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VOL. LI One Section, 16 Pages Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, November 21, 1975 NO. 47
Rabin Calls 100 Jewish Leaders
To Emergency Planning Meeting
’JERUSALEM, (JTA) — At
least six persons were killed and
38 injured, ten seriously, when a
booby-trapped handcart explod
ed among rush-hour crowds out
side a downtown Jerusalem
restaurant shortly after 7 p.m.
local time on November 13.
The latest terrorist outrage
here was regarded as a direct
consequence of the anti-Zionist
and pro-PLO resolutions
adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly on November
10.
The blast occurred outside the
Neva Cafe on Jaffa Road, not 20
yards from the spot on Zion
Square where a booby-trapped
icebox exploded last July 4, kill
ing 15 people and wounding
by VIDA GOLDGAR
Atlantans in record numbers
jammed the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center Auditorium
Thursday night to express op
position to the "Zionism Is
Racism” resolution passed last
week by the United Nations
General Assembly.
An overflow crowd in the lob
by heard the program on
loudspeakers. It was said to be
the largest crowd ever gathered
in the Center.
The number was estimated in
the vicinity of a thousand.
Tone for the evening was set
by Rabbi Marc Wilson of
Congregation Shearith Israel as
he prefaced his invocation by
saying, “Let us pray, not. with
heads bowed in submission, but
scores of others.
Many of the shops and flats
damaged in the earlier, blast
were severely damaged again by
the November 13 explosion. Only
last month a bomb exploded un
der a stolen car in front of the
Elya! Hotel on Zion Square caus
ing slight injuries to eight
Israelis and tourists.
Police indicated that the same
modus operandi was used as in
the July 4 outrage. The ex
plosives were transported by the
perpetrators in an innocent
appearing cart or porter’s dolly
and left on a crowded
thoroughfare. A passer-by
reported seeing a suspicious ob
ject to police shortly before the
explosion occurred.
raised in Jewish pride and chutz
pah.”
Jacques Torczyner of New
York, chairman of the ad-
ministrative^>oard of the Zionist
Organization of America, recall
ed similar gatherings 32 years
ago, “ ... we cried and recited
Kaddish. There was nothing we
could do to save the Jews that
were being murdered by the
Nazis.
“Today,” Torczyner emphasiz
ed, “when we get together,
whatever the sad circumstances,
whatever the obscene
resolutions, today we have that
Zionist achievement, the Jewish
State of Israel.
"There is not ‘we and you.'
There is one Jewish people and
one Jewish State.”
Torczyner’s emphatic remarks
JERUSALEM, (JTA) -
Premier Yitzhak Rabin and
Leon Dulzin, acting chairman of
the Jewish Agency and World
were interrupted often by
applause, as had been those of
the speakers who preceded him.
He recalled the widespread
support for a Jewish State im
mediately following World War
II. 'The World felt guilty.” But,
Torczyner added, “now it is a
long time after the end of the se
cond World War. People have
forgotten . . . the wtfHd wants
to forget ... if they had to do it
over again, they would not vote
the creation of a Jewish State.”
The five-time national ZOA
president called the role of some
of the countries voting for the
resolution . . . Bangladesh,
Barunda, Chad, Cuba, India,
Iran, Turkey . . . adding a biting
comment after each. Of Mexico,
Torczyner noted that its presi
dent accepted an honor recently
from Tel Aviv University. “He
didn't vote because he is against
Israel. He wants to become the
Secretary General of the United
Nations . . . because he has none
of the qualifications, he needs
Arab and Third World support.”
Then, with a flash of the wit that
occasionally punctuated his
remarks, Torczyner added,
"Instead of going to Acapulco,
we will go to Miami Beach.”
After naming some of the
countries which had voted for
the resolution, Torczyner gave
special credit to several African
nations which had voted against
it and singled out Rumania as
the only country of Eastern
Europe, the only Russian
satellite, which did not par
ticipate in the vote.
It was forcefully pointed out
that 100 million Arabs have 23
votes in the world body, while
210 million Americans have only
one.
Torczyner in no way ad
vocated the United States
withdrawal from the United
Nations. However, he noted the
result on UNESCO of the cut in
funds. “I don't say we should cut
all the funds that the United
States gives to the UN, but if we
have only one vote, why should
we give 25 per cent of the
budget.
Torczyner stressed particular-
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Zionist Organization Executives,
announced on November 12 the
convening of an emergency
meeting of Jewish leaders here
at the end of this month to plan
ways of combatting the anti-
Jewish and anti-Zionist attack
launched at the United Nations
by the Arabs and their sup
porters. The leaders of Jewish
organizations around the world
and the leaders of the major
diaspora communities will be in
vited.
The meeting, announced in a
joint statement issued by the of
fices of Rabin and Dulzin, will
take place at the Knesset in
Jerusalem from November 27 to
Nov. 29 — the anniversary of the
1947 United Nations resolution
establishing the Jewish State.
Giving details at his office,
World Zionist Organization
Director General Moshe Rivlin
said a joint planning committee
of the Premier’s office, the
Foreign Ministry and the WZO
was already meeting to map out
details.
Only 100 top Jewish leaders
will be invited, Rivlin said. The
relatively small number was
deliberate — to keep discussion
practical and avoid speech mak
ing.
The aim of the meeting is
twofold: to express and
strengthen Jewish solidarity and
to plan a major international in
formation campaign explaining
to the world anew what the
Zionist ideal means. Of the 100,
some 30 would represent the U.
S. and three or four each
Representing other Jewish con-
Daniel J. Boorstein, a historian
and educator^of Russian Jewish
parentage, was sworn in last
week as the 12th Librarian of
Congress since the office was es
tablished 1975 years ago. The
oath of office was administered
by House Speaker Carl Albert
(D. Okla.) in the presence of
President F’ord and Vice-
President Nelson A. Rockefeller.
Boorstein is a native of Atlanta.
Boorstein took the oath on the
“Thomson” Bible that was once
part of the library of Thomas
Jefferson. Ford, the first Chief
Executive to participate in the
swearing in of the Librarian of
Congress, told Boorstein that the
office would enable him to “ex
tend in new directions your life
long appreciation of America's
past."
Boorstein, 59, was born in
centrations. Rivlin did not say
how the invitees would be
chosen.
Rabin and Dulzin will address
the opening session November
27. Two more sessions will be
held that day, a long session
November 28, an “oneg shabbat”
the night of November 28 during
which delegates would discuss
the spiritual meaning of Jewry’s
tie to Israel, and a closing ses
sion the night of November 29.
Response to Resolution
NEW YORK, (JTA) - More
than 100,000 persons poured into
mid-town Manhattan on
November 11 in an angry, mili
tant but orderly and well dis
ciplined mass demonstration of
protest against the anti-Zionist
resolution adopted by the UN
General Assembly the previous
night.
Whites and Blacks, Jews and
Christians from New York and
other cities as far off as Dallas
and Toronto packed the garment
district. The human tide filled
every block in the area, chanting
and bearing placards with such
slogans as “The UN Is Dead”;
"Anti-Zionism is Racism”; “Is
the UN the Fourth Reich?”; and
“Protect the UN From Its Own
Racists.”
MINNEAPOLIS, (JTA) - An
enthusiastic overflow crowd of
7000 attended a Twin-City rally
last week held at St. Thomas
Cbllege, a Catholic school in St.
Paul, to protest against the
United Nations General
Assembly resolution equating
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Atlanta, and was raised in
Tulsa, Okla. He was a Rhodes
Scholar and taught history at
Harvard, Swath more and the
University of Chicago. He served
four years as director of the
National Museum of History
and Technology of the Smithso
nian Institution and was senior
historian at the Smithsonian
when E’ord nominated him for
his present position.
Boorstein,. who won the
Pulitzer Prize for history in
1973, was the son of the late
Samuel and Dora Boorstein. His
father was born in Grodno,
Russia, came to Atlanta as a
child in the 1890s and worked his
way through the University of
Georgia to become a lawyer.
Daniel Boorstein will supervise
4600 employees as Librarian of
Congress.
Congressman Elliott Levitas and members of Atlanta
Briarcliff High Choir at Washington Monument. (Story-Page X)
Crowd Jams AJCC for ZOA
Rally Against UN Racism Libel
Former Atlantan Daniel Boorstein
Gets Top Library of Congress Post
WASHINGTON, (JTA)