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Jewish Grbyjps Plan Action On Demands
NEW YORK (WNs) — Jenrish religious and lay orgadza¬ tions teve announced programs d adion in cases Involving Black extremist disruption qf rdigious services and calls "to violence and vlgUantism emanating from various' quarters including a smdl unrepresentative segment ot tte Jewish commudly."  •  .     .   ' •
In Fhiladelphia,_tto dty's Board d Rabbis aidtiiepejvlsh; Commudty Relations Conn- '.'•.' /'
ctl tes Issued a gddetine ,convidionth^tno)^14ads,th&;, for rabbis on handling diS" Synagogue CouncU ,and its rupHons of ttoir religious . constituent! agencies' 4/o rp- servlces by Black Economic ject caUs to vigllaii^siA." Development Conference '', The statement' lUim^'loo (BEDC) -spokesmen, which .-vigilante groups, biitwas^ urges ttotsuchspokesmenbe   parently aimed at tl^ Jewish '
t>efense League,'A niefehbor-, hood vlgUante^rdup headed ty an Orthodwc rabbi in Brooklyn. Members of that group, armdd witii^clubs and chains Vecentiy' appeared outside of Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan for anticipated confirontation. with memtors). of the BEDC who were ex¬ pected to appear at tte Re¬ form Temple to press their demands. The Uack group did not show UP.
Tto Jewish Defense Lea¬ gue tos been ccmdemned by ness of vigUantes no more -:9^er major Jewish organl- Biakes for a defense of Jew-    zations.
every opportunity to speak to congr^ants. tte- miUtant black organization has demanded that churches and synagogues contribute a half bUIim dollars in "re-r parations" for suffering df Negros in America.
bl New York, the Siynago¬ gue Council of America, a coordinating body of Ortho¬ dox, Conservative and'Re- form rabbinic and synagogal organizations, denounced ap¬ peals by extrendsts of all types because "the lawless-
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Ish or otter interests than the riot makes for the recti¬ fication of social injustices." Tto Synagogue Council had -.,'recently rejected tto'de- 'rjmaBds and tactics of tto f<^*BEOC and "its demand for reparations." ^_ _^^     Tto Philadelphia gulde- i   ^Nllnes suggests three alter- \   /y^atlve courses of action: Tto f   '^ rabbi could choose to allow 'tto Black Spokesman to make ' Us statement wton to ap¬ pears, explalidng to his con-_ gregants ttot  since the spokesman bad made tto claim that his people bad been suffering grave injus- . tiee, it was appropriate f^r him to speak in a House of God. Alternatively, ttorabU might choose to explain ttot Interruptions were not per¬ mitted at that point in tto service andlnform Mm oftto point in the service at which to  would -to permitted •to speak.'
A ttah-d alternative would te for the rabbi to inform tto spokesmen to would te al¬ lowed to speak at tto end of service. If to insisted on :lng imm^iately, tto
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"'tte'rabbi, Would not contri¬ bute to possiUe disturbance or violence in a synagogue at^ttorefore would permit tte spokesman to present his statement then and there. Tte tosic tteme of tto guidelhies is ttot such a spcdtesman "te permitted to present his views at an ap- proiprlate time during or af¬ ter ibe service." RabUs also tyere advised that if ttiey re¬ ceived advance notice ttot a spokesman was planning a disruption, ttey steuU get In touch with tte Board of Rabbis or Uie JCRC.
Tte Siynagogue CounpU re¬ jected tte demandfor repar¬ ations, its president Rabbi Solomon J. Sharfman said, because of our conviction "that even in pursuit of de- siraUe ends; violence does not contribute to fashioning a better society; violence only breeds more violence and nourishes repression, not justice. ItMs^ this same
: NEW. YORK CWNS) ~ The CouncU of JewlshFeder- ; ations and Welfare Funds reported ttot a survey of ' current fund-raising campedgns by tte women's divi- «ions in 90 communities showed ttot women workers . 'Iiad,' so far raised $15.6 million-10.5 percent of all .fiinds raised in ttose Communities. The amount raised, ' tiie CJF noted, was a 22 percent increase on a card- • fdr-cardbasls.
.\   LONDON XWNS) — Uoyd's of London, tiie BriUsh
insurance firm tos doubled its' maritime insurance
rate on shipments to Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon
- and Syria. Tto increase, ftom 70 cents to $1.)|0 per
. $240 of goods, is tto tidrd rate hike since the Six- •
, Day War.
Tto last increase foUowed Israel's Dec, 28 raid on Beirut airport and cost tto IsraeU economy an additional $285,714 per month, according to the Israeli Maritime SMppers Conference. The group plans to discuss tiie new rate with Lloyd's.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Tto condition of Notel Laureate S. Y. Agnon, wte was hospitaliz'ed earlier this month, was reported this week by tospital offi- dals to te improving steadily. The 80-year-old author for a timesufferedpartiaiparalysis.Heisnow receiv- hig physiotterapy. Sephardic Chief RabbiYltzhakNis- sim Wsited him tids week.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The national physics la¬ boratories attte Hebrew University demonstrated this week a new invention in use of solar cells as an energy source. Officials said such solar batteries are inexpensive, costing about $20 each and are already ^in use as warning lights on roads and dangerous pass-
Samuel Mielton Endows OSU Faculty Chair
COLUMBUS, O., .-^ The Ohio State University De¬ velopment Fund announced July 30 that Samuel' M. Mel- taa, Columbus industrialist ~and pMlanthrqidst, lias te¬ come tto first in^vJdual to provide fUU endovnnent of a faculty chair at the univer¬ sity.
Mr. Meltcn; 435 N. Co¬ lumbia Ave., has 'glven$S00, 000 to endow tto Samuel and Esther Melton Chabrqf Jew¬ ish Histoiy and l^tndies in the deiiartinent'of history.
A professorship- estab¬ Ushed hi 196^ by Mr. Mel¬ ton will te redesignated as tto endowed chair.
Inte r n atl'onally-kndwn scholar Dr. Zvi Ankari,for- merly d Hebrew Universily in Jerusalem, was appointed to tto Melton professorship ^ 196G.-He wiU continue in the Melton Chair, one of five endowed chairs at OMo State.
Tto professorsMp and chair were named for Mr. Melton and Ms late wife.
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Sqinitol Melton        7 Melton  Vocational  High' School in Bat Yam, Israel, was establistod with a grant,' for construction inl96S.Tto' buUding is now teing com¬ pleted and wiU open in Sept- I ember.
Dr, Ankori. who hdds the master's degree ftom Heb¬ rew Universily and aPh.D. from Columbia, is one of a' group d facul^ developing tto program for Middle- and Near-East studies at OMo.- State. His cMef interest is tto Mstoric encounter te-' tween Judaism, Christianity,^ and Islam in tto
NEW YORK,—A brief filed ..bitbe United State Supretne ' Court arguesthatthe vaguely - warded delinouency regula¬ tions d tte Selective Service System, under wMch regis¬ trants canteredassifiedl-A and caUed up for Immediate induction, give local draft boards unccnstitutional pow¬ ers to deter £ree speech.
Tto brief was fUed by tte American Jewish Congress- acting as a ''ftiend of tto court* &tv two cases wMch tte Supreme Court wiU tear inttofaU.
Tto brief acgiues that "failure ot tte regulations to limit itte scoxie cf tte de¬ linquency procedures affords local draft boards "un¬ bridled discretion" in de¬ ciding In each case wton and if the procedures are to to invoked.
Tto regulations referred to provide that a draft board may declare as delinquent any registrant falllngtoper¬ form any duty under tto Se¬ lective Service Law ^r its regulations, reclassil^ Mm as I-A and caU Mm up for immediate induction. T he brief notes that since ttose regulations give tte boards no standards or guidelines fts to how or wten to exer¬ cise ttese powers, they leave tto boards free ''to enforce tteir own.poUtical, social and otter prejudices through tto mechanism of tte de- linquen^procedures."
In theVecdnd case, David Earl (jutknecht, who was al¬ ready classified I-A, left Ms draft card on tte steps oftte Federal BuUdhig in Minnea- pdis as part of a "Stop tte Draft Weetf' protest He was caUed up for immediate in¬ duction and was prosecuted, convicted and given a four- year jaU sentence forfalling to comidy.
George SoU, Manhattan at¬ torney and chairman of tte American JewishCongress'-
laUty would   culture,a^»;major elements ^uedtbirrmme^^'-^^^ ^^^l^..te msteta^imija^yobK-' ^.Tkt OMTstate^i^ t^rf
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peaco,"  Dr.  Ankori  said^m' General and Intensive cours^-^ es are offered on both i graduate and undergradua
slorfs director, noted that giving tbe boards "unbridl¬ ed discretion' means "not only that scmie boarcUi may choose to embrace a far broader concept ofwhat con¬ stitutes ^ actionable delin¬ quency than ottors, but that tto same board may choose io reclassify and accelerate induction in tto case of some delinquents whUe overlook¬ ing identical cmduct on tto part of ottors."
Tto AmericanJewishCon- gress brief argues that tto faUure of tte regulations to limit tto scope of tte delin¬ quency procedure empowers each draft board to act se¬ lectively against persons ex¬ pressing unpopular opinions, in violation of tte guarantee of fireedom of expression in tte First Amendment. , Arguing thattte delinquen¬ cy procedures are in fact used to curb unpopular ex¬ pression, the brief cites a letter and memorandum sent by Selective Service Director ,Lewis B. Herstey to all meniters cf tte System on Octoter 26, 1967. Tte let¬ ter deals with invoking the delinquency procedure inthe case of ''demonstrations" and, sa^s the brie^ "makes it clejar that its concern is with those wto engage in a particular class of/Illegal activity—those whoactimder the influence of'misdirected emotions' or' vicious efforts to. cripple, if not, destariogr, the unity vital to tte exis¬ tence of a nation...'"
Tte brief continues: 'fTte plain import of the letter, tten, is thatthe regulations tere involved, which ob¬ viously cannot, te us^d against all violators, arei to te used against those vio¬ lators wto endanger national •unity.'
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Tte brief also argues that the "breadth of tto powers given to tte boards invites and facillt{(tes discrimina¬ tion on racial, religious and other impermissible grounds, in violation of tte Due Process Clause in tte Fifth Amendment" Finally, according to tto brief, tto procedures deny registrants procedural rights guaranteed by tto Fifth andSixthAmend- ments, such as trial by jury, conftontation of hostile wit¬ nesses and tte righttqcoun- seL
In preparing tte brief, ¦Hrs. Lois Waldman, staff counsel to tte Commission on Law and Social Action of tte American Jewish Con¬ gress, Was of counsel.
studies in the general edu¬ cation of,college students. A 1923 OMo State grad¬ uate with a B.Sc. degree, Mr. Melton, a meniber of tte Board of Directors of Harsco Corporation,  Har-
levels.
Stimulated by The Melton'^^- Chair of Jewish History axidM
rlsburg, Pa., tiie firm witit   studies tiie university now^,.
wMch Ms CaUtoI Mflt. Co.   o^ers a full rai«e of coursv^
es  in Hebrew and Arable^^ languages and literatures In^' addition to tte compreten-';^ sIve curriculum in Jewish V
Mstory.
In tte past three yearstte
wMch Ms Capitol Mfg. Co. (founded by Meltm in 1924) merged.
\He is also president of Capital Pipe and Nipple Mfig. Co., Detroit, Mich.; ctoir¬ man of CMcago Nipple Mfg. Co., CMcago and Baltimore, Theological Seminary of America, New York City. He is a founder of tte Har¬ ry S. Truman Centre for tte Advancement of Peace in Jerusa^m and is active in Columbus civic affairs. Tte Samuel  and Estter
holdings of tte uMversity library in Hebraica andJud- alca have teen significantly expanded by the purctosc of two m a j or collections of books In thesrfields.
The long-range goal oftto university is to establish 30 ftdly-endowed chairs.
Visit ^Now Set For September
WASHINGTON (WNS) The WMte House tos an¬ nounced that Israeli Pre¬ mier Golda Meir will visit WasMngton' as President Nixon's official guest Sept. 25-26. No fiirtter details were released. .
It was reportedtli^Mrs. Meir vda visit tte. Jewisii communities bi New York City and I^os Angele^ and possibly other major cities and will meet wtth Jewish , .leaders during ter stay in tte United States wMch, sources said, was not ex¬ pected to be a long one.
Announcement of ter visit came amid reports that. American officials te¬ lleve that there wiU.te no major warfare in tte Mid¬ east and that Soviet lead¬ ers  share tfdi position.
Joseph Sisco, Assistant Secretary (rfStiie for Near Eastern Affairs, on Ms re¬ turn from Moscow wtere lie
reiayecTtitls. co^lwai^ Un^di,«faUons Secretary Geni^ai'U. Thant
The optimistic outiook was voiced tefore Egyptian President Nasser told M^' people that tto "liberation stage'' in tte confrontation with Israel had tegun and that "we have to fight and we shall fight for tte re¬ covery of our lands."
Israeli officials saidthat Mr. Nasser shouldbetaken at Ms word and that ^^hile ttey do not expect any re¬ newal of maior fighting, ttey did not completely dis¬ count the Arabs' talking ttemselves into anotter war. They noted Cairo claims of "victories" in tteir commando raids across tte Suez Canal and tte exaggerated rcportis of ' downing of Israeli aircraft, destruction of artillery and otter equipment; andvthe
killing of soldiers.
It was reported that Mr. Sisco and the Jlussians in tteir talks in WasMngton and Moscow were making very slSw, progress in re¬ solving differences. The American position pre¬ sented to tte Russians re¬ portedly deals with tte specific obligations for a commitment to peace by tte Arabs and Israel, negotia¬ tions under tte auspices of UN. mediator Gunnar Jar- , ring, practical security ar¬ rangement to rfeplace tte armistice with durable peace and tte question of withdrawal. The plan is a counter proposal to tteSo- viet formula presented to tte U.S. last month.
Mr. Nixon ahd Mrs. Meir Will discuss the American plan and tte positions of Moscow and tfic Arab states in additioiKto discussing L'.S.-Isrcio.li relations.
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