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(JANUARY 18, 1973 - SIIEVAT 15
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Torah Academy Principal
Calls For Parochial Aid
byBlLLCOHEN^
CHRONICLE
SPECIAL REPORTER
Irving Fried, principal of
the Columbus Torah
Academy, was one' of five
parochial school parents
who recently called on U.S.
Supreme Court Justice
Potter Stewart to allow them
to receive tax credit from
.the state.
The tax credit system of 90
dollars a year per child was
declared     unconstitutional
■December 29 by a three-
. panel judge federal panel in
Columbus, but Fried and the
four other parents wanted to
. receive the credits, pending,
a final decision on the matter
by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Since     many     Jewish
organizations     nationwide,
including   the   American
Jewish    Congress,  -have
constantly     opposed
parochial aid on the grounds
of separation of church.and
state. The Chronicle asked
Fried to explain his stand.
"I feel with every ounce of
conviction that the Jewish '
community   has   only   one
possible avenue to survival,
and    that     is     through
education-intensive Jewish
education," Fried explained.
"The Sunday schools and
the ' afternoon     Hebrew
schools have been a failure
in that they haye not been
»able to give the American
"Jewish  child the  impetus
toward      a       continued
association with his Jewish
heritage," he added.,
Asked about the belief that
a lack of separation of
church and state is usually
harmful to the Jewish
community, Fried said,
"True, there is a grain of
truth in that, but my claim
has always been that there
has never been a separation
of church and state."'
"It is breached in a
thousand different' ways,"
. explained Fried.; We see-,
clearly Christian and
Catholic .Schools getting
money on the college level,
and wej see elementary
schools getting services of'
all different kinds. None of
these have ever been called
into question." ■■'. '
The Torah Academy
principal called Jewish
education "a very expensive
type of undertaking" and he
added that many younger
parents cannot afford-it for
their children. '
• Fried said the only reason
he thinks the state should aid
Jewish education is because
money is not available
elsewhere.
"Had the -Jewish, com¬
munity itself taken up the
responsibility of the support
of day schools, this never
would have come to the
fore," said Fried.
"The United Jewish Funds
in the country have, by and
large, not accepted their
part of the responsibility,"
said Fried. He charged
that in New York City, the
Fund' gives about $1.50 a
year per child when the
actual cost is about $1,500
per child. "Is there anything
that could greater indicate to
you tokenism?" he asked.
'.•.-Fried said the UJFC in
Columbus has increased its
funding of the Torah
Academy in the last few'
years, but he added he thinks
the current funding level is
still a "minimal amount."
Fried said the,Academy
gets about $9,000 a year from
the United Jewish Fund and
Council "when our total
budget is $180,000 and our
deficit is $30,000."
When contacted by The
Chrohicle, Ben Mandelkorn,
Executive Vice-President of
. UJFC, said he could sym¬
pathize with Fried, but he
stressed "the obligation of
UJFC is to the entire com¬
munity."
Mandelkorn said, "UJFC
is completely supportive of
" Jewish education," having
increased      its.     yearly
allocation   for   education
from $50,000 to $100,000.
:   The problem, Mandelkorn
emphasized, is that there are -
several groups in Columbus
working: in  the  field  of
Jewish education and there
'.has  been   no   agreement
within UJFC yet as to what
the  balance  among  them
should be.
Mandelkorn said that at
present; the Fund considers
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JERUSALEM" (WNS).- Israel will postpone opening
an Embassy in Saigon until a cease-fire agreement is
reached between North and South Vietnam, reliable
sources said; Israel and South Vietnam announced in
November they were establishing diplomatic relations,
and would-shortly exchange ambassadors.  C
JERUSALEM (WNS) - Rabbi.Meir Kahane, Jewish
Defense League leader, will be prosecuted on criminal
charges for alleged attempts by JDL to smuggle arms
out of Israel for a private war on Arab terrorists in
Europe, and forhis letters to Arab families on the West.
Bank demanding they get out of the country because it
belongs to the Jews.
Mrs. Meir Has Exceptional
Protection On Paris Visit
LONDON (WNS) - Soviet propaganda is responsible
for recent: press reports from Vienna that: Russian
Jewish emigrants were petitioning for permission to
return to the USSR because they were misled by
Zionists about conditions in Israel, Jewish sources in
the Soviet Union claim. In Jerusalem, Jewish Agency
sources ridiculed-the claims and said only 86 out of
42,000 Soviet Jews who arrived in Israel during 1971-72
have gone back to Vienna, only 28 out of the 86 actually
applied for Soviet re-entry permits, and only five :.
received them: The Soviet sources concluded that
these Jews arc being "used" by the KGB.
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PARIS, (JTA) -Violent '
fighting broke out last weeek
near the French Senate
Building    where    Israeli
Premier  Gol'da  Meir  iihd.-;-,
ether Socialist leaders .were  '
attending the Socialist In¬
ternational     conference;.
Several  hundred demon¬
strators chanting' 'Palestine
will win," and/'Golda eut",
clashed with exceptionally
large police forces. Dozens
of    demonstrators    were
arrested and many injured
b$ club-wielding riot police.
The demonstrators, led by
.such left-wing activists as
Alain   Geismar  and; Alain
Krivine, both Jewish, were
trying tb^rnarch from the
.Cochin    Hospital   -where.-.
Palestine    Liberation.
Organization representative
Mahoud   el-Hamshari   died
last   week   to   Luxemburg
Palace The demonstrators,
who     were     constantly
charged and dispersed by
police,  claimed  that  Mrs
"Meir  was  responsible  for
Hamshan's death The PLO
representative died here last
Tuesday   irom    injuries
sustained  when  a  remote
controlled bomb exploded in
his Paris home Dec 8
No reporters were allowed
LATE NEWS BULLETIN
Court Upholds Nazi Rights
' A temporary restraining
order was issued this week in
U.S. District Court in
Cleveland by Judge Thomas
Lambros against Cleveland
City Council President
Edmund Turk. Turk had
tried recently to bar
members~of the'^Anierican
NazijiParty frorn, Council
chambers because they
displayed the Nazi Swastika
on the armbands they wore.
Turk had stated that the
sight of the armbands was
upsetting to council mem¬
bers and disrupted normal
proceedings. Judge Lam¬
bros held that the. right to
display the symbol was a
guaranteed freedom of
expression under the First
Amendment \o the Con¬
stitution.
The. American Civil
Liberties Union aided the
Nazi Party (sometimes
known as the National
Socialist White Peoples'
Party) in their suit against
Cleveland City Council."
Columbus participants in UJA University December
Mission: Michael Knowles, (Ohio University) Mark
Rosen and Howard Katz (Ohio State) at the Western
Wall.
Rosen, Katz Return From
Student Mission To Israel
Mark Rosen and Howard
Katz were among fifty-two
students, representing 39
college campuses- from
across the United States,
who returned a few weeks
ago from the third annual
UJA December Student
Leadership Mission to Israel
following an intensive 10-day
fact finding study of what
life in Israel is all about.
Organized by the Student
Coordinating Committee for.
the Israel Emergency Ftind'
in conjunction with the
UnitedrJewish Appeal, the
Leadership Mission was
established to help campus
leaders gain a basic
knowledge of the land and
the people of Israel. The
mission focuses on the
humanitarian and social;
welfare needs of new im¬
migrants to Israel, the work
being done by various
Jewish  agencies   to  meet
those needs, and how the
American Jewish com¬
munity supports these
agencies.
Commenting on the ef¬
fectiveness of the December
Missions, Rabbi Earl A.
Jordan, Director, UJA.
University Programs and
leader of this year's Mission,
said, ;"By taking Jewish
student leaders to Israel for
a first-hand look at the
, Ipople and their problems
■'we give. them a direct,
personal experience. What
they see and hear not only
prepares them for their
individual campus cam¬
paigns, but helps to develop
future leaders for the
American Jewish com¬
munity."    •
The highlight / of the
Mission took place at Lod
Airport, when participants
met a'planeload of 140 new
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inside the Senate Building
but reports said that the
fighting could not be heard
by the delegates who were- -
attending the session.
(Finland's Premier Kalvei
Sorsa attended the con¬
ference despite earlier
reports that he cancelled his
appearance.)j*Mrs. Meir
arrived at the Luxemburg
Palace in a five-car convoys
accompanied by^police cars,
motorcycle police and an
ambulance complete with
doctor and plasma; Hun¬
dreds of' French police,
some carrying machine guns
and other pistols at the
ready, surrounded the V;
Senate Building when her
car drove in. She arrived
before the demonstrators
managed to approach the
building
Since her arrival in Pans
Friday, police took security
precautions described as
"exceptional" by police
circles. Veteran reporters
said that these precautions
were more extensive than *•'
those taken during President
Nixon's last visit to Paris in
the spring of 1969 The
Embassy Building, one
block   off   the   Champs
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Columbus Board Of Rabbis
Silent On Vietnam Issue
BY BILLCOHEN
SPECIAL CHRONCILE
REPORTER.
While leaders of the.
Protestant <and Catholic
communities in Columbus
have issued a joint statment .
condemning the recent
escalation of violence in
Vietnam, there is still no
"official" statement from
the Jewish community's
Columbus Board of Rabbis.
Rabbi Jerome Folkman,
President of the Board, told
The Chronicle, "We have no
opinion on this. The Board of
. Rabbis never takes a
position unless it's
unanimous, and we have not
discussed this matter, so I
have no comment -either
personally oras President of
the Board of Rabbis."    .
Dr. Folkman explained
that the Board "can take a
stand on anything we want,
as long as it's unanimous."
"But we do not want.to get
ourselves into a position
where we are fighting
among ourselves. It's like
the United Nations,' and it's
also like the Synagoguo
Council of America," he
added;
Asked if trie-Board could
call a special meeting uto]
consider an anti-war
statement, Folman said,
"We don't meet every time
something happens. We
meet quarterly, and I think
the next meeting will be
sometime  in  February.   I
don't know if this is going to
be urgent then or not, and I ,
don|t know if anybody wants
to bring up an opinion or
not." .     •
The issue of religious
leaders' views on the-war
came up during the first"*"'
week of January.'when the
leadership of several
Columbus-area religious
groups issued a statement
saying they were
"horrified"  by the recent
• intensive; bombing of
Vietnam. At a press con¬
ference, the ministers said it
"is 1; not right for the
American people to sanction
violence in the pursuit of
pirSlje."-
Th'e joint statement  ex- •
pressed "utter horror of the
widespread  destruction   of
life,  the good  earth,   and
property in that far-off part
.of the world" and it   "We _
suggest  these  words   be
addressed to both sides."
The press conference
included representatives
from the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Columbus, the
'Association of the United
Church of Christ, the Ohio-
West Area of the United
Methodist Church, the
Episcopal;, Diocese of
Southern Ohio, the Ohio
' Synod of the Lutheran
Church of America, and
There was no Jewish
representative at the press
, conference.
The Reverend Jonathan N.
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