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VOL. 51 NO. 52
DECEMBER 20, 1973 - KISLEV 25
Devoted to American CO
and Jewish Ideals    H
WASHINGTON (WNS) - The House of Represen¬
tatives adopted by an overwhelming vote of 364-53 the
$2.2 billion measure to resupply Israel with weapons
lost in the Yom Kippur War. Later Deputy Secretary of
State Kenneth Rush and other Administration officials
appealed for the Senate to approve the measure in
testimony before the I Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. They refuted Committee Chairman J.
William Fulbright's contention that there was no
urgency to adopt the meajsure and that it might impair
negotiations at the Geneva peace conference. Rush
said the $2.2 billion was needed to assure Israel
and warn the Arabs not to renew the war. Fulbright
repeatedly referred to Israel Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan's remarks in the U.S. that Israel was "never
stronger." Rush replied that Israel might be stronger
than ever but weaker in absolute terms than its
enemies.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — An alert to all postal
stations to be on the lookout for "terrorist letter bombs
in the mail stream" was published in the Postal
Bulletin of the U.S. Postal Service here. The alert
contains a detailed description of letter bombs "ad¬
dressed to Israeli officials in this country or to
Americans of known close ties to Israel." The alert, in
the Nov. 29 Postal Bulletin states: "Although most of
the letter bombs which have been sent by terrorist to
targets in the United States have been carried in the
mails, none of these bombs has exploded except in the
,.v process of being opened. The two types encountered to
date each require that the insert be removed from the
wrapper for the detonating mechanism to be activated.
In their unopened condition, these letter bombs appear
capable of withstanding the rigors of handling without
detonation."
Urges American Jews Not Tb
Neglect Education Because Of
Attention To Israeli Problems
Kissinger Says Energy Crisis Not Result Of
War; Meany Urges Resist Arab Blackmail
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LONDON, (JTA) -
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger declared here on
Dec. 12 that the energy crisis
was not simply a product of
the Arab-Israeli war but the
inevitable consequence of
the explosive growth of
world-wide demand out¬
running the incentives for
supply. He called for
collective efforts to solve it.
The Middle East merely
made a chronic crisis acute,
but the crisis had been
coming in any event, he said
addressing the Pilgrim
Dinner in his honor at the
Europa Hotel. "The United
States proposes, "Kissinger
said, "that the nations of
Europe, North America and
Japan establish an energy
action group with a mandate
to establish within three
months an initial action
program for collaboration in
all areas of the energy
problem." He said the
energy producing nations
"should be invited to join it
from the very beginning in
matters common to both
sides." The Secretary of
State, described U.S. in¬
volvement in the recent
Middle East war, "The
United States demonstrated
great restraint until the
Soviet effort reached the
point of massive in¬
tervention," Kissinger said.
"Once that happened, it
became   a   question   of
whether the West would
retain any influence to help
shape the political future of
an area upon which Europe
is even more dependent than
the United States. We in¬
volved ourselves
resupply .effort, not to take
sides in the conflict, but to
protect the possibility of
pursuing after the war the
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NEWYORK, (JTA) - The
president of the American
Association for Jewish
Education has urged the
American Jewish com¬
munity "not to allow its
present preoccupation with
the problems confronting.
Israel to diminish its support
of Jewish education in the
United States." Robert H.
Arnow, in an address here
last week to the midwinter
meeting of the ; AAJE's
National Governmenting
Council, its highest policy
body, said : that "the
realization of Israel's'
peril and vulnerability"
during the Yom Kippur War
"emphasizes the need to
strengthen Jewish identity in
America, through education,
inorder to insure, the
preservation and continuity
of Jewish life.'' Arnow, who
was reelected at the meeting
to a second two-year term as
AAJE president, stated,
however, that the Jewish
community's support of
American curricular
programs, seminaries, day
schools and other in¬
struments     of     Jewish
education "represents a
paralled—not a conflicting
— responsibility to its
correct and understandable
concern" for Israel's
security and well-being.
"The strengthening and
vitalizing of Jewish identity
in the United States—the
largest Jewish community in
the world — is essential on
two interrelated levels," he
said: "First, to guarantee
the American Jewish
community's own creative
survival and second, to
enable it thereby to work
more • effectively and
committedly in behalf of
Israel and Jews elsewhere
abroad."
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Memorial To Slain Israeli
Soldiers Is Sun. Dec. 23
The Council of Organizations and the Board of
Rabbis will sponsor a community memorial program
to the Israeli soldiers killed during the Yom Kippur
War. The speaker for the evening will be Issachar Ben-
Yacov, Special Israeli Ambassador to the United
States.
Rabbi David Stavsky, President of the Board of
Rabbis, will introduce the program, Rabbi Jerome
Folkman will light the candles and Rabbi Samuel W.
Rubenstein will present a plaque in memory of the
Israeli soldiers, to the community.
According to Rabbi Stavsky and Mrs. Carl Mellman,
President of the Council of Organizations, "It is our
goal to leave this memorial program during Chanukah
with a greater strength and dedication to the State of
Israel.
The program will be held in the Jewish Center
auditorium 1125 College Avenue at 8 P.M.
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House Adopts Trade Bill
Presents Emergency Fund Check
Presentation of additional check in behalf of
Columbus Jewry to the UJA" - Israel Emergency Fund
— making a total paid in cash of $2,000,000 since the
Yom Kippur War on October 6th. Left to right:
Avraham Harman, President of Hebrew University
and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States;
Gerald S. Coburn, National UJA Cash Chairman from
Milwaukee;.and Ben M. Mandelkorn, Executive Vice-
President, Columbus Jewish Federation.
WASHINGTON (WNS) -,
The House of Represen¬
tatives has adopted by a 272-
140 vote the 1973 Trade
Reform Act including the
provisions banning U.S.
trade credits, investment
guarantees and most
favored nation status for the
Soviet Union until it relaxes
restrictions on emigration.
Tiie measure now goes to the
Senate where more than
three-quarters of the
members have endorsed
identical restrictions em¬
bodied in the Jackson
Amendment.    The    vote
Orthodox Leader Says Israel Situation
Similar To European Jews Pre-WW II
by Bill Cohen
Chronicle Special Reporter
"The situation in Israel
today has some similarities
to the situation faced by
European Jews just before
World War II," said Rabbi
Louis Bernstehv the
National President of the
Rabbinical. Council of
America, during a visit to
Columbus last week.
Bernstein   was   here   to
participate in a meeting of
the National Executive of
the R.C.A., the largest group
of Orthodox rabbis in the
U.S.
"Israel is becoming once
again the testing ground for
world opinion that can be;
G-d forbid, another
Munich," he told The
Chronicle. "The nations of
the world in 1938 com¬
promised in Munich under
all   kinds  of   duress   and
blackmail, and you can't buy
off a blackmailer," Bern¬
stein said, referring to Arab
nations.
Bernstein, who had just
returned from Israel Dec. 9,
said another similarity
between present day Israel
and pre-World War II Jewry
is the mood of Jews in Israel.
Asked about the increasing
diplomatic isolation of Israel
as a result of the Arab oil
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followed approval by 319-80
of the amendment sponsored
by Rep. Charles A. Vanik (D.
Ohio) to deny trade credits
and investment guarantees,
directly or indirectly, to the
Soviet Union until it eases its
policies on the emigration of
Jews and others, After
approving the Vanik motion
the House killed by a 298-106
vote a motion by Ad¬
ministration supporters to
, delete the entire Mills-Vanik
Amendment/ 'However,
President Nixon has
threatened to veto the bill if
it contains the trade
restrictions. Vanik said the
"tremendous vote" is a
"clear mandate" by
Congress "in support hoth
♦for human rights and
decency and an expression
of compassion for the State
of Israel." Sen. Henry M.
Jackson (D. Wash.) sponsor
of the identical measure in
the Senate expressed the
hope that Soviet authorities
- would reconsider • their
emigration practices as a
result of the House action.
Meanwhile Jewish leaders
hailed the House vote as an
important moment in
American history, a positive
act of statesmanship and a
great moral victory for
American and Soviet Jews.
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