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The Southern Israelite
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Vol. XLV
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - EstaM^ t
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, March 27, 1970
JWB BIENNIAL DELEGATES HEAR
Jewish Crisis—Not Urban
* Crisis—Jewry’s Priority
°?o R81
No. 13
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Dele
gates to the Jewish Welfare
Board’s biennial convention were
told last week that their first
priority is to solve the Jewish
crisis—not the Urban crisis—and
if they expect to change their
institutions, they must expect
opposition. Dr. Judah Nadich,
rabbi of the Park Avenue Syn
agogue in New York City, said
that Jewish community centers
should look inward, rather than
outward, for problems to solve.
'Dr. Hermas D. Stein, provost of
Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio, and chair
man of that city’s Commis
sion on Crisis in Welfare, cited
resistance to change as one of
the necessities of significant
change being introduced in any
social institution, the change
will be met with significant op
position. If nobody objects, and
the change is easy, the changes
are that nothing very important
has happened.”
Rabbi Nadich said that the
“Jewish crisis” is the first
priority of the Jewish commun
ity center. He said the crisis is
in the drift of Jews away from
Judaism, partially from inter
marriage, partially from ignor
ance of Jewish heritage, parti
ally from assimilation in small
communities where the Jews are
too few in number to set and
keep their own standards, and
partially from growing hostility
of young Jews who belong to the
New Left and see Israel as an
aggressive, capitalistic puppet.
Morton L. Mandel of Cleveland
was elected president of the
Jewish ’Welfare Board, succeed
ing Louis Stern of South
Orange, N. J., who was named
an honorary president.
At another session, the dele
gates were told that national
Jewish organizations are more
concerned with “prestige and
spheres of influence” than with
building a Jewish community.
Dr. Trade Weiss-Rosmarin, edi
tor of “The Jewish Spectator,”
told the 1,000 delegates: “The
national scope of Jewish organi
zations continue to duplicate and
compete today as they have done
for decades. These organizations
have contributed little, if any
thing, to the enhancement of
Jewish values.” She paid tribute
to local groups such as the hun
dreds of Jewish day schools as
an example of organizations which
“have taken the initiative to act
and to sacrifice.” She said most
of these are ignored by fund
raising groups when the money
is being passed out. The JWB
voted to streamline its organiza
tion by re-structuring its chain
of command to avoid “unneces
sary and elaborate structural
and organizational- arrange
ments” and ‘“confusion of
authority.”
Dr. Wall Convocation
Speaker in St. Pete
ST. PETERSBURG— Dr. Max
B. Wall, rabbi of Ohavi Zedek
Synagogue, Burlington, Vt., will
be the guest speaker at the con
vocation exercises to be held at
Congregation B’nai Israel, 301 -
59th Street North, Wednesday
evening April 1, at 8:00 p. m.
Rabbi Wall will come to us
under the joint auspices of the
Southeast Region of the United
Synagogue of America and the
Institute of Jewish Studies of
Congregation B’nai Israel.
His topic will be “Particular
ism and Universalism,” and will
concern itself with the twofold
aspect of Judaism — an intense
loyalty to the unique, special
way of life as well as partici
pation in the larger affairs of
mankind.
Certificates of achievement
will be awarded to twenty-one
men and women who completed
four years of study, for a total
of 160 hours, at B’nai Israel’s
Institute of Jewish Studies. One
of the basic requirements is
reading a minimum of 16 books
during the four-year course. The
Institute of Jewish Studies
which, last year, won the Na
tional Solomon Schechter Award
for excellence in adult education
programming, is affiliated with
the National Academy for Adult
Jewish Education of the \Uipted
Synagogue, the parent body of
the close to one thousand Con
servative congregations.
Certificates of Achievement
will be awarded to: Florence
Byerly, Ann Cohen, I. Lewis
Cohen, Mildred S. Cohen, May
Cufton, Libby Grossman, May
Heath, Henry Karfiol, Ruth Kel
ley, Fay Levine, Isadore Levine,
Rev. Otis L. Mason, Rivy
Mencher, Sarah F. Moss, Arnold
F. Offner, Frances Rothenberg,
Reuben Sabin, C. J. Siekman,
Ann Streit, Betty Sweet, Sam
uel Sweet.
BBYO Convention Theme
‘Everybody’s Talking at Me
The Atlanta B’nai B’rith Youth Organization will hold its
annual convention at Camp Barney Medintz on Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, April 10, 11, and 12. Theme for the discussion this
year will be “Everybody’s talking at Me.”
With the emphasis on the individual and youth unrest, the
convention committee expects an exciting variation of ideas.
Rabbi Emanual Baum of Pittsburgh will speak at the con
vention. Rabbi Baum is the director of the Hillel Foundation and
also teaches at College Point University in Pittsburgh.
Each chapter will have seven members attending convention
except for seniors, who are permitted to have ten.
—CATHY ROSINGER
Rogers: No Jets f ro Israel
But $100>Million in Economic Aid
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Sec
retary of State William P. Rogers
formally announced that the
United States has rejected Is
rael’s request for additional air
craft but that the U. S. will
“make renewed efforts in diplo
matic channels” to “engage the
other suppliers to the Middle
East in early arms limitation
talks.” Prior to the news con
ference at which Mr. Rogers
spelled out this country’s policy,
he told Congressional leaders
that the Nixon administration
will provide $100 million in eco
nomic aid as “aid of a kind Is
rael needs to bolster its econom
ic and military stance.” This
economic aid, he said, will come
from military funds. Mr. Rogers’
noon press conference had been
impatiently awaited by Israel
since President Nixon declared
on January 30 that he would
announce within 30 days the ad
ministration’s decision whether
or not to authorize Israel to
purchase additional Phantom and
Skyhawk jets it had requested.
Mr. Nixon blunted Mr. Rogers’
announcement by hinting that
Israel would not, at this time,
get the jets.
In Jerusalem Foreign Min
ister Abba Eban made public
Israel’s official reply to Mr.
Roger*. It strongly urged the
United States to make an
ergon* reappraisal of the
existing and anticipated bal
ance of forces in the Middle
. East and declared that “the
absence of a position res- 1
ponse by the United States
at this stage has aroused our
disappointment and eon-
cera.”
In his prepared statement, Mr.
Rogers stated that “In our judg
ment, Israel’s air capacity is suf
ficient to meet its needs for the
time being. Consequently, the
President has decided to hold in
abeyance for now a decision
with respect to Israel’s request
for additional aircraft.” Mr.
Rogers advanced four proposals
aimed, he said, at reducing hos
tilities “and thus enhance the
prospects for peace” in the Mid
dle East. The four proposals,
which Mr. Rogers asserted the
U. S. will make with renewed
efforts, were to “encourage both
sides to adhere fully to the UN
ceasefire resolutions; call upon
the parties to the conflict to re
appraise positions which have
become roadblocks to peace;
urge all concerned to support
proposals which womd help Am
bassador Jarring launch a pro
cess of negotiations among the
parties under his auspices; and
engage the other major suppliers
to the Middle East in early arms
limitation talks.”
Referring to the proposed eco
nomic aid, Mr. Rogers said the
Ignited States will respond “af
firmatively” to certain of Israel’s
short term financial requests
“while studying further its
longer range needs.” He said
there will be an expanded PL-
480 program for purchase of
surplus food, primarily feed
grains and wheat “under fav
orable credit arrangements.’ Mr.
Rogers added “We will also ex
tend credit to help cover the
balance due on past military
contracts.” Focusing on the Sov
iet Union's supply of SAM-3
missiles and additional Soviet
personnel to Egypt, Mr. Rogers
declared: “The situation bears
and will receive close and careful
scrutiny by us as well as contin
uous review and evaluation."
Mr. Rogers declared that “if
steps are taken which might
upset the current ba 15nee or if
in our judgment political devel
opments warrant, the President
will not hesitate to reconsider
this matter.” The Secretary of
State stressed that “restraint will
be required on the part of other
major suppliers to the Middle
East. No nation can pursue a
policy of seeking unilateral ad
vantage in the area if peace is
to be achieved.” He reiterated
the statement made by President
Nixon at his press conference,
that the United States decision
on aircraft to Israel was an “in
terim decision.”
Continuing, Mr. Rogers said
that the United States will con
tinue to keep close watch on the
military balance in the Mideast
“The United States will be in a
position to provide additional as
well as replacement aircraft
promptly if the situation requires
it,” he affirmed. “To this end,
the United States will remain in
close consultation with those
concerned.” Mr. Rogers told the
the Israel Government but unlike
sOme of the critics on the Com-
haa taken regarding Israel’s re
quests for additional planes and
its warning that it will main
tain a close watch on the sit
uation “are taken with the
strong conviction that ultimate
security for all concerned lies in
peace. They are taken in the be
lief that the current trends of
events must be reversed if the
situation is to be stabilized and
if progress toward peace is to
begin.” In replies to questions
by newsmen, Mr. Rogers stated
that the decision on the jets
“was made with the same care
the U. S. would appraise its own
security.” He told newsmen, that
the agreement to bell Libya eight
F-5 low-altitude planes was
made a year ago, prior to the
change in that country's govern*,
ment and would now be recon
sidered. Replying to Israel’s com
ment that it would channel fu
ture military aid requests secret
ly to avoid additional embarrass
ment in case of turndowns, Mr.
Rogers said “Secrecy is not a
very productive policy tp follow
in our system of government”
This remark drew the only
laughter at the press confer
ence.
Minority Arab View Again
Maneuvers
UNITED NATIONS*, N. Y.
(JTA) — The United Nations
Commission on Human Rights
adopted a resolution condemning
Israel for alleged human rights
violations in the occupied terri
tories, although less than 40 per
cent of the 32-nation membership
voted for it. The resolution was
backed by 12 nations, including
the Arab and Communist coun
tries, India, Iran, Turkey and
Mauritania. Israel and two Afri
can members—Tanzania and Se
negal—refused to vote. The
members representing Western
(including the United States),
Latin American and African
countries—abstained. Before the
vote by the Commission was
taken the representative of the
World Jewish Congress, which
has consultative status with the
UN’s Economic and Social Coun
cil, was stopped by the UAR
delegate when he tried to pres
ent to the Commission evidence
relating to the character of Is
rael’s administration of the ter
ritories ooccupied after the Six-
Day War. Max Melamet said his
organization had not hesitated to
be critical of certain actions of
the Israel Government but unlike
some of the criticis on the Com
mission had not focuMd ex
clusively On passible rrlrrws or
isolated excesses but had en
deavored to see the picture in its
entirety. .
Mr. Melamet said the'Tsraeli
occupation had to be judged by
comparison with other occupa
tions and not by the criteria of
peace time. He referred to the
fact that in spite of the sense
of outrage caused by the nature
of some of the terrorist bomb
ings, the death sentence had not
neen imposed in a single case. He
said that not only had material
benefits been brought to the
Arabs in the occupied terri
tories, but they also enjoyed
freedom of expression. He cited
the example of A1 Kuds, an
Arabic paper published in Jeru
salem which had a wide, circu
lation and which was very crit
ical of the Israeli Government.
It was at this point that the
UAR delegate said that a non
governmental organization hpd
no right to speak on the nature
of Israel’s occupation but should
confine itself to the subject of
violation of human rights in the
occupied territories. Morocco •
supported the UAR and said that
Continued on page 4
Jewish Weeklies in N. Y. Area
Have Trouble With Deliveries
NEW YORK (JTA)—American Jewish weekly newspapers, unable
to reach their subscribers by the customary mail deliveries owing
to the strike of postal workers in a number of Eastern cities, adopted
various means of getting last week’s editions distributed.
The Jewish News of Newark, N. J., distributed quantities of the
edition to synagogues in the Newark area for free distribution. Ad
vertisements in the daily press advised News subscribers that they
could pick up copies at the News office in downtown Newark.
The Jewish' Standard in Jersey City, N. J., informed its sub
scribers through advertisements in the daily press that they could
obtain copies of,the paper at its publication office. The paper also
planned to set ui> botne delivery by messenger, if the strike con
tinues.
In New York, major Jewish organizations arranged messenger
service to pick up their copies of the JTA Daily News Bulletin each
morning. JTA wire services were expanded to provide bulletin and
headline services to a number of papers which in the past relied
on mail deliveries of news copy.