Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1971-12-23

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VOL. 49 NO. 52
DECEMBER 23, 1971 • TEVES 5
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WASHINGTON (WNS)—Congress rejected the Jackson Amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act which authorized $500 Million in military credits to Israel. In rejecting the amendment, a House^^te conference committee said the 'same sum was available to Israel, fn the continuing resolution for Foreign Aid now pending before both houses of Ckingress.
TEL AVIV (WNS)—Israel has sent 500 kilograms of medicine and medical sopplies to the Indian Red Cross for the relief of the Bangla Desh refugees. A private group of Israelis recently slupped 500 tons ot soya flour to India for the use of refugees.
LOS ANGELES (WNS)—Five thousand pei^le marched through downtown Los Angeles in a can¬ dlelight walk on behalf of Soviet Jewish political prisoners. Rep. Alfonso Bell (R., Calif.), who will be visiting the Soviet Union shortly as a member of a congressional committee, stated, "I hope we will live to see the day, and very soon, when all men are free to go wherever they wish. The Soviet Union should heed our cry to let the Jews go."
In Washington, petitions bearing 75,000 signatures demanding freedom for Soviet Jews were presented to a Stale'Department official who promised to com- ''municate the appeal to President Nixon and the Soviet Embassy. The petitions had been gathered by five " young 'Jews, three Americans and two Russians — in the course of a 7,000. mile, nine-week tour of 34 I     American cities.
Dr. Marvin Fox Will Speak At Ahavas Sholom Installation
Dr. Marvin Fox, well- known Columbus professor, and lecturer, will be the guest speaker at the Jan. 9 installation of Joseph Vilenski as Rabbi of Congregation Ahavas Sholom. Dr. Fox will discuss ' the Rabbinate in our time.
.The installation of Rabbi Vilenski, who comes to Ckilumbus via England and Canada, will be held following the Annual Dinner of the Congregation. Preceding the dinner, a cocktail hour and reception will be held during the hour of 5 to 6 p.m. The dinner, to be held in the synagogue social hall, will be by reservation only, and is open to the comhtunity. Re^F vations may be phoned to Mrs. Daniel Wuensch, 253-
Assembly Passes Pro-Arab Resolution Calling For Israeli Withdrawal
UNITED NATIONS (WNS)—United Nations Middle East Mediatw Df. -Gunnar V. Jarring met separately with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad to discuss the resumption of his
mission' "under Security Council Resolution 242" an Israeli source reported. The meetings followed the adoption by the UN General Assembly of a resolution calling for the resumption of the Jarring mission and a pledge by Israel to withdraw
N. Y. Rally Draws 20,000 For Soviet Jewry Support
DR. MARVIN FOX
8341, or Mrs. Aaron Yablok, 2^-6649 by Jap.' 3. . The Master of Ceremonies ir the event, a distinguished CohfflAhus personality, will be announc^ at a later date.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The message was unmistakably clear and (nrecise: Let the three million Jews in the Soviet Union leave. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D., Wash.) and Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R., Mich.) demanded it, Ruth Aleksandrovich Averbuch personified it. Rabbi Gilbert I. Klaperman dramatized it, Vernon ' E. Jordan, Jr.", of the Urban League underscored it, and 20,000 persons tumultuously applauded it. The occasion was the Freedom Lights for Soviet Jewry rally at Madison Square Garden the night of Dec. 13, the second night of CSiariukah, held to express solidarity with Soviet Jewry .The rally was sponsored by the Greater New York Conference on. Soviet Jewry and the Center for Russian Jewry.
Jackson denounced Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin for."lying" when he termed Soviet persecution of Jews a "myth." If kosygin is right, "it would follow that he would be willing to remo(ve all restrictions on Jewish immigration— for what has he to fear," Jackson declared amidst shouts from the audience, "Jackson for President. HA noted that there are "too many people" in America who urge "that ' we must not press too hard on the issue of Russian , Jewry, for fear of hurting our ¦ ijd^tiais  with JW^^-iSoviet
Union." He said this hap¬ pened in the past, "in the thirties with regard to the Nazis,"   declaring:   "We listened to the counsels of expediency and ignored the cries  for  help.  We  must never repeat the mistake." The Senator observed that in view of 'Russia's desire to increase non-strategic trade .with;the US, it.would.~not.be "too'miicK to ask that as part of   the   bargain ' Moscow loosen up on its immigration policies and cease its policy of cultural genocide against the Jews." Ford, the House Minority Leader,  declared that    "I    will    strongly recommend"   to   President Nixon that during his visit to Moscow next May he make clear to the Kremlin how Americans feel about  the oppression of Soviet Jews. Ford declared that "Since the Soviet Union uses its veto at the United Nations and asserts itself through the UN when it suits Russian con¬ venience, I feel it is now very appropriate for the. United States    to    remind    the Russians   of   the   United Nations^ Declaration   on Human'Rights."
Mrs. Averbuch, who was in' New York wi^ her husband, Isaiah, and her mother, Mrs. Rivka Aleksandrovich, received a standing ovation when she expressed her gratitude to "all of you and ail&fthbse  who'Hlhelped  in
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from territories occupied in the Six Day War. The talks were . not expected to be resumed at this time because Of differences over withdraiyal.
The Assembly adopted the pro-E^ptian resolution by a vote 6f 97-7 with 36 nati(»is abstaining, despite an Israeli warning that Israel would not accept any resolution calling upon her to withdraw from occupied territories jbefore negotiations. Eban warned that the Arabs would interpret the resolution as a "green light to launch a military attack as a means of recapturing the occupied territories.
The resolution remains only a recommendation unless the Security Council
approves it. UN sources were divided in opinion on - whether Egypt would seek a Council meeting to affirm the Assembly decision. Some sources believed that the U.S., which abstained on the Assembly vote, would veto any attempt to secure Council approval.
Both Israel and thelj.S. agreed that Jarring's talks must be resumed under the mandate of Council Resolution 242, and a State Department spokesman declared that tte G«ieral Assembly resolution "had no bearing now" On the Jarring talks. He said the U.S. would continue attempts to achieve an interim agreement to permit the reopening ot the Suez Canal.
Photo- (left to right) Mrs Leonard Wasserstrom, Mrs. William V. Kahn, Mrs. Arthur Westerman and Mrs. Ben Goodnnan.
WOMEN'S DIVISION
UJFC MAKES CAMPAIGN
APPOINTMENTS
Mrs. J. Maynard Kaplan, the current chairman of the Sunshine Special; that group which contacts women within the division who head south during the winter season and are not on hand to join in the activities of the other divisions of the Women's Campaign.
chairman of the campaign cabinet of the Women's Division, United Jewish Fund and Ckiuncil, recently made the following ap¬ pointments .of women who .will serve with her during th^ 1972 campaign. ! ^pps, William V. Kahn is
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SPECIAL JTA ANALYSIS
BY
JOSEPH POLAKOFF
JTA Washington
Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON (JTA)—' Now that the General Assembly has given President Sadat another resolution to His liking and Mrs. Meir is back in Jerusalem with the shopping bag she carried for Phan- 'toms apparently no fuller than when she arrived here two weeks ago, the political skies for Israel appear grayer' than usual. When they will get lighter is un¬ certain but perhaps the silver lining is only tem¬ porarily concealed in the secret two-hour talk she had
Which Way For Peace In TM^e Middle East?
with President Nixon.
Which way do the winds blow? First and foremc^t, as is wen known since the Soviets arrived < on the Egyptian scene, is the crucial matter of relations between Moscow ' and Washington. Without agreement between' them," there can be no negotiated peace in the Middle East. After months of increasingly warm feelings toward defente, the atmosphere has turned cool from three Soviet vetoes of American efforts^in the Security Council to halt 'the Indian-Pakistani fighting. As the State Department has cautiously indicated, the Soviet role has recreated some -of the at¬
mosphere of suspicion and bitterness that must affect the Middle East and other factors in an ardently desired Moscow-Washington detente. Nevertheless, rather than cause a dangerous shift towards righting in the Middle East, the spectre of an awful debacle on the Indian sub¬ continent may in fact .be restraining the Soviets elsewhere. Thus, Moscow possibly recognizes that Washingtonis continued embargo on deliveries of Phantoms to Israel is con¬ tingent on tlie ICremlin keeping a tight .rein on its Availability of weapons to Egypt and its use of them. American   concern   with
Soviet gains .on the sub¬ continent , may mean stronger American blocks to Soviet expansionism in t(ie Middle 'East. . Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird's appeal to Nato to establish a naval force in the Eastern Mediterranean to sup¬ plement our Sixth Fleet is an indicator in that direction. Murkey elements in what may be developing include: improved Soviet allowances of Jews to go to Israel; the cry of anguish in Libya at the si^t of Soviet armor killing Pakistani Moslems; the hunting by Palestinian guerrillas of Jordanian leaders; and the sight of Senators who have been opposing military credits to
Israel now apparently supporting the idea or not fighting it, which may be a clue from them ^lat they now see'Israel as being of value after all to the US in world politics. How Washington regards the Middle East situation in the realities of geopolitics and in the wake of Mrs. Meir's visit is likely to become apparent soon, Egypt is expected to take its newly won resolution to the Security Council to pressure Israel into ac¬ cepting "the precondition of withdrawal. This may follow hard on Ambassador Jarring's current initiative, which again is regarded as certain of bogging down because Egypt insists on its
own way. Anything less than an American veto of any proposal brought to the Council or any other maneuver on negotiations without preconditions can only serve to darken the outlook for an agreed peace. An irresolute American position would be a blow to Israel but also a sign of weakness in Cairo and above all to the . Soviet, Union. However, the State Department has declared twice publicly in recent,days that the parties should enter negotiations regarding an ^"interim agreement" without conditions. This would indicate a step back from Secretary Williani P.
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