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VOL. 54 NO. 20
JUNE 24.1976- SIVAN 26
By Helen Silver
k Platform Calls For Recognition
f Jerusalem As Capitol Of Israel
Scouts Receive, Awards
The 1976 Scout Sabbath was held at Temple Tifereth
Israel where the following scouts received the "Ner
Tamid" award: Nail Rackoff, son of Mr. & Mrs. Melvin
Rackoff and Todd Friedman, son of Mr. - Mrs.
Bernard Friedman of Troop 483 of Agudas Achim and
Richard Weiner.-son of Dr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Weiner of
Troop 353, Temple Israel. Shown above (1 tor) are
William Goldsmith, chairman of the local Jewish"
Committee on Scouting, Rackoff, Weiner,-Friedman
arid Rabbi Zisenwine,' Chaplain of the Central Ohio
Council B.S. A.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The Democratic Platform
Committee approved June 16
a policy statement on the'
Middle East which calls for
the strong support of Israel
and the recognition by the
United States of Jerusalem-
as the capital.of the Jewish
State. The statement is part
of the platform which will be
submitted to the Democratic
National Convention in,New.
York in July. %
The last paragraph of a
statement on the Middle
East declares that "we
recognize and support .the
established status of Jeru-
- salem as the capital of Israel
with free access to all its
holy places provided to all
faiths. As a symbol of this
stand the U.S. Embassy
should be moved from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem." The
U.S. and most other coun¬
tries have refused to move
their' embassies from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem.
The  long   Middle   East
statement also says:  "We .
shall continue to seek a just
a and lasting peace in the '
Middle East. The corner¬
stone of our policy is a firm
.commitment to the indepen¬
dence and-security of the
State of Israel. This special
relationship does not preju¬
dice improved relations with
other nations in the region.
Real peace in the Middle
East will permit Israel and
• her Arab neighbors to turn
their energies to internal
development and will elim¬
inate the threat of world
conflict   spreading   from
Rabin Defines 'Red Line' In Lebanon
In Foreign Policy Statement To Knesset
By David Landau
Ahavas Sholom Congregation
Planning Dinner For June 27
'Reservations -are < being
accepted for k the unique
dinner : planned by The
'Ahavas^ Sholom
Congregation on Sunday,
June 27,1976 at 6 p:'m. at the
Ahavas Sholom Social HalL"
2568 E. Broad St.   _
The Co-Chairmen, Mr. and
Mrs. William Maroccp and
Mrs. Marvin Vinar have
named all the chairpeople
-and workers. Master of
ceremonies will be Mr.
William Marocco. The
musical program will be
provided by the .talented
pianist Mike Feinstein who
will lead in a "Sing Along"
program.., _ •
,.The highlight of the
;evenfng will be selling of
candles on a huge birthday
cake to.carryout the theme
of "Remember When", in
conjunction with the Bi¬
centennial celebration. Mr.
Irving Baker accepted the
position of candle
auctioneer. The community
is cordially invited to attend
and share a nostalgic
evening.
For. reservations please
call Mrs. Barbara Vinar 231-
3478 or Mrs. Celia Katz 231-
4054.
JEKUSALEM (JTA) *-
Premier Yitzhak Rabin pre¬
sented a. detailed and
Comprehensive review of
Israel's foreign policy to the
^Knesset..June   IS.
which he defined the so-
called   "Red   Line"   with
-respect to Lebanon,' took a
conciliatory but firm posi¬
tion toward the Arab states
' and - assailed the Soviet
Union.
Moscow, of late, has be¬
come even more of an obsta¬
cle to progress towards
peace in the Middle' East
than previously, the Premier
charged.
Addressing the Knesset at
the opening of - a major
foreign policy debate, Rabin
praised U.S. leaders r for
backing Israel's refusal to
attend a Geneva conference
where the Palestine Libera¬
tion Organization was
present.' He expressed
appreciation of American
military and political aid to
Israel on an unprecedented
level. He acknowledged that
during,- -,there -were. f.dif|erenceiS, of
outlook with Washington but
said he was confident they
would be overcome.   , '
Rabin focussed on the
situation in Lebanon Which,
he stressed, was unpredict¬
able because it was "fluid
and changing from hour to
hour." He said he would
"prefer not to say if or when
a cease-fire will take hold or
-if or when Lebanon will,
return to being ah inde¬
pendent state."
He said Israel was main¬
taining careful and constant
surveillance of events in
Lebanon. It prefers not 'to
act, but "if a hew'situation
t.-r '-TT- -^-r-_   ■ r      -r
arises, our own position
could well change, in accord¬
ance with our security con¬
siderations," the Premier
warned.
In that connection Rabin
explained the meaningof the
-."Red Line," , ^...unofficial,
label given to a hypothetical
situation that could cause
Israel to intervene in the
.Lebanese conflict. He said it
consisted of several compo-
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tensions there." „
The draft statement also
said that the' fundamental
U.S. principles in the Mid¬
east must include "our con- <
sistent support of Israel,
including sufficient military
assistance to maintain.
Israel's deterrent strength
... and the maintenance of "
U.S. military forces in the
Mediterranean adequate to
deter intervention by the
Soviet Union"; and opposi¬
tion to an imposed solution
from outside while pro¬
moting "direct face-to-face
negotiations between the
parties and normalization of
relations and a full peace
'within secure and defensible
borders."'
The statement said that a
solution must be found to the "
problem of both Arab and
Jewish refugees,, but "such
problems cannot be solved,
however, by recognition of
terrorist   groups   which
refuse to acknowledge their
adversary's right to exist or
..groupsjwhich have, no legiti-.
mate claim to represent the»
people   for   whom   they
purport to be speaking." "
The draft statement also
• declared that "we support
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Nat9!. Community Relations
Advisory Council Meets
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The Washington Post And Spiro Agnew
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
'    (Editor'snote:Thisislhe
' second part.of a three-part
investigative report series.) _
PART TWO.:
WASHINGTON-
Lust     for     money,
vengefulness,   latent, anti-,
, Semitism, hypocrisy, and
insensitivity' are - among
explanations for Spiro T.
Agnew's     anti-Semitic
- attacks in his writing and
interviews    against    the
. American media and U.S.
^policy of support to Israel.
This; is the same Agnew,
whom,. Jews helped become
Govepior of Maryland from
where he leaped to the Vice
Presidency and came within
sight of occupancy of the
White House itself. Jews
were among his most
Important associates* while
he was in office at Annapolis
and later in Washington. He
is also the same Agnew who,
v after his disgrace, engaged
in the lucrative' business
related to Arabs and now
says he'always thought U.S.
policy towards Israel was
wrong.
A measure,of the range of
views is the difference in the
opinions of Victor Gold,
Agnew's press man for three
years .when he was Vice
President, and William
Safire, a former White
House speechwriter for
Richard Nixon and. a
colleague of Agnew in his
. heyday, Safire, now a-New
York Times columnist, says
"the Ted Agnew of 1970 was
neither anti-Zionist nor anti-
' Jewish." What "turned him
around" Is his "embittered"
reaction to ' Jewish
businessmen in Baltimore
'who became statetwitrirj&ses
against him in Maryland's
political scandals and forced
him to resign' the Vice
Presidency in disgrace.
Gold contends-' Agnew's
"rendering of variations on a
theme by the Grand Kleagle
has nothing to do with more
ideological conviction" but
"it has to do with selling
Spiro Agnew, high bidder
take all, until a better offer
comes along, of course."
Agreeing with'both Gold
and Safire, a Baltimore
Jewish 'community leader
familiar with Agnew's
■ Maryland career told JTA
both revenge and profit are
behind Agnew's spewing.
Agnew's purpose, he said, is
"crass commercialism to
sell his book and further his
business interests."
Baltimore , City
Comptroller' Hyman
Pressman, who opposed
■Agnew' -in   1966 'as  -an
' independent candidate for
governor, but supported him
in the 1972 election,' sees
Agnew as' a businessman
pleasing Arabs because he
"has attempted to make
profit from the oil barons
and currently is continuing
on that road even if he has to
foment hatred against the
■ Jews."
A member of the
prosecution staff that
brought Agnew's disgrace
remarked to JTA "I'll be
damned if I know what
motivates him." He said he
saw no trace of anti-
Semitism in Agnew during
. the prosecution "but then we
didn't look for that. But that
it does exist is evident by his
book and the words from his
mouth on television."
Agnew himself, however,"
said in his interview with
NBC's Barbara Walters that
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Ambassador Simcha
Dinitz will be the keynote
speaker at the Plenary
Session of the National
Jewish Community
Relations Advisory .Council,
to be held in Louisville,
Kentucky, June 27-30.
' Ambassador Dinitz will open
' the four-day session with a
. speech "Israel: The
International Situation and
Prospects for Peace". A
panel discussion on the
status of Jews in the United
States today, will'feature
Benjamin. R. Epstein,
National Director of the Anti -
Defamation League of B'nai.
B'rith and Bertram H. Gold,
Executive Vice-President of
the American Jewish
Committee. Harvard
University History
Professor David Landes will
speak, on "American
Foreign Policy and the
Middle East" and Nathaniel ;
.Jones, General Counsel for
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People," will speak on
"School Desegregation in an
Open Society".
A   panel   discussion, on
"Religious   Pluralism   in
America" will feature Msgr.
George    H.    Higgins,
i Secretary for, iReseareh of
the United States .Catholic
Conference; Professor J.
Coert Rylaarsdam; '
Theology Department,
Marquett University; and
Dr. Leo Pfeffer, .General .
Counsel of the American
Jewish Congress. Eugene H.
Gold, Chairman of the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry, and Professor
Zvi Gitelman, of the
University of Michigan, .will
discuss "The Current Status
ofSovjetJewry".
. .A session on "The Struggle
for Equality of Women's
Rights" will feature Betty
Friedan, author of "The
Feminine Mystique"; Dr.
Benjamin Z. Kreitman,
United Synagogue of
America; and Carol Dragul,
President of the Cincinnati
CRC. A final session, on
"Ethnicity and the.
American Political Process"
will feature Irving Levine, of
the American Jewish
Committee, and Albert
Vorspan, of the Union of
American Hero
Congregations.
In addition to the featured
programs, the Plenary
Session — which brings
together representatives of
more than 100 communities
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