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JERUSALEM (WNS) -Three new cases of cholera
were discovered .in ihe Jerusalem area, but Health
Ministry spokesen said there were no plans for a mass
vaccination program in any part of the country. The
latest to fall ill were a 55-year old man from Shiloah
quarter, a 16-year old girl from the Old City and a 30-
year old woman from the Abu Gosh village. The first
cholera case to be detected here since the 1970 out-'
break was a 15-year old boy from the Gaza Strip who
had been living in the Old City. All the victims so far
are Arabs.        »
OTTAWA (WNS) -Of the eight Jews elected to the
264-seat Canadian House of Commons in 1968, six were
re-elected. The most prominent was David Lewis, the
Polish-born leader of- the Democratic Party, which
•   follows a moderate Socialist line and won a record of 30
seats.
The other Jews re-elected were Max Saltzman and
. David Orlikow, New Democrats; Cabinet Minister
. Herbert Gray and Barnett Danson, Liberals; and Jack
Marshall, Progressive Conserative.The two Jewish
members leaving the House are Robert Kaplan, a*
Liberal who was defeated, and Philip Givens, a Liberal
, who had resigned earlier to seek a provincial seat.
TEL AVIV (WNS) -Terrorist organizations are
recruiting new members by agreeing la finance their
college education, it was disclosed by a military
tribunal in Nablus. The tribunal is trying- two West
Bank Arab youths who, the tribunal said, joined
terrorist groups as a condition for receiving money to
attend universities in Arab countries. According.to the
tribunal, at least.40 other Arabs have joined EIFatah
in order to pursue a higher education. The Nablus
defendants are accused of membership in an illegal
organization and aiding a hostile organization.
Jewish Family Service To
Hold Annual Meet Sunday
The 64th Jewish Family
Service Annual Meeting will -
take place on Sunday, Nov.
12at 7:30 p.m., atthe Melton
Community     Services
Building,    1175    College .
Avenue.
,. -There   will   be   a   brief
business meeting featuring a
presidential   address , by
Arthur J.   Isaac,  Jr.,  a "
nominating    committee
report by Abe A. Wolman, «
and   a   report    by    tha
Executive Director,   Peter
M. Glick. The invocation and '
benediction will be given by
Rabbi David Stavsky, Beth
Jacob Congregation.
The  agency  i#iJl   honor
volunteers      who, >     are
providing direct'^eryice to
clients  and  these  include
Harley Cohen, Gary Cooper,
Lee A. Passell, and Mrs.
Frayda Turkel. The agency
needs additional volunteers
to serve as friendlyyvisitors
to the elderly and the han¬
dicapped, as well as serving
as big brothers and big
| sisters for children living in
| one parent families.
The program theme in-
I volves "The'Impact Of The
Agency."   from   iti)   The
viewpoint of the staffUthere
I will be a role 'playing
I demonstration presented by
|Mrs. Mariam Prince;'Mrs.
lCarol Singer, Betting Lee,
I Henry Blumenstein, and
ISteven Rosenthal,' JFS staff
■members.
Blame Inaction By World Pilots, Airlines, And
U.S. Congress For Most Recent Hijacking
(2) The-.'&ewpoint of the
volunteer^Hajley Cohen,
who seiVetfks a big brother,
will make this presentation.
(3) The viewpoint of the
client-Bettina Lee, using
disguised case material, will
make this presentation.
A social hour, including
refreshments, will follow the
above program.
Jewish Family Service, a
beneficiary of the United
Way and the United Jewish
Fund and Council, plans the
annual meeting* to interpret
the services of'the agency to
the entire^ Jewish com¬
munity. The, professionally
trained ,>staff of social
workers^ ^Ijus a trained
Vocational counselor, using a
family focused approach,
makes an effort to help in¬
dividuals and families to
cope with a variety of ad¬
justment problems. The
agency is also available for
group counseling; ar$ for
family life e'dueatiom;. Th'e
latter, a'"' "pre^enti^fe'
program, involve^ h/elping'
groups, from an educational
standpoint, to better un¬
derstand'how to deal with
reality factors that we all
face in day-to-day.living.
Additional ^ information
about the annua) meeting or
about obtaining professional
help - from Jewish Family
Service can' be obtained by
calling 237-7686.
NEW YORK - The
American Jewish Congress
last week blamed inaction by
the world's pilot's, airline
managements and the U.S.
Congress   for   the   Arab,
terrorist hijacking'of a West
German plane and the death
Jews Picket Soviet Dancers
by BILL COHEN
CHRONICLE
SPECIAL
REPORTER
Several hundred Columbus
residents learnecT about the
plight of Soviet Jewry Nov. 1,
as representatives of Jewish
organizations picketed the
Beryozka Dance Company
that was performing at the
Ohio Theater.
About a dozen protestors
handed out "programs" to
those entering the theater,
but inside each one was a
plea for letters ^President
Nixon, urging him to
pressure 'the Soviets into
stopping "the harassment
and oppression- - of - Soviet
Jews.'' •
The leaflet denounced
what was termed "the
outrageous exit tax imposed
on educated Jews seeking to
emigrate."
Mark Mellman, who
visited the U.S.S.R. several
months ago, said 130 families
were recently' allowed to
leave Russia without paying
the exit tax, but he added,
"This is really just a
propaganda ploy on the part
1 of the Soviets for the most
part."
"I'd say conditions are
much worse than they were
last year," Mellman said.
"We have the exit tax. It's
still being enforced - up to
$36,000 for someone with a
PhD to leave the country."
"They earn about $140 a
month.lie^ddedV'They can
never  pay  that, kind  of
money."
Mellman also said that
during the summer, seven or
eight Soviet Jews went on
trial for possessing Jewish
books or applying for visas to
go to Israel. According to
Mellman, they were sen¬
tenced up to five years in
"starvation, labor camps."
- . Mrs. John Resler,
chairwoman ' bf the
Columbus Committee on
Soviet Jewry, said she thinks
the Russians'are "letting up
a little bit."] i
"They want to see what
' public opinion is going to
say," she said. "They're
concerned about the trade'
treaty that's coming up for
passage at the beginning of
the year, but there is no
reason to believe that they
are going to take the head
tax off or let more Jews go".
According to Mrs. Resler,
in the Soviet Union, "there is
absolutely no sign of Jewish
culture."
Later, ,a group of fun¬
damentalist Christians
started their own picket line
in front of the theater,
protesting what they said
was persecution of
Christians in the U.S.S.R.
The Christian protest was
more ideological, however,
than the Soviet Jewry
demonstration. Signs
carried by the -Christians
said "Communism reigns in
terror - Christianity in love"
and "Christians tortured by
communists."
of an airline agent during an
air getaway by bandits in
Houston, Tex.
"Libya, Algeria, Lebanon
and other points of terrorist
infection would not be so
hospitable if they were made
to pay the price of ostracism
by all decent nations", the
organization declared,
demanding that Lufthansa
and other airline pilots and
managements -"announce
immediately that they will
no longer fly to any country
that gives refuge to air
terrorists or allows them or
their cause to benefit from
this use of blackmail".
In a statement, Howard M.
Squadron, chairman of the
American Jewish Congress
national Governing Council,
asserted:
"We demand that the air
terrorists be made to stand
trial in Libya that the Arab
fanatics they released be
returned by Libya to Ger¬
man custody and "made
accountable for the-cowardly
murdersthey perpetrated at
Munich.
Soviets Release More Jews
Without Exit Visa Tax
WASHINGTON (WNS) -In
what appears to be an easing
of the exit visa restrictions,
the Soviet government has
granted exit visas to David
and Esther Markish, the son
and widow of the late Soviet
Jewish I,, writer, Peretz
Markish^ .pr: David Korn,
chairipa'n, of the Soviet ,
Jewry ■ - Committee^ ■ of the
Jewish CommunitojCouncil
of Greater Washington,),
reported that the I^trtushes
were told to leave uw Soviet
Union by Nov. 6. ,.]I\''['l ,    ,,',-•
In New York, the^aiioriaf''
Conference on Soviet Jewry
reported that the two
daughters of the late
Solomon Mikhoels, head of
Moscow's  Yiddish   State
Theatre, have been granted
exit visas. Student Struggle
for .(Soviet   Jewry   also
repefribeeff - that^Gayrial
Shaph^Was^ reunion with
his ' American wife)'' Judy
Silver Shapiro, im Vienna.
Mikhail Kliachin and Julia
Smuckler, two Soviet Jewish
activists, arrived in Vienna
at approximately thellfcame
time as Shapiro, according
to SSSJ. -<)at}<!l
Reports fronv Londffllisay.,
thaf.WteJl, o,verAl30~>4jivk!jsh.
families, in,trV,number1;of-
Savjet-j'cjties , have**, jbeeo
exempted from paying the
education tax during the last
two weeks. In a number of
provincial towns, Jewish
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'If Libya fails to comply, it
must be cut off at once from
all air services".
Of U.S. government
responsibility, Mr. Squadron
asserted:
"This newest air assault,
with its attendant threat to
an American traveler,
makes all the-more bitterly
disappointing the failure of
the U.S. Congress during its
last session to enact
legislation that would have
provided at least some
elements of sanction against
offending countries.
'Moreover, as we join
.other Americans in grieving
for the Eastern Air* Line
agent killed by ' afyned
bandits making their
getaway from Houston, we
remind the Congress that the
anti-hijacking legislation
that failed would have
provided increased security
at the nation's airports.
'AU who played a part in
the resistance, to this
legislation bear a measure of
culpability  for  each   new
~~ air terror".
Jewish Scholar Blasts War
Praises Those Who Refused
By BILL COHEN
CHRONICLE SPECIAL
REPORTER
Americans who have
refused to fight in Vietnam
"deserve an award"„- not
prison or exile - according to
Rabbi Abraham Heschell,
who spoke Oct.' 31, at
Denison University.
The famous professor of
Jewish Philosophy and
Mysticism t at the Jewish
Theological Seminary ;said
that because "any! act of this
war is murder"..."the
deserters should be heroes.
Whom should I obey, the Ten
Commandments or General
Abrams?" \,
Heschell,  who  fouiraed
Clergy and Laymen Con¬
cerned  about  Vietnam^'iij
1964, charged that the war
has been "absurd from.the
beginning". He added, "the
country        has        gone
nje^ugina. You think only
anjadjyidual can go crazy?",
-jHe£c§ell said he gave the,
first major speech calling for7
amnesty in 1968, and he sajfl'
he      "begged"      HenttT
Kissinger in'lWShto considW
givirjg;<anihe^t*2-to' draft'
resisforslaritftdeS&ters.     •'
Heschell;>".who" was also
active in the civil rights
movement of the 1960's,
quoted Jewish tradition as
saying: "To kill one human
being is like killing all
human   beings."   He   said
American life has been
"demoralized and
dehumanized," and he ad¬
ded, "The majority of
Americans don't care if
there is a war as long as our
boy's aren 't there."
Heschell charged that
stopping communism "was a
pretext" for U.S. in¬
volvement in Vietnam.
"Poqr little Vietnam going
comrriunist won't* shift the
balance of<power," he said.
"I think communism, would
be a disaster for the U.S., but
whether it would be one for
Vietnam, I don't know,"
Heschell added.
Heschell said that as a
result of the American "big
investment" of 50-thousand
-dead and 700-thousand in¬
jured in the war, the only
accomplishment has been
that "die Americans are the
most hated people in Viet¬
nam."
Heschell said he in¬
fluenced Catholic priest
Daniel Berrigan to join the
anti-war movement.
Berrigan was later jailed for
destroying draft records in
Catonsville, Maryland.
Heschell said, however, he
does not agree with >
Berrigan's way of protesting
the war. He said the Jewish
tradition teaches respect for
law. "I could not, in good
conscience, play havoc with
the law if it doesn't compel
me to commit a great sin,"
Heschell explained.
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