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Vol.47 No. 36
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Pioneers
Service Soldiers
An intensive prcgram cf' presenting gifts to soldiers on front Une positions' throughout Israel is now ¦ t^ing conducted Ity Pioneer wem^n, which has organized 'the collecUon and distribu¬ tion of manr entertainment and cultural materials to army posts.
HigHIlghtii« this eftqrt, Mrs. Beba Idelson, (General Secretary d the MoetzetHa- poalot/Pioneer Women, travelled recently to a base somewhere in the Golan    -»-g a f-n        ^-^ «
Heights for the presentation flV^Tf^Geril* I t\ l-r1Vtf^ rf especially welcome pre- -¦- * "A^^^OO^-l- ^^ VTAYC; sents, five televisian sets to entertain troops intheirfor- tlfications. She was received at a formal parade formation by the unit, whose 'comman¬ der praised the women's or- ganization for its efforts and pointed out the great need for such equipment.
Pioneer Women clubs in Israel, in conjunction with sister groups throughout the worl^ are collecting and distributing booHs, games,' mogaz^s, radios, record players^to front line sold¬ iers - everything that wUl make Ufe more comfortably and help the time pass more pleasantly for the men de- fendhig Israel's borders. >
Mrs. Rose Kaufman, Na- tioiial President d Pioneer Wdnen in the United States, stated that efforts of the 500 chapters in this country have been channeled.to assist in this new program.
Iraq Executes Fifteen As U.S^-Israeli Spies
The Religious Emphasis Week Comtnittee members are the organizers of this important function. Front: (L to R) Mr. Martin Schecter; Mrs. Maynard Gold¬ meier; Mrs. Fred Adler; Mr. Alvjn Shames. Back (L to R) Rabbi David Stavsky; Mr. Robert Schwartz; Mr.  Harold Tanenbaum: Dr. Maynard Goldmeier.
REW Keynote Talk
Professor Michael Wy'schogrod wiU deUver the keynote address, en Sept. 15, at the 11th AnnualBeligious Emphasis Week Program to be held at Beth Jacob Synagogue. The theme for this year's R.E.W. program, which wiUbe held In ihe Social HaU cf the new Synagogue from Sept. 15 through Sept. 18, 1969, is "Jewish Identity: Bond or Shackle." Dr. Jeriy Hochbaum, a noted sociologist, wiU speak onthe same topic on the evening of Sept.
JERUSALEM (WNS)~Fifteen Iraqis including twoChrist- ians and two Jews were executed in Baghdad Monday, Aug. 25, as alleged spies for Israel and the United States Central InteUigence Agency (C.LA.).
According to Baghdad radio, six mUitary men were shot tor a firing squad at an Army camp outside the city wJtJe nine civUians were hanged at the central prison; fifi^-one Iraqis, including 11 Jews,
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Dr. Wyschogrod is a Pro¬ fessor cf PhUosophy. at the Cily University of NewYork. He has written and spoken extensively on matters of current concern to the Je-- wish community. His 'writ¬ ings have appeared in Tra¬ dition magazine, Judaism, and other national Jewish journals. He presently serv¬ es on the editorial board cf Traditim magazine.
RaUii Hochbaum teaches sociology at Yeshiva Univer¬ sily and serves as consultant
have now been executed for spying since January.
Iraq began, the series of execution Jan. 27 when 14 persons including nine Jews were hung on espionage charges andtheir bodies dis¬ played in public squares in Baghdad and Basra. There was no Indication that any of the bodies of the persons executed were displayed.
The executions were car¬ ried out barely a week after Baghdad radio announced that ¦ 12 Irac^s had been arrested as IsraeU and U.S. spies and would face a mUitary tri¬ bunal, the names of the 15 > executed were dtCTerent from those in the original group.
'-- Before the executions were announced, Israel had caUed on the world fotake whatever steps were necessary to save lives of the two Iraqi Jews,
Premier Golda Melr said that if there was any justice or conscience left in the world, enlightened nations would raise their voices to demand that the Iraqi "hang-' men" release their victims and that all Jews be allowed to leave Iraq.
-' Mrs. Meir saidthe Jews'cf ' Iraq are Uving under oppres¬ sion and in constant fear for their lives. A committee of the UN Human Rights Com¬ mission hears testimony of Israeli brutaliiy towards Arabs in the occupied terri¬ tories, Mrs. Meir said. She noted that the committee would not come to Israel be¬ cause "we dared to demand that they also Investigate conditions of the Jews in the Arab countries. We have nothing to hide," Mrs. Meir declared. "We have not sen¬ tenced a single saboteur to death even when it was proven in court that they planted ex¬ plosives. We are proud of our record."
on the Natimal Jewish Com¬ munity Relations Advisory CounciL H^, has .written ex-
',teBsively>«»t~the'arban crisis Tiiere-was .no'meiition ofa' and othier matters of social trial by Baghdlul radio which''
concern to the Jewish com¬ munity, his more recent ar¬ ticles appearing InTradition and Jewish Life magazines.
said merely that the con¬ demned persons had been convicted. The Iraqi News Agency announced that the
Israel In Cash Drive Bond Committee
Howard R. Schoenbaum, Chairman of the Columbus State of Israel Bond Campaign said that in response to Israel's immediate need for cash a special CoUection Committee has been formed to bring in over $255,000 in Columbus Israel Bond commitments. Members ik the committee met last week to select names from over 200 cards. The objective of the group wiU be to coUect as' much of this money as possible before the High HoUday Campaign tobein held at the orthodox^ congre-
These presentations wiU government had ordered thc^ deal with the entire, subject seizure of all possessions cf Jewish identity in the cf 90 persons charged with UnitedStates, They will dis- activities against State se- cuss the extent and severity curity. The accused were of^problemffmaint|ining sai^^to Include Army ofU- Jewish idenUty.&i facp of.cersLand.^e^nHsted men, pressures for assiinUation.'jpoIlcemefl^layvyerlandmer- In addition, possible solu-^chants^ Several inembers of tions to this ccHnjdex pro-'the Iraqi parliament, includ- blem wUl be presented fwan j^g' former JPreniler Abdel a traditional Jewish view- Bahitin Bazzaz areawa{tii« point. FoUowing each talk, fg^^ ^ charges of conspir- questions fr<^ the audience ^cy against the State, will be answered by the The State-controlled speakers. Baghdad newspapers said to-
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World Opinion Condemns Iraqi Moss Executions
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' Rogers called tpr an,end to the mass executions of^... Iraqi citizen's for allegedly spying for the United states !uid Israel. Mr. Rogers deplored the executions at dawn today of 15 Iraqis, including two Christians and two Jews in, Baghdad. According to the' Iraqi radio, s^ix of the condemned were military men and were shot by a firing squad. The nine others were hanged in the central prison. AU had been accused as es¬ pionage agents for Israel and the U.S. Central Intel¬ ligence Agency (C.LA.) Baghdad radio made no mention of a trial, saying merely that the accused had been convicted.
NEW YORK — At the United Nations, Secretary- General U Thant disclosed that he had intervened in a last minute attempt to influence the Iraqi Govern¬ ment to delay the executions. He said he asked the IracjJ-'representative at the UN last night "to convey to Ms government my serious concernabouttheinter¬ national repercussions that would be likely to foUow the executions." Mr. Thant added that he did not "question the right of the government of Iraq to try and sentence anyone within Its jurisdiction who might be charged with a serious offense. But I did question the contemplated action on both humanitarian and (Continued on Page 4)
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gations on Yom Kippur.
iilembers cf the CoUect¬ ion Committee are, Irving Baker, Jerome P. Bloom- field, Leopold Eichenbaum, Mrs. Martin Godofsky, Mrs. Harold Harris, Mrs. MUton J. Leeman, Dave Levinson, Julius Margulius, Samuel Oppenhelmer, Dr. Sheldon Paley, Bernard Roben, Ho¬ ward Schoenbaum, Mrs. Irv¬ ing Seff andMrs. Sam Subow.
Mr. Schooibaum empha¬ sized tbat Israel's need for cash stemti from the fact of life ^hat because of in¬ creased security demands almost all of the country's gross natloial'bicome goes directly info the budget. This leaves nothing for develop¬ ment of the economy, vital to the expansion of any coun¬ try. In order for Israel to continue toprovide more than a bare living for her people she must Import mai\y goods
and services. These goods and services, the large ma¬ jority firom the United States, must be paid for In cash. Without foreign reserves Is¬ rael cannot purchase sorely needed material from abroad. In order for Israel to continue to purchase from abroad the Columbus bond committee is asking indivi¬ duals who normally xi^'for their bond in December or January to buy now, before the holidays.
A combination collection report meeting and cmifer- ence call from the Finance Minister of Israel ZeebShar ref WiU be held Friday, Sept, 5 at the Israel Bond office. Minister Sharef wUl be call¬ ing from New York to cities across the United States to set out the situation before concerned American Jews, Interested persons may,call the Israel Bond offlce for more information on the con¬ ference call.
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LONDON (JTA) — Scotiand Yard is investigating an explosion in thepassengerofBce^ of the Israel Govern¬ ment-owned Zim Israel Navigation Co. here. A woman clerk, Rachel Picker, was slightly injured when what police described as a home-made bomb stuffed under a carpet, went otL Most cfthe staff was out,to lunch at the time. The cleik was treatedfor leg injuries at Middlesex HospitaL PoUce .said that two hours after the explosion in the Zim Lines office, an anonymous telephone caUerwamedthe staff at Jewish Agency headquarters in London that a bomb had been placed in the buUding. Police arrived promptly but a search yielded no bomb.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The State Department disclosed that bilateral contacts with the Soviet Union on the Middle East are continuing and that there had been demonstrations of "good faith" and "construc¬ tive work" on the Russian side. Spokesman Robert McC^oskey made this known but warned that there was "stiU a distance to go." He was asked if the developing crisis required an urgent, fUUscale re¬ sumption of contects. He replied that such bUateral contacts were important and that he was certain they would ensue. But he was not in a position to say when this mieM occur. ,
Australian Held In Mosque Fire
JERUSAI^M, (JTA) — Jerusalenii was quiet but tense in the afterinath of Aug. 21's fire that severely daniaged tlie 1,4Q0 y^ivold El Aksa mpl^qMe, the third holiest slirUie d devout Moslems. Friday's 'announcement that a 27-year- old AustraUan was beii^ held on suspicion of arson mol-. lified the Mbsteiiii Religious Council to a degree. But pas¬ sions StUI ran high ia'mohg Arabs bi East Jerusalem and the occupied territories. There
riWf^fno lessening of incite- tiient by Arab guerrilla slCiokesmen and broadcasts fronk tiie various Arab capi¬ tals which Mamed Israel for the blaze imd exhorted 500 miuioni^fosiehis around the ' world to iaiutch a holy war a^inst Israel.
The Moslem CouiicilV.ex- pressed satisfacticni over the arrest of. Michael Denis Co¬ heii, a'in.^mber of ttieCtiurch of God, a fundamentalbt Pror testant sect, a little'more than 24 hpiirs after the fire; Israeli police 'stressed that the tall, blond Australian was, apprehended as a result of %
description 'given them by a Moslem gate-keeper at the mosque. But the Moslem re¬ ligious leaders did not call off the Arab general strike yesterday. It brought acti¬ vities to a virtual' halt in the Arab quarters of Jeru- sideih, in the Gaza Strip and the larger tovuns of the West Baiik,, But the day passed without Incident except'for anti-rl srael demonstratiotUt in Nablus which had to bc quelled by Israeli troops.' Rohen was remanded by a Jerusalem Magistrate for 15 '
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