Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1968-08-08

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Vol. 46, No. 32
THUBSDAY. AUGUST 8,1968 - 14 AV
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Bill Passed In^ Senate'
WASHINGTON, (JTA)— A Foreign Aid BiU which made provision for the sale of supersonic jets to Israel passed the Senate. The bill stated fliat: "The President should take such steps as may be necessaiy, as soon as practicable after the date of enactment offlds section, to negotiate an agree¬ ment with tbe Government of Israel providing for the sfde ty the Untted States of such number dt supersonic planes as may be necessary topro- i.„J ^ j™»,„i.n^„ t„ r„ ' vide Israel wifl, an a*quate  iS«""ae£?se'S^^i^
deterrent force capable a( preventing fiiture Arab ag' gression by offsetting soph
aUowed to remain...the risk of war will be higher," tiie
e^==.„„ K7 «"».=M«B »yfv-  Senator saidi "Sneciflcally. isticated weapons received  STrisk conidIssSS
by the Arab states and to replace losses suffered ty Israel hi the. 1967 cpntUct. The Foreign Aid Bill ear¬ lier passedty the House con-
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Senate bill, however, changed Wnr *« n.nic«  !»« -mB^. ir
i^est form-r a sneak air attack ragalnst flie; civilian populatioii of IsraeL"
SEN. FRANK J. Lausche, Olio Democrat^ pointed out
fln- yrording to "should,' leaving the sale at super¬ sonic jets finally up to the cBscretion at the President. Further action on the bill will be delayed until after flie political canvenUW: re¬ cess ivben a Senate-Hoiise conference will diiscuss this changed wording.
wer to make these sales, ii; in his opinion^ it is neces¬ sary to offset the huge sales fliat have been made by the Soviet Union to the Arab nations."   .
Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon Democrat^ dedaredthatif an imderstanding exists "that the U.S. would come to Is¬ rael's defiense if she were
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of the Senate stressed the
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Fireign Aid Bill provision   aid <*" ^ey watted for odr
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hnportance to' Israel of the
for the sale of supersonic jet aircraft to IsraeL
"It would be a pure case of irresponsibility if we did not do so^"   he said. "B
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Prepare Israel Bond Campaign
' The Columbus State of Is¬ rael Bond Committee under the leadership of Dr. Char¬ les Yoiing began its planning for the f4i1 camiiaign to in¬ crease the sale of Israel Bonds in Columbiis IkstTue- sday. The cteirman for the five major congr^ations met wifli Chairman Young, Vice- - ChairmanflpwardSciioen- baum and Women's Chair¬ man, Mrs. Martin Godofsky to Tflaa tbeir' congregations particiiation in the Fall pro¬ gram. Ch^rmen for flie con^, gregJtois aretvDr; Sheljcm Paley, Tifereth fsraeli Mir t; tin Hofbnan, Beth'.IiEicob; lir- vbig Baker, Ahavas aiolom,; Jerome Schottaistein, Agu¬ das Achim; Mrs. Esther Bein, Temple IsraeL
Last year sale of bonds during the High Holy Days and at individual congrega¬ tion events produced over $175,000 in needed revenue for IsraeL
The Cohnnbus Comndttee "expect to duplicate and sur¬ pass last year's efforts ty increasing the number of op- portimities for individuals to purchase bonds and at the , same time to approachmore institutions an<l organiza¬ tions to make large pur¬ chases  of Israel  Bonds."
The first congregations to hold its Israel Bond event will be Tifereth IsraeL The event will be c^pen to all members and friends.
operate by way of supplying military" assistance."
Was Aicb 4tr00p
More than 49;pOO Jewish men, vvoimen and ji^dren re¬ ceived iresettiement and re¬ lated asslstanbe from United Hlas Servi(^I last year, in- ciudbig 6^4ir;inigrants and reftigees wbii w^re aided to find new hpmes.in Western counfrles, £,'
Gaynor;X^Jacobs(n,Exec- utive Vice-President of flie worldwtd|Ci'^;migration agen¬ cy, stated'in the organiza¬ tion's Annual Report that as a result bf the Six-Day-War almost 25,000 Jews fled Tu¬ nisia, Morocco, Libya, Eg¬ ypt, Lebamm and other Arab counfrles.
,."A SIGNIFICANTmrniber of these iieople were hel|)ed lly oiff agency," he said. "We j^ovldedguarantees for fransportatton, costs, recep- ti(m at doclu and airports and necessary services at reception p«dnts..Inaddttipn, we worked with o^er volun¬ tary agencies' and frleidly goveirnments to secure doc¬ uments and exit permits for stateless and persecuted Jews.'^
Jacobson noted that 1^356 reftigees and migrants were assisted ty United Bias to resettie in tiie Uidted States last year. Assisted immif gratipn to Canada, compri¬ sed principally of French- spealdng Moroccan Jews, amounted tb 989, compared with 447 the previous year, an increase of 120%. Latin America received 164 mi¬ grants, mainly refugees from Arab counfrles, an in- dreaseof 16%. .
JERUSALEM (WI«)— Israel's Parliament over¬ whelmingly aivroved a bill providing for a major reform of education, despite fears ol^the National Religious party that the law might harm religious education and desfdte threats by primary teachers that tbey would strike against it again. The' bill provides for reaUgningprimaiy and secondaiy schods along American patterns. It would set up a six year primary schod program with three years of judor high and tlu:ee years of senior iiigh to follow, the vote was 69 to three wifli 18 abstentions. , BCHm (WNS) — Algeria faces a boydqtt by. inter¬ national trade uniimlsts if it does not release the Ujadced Israeli plane, its crew and a number of Is¬ raeU mde passengers. Thi^ develc^mie^t emerged vdien the mtemational Transport Federation aligned itself on the issue witii the Maritime Committee otthe American Federation of LatxnrrCongress of bdustrid Orgaidzatims in tiie Udted States.
TEL AVIV (WNS) — High praise for the Jewish National Fimd has been voiced by Premier Levi Esh- kd In a letter to former Ambassador Jacob Tsur^ president of Keren Kayemeth. Lauding the oiganiza- tim^s services to Israd in its program of dearing lands in border areas and fostering settiements that protect those borders, Mr. Eshkd sdd that he was confident thatthe Keren Kayemeth wodd continue its efTorts toward opening the more remote areas of the countiy.
JERUSALEM (WNS) — Algerii^s reportedly correct treatment ofthe crew and still detabied passengers of the hijacked Israeli plane has. bdstered the ht^e of this ccuntry of thefr early return. TUsi Foreign Miiiister Atiba Eban sdd, is a basis for hope tiiat
.., .piindples of intemationd lavr .end mdralily wodd be
- '-^ilqn^dtyiUgeriainBdvIn^ release of the idaiie and the nien. f
TEL Aviv )WNS) — The occurrence of 31 incidents last wedc donglbe Israeli-Jordanian cease-fire line ttis friggered beli^ in securfiy cfrcles here that the d^iopmerd might presage niore intensified anti-Is- rxi activity. In those inddents, 3 Israelis were killed and IS lnjia«iJ^ while 10 of the saboteurs were killed anid one captured. Soine of the Jordanians vAo were captored in recent weeks were reported to have sdd that .the trespasshig terrorists had the co-operation of JoetcIbiu
, NEW YORK (WNS)-ApparentiyauUnnticrumorsto tin effect that flie Jewish State Theater in Pdand wili nb longer be an independent Jewisl^ State-sup¬ ported culturd institiition cfrcdated here in hif armed circles familiar wiflithesitu&tion in Pdand. According io one report^ the status of the Tlwater, headed hy the veteran actress Ida Kaminska, will be changed duiing the 1968-69 season. The action is sdd to have been determined by the cdturd conunission of tbe Pdish Commudst Party's cdturd committee.
The U.N. Mideast Mission Snagged
Danger Seen For American Jewry
TEL AVIV,, (JTA) — An American Jewish Educator de- dared here that tiie present urban unrest in the United States posed a great danger for American Jewry, paxticu- larly with respect to Negro extremism, because su^ch situa¬ tions ftten adversely affected Jews more than it did other groups.
The warning was made by Dr. Judah Shatdro^ speaking at a meeting of American La¬
bor Z ionisf leaders being held at the saine time as -flw annud "Didogiie inls¬ rael" sponsored ty the Am¬ erican Jewish Congress; Dr. Shapfro added that the Am¬ erican Negro dvil rights movement and other Negro causes wodd "soon forget the dd vrtiich Jews extend- 'ed to them in thefr hour of needT' as has happened in similar cases throughout Jewish history."
MOBDECHAI Bar-On, bead of the youth and hech- dutz department of the Jew¬ ish Agency, tdd the Ameri¬ can Labor Zimists that he felt his prindpd task was to brlngyoungerlsraeliJews doser to the Jews in ether countries. He also sdd tbat the tuniber cf Israelis prac¬ ticing religion was< growing. He cited as-evidence the emotion widch swept Israel afte^^ troiops liberated flw WaiU« WaU in Old Jerusa¬ lem in tbe Six-Day War. last year,
A totally dUferoit view on religion in Israel was pre¬ sented at the Aj Congress didogue ty nrof. Yesbayahu Liebowitz, a lea^ng Israeli thinker whose strictures on Judaism hi Israel so stun¬ ned flw didogue partidpants, particdarly tliei Americans, that they asked for a few hours of recess toponder mid
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JTA) T- Fresh Arab-Israel exchanges on the freatment of Arabs ta IsraeU-heldter- ritories and of Jews iirArab countries further'clouded Udted Ndions hivestigaUon ofthe situation of both Arabs and Jews.
A spokesman for Secretary Generd U Thant said that he was stiU coqsidering a plan to send a specid UN representative to the Middle East, under a Generd As¬ sembly resdution of last July dedlng with "humad- tarian" aspects of the post¬ war situation.
WHEN THE Secretary Generd announced severd months ago he planned to send an emissary under that resdution, Israel insisted that the scope ot the mis- don be extended to include the status at Jews in Egypt, Syria and fraa who report¬ edly have UvedUves of abuse tmd terror since tiw June
and inserted a request for lasting peace bdween stones in the WaU, but, he added, there was no religious sig¬ nificance toGen.Dayan'Bact. HE DECLARED that C;en. Dayanf s chUdren never saw a synagogue from the inside. He caUed worsUppIi^ at the WaiUng WaU "notidng biit iddatiy" and dedared that religion ta Israel was a di¬ visive tnctor tathatitlKurred an observant Jew from'^- ing with anon-observant Jew because of ttie problems of flw ffietaiy laws.
Cantor Harry Sterling
Appointed
1967 war.
However, ArabdEtlegations qdetiy opposed such an ex¬ tension and the UN legd division reportedly provided Thant with an opidonfliatthe UN resduUons were not ta- tended to cover the situaticn of tiw Jews.
THE AR'GUMENT was re¬ opened with a letter on July 25 from Syrian Ambassador George Tomeh, wfaosddthat Jews, Christians and Mos-
5ms in Syria were equd Uzens and that "no dis¬ crimination exists because.of fdth or any other basis." He criticized Israel for d- legedly refusing to agree to the proposed ''tamiadtari iarf' mission. In a reply this week,. Ambassador Yosef Tekoah rejected various typ- Icd anti-Israel charges ta tiw Tomeh letter, tacluding one that Arab citizens of Is¬ rael* Uved ta "concenfration. camps."
BB Provrdes Building For Heod Start
LAKEWOOD, N.J. - The Head Start prograin ta this s u r b u r b a n commudty has been 'given a: $6,000 head start ty B'nai B'rith mem¬ bers ta town.
Lakewood Judean Lodge of B'nai B'ritii is proWdtag the Head Start program ta Ocean County with a down¬ town two-story buildtag and adjacent land, 	
evaluat^ProLLeibowitz'   JV(eU? LafltOT
HE FLATLY rejected flw widespread description of Israel's 1967 victory as due to a mfracle. He sdd tiw June victory resulted from Israel's abiUty to create a modem fighting forcei widch the Arabs Codd not do.
Prof. Leibowitz dso dis¬ puted tiw contention that flw victory evoked a religious eruption among flw Jews of Israel and those overseas. He sdd that what actually developed was a "patriotic emotion" nidch took on the image of religloib He noted that Gen. Moshe Dayan, the IsraeU Defense Midster, bad hurried to the WaUfaig WaU
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Richard A. Lieberman president, announces theaPr pointment of Harry Sterling as Cantor of Congr^ation Tiferefli IsraeU
Cantor Sterling was Cantor and Frtacipd ofthe religious school of CongregationMon- tefiqre ta Sdt Lake City, Utah for 15 years, and comes to Columbus from Temple Adath Yeishnrun 'te Miami Beach, Pldridu ;   . -
HE STUDIED voice and music with JuUus, Guttman and at the Henry Sfreet Mu¬ sic School Settiement taNew Yoric. The new Cantor grad- uated from Yeshivah Yavneh ta New York, and studied education at the Un¬ iversity of Utah ta addition to performing with flw Utah Symphony and the Udversity of Sdt Lake City. . The Cantor and his wife,' ^elen, a native of Ports* mouth, Virginia, have two children, Deborah and Da¬ vid: ,¦""'
ta addition to his fimct- lontag as Cantor and educa- ,tor. Cantor Sterlbig has been active with the Jewish Fam¬ Uy Service and the B^nal B'riflu He began Ms duties as .Cantor pf Coiigregatiah .Tifer^ Israel August 2,
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