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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
'ol. XLVII Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, September 1, 1972 Two Sections—16 Pages No. 35
Jewish Swim Star
Toppies Olympic Mark
l V "is Waldheim Intervening
In Exit Fees, Says Tekoah
MUNICH, Germany — Jewish
swimmer Mark Spitz has liter
ally “swum away” with Olym
pic honors at the current quad-
riennial sports competition be
ing held here.
By Wednesday of this week,
he had won three gold medals
with every expectation of
either copping or sharing in the
remaining four events in which
he is participating. Two of these
are relays. He had by then
toppled thirty world records,
not all at Munich however.
According to a release by the
Encyclopaedia Judaica, there
have been 131 medal-winning
Jewish athletes from 17 nations
between the years of 1896 and
1968.
WASHINGTON ( J T A ) —
B’nai B’rith officials announced
the start of a $500,000 disaster
relief campaign to help rehab
ilitate flood-damaged Jewish
institutions and “assist in other
human needs” in Jewish com
munities devastated by hurri
cane Agnes in June.
Officials described the B’nai
B’rith effort as a supplement to
relief campaigns inaugurated by
the Council of Jewish Feder
ations and Welfare Funds arid
other national Jewish agencies.
Solomon Rosenbaum, who
heads the B’nai B’rith Drive,
said the $500,000 campaign
would be conducted “as an ur
gent appeal to our own mem
bership during a single inten
sive week in Sentember.” The
Jewish competitors, certainly in
the hundreds, who participated
during that time but who did
not manage to finish in the
money, provided the point can
be stretched and applied to this
strictly amateur athletic event.
If Spitz emerges with more
than four gold medals, he will
have set an all-time Jewish rec
ord of sorts. A total of four is
the prior record, being the
spectacular result earned in
1956 by Jewish gymnast Agnes
Keleti of Hungary.
Alfred Flatow, German gym
nast, in 1896 emerged with three
gold medals and Felix Flatow
also a German gymnast and
doubtlessly related, that year
tucked away two gold medals.
appeal will be made through
B’nai B’rith lodges and B’nai
B’rith women’s chapters, with
the latter erffort headed by Mrs.
Arthur Rosenbluth, a former
B’nai B’rith women’s president.
The B’nai B’rith opened the
campaign with an $10,000 allo
cation. Personal contributions
by board members added almost
$10,000 more. The B’nai B’rith
Youth Organization contributed
$1000, he said.
Some 5000 BBYO teenagers,
many of them participating in a
leadership training institute at
Camp B’nai B’rith in Starlight,
Pa., have been traveling to the
Wyoming Valley area regularly
to help remove mud and debris
Continued on page 4
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Ambass
ador Yosef Tekoah, Israel’s am
bassador to the United Nations,
said Monday that UN Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim is in
tervening personally in connec
tion with the excessive fees
now charged by the Soviet
Union for exit visas for educa
ted Jews wishing to leave the
USSR.
“I have grounds to believe
that Dr. Waldheim has already
and will continue activity over
this problem,” Tekoah said on
his arrival here from New York.
The ambassador returned
home for a brief vacation and
consultations. He said the action
taken by Israel against the high
visa fees has won the approval
of American public opinion. He
said Israel would bring the
problem before the General As
sembly this fall. Foreign Minis
ter Abba Eban announced that
intention at a Cabinet meeting
Fisher of Deroit expressed hope
that the US government would
exert its influence to persuade
Moscow to abolish the high visa
fees. Fisher addressed the
opening session of a two-day
meeting of the Jewish Agency’s
Board of Governors of which he
is chairman.
Ho called on enlightened na
tions and governments to do
their utmost to change Soviet
policy towards their Jewish
citizens. “We must not submit
to blackmail and we must not
show any sign of weakness or
vacillation in this struggle but
wo have to coordinate all ef
forts and carefully decide on
methods and tactics,” Fishqr
said. >
Louis Pincus, chairman of the
Jewish Agency Executive, said
that efforts to have the fees re
scinded must be swift and effic
ient and warned that delays or
wrong moves would damage the
cause of Jerwish emigration
from Russia.
Pincus said he was sure the
Soviet government would listen
to public opinion in the free
world.
Military Shows
Sensitivity To
Religious Views
NEW YORK (JTA) Jewish
personnel in the US Army Re
serve will be released from an
nual training requirements to
attend services on the High
Holy Days which begin Friday
night Sept. 8, in response to a
request by the Commission on
Jewish Chaplaincy of the Na-
Sunday.
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, Max
BEHIND UN SCENES .... By David Horowitz
Head of WIZO Proud of Group’s UN Status
Doubtlessly there were other
B’nai B’rith Sets Goal
Of $500,000 for Flood Belief
UNITED NATIONS (WUP)—
“We have just found out that
you are Jewish,. Please sit in
- the back row.”
That remark by a fellow-stu
dent at King Carol University
in the year 1939 changed every
thing for nineteen-year old Raya
Horesh, born in Bessarabia in
1919. It opened a new vista for
the young lady who had been
initiated into Zionism at the age
of fifteen when she attended a
lecture by the late Zeev Ja-
botinsky in Czernowitz
The classroom incident was all
Raya needed. She picked up her
books and left, resolving never
to return. She asked her father,
a banker, for permission to go
to Paris. He advised her to go
to Palestine. She agreed to go
on a three months’ trial, but
when she got there, she fell in
love with the dynamic country
and decided never to return.
Today Raya Jaglom—she mar
ried Joseph Jaglom, an indus
trialist of Russian origin who
had settled in Palestine several
years earlier—holds the exalted
post of president of the Wom
en’s International Zionist Orga
nization (WIZO) which because
of its non-political make-up,
enjoys consultative status here
at the United Nations. Miss
Evelyn Sommers represents the
world-renowned organization in
the Economic and Social Coun
cil.
Here in the United States for
a brief visit, Raya Jaglom was
honored by Ruth Tekoah, wife
of Israel’s eloquent Ambassador
to the UN, at an intimate press
reception in the Manhattan Te
koah residence. Mrs. Tekoah
herself is a member of the
WIZO world executive. Some
amazing facts regarding the
background and global activities
of this Women’s International
Organization evolved at the re
ception attended by your cor
respondent also.
A beautiful woman of medium
height with a winning charm,
Raya Jaglom—from Yahalom l a
precious stone—opened the gates
to WIZO and let the handful
of correspondents take a good
look into the makings of this
very active global movement.
1. WIZO is composed of some
50 Federations throughout the
world with a membership of
over 250,000, including 90,000 in
Israel. Fifty-three per cent of
its annual budget — some $12
million—Ls raised in Israel
2. WIZO has established nnd
is establishing in Israel institu
tions and services for the ben
efit of children, youth and wom
en in the spheres of infant and
childcare, education, vocation
al training and social activities
for youth and women; integra
tion of immigrant women and
their families into the life of
the country; social, cultural and
civic education with the aim of
narrowing the social gap.
3. Following the Six Day War,
WIZO opened eight special
clubs for Arab women and chil
dren in East Jerusalem and
elsewhere . . . The new ven
ture Ls proving to be very suc
cessful.
4. Being non-political, its
members include individuals
from every strata of Jewish or
ganization life regardless of
political affiliations. Unity for
the main WIZO cause serves as
the password.
5. While WIZO has Federa
tions in fifty countries, its only
activity in the United States is
linked to its role in the United
Nations. The movement has en
tered into a sort of “gentleman’s
agreement” with Iladassah — a
strictly American body—not to
function in the States, However,
many nadassah ladies have a
strong attachment to WIZO and
vice versa One complements
the other
6. Since its inception in 1920,
WIZO has built and maintained,
with the help of its Federations,
over 500 institutions and serv
ices in cooperation with the
Ministries of Social Welfare,
Labor and Education, as well as
national Zionist Organization,
local authorities.
7. Seventy Youth Clubs, oper
ating in cooperation with Local
Councils and the Youth Depart
ment of the Ministry of Educa
tion, have an attendance of
some 15,000 children and youth
of all walks of life, new immi
grants and old-timers alike,
where they can take part in cul
tural and sport activities and
hobbies.
8. WIZO services two baby
homes, caring for some 500 in
fants and children, and 104 Day
Creches, Toddlers’ Home and
Kindergartens throughout the
country, caring for 6000 babies
and children from 3 months to
five years of age, from large
and needy families, as well as
children of working mothers.
9. Ten Agricultural and Vo
cational Secondary Schools, in
cluding an apprentice Home —
3.500 pupils, are maintained by
WIZO. All are boarding schools.
10. WIZO is now building a
Vocational Training Center for
Girls in Jerusalem which will
house, in its initial stage, 250
girls from the age of 12 who
have found no place in any or
ganized educational framework,
for psychological or other rea
sons. To remove the girls from
their detrimental surroundings,
a dormitory is also being con
structed in the Center.
It is no small task guiding
and directing this vast humani
tarian empire which offers a
new lease on life to tens of
thousands in reborn Israel.
Raya Jaglom typifies the true
builder of the State. In 1947, she
took a year and a half leave of
absence from WIZO to join the
Hagana in the communication
division. After the War of In
dependence she continued to rise
from post to post until 1970
when she was elected president
of World WIZO.
In January, 1964, in a conver
sation with Mikhail Bodrow, the
then Soviet Ambassador to Is
rael, Raya initiated a visit to
the USSR. An official invitation
was extended to WIZO by the
Committee of Soviet Women in
Moscow, and Mrs. Jaglom was
the leader of the four-member
World WIZO Executive delega
tion which visited Moscow,
Lengingrad and Kiev. Before
leaving, Mrs. Jaglom invited the
Soviet Committee of Women to
visit Israel and, in March 1965,
a delegation of two members
arrived in Israel for a happy
sojourn.
The Raya and Joseph Jaglom
Home in Tel Aviv has become
a meeting-place of many diplo
mats and public figures.