Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1972-03-23

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MARCH 23, 1972 - NISAN 8
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The World's Week
GARY, IND. (WNS)—A resolution approved by the,
National Black Political Convention held here which
advocated the "Dismantling" Of Israel was criticized
as "very unfortunate" by this city's Black Mayor
.Richard G. Hatcher. Hatcher said;"I didn't see any
strong anti-Israeli sentiments on the floor of the con¬
vention" and expressed the view that the resolution
was "snuck through" since it was passed by voice near
the end of the convention with only a few hundred of the
delegates present. The resolution is subject to
amendment'or rejection by, the convention's 60-membe
steering committee which will publish the text of the
various resolutions adopted on May 19.
NEW YORK. (WNS)-A survey by the Anti
Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has found that at
least eight of the 14 United States Senators mentioned
in an anti-Israel newspaper advertisement repudiate
both the ad and what they call the implication that they
endorsed it. The Senators are Philip A. Hart (D.,
Mich.), Margaret Chase Smith (R., Me.), Harold E.
Hughes (D., La.), George D. Aiken (R., Vt), Lee
Metcalf (D., Mont.), Allen J. Ellender (D., La), Milton
/.R. Young (R., N.D.), arid John Sherman Cooper (R.,
Ky.). Sen. J. William Fulbright (D7Ark.) said he had
hot been consulted on.the use of his name "nor aware in
advance df„ plans for* publication of the ad. • '
By week's end replies bad. not been received from
'-Sens7He^BelJlmbn'^R^;b^.ii/Mark 0. Hatfield (R.
Ore.),.Russell Bi Long (D., La.), John C. Stennis (D.,
Miss.) and Mike Mansfield (D., Mont.), the majority/
Reform Judaism Groups Urge Nixon To Grant
Amnesty And End War Immediately
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The first Jewish statement
calling on President Nixon to
grant immediate amnesty to
American youngsters who
refused military service
because of their opposition to
the Vietnam war was issued
here Mar. 19 at a two-day
meeting of the Commission
on Social Action of Reform
Judaism. The Commission is
a joint body of the Union of
Physicians' Dinner Sees Increase
,"'""'A 48.4 percent increase was registered at the
Physicians' dinner on Mar. 8 at the Sheraton Hotel.
Shown above from left to right are: Morris. '*Pic
Fleishman, Chairman, Trades & Professions, Gordon
Zacks, General Campaign Chairman, Guest Speaker
Dr. Arieh Plotkin congratulating Dr. B.B. Caplan,
Chairman of the Physicians' Section, on the results pf
the dinner meeting, and Heinz Hoffman, Co-Chairman,
. T.& P. Ernest Stern, Chairman of Advance Gifts, was
not present.  .    .    .
Ambassador Refutes Soviet
Claim Of Religious Freedom
UNITED NATIONS,
(JTX)-Israeli Ambassador
Jacob Doron refuted this
week . the Soviet am¬
bassador's, claim that there -
is., the, vsame freedom of
religious observance for
Jews in the Soviet Union that
there is for everybody else.
"Healso denied the validity of
the Soviet's claim that there
are 100 synagogues in the
USSR but that Jews were not
interested in attending
religious services- Doron,
addressing "the United
Natjons Human Rights
Commission, said he agreed
with the Soviet represen¬
tative that the, majority of
Soviet Jews' jjiVefl in tiie big
cities.1 "This .jaj precisely the
point,"' hie exclaimed. "In
(Moscow—with'half'a, million
Jews—there is only/ one
synagogue and;two wooden
American Hebrew
Congregations and the
Central Conference of
American Rabbis.
March 18 it issued a strong
condemnation of President
Nixon's call to Congress to
enact legislation- for a
moratorium on the busing of
school children to achieve
racial balance in public
schools.  *
The   amnesty   resolution
The Crisis Is Now
We are witnessing the miraculous exodus of Russian
Jewry from their land of bondage and we must
respond. For 50 years, they have been denied the basic
'freedoms and individual rights with which man is born.
Today, many are leaving. They are going home - and
they need our help. They need food, shelter, clothing
and rehabilitation. It is the miracle of 5732 and we, the
Jewish people the-world over, are being asked to be
part of this miracle.
The State of Israel is confronted by unprecedented
needs as she faces the severest test-of her capacity to
continue building a democratic state, defending her
borders against enemies who wish to deny her what is
the right of every/freenation: security. Israel looks to
us for support and help.
..' During the Passover season, we lift our cups of wine
in-thanksgiving to G-d for the past emancipation we
celebrate. How great it would be, if we could lift our
cups just a little highter, because we are participating
in the present emancipation we are witnessing!
We, the members of'the Columbus Board of Rabbis,
urge the Jewish community, and particularly the
members of our1 respective congregations, to join in,
and to support with generous and maximum gifts, the
current campaign of the United Jewish Fund and
Council! 1
shacks used for prayers. In
Leningrad—with    300,000
' J?ws—there is also just One
synagogue. In Chackov with
80,000 Jews there is no
synagogue. In Lwow with
40,000 Jews there is no
synagogue."
, .'In fact, hundreds of
synagogues have been closed
down over the last 10 years
on, orders of the Soviet
authorities," Doron said,
'•andnot because there were
: npjJews who wanted to pray
; there. They were closed
dpjHfn in spite of petitions to
kpep them open." He added
YtH\> "today, only 57-
synagogues remain open in
the; whole of the Soviet.
Vfjip'tii" "it is common,
knowledge," he continued,
"that in all synagogues in the
Soviet Union there prevails
art iatmosphere of fear and
noted that the President has
the right to grant such
amnesty under the
discretionary powers
granted to him in Art. 2,
Sect. 2 of' the Constitution.
But the Commission said it
was totally opposed {8. "any,
proposal, legislative or
executive, that would make
such granting of amnesty
conditional on years of
alternative service."
According to Rabbi
Alexander Schindler, vice-
president of the UAHC,
"there is no . excuse for
further delay in granting
amnesty. Why should we
penalize them for their
beliefs when conventional
wisdom born of hindsight
now concedes that they were
right about the war and our
legal leadership was
wrong." The Commission
also called for an end
"without delay" to the
"unjust, illegal and immoral
war" in Vietnam.
It attacked Nixon's busing
proposal on grounds that
such legislation "in the
hands of an adventurous
Congress could result in a
total reversal of the Bill of
Rights." The Commission
condemned' members of
Congress and political
leaders of both parties for
"inciting fear in the
American public by
manipulating,, the issue of
busing for partisan political
advantage."
Mrs. Meir Rejects Hussein
Plan For Federated Kingdom
,    NOW IS THE TIME!
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THE COLUMBUS BOARD. OF RABBIS'
Dr. Jerome D. Folkman, President
Rabbi Samuel W. Rubenstein
Agudas Achim Congregation
Rabbi Marc Raphael
BethTikvah
Congregation
Rabbi Joseph Vilenski Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman
Rabbi Julius Baker, Emeritus Rabbi Edward D. Kiner
Ahavas Sholom Congregation Temple Israel
Rabbi David Stavsky
Beth Jacob Congregation
Rabbi Nathan Zelizer
Tifereth Israel Temple
• JERUSALEM (WNS)-
Premier Golda Meir flatly
rejected King Hussein's plfen
for a federated United Arab
Kingdom to be composed of
an autonomous West Bank
with East Jerusalem as its
regional capital, -and Jordan
proper. Her rejection was
approved by the Knesset in a
44-4 vote with 27 abstentions.
Hussein's plan, broadcast
over the Amman radio after
reports, from ' Iraq that
Jordan and Israel had
concluded a peace
agreement, called for two
regional .parliaments for
internal affairs, and a
federal parliament that
would deal with matters of
defense, trade and security.
He also left the way open for
the Gaza Strip to be added to
the West Bank autonomous
region. But nowhere did he
say how he would achieve
control of the territories now
occupied by Israel." . .'.
In   her   address   to   the    "'*'
Knesset, Mrs. Meir charged .
that Hussein's plan was not a   *
basis, for peace  and  was
"detrimental" to Israel's
interests.   She   noted   that
nowhere in his speech was
the word peace mentioned
and "Israel was not men¬
tioned as a factor with which
agreement      must      be
reached." She charged that
Hussein's  plan  concerns
"territories which are not
under his control,"   and
accused him of "pretensions,
to crown himself King of
Jerusalem" and  "ruler of   ,
larger expanses of territory
than  had  been  under  his   W
control even before the Six-
Day War:"
/' Mrs.    Meir,    however,
reiterated/i    Israel's '
willingness to -negotiate a
peace - settlement    with
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pathetic helplessness,
stemming from the fact that
the congregations have been
infiltrated by police-
informers and that many of
the congregational leaders
have been, coerced into
subservience to the
authorities, and do. as they
are bid froni above." Doron.
asked: I'What kind of
religious freedom can there
be whence/printing of the
fundamental holy book of
Judaism—<fhe Hebrew
Bible—which happens, of-
course,, also to be one of
humanity's greatest cultural
and moral monuments—is
prohibited? What kind of.
religious freedom can there
be for; Judaism when .there
' are no schools where Jewish
children, can learn the
language.of; the Bible? What
kind of religious freedom can
there be for Judaism when
there is 7 no rabbinical
seminary to trai/i rabbis for
the  synagogues* that   still
'"' (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3)
89 Jewish Editors Briefed On Matters Of
Jewish Interest At White House Session
,!""7   by>''
MILTON J. PINSKY
Publisher, Ohio
Jewish Chronicle
A group of, 89 Editors,
Publishers of Yiddish and
English-Jewish newspapers
and periodicals in the U.S.,
and tile, JTA met with top
officials of PresidentNixon's
staff ahd; administration in
the White'House last week to
hear briefings j on the
President's achievements
and : policies in areas of
general, and - Jewish in¬
terests, .      •
The briefings were called
on invitations issued in (he
President's name. We were
treated to a quick tour of the
White i House before the
briefings began and to lunch.
The President didWt find
time in his1 busy day to meet
with us although it had been
rumored'that he might.
Ther£fyere mixed feelings
amongst those in attendance
as to the real purpose of the
briefing which lasted almost
five hours. Some felt that the
briefings were a bid to extol'
the virtues of the Nixon
Administration in a very soft
sell approach.
Others; however, fejt that
they were instructive and an
effective way to put oh the '
record the immediate and
long-range -interests of the
Jewish community as im¬
plemented by President
Nixon. When asked by one
editor why .they we're invited
at this particular time — a
Presidential election year, '
Klein said the purpose was to
give the visitors an .op--
portunity to evaluate \he
administration's record now
that it is nearing completion.     ^_.
William    Safire,     who
described   himself   as   a
drafter   of   Presidential   *
speeches on. .economic and"' -
foreign, .policy   subjects,
claijned .that; the briefings.
w^jejnot intended, to sway '. ' •_
Jewjj^h voters b\ 'views.! He ■'■
asge^t^d that j the President
does^-not consider Jewish ' '
votes^in: connection with the •
USTgoyernment's relations
with Israel.
.Joseph Cisco, Assistant
Secretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs, reviewed
the MIDDLE East situation
and stated that the Soviet
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