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20 Letter Bombs Intercepted: Mori; Feared
NEW YORK (WNS) — Federal and local law en:
fbrcement agencies have reported the interception, in
Singapore of 15 letter bombs, several of'them ad¬
dressed to New York, and stressed that this latest
incident proves terrorists are continuing their
diabolical efforts! A letter-bomb mailed from New
Delhi, India was received in Tel Aviv this week.
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NEW YORK (WNS)—Major John V.Lindsay, citing
"widespread poverty among groups that previously
had not attemptedto benefit from governmental ef¬
forts to assist the poor," announced a $250,000 grant "to
assist the Jewish poor." "Ihe grant will be used mainly
for community action programs on Manhattan's Lower
East Side and in the Grand Concourse^Tremoht section
of the Bronx "where there are substantial «on7
centrations of Jewish poor" outside the city's 26 official
poverty areas. 7 -7
LONDON (JTA) -British
Jews appear to be the
principal targets of the new
wave of letter bombs
flooding Britain. To date, 20'
of the booby-trapped en¬
velopes have been either
intercepted at postal sorting
"offices or turned over to
police by recipients. One
recipient, Vivian Prins, a
diamond merchant, was.
injured Friday when* he
opened a letter bomb in his
office. He was reported
resting comfortably,
yesterday at St. Barr
tholomews Hospital.
Other recipients included
Heritage House Expansion Plans Approved
Abba. Bornstein, former
chairman of the British
Mizrachi, Chief . Rabbi
Emeritus Sir Israel Brodie,
and the sextonof a small
synagogue who saldJigywas
probably on the tenons)
list because.his name, ap1
pears on; the synagogue's
note paper. Letter bombs
were also received by three
Jews in: Glasgow.
Several were addressed
offices in Whitechapel whj
many Jewish business fu/ms
are located. Scotland
has warned Jews not to open
unexpected mail
abroad. Police increai
security for the 17th biennial
national conference of the
British Secion of the World
arrested in Bucharest after
Rumanian authorities found
letter bombs in their
possession. The Arabs were
enroute to Yugoslavia where
it was believed they intended
.mail the bombs to Israeli
individuals and Jewish in-
tutions.)
'(A Dutch-Jewish in-
iustrialist, Oscar Van Leer,
said yesterday in Am'
sterdam that he may have
been the intended target of
an explosion that took three
lives last week in the
Sheraton Hotel in Buenos
Aires. He said the blast
. occurred in a room adjoining
his and "may have been the
.work not of Arab terrorists
but     of     anti-American
The hopes, dreams and
many ' years of careful.
planning by the Columbus
Jewish Community
culminated in a special-call
meeting of the/ Heritage
House Board of Directors, in.
which the Board approved
the plans proposed by the
Expansion Committee., Mr.
and Mrs.' Jack S. Resler
announced that because of
the need and their love for
Heritage House, they would
make a major gift towards
the new wing,.which gift will
be in addition to funds
already ;|n the Expansion
Fund and additional funds
that will hopefully ibe for¬
thcoming from the com¬
munity.
A champaigne reception in
the honor of Jack and
Eleanor Resler followed the
Board meeting. Toasts were
offered    by    Mark    D.
Feinknopf, Sr., President of constructed. A" new nursing
the Board, Miss Georgiana station, physician's
Asheim, on behalf of the examining room, nursing
Residents of Heritage House ; charting room, medical
and Rabbi Joseph Vilenski,    record librarian's, section
spiritual leader of Ahavas
Sholom.;
The new wing of Heritage
House will permit the Home
to double its capacity so that
will be at the center of.lhe
residents' living quarters. A
spacious dining room
overlooking a beautifully
landscaped courtyard will be
a total of 100 elderly men arid   included in the new wing,
women of Tour community      With the completion of the
will be able to reside at
Heritage House and par¬
ticipate in the award-
winning, outstanding
program of comprehensive
care provided at Heritage
"House.', ■■';7-
The hew facility will
consist of fifty private rooms
with private bathrooms. In
addition to this, greatly
enlarged and (i superbly
equipped Occupational
Therapy and .^Physical
Therapy   areas,'(Will   be
Jick Announces Proposals
For New Institute of Life
TORONTO,   (JTA)
select group of more than 20
wide-ranging proposals of
. projects designed to enhance
'• the quality of Jewish life ami
help make it more
meaningful were announced
by Prof. Leon A. Jick,
director of the recently
created Institute of Jewish
Life, in an address to the 41st
■General Assembly of ;■ the
Council of jje'wi'sji.
Federations and Welfare'
Funds.
He noted that the projects,
offering "diverse op¬
portunities for significant
action," ranged from a
syndicated magazine sup¬
plement for the American
Jewish press to communal
service for college-age youth
to a national media center.
The projects' major areas
include education, family
life, leadershipdeyelopment
:a n d co m mu n i t y
organization, arts and the
media, and the role of Israel
as an education resource. "
Prof. Jick said that the
search for a more
meaningful Jewish, life
"presents us with an op¬
portunity, a challenge, a
demand to restore and
renew" those qualities which
made Jewish survival
possible. He singled out the
youth "for providing much of:;
the stimulus for a new
departure in American
Jewish life," and for
"rediscovering what we left
behind, recycling the
discards of . an" tearlier.
generation." He rjpted that
the events of Junei 1967, and
what he termed the amazing *
resurrection of Soviet Jewry
ignited the Jewish youth.
The Institute wais created
at last year's General
Assembly in Pittsburg on the
recommendation of the CJF
Task Force on Jewish
Identity following two years
of extensive and intensive
study and community
dialogue/The Institute is
funded by Jewish
Federations throughout
North America. Prof. Jick,
on leave of absence from
Brandeis University, where
he heads the Lown Graduate
Center for Contemporary
Jewish Studies was named,
the director of the Institute
last MarchVThe Institute's
73-member Board of
Trustees is comprised of
communal, religious, youth
and educational leaders.
new wing, Heritage House
will be able to serve, those
residents who are in need of
intensive care in a special
section which will have piped
in oxygen in addition to other
life saving equipment.
With the completion of the
expansion program,
Heritage House will be able
to offer separate living areas
and special rehabilatative
programming for those
residents who have mental
impairment.
In accepting this
magnificent contribution,
Mr.1 Feinknopf, on behalf of
the Heritage House Board of
Directors, stated that no
words could adequately
express the gratitude of the:
entire Jewish community for
this gift.
^ Mr. Feinknopf, speaking
I for the Board, stated that
'Eleanor Resler has become
a legend in her own time in
terms of her outstanding
devotion to the Residents of
Heritage House since the
days the. Home "first. opened
7 its doors. "Eleanor's Friday
afternoon Sabbath
Welcoming visits have
become a loving ritual at
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Jewish   Congress   whjctr^demehts." Van Leer played
opened here last night. a      leading      role      in
(The Israeli newspaper, organizations providing
Maariv, reported today that economic aid to Israel. The
two Palestinian Arabs were   Dutch Minister of Justice,
ORT To Honor Justice Stern
.. Justice Leonard J. Stern,
Supreme Court, State of
Ohio, will be honored with a
personal i tribute at a dinner
given by the Columbus
Men's ORT this Sunday
night, Nov. 19, at the Win¬
ding Hollow Country Club,
3900 Westerville Road.
No one whose life has been
touched by Justice Leonard
J. Stern has failed to be
enriched by him. His suc¬
cessful career began in
Cleveland, Ohio, where he
. was born and received his
education, including the
Juris. Doctor Degree from
Cleveland Law School, now
known as Cleveland State
University. He .engaged in
the practice of law in
Cleveland for 13 years and
then .held his first public
office as Bailiff in the
Common Pleas Court of
Cuyahoga County. Five
years later, he became the
Corporation Counsel in the
Ohio Secretaty of State's
office.
Iii. 1970 Governor Rhodes
■showed the great esteem
with which the government
of this state regarded Justice
Leonard J. Stern by ap¬
pointing him to the office of
The Supreme Court of the
"State of Ohio. Again, he was
unopposed by anyone' during
the election for the next sue
JUSTICE L. J. STERN
year term.
Justice Stern has received
the B'nai B'rith Sanford
Lakin Outstanding Citizen
Award and is listed in Who's
Who in America and Who's
Who in Midwest. His other
honors, recognitions and
affiliations are too numerous
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Andreis Van Agp told the
Netherlands Senate last
week that the government is
considering making false .
bomb alerts and the planting
of fake bombs a punishable
offense.) -
A Scotland Yard expert
told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency today that the letter
bombs are only dangerous if
opened. He warned against
putting suspect main in
water because the glue on
the envelope could dissolve
and the bomb would explode.
The - letter bombs contain
Stiff cardboard soaked in a
pla,stic. explosive with a
metal detonator. The expert
said any suspect letter
should be put aside and the
local police informed im¬
mediately.
"It is safe to handle as long
asthe envelope is not torn,"
he said. "Once such
precautions are taken, there
is no reason to be unduly
^worried. When the per¬
petrators discover that
nobody falls for the device
they will stop doing it
because it is not easy."
Post office workers,
meanwhile, were reportedly
being given special training
to detect and handle letter
bombs. There was growing
concern, however, ihat some
of the bombs were passing
through a metal-detection
device without being
discovered.
A London newspaper
quoted : one postal sorter
saying: "This job is
beginning to get damned
dangerous. I wish the Arabs,
would fight their war in the
Middle East." Another
remarked, "Sooner or later
one of us is going to get killed
• and very few of us are
Jewish."
French Jews Urged To Reduce
Their Contributions To Israel
PARIS (WNS) --The
President of the Funds
Social Juif Unifie (FSJU) -
vthe central French-Jewish
Welfare organization-said
here that too much French
money goes to Israel and, as
a consequence, the ...local
Jewish; community * is
•reduced to "a distress
budget":
Jewish Vote Triples For Nixon But
Jewish Majority Goes for McGovern
NEW YORK (WNS) —
Despite President Nixon's
sweeping victory — 'in¬
cluding almost tripling the
Jewish vote since 1968 —
Sen.. George McGovern
nevertheless retained 61
percent of the Jewish vote
nationally. . , _
Available returns "showed
that the heaviest volume of
Jewish votes for Nixon were
registered in areas beset by
racial tensions as in areas of
Michigan where bussing has
been a major issue and in the
Canarsie district of New
York. In some parts of New
York Cjty, Nixon's stronger
showing ;aipifigJewish7
voters was'^uflbuted to the
heavy support he received in
Orthodox and Hassidic
neighborhoods. But the
Jewish vote for McGovern.,
was higher than that of any
other whjte ethnic group.'
Both parties had7 made
intensive efforts to win over
Jews on such issues as Israel
and Soviet Jewry.. Some
evidence that this played an
important role was in Ohio.
where Rep. Charles Vanik, a
non-Jewish Democrat, won a
10th two-year Congressional
term with 92 percent of the
Jewish vote.- Vanik in¬
troduced an amendment to
the East:West Trade Act
opposing most favored
nation status and other trade
concessions 7 to the Soviet
Union until Moscow cancels
its head tax. McGovern also
won 52-54 per cent of Ohio's
Jtewish vote. ■'■'■""
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* Guy de Rothschild, head of
the famous Jewish banking :
family, warned'that unless
the current distribution of.
United Jewish Appeal funds,
two-thirds to Israel and one- -
third for local needs, '.: is
changed "we might have to
reconsider the continued
existence of a joint fund-
raising campaign".
Rothschild was addressing
the FSJU General Assembly,
which approved a new
constitution providing its
democratization and
rejuvenation.
The French Jewish Leader
said that French Jewry,
which has integrated more
than 250,000 Jews since the
end of the war, doubling its
size, is now forced to close
down homes for the aged,
youth hostels, schools and
social and cultural facilities
for lack of* money. He said
that he is due to meet with
Jewish Agency .Chairman
Lbuis Pincus and will raise
this issue with him.
7A- number  of  delegates
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