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Vol.  41,  No.   16
Friday, April 19,  1963 - 25 Nisan, 5723
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Further Assistance To Egypt Opposed
WASHINGTON (.ITA)—Democrats and Republicans Ihls week indicated that they will oppose further American financial assistance to Egypt in view of the fact that such assistance enables the Egyptian government to secure armaments from the Soviet Union and other countries thereby endangering the relative peace in the Middle- East.
Chairman Emanuel Cellar oif the House Judiciary Commit¬ tee announced that he would offer
an amendment to the pending foreign aid bill to prevent Egypt "from using American aid In any manner endangering the peace In Ihe Middle East." He cited the Egyptian missile build-up. "We cannot afford to lose sight of the fact that Egypt refused to recog¬ nize the existence of the State of Israel and has again threatened lo push her Into the sea," he said.
Rep. William E. Miller, chairman of the Republican National Com¬ mittee, said that the Republican members of Congress will oppose further financial assistance to Egypt. "Our economic aid to Presi¬ dent Nasser," he said, "has enabl¬ ed him to divert enough money to purchase armaments from Soviet Russia and other Communist bloc countries, lo engage in a costly military adventure In Yemen, In¬ volving some 20,000 Egyptian sol¬ diers, and to pay for the develop¬ ment of offensive missiles."
The Republican national chair¬ man, who serves as a Congressman representing New York, pointed out that "American taxpayer dollars, therefore, make It possible for the UAR to threaten not only Israel but other sovereign Mid-East states where we have considerable stra¬ tegic, political and economic inter¬ ests."
Rep. Miller charged that "pious statements and assertions of friend¬ ship to the threatened countries cannot obscure the fact that our money Is used to weaken the sta¬ bility of the Near East and world peace and, in fact, contributes to fhe danger of war." He said that "aside from conservation of our resoul-ces and protection of our economic interests. It Is high time to put a stop to such ah. Immoral and   blundering  policy."
According to Rep. Miller, "the Impendinfi union between Egypt, Syria and Iraq under the leader¬ ship of President Nasser should be the occasion for a critical new look at the U.S. foreign aid program In the Near East." Other Republican leaders likewise indicated in re¬ cent days, owing to the Egyptian missile build-up, that they will in¬ ject this issue into the debate on the foreign aid bill now pending.
Senator Hugh Scott,' Pennsylvania Republican, issued a statement criticizing the State Department for "doing almost nothing" to alleviate
"the potentially explosive situation"
in the Middle East. Sen. Scott is one of six Senators who wrote to President Kennedy last week urg¬ ing his intervefttion with the West German government against per¬ mitting German nuclear scientists to build missiles in Egypt.
Herbert H. SoUft
ALL GOMMUNin ORGANIZATIONS MAKING BLOOD PLEDGES SAYS DONOR PRESIDENT
Leonard Quinn, president of the blood donor committee for the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Fund and Council, urges everyone to do his fair share and be at The Jewish Center on "B" Day, Wednesday, April 24.
"Every organization in our community," says Quinn, "ha? pledged itself to assist in the tremendous co-operative effort we are making to live up to our agreement with the Red Cross, so that every Jewish person in Uiis | community may receive blood when needed and at no cost."
Quinn goes on to say. "Here is an opportunity for all of us to dem¬ onstrate our willingness and our ability to be a part of this life-sav¬ ing drive, by giving of ourselves, in a way that will not Ijurt us, physically or financially. Indeed, the >gift of blood is twice blessed since it blesses those who give and those who receive. Come to the Center next Wednesday, give a pint of blood, and prove to yourself how good it will make you feel!"
Individuals needing transporta¬ tion may call the Center, BE. 1- 2731. and a volunteer motor corps driver will pick them up and re¬ turn them to their jobs or their homes after the donation has been made.
FOR THOSE who cannot leave their children unattended, there will be a volunteer nursery-aid worker on hand all day at the Center. Donors may bring their children and leave them well cared for while they are making their donation.
No one will be permitted to give blood if he or she is physically un¬ able to do so. All prospective don¬ ors are given complete examina¬ tions by qualified nurses and doc. tors before being allowed to donate blood.
"B" Day takes lots of administrative work, and tfie committee shown above is preparing and checking lists, fill¬ ing kits, and taking care of last minute details in preparation for the drive next Wednesday, from noon to 7 p.m. when the Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at The Jewish Center. Mem- bei-s of the committee are: (seated, left to right): Rudolph Stern, Jr., Mrs. JuUus Margulis, David Forman, MarUn Schecter, Hy Weinberg, David Canowitz, Mrs. Sanford Fish¬ man, Mrs. Martin Greenberg and Mrs. Isadore Sussman. Supervising their work is the president of the Blood Donor committee, Leonard Quinn, and the chairman ot the cam¬ paign, Sanford Fishman, who are shown standing In the picture.
PIONEER DONOR PLANS COMPLETED
Mrs. Harry Mellman, fund rais¬ ing chairman, and her committee have now completed all plans for the coming Donor Luncheon and 37th Birthday Celebration of Pio¬ neer Women, wiiich will be held Wednesday, May 1. at The Jewish Center, at 12:30 p.m.
Mrs. Mellman announced that the following will be in charge of the luncheon: Mesdames Harry Rubin, Simon  Blum  and Abe Kohn.
A HUGE Birthday Cake with the many candles purchased by friends of Pioneer Women will be set aglow, Mrs. Nathan /Lessem will act as toaslmis tress.
Working on the sale of candles are the following: Mesdames Dav¬ id Paine, James Freidenberg, Mary Freedman, Sanford Betker, David Gaiser, Isaac Hurwitz, Harry Fried¬ land, Max Bloch, Robert Friedman, Tillie Shifman, Jack Chaucet, Louis Stein, Sam Brandt, Sol Eisenman, Sam Gurevitz, Herman Jacobs, Gerald Rosen, Joe Rosen and WU¬ liam Kisch.
THE PROGRAM book is in the charge of Mrs, Ralph Benveniste and Mrs. Max Bloch.
All proceeds from the affair will be immediately transmitted to the sister organization, the Mofetzet- Hapoalot (Working Women's Coun¬ cil) in Israel, to further its work, which has a four-fold purpose: vo¬ cational training to young people and women; the establishment of hundreds of child centers through¬ out Israel for children from infancy to the age of six; integration of immigrant families by teaching them the ways of the land, such as child care, nutrition, modem sanitation, the language, etc., and the maintenance of close to iWO institutions, in which varied social services are provided.
The public is invited to partici¬ pate and reservations may be made by caUIng Mrs. William Kisch, BE 5-4773.
NAMED CHAIRMAN I CJFWF COMMITTEE
Herbert H. Schiff.' UJFC Presi¬ dent, has been named chairman of the campaign services committee of the Council of Jewish Federa¬ tions and Welfare Funds for the coming year, it was announced this week by Louis Stern of. New¬ ark, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds president,
Schiff, CJFWF Board member, is a past president of the Jewish Family Service and a member of the boards of Heritage House and The Jewish Center, He is treasurer of Temple Israel and a board mem¬ ber of Hillel Foundation at Ohio State University,
NATIONALLY   PROMINENT,  he
is chairman of the midwest con¬ ference and member of the cam¬ paign cabinet ot the United Jew¬ ish Appeal, He is chairman of the nominating committee and a mem¬ ber of the board of the Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee and also a member of the board of United HIAS Service,
Schiff is also vice president of Columbus Travelers Aid Society and chairman of the National Firms Division, Columbus United Appeal,
The UJFC is a member of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, an association of 217 federations, welfare funds and community councils. These central communal organizations, serving areas with over 95 per cent of the Jews of the United States and Can¬ ada, annually raise the bulk of all Jewish philanthropic funds.
Dr. Maurice ZIgmond
HARVARD DIRECTOR SPEAKS AT HILLEL
Dr. Maurice Zigmond. Hillel di¬ rector and Rabbi at Harvard Uni¬ versity, will speak on "An Anthro¬ pologist Looks at Judaism" at the Hillel Forum on Sunday, Apr, 21, at 8 p.m,
Dr, Zigmond received his BA from the University of Cincinnati and his rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College. In 1941 Dr, Zigmond received his PhD from Yale University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma XI,
Formerly Hillel director at Yale,, the University of Connecticut and the Hebrew University in Jerusa¬ lem, Dr. Zigmond is presently serv¬ ing as Hillel director at Harvard University as well as New England regional director of the Hillel Foun¬ dations,
Speaks For UJFC 1963 Closing Affair
Leon and Alvin Schottenstein, co-chairmen of the United Jewish Fund and Council Campaign closing affair, Thursday, May 2, 8 p,m, at The Jewish Center have announced that the guest speaker for the occasion will be Dr, Akiba Kohane, Joint Distribution Committee representative for Poland, and director of Its reconstruction department.
As armounced earlier by the co-chairmen this affair will have a number of events of special interest. James A, Rhodes, Gover¬ nor of Ohio, will be present to is¬ sue a proclamation recognizing the 25 years of life saving humanitari¬ an efforts by the UJA through the funds it has received through the UJFC campaign and campaigns throughout the U.S.
HERMAN M. KATZ, general cam¬ paign chairman, along with the other campaign leadership, will present the final campaign reports and pay honors to all campaigners whose Work has made possible these results.
Dr. Kohane, who has worked be¬ hind the iron curtain for Jewish relief and rescue, is an authority on East European Jewry struggles and tribulations and will present a current view of Jewish community activities of tliis Iron Curtain coun¬ try and other countries in which he has been involved.
IN HIS MAJOR role as director of the reconstruction department of the JDC, Dr. Kohane supervises the operation of loan societies, credit and producers cooperatives in Poi land and 18 other countries through¬ out the world. He is also liaison offiter to the World ORT (Organi¬ zation on Rehabilitation through Training) Union on matters relat¬ ing to vocational training.
This particular program embraces approximately 12,000 of the current Polish Jewish community of a total of 25,000, many of whom were re¬ patriates from the Soviet Union who returned in recent years. In 1961 Dr. Kohane was also given the responsibility of supervising the JDC program in Austria.
DR. KOHAN E'S reconstruction department is an integral part of the vast program of JDC relief, rehabilitation and reconstcuction aid to more than 325,000 Jews in 27 countries in. continental Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Israel this year at a cost of $30,- 769,000,
At the war's end he was named deputy director for Germany, for the JDC, and was responsible for administering relief for displaced persons.  In  1954 he was assigned
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to Brazil where he organized an integration program for the Jewish immigrants who had arrived since the end of the war.
DR. KOHANE returned to the JDC's overseas headquarters in Geneva in 1955 and was given re¬ sponsibility for the reconstruction department. In 1959 he also was named the JDC representative for Poland. In this capacity he began the direction and supervision of relief and reconstruction on behalf of Poland's remaining Jewish pop¬ ulation.
Dr. Kohane was educated in Cra¬ cow, where he was born. He was graduated from the Cracow Uni¬ versity with a doctor of laws de¬ gree,
IN OBTAINING an outstanding personality as Pr, Kohane, com¬ bined with the presence of Gover¬ nor Rhodes, and recognition ol all campaigners, the 1963 formal cam¬ paign closing should be an out¬ standing event.
Herman M. Katz has urged all divisions to complete their personal solicilating durjng these coming weeks so eve'ry campaign worker can have a personal part in the success of this historic evening.
The World's Week
Compilad from JTA  R«porti
III London, it was announced by the Polish Embassy that Poland has refused to issue visas to British newspaper and television correspondents who had planned to report the 20th anniversary commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt scheduled to be held In Warsaw this weekend. The reason given was that "the pressure on hotel accommoda¬ tions in Warsaw is so great that these accommodations are being reserved for people whose relatives were directly involved in the Ghetto uprising." That statement was made here by Stanlsiaw Kostarsky, First Secretary of the Polish Embassy, -v
In New York It was seen in Jewish circles that there is determination on the part of P<?pe John XXIII to remove any anti-Jewish trace's from Catholic riles and prayers fol¬ lowing the Pope's dramatic action In making a prelate re¬ start a Good F'l-iday prayer in Latin that contained the words "perfidious Jews" and omit the word "perfidious,"
The 81-year-old Pontiff ruled four years ago that the word "perfidious," referring to Jews, be omitted from the prayer. By mistake, however, the canon sang the old text of the prayer during the Good Friday services In St. Peter's Basilica. Pope John, hearing the word "perfidious," Imme¬ diately ordered the prayer-chant restarted and the word "perfidious" omitted.
In Nicosia, the Egyptian Ambassador to Cyprus asserted this week that the unity sought In current talks between Egypt, Iraq and Syria "will speed up the liberation of Pale¬ stine, of every Inch of Arab territory In the hands of Im¬ perialists, and will thus terminate misfortune. Injustice and tyranny." The statement was made by Mostafa Lofty in a press Interview.
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