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Rights activist Bookbinder honored for years of service by Joseph Folakoff TSI’s Washington correspondent WASH INGTON — With sincere affection and deep appreciation, some 300 friends of Hyman Book binder honored him here for his work for civil and human rights and in Jewish affairs in a half- century career that he began in 1938 in New York as an economist for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. He was later a legislative repre sentative for the AFL-CIO, chair man or member of numerous fed eral and private commissions and task forces and for the past 19 years the American Jewish Com mittee’s Washington representa tive. In the latter capacity he has frequently appeared as a witness at Congressional hearings and has spoken in most of America’s major cities as well as appearing on in numerable television and radio programs. The occasion was the third an nual “leadership luncheon”on April 10 given by the Washington Jewish Week newspaper whose publisher, Dr. Leonard Kapiloff, mentioned that he and “Bookie” had been members of “the Lavender Hill Mob”—meaning the site of the institution that was first named City College of New York, the poor man’s Harvard with a pre dominantly Jewish student body. They graduated in 1937. Among the luncheon guests was a group of young West Germans invited by the American Jewish Committee and the Konrad Ade nauer Foundation. Their in troduction was warmly applauded. Ambassador Max Kampelman, who heads President Reagan’s deleg ation engaged in the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms control talks in Gen eva and who had been the chief of the U.S. delegation to the Madrid conference on the Helsinki accords, presented Bookbinder with a hand- Hyman Bookbinder crafted, silver Hanuka menora. His Hebrew name Chaim is part of its design. Kampelman and Bookbinder, who have been friends for 35 years, were both associated with the late vice president and senator, Hubert H. Humphrey, whom Kampelman had eulogized at the American Jewish Committee’s offices here at the time of his death as a foremost Zionist. Kampelman told the lun cheon that Bookbinder has for nearly two decades worked to merge American ideals with Jewish values and that Jews at present are “an integral part of American society.” Another old friend, Rep. Sidney Yates of Chicago, observed that “Bookie has fought authoritarian ism in any form” and “fought (Louis) Farrakhan and (Rabbi Meir) Kahane as demagogues.” The Jews in Congress, Yates said, have a “non-caucus and Bookie is our adviser.” In an emotion-filling address that moved some to tears. Book binder, now 70, spoke of his “al most compulsive interest in public affairs” because he was “born into a world that soon exposed me to ^Israel to stock U.S. army unitsv JERUSALEM (JTA)—The U.S. Department of Defense may open a procurement office in Israel, Israel Radio reported. Accord ing to the report, Prime Minister Shimon Peres received a favora ble reply from the Pentagon to the request made on his visit to Washington last month that the U.S. increase its military pur chases in Israel for army units stationed in Western Europe. 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At a Yom Hashoa ceremony, with the president and cabinet members and congressmen—to hear can tor from Atlanta (Isaac Goodfriend) singing the Yiddish words of H. Levik,” he said. “To remember such events is to feel reassured that there is no con flict between our great love for this blessed land of ours and our deep feelings for Israel—that not only are such feelings compatible, they are mutually reinforcing.” “What makes me particularly proud is that over the years we have defined our Jewishness, our Judaism, as a commitment to jus tice for all people, to peace for all people, to freedom for all people,” Bookbinder said. “How important it is never to stop caring about shirt workers in Tennessee or grape pickers in Cali fornia or the 40 percent of black youngsters unable to find jobs,” he said at another point. 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