among churchmen and student
radicals.” She said that Israel
should permit the UN commission
“or other impartial observer” to
enter the occupied territories to
show the world how the Arabs
are being treated. ' <
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