Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1971-09-16

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Urge Administration To Slop Demand For Withdrawals
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — The president of the Zionist Organization of America urged the^ Nixon Ad¬ ministration recentiy to abandon its demand for substantial Israeli with¬ drawals to pre-1967 borders as part of its "diplomatic package" to secure a Middle East settiement. The "self- imposed" and "self- defeating" American dictum for IsraeU concessions — "a
perennial State Department' hangup" — "is responsible more than any single factor for encouraging the Arab- Russian axis to believe a genuine peace c'an be avoided," Herman L. Weisman of New York told the opening session of the ZOA's national convention, which nearly 1,000 delegates attended.
In a message to the con¬ vention. President Nixon
Kahane Calls For Aliyah- Says future For American Jews Is "Bleak"
PITTSBURGH (JTA) - The Zionist Organization of America became the first major Jewish organization to give a platform to Rabbi Meir Kahane, national chairman of the Jewish Defense League. Rabbi Kahane, who turned up here uninvited and unexpected, i addressed 1000 delegates at a plenary session of the ZOA's annual convention for 20 minutes after ZOA president Herman Weisman told the convention, "It is essential to the democratic process to givea fair opportunity to be heard to those with whom we don't agree."
Rabbi Kahane, who had requested the right to speak, discussed aliya — im¬ migration fo Israd — and his audience Wps attoitive and courteous.   He  made  no
reference to Prof. MikhaU Zand, the Soviet Jewish emigre scholar who ap¬ peared at the ZOA con¬ vention as guest of honor at an eikrlier sess^n and blasted the "violent tactics" of the JDL which he said were alienating Russian intellectuals sympatiieCiclfb Soviet Jewry's struggleifor emigration rights.
The main point of Rabbi Kahane's speech was that American Jews must emigrate to Israd because of an alleged rise of anti- Semitism in the United States. According to him, the future of American Jews is "bleak." He contended that "In prosperity, those who dislike us are just quiet haters, but when life becomes hard — as it is today — they beconi^ active
haters." He warned that Anierican Jewry faced the prospect of another holocaust.     <
Requesting the flooiijpn rebuttal, Weisman u^g0d' that those Je\ys who want to go to Israeldo so, but he added, "We strongly reject the premise that the con-
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R(|^h-Ha$honah Message From Tte Presidenl of The'lI.FFC
As President of the United Jewish Fund and Council, I want to wish for our entire community a year of health, happiness and weU-being. May the New Year usher in a period of lasting peace, for our country, for Israel, and for the world.
Traditionally, Rosh Hashonah', is ,'a period of rededicatioii to the spiritual values that have kept our ancient faith alive and vibrant for almost six miUenia. It is also a period of rededication to the building of a strong and healthy community, a time for reordering our priorities so that we can meet the urgent needs of today. The Holy Season makes us keenly aware of our responsibilities to others, and of the necessity to rise to the challenge which faces us, to improve theqtiality of life for our people everywhere.
In this age of alienation of our young people, when all of us are searching for meaning in our lives, when the fate of our fellow Jews in Israd, in Soviet Russia and other countries literally hangs in the balance, we must reach out, through our central agency which is the United   Jewish   BHind   and
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reaffirmed "the strength of the common goals of the United States and Israel; toward tbe realization of a Middle East settiement," and he promised to "con¬ tinue to help Israel and its Arab neighbors" to make peace "a permanent reality."
Weisman, in his address to the convention, said the State Department's '^fixation" with an Israeli pullback, which surfaced most recentiy in the United States' abortive proposal to reopen the Suez ' Canal, "supports the Arab-Soviet position that sheer in¬ flexibility wUl pressure Israd into concessions that will restore her
vulnerability, thereby frustrating any change for real negotiations." He described this attitude as "particularly unwise" in light of recent instances of unrest within and 'among Arab ^tates.   The   unrest,
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Eban Says Israel To Use Security Council As Foruni Oh Jerusaleni
Dr. B. B. Caplan To Be Special Giiest At Israel Bond Reception
Irving A. Baker, High : Hdiday Chairman for the
1971 State of Israel Bond
Campaign announced that a
reception wiU be held this
evening at the home of'Mr. . and Mrs. Alvin E. Sidjqt- : tenstein,  30 N.  Drexel,, in
honor of Dr. Benjamii\ ,B.
Caplan's lucent trip tq](§r^el
and .Y^gpslavia. C^^^^an ! fw the,evening is Danid B. sWaitzm4n. Serving with.Mr.
.y/aitzmah on the committee
are: Louis R. Goldfarb, B^n
Grinblatt  and   Samuel   L.
-Oppenheimer.
, , The reception precedes the
DR. B.B. CAPLAN
annual High Holiday Ap¬ peals for Israel Bonds in three congregations in Ckilumbus. This year the High Holiday (^iiimittee
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — A special team" at the Weizmann Institute of Science is working on an "electronic rabbi," a computor capable of issuing rulings on any c|uestionof Torahorhalai^a (religious law) thatcould i-, possibly arise. The te^iifis studying- the problem of indexing and feeding th^.computor's "memorybank" with the hundreds of r^gs by Jewish'scholars'tlver the centuries. It wiU be aBl&to come up in minutes with answers that would rei^uire years of delving by the greatest scholars. Theifjiaiiputor wiU be programmed in stages and its "memo^^'completed in 10 years.
LONDON (WNS) — 'Tte appeal of Valeriy Kukui, a 33-year-old engineer who applied for a visa to Israel and was subsequently tried for slandering the Soviet state, was indefiiiitdy postponed, Jewish sources reported. Kukui was sentenced to three years of prison. About 200 friends awaited news outside the Supreme Cowi of the Russian Soviet Republic, only to be told Uiat' the appeal was delayed because the chief prosecutor was jij^p^iJr
JERUSAI^M'(>KrAj'p- An 18-year-old conscientioMS v - objector who failje^n^ present himsdf at the recruiting:^   , office when his 6^m date cameup, was;{|r};ested>E^ft^.:' a two-week sea^di' by police. The youngster, Reub^; Lessman of Jerlisaldn, was one of\loHr COsvwho • published ah opieii' letter to Defense Minister Moshe    , Dayan last mon^^ refusing military service because they didn't want'to become "oppressors." Another of the four, Dov GaU, presented himself for induction. The others, Gidra Newmann of Td Aviv and Miss Irit Ya^cobi of Jerusalem are scheduled for induction next month.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign Minister Abba Eban said in a television interview recently that Israd was ready to use the Security Council as a forum for making h^v stand on Jerusalem known to the world. The Foreign Minister rejected a proposal by Yitzhak Rafael of the National Religious Party that Israel boycott Security Council sessions on Jerusalem. He said that such a course would exaggerate the importance of the UN as
a body able to impose decisions but underrate its itnportance as a loud¬ speaker to the world. "Israel intends to make the fullest possible use of this means.to. make, her stand known," Eban said.
He suggested that the Security CouncU look into the situation in Belfast, Nor¬ thern Ireland, instead of Jerusalem "\y,l(iere tranquility and peaceful relations have reignecl for months   and   years   now."
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UJFC Diiectoi Visits Israel
Shown above on the left is the Minikt^r| i;| Social Welfare of Israel, Mr. Michael Chaz^n,| gf^j^ng Mr. Ben M. Mandelkorn, Executive Director qf l|he United Jewish Fund and CteuncU at a reception a^t the Knesset, Israd's Parliament. .,   !
Mr. Mandelkorn was in Israd rjecentiy attending the Intemational Conference of Jewish Communal Service representing' the National Association', of Jewish Community Organization Personnel of which he had served as ito president the past two years.