Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1966-11-04

              2I\Q^      Serving Columbus, Dayton;'C?nti^ aiid Southwestern Wo,   jOf^
VoL44, No.45
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1966 — 21 CHESHVAN; 5727
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What a privilege to be a' citizen living in a free democracy! How nice it is to eiijoy our privileges without giving a thought to responsibilities! Yes, re¬ sponsibilities! Citizens of the United States of Amer-' ica are responsible for keeping this a fre? country. And the first responsibilty we must meet is that of eligcting to public office those persons we feel will continue to promote and uphold our democratic principles.
First, study and evaluate the issues and plat¬ forms, meet and g[et to know the candidates, discuss :aM;;Usten!.And ttien, VOTE!
Tuesday, November 8 is election day. Our fu¬ ture and the future of our children could be at stake. Don't neglect our first responsibility. Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. BE SURE TO VOTE TUESDAY!
Convert To Judaism To Speak At Hillel Forum
, Abraham Carmel, noted con¬ vert to Judaism and well known lecturer oit Judaism and world ireligStins, will be the speaker at theJiiUlel Eorum, Sunday, No- YeiiBbeir 6, at 8 p.m-. at the Hillel Foundation, 46 E. 16th Ave. ~pCairtref*-'WaS'- born^^^-K^ Charles Cox, in London, England. During his youth he was received intojthe CathoUc Church and was prd^ned a priest iii 1943. After a long aiid agonizing period of doubt and search he discovered in ilfUidai^m'the religious message wW^ he had been seekhip. (iHE APFiUBD to the London iBetlivDin (dourt of the Chief Rabt^) for acceptance into Ju¬ daism, and after five years of probation was fbrmally convert¬ ed as a Jew. Since then he has beetf an observant Jew.
He is now connected with the ITepartment of English in the Yeshjiya of Flatbush Higli School, Nevir' York. He is also doing graduate work at the Yesliiya Unlyersity in the Department of EdutBation.
BE wnx lecture at Hillel on the ^subject of his recent auto-
Abraham Carmel
biography "So Stralige My Path." The lecture is open to the public without chaifge.
This lecttire is being sponsored by the Rebecca Kaplan Memorial Fimd.
Decrease Reported In Anti-Semitism
CLEVEI-AND, (JTA—A number of the nation's leading so¬ cial scientists weire disclosed to have agreed that there has been a massive reduction of overt anti-Semitism in the United States since the end of World War II, However, they disagreed over whether widespread hostility against Jews is likely to recur in this country^
These conclusions are reported in atbook-length study, "Jews i in the Mind of Amerilca," •"°''''' ^
$300^00 MARK REACHED AT DINNER
At the annual congregational drive for Israel Bonds held Sunday at Tlfereth Israel the Cplunibua community Israel Bonds Campaign reached the $300,000 mark. This Is the third consecutive year In which the total has exceeded all previous campaigns. J. F. Kass, in whose honor the dinner was held, was awarded the Chal plaque commemorat¬ ing Israel's 18th anniversary. From left to right above: Mel¬ vln Rackoff, Columbus Community Israel Bonds Chairman; Samuel Oppenheimer, president of Tifereth Israel; J. F. Kass, in whose honor the dinner was held; and Dr. B. W. Abramson, Master of Ceremonies.
Banker Fights Anti-Semitism
A leading banker revealed re¬ cently that his bank, the largest in Philadelphia and 19th in the country, was actively locking lor ;jowigh applicants, wliomigH ovontually qualify"for'top"Iwsi- tlons.
John R. Bunting, Jr., executive vlco-proildent of the First Penn¬ sylvania Bonking and Trust Com¬ pany, made his statement at the annual dinner meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Jewish Committee at the Hotel Warwick. He said that his organization was.'seeking to eliminate "the subtle !aiiti-Jewish atmosphere that the young Jew¬ ish trainee thinks that he feels" in American commercial banks by bringing "a lea^ng Jewish figure into the powpr structure of our bank."
' THE ANNOIJN'OSiniENT came less than two months after the Americaii Jewish Committee'had charged that prejudice 'and dis¬ crimination, or attitudes survlv-' ing from discriminatory prac¬ tices in former years, were vto- tually excluding qualified Jews from executive positions in the nation's leading commercial Imnks.
The First Pennsylvania's ac¬ tion is the first breakthrough in what is hoped will become a na¬ tionwide effort by commercial banks „ to examine and remove long-standing religious barriers in executive employment.
MENORAH BALL HIGHUCHTS BBW YEAR
"The Smart Set," shown above, will join comic Dink Freeman tomorrow ni^ht at the Neil House at the annual Menorah Ball, the highlight event of B'nal B'rith Women's social and fiind raising year. Tiilfe entertainers will round otit^an evening of dining and dancing. Reservations are still fivailable. See details in story on page 8.
Financier To Address Hebrew School Event
The fifth annual affair of the "Friends of the Columbia He¬ brew School," will be held Wed nesday evening, November 9, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Yenkin, 201 S. Drexel Ave. A cocktail hour Scheduled for 6:15 p.m. will precede a buffet dinner at 6:45.
Meshulam Riklis, a leading in' dustrlaltet of New. York, will be the guest sileaker. Riklis is chahman andjehief executive of flcep qf Mcqrory Corporation, one of the coimtry's largest re¬ tail store organizations. He also is chairman ^d dhief executive officer of Rapfd-Amerlcan Corp¬ oration whlcl\ owns Joseph H. Cohen and Sons, the country's largest mam^acturer of men's clothing.        !
AS CHAIKnAK Qf McCrory Coirporation, Uklis guides an en¬ terprise that Employs 30.000 peo-
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made I public here at the concluding ses¬ sion of a three-d^ meeting held by the national executive board of the American Jewish Commit¬ tee. Published Jointly by Baisic Bool<s and the Committee's Ins¬ titute of Human Relations Press, the book includes a preface by Dr. John Slawson, the organiza¬ tion's executive vice-president, who presented the study to the board.
SOME OP the scholars held that anti-Semitism like other group hatreds, is virtully a closed chat>ter in the United States and will not happen again. Others argued that, despite the recent improvement, the attitude of the non-JevWsh majority will continue . to alternate between acceptance and rejection of Jews because a conlsderable amount of latent anti-Semitism remains among the American people.
The first of the study's two sections, prepared by Charles H. Stember, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, with con¬ tributions by Prof. Benjamin. B. «trtRlnger-(*=Hiiht«»'"Cdl»gg,'MeBd the trend of ^^titudes tpward Jews and Judaism from 1937- to 1963, as reflected hi natlonvWde public opinion polls sponsored by the AJC Committee and other groups. The Cojnmittee said it was the largest and most varied body of information ever as¬ sembled on the topic.
ONE OF THE main findings is that overt anti-Semitism has de¬ clined sharply Since a peak in about 1944. Bqth hostile stereo¬
types and unwillingness to asso¬ ciate with Jews have shown a marked decline. Jews are in¬ creasingly seen as individuals rather than as a special kind of people with fixed qualities, An¬ other conclusion is that tiiore Americans view Jews as mem¬ bers of a religious group than they did a generation ago, and fewer hold the mistaken idea that Jews are a race. Latent Frejndlce Seen Remain¬ ing; Crisis OotUd BeaotlyajfeB'BlM
Another finding is; iiiat some degree of latent and ingrained prejudice renudhs and could be activated by a major upheaval bir crisis in American sp(dety;.?nie study noted, however, that such postwar develbpnients as the es¬ tablishment of Israel, the Korean War, the atomic spy trials, the Sinai campaign and the intensi¬ fication of the civil rights move¬ ment have failed to do this.
Torah Academy Schedules Speaker For Annual Dinner
Jerome Schottenstein, General Committee co-cliairman, an¬ nounced Dr. Bernard Lander, dh^ctor of the Bernard Revel Graduate School, Yeshiva Univer¬ sity, to be keynote speaker for the Columbus Torah Academy's Sixth Annual Scholarship Dinner.
The semi-formal affair will take place at the Sheraton-Co¬ lumbus, Simday, November 20, at 6:30 p.m.
DB. I^ANDEB, noted sociolo¬ gist, is a leading authority in the field of Juvenile Delinquency. He has served in a consulting role with the Maryland State Com¬ mission on Juvenile Delinquency and Baltimore's Youth Commis¬ sion, organizing programs to combat the problem hi that city.
Dr. Lander was appointed as associate professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Hunter Col¬ lege, a position he has held for the past seven years. He is the author of "Toward an Under¬ standing of Juvenile Delinquen¬ cy," published ^y the Columbia University Press, and was con¬ sultant to the White House Cbn- ference on Children and Youth, 1958.
Dr. Lander was appointed di- (conttnutd on pago 4)
Rally Planned Here
It was learned this week that Columbus Jewry wlU agahi have an opportunity to protest Soviet Anti-Semitism.
A Rally, under the sponsorship of the Council of Organizations of the UJFC, will be held on Sun' day evening, Efccember ll,^t 8 p.m. Further details will be re- leased as they become available.
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, presi¬ dent of the American Jewish Congress, warned that the United States faced the prospect of another bout with. McCarthyism as a result of war nerves and white back¬ lash. In his speech, before the Stephen S. Wise Awards dinner here, he warned of "strains" resulting from America's involvement in Viet Nam and "hostile reactions" to Negro demands for Integration. Rabbi Lelyveld spoke In presenting the 1966 Stephen S. Wise award (to U.S. Supreme-Court Justice Abe Fortas. Another Stephen S. Wise medallion was presented to Frank Abrams of New York, "for strength¬ ening Jewish life." Mr. Abrams is national treasurer of the Congress.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, (JTA) — Two residents of the Jewish Aged Home here, Mrs. Anne Jacques, 72, and Mrs. Slda Zabow, 64, were foimd murdered in the room they shared, with their throats cut. Police have yet to come up with a motive for the heinous crime. It was rcr ported. There was no sign of robbery. Tbe Jewish Aged Home is now under police guard.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — About 7^500 Bronx Jews marched for several blocks along the Grand,Concourse, the borough's ntain thoroughfare, then held a rally on tiie steps of the Bronx County Court House, to demand equal rights for Soviet Jews as granted them under the Soviet constitution, It Was the first time that the Jews of the Bronx rallied In a single borough protest for Soviet Jewry. Protesting Soviet antl-Semltlsm, the rally heard U.S. Sen. Jacob Javlts and- other dignitaries decry Russian treatment of Jews. Borough" Pr^Ident Herman BadiUo proclalrped today as "Bronx Jew¬ ry Day." I^ibbl Herschel Schacter, of tlie iSronx Mosholu JeWlsh Center, was chah?man. He has assumed chairmanship of' the newly-formed Bronx Council to Aid Soviet Jewry.^. Rabbi Israel Miller, of Kingsbrldge Heights Jewish Center, the Bronx rbbbi who heads the American Jewish Conferen^ oh Soviet ifewry, addressed^ the rally.
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