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VOL. 53 NO. 18
MAY 1, 1975 - IYAR 20
Columnists Charge Press With Conspiracy To
lay On Emotions Of The Jewish People
Premier At Hillel
The president reflects on his future at San Clemente,
Calif, in a scene from "The Faking of the President
1974", a satirical feature produced, written and
directed by Jeanne and Alan Abel.
The world premiere of this film will take place in
Columbus at the O.S.U. Hillel Foundation, 46 E. 16th
Ave., on Saturday, May 10 at 9 and 11 p.m. Author,
producer, director Alan Atfel will attend in person and
will speak at 10:30.
Columbus Participates In
lafl. Total Mobilization
The   Columbus   Jewish
Federation is participating
in   the    national    Total
Mobilization   which, the
United Jewish Appeal has
launched for April and May,
with   the   objectives   of
collecting $100 billion in
cash, completing the regular
1975  campaign,   and  re-
soliciting ' inadequate   con¬
tributions. "I cannot believe
that the heeds of Israel, and
of our own local agencies,
will not be met this year
because the Jews of the
United   States  have   not
raised enough moriey," said
Sidney I. Blatt, President of
the     Columbus     Jewish
Federation.    Edwin    M.
Ellman, Treasurer of the
Federation, has urged that
cash payments: are needed
on   pledges   how:   "The
Jewish   Community   has
assumed obligations.v— for
Israel, for our local agencies
and for Jews throughout the
world. The Federation needs
cash now  to meet these
obligations: We are asking
you to participate in a
meaningful act of conscience
now  by  sending full or
partial -payment  on  your
pledge  to  the  Federation
today."
Mr. Ellman noted that
while the Columbus Jewish
Federation, through its
United Jewish Fund Cam¬
paign, is involved in a major
campaign in Columbus,
most of the campaign
pledges which have been
made are made as pledges,
not as cash payments.
"While we have a campaign
achievement, to date, of
nearly   two  and  a  half
millions dollars, this does by
no means mean that we have
that much money available
Edwin M. Ellman
to send to Israel, or to use for
local        needs. Our
achievement is in pledges,
not cash. There is a
desperate need at present,
for cash," said Mr. Ellman.
The Federation is geared for
a cash mobilization and is
urging that full or partial
payment of all outstanding
pledges be made im¬
mediately by all con¬
tributors.       -
The United Jewish Appeal
has stated, clearly and
unequivocally, that "cash is
, the lifeline for the people of
Israel" and that there is hot
available the kind of cash
that is necessary. The
Jewish agency, the vehicle
responsible, for absorbing
immigrants in Israel, has
had to reassess its own
human priorities and make
painful budget cuts. Based
on projections made by
Jewish communities
throughout the world, a
budget of $701  million of
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By Murray Zuckoff
NEW   YORK,   (JTA)   - .
Two nationally syndicated
columnists  charged last
week that there exists what '
amounts to a conspiracy by
the   Jewish   Telegraphic
Agency and the worldwide
J( wish press to defame an
ambassador      and      to
manipulate the fears and
emotions, of the   Jewish
people. This view was ex¬
pressed April 21 in a column
written by Rowland Evans
and Robert Novak.   The
column began by stating that -
"A worldwide campaign to
paint the Egyptian am¬
bassador  to  the  United
States   as   publicly   ad¬
vocating 'extermination' of
all traces of 'Judaism' in the
Middle   East   shows   the
dangerous intensity of the
propaganda battle now being
waged by militant friends of
Israel following collapse of
the U.S.-Israeli-Egyptian
peace  effort."  The  am¬
bassador referred to is
' Ashraf Ghorbal and; the
alleged campaign has been
conducted, according to the
columnists, by the JTA and
"the worldwide Jewish press
- small weeklies and dailies
devoted to Jewish affairs
with  heavy   emphasis   on
Israel..."    Evans    and
Novak wrote that "On April
1, the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency bureau in Buenos
Aires  transmitted  a  long
section of the alleged in¬
terview — which had been
published weeks before—on
its  main trunk  wire,  ex¬
tending worldwide.  That
wire copy was irhmediately |
published in the specialized
, Jewish press." In addition, '
" the  columnists  note," in
England  "the  respected
Manchester Guardian also
published a large'portion of
the alleged interview, but on
April 10 carried a full
retraction  'for running a.
piece of black propaganda*
which, the newspaper said,
was  obtained  from   'an
Israeli source' (that was)
impeccable." Indeed, Evans
and  Novak _ continue,   "so
widely has the allegation
against Ambassador Ashraf
Ghorbal been spread by the
worldwide     Jewish
press ... that  it  was   ac¬
tually discussed at Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger's
final   session  with   Israeli
Prime  Minister  Yitzhak
Rabin  in  Jerusalem, last
month."
- This was a remarkable
achievement,' if, indeed this
was discussed last month.
The final session between
Kissinger and Rabin was
March 23. The article by JTA
was not transmitted until
April 1, as the colmunists
themselves noted. Perhaps
the real scoop here is not
that Kissinger and' Rabin
discussed the -alleged
Ghorbal interview but that,
Kissinger^ somehow
remained in Israel nine days
after he returned to
Washington, a giant feat
even for the Secretary, but
then no mean feat for Evans
and Novak, either. • But
giving the columnists wide
latitude, perhaps Rabin and
Kissinger did have the art¬
icle before it was released
by the JTA. The article
appeared in the Buenos
Aires periodical, Marchar
(To March) at least a month
earlier. A check, however,
indicated that it had not been
picked up earlier by any
other journal or newspaper
outside Israel and that some
of the Israeli papers had only
limited excerpts of the'
Marchar article by mid-
March. The Jerusalem Post
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 12)
Russian Mothers Plead For Their Sons
By Bill Cohen
Chronicle Special Reporter
The mothers of two im¬
prisoned Soviet Jewish
activists visited Columbus
last week, asking for the
community to participate in
a telegram and letter
campaign to free their sons.
And, after a meeting
Thursday with the Soviet
Jewry Committee of the
Columbus Jewish
Federation, the community
did respond by sending more
than 100 telegrams of protest
to'Soviet officials, according
to Hersh Adlerstein of the
C.J.F. Community Relations
Committee.
Itta Nashpits spoke on
behalf of her son, Mark, and
Batya Tsitlionok spoke on
behalf of her son, Boris.
Both men were reportedly
sentenced March 31 to five
years in exile from Moscow,
after their participation
February 24 in a demon¬
stration for emigration
outside Moscow's Lenin
Library.
The two men were charged
with violating public order
by their participation in the
demonstration, which lasted
only 30 seconds before being
broken up by police, ac¬
cording to the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Speaking in Yiddish
through interpreter Harry
Schwartz, Itta Nashpits and
Boris Tsitlionok
Batya Tsitlionok told The
Chronicle they wanted their
telegram and letter cam¬
paign to stress a theme of
Mark Nashpits
mothers caring about their
sons.
In accordance with that
theme, they called on
Columbus residents to send
protest telegrams to the
wives and mothers of Soviet
leaders such as Leonid
Brezhnev, Aleksei Kosygin,
and Nikolai Podgoray at the
Kremlin.
They said telegrams
calling for the release of the
two activists should also be
sent  to  the  wives   and
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
Study Finds Arab Propaganda Is
Not Making Inroads On Camnuses
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
The national director of
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foun¬
dations took issue on April 21
with the view that Arab
propaganda, accelerated
with petro - dollars, is
making anti - Israel or anti -
Jewish inroads on American
college campuses. Dr.
Norman Frimer told Hillel
national commission at its
annual meeting here that
"such dire conclusions,
already given credence by
some spokesmen in the
Jewish community are-still
unwarranted fears." Frimer
said that a Hillel analysis
based on a poll of its field
directors at 120 major
schools "does not show any
significant shift in campus
opinion which, by and large,
supports Israel's right to
survival." Efforts; by pro-
Arab campus groups
distributing literature,
screening films, organizing
exhibits and convening
rallies with speakers hostile
to Israel "may create a
sense of discomfort among
- Jewish students and others
on campus,- but the extent of
their productivity hail been
minimal," Frimer said. The
few exceptions; he added,
are "scattered, isolated,
and,'for the momjent, non-
threatening." The 80-
member commission,
Hillei's major policy body,
unanimously elected Dr.
Steymour Martin Lipset of
Harvard University,
sociologist, educator and
author, as its chairman to
succeed Dr. Marver H.
Bernstein, president of
Brandeis University, who
completed two terms.
The Hillel analysis,
prepared by Rabbi Samuel
Z. Fishman, the agency's
research and program
director, disclosed "little
correlation" between rising
student enrollments and;
anti-Israel activity, Frimer
said, and no hard data
emerged to support the
• notion that the anticipation
of petro-dollars by finan-
< clally-pressed schools would
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