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VOL. 50. NO. 2
JANUARY 13, 1972 - TEVES 26
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UJFC Board Sets Columbus' "Fair Share" Goal
$3,300,000 Campaign Under Way
In a precedent-.shattering
• move, the Board of Trustees.'
of the United Jewish Fund &
. Council     ' voted''      and
recognized that $3,300,000
represented Columbus' Faifi
Share Of local, national and:
overseas needs for inclusion
in the 1972 Campaign now
''getting under (way. This is
■   the first time that no goal has '
been set for the Campaignl
Gordon B. Zacks,- 'General
Chairman, in presenting, the
ijeeds for 1972, stated: "The
people of Israel are locked in
a  continuous  struggle  for
survival. They live under the
constant       threat        of
destruction They have few
resources left to improve the
l^ejuality of their lives. They
■-;5*nave "promised to shoulder
the  burden   of  their  own
defense  —   proudly   and
tenaciously. Our PROMISE
is to help the thousands who
have come to Israel seeking
new   life   and   new   op¬
portunity    Ke'eping   that
promise means we must do
all we- can for those
thousands now entering the
State' of Israel, and for the
thousands of immigrants of
former years who still need
our help so desperately. We
can do it, if we try. We can
achieve our fair share; it is
Up to every man, woman aind'
young person in our com¬
munity to make a gift-
commensurate   with" the
needs and the ability to give,
whether that gift is twice,
three times or a hundred-fold
of his 1971 contribution. If
they know the needs.-:. lam
confident they will respond .'
. we will meet our fair
share!"
Marvin L. Glassman,
President of the United
Jewish Fund and Council, in
commenting on the $3,300,000
of valid needs endorsed by
the Board,: stated, "I am
proud of the members of the
Board who voted to set this
kind Of a standard for the
1972 Campaign. It represents
their recognition of the needs
which exist, and which only
we can. meet, by our
generous contributions. I am
proud of the record of
generosity which the people
of ' Columbus have
'established, oVer the years.
We have a good community,
one with good agencies and
institutions which make foe a
healthy, dynamic Jewish life
right here in Columbus.
' "In addition, we have,an
obligation to our national
beneficiaries, which look to
us to help maintain essential
services for Our people in
this., country. Then, too,
thousands of Jews in
countries around the world
need our help, and we have
promises to keep to them as
well. These include the in¬
spired and effective services
performed by the American
Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee and the United
BIAS Service, which in 1971
alone, rescued, trained and
offered relief and aid to more
than 300,000 Jews. Relief
kitchens in Morocco, Mother
v     GORDONS. ZACKS
and Child Centers in Tunisia,
1 Pre-Kindergarten programs
in  Iran,   a   hew  start  in
France, a' way station of
hope in Vienna for Russian'
Jews — 17,000 elderly Jews
in Rumania —- the flow of
food, fuel, clothing, cash
grants,-and medical supplies
must continue. Our in-
ternationaLcommunity must
be held together. We must
understand.this — and we
will give more than ever
before."
"As for Israel," Mr.
Glassman continued, "the
problems are enormous, and
only we can help Israel meet
them, I am sure every
Jewish" person in our com¬
munity who feels a kinship
with his people will respond
to'the needs, so that the
FAIR SHARE set by, the
^Elpfirdlof $3,300,000, Will be
achieved." '■■'•?'■
MARVIN L.
GLASSMAN
Attorney Defends Kosher Slaughtering
As Humane And Entirely Constitutional
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"HAIFA (WNS)—In an unprecedented decision in
Jewish law, the Beth Din here ruled that fatherhood
■^through artificial insemination is equivalent to natural
fatherhood and involves the same paternal obligations,
The decision was banded down in the case of a man,
who sought to divorce his wife after she was artificially
inseminated with his sperm and gave birth to triplets.
The Beth Din ruled that if he wanted a divorce he must
pay for the children's upbringing.
NEW YORK < WNS)-The first Soviet Jewish family
arrived in-^he U.S. under the Attorney General's
"parole authority" which permits him to'waive
procedural red tape to admit aliens without delay. The
. family of four, Simeon, Feldman, 36, his wife Emma,
34, and his two children, Dina, 10, and Igor, 7, will stay
with Feldman's uncle, Charles Miller of the Bronx,
temporarily. ■'  •
NEW YORK (WNS)—Representatives of 12 national
and 91 local Jewish groups will meet here on Jan. 10 to
discuss how to "defend the constitutionality . .'. . of
Jewish ritual slaughter of livestock'* against a suit in
Federal Court by Henry Mark Holzer, a local lawyer
and Jewish-born atheist, who charges that the
"special" laws for Jewish ritual slaughter (shechita) ■
violate the First Amendment's separation of Church
and State. <
TEL AVIV ( JTAii—Remnants of what ^appears to
have been a door or gate to an ancient synagogue have
been found by archaeologists at Kassarin in the central
Golam Heights, it was reported today: The stone con¬
tains Aramaic inscriptions which'."-name a certain
"Uzzi" as the builder, (either of the gate or the
synagogue itself. A member of the archaeological
team suggested that the" site was the Talmudic
, Keissarin which hitherto was thought to be identical
with the Roman Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast.
NEW    YORK    (JTAJ—the    heads    of    the
congregational and rabbinic arms of Reform Judaism
assailed the Nixon administration for the().renewed
bombings in North Vietnam and statedUiat snjph action
endangers the peace aims of the l^/^iaent's.for-
"  thcoming trips to the Soviet Union and the". People's
Republic of China. In'a telegram to.Nunn, Rabbi
."-. Maurice N. Eisehdra'th, president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations, and Rahfai David
Polish,   president  of  the   Central   Confcftatce  of
■   ■ American Rabbis, called upon the admisfaaWation to
"set a date for total withdrawal of allAmericaBforces
• from all of Indochina."
NEW YORK — Leo
Pfeffer, special counsel of
the American- Jewish
Congress and draftsman of
the section of Humane
Slaughter Act challenged in
Federal Court last week,
said recently there was "no
.doubt of the constitutionality
of the, provision."
In a statement, Mr. Pfeffer
declared: "The section of the
law that defines humane
slaughtering to -include the
Jewish method of
slaughtering is entirely
constitutional. Indeed, the
absence of such a provision
from the law would cast
grave doubts  on Its con-
Dr. Goldman Charges
Facts" Explaining Disinvitation
LONDON  (WNS)  — Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, president
;"of    the    World    Jewish
Congress,   charged   that
Louis A. Pincus, president of
the' "•:   World        Zionist
Organization Executive, had
; "distorted the facts"  in
explaining why Dr.  Gold-
'  mann's invitation to address.
the festive session of the 2r\th
.World  Zionist   Congress,
which  would  celebrate 75
years of Zionism, had been
'-.' withdrawn. Pincus had said
. I "it is not possible to conduct
"/ a. struggle on two levels at
the same time—namely the
struggle for the right of aliya
andthe struggle for the right
of Soviet Jews to a Jewish
life." He said that while-the
Soviet Jews had themselves
chosen to fight for aliya, Dr.
Goldmann had given priority
for their right to live as Jews
in the USSR.,
In denying Pincus' charge,
Dr. Goldmann said "There is
no difference-of opinion that
at this moment priority
should1 be given , to the
struggle for the right of aliya.
and it is absolutely incorrect
that in my speech to the
Board of Deputies I was
reversing the order, of
priorities in the' Jewish
demands. But to go so far as
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stitutionality. The Humane
Slaughter Act recognizes
what has long been known
and universally
acknowledged — that the
Jewish method of
slaughtering is as humane
as, if not more humane than,
any other method of
slaughtering . in use
anywhere in the world."
Mr. Pfeffer drafted the
section in behalf of the Joint
Advisory Committee of the
National Jewish Community
.Relations Advisory Council
and the Synagogue Council
of America. He has served as
attorney for the committee
since its founding in 1946.
The provision defining
ikosher slaughtering as
humane   was   enacted   by
Congress in 1958 following
the presentation of evidence
to a subcommittee of the
Senate __ Agricultural Com¬
mittee i that kosher
slaughtering was the most
humane method * of
slaughtering known. Senator
Hubert Humphrey,-
Democrat of Minnesota,
'presided-at the Senate sub¬
committee hearing.
The suit challenging the
kosher slaughtering division
of the'Humane Slaughtering
Act was filed ih;">; Federal
Court here Monday by Henry
Mark Holzer ot New. York.
The suit seeks^-the con¬
vening of a special three-
judge court to declare !un--
constitutional Federal and
state laws permitting kosher
slaughtering.
US To Work For Mideast Peace
Israel To Get Defensive
WASHINGTOWi(WNS) —
In a television interview over
the' American' Broadcasting
■ System, Secretary of State
William P. Rogers said the
U.S. was continuing efforts
to,g«tnegotiatioh6S0ing for
a^l^eftst.settlWBienti either
fqi\^tMlSsetUement under
the auspices of UN mediator
Dr. Guhnar V. Jarring or for
an interim pact to permit the
reopening of the Suez Canal.
He also said the U.S. would
continue to supply Israel
with arms to enable it to
defend itself end "deter" the
Arabs from attacking. But,
he added, "We do not want
our support to appear to be
encouraging Israel itself to
start hostilities." •
Meanwhile,' in Geneva,
highlV reliable American
sourees said that Israel
Would get Phantom jets in
groups of two or three at a
time while the' U.S! con¬
tinued its attempts to
pressure Israel to "soften"
its/ position in; -talks with
Egypt. The sources said
American officials referred
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Hillel Announces Robert Alter
As Kaplan Scholar In Residence
The B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation at the Ohio State
University announces the
appointment of Professor
Robert Alter, Professor of
Hebrew and Comparative
Literature, Chairman o|
Department of Comparative"
Literature at the University
of California at Berkeley as
the Rabbi Harry Kaplan
Scholar in Residence for
1972.
Professor Alter holds
degrees from Columbia and
..Harvard and has also
studied at, the Hebrew
University in.Jerusalem.
From 1962 to 1966 he taught
in the English Department at
Columbia University. In
1966-67 he held. a
Guggenheim Fellowship.
Since 1967 he has been at the
University of California at
Berkeley where he is now
Professor of Hebrew^and
.Comparative*latera tufeT as
well as ChairmanXof the
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PROFESSOR
ROBERTALTER
Department of Comparative [
Literature.
His publications include
"Rogues Progress" and
"After the Tradition." He is..
a regular contributor to
"Commentary" and his
essays and reviews have
appeared in VThe American-
Scholar," "Daedalus," and
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