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VOL. 52 NO. 46
NOVEMBER 21,1P74 - KISLEV 7 ,
Jewish Leaders Say Brown Must Go
Families await housing assignments and absorbtion
and rehabilitation. Cash needed to provide the
essentials of life.
American Jewry Challenged
To Provide Cash Now!
The following letter
released by UJA General
Chairman Paul Zuckerman
was sent by Pinhas Sapir,
Chairman of the Jewish
Agency, to the leadership of
the United Jewish Appeal
and the Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds'of the
United States.
"In this year we are
reminded again that to
survive Israel must be
strong, defense forces must
have the capability to
discourage any attempt to
crush us, that our borders
must be made secure
against infllitration, that our
entire nation must be con¬
stantly on guard against the
desperate actions of
terrorists.
"For this strength, the
people of Israel must pay —
in taxes and defense loans
and in other ways — a third
of everything we produce,
while still paying the costs of
the Yom Kippur War, which
consumed an entire year pf
Israel's GNP.
"But how tragic it would
be if the cost of security
made us diminish, in the
slightest degree, Israel's
very reason for being —
providing a home for needy
and oppressed Jews. Our
task is to continue and
strengthen this historic
mission. At this very
moment, we are waiting to
hear the joyous news that the
Jews of me Soviet Union will
be allowed to come to Israel
in numbers greater than
ever before.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 19)
ByBenGallob
NEW YORK, (JTA) -
Jewish leaders flooded the
White House with telegrams
Nov. 13 demanding that
President Ford dismiss Gen.
George S. Brown, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
for his anti-Semitic and anti-
Israel statements. They also
demanded an immediate
apology, but indications
were that the apology was
not acceptable. Raymond
Epstein, president of the
Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare
Funds, sent a telegram to
Ford during "an immediate
retraction and apology"
from Brown. The telegram
was sent : from Chicago
where 2500 Jewish com¬
munal leaders are attending
the CJF's 43rd General
Assembly. Epstein said in
the telegram that "we are
stunned by today's
revelation of statements
made by Gen. George S.
Brown regarding Jews. We
know that these comments
do not reflect our American
government's position nor
your own well established
sympathetic understanding
of the Jewish community.
We most strongly urge an
immediate retraction and
apology by the General. This
corrective is needed to
prevent his remarks from
being an incentive to overt
anti-Semitism. We believe
that your own statement will
do the most to counter and
remedy this grievous slur
and request your action." In
a telegram to Defense
Secretary James
Schlesinger, Brown's
superior, Rabbi Israel
Miller, chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations, said Brown's
remarks were blatanly anti-
Semitic. He added: "His
statement should be im¬
mediately repudiated by you
for the Department of
Defense and Brown issue an
apology.  It is  imperative
that a full investigation be a
launched   into   the   cir¬
cumstances     which
precipitated this outrageous
act", ■■■•':,■., to   '
Rabbi Alexander Schin-
dler, -president/of the
(Reform) Union of
Aim eric a ri He brew
Congregations, said that
Brown must be dismissed for
"his outrageous and blatant
anti-Semitic stereotyping
remarks against Jews and
(CONTINUED ON FAGE 7)
Rabbi Blasts Jewish Women's Movement
by Bill Cohen
Chronicle Special Reporter
Elie Wiesel Will Speak At
Cols. Torak Academy
The Columbus Torah
Academy annual dinner
will be held on Sunday, Nov.
24,6:30p.m. at the Columbus
Sheraton Hotel.
Presenting the evening's
main address will be the
nationally prominent author
Elie Wiesel, Mr. Wiesel,
whose major theme of life is
the growth of humanization
in man, .was born in Signet,
Transylvania in 1928. He was
imprisoned in several of the
Nazi concentration camps.
After, the holocaust he
worked in Paris as a jour¬
nalist and writer.
Now an American citizen,
he and his wife live in New
York most of the year andin
Israel and Paris the rest of
the time. A distinguished
professor of Judaic Studies
Elie Wiesel
at City College in New York,
Mr. Wiesel also holds
honorary doctorates from
the Jewish Theological
Seminary, Yeshiva
University,     Boston
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
| The Jewish women's
movement'is "aimed at the
destruction of traditional
Judaism and the beautiful
heritage of the Jewish
faith," according to Rabbi
David Stavsky of Beth
Jacob.
In response to the recent
conference of Jewish women
held at the Melton Building
and growing demands by
Jevvlgii, women   for. more
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pflsJ^L   ^institutions', Stavsky told
^     The Chronicle he thinks the
leaders  of  the   growing
movement have  "personal
problems."
"In all probability, these
people are unhappy with
themselves and. therefore
they are also unhappy with
Jewish society around
them," Stavsky said. "I
know it's very dangerous to
make such a sweeping
general statement, but
I think these women are
unstable, bitter, and angry,"
he added.
"I suspect that what we
are witnessing today is hot a
real act of piety but as much
an act of being angry with
society and themselves,"
said Stavsky.
Stavsky said he compares
the Jewish women's
movement With  "the  un¬
dermining of the covenental
community faith by the rise
of Reform Judaism in
Germany at the end of the
Eighteenth Century."
Stavsky said the Jewish
women's movement goes on
assumptions that men and
women are the same. "A
female has attributes that a
male doesn't have. If God
wanted us to be unisex, He
would have created us as one
being," said Stavsky;
Stavsky also charged that
many of the leaders of the
new women's movement are
"unqualified" to interpret
Hallacha, the Jewish Law.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
Sol Morton Isaac
Maynard Kaplan
Dedication Committee Appointed
Edward Schlezinger,
President of the Heritage
House Board of Directors
announces the appointment,
of Sol Morton Isaac as
Chairman of the Planning
Committee for the forth¬
coming Dedication of the
Eleanor and Jack Resler
Wing of Heritage House. J.
Maynard Kaplan has ac¬
cepted the position as Co-
Chairman.
Additional members of the
Board of Directors of
Heritage House who also
serve on the Committee are:
Justice Leonard Stern, Mrs.
Joseph Schecter, Don Erkis,
Mrs. Harry Polster, David
Levison, Robert Kaynes,
Allen Gundersheimer, Jr.,
and Mrs. Bernard Mentser.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 19)
Behind The Headlines.
Anti-Sernfflc Statements\0$ Joint Chiefs Chmn.
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
President Ford was por¬
trayed Nov. 13 as feeling
"very strongly" about the
anti-Semitic remarks made
ty Gen. George S. Brown,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
; of Staffs and to consider
them to have 'been "ill-
advised and poorly hand-
' led." The Presidential
reaction was conveyed by
White House Press
Secretary Ronald Nessen to
a   clearly   angered   and
agitated White House Press
(Corps as expressions of
indignation and outrage
continued to pour into
Washington from American
Jewish leaders and others.
Brown meanwhile offered a
200-word apology in a letter
addressed to the Jewish War
Veterans of the United
States. The furor developed
after it was learned that the
four star general, replying to
questions after addressing a
group at Duke University
Law School in Durham. N-C.
Oct. 10 on thepossibility of
American military in¬
tervention in the event of a
second Arab oil embargo,
had said that Jews exerted
-too much influence in
Congress because Jews
"own, you know, the banks
in this country, the
newspapers." The General
prefaced those remarks with
a threat that, "If there is
another oil embargo and
people in this country are not
only inconvenienced and
uncomfortable but suffer
(they will) get tough minded
enough  to  set  down   the
Jewish influence ih this
country and break the
lobby:" Brown's remarks,
not widely reported until
now, were disclosed by the
Washington Post Nov. 13 in
an article by its staff writer,
Michael Getter,
v Nessen acknowledged that
"someone in the White
House knew" about Brown's
remarks "several days ago"
before their publication but
was unable, to say when the
President learned of them.
He could not explain the
delay   in  conveying  the
President's reaction when
the White House had prior
knowledge of the incident.
Nessen stressed that
Brown's remarks "in no way
represent" the President's
"views or any other senior
officials of his Ad¬
ministration — military or
civilian." He disclosed that
the President "com¬
municated" his reaction by
an aide over the telephone to
Secretary of Defense James
Schlesinger, Brown's
superior. But the President
did not speak personally to
either Schlesinger or Brown.
Hyman Bookbinder,
Washington   representative!
' of the American Jewish,
Committee, said that
Schlesinger had telephoned
him and expressed "great
personal anguish" over
Brown's remarks. He said
the Defense Secretary had
indicated    "that    public
.repudiation'would be forth¬
coming." The White House
correspondents, whose
president is James Deaking
of   the   St,   Louis   Post
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