Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1970-03-12

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VOL. 48, NO. n
MARCH 12, 1970 - ADAR 2, 4
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New Heights Reached In UJrc Campaign
Pompidou
Ends
Visit
NEW YORK, (JTA) - - -
French  President  Georges
i^,     Pompidou told a television
'¦   .' I news conference here, at the
' -, •' end of his tumultuous official
'    '.   visit to the United States,
,.<'  that the embargo on French
0 •    jet warplanes to Israel "will
'.   -' last as long as the war does."
He also  asserted  that
'< \,'  France did not set out to sell
y^','?'! Mirage jets to Libya. "We
,0*-:;  ^^ "Ut to fill a void and
K:,.;!'^ Libya   did   not   have   the
S^;ii' planes. If we did not sell
lAV) them to her, someone else
J?# would." He said that he was
|f'.'>\,y ^ "satisfied"      with      his
0-''-fV American visit' despite the
?'j"-^;many  pro-Israel   demon-
V<''',tStrations staged in 'cities,
ii4i-bptli,J)PSS,M,^§U.ei?i,fU}^
•  many he did not.      '
An example was an assembly of more than 5,000 protestors gathered outside of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel where the French President was being feted. Cordoned off by police, the demon¬ strators massed for four hours, shouting "Pompidou, Go Home" am ' Pompidou." PIql
Inaugural Dinner Reports $1,105,694
The Inaugural Dinner of the Advance Gifts Division, 1970 United Jewish Fund iand CouncU, held last Thursday evening at Winding HoUowCouiitry Club, saw new heights of giving reached by the more than lOOmen in attendance."
Sol D. Zell, general chairmah, and Ben Goodman, Advance
Gifts Chairman, anhounced the largest total (including all
divisions) ever to be anivunced at the Inaugural Dinner,
. namely, $1,105,094. This they stated represented an overaU
increase of 22%,
ORT Dinner In 1930
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, At a dinner honoring ORT in 1930 in London, distinguished guests included left to right: Albert Einstein, H.G. Wells (ih front of microphone) and George Bemard Shaw. Women's American ORT is the largest of groups in 36 nations supporting the ORT program.
Speaks Out
JERUSALEM, (WUP) —/In a major thought-provoking addressbefor|^some2i000 Hebrew University students here, Israel's new Minister of Transport, the fabulous Six-Day-War Air-Force hero General Ezer Weizman spoke out his mind blunUy on the current situation facing the State of Israel. Following some preUminiary remarks, the Gachal Minister
 .. ,   ,.    -,.   , looked over liis unique audience of inquisitive students and
carried with suc1iljrri%|^a'ges, decided to invite them unto a 'question and answer' session.
as "How Many J^'iirisfi>Boys   "Shoot," he stated, "but don't shout. If you do, I shall shout
._- .,.„=-. ,_ .^^i.!!.-, „-...   back."
FoUowing is the gist of the questions posed ^and his straight-to-the-point replies:
*0n the future df the Arabs
r   Are Buried In FVance? How
\   many       Arabs?."       and
^^^Equality of Arms in the
Mideast" and ."Israeli Blood
and Arab OU Don't Mix."
MUNICH, (JTA) - - A Munich jury sentenced three former SS members to terms ranging from seven years > to life and acquitted a fourth' defendant oh charges of wartime murders of Jews. "Paul 'Johann ^pp, 65, was convicted of killing 13,419 Jews: Euigene von der Recke, 66, received a 13-year tenn. for. com¬ plicity in the slaughter of 5,000 Jews and Karl Noa, 59, received a seven-year term for aiding in the kiUing of 867 Jews. The trial lasted four weeks.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) - - The United; Nations Commission...on Human Rights has begun, discussion of measures to be taken against Nazism and racial intolerance. Previously, the commission had adopted two resolutions on racial discrimination, one denouncing Uie apartheid policy of SouUi Africa and Uie other calling for a comprehensive review of measures and decisions taken to elimmate racial discrimination to evaluate their effectiveness.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) - - Arkia, Israel's domestic - airline, resumed maU flights to EUat this week after suspending-them for security reasons. Israeli postal authorljties|i(mounced.Uiat all but the smallest air mail parcels would be-subject to inspection and that the senders would have to identify themselves at the post office.
, JERUSALEM, (JTA) - - Premier Golda Meir said ttiat demonstrations in the United States against President Georges Pompidou, of France, were, not of Israel's making. "The'United States is a democratic country and people who demonstrated there against , *liim probably thought that what they are doing was proper," Mrs. Meir said.
in the liberated areas:
''They ¦ should become residents of the State. If they want to become citizens,''let them take out citizenship. I shall do everything so that our borders remain on the River Jordan, wifh the Arabs "in the areas" included. I would rather have theh) in. my pocket than on my back..
ft
•dri Russian activity:   * "Israel is not
Osechpslovakia. I do not believe the Russians wiU intervene here. Vietnam can be a lesson hot only to the /^ericans. A.mighty bear has IhnUations when he has to fight with a wasp.'*
 On the political situation:- "I think that there, too, we were never stronger. How niany Heads of States of similar size to Israel were -invited to the American President's farm? And why? Because we have a certain weight. In the Middle East ours is the strongest and most influential country. We have military might and economic drive. .What other country could cause such worries to Pompidou? I, in his place, would not have travelled td America ..."
•On Transjordan:
"Hussein is a greater danger than our friend on the Nile. Sympathy for the Hashemites is an inheritance from Uie Mandate days. . ."
When Meshulam Riklis, the guest speaker from New York, finished his.address, nearly every man in the room rose and announced his pledge for'^the Campaign., Many of the gifts which had' been announced previously at pre -campaign parlor meetings, were substantially increased that evening, and new gifts made for the first time that night were made far in excess of any con¬ tributions which .had been made, by* the donors^in prior campaigns.
Oiairman of the dinner, Ben M. Goodman, was assisted in conducting the meeting by Gordon Zacks, co-chairman of the Advance Gifts Division and Sol D. Zell-
"We are thrilled and delighted at the results obtained," stated Mr. ZeU. "The Inaugural Dinner kicks off our 1970 Campaign, as aU Divisions and all Sections have how completed the fi^st phase of campaigning parlor meetings and pre-campaign solicitation. /Now we 'are cbming' to the rest of the community i and giving everyone an opportunity to join in- the Ufe-saving and life-giving job which we.stiU must do, in order to reach the goals we have set for ourselves, in both the Regular and the Emergency Furiddrtves;"':
Quoting from Mr. Rildis' stirring speech, Mr., Goodman said, "Israel gives all of us a source of pride that was never there before its existence, before it stood up to its surrounding enemies and thricci rebuffed ttiem for daring to threaten its destruction, ' before b€«ojning a coimtry of strong and brave Jewish people. Once again, Israel needs us...Not our Iwys and men, but our dollars. None of us can afford NOT to do more than just adequately.
Th? response was magnificent, and I know that as the rest of the community ^ becomes aware of the dimehsions of giving, as well as of the dimensions of the needs which we must meet this year, they, too,"wiU respond ,in the same man¬ ner." ,
Gordon Zacks.stat^ in his
remarks that "Each year,
we are called upon to share a
small bit of our combined
' wealth with a tiny country in
Uie Middle East. This smaU area of formerly arid real estate has now absorbed over 2 miUion of our fellow Jews from aU over the face of this earth....Jews jvho would StiU-have been wan¬ dering, if it were not for this tiny democracy and its open- door policy.       '^
NOW is the time to come'to Israel's aid. NOW is when that aid. is so desperately needed.. If we do not do this NOW we may not have another chance., next year. I urge aU our fellow Jews to follow the lead of.the men who met last week, of those who have already made their
commitment, to give more than ever before, >so that Israel may live, and so that our community may grow!"
Personal solicitation of ' gifts is continuing, during the rest of March and April. Every Division in the Campaign is now hard at work, and reports of their activities, as pledges" are returned to the UJFC office, . indicate the largest Cam¬ paign amounts in the history of the UJFC will be achieved.     ^
PercentageHncreases are running weU over 30% in most   Sections,   and   have    ^ reached 73% in -the Young  , Men's   Division.   Special   - recognition was given to the' Physicians Section which is.'-' running 30% ahead of last3^\ ycar.-.'If^the<{>te8entrate-of '^^-''- giving continues," said Mr~. Zell, "ttie goal of $1,700,000 is not a dream - it wUl become a reality." :::::4W:WSSft::?ffiWiSaWSSiWS5¥!WSS^
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CAMPAIGN
Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein
Qfieeh Esther, as related in the MegUlah, when in¬ formed of Haman's evU desigh to destroy all the Jewish people under the rule of Persia, informed Mordecai to ''go, assemble together all tfae Jews." The rabbis hi the Midrash questioned ihe queen's request to gaUier'aU of her brethren. The;y replied that she was insistent that she have the coriiplete, unreserved support of each and every one of her co-religionists if she were to plead their case before the king. History bears out the facts that she enjoyed this unanimous endorsement.
Events have a way of repeating themselves. We live in most b:ouble times! Our people in the State of Israel are in a precarious position! They have'no one to turn to in this critical hour'but World Jewry. As bne who has had the opportunity to speak to World Jewish Leaders in our land, as weU as-in Israel, I merely offer the words of EsUier ... that unity on the part of World Jewry in behalf of Eretz Yisroel is the best program to insure Uie safety of Uie Holy Land and peace in the Middle East.
This support for the State of Israel can best be demonstrated by participating in a meaningful way in the current United Jewish Fund Drive. This actionem our .part gives credence to the prophetic words of Queen Esther, and wiU, insure the perpetuation of our people. Although thi^.'mitzvah of t'zedakah is an ongoing one and shpuld^be„practicea continuaUy, ' Purim demands thatiieach and every Israelite give - charity. Jewish law insists that even the poor, who live by the charity of others, must contribute t'zedakah to fulfill-the true meaning of the Festival.
It is ig, the spirit of Purim that we urge your active participaUon in Uie United Jewish Fund Campaign, and pray for the day when an honorable peace will reign in the Middle East and throughout the world!
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