Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1968-01-18

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. Vol 46, N«. 3
IHURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1968-17 TEVESs,
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:    CONCERT AT CENTER
The' duo of Vivien Richman, folk singer, and Peggy Lipschutz, patater, blend the creative arts ta a Gordon Cultural Series concert at the Jewish Center on Saturday evening, Jan. 20, at 8:45 ta wliat proiJiises to be one of tlie unique eyents otthe< season. Vivien Richman and^ Peggy Lipschutz jota such events as the Nehemlah Mark Woodcarvtags, Martha Schlamme Concert of songs of many lands, and Herman Perlman glass etchings as part of the Gordon Curtural Series. Vivien Richman's rendition of fOIh songs and concerts and Peggy Lipschutz's creative paintings visually interpreting lyrical motifs result ta an exciting now iWcater form. Tickets are avaUable at The Jewish )penic.r with tin price of general admission $2.00. Reservations may be made by calling BE 1-2731.
Cantoris Coneert ^ Planned
Agudas AcMm Brother¬ hood WiU presentCantor Da¬ vid Kusevitshy tothe Jewish 'oemmunity for a week end ta 4he synagogue. He is a weU- knewn singer'and interpreter ef liturgical music.
Cantor Kusevitsky's sing¬ ing career began ta chfld- hdld. when h^ joined the choir of the Vitaa Great Synagogue. After further training at the Vitaa Aca¬ demy bt Music, he accept¬ ed at the age 'of eighteen, tbe position of Choir Leader ta the Synagogues of Kre- menica, Lember, andRovno' ta succession, untU he was conscripted into the Polish Army,   " i
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Cant oir Kusevitshy wiU chant the Uturgy for the late Friday family service at 8:15 on Jan. 19 ^and the Sabbath morning services, at 9 on Jan. 20. There wiU be no admission charge. AU^are welcome.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Prime Mtaister J.ovi Eshkol of Israel completed a whirlwind eight-day visit to the United States higMigI]tcd by two days of cordial talks with President Johnson and a warm welcome by civic and Jewish leaders before he departed for Canada for more meetings with government and Jewish leaders. On the eve of his departure, more than 2,500 leaders of organized Jewish life ta the United States gathered to assure him of moral support ta the acMevement of peace, and material support for Israeli economic .progress ta the coming year.
CHICAGO, (JTA) -- The Viet Nam situation figured ta the Johnson-Eshkol talks, according to Peter Llsagor, White House correspondent bf the Chicago Daily News, who covered the meettags at the LBJ Ranch. Li8ag9r asserted ta a dispatch to the News that "Israeli sources interpreted one pha^e ta the ' joint statement as an tadication that the President , may have Induced Eshkol to show more sympathy towards the U.S. tavolvment ta Viet Nam," That ¦statement, he said, "noted the mutual dedication of iMth governments to, among other things, 'resistance to aggression wherever it occurs.'
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Former Prhne Mtaister David Ben-Gurion made public Ms recent correspondence with French President de Gaulle, at a Jammed press conference here and voiced the opinion that, whUe ' "there are things ta de Gaulle's'letter tliat should better not liave been said," the French leader was stm -friendly to Israel, and criticism of him tathe press has been exaggerated,-" ' '•'-~-'''-^''-   -      - _ •
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — ^Dr. Immanuel JakobOvitz, CMef Rabbi of- tlie British Commonwealth, warned here that Orthodoxy must learn "ta tMs democratic age," that spiritual leaders cannot- Impose their -auttiority by rules but "only faypersuasloiandwtaning - over dissidents can their convictions. prevaU." Dr. Jakobovitz spoke at the world conference of Ashken- azic and Sephardlc synagogues. The conference also' heard Israel's Ashkenazic CMef Rabbi Issahar Unter- man'oppose legislation for a unified Orthodox liturgy. RabU Untermanheld that unificationwoid^comeabout of ite own accord as a result of improved communica¬ tions media.
JERUSALEM,.(JTA) » Israel ihas designed and is. rushing production on a new classt of heavily-armed, Mghly-maneuverable and very ',fast, boats as the answer to the Egyptian missUe-carrying gunboats of the type that sank the Israeli destroyer, the Elath, last September. The new vessels, though smaU, are . understood to have the abUity to detect and destroy submarines,-planes and large warships, ta addition to missUe boats.
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Navy Bias i>rotesfteci
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The United Stetes Navy yielded to a storm of proteste and reversed an order that the names' of officers and crewmen of ships visiting Now Orleans in February be made avaUable 'to organizations planning segregated Mardi Gras parties.^
The protests developed when it was learned that the Navy had Issued a memorandumdescriblngdiscriminationagatast Jews, Italians and Negroes
ta New Orleans as "the way things ^e" and declaring that "we have to go along with it." The reversal was disclosed ta a letter from . Navy Secretary Paul R. Ig¬ natius to Rep. Jonathan B, Bingham, Bronx, Democrat, one of those whohad severe¬ ly criticized the original- Navy jnemorandum,-
PROTESTS also had been made by the American Jew- ish« Congress, .the Naticnal i Association for the Advance¬ ment. ^ Coilored People, the Anti-DefSination League of B'nai B'rith, the American Itelian .Committee Agatast Discrimination, Rep. WU¬ liam. F. R-yan, Manhattan Democrat j^'the" AmerIcbn Jewish Committeer^tiil the Jewish Labpp^^mmittee.
Secretly.Ignatius wrote tO/RepTBtagbam: "There is Ho excuse  for  disci4mta-
' ation. ta tlie past, the Navy has provided private organi¬ zations lists of officers and
'men who migiri: be tavited to private evente. These liste were provided without re¬ gard to race or origta. The commandant of the Eighth Naval District, < which ta¬ dudes New Orleans, has been cUrected to ensure that Ms command does notpro-
' vide prospective guests lists to organizations which practice racial or national- orJgta dlscrtaiination ta the is suance of tavitetions," Four Navy ships wiU be ta liew Orleans during Mardi
(jras week,
SOURCES salAJlkhad long s been both NS^anddefeitSe Departmeiit policy not .'to' sanction ofiiclal pirtlclpa-^ tion of units or individuals ta  segregated evente,      v,,^^
Mothers^ March
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Tue.^Wed.
The front doOT,.of your home will be the''front line ta the fight agatast birth detects for the volunteers enllsied'lh tMs January's traditional Mothers' March.
Volunteer women ta the area wiU visit-hdknes Tues-'^'^' day and Wednesdajr eventags, Jan. 23 and 24.
THE MOTHERS' March is a vital part cf tMs January March of Dimes Campaign seeking a goal of $104,000 to help the one out of 16 cMldren bom in tMs county with a birth defect.
TMs year's Campaign marks the SOth Anniversary of the National Foundation. Research andtreatment cen¬ ters across the nation, in¬ cluding the ChUdren's.Hos- pitid Bbth Defect Center in Columbus.
hVCUAiE Gasaway of Luci's Toyshop Is'tieadingT. the  countywide  Mothers' March.
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LBJ/Eshkol Meeting Friendly, Informal
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kol concluded^' two', days of#i^ter coidd not depart from discussions '^with President   theLBJ Ranch bypresident
Lyndon D. Johnson last week. At the ond of the friendly and informal meettag, the two heads of stete issued a jotat statement which reiter. ated their intention to con'
lal Jct^tar or helicopter, he and Mrs. Eshkol and other members of their party mot¬ ored from the ranchtoBerg- '-bi Strom Air Force Base neari i-f^ jAustta,  Texas.  From that
tinue the close ties between their two nations.
No reference was made ta tlw Jotat statement to the armaments or abrcraft which il is believed Israel is seek¬ ing to tasurcits.own security
-potat, ther were able to fly ta thb large Afr Force Jet'' assigned'to the President to ,New York City. ' T1U5 JOINT statement is¬ sued by 1'rcsident Johnson and Prime Mtaister Eshlioi
against the growing vycapon •¦ doscrlticd ta non-specific stockpUc of the Arab na-- terms their meetings on Sun- tiotts.        .> ¦•
'HIK PLANS for tlie Prime
¦ Minister's visit were great¬ ly curtailed because of sev¬ ere weather conditions hero. Much of Texas was Uaiikctcd wilh a thick coattag of ice which glazed the streets ahd h'i^Hiay.s and made aircralt
day evci^tag and much of 'Monday. After an elaborate Sunday ovcnbig dinner, their 1 discussions .began in earnest .and continued untU midnights 'llioy then resumed discus-^ sions about 9:15\a.m. Mon¬ day morning and conttaued until the Israeli group's de¬
parture from the ranch.
The statement said that the President and the Prime
' Mtaister "discussed recent developments ta the Mid¬ dle East as well as a num¬ ber df questions of mutual taterest ta the bUateral ro¬ tations between i thefr two countries." ' ' THEIR  mee,t|ings,  the
' statement said^ (considered the implications of''Hhe- pace of rearmament iif the Middle. East and tbe ways and means of coping with this situation." . Tho President agreed to
¦ keep Israel's' military de¬ fense capability under "act¬ ive and sympa^l]etic' exam¬ ination and review tathe light
.of all rolevant factors, ta¬ cludtag the shipment of mUi¬ tary equipment i by  others
' to tlw area."
TIIK 'I'WO leaders noted that tho five principles set forth by I'rcsidpnt Johniion tast .lunc 19 constituted an equitable ba.s-i!> for such a
settlement.       \   . ' ',
They' noted'with satisfact¬ ion that, Ambassador Gunnar Jarrtagi is already engaged ta discussions with the gov¬ ernments of the Middle East nations, and they afffrmed thefr full support of his mis¬ sion.
Ih the conclusion, of thefr statement, they noted the dedication of thebr govcrn- -mentS|lp "tho value of peace, rests tance to aggression wherever It "Occurs, indiv¬ idual freedom, human dig¬ nity, ,and the' advancement of mah through elimtaation ' pf .poverty,  ignorance and
PRESIDENT Johnson and I'rimd Mtaister Eshkol de¬ clared thefr ffrm determta¬ ation to malte every effort to increase tlic broad area of undcrstandtag .which al¬ ready exists between Israel and the United Stetes,_and agreed that- the Prime Mta- ister's visit advanced this objcctivo.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS—Prime Minister .Levi Eshkol was smiling broadly as he boarded President Johnson's air force Jptltaer at Bcrgstrom AKB near here last Monday evening for the return flight to New York City, ilo.had just completed two days of discussions with President Johnson al the "Texas White llousp." (an American Jewish Press photo)  ''J
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