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The Southern Israel**
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Estal
Vol. XUV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, October 31, 1969
X°9 U ,,o. 44
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KIAMESHA LAKE, N. Y.
(JTA)—A leader of Conservative
Judaism urged the American
Jewish commmunity and its wel
fare funds Monday to revise pri
orities in order to furnish more
money for Jewish education.
Henry N. Rapaport, outgoing
president of the United Syn-
gogue of America, said that Jew
ish education provided the only
assurance of Jewish survival.
“Without survival,” he declared,
“there will be no need for Jew
ish welfare funds, Jewish hos
pitals or Jewish defense agen
cies.”
Mr. Rapaport, of Scarsdale,
N. Y., addressed the biennial con
vention of the United Synagogue,
which represents 831 congrega
tions with an aggregate mem
bership of 1.5 million in the
U. S. and Canada. He defined
Jewish survival as “religious sur
vival,” asserting that “there is
no evidence that socio-cultural
activities can alone provide the
sinews of survival.” Mr. Rapa
port, a vice president of the
American Association for Jewish
Education, contended that “poor
religious education is an even
greater threat to the American
Jewish community than inter
marriage.”
Jacob Stein of Great Neck,
N. Y., was elected as president.
He had served as vice president
for the past four years.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sen.
Jacob K. Javits (Rep., N.Y.) was
honored Sunday at a dinner
sponsored by the public service
council of Ilistadrut at which
$50,000 was raised toward the
construction of a $250,000 med
ical center in Safad, Israel, in
memory of Sen. Javits’ mother,
Ida, who was born there.
The 800 guests were addressed
bv Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller,
Mayor John V. Lindsay and
Yosef Tekoah, Israel’s Ambassa
dor to the UN. Other speakers
were the Senators Charles Good-
ell (Rep., N.Y.), Mike Gravel
Dem., Alaska), and Max Green
berg, president of the depart
ment store, retail and wholesale
workers union who represented
A F L - C I O president George
Meany.
MIAMI BEACH (JTA)— The
National Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods has announced that
it is making a gift of a synagogue
to a youth village in Israel.
According to Mrs. David M.
Levitt, president of the Reform
women’s group, the synagogue
will be built for the 800 elemen
tary school children and teen
agers in Ben Shemmen, a pio-
ener youth village south of Tel
Aviv.
It will contain a library, an
assembly hall and a sanctuary.
Ground-breaking ceremo n i e s
will take place in March, 1970.
Mrs. Levitt told delegates to
the group’s 27th biennial asssem-
bly here that the youngsters will
be able to develop their own
forms of worship. No effort will
be made to “transplant the wor
ship form used by Reform Jews
in the West. We will merely
provide the material assisstance
and helping hand.”
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Sov
iet United Natidns Mission was
taunted by Jewish youth Sunday
groups. The youngsters danced
to Israeli tunes and sang Hebrew
songs outside the building in a
demonstration on behalf of Jew
ish youth in Leningrad whose
Simhat Torah celebrations last
month were suppressed by Soviet
police.
Participants were high school
and college .students at Hash-
Brief
achar and Betar, Jewish youth
movements. They also read aloud
letters from Russian Jews that
were purportedly smuggled out
of the Soviet Union.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A Hassidic
rabbi from Pittsburgh is coming
to Israel shortly to establish his
“court” and a yeshiva in Ashdiod.
The “court” consists of the rab
bi’s followers.
Rabbi Abraham Leifer expects
to establish a “Pittsburgh quar
ter” made up of Hassidic fam
ilies in buildings that were begun
by the Foivasz Yeshiva but sub
sequently acquired by the Min
istry of Housing. The rabbi and
his followers will be given all
privileges accorded to new im
migrants.
NEW YORK (JTA)—A Jew
ish Marine Corps officer current
ly serving in Southeast Asia has
been promoted to the rank of
Brigadier General, the National
Jewish Welfare Board reported.
According to the JWB, Gen.
Leonard Earl Fribourg of Cleve
land, is the first Jewish Marine
to attain that rank while on ac
tive duty in the past 50 years.
Gen. Fribourg, 47, enlisted in
the Marine Corps 27 years ago
during World War II and re
ceived 14 medals and decorations
for service in the South Pacific,
Korea, and Vietnam.
Israel May Boycott UN Security
Council With Syria As Member
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two
Israeli newspapers reported here
this week that Issrael may boy
cott the United Nations Security
Council because of the election
of Syria to it. The reports in
Haaretz and Davar came in the
wake of the statement by For
eign Minister Abba Eban that
Israel would “reconsider her
stand” toward the Council if
Syria was elected and until it
frees the two Israelis detained
since the Aug. 29 hijacking of a
Trans World Airliner to Damas
cus.
Haaretz reported that it was
likely that Israel would not ap
pear before the 15-member Coun
cil under present conditions
either as a plaintiff or to answer
charges made against her by
other states. Official sources in
Jerusalem have said in recent
days that “a nation which so
openly flouts international law
and usage cannot sit in justice
on others.”
Ambassador Yoself Tekoah
said at the UN that the election
of Syria “does create the question
of whether there is any justifica
tion for us to participate in the
Security Council undersuch cir-
mumstances.” When Mideast
questions are before the body,
Israel and the Arab states invar
iably participate in the debate
but those Arab states not on the
Council, as well as Israel, do not
have the right to vote.
The 126-member General As-
semmbly gave Syria 101 votes,
enabling it to take the Asian bloc
seat being vacated by Pakistan
on Jan. 1. Syria will remain on
the Council as a non-permament
member for two years. Syria is
still technically at war with
Israel, as in Algeria which is
leaving the Council after a two
year stint. Of the five principal
candidates sponsored by geo
graphical blocs for Council mem
bership, Syria received the few
est number of votes. The others
named to the Council, which is
charged with maintaining inter
national peace and security, are;
Poland, 121 votes; Burundi, 118;
Sierra Leone, 117; and Nicara
gua, 103.
The new Council will include
five member states which do not
have diplomatic relations with
Israel — Russia, Poland, Spain,
China and Syria. The present
Council has six such members.
Some Israelis feel that with the
departure of Pakistan, Senegal
and Algeria, the balance of the
Council may be slightly less un
favorable to them.
Orthodox Tabloid Denounces
Former Editor JDL Founder
Two For Seventy
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi
Meir Kahane, national chairman
of the Jewish Defense League,
was denounced by the weekly
Jewish newspaper he formed ed
ited.
Rabbi Sholom Klass, publisher
of the Jewish Press, an Ortho
dox-oriented tabloid published in
Brooklyn, dissociated the paper
from Rabbi Kahane and other
leaders of the JDL.
He accused Rabbi Kahane of
making the JDL a “personal pol
itical club” and waging a “cam
paign of vilification” against
Mayor John V. Lindsay. Ac
cording to Rabbi Klass, Rabbi
Kahane was asked to resign as
editor of the Jewish Press be
cause he gave more time to JDL
affairs than to his duties on the
paper.
Under Rabbi Kahane’s editor
ship, the Jewish Press published
bitter attacks against Mayor
Lindsay. Rabbi Kahane has con
tinued these attacks in paid ad
vertisement by the JDL in the
New York Times accusing the
Mayor of responsibility for an
alleged “wave of terror” against
the Jews in ghetto communities
and tolerance of Black anti-
Semitism. Rabbi Klass claimed
that this paper "felt duty-bound
to present all sides in the May
oralty campaign.” While the
Jewish Press has endorsed no
candidate, Rabbi Klass expressed
satisfaction with a program out
lined by Mayor Lindsay for aid
to yeshivas and Talmud Torahs
in poor neighborhoods.
HUSBANDS STILL SYRIA CAPTIVES
Frustrated Wives Back
Home "Disappointed"
Nathan I. Lipson
Dr. Irving Goldstein
These are the two General Chairmen selected to lead the 1970
Campaign for the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation. Story
inside on Atlanta Front (Page 9).
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The wives
of two Israelis held by Syria
returned to Israel describing
themselves as “tired and disap
pointed” by the results of their
trip to several countries aimed
at stimulating public opinion to
exert pressure on Syria to re
lease their husbands.
Mrs. Shlomo Samueloff and
Communal Leaders, Donor
Balk at Peace Shrine Design
LAS VEGAS (JTA) — Las
Vegas’ lone rabbi said he planned
to ask local interfaith organiza
tions to support his effort to
persuade sponsors of a proposed
peace shrine, featuring a life-size
statue of Christ, to drop the idea.
Rabbi Aaron Gold of Temple
Beth Shalom told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that he had
objected initially to the proposal
when he had been approached
about it last summer. He said he
had learned that the Jewish
owner of , a major Las Vegas
hotel had Wen induced by the
sponsors to underwrite the prop
osed memorial but that the hotel
owner withdrew his support
when he was informed by the
synagogue’s cantor, Joseph
Cohen, an old friend, about the
nature of the memorial.
Rabbi Gold said he had as
sumed that this was the end of
the matter until the time when
he learned that the Las Vegas
Convention Authority, the city’s
tourism agency, voted to allow
a private group to build the
peace Shrine on county property
in front of the convention cen
ter. A plaque would list the
names tof the dead from Nevada
in all wars.
James Bilbary, the Clark
County assessor, said the design
of the $25,000 shrine had not
yet been completed. In response
to Rabbi Gold’s objection that
not only Christians, but Jews
and members of other faiths
were among the state’s war
dead, the assessor was reported
to have said, “If they want a
Star of David standing on it,
we’ll do that too.” Rabbi Gold
told the JTA he had informed
the assessor that he objected to
any sectarian element for such
a memorial.
Rabbi Gold, who is president of
the Clark County Ministerial
Association, said he planned to
call an early meeting of the
group to seek backing for his
campaign against the shrine.
He said he also planned to bring
the issue before the local unit of
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews. He said that
he has also urged against the
memorial as one “to a war still
going on” in Vietnam which he
said was “challenged by many
Americans as immoral.”
In New York, the American
Jewish Congress told Rabbi Gold
that it would be willing to ex
tend to him all the necessary
legal support to fight the erec-
Pfeffer, the AJCongress’ special
counsel who is an authority on
church-state law, told the rabbi
that the organization’s experi
ence and skills in protecting the
church-state separation principle
would be put at his disposal if
his efforts to stop the ‘“peace
shrine” by voluntary means
were not successful.
Mrs. Sallah Muallem visited
Washington, New York, London
and Rome and reported they
found only sympathy and vague
promises. They said their most
shocking disappointment was
their meeting with F. C. Weiser,
president of Trans World Air
lines. The two Israelis were pas
sengers on a TWA airliner which
was hijacked to Damascus by
two Arab commandoes in Au
gust. All of its passengers, ex
cept the two Israelis, were al
lowed to proceed to their des
tinations. The wives said that the
TWA president not only did not
apologize for not replying to let
ters Mrs. Samueloff had sent
him but also evaded any prom
ise on behalf of the two Is
raelis.
In London, th e two women
visited the Foreign Office where
they were received by J. P.
Tripp, head of the Middle Bast
desk. They appeared on televis
ion, held a press confernce spon-
sord by the Federation of Wom
en Zionists, and had dinner
with Dr. O. G. Edholm of the
Medical Research Council, a col
league of Prof. Samueloff.
In New York they also met
with Mayor Lindsay, with United
Nations Secretary-General U
Thant, and Miss Angie Brooks,
of Liberia, president of the Gen
eral Assembly. Mayor Lindsay,
after meeting with Mrs. Sam
ueloff and Mrs. Muallem for 10
minutes, issued the following
statement: I am completely in
sympathy” with them. “Every
consideration of humanity and
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