Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1963-07-26

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3 Jewish Groups Claim Russia Lies About U.S. Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (JTA) — Three leading American Jewish or¬ ganizations charged the Soviet government with "shocking dis¬ tortions" about anti-Semitism In the United States, in an effort to divert world attention from the Soviet's official policy of prejudice and discrimination against Its three million Jewish clti2;eng.
The charge was made In an open letter to Izvestia, official organ of  the  Soviet  Government
COLUMBUS COUPLE IN UJA LEADERSHIP GROUP
Mr. and Mrs. Irving A. Baker, of 1629 Ken¬ view Ave., prominent figures in the United Jewish Fund and Council' of Columbus, are, among a group of American Jewish commu¬ nity representatives frbm 35 cities, partici¬ pating in the United Jewish Appeal's Third Annual Young Leadership Mission. The group is shown on departure from New York's In¬ ternational Airport on July 8, via El Al Air¬ lines, for an Intensive three and a half week
survey of immigrant absorbtion needs in Is¬ rael and refugee aid programs In Europe fi¬ nanced by the UJA. All mission members pay their own way. The survey trip, limited to the 25 to 40 age group, is part of UJA's con¬ tinuing program to develop leaders of the future. The mission's report will be given at the three-day UJA National Young Leader¬ ship Conference to be held at the New York Hilton Hotel on Sept. 13-15.
The letter was signed by A. M. Son¬ nabend, president of the American Jewish Committee, Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, and Label Katz, president of B'nai B'rith.
THE THREE LEADERS asserted that anti-Semitism in the U.S. to¬ day, "is at its lowest level in Am¬ erican history." This fact, they said, is in direct conflict with an article in Izvestia, of May 19, which had "outrageously distorted- the facts" in saying that "anti-Semi¬ tism has assumed a truly colossal scope in America," and that "Jews in the U.S. suffer incredible humili¬ ation, discrimination and anti-Semi¬ tism."
The tiiree organizations, whose common purpose is to combat anti- Semitism in the United States and throughout the world, did not deny that "anti-Semitism is present in America and that there are tragic imperfections in the relations be¬ tween different groups in our Coun-
LILOH GROUP OF HADASSAH SETS BATES OF PETIT SUPPERS FOR NEW MEMBERS
Liloh group of the Columbus Chapter of Hadassah an¬ nounces that the first of its three Petit Suppers for prospective members will take place on Wednesday, July 31, at 7:45 p.m. at th home of Mrs. Bernard Schottenstein, 307 S. Harding Rd.
Following the supper, Mrs. Meivin Benjamin will describe the local Hadassah picture and Mrs. Samuel Eisenstein will discuss the national Hadassah story. ENTERTAINMENT   entitled
"Hints froi Heloise Hadassah" will be a special event of the eve¬ ning, including demonstrations and discussion. Guests are requested to bring their own pet household hints to share. There will be no charge
Israel Plane Incident Not Called Diplomatic
By Government Heads
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The Is¬ rael Govemment does not regard the incident in which four United States weather survey planes were forced down over Israel as a diplo¬ matic incident, Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister, told the Cabinet meeting.
THE STATE DE^^RTMENT said in Washington that the planes had been involved in an error or a mis¬ understanding of fUght plans. State Department prfess officer Richard Phillips said that the planes had filed a flight plan that included a crossing over Israel, but that the planes had not actually obtained clearance from Israel authorities.   ,
The 32 crew members were taken to the airport restaurant and given lunch. The crew members and the planes were released the same day.
MAARIV, an independent daily newspaper, praised the Israeli Air Force for intercepting the plpnes and said that, while Israel had no better fciend than, the United States, it was appropriate to remind the United States that friendship was one thing and violation of Israel's air space, another. The daily added that Israel's meteorological services were quite effective, and its wea¬ ther reports readily avciilable to American meteorologists without the need tor them to send planes into the sensitive Middle East area.
The Herut newspaper commented that "we cannot escape the impres¬ sion that the civilian planes with photographic equipment that 'lost their way' In the skies over the Negev came with the Intention of making sure that we were 'behav¬ ing ourselves.' "
for this entertaining evening.
Included in Liloh's membership committee are: Mrs. Meivin Ben¬ jamin, membership vice president; Mrs. Samuel Eisenstein, member¬ ship chairman; Mrs. Arnold Zaner, membership co-chairman; Mrs. Samuel Bell, Mrs. Michael Rosen and Mrs. Gerald Swedlow. ¦
TELEPHONE "operators" are: Mesdames Edward Ungar, M,grvin Horkin, Edmond Schechter, Donald Cohen, Rudy Hirsch, Daniel Weck¬ stein, Gilbert Parish and Samuel Abramson.
Hostesses for the summer sup¬ pers are: Mesdames Bernard Schot¬ tenstein, Leon Mendel, Joseph Bas¬ kin, Stephen A. Arnold, Howard Ucko and Murray Ebner.
ADDITIONAL Petit Suppers for prospective members will t^e place on Aug. 7 at the home of Mrs. Leon Mendel, 2663 Floribunda Dr., and on Aug. 14 at the home of Mrs. Joseph Baskin, 928 S. Remington Rd.
Hadassah speakers will be Mes¬ dames Allan Blair, Ernest Simon, Molcolm Robbins and Martin Greenberg.
"SO FOR A delicious supper, ex¬ citing Hadassah biographical out¬ lines, unusual entertainment, door- prizes, and a perfectly delightful summer evening, cut this article out and put it in a very special place on your bulletin board and circle the dates on your calendar . . . and don't even wait for our call," said Helen Benjamin, UN. 6-31S8, and Roberta Eisenstein, BE. 1-2897.
Chronicling
The News
Editorial 2
Teen Scene   4
Entertainment      10
Society   6
Synagogues 5
Sports 8, 9, 10
The World's Week
CompNid from JTA Raporh
In New VorK, racial and religious discrimination by private employment agencies as "shoctkingly widespread" despite state laws forbidding bias against job applicants on grounds of creed or color, the American Jewish Congress charged, in displosing the findings of a survey of 885 em¬ ployment agencies in six major cities across the country.
In Paris, two commemorative services were held honor¬ ing the memories of the 30,000 Jewish martyrs who were rounded up by the Nazis in occupied Paris and herded Into the Velodrome d'Hiver, where they were deported to death camps. Floral wreaths were depoglted'*"at the site of the former Velodrome, and at the Tomb to the Unknown Jew¬ ish Martyr, n
In Emporia, Va., American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell was under arrest on charges of "conspira¬ cy to incitement." Police charged that he has been touring the state to enroll volunteers for a counter-march on Wash¬ ington on Aug. 28, in opposition to the Civil Rights march scheduled to be held in the national capital that day.
In Ix)s Angeles, temples and synagogues — Orthodox Reform and Conservative — have been given a unique offer of 480 acres of choice, virgin land for use as children's sum¬ mer camps, on a non-profit basis.
The offer was announced by-Paul Shapiro, an attorney, on behalf of the owner of the land, Israel Blumj a long-time resident of the state. Shapiro said the land is located in the • Sequoia National Forest, has plenty of water qyallable, and is accessible by roads in the summertime.
In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Golda Meir demanded that the United Nations effect the immediate release by Syria of six persons abducted by Syria on Israel's Lake Tiberias over a week ago. She made the request in a con¬ ference in her office with Maj. Gen. Odd Bull, chief of staff of the UN body. She warned that Israel would have no al¬ ternative but to react forcefully — as Israel has done in the past — if Syrian armed forces entered the current dis¬ pute.
Iri Washington, the Soviet government newspaper "Izvestia" reported than an Arab born former employe of the U.S. National Security Agency in Washington, who specialized in the Arab-Israel area, has defected to Russia and asked political asylum because he was "outraged" by American policies in the Near East.
In Vienna, Otto Probst, Austrian minister of traffic, was elected as president of the newly-formed Austrian-Israeli Society. The organization, declaring as its aim "the intensifi¬ cation of Austrian-Israeli cultural relations," held its first meeting this week. Irft, addition to Dr. Probst, it elected Cabinet Undersecretary Ludwig Steiner as vice president. Another vice presidency was voted to Mrs. Hermona Simon, wife of the Israeli ambassador to Austria.
In New York, American reactions to last month's Su¬ preme Ckiurt decision prohibiting Blble-re&ding or recita¬ tion of the Lord's Prayer in public schools have been "mostly clam," a survey of public expressions in the first four weeks following the high court's ruling, disclosed.
try." They said, however, that "through information and educa¬ tion, community action, public ac¬ tion, public opinion, and with the lielp of law and government, we are working for the improvement of our society." The letter added:
"WE HAVE THE RIGhT freely to criticize and combat imperfec¬ tions, to make demands of our lead¬ ers and government, to changa in¬ stitutions and the climate of opin- nion. Through our actiolis, and those of many other civil rights groups throughout the land, we have helped to bring about pro¬ found changes in practices and at¬ titudes."
In contrast to the situation in the United States, the three organiza¬ tions said that "Soviet Jews are de¬ prived by official policy of religious and cultural rights Which all other ethnic groups in the country have" and "Jews are the victims of dis¬ crimination in universities and in basic sectors of employment." ¦"
THE THREE LEADERS urged that Soviet officials admit "the ex¬ istence of anti-Semitism in the So¬ viet Union" rather than contenting themselves with "ritualistic asser¬ tions that the Soviet constitiition and Soviet law prohibit anti-Semitism and discrimination." They added: "The same Soviet constitution and the same laws were in effect when Stalin's 'doctors' plot' was fabri¬ cated, as Pravda itgelf admitted, to 'inflame feeling of national en¬ mity' and, according to Izvestia, to instigate 'racial hatred.' "
Citing anti-Jewish propaganda in the Soviet press, the letter asserted: "For years the Soviet press hajs conveyed to its readers a viciously negative image of the Jews, drawn in all the traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes. In the last two years, the ominous impact of this press campaign has been sharpened, ahd the acute humiliation and alienation of the Jews aggravated, by a sys¬ tematic campaign against economic crimes,  for which the Jews have
been used as the scapegoat.
"EMPLOYING THE major public instruments ot propaganda, pres¬ sure, and law, this campaign has singularly victimized the Jews and drawn public attention to their Jewishness," the letter stressed. "Though they Constitute little more than one per cent of the country's total population, the government has made the Jews primarily ac¬ countable for econoniic crimes — 60 per cent of those executed for economic crimes have been Jews. The significance of this entire policy pattern is not lost on the Soviet people."
In a point-by-point refutation of the charges made by Izvestia about anti-Semitism in America, the or¬ ganizations pointed to numerous "gross errors and distortions." They said that "the person describ¬ ed in izvestia as a high-ranking Pentagon official" who belonged to George Lincoln Rockwell's Ameri¬ can Nazi party, was merely a "minor civilian employee of the U.S. Army Map Service. Because of his rriembership in Rockwell's organization he was dismissed from his position."
IF ANY GOVERNMENT has con¬ nived with American Nazis, it was a Soviet official. Valentin M. Iva¬ nov,   a former   first  secretary of
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Greet Your Friends In The Chronicle's New Year's Edition
An excellent and poular way to greet your friends and relatives is a New Year's greeting in The Chronicle's New Year's Edition.
This year the book will reach subscribers  by Tuesday,  Sept. 17.
A greeting in The Chronicle's New Year's Edition, one of the finest in the country, is a very effective way to express your good wishes to the entire Columbus Jewish community.
Let your friends and relatives know you sincerely wish them a happy and prosperous New Year.
Act now. Don't delay. For de¬ tails, see page 4.
ARTHUR KATZ RE-ELEGTED PRESIDENT OF HEBREW SCHOOL; BOARD MEMBERS NAMED
At the annual meeting of the Columbus Hebrew School, held July 9, Arthur Katz, 266 S. Ardrhore, was re-elected presi¬ dent of the Columbus Hebrew School. Other officers elected were: vice presidents. Dr. Charles Young, Herbert L. Solomon and Dr. Ben Cohen; secretary, Mrs. Bernard Yenkin; and trea¬ surer, Sanford Fishman.
ELECTED TO SERVE on the board of trustees were: Dr. B.  W.   Abramson,  Rabbi   Stephen  ,.^,,,,,,,. Arnold, Rabbi Julius L. Baker, Al-   i;,^i'i*',">'''''^*^ bert A. Blank, Morris Boster, Lazar  !.<lV'  * Brener, Mitchel Cohen, Harold Co¬ vel, Dr. J. D. Folkman, Dr. Mar¬ vin  Fox,   William   Goodman,  Ben Greenberg, Norman  Gurevit?,  Dr. David Guttman, Dr. A. H. Kanter,  j Dr. M. P. Kanter, Rabbi H. Kap-  ,. !an,  Fred Levi,  Ben Mandelkorn, Robert L.  Mellman, Arthur Meiz¬ lish and S. M. Melton.
Frank R. Nutis, Dr. Morris Ojal¬ vo, Milton J. Pinsky, Leonard G. Quinn, A. W. Robins, Mayer Rosen¬ feld, Samuel Rosenthal, Rabbi S. W. Rubenstein, S. J. Schlonsky,. Hairy Schwartz. Leon J. Seff, Ben Seifei-as, Farrell Shar, EUas Sny¬ der, Edward Stan, Rabbi David Stavsky, Arthur Tenenbaum, Philip Waldman, Abe Wolman, Fred Yen¬ kin, Sol Zeldin, Rabbi Nathan Zeli¬ zer and Joseph Zox complete the board.
THE FOLLOWING wlil serve on the board of trustees representing the Hebrew School PTA: Mrs. Is¬ rael Berliner, IrvingyUold, Mrs. Lawrence Gordon, yMrs. Daniel Waitzman and MrsySol Zeldin.
In accordance w^tn the provisions
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of the Hebrew School constitution, Katz has appointed the following to serve on the board of trusteies: Aaron Kahn, Sanford Lichtensteih, Stanley Sandhaus, Earl Schwartz and Aaron Supowit.
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