Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1968-07-18

              Vol. 46, No. 29
2C&   Serving Columbus, ^'CentiirandSouthvvestern Ohio QE
THURSDAV, JMLY 18.1968 - 22 TAMMUZ
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Jordan Is Ready For Peace Talk
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Jordan, In principle Is sitill ready for direct peace negotlaUoas witii Israel Ixit "certain difli- culttes" bar tiie way to such talks, political circles said Iiere. Tin "dlOlcuities" were not specified, but itis under¬ stood that part of tbe trouble lies in Egypt's reftisal to give Jordan a green UgU for taDcs with Israel.
This assessmmit of the situatioa was based dn the tallu between'Foreign Minister '  '
Abba Eban and UN peace en¬ voy Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring in TheHagueandBr. Jarring's subsequent meet- ing with Ambassador Gideon Rafiiei, dtrector-^neral ot Israel's Foreign Ministry. Mr. Rafael spoke tolk'. Jar¬ ring shortly after the tat¬ ter's meeting with Jordaidan Foreign Miidster, Abdul Monelm el-Rifal, also in London.
IT IS not expected here that Dr. Jarring will bring tte Arab-Israelldlsputeback to tlie Security CounciL 0I>- servers said that he does not consider Ms missicn to have reached either an end or an unbreakable deadloclc. Accardlng to some, West Bank Arab leaders who re¬ cently visited Amman, and a circumstantial report pul>- lisbed hi a ]BeIrutdal]y,Khig Hiissein ideaded despierately i-ot'^-wiHi- Us top military com¬ manders last wedi for tiieir endorsement of separate
Hodassab Supports Gun Control
NEW YORJC, (JTA) ~ Ha¬ dassah, tbe women's. Zion¬ ist Organization of Ameri¬ ca, aunouncedthat it has pe¬ titioned every member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives to support effective gun-ccmtrol legislation and pledged that its 318,000 members in all 50 states wHl '<keep this issue alive untU the proper legislation has beenpassed."
The announcement, bsr _
Mrs. .Mortimer Jacobson,   I ffl   ^11A7 national president was re-    ^-'** i^cav/^
peace negotiatiaas with Is¬ rael "witiiout tiie advice or aPlvuval of any' otiier Arab state." Accordtagtotiie re-. ports, tbe generals angrOy rebuffed Hussein and a deep rift now exists between tlie King and Us Army.
HUSSEIN reportedly sum¬ moned about IQO men, wlwm he regarded bia most loyal and devoted offlcors, to a secret session In Amman. He told them tiuit "Jordan alcne cannot and will not be able to fi^ IsraeL" He is reported to have said, "we are losing all tiie time. We have lost Iialf our territor¬ ies.. We lost half our war? rlors in the guerrilla bdnds. We bave lost tdl of our In¬ come from touristis and our hardships cmiUnue."
He then., reportedly told tiie oSicers, VI caUed >^^ here to get'yotdr support to try to readi a pdllticalisor . lotion wifli IsraeL" Re told tiiem of his faUure to get suEPort for Jordanfromei- tlier France, England or tiie Uiited States. He said there was no iHtpeof aidfromthe Arab countries.
THE EGYFIlANtelevlsIai broadcast a recorded inter¬ view with King Hussein who todc a hard line onthe Axat^-. Israel cDspute and asserted that the Arabs will heaver give up tiKir rights to Je¬ rusalem or "me Inch of land." The ruler said that "Israel miist realize that there can lie no peace intbe Middle East until Arabrlgfats^ are_.regaiiied."
Fire Again
garded as an unprecedented acttm by the organizatian which has hitiierto concern¬ ed Itself witti projects tode- velop Israel and help its needy, tt reflected thegrow- ing concern in tiie American Jewish community fcr strong Federal conbrcl ot tin ivo- liferation (tf firearms. A similar appeal to Congress to pass President Johnson's gun-control law was made bor Rabid Joseph Karasidc,fce- sldent of the IMon of Or- flndox Jewish Congrega^ . ttons.
Mrs. Jacobson said, "we, have called upmevery.mem- ber of tin House andtiie Sen¬ ate to support, with all the vigor at his command, a bill tiiat will ouOaw the sale of maO Oder firearms of any kind; require registration of all firearms; and-make it mandatary for all persons DWidng flrearms to be prop¬ erly screened and register¬ ed."
TEL AVTV, (JTA)-rE©Tt- ian small-arms fire ao'oss the Suez Canal dbected'"at Israeli posiUons'dn the Eii^t Bahk, cost the life of an Is¬ raeli soldier last week and predidtBted a six hour ar¬ tillery exchange in irtiichthe town of Port Suez was bard Ut. Israeli forces returned the E^gyptian fire and tiie exchange f^m both sides steadily mounted in inten- si^ despite etferts qfUnlted Nations ceaseflr^pbservers to get tbe shooting^topped. The dash was tiiefirsjt ser¬ ious Incident intiie^isarea in several weeks. v„ / [
According to the Egyptian protest to the United Na¬ tions Security Council, 46 people in Port Suez were killed, 67 were wounded, one durich, two mos^pies and a welfisure center completely destroyed and 25 houses, a bospital and the raflway sta¬ tion partially destroyed.
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JERUSALEM (WNSf) A European who Recently re¬ turned from a visit to Cabro reported here that Egypt was holding arrested Jews as pawnSj as a lever in its demands for Israel's vrtUidrawal ^om the territory it occulted bi the Sbc Day War ot'iJ967.
The visitor said he obtataied the infoirmation flrom Egyptian'government sources who indicated some 250 Jews, lietween the ages (tflSand60,were being kept in tiie"political wing" (tf a prisoner camp.
NEW VpRK (WNS) Ceneral Moshe Dayan of Israel wOl dome to.tiw United States on December 4, for a one day visit as dinner guest of tiie^Unlted Jewish ' AppesiL A previous scheduled appearance ty Israel's Minister (tf Defense bad been cancelled because of. ,,. security reasons.
NEW YORK (WNS) The Ihiited £bnag(«ue of Ameri- ea, ba aa editorial In its liiarterly Uiited iSiynagogiie . Review bas condenmed state latteries in alleged support of coinmunity institutions and education. The lotteries, tiie editorial said, served to transfer "the burden ctf tiie cost (tf govermnent from those wbo can afford it to tiiose who can afford it least." ,.
hONDW cms) The long-discredited "Protocols ot Hie Elders of Zion" ue to appear in anew md en¬ larged edition to be financed by King Feisal of Siiudl Arat>ia.:Tbe Infiunous anti-Semitic forgery is to be piiblistaed in 200,000 copies in Fren(A for distribution among French speaking elements In Africa.
NEW YORK (WNS) Former Vice President Richard B/I. Nixon is a member of a New Jersey club tliat all^edly excludes.Jews and Negroes froni meifiber- ship.vThiswa0 disclosed bgr the New York Post in a repmrt. whicb said Mr. Nixon defended his member¬ ship hi the B^tastrol'Golf Club (tf ^iringfield. New Jersey, on the ground becouldbestIw,"workingfor change frpm tiie inislctet' i^ist^:^ jre^^ Post story, ^id tie (diit^sn^^ biKmledge of Jewibb (ir Neciro ihembersidp In the(dub and that ite president reflised to discuss the issue.
TQR(JNTO (Wr6)-Fihal election results show that, el^ JeWs wfll hold seate in the new Cansdiaii Par¬ liament, or the largest contingent oif Jens eveir to sit in Canada's Parliament. Four ofthe Jewish deputies ran on the ttcket ot Prime Mhdster Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party.
Zeldin
Elected
President
At the Annual Meeting of the C(dumbus HebrewScbo(fl, held June 25, S(d Zeldin, 2600 Schaaf Dr., was electf ed president ot the Scho(d.
Other officers elected are as follows: Vice-presidente- frving A. Baker, Dr. Jules Duga, Dr. Norman Levine; Secretary - Mrs. Nonnan Levine;^ and Treasurer - Ellas Snyder.
THE FOLLOWING were elected to serve on tbe Board of Trustees: Or. B. W. Ab¬ ramson, Albert A. Bltmk, Dr. iBenCoben,SanfordFish- maa. Dr. MarvinFox,SaniueI Kandel, Dr. Max P. Kanter, Er. Micbael Kaplan, Arthur Katz, Alvin KaufCman, Said Komessar, Dr. Arthur Kslenski, Louis M. Levin, Ben M. Mandelkori^ Arthur Melzllsl^ S. M.^ Melton. Fradc JR. Nutis, Leonard G. Quinn, A. W. Robins, Ber¬ nard R. Ruben, Harry Sch¬ wartz, Leon J. Sefi; Ben Sei&ras, Farrell Shar, Don¬ ald Shlonsky, Dr. Harold Starr, PhOlp Waldman, Abe A. Widnian; Fred Yenkin and Dr. Charles Young.
Herbert L. Solomon, im¬ mediate past president of the Hebrew School, is on the Board of Trustees andnot subject to election.
RABBIS occiipiring pulpite ¦   - ¦    , 5
Testimony In Sinkihg
Of U.S^ Ship
WASHINGTON ( WNS) The facte around the staking of the U.S.S. Liberty oft tbe Sfaial coast In June 1%^ have taken on a new and more significant aspect as a result of the ^ release at testimony given before the House Defense Ap¬ propriations Committee in April and May of this year.
The testimony showed tteit tbe ship was in those waters .fo. a result of a series of blunders and mlsreadlngs of messages. The Libert, it
Sal Zeldin
are on the Board of Trastees and not subject to election: Rabbi JuUus L. Baker, Dr. JeixMne D. FoUonjin, Babbi Bennett M. Hermann, Babbi Hany Kaplan, Rabbi Edward D. Kiner, Rabbi Samuel W. Rubenstejin, Rabbi David Stavsby and Rabbi Nathan Zelizer.
m accordance withthe pro¬ vision of the HebrewSchool constitution Zelifln apixdnt- ed tiie foUowiitg io serve on the Board of Trustees: Mrs. Jules Colien, ConradHarris, Irvin Kerstein, Edward Stan and Mrs. Sol Zefdin.
APPOnWED'^: the He¬ brew Scbo(fl'PTA" to serve on the Board ^W'Trustees are WlIia]nGd(aii|iltii,Mrs. Lawirence Gordon, Mrs. Samiid Kandel,'ll(rs. Isadore Sussn^' and Irvin Szames.
Th6 'nominating committee was: Aitinir Katz, chalrmai^ Irving A. Baker, Sanford Flsfamqn, Albert A. BlatA;, Loids M. .Levin and Ben Seifenks.'
now appeared, had never re¬ ceived an order from ti>e t>entagon to withdraw-from tbe Sinai war zone. Tbe siiik- ing of tiw sUp by Israeli torpedo boate imd i^anes had set ott some criticism and led to.Israel's assuinPtion(tf dmnage liaMlities faitiwsum of $3,323,500.
THHITY-FOUR Ameri¬ cans were IdUed and seveniy- five wounded in the fragic incident. Israel said that when tiw LQiorty was chal¬ lenged hy one of ite torpedo boate, it repUed witb a sigr nai used by Egyptianvessels during the Sinai campaign of 1956, but a U. S. Naval board (tf Inqriiry ruled tiw attecic was "unprovoked" and flat ' ~tii^'isi:aeli forces had aohple oeportunitles to ideiitiftr the sidp correctly.
In view of tids develop- meiit, tt is believed tiiat Isr rael may raisp the question of responsibiliiy for dam--
ages in Ita negotiations (tf ftnrther didnuii
MEANWHILE, tiw edstdo- sure of American failure has triggered a demand In Con¬ gress that Israeliwabsidved (tf responsibility for the in- eid&at. The demand was made by tbe Rep. Seymour Hal- pern, New York Republican, who said since testimony shows that the incidetit was a result of coniniunicatiatis Diligence by the Udted States tiwre was no reason Trtqr Israel should "bave to pay for our own tragic comedy of errors.'^
RePi Halpe.rp simulten'T^^: eously aske'd"f(»i: -a re-as-^ sessment oif the re^ttetlon (juestion 8ince'"a grave dis¬ service appears tohavelwen. done tolsrael by bureaucrate anxious to cover up orders that were dispatched Initnev- .er received."
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