Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1968-08-15

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Vol. 46, No. 33
THURSDAY. AUGUST 15.1968 - 21 AV
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Jews Seek Yo Aid Biafrans
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WASHINGTON (JTA) ~ Leaders representing the three major religiaus bodies intbe United States met with Secretary ct State DeanRusk for more than an hour to express their concern about providing needed reUef ship¬ ments to Biai^a. After con¬ ferring with Mr. Rusk, mem¬ bers of the ad Hoc Interfaith Committee for Biaik-an Relief pledged continuing and active liaison with one another and appropriate Federal agen¬ cies.
m their cnnments to Sec¬ retary Rusk, the delegatian noted that "strong support has developed among their respective memberships for quick and generous actions oa beiudt tt Biaftans."
THE DELEGATION ur^ed that the United States upeUs "political' and moral strength to achieve settle¬ ment between the Federal State ct Nigeria and BiaCra for the expeditious shipment tt relief suppUes to those in ne^" The delegation in¬ cluded: Morris B. Abram, president, American Jewish Committee andthe oigaidza^ tioo^s executive vice-presi¬ dent, Bertram NL Gd^ Dr. Robert EL Bilheimer,dta:ect-u or ct intematlaial affairs program. National Caflxilic Conference;, George M.
Houser,' executive director, American Committee on Af¬ rica; Dr. David R. Hunter, deputy general secretary. National Council of Churches in the U.S.A.; Rabbi Jacdi ndllpRudin, president. Syn¬ agogue Council cCAmerlcan;; anil Bishtip Edtrard E. Swan- Etrom, executive director, C at h ol 1 c ReUef Servii»s, . U.SL Cathdlc Conference.
TJEe launching of anudor American. Jewish effort to save miUlons - tt lives in Biafira was imnouncedinNew York with the formatidn tt tlie American'Jewish Em¬ ergency Effort for Biafran ReUet The top leaders tt. 21 major Jewish religious, communal, relief andpUlan- tiffopic bodies are co(^rat- ing with Cathdlc RellefSer- vices, Cfaux'chWorldService, andvtbe United States Com¬ mittee for UNICEF, all tt which have distribution cent¬ ers that get food md medi¬ cine through to the sick and starving.
-THE announcement was made simidtan^oiisiywiththe appearanco oC a seVen- cdumn advertisement in tiie New York Times announcing the fonnatianciltiie group aikl an appeal foortrnds.
FAtt CAMPAIGN BEGINS
p^^'Pl^ii"" Charles Young, Chabrman of Gie Columbus
AiwmiASatA Campaign met.with the members of tbe lo(»I "Executive Board ^respcinsiUe for the sale of
; Israel Bonds at various .con^regaticm appeals last
week to begta work on the Fall Israel Bond Drive.
The committee.consists of Mrs. EstherBain,Irving
Baker, Martin Hoffknan^ Dr. Sheldon Paley and Jerome
\Sch(^iistoin, together withlsraelBondVlce-Chahr- man Howard Schoeiibaum, Women's Ciiairman Mrs.
'Martin Godofsky and Chatrman Young. A     ¦
The committee agreed an extra effort wfis necked this year in order to supply Israd with the miuch needed cash to her development budget drained by the necessity of providing security along Israel's expanded fironUers sfaice the Six-Day War. Last year 217 people ptirchaised $175,000 at the High Holidays. This does not include the hundreds of Bonds purchased before and after the holidays.
The FaU sale of bonds in the early stages wUl concentrate on. two areas: The sale of bonds to in¬ dividuals throii^ congregations having High Holiday Israel Bond Drives as congregational dinners and to orjianizaUons whicb are dlgiUe to purchase Israd Bonds under the Building Fund Program or the De- vdopment Investment Program. Left to right: Jerome Schottenstebi, Mrs.- Esther Bahi, Martin Hoffman,
, Irvtaig Baker,IsradBondChab:manDr.Charles Young, Dr. Shddon Palqy, Bond Vice-Chairnum, Howard Schoenbaum, Women's Chairman, Mrs. Martin Go¬ dofsky.
-' PRAGUE (WNS) Despite the politicaUy benign di- mate in Czechoslovakia, there is no likdihood of early resumption of di^omatic ttes with Israel, in the opinlonof Jewish and other sources here. Lending credence to this view was Czech subscriptton to an anU-Israd blast in the jdnt communiquefoUowingthe contrdntatton with the Sotdet Union at tiie Bratislava conference of East Eurc^iean Conununlst Party 1^- ers. The conununique denounced "Isradi aggression."
BONN (WNS) Dr. Herbert MuUer-Roschach, West German Ambassador to Portugal, bas^ been deared of charges of participatiiig in tlie fffinal soluUoif' of the "Jewish question^' vdiile seryliig in the Jewish Affairs section of the Nazi Foreign Ministry betwem November of 1941 and March of 1942] The action was taken after an liiyestigatton indicated that tiie Am¬ bassador had not, participated in the conference at which a deglsion was made on a final solution ofthe Jewish mroUem, a Nazi leuphemism for Moloe^cal extermination.
SAO PAUIX) (WNS) Jewish refugees fiiom Poland and the Arab countries wiU be adntitted'to BrazQ, it was indicated here by a Uf^ government ofQcial . tn a conimunicsition to the Brazilian JewishConfeder- ation. Replying to a petition by the Confederation the BrazUian Govermnent advised tiie governmente of Polandi Egypt, Iraq and Eljrria that it was prepared to admit Jewish reftagees  from those countries.
NEW YORK (WNS) "The deatii sentence imposed upon Jewish cdture in Soviet Russia ttiat was sym¬ bolized sixteen years ago by the execution on August 12, 1952, of twenty-four YidiHsb writers, actors and tntdlectoals bas not been lifted de^iOte i^xttestations to 'tH'd'''cantrary' ty Soviet governmental ofHcials and apologists," according to Rabbi Israd Miller, chairman of the American Jewish Cootierence on ^a- viet Jewry, in a statement issued on. the sixte«ilh anniversary of the executions.
/JERUSALEM (WN$) Moslem leaders fearfid tt al¬ legedly planned reconstrucUiin of the andent Temple on.its original site, which now holds oneof the hoUest shrines of Islam, the. El Aksa Mosque, have-l»ai assured fay tiie Mlidstry of Rdi^ous Afblrs that no such plans were afoot presently.       .
JERUSALEM (WNS) Dr. Arie Leo Lauterbadi, for many years Secretary to tiie World Zionist Executive and Director of its Department of OrganizaUan, diet: here at the age ct 82. One of the best known pioneer Zionists, he served tlie World Zloolst Organization for 37 years, flrom 1919 until his retirement in 1956. Among the distinguished Isradis attending his ftmeral were President ZaIman Shazar and foormer Prime Minister David Ben Gurion.
Japanese Trade Relations With Israel
JERUSALEM -- The Govemmeiit of Japan should not "eiBiate neutrality with passivity" in its trade relations with Israd and the Arab states, Arnold Forster said re- ceOU^i If it continues to do so, he cautioned, a situation wiU resdt In which "Japan is more 'neutral' in favor of tiw Arabs.?'
Forster, g&xstaJ counsd of the AnU-Def^mation League of B'nai B'rtth, is bi Israd
on a fact-finding mission for the Leaguc^He rdeased the resdts of an ADL survey which traces the events in JapBoiese-Israell trade re¬ lations since early May.
AT TriAT time the ADL annotmced the findings of a two-year study whidi show¬ ed tiiat significant Japanese compades >vere accpdescing fai thet^urab boycott of Israd {U)d thatthe Japanesesovlnm- ment's silence cm the issue was hdpfaig the Arabboycott cause. ,   .
The Government of Japan has since broken its sflmce, Forster noted, in statements "that profess neutralily in the Arab-Isradi conflict yd: hdd to a 'hands-ofl' poUcy ' in relation to Japanese busi¬ nessmen."
"IT'S NOT enpufiji," For¬ ster mdntalned. "Some¬
times netitrdity must be but¬ tressed witb action.
"You catft divorce inter- nationd economics trom the conduct of a nation's inter- natibnd political afCabrs. The balance ofpaymentok-tfaesta- biUty of currency, tbe de¬ velopment of maricete, the economic and techitfcd as¬ sistance one natttm gives another — aU are, inevit¬ ably, the concern of govern¬ ments as well as of private biisiness..
"TH^ STATE of trade be¬ tween the businessmen of two nations," Forster con-' tinued, "therefore becomes the cMicem of the govern¬ ments bf those nations.
"For tids reason," be pofaited out, "the UdtedSta¬ tes bas "devdopoid and im¬ plemented legislation aimed at safeguardlngits business
Nixon Friend Of
BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
MIAMI BEACH, (JTA) ~ Richard M. Nixon, tie Re¬ publican, nominee for Presi¬ dent, has along record of support for Israel and wi]]| campaign cm the 1968 Re¬ publican ^atform, induding a plank he advocated, iirging the sde of supersonic jet fighters to Israel and "peace teble tdks anwng the adver¬ saries."
Gov. S^^ro T. Agnew of Maryland, the Nixtti chdce for rundng mat6, drew much of bis^e^to^Isunpwtfrom Bidtimare Jews'andTother minority groups wInn heran for governor two years ago but Us popiilarity with those groups' has since declined because ot his oonsorvative stand on civil rigMs and wdfare programs, diser- vers bore told the Jevdsh TdegrapUc Agency.
NIXON was tliefir'st major American poUticaLperson- dily to vistt Israd after tbe 1967 Six-Day war. He com¬ mended Isradi leaders on tbe victory and broui^ words of cheer to wounded IsraeU troops In military hos^tds. Dnrfa« tiie 1956 Staial ccn- flict, when Nixoo was Presi¬ dent Eisenhower's Vice- Presldenti he^ devdoped a personal rdationsUp with Israeli ForeiEp Blinlster Abba Eban nhen the later was Ambassador to the Ud¬ ted States. More recently Nixon met privately with Ambassador Rabinandasked him many questions abbuttbe. Middle East deadlock, Arab attitodes, Soviet involvement and Israd's defoise ne6ds.
THE REPUBUCAN plat- ftnrm dso specifically con¬ demns Soviet Anti-Sensttism -for the first time in the \d&- toory of any U.S. nationd politicd platform. It warned against an Anfierican-Soviet detente at the expense of other nations, suchaslsrad. Mr. Nixon may soon have an' opportunily to intervene on bdialf tt Soirilet Jewry "^and to seek an easing of tlie Middle East crisis if he makes tiie trip to Moscow that tie announced during the recent campaign.
During tin 1966 gubemato- rid campaign. Gov. Agnew was preferred fay minority groups over his Democratic opponent, George P. Mabo- ney, a s^pr^atiodst. But Mr. Agnew's ties are doser to tbe white, Anglo-Saxon,
JWB Names Direttor
Appokitment of Nathan Loshak, of Atlanta, Ga., as nationd director of program services oftiie Natiopd Jew¬ ish WeI£areBoard(JWB)was announced here ty Sanford ^dender, executive vice- president of JWB. Mr. Los- haic, who has been seidor regiqnd consultant of/JWB's Sourtheni Region for tbe past tea years, wiU assume his new post on November 1.
Israel
Protestant commudties ct rurd Maryland tbanto Bdti¬ more County with its more than 100,000 Jews. The Gov¬ ernor's rdations with Mary¬ land Jews have been cordld if not particularly far rang¬ ing or deep.
THIS YEAR he named a Jew, Sad Uss, to the Su¬ preme Bench of iOie City ot Bdtimore, tiie fiftii Jew on the bench. Lastyear be nam¬ ed another Jew, RobertHam- merman, to the same txaidi. Last October lie was named "Man of the Year" of the Golden Eagle Square and Compass Club, tiie Jewish branch of the Masonic order in Bdtimore. In April 1967, be was named honorary, diairman of the Maryland State Committee for Israd Bonds. A formd dfainer was hdd at the State House hi Annapolis in cdebration of the occasion.
!Plane'
Proc|ress
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UNITED NATHXtS (JTA) — Yosef Tekoah, Israel's Ambassador to tiie UtaUed Nations, tdd newsmen that he is more oi>timisttc than earlier in tiie wedc diout tiie release of tbe £3 Al Boefaig 707 and 12 IsraeU crewmen and passengers held in Algeria since July 23. ^e spote to newsmen after conferring with Sec- letary-Generd U Thant, at Mr. Thantfs retsiest for a half hour on the subject ct the hijacking: •
Mr. Thant informed Mr. Tekoah that he had received a message from Algerian President Houaii Boumed- lenne dealing with the plane issue. Mr. Tdcoah tdd re¬ porters that his "increase in optimism" is a resiitt tt the conteote d the message. ."I am StiU bopeftil" tiiat the issue "wDl be settied in ac¬ cord with idemationd law and morality - to use an Algerian phrase," the Israeli' envoy sdd.
TEKOAH sddthataccord- ing to information he had received, tiie IsFaelis are weU taken care tt InAIgeria and there wasnottdngtowar- rant concern about tiieir phydcd state.
An informed source said here tiiat the two pQots rep- tesentfaig the Intematiand Federation of Airline PUots Associations were on their- way back to Algeria to re¬ sume n^ottations for re¬ lease of tbe Forsbefg, were< lease tt the plane and Is¬ raelis. The idiots, Capt. J.J. VQrady and Capt aUA. Fwsberg, were invited Aug. 6 to return in a telephone caU firam tbe Algerian For¬ eign Office. They had gone bade to Britain earUer in the wieek after consdtations with Algerian offidds. ,
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