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Sternstein Pilsk Kleiman Geduldig
Sternstein And Kleiman
Will Address ZOA Meet
Rabin’s Independence Day Message:
Israel Will Not Bow To Any Pressure
Dr. Joseph P. Sternstein, presi
dent of the Zionist Organization of
America, and Judge Alfred H.
Kleiman, Judge of the Criminal
Court of New York, will be prin
cipal speakers of the Southeastern
Regional Zionist Conference, to be
held in Atlanta, Sunday, Apr. 27,
at the Clairmont Rodeway Inn.
Rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom,
Roslyn Heights, Long Island,
N.Y., Sternstein holds doctoral
degrees from the Jewish
Theological Seminary and St.
Johns University School of Law.
His doctoral thesis from the
seminary was written in Hebrew,
and is being readied for publica
tion in Israel.
An accomplished orator, Dr.
Sternstein has addressed many
Zionist conferences throughout
America, Europe, and Israel, and
has traveled widely in behalf of
world Jewish affairs, including an
extensive trip to Russia and coun
tries behind the iron curtain. Ac
tive in Zionist causes since early
youth he has held many important
positions in the World Union of
General Zionists. He was the
youngest delegate to the historic
22nd world Zionist Congress in
Basle, Switzerland in 1946.
Dr. Sternstein will speak at a
luncheon meeting at noon Sunday
by VIDA GOLDGAR
The reopening by Egypt of the
Suez Canal and resettlement of
cities along its bank is seen by
General Moshe Dayan as one of the
best indicators of Egyptian Presi
dent Anwar Sadat's wish for a
political settlement rather than
military risk.
Virtually each of the 1400 seats
in Glenn Memorial Auditorium on
the Emory University campus was
filled last Saturday night to hear
the war hero and former Israeli
Chief of Staff.
Outside, a small and unim
pressive group of pickets passed
out leaflets urging an end to U.S.
aid to Israel and support of the
PLO's proposal of a “democratic,
non-sectarian state for all .The
anonymous group signed itself
“Atlanta Friends of the Struggle
of the PLOfor permanent and just
peace in the Middle East." No one
seemed to pay much attention tO'
the Icafleters.
In his opening remarks, Dayan
noted President Ford's recent
promise that the United States
would retain its firm position
towards . . . friendly countries “in
Europe, in NATO, in Latin
America, Japan and in the Middle
East."
"And he (Ford) also warned
Russia not to fish in troubled
waters," the general noted with
satisfaction.
at the Clairmont Rodeway Ipn,
with Maurice Pilsk, of Nashville,
regional ZOA president presiding.
Harold Marcus, president of tVic
Atlanta Zionist District, will
welcome the guests. Harry JafTe of
Birmingham will introduce a
resolution honoring the memory of
Mortimer May, Zionist leader.
A strictly kosher meal will be
served and reservations at five
dollars per person may be made by
phoning 634-6291. Those unable to
attend the luncheon are invited to
be present for the program which
will begin about one o’clock.
Judge Kleiman will be the
featured speaker at a public-
gathering, to be held Sunday even
ing, at 8 o’clock, at the Jewish
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by DAVID FRIEDMAN
NEW YORK (J T A) —
Marching under the banners of
organizations, lodges, schools and
synagogues, an estimated 200,000
Jews and non-Jews, Blacks and
whites, streamed down Fifth
Avenue Sunday in a demonstra
tion of solidarity with Soviet
Jewry.
The march, organized by the
In a later reference to the Soviet
Union, the charismatic military
man revealed that during both the
Six Day War of 1967 and the Yom
Kippur War of 1973, Russia was
about to take an active part.
“When Russia wanted to send
more troops to fight with the
Syrians, it was your late President
Johnson who ordered the Sixth
Fleet to move to the Eastern part of
the Mediterranean and some of
sour troops to be on the alert and
he passed a message to the
Russians that if they come in, your
troops would come in. And the
Russians got the message and
stayed out.
“The same thing,” continued
Dayan, “happened in 1973 on the
Egyptian side. When our soldiers
crossed the canal and the Egyp
tians thought we might get close to
Cairo, they approached the
Russians who were about to send
troops to fight. And this time it
was President Nixon who ordered
troops to be on the alert in (the
United States) and others in
Europe and contacted Moscow
and said if they came in you would
not stay out."
Dayan stressed that Israel did
not request troops. “We didn’t
even know Russia wanted to send
the soldiers. It was your in
telligence that found out about it
and your initiative. America’s
challenge to Russia was based on
JERUSALEM, (J T A) —
Premier Yitzhak Rabin, in his
Independence Day message to
world Jewry, declared that Israel
“would not bow to any pressure
but will continue to stand firm in
order to promote genuine move
ment towards genuine peace."
Referring to the recent un
successful shuttle talks, Rabin
said: “We would have wished on
this Independence Day to be able
to record progress towards lasting
peace with security . . . Once again,
in recent weeks Israel
Greater New York Conference on
Soviet Jewry, culminated at Dag
Hammarskjold Plaza across from
the United Nations, which was
soon filled to its 80,000 persons
capacity, causing spectators and
marchers to spill into adjacent
streets.
The crowd was the largest ever
for a “Solidarity Sunday for
Soviet Jewry." The march here,
the belief that Russia should not
come in to a local conflict where
the United States has friends and
interests and do whatever they
want without a challenge.
“And there is nobody else but
(the United States) to challenge.
Wars back, other powers,
England, France or even NATO.
Now all of them are out of the race.
— CON’T. ON PAGE 12
demonstrated how ready it is to
take real risks for peace, providing
there is a response from the other
side. This, regretably, has not been
the case. Nevertheless we shall
continue patiently to pursue our
quest towards this goal.
“Israel will not and dare not,
however, experiment with its vital
security in return for vague com-
mitments and fragile
arrangements. We have too often
in these past 27 years granted con
cessions . . . that turned out to be
one-sided and that ultimately en-
which ran 30 city blocks, was the
largest of many held in cities
across the country organized by
the National Conference on Soviet
Jewry and in Canada. Soviet
Jewry officials said the
demonstrations were being watch
ed closely in Washington,
Jerusalem and Moscow as the par
ticipants echoed the day’s theme
“Their Fight is Our Fight.”
Despite chilly and windy
weather, the spirit of the marchers
here was warm as they shouted
slogans and sang Hebrew songs.
The demonstrators were of all ages
with many families marching
together: parents and their
children, and some parents
pushing baby carriages along the
several-mile route.
The parade began with young
demonstrators dressed in Soviet
prison costumes. A group
representing the Academic Com
mittee on Soviet Jewry dressed in
caps and gowns carried pictures of
Soviet Jewish scientists and
professors who have been denied
CON’T. ON PAGE 14
couraged our neighbors to choose
war . . . Israel cannot forget those
past experiences ..."
The Premier continued: “In a
world whose moral strength is be
ing sapped by extortion and
political manipulation, the Jewish
State looks to its fellow Jews as
never before to join with it in
proclaiming the human and
historic justice of its cause.
Together we represent an un
breakable strength born out of our
common heritage and destiny.
"Let that strength be expressed
not in words alone but in tangible
and dramatic action through per
sonal aliya, increased material
assistance, intensified Jewish
education and an unprecedented
tourist flow. Let us together make
the 27th Independence Day of
Israel a time of Jewish rededica
tion to the upbuilding of the
land . .
Briefs
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
President Ford’s reference to the
Arab-lsraeli conflict in hjs “State
of the World" address to a joint
session of Congress Thursday
night has drawn little comment
and is generally seen as indicating
no changes in the commonly un
derstood U.S. position. Most
observers said it appeared designed
to reaffirm the U.S. determination
to maintain the diplomatic
momentum that it has initiated
and to indicate that the U.S. is not
ready to make any shift, if it
makes any, prior to completion of
the Presidential review and after
Secretary of State Henry A,
Kissinger and Israeli Foreign
Minister Yigal Allon meet here
late next week.
Their meeting will be the first
high level Israeli-U.S. session
since Kissinger left Jerusalem
March 22, when his attempt for a
second Egyptian-lsraeli agreement
was suspended.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —
Israeli officials continued to main
tain a stony silence Tuesday on a
report that two Soviet emissaries
visited Premier Yitzhak Rabin and
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon here
last week to sound out Israel's
position on reconvening the
Geneva conference and its position
on an overall peace settlement with
its Arab neighbors. The report wjs
published Friday in Haaretz by the
newspaper's political correspon
dent, Mati Golan. A Foreign
Ministry spokesman said, "I am
not confirming, neither am I deny
ing the story." There has been no
comment from any official
quarters here since then.
Council OKs Go-Ahead
For Kuwait-Owned Isle
CHARLESTON (JTA) — The Charleston County Council
rejected protests from Charleston Jews and conservationists
and voted preliminary approval to a zoning charge to allow a
Kuwait-owned corporation to develop a barrier island near
Charleston into a luxury resort.
Local environmental and Jewish groups had lobbied strongly
against the proposal since the Kuwait sheikhdom and Kuwait
investors purchased the 5500-acre Kiawah Island for $17
million in 1974.
The vote last Thursday by the council members acting as the
council’s finance committee, apparently cleared the way for a
full council approval next month of a change in the classifica
tion of the island from general agricultural to a planned
development area.
Frank Epstein, attorney for the Kiawah Defense Fund, which
was organized by local environmental groups to battle the
Kuwait project, said that the issue might be taken to the courts.
In response to objections from the Charleston Jewish communi
ty, the Kuwait-owned corporation issued a non-discrimination
pledge, which was made part of the preliminary approval vote
by the council
Dayan Optimistic For Settlement;
“Better to Talk than Shoot”
200,000 March In Solidarity With Soviet Jewry