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Vol. XLV A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Es' ose s ' f *925 two Se Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, June 26, 1970 Section*—16 24 Jewish Elected to LONDON (JTA) — Grevffle Janner, son of Lord £arnett Jaimer, was declared theT victor Friday in the fight for tne Lei- cester, Northwest seat, which his father had held for Labor over many years. The then Sir Bar nett Janner, 78, announced on the dissolution of Parliament last month that he was stepping down. He was subsequently named a lifetime peer. The junior Mr. Janner was one of 19 Jewish Labor candidates elec ted to the new House of Com mons in the greatest political up set in many years. Six Jews have been returned to Parlia ment as Conservatives. Among them was Michael M. Fidler, pres ident of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, who will take a seat in Parliament for the first time. Sir Henry D’Avigdor Goldsmid, president of the Jew ish Colonization Association, was reelected as was Sir Keith Jos eph, who served in former Con servative governments. Also elected by the Conservatives were Maj. Gen. J. D’Avigdor Goldsmid, Geoffrey Finsburg, and Harold Soref who is origi nally from South Africa. Sir Keith, who was appointed Sec retary of Social Services in the hew government, formerly served as honorary treasurer of the Friends of the Hebrew Uni versity. Among the new faces to be seen on the Labor side of the aisle in the new House will be that of Gerald Kaufman, a well-known journalist who served as press advisor to Prime Minister Harold 11911800. Other Laborites elected were: Harold Lever, a former mem ber of the Cabinet; Sir Meyer Galpem, former Lord Mayor of Glasgow; Ian Mikardo, a Labor Party strategist; Edmund DeU, a former junior minister; George Strauss, a former member of the Cabinet; Maurice Edelman, the novelist; Maurice Orbach, a member of the executive of the World Jewish Congress, and Sim Silkin, John Silkin, Dr. Maur ice Miiller, CoL Marcus Lipton, Julius Silverman, Leo Abse, Joel Barnett, Paul Rose and Rene Short. Reelected was Raphael H. Tuck who squeezed through in Watford with a hairline ma jority of 76 votes. A number of personalities considered friendly to Israel will be seen on both sides of the new House. Chi the Tory side, they include Winston Church hill Jr., Quentin Hogg, former Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and Mrs. Mar garet Thatcher, president of the Anglo-Israeli Friendship League. On the Labor side, they include Richard Crossman, Anthony Wedgwood-Benn, and many members of the Labor Friends of Israel. Former Secretary George Brown was defeated in a sur prising upset His former Un dersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Evan Luard, who was generally held responsible for Britain’s anti-Israel vote in the UN Security Council on the op eration in southeast Lebanon, was defeated in his Oxford con stituency. John Diamond, a prominent Labor member in. the last House who was Financial Secretary of the Treasury, was one of the Laborites who failed to win reelection. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Pre mier Golda Meir cabled “warm congratulations and every good wish” to Britain’s new Prime Minister, Edward Heath whose Conservative Party wipto an tip- set victory in Britain** 'JpatitfBal elections last Thumfigfc -J |f». What Our Permmive Socti Candidates Bos(on Vjg ; fantjes to k0a ,;; r 0 Parliament Meir added, "It is with particu lar pleasure that I recall your visit to . Israel last year (in April) and I am confident that under your distinguished leader ship Britain’s relations with Is rael will continue to develop on the foundations of mutual con structive friendship ” The Conservative Party’s vic tory was seen here as unlikely to alter Israel’s relations with the United Kingdom. Political circles here believe that if there is any change at all in Britain’s policy toward the Middle East conflict it will be for the better from Israel’s point of view if only because the Tories have “greater sensitivity” toward Sov iet penetration of the region. The independent daily Haaretz said here that “It is fair as sumption that a Tory govern ment’s views on the need to curb the Soviet incursion into the Middle East and the Persian Gulf will be more vigorous than those of the Labor government and will find expression at the United Nations, in the Four Power talks and in contacts be tween Washington and Moscow.” Menachem Beigin, leader of the right-wing Herat Party said that he was favorably impressed by Mr. Heath who he met a year ago and regarded him as an “ardent friend” of Israel. Po litical circles here pointed out that despite the extremely cord ial relations, that exist between Britain’s Labor Party and the Israel Labor Party, there has al ways been a vast discrepency between Labor’s sympathy toward Israel and its perform ance while in office. The blatantly anti-Zionist role of the late Ernest Bevin, the Labor Foreign Secretary during the immediate pre-statehood era, was recalled by some today. More recently, it was noted, the Labor government refused to sell Chieftain tanks to Israel because of political expediency. The daily Yediot Aharonot said editorially, “We can cer- Continued on page 5 No. 26 ime Areas Protecting Life, Property BOSTON (JTA) — A police- civilian patrol force is expected to go on duty next month to pro tect lives and property jn the predominately Jewish areas of Mattapan and Dorchester, an area plagued by high crime. The project was approved last week following conferences between Mayor Kevin White and Robert M. Segal, president of the Jew ish Community Council, and Eight Leningrad Jews Held After Alleged Hijacking Plot LONDON (JTA)—Eight Len ingrad Jews were among 21 persons who have been arrested and 50 homes of Jews in several Soviet cities have been raided and searched according to re ports from Moscow reaching here. The reports said the arrests and searches may or not have been in connection with the at tempt to hijack a Soviet plane at Leningrad Airport on June 15 by a group said to include some Jews who wanted to go to Israel. The hijacking attempt came to light when correspondents found a brief account on the back page of the newspaper Leningrad- skaya Pravda in the Moscow public library. 'Die newspaper is not sold in Moscow and does not accept subscriptions from for eigners. According to the account “a group of criminals ^tryingjg seize a scheduled airplane, was apprehended.” They were not identified. (New York Times correspondent Bernard Gwertz- man in a cabled report from Moscow quoting Soviet “dissidetn sources” said one of the alleged hijackers was Mrs. Silva Kuz netsov, Jewish, and her husband, Edward, described as “half-Jew ish.” Mr. Gwertzman’s sources said Mrs. Kuznetsov was active in Riga in trying to get permis sion for Jews to leave for Israel. According to the Times dispatch, seven of the Jews arrested in Leningrad in their home or at work were identified by their - last names—Kaminsky, Koren- blit, Chemoglas, Butman, Drez- ner, Yagmsrn and Mogilyever. The raids ami searches of Jew ish homes were said to have taken place in Leningrad, Riga, Moscow and Kharkov. According to the “dissident sources” quoted by the Times correspondent, the Leningrad arrests and the searches were authorized by Article 64-A of the Russian Fed eration Criminal Code or its Ukrainian and Latvian equiva lents. Article 64-A deals with treason and lists among treason ous crimes, “flight abroad.” Pun ishment under the article ranges from 10 years confinement to death, Mr. Gwertzman report ed.) NEW YORK (JTA) — Two American organizations working on behalf of Soviet Jewry con demned the arrest of eight Jews IfTBSHnectioh With Mi -aReged- ploymefir'and mining. Leningrad plane hijacking as such Robert E. Segal, JCC executive director, and Rev. Arthur Walm- sley, general secretary of the Massachusetts Council of Chur ches. Reginald Eaves, adminis trator for the Mayor’s Office on Human Rights, said an initial force of about 300 volunteers was planned. They will under go a 10-week on-duty training program. They will be provided with nightsticks and two-way radios and will be deployed in pairs. Their purpose will be to report crimes being committed to the Boston Police Department. Volunteers between the ages of 19 and 06 will be accepted. The project cranes under the Federal Law Enforcement As sistance ’ Administration. The Jewish Community Council is seeking $150,000-3200,000 from the Federal Government to fi nance the patrols under the Safe Streets Act. Patrol members will be neither paid nor uni formed. Expenses' such as the purchase of radios will be paid by the city. The funds sought from Washington are to pay the salaries of additional policemen, for policemen’s automobiles and for trying out innovative meth ods of law enforcement The local Police Department will be in full control of the civilian pa trols and is responsible for their organization, administration, de- a “pretext” fofr repressing emi gration demands. Rabbi Herschel Schacter, chairman of the American Jew ish Conference on Soviet Jewry, said the incident has been used “as a pretext for terroriz. ing and harassing Soviet Jews who are known to have petitioned the United Nations as well as Soviet authorities to leave for Israel.” One of the eight arrest ed, he said, “has had the audac- ity and courage to petition So viet authorities on 32 separate Continued on page 4 AMERICAN SCENE By George Friedman The Disappearing Synagogue What is the future of the syn agogue in the American Jewish Way of life? A recent study by Rabbi Ronald M. Goldstein of Buffalo, N. Y., while, recognizing that “there is a conscious effort to maintain Jewish survival,” nevertheless concluded that “there are presently many Jews whose needs are not being met by the synagogue.” In Brooklyn, New York, long a “safe” borough for Jewish po liticians, synagogues are disap pearing faster than you can say “Moshe Kol.” Many of them are being sold to churches, which technically is against Jewish law. Many others are simply being abandoned, With their stained-glass wind o w s and mogen dovids left behind, to be covered with non-Jewish sym bols by appropriators of the premises. Those that continue to be maintained often serve ever-decreasing congregations. The famous Brooklyn Jewish Center, where Richard Tucker used to be cantor and where this writer received his ground- in HebraicaW has diecpn- its Hot ™ * tion seem to hg two—a lack of interest by many new-genera- tion Jews and the dispersion of Jewish communities through racial integration. A case in point is Temple Petach Tikvah (“Gate of Hope”) in the East New York section of Brooklyn. Founded in 1915, it is the borough’s oldest Conserva tive temple. Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch, spiritual leader for 33 years, talked the other day about Petach Tikvah’s straits. And he was not very hopeful about the immediate future. As recently as eight years ago, he said, he could count on 500 Saturday worshipers; now adays there are 60. Only two years ago, 2400 attended Yom Kippur services; now there are 500, and the balcony has been closed off. The large adjoining auditorium has been on the selling block for years—the ask ing price is $200,000—but there have been no takers and the only semi-interested party has been St. Maty’s Hospital. On top of that, one of the "unbreakable” window-protectors has already been broken ty vandals, and a 1906 llrq tost the tempi* $9$,- ooo. mJ* The & temple’s teen program (“one of the finest,” says Rabbi Bloch), was discontinued after its attendance sank from 150 to “less than 20.” The High Holiday choir no longer exists for finan cial reasons. Hebrew school membership has dropped from 230 to seven. Remaining com munity-oriented activities have been relegated to afternoons and weekends (many congregants will not venture out at night, although the now-integrated neighborhood is not known for racial outbusts.) About all that remains is Rabbi Bloch, strong-voiced -Haz- zan Alvin F. Schraeter, a core of elderly congregants, and an Increasingjly empty temple whose operating budget has slumped 60 percent in half a Rabbi Bloch attributes the de terioration to a large extent to what 'he calls the “totally new phenomenon In Jewish life” — unknown in Europe—of the “de clining,” Le., shrinking; Amer ican Jewish neighborhood. He 1$ particularly incensed at the abandMunent Crimes mugging and robbery have reached high proportions in the Mattapan and Dorchester areas. Two neighborhood syna gogues were recently set afire by arsonists causing heavy damage. Synagogue worshippers were given extra police protection during the Shavuot holidays. Jewish Museum Bans Panther Pamphlets NEW YORK (JTA) — The . Jewish Museum has removed Black Panther pamphlets from a lobby display because “quite a number” of members and visi tors objected to the party’s anti- Zionism and alleged anti-Semi tism. But museum chairman David Finn told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the board’s decision was not in any way in response to last week’s threat by the Jew ish Defense League to picket the museum if the Panther literature were not removed. Mr. Finn said he had not heard of the threat of the JDL, which con siders the Panthers extreme anti-Semites. The chairman said there had been an agreement with the New York Artists Strike Against Ra cism, Repression and War not to include in its display any ma terial “that is offensive to any body of any religious persua sion.” The dissident artists, who include Panthers, charged the museum with censorship and unsuccessfully sought to add pro-Israal material to their dis play as a compromise. Among the “offensive” portions of the Panther material was an attaok on “U.S. warmongers in Vlet- a and Palestine;” by the Jew ary of