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VOL. 53 NO. 7 ,
FEBRUARY 13, 1975 - ADAR 2
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TOe World's Week
BONN (WNS) — Economic recession and
decreasing dissatisfaction with the West German
government have established the pre-conditions for
radicalism which makes victims of Jews, Heinz
Galinski, leader of the West Berlin Jewish community,
said at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of
the liberation of Auschwitz. He charged that West
German universities were the breeding grounds for
radicals who, he claimed, exploited the apathy of the
mass of students. He said it is a sad fact that 30 years
after Auschwitz, Jewish property in West Germany
had to be protected by the police. Galinski, who is a
survivor, of Auschwitz, urged the West German
government to take action against German elements
whd describe the horror of the concentration camp as a
"lie."
JERUSALEM (WNS) — Justice Minister Haim
Zadok has named a seven-member committee headed
by Mrs. Hadassah Ben-Ito, a senior judge in the'Tel
Aviv district court, to examine all aspects of the
prostitution problem" in Israel and recommended
legislative measures. Prostitution as such is not a
criminal offense.in Israel. The Knesset has passed on
first reading a bill that would punish prostitutes who
annoy their neighbors as "public nuisances."1
WASHINGTON (WNS) r- The United States, "may
be facing a situation where the Middle East Is the
potential tinderbox that the Balkans actually were in
1914," Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger told
the Senate Armed Services Committee. Testifying on
the Administration's $9"i.8 billion defense budget for
fiscal 1976, Schlesinger said further reductions in
American armed forces would not advance'arms
control and detente. He said the U.S. had been" sur¬
prised by the ability of the Soviet Union to increase its
naval forces in the 1973 Middle East war.
Plan Washington Protest Against Sale Of
Michigan Bank To Saudi Arabian Citizen
By Philip Slomovitz
DETROIT, (JTA) -
Concerned citizens are
raising the Commonwealth
Bank issue in Washington to
prevent transfer of the
bank's controlling interest to
a non-citizen from Saudi
Arabia. Max M. Fisher
declared on Feb. 4 that he
views the developing
banking situation as
menacing to this country. In
a telephone statement to the
Jewish News from Florida,
he declared that he "will not
rest in his efforts to protect
the American system."
Fisher emphasized that he
considered it seriously
menacing for the control of
an American bank to fail into
the hands of an Arab. He
said it is inconceivable for an
American community to
permit Arabs who prevent
Americans from conducting
industrial enterprises In
their countries to gain the
control of important in¬
stitutions in this country.
Fisher declared*, that the
move to invade the banking
system of America and to
gain   control   of   financial
institutions should be
prevented at all costs. He
said that he intends to appeal
to members of Congress and
authorities in Washington
not to permit the takeover.
Saudi Arabian control of the -
Bank, of! the Commonwealth
and the shock it has created
in the Jewish community has
developed into one of the
most disturbing experiences
for many in this community.
Sharing the views of Fisher
that it is an American and
not a Jewish issue, the at¬
tainment of power by oil-rich
Arabs in American financial
and industrial enterprises is
being viewed as menacing to
this countryls economy, and
the controlling interest by a
Saudi Arabian in a leading
American bank has another
important connotation. Jews
have been barred from Saudi
Arabia. Jewish members of
the U.S. military forces have
never been admitted to that
Warn Of Dangers To World Jewry
S
JERUSALEM (WNS) —
Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
president of the World
Jewish Congress, opened the
WJC's Sixth Plenary
Assembly, with a
declaration that "the
number one problem of
Jewish foreign policy is to
secure the survival and
future of Israel." He also
stressed the dangers
threatening the survival of
Jewish communities in the
diaspora particularly in the
Soviet Union and Latin
America. Addressing 500
delegates from 65 countries,
Dr. Goldmann stressed that
"every Jew, in my opinion,
is entitled to express his
views about Israel's policies,
but when it comes to the final
conclusion he has the duty to
stand by Israel, even if he is
not in accord with its
policies." He said three
principles should regulate
Israeli - diaspora relations:
"The unity of the whole
Jewish people and the
equality of all parts of it; the
recognition • of the
sovereignty of Israel by the
Jews of the diaspora, leaving
the State and its institutions
the right and privilege to
reach binding decisions on
its politics; the recognition
by Israel of the autonomy of
the diaspora,, not trying to
dominate    its     internal
policies and allowing it to
voice its views on Israel's
problems."
Turning to external ■
problems, Dr. Goldmann
said Israel and world Jewry
had to face the facts of the
lessening of guilt for the
Holocaust by the non-Jewish
world; the realignment of
the world power structure by
the emergence of the
Communist bloc of nations
and the Third World capable
of challenging the
democracies upon which the
Jewish people have
traditionally relied. He
called for improving
relations with the Com¬
munist bloc and the Third
World "particularly because
next to survival of the State
of Israel, the future of the
three million Jews living In
the Communist world is a
major issue we have to
.solve." While hoping for
continued emigration for the
USSR, Dr. Goldmann said
"we must fight for their
(Jews in the USSR) right to
live as Jews, particularly as
they are formally and
.constitutionally recognized
as a minority." He said
Soviet Jewry was threatened
"not so much by potential
anti-Semitism, although it
certainly exists, but by the
danger of erosion and
assimilation." He said the
country. It was only when
the five Jewish members of
the press corps that ac¬
companied Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger on
his first visit to Saudi Arabia
resisted being barred from
admission with him and
their fellow correspondents
that Jews were able to enter
Saudi Arabia.
The Jewish members of
the board of Commonwealth
Bank — David Pollack and
Alwyn Freeman — have not
yet acted to express their
protest against the sale of
controlling stock in the bank
to an Arab. But' scores of
Jewish depositors have with-
,' drawn their funds.
Freeman's brother-in-law,
Royal Oppenheim, and their
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one million Jews in Latin
America are threatened by
the "danger of becoming the
victims of a pre-
revolutionary situation
which—as our experience of
diaspora life proves — tends
to make us, as the weakest'
minority, the primary ob-
W"
He stressed the fragility of
a "Jewish nation" in which
80 percent of its members
live outside Israel and urged
increased aliya. He said It
was unrealistic to deny the
existence of double loyalty
and Jews should fight for its
recognition. He said Israel
should consider the impact
of its policies on Jews
abroad. "This is one of the
reasons why I have often
suggested, from the
beginning of Israel's
existence, a policy of
neutrality for Israel . . ."
Israeli President Ephraim
Katzir warned that ."a new
anti-Semitism" threatens
the Jewish people, one that is
aimed not against individual
Jews but against the Jewish
nation collectively, "This is
the new anti-Semitism," he
said, "the denial of the
Jewish people the right to
live as Jews, as part of the
Jewish people."
Dr. Gerhart Rlegner, the
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Rabin Reaffirms Support
In Step-By-Step Diplomacy
JERUSALEM (WNS) ' —
Premier Yitzhak Rabin told
the 500 delegates to the Sixth
Plenary Assembly of the
World Jewish Congress that
Israel fully supports
Secretary of State
Kissinger's step-by-step
approach as the "best and
most realistic  method" of
Pictured above are members of the Beth Jacob
Cantorial Concert Committee. Standing left to right:
Mr. Al Solove, Mr. Ronald Elkins, Mr. Martin Schecter
and Mr. Morris Weinstock. Seated left to right: Ber¬
nard Hirsch, Rabbi David Stavsky, Mr. Ed Beslove,
president, Mr. Irv Flox, chairman, and Eugene Cohen.
Missing when the picture was taken: Jack Weisman,
, Dr. Charles Young, Elliot Levy, Leonard Quinn, Ron
Grober, Max Hoffman and Martin Hoffman.
Beth Jacob Synagogue To
Honor Alvin Schottenstein
The Thirteenth Annual
Cantorial Concert sponsored
by -the Beth Jacob
Brotherhood will be held this
Sunday, February 16; 1975 at
8 p.m. at the Beth Jacob
Synagogue. Mr. Ed Beslove,
President of the
Brotherhood, said," I am
delighted to announce- that
Alvin Schottenstein, out¬
standing and leading
member of the Jewish
Community will be the
recipient of .this year's "Man
of the Year Award". Past
recipients were Frank Nutis,.
the late Supreme Court
Justice Carl V. Weygandt,
the late Cantor Phillip
Gellman, Herbert Schiff, the
late Mr. Mendel Paine, the
late Harry Gilbert, Gordon
Zacks, Mrs. Milton J.
Leeman, Mrs. Jack Resler,
Julius Cohen, and Mr. Dan
Harrison.
Mr. Schottenstein is
Chairman of Agudas Achim
Building Extension Com¬
mittee and has served on the
Board of Agudas Achim for
many years. He is a mem¬
ber of the Board of Trustees
of the Columbus Torah
Academy* and has worked
diligently in helping to raise
funds for the new building of
the Torah Academy. Mr.
Schottenstein 'has been
strongly identified with the
State of Israel, laboring in
behalf of Israel thru his
devotion to the Bonds-for
Israel organization. Serving
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working toward a settlement
of the Middle East conflict.
Rabin said Israel would
question Kissinger as to the
significance of recent public
statements by Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat that
neither Egypt nor Syria are
planning to attack Israel. He
said if Sadat is sincere his
pledge should be in¬
corporated into a formal
written agreement with
Israel. If Sadat did this,
Rabin said, it would
represent "a. new, opening
... a great chance" for
progress toward a full peace
settlement in the Middle
East.
Meanwhile in Washington,
Kissinger said his nine-day
visit to the Middle East and
West Europe culminating
with talks with Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko in. Geneva will be
"one of exploration. I don't
expect to settle anything on
this trip." Kissinger is
scheduled to go to Israel,'
Egypt, Syria, Jordan,
Saudia Arabia, and Bonn
and then meet with Gromyko
in Geneva..Gromyko has just
completed a visit to Syria,
Iraq and Egypt.
At the WJC session, Rabin
said if Kissinger's step-by-
step approach failed, there
would be no alternative but
to go to Geneva peace
conference. He said even if
the American approach
failed, Israel would have re-
■ enforced its relations with'
Washington and the military
strengthening of Israel
would continue. He said the
Geneva conference which
Gromyko and Syrian
President Hafez Assad
'envision "would be a
pressure conference" that
"would force. Israel and,
perhaps the U.S."too, into a
solution that would not bring
peape." But he said Israel
does not fear Geneva and
would go there and boldly
make its claims for peace
and state its negotiating
position on territories.
Earlier   Rabin   told  the
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