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VOL.53 NO.25
JUNE 19,1975-TAMUZ10
ADL Files Charges Against Four American
Corporations For Violating Americans' Rights
Reform Judaism's First Women Clergy
NEW YORK — Rabbi Sally Priesand (center), who
was ordained as the fi^st woman rabbi in America in
1972, congratulates Marcia S. Bernstein (left) and
Barbara Herman before commencement exercises of
the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion,
held at Temple Emanu-El in New York. Ms. Bernstein
became the second woman rabbi in Reform Judaism
as she was ordained with 16 other rabbis and Mrs.
Herman was invested as the first female cantor to be
certified after completing a full course of studies at a
recognized Jewish school of Sacred music. .
Mrs. Herman completed a five-year study program
at the HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music, which serves
the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform branches of
Judaism. As a cantor, she is authorized to serve as co-
officiant at religious services, direct and supervise all
musical activities in a synagogue, and assist a rabbi in
such services as weddings, bar or bas mitzvahs, and
funerals'. Although other women have served as
- cantors,^ Mrs. Herman is the first to be officiallycer- -
tified.
RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
by John Lei
By Yitzhak Rabi
NEW YORK, (JTA) -The
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith has filed legal
charges against Jour
American corporations
charging them with anti-
Jewish discrimination in
their, hiring policies and
violating the civil rights of
American citizens. At a
press conference: at ADL
headquarters here June 10 it
was announced that charges
were filed June 4 with the
Equal Employment Op¬
portunity Commission
(EEOC), against Aramco,
Service Co.y Texas; Behdix-
Siyahco, Maryland; Hospital
Corporation of America,
Tenn; and International
Schools Services, Princeton,
N.J. The four companies are
accused of accepting and
Scrutiny Of New Arab-Backed
Bank Seeking Charter Urged
Call For Crash Energy Program
NEW YORK, - Criticizing
the "reluctance" of
government bodies to shape
a national energy policy, the
American Jewish Congress
last week called for a "crash
program" to conserve fuel,
increase domestic oil
production and develop
alternative sources of
energy.
Leona Chanin, president of
the -organization's National
Women's Division, released
a study by the organization
asserting:
"The public sector must
assume responsibility to
assure1 that resources are
made available to meet our.
country's genuine energy
needs. ' ->:-l
"It is government that
must develop a well-
considered energy program,
explain to the public why it is
heeded and how it will work
and put it into effect.
"At stake in this effort is
hot only our country's
economic health and that of
our allies but also the ef¬
fectiveness of American
foreign policy."
Mrs. Chanin spoke at a
meeting of the .division's
national board In Stephen
Wise Congress House, 15
East 84th Street
Noting that "virtually no¬
thing" had happened under
Project Independence — the
Federal Energy program set
up in the wake of the 1973
Arab oil embargo — Mrs.
Chanin declared:
"It is now clear that the
usual reluctance of govern¬
mental bodies to make
unpleasant and unpopular
decisions has triumphed
once again. The whole,
matter has been left to
private industry and the play
of the market place.
"But the promises of
private industry have
proved equally hollow.
Development of domestic oil
resources and of alternative
sources of energy Jias been
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NEW YORK, (JTA) - The
State Banking Department
has been urged  by  the
American Jewish Congress
to demand  assurances  of
nondiscrimination   on   ac¬
count of race, religion or
political     considerations
before granting a charter to
a new financial institution to
be,known as the "United
Bank, ^ Arab1 and" French,
New York." In a letter to
acting  superintendent " Er¬
nest Kohn, the AJ Congress
declared:    "Many   Arab
commercial    interests,
especially     within     the
financial community, have
publicly announced their
intention to carry out the
boycott  objectives  of  the
Arab League. We believe it
appropriate therefore that
your  Commission,   as  a
. precondition to the issuance
of   a    charter,    receive
/ assurances that the business
affairs of this new banking
. institution will be conducted
fully in conformity with the
letter and spirit of our laws
and with the national policy
of this country as expressed
both in the statements of our
government and the enact¬
ments of our legislature."
Pour  American  banks  —
Bankers Trust of New York,
First National of Chicago,
Security Pacific of
California and Texas
Commerce Bancshares —
have reportedly applied to
the State Banking , Com¬
mission - for permission to
establish the new financial
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Groups Not Satisfied With
CBS Rebroadcast On Syria
NEW YORK, (JTA) -The
American Jewish Congress
declared June 11 that the
CBS re-broadcast June 8 of
its Feb. 16 television por¬
trayal of the; condition of
Syrian Jewry and on. the
destruction of- Kuneitra on
the Golan Heights, included
reference to complaints
about the original program
but that the network's reply
was "inadequate, self-
serving and grudging at
best." ' The AJ Congress,,
which filed a complaint on
June 3 with the National
News Council, a non-profit
agency which investigates
complaints about the media,
also said, in a letter to the
news council, that ; its
complaint about the original
"60 Minutes" program
"stands, and we look for¬
ward to a finding in support
of our charges by the
National News Council."
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, AJ
Congress president,
declared that CBS. had
"failed to respond to the
major    thrusts    of   pur
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complying with anti-Jewish
job practices of Saudi Arabia
and Abu-Dubai. According to
Arnold Forster, ADL's
general counsel, those firms
are "screening out Jews
from employment in the
Arab world on the basis of
religion." He cited Aramco,
the world's largest oil
combine, for demanding
baptismal certificates from
candidates seeking em¬
ployment overseas,-to prove
that they are not Jewish. •
Forster   said 'that   the
charges   of  discrimination
made to the EEOC will be
"Preliminary    steps    to
Federal Court" if the ADL's
application   for   an   im¬
mediate "right tb sue" is
granted   by   the   EEOC.
. Forster added that ADL filed
the  charges  in  order  to
• compel the four firms "to
cease   and   desist   their
' collusive    discrimination
with the Arab countries," to
nullify those clauses in the
U.S.-Saudi agreement which
encourage them to do so and
to obtain a ruling that will
"serve    as   . a    binding'
precedent  upon   American •
firms doing business with
the Arabs." The U.S. trade
agreement    with    Saudi
' Arabia, signed June -1974,
stated that the U.S. agrees to
be "sensitive to the social,
. cultural,    political    and
religious contexts of Saudi'
Arabia."    Seymour
Graubard,  national  chair¬
man of ADL, said that the
League     "deliberately!
selected"   four   big   and
powerful corporations in
order to reach "a clear and
unequivocal"  rule  against
the illegal discrimination of
American Jews. He added
that these, companies "are
: simply   the   top   of   the
iceberg" and that the ADL's
legal action against them is
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Agudas Achim "Remembrance" Dedication
Set For Sunday; Many Dignitaries To Attend
"Rembrance" is the*
theme for the dedication of a
memorial to the 6 million
Jews, who died in con¬
centration camps during
World War H. The memorial
is also designed to portray
the deliverance of our people
through the rebirth of the
State of Israel.
Australia    and    London,
England.
The Senior Senator from
the State of Ohio, the
Honorable Robert Taft, Jr.
will join a host of political,
communal and religious
leaders to participate in the
dedication ceremonies. The
following prominent figures
will be present for the
consecration service:
Congressman Samuel I.
DeVine of the 12th Dist.,
State of Ohio; Congressman
Chalmers P. Wylie of the
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Rabbi Issac L.Swift
Sen. Robert Taft, Jr.
The Dedication is set for
Sunday, June 22, 8 p.m. at
the Agudas Achim
Synagogue: Rabbi Samuel
W, Rubenstein will serve as
chairman for the evening.
The guest speaker will be
Rabbi Isaac L. Swift,
Congregation Ahavath
Torah, Englewood, N. J.
Rabbi Swift is a member of
the faculty of Theodore
Herzl Institute, N.Y.C. and
the92ndSt."Y",N.Y.C.He
is the founder of Moriah
School of Englewood and the
Frisch High School of
1 Northern New Jersey. Rabbi
Swift previously held
positions     in     Sydney,
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