Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1963-07-05

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Vol. 41.   No.   i7
FRIDAY,   JULY   5,    1963
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Negro Praises Jews In Civil Rights Fight
Atlantic City, N.J. (.JTA) — Jewisli organizations were lauded here tills week for tiie support tliey are giving to tile Negro community in it.s fight for civic eijuallty. The praise was TOiced by Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National As¬ sociation for the Advancement pf Colored People, speaking at the conference of the National Community Relations Advisory Council. The NCRAC is the coordinating liody of six national Jewish organizations and 64 Jewisli Community Councils. Wilkins Expressed the hope that
GOV. JAMES A. RHODES TRIBUTE DINNER
The above photos were taken at the Gov. James A. Rhodes Tribute Dinner held Tuesday evening, June 25, at the Deshler-Hilton Hotel. The upper left picture shows Alvin E. Schottenstein, chairman of the Columbus State of Israel Bonds Campaign, addressing the group. In the upper right picture. Gov. Rhodes is receiving a humanitarian award from the Economic Minister,of Israel, Aryeh Manor. In the lower left picture, Mrs. Milton J. Leeman and Dr. B. B. Cap¬
lan show their outstanding leadership awards received as chairmen of Israel Bonds in. 1962. Others are (left to right): Isadore Topper, tribute dinner chairman; Mrs. Samuel L. Zuravsky, women's division chairman; Miriister Aryeh Manor; Mrs. Leeman; Dr. Caplan and Schottenstein. In the lower right picture are (left to right): Mr. and Mrs. Schottenstein,   Gov.  Rhodes,  and, Mr.  and  Mrs.   Topper.
as the Negro won liis fight he would assume his obligations as a citizen and "emulate the performance of the Jewish groups" and that Ne¬ groes, like Jews, "will make cfon- tributions to the arts, to science, to the professions and to social movements."
AT   ANOTHER    SESSION,   Leo
Pfeffer, American Jewish Confl gress general counsel, said tjiftt "any assumption that accedirffe to some but not ail of the demands of the Catholic Church" on federal aid to church schools "will make the end of the struggle is unrealist¬ ic."
He also suggested that it was unwise fo oppose a legitimate de¬ mand only because the Catholic Church favored it or because a by¬ product of enactment might be some aid to church schools. He add¬ ed that "once we accept, as ap¬ parently most Americans do, the proposition that contributions to churches may constitutionally be deducted in determining one's tax liability, it seems to me that a strong case may be made for in-
UJA, CJFWF BEGIN COOPERATIVE PUN
(The United Jewish Appeal Is a
major beneficiary of the United
Jewish Fund and Council)
New York (Jl%)^— The National Jewish Appeal has entered into a cooperative budget information and consultation process with the Coun¬ cil of Jewish Federations and Wel¬ fare Funds, it was announced joint¬ ly by Joseph Meyerhoff, general chairman of the national UJA, and Louis Stern, presiderit of the CJFWF. The agencies came to¬ gether in June for their first meet¬ ing to initiate the process, the an¬ nouncement said.
Representatives of the overseas agency will continue to meet period¬ ically with the CJFWF's Committee on Overseas Services to present de¬ tailed budget information and to discuss UJA's underlying needs, services and major operations. TWs newly concluded arrangement parallels that wiiich the two parent organizations of the UJA — the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., and the   American   Joint   Distribution
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The World's Week
Compiled from JTA Reports
In White Plains, N.Y., Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R. N.Y.) charged that Nasser would never have h>een able to carry out his own "ambitious preparation for war efforts" with¬ out U.S. assistance. Speaking at the inaugural dinner of the Westchester division of the American Jewish Committee, the Senator warned that it is not only unwise to subsidize Nas¬ ser's arms purchases, tmt it is "directly in contradiction to the aims of our aid program and of our over-all foreign policy in the Middle East."
In Jerusalem, an arl'cient custom was revived when a memorial service was held on Mount Zion for the Torah scrolls and other holy works burned by the Nazis during the holocaust. The event, to be observed annually during the week preceding the reading of the Torah portion of Hukas, dates back to the early medieval period when copies of The Telmud were burned in Paris.
In New York, 14 Israeli boys and girls, representing the Israel Scout Federation, arrived at Idlewlld Airpoct for a 10-week visit in the United States. The delegation is the fifth annual contingent of Israel Scouts to visit this country under the joint auspices of the American Zionist Youth Com¬ mission and the Israel Scout Federation.
Concentration Camp Survivors Sought
The World Jewish Congress in New York is seeking two survivors of the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Germany:
Jean Frederic Veith, bom in 1930 in Moscow; Maurice Lampe, bom in 1900 in Roubaix.
Both men appeared as witnesses before the Nuremberg International IWilitary Tribunal and are now ur¬ gently needed as witness in the cases of a number of Nazis now under investigation in connection with crimes committed at Maut¬ hausen.
Anyone who knows the present address of either Veith or Lampe is requested to contact immediate¬ ly: Dr. Nehemiah Robinson, Direct or, Institute of Jewish Affairs, World Jewish Congress, 15 East 84th Street, New York 28, N.Y.
eluding a contribution to a church the sums paid for tuition in a paro¬ chial school."
The question of wllath'a?-"avii>w-~»„ ed" Communists, fascists and hate mongers should be barred from spealdng on college campuses was Rebated by Morton L. Ixindon, Jfiw- iish War Veterans national com¬ mander, who favored such a ban, and Sidney Lorder, president of the Jewish Community Relations Coun¬ cil of Minnesota, who opposed it.
LORDER, AN ATTORNEY, ex¬ pressed the view that "a university student group has a right to invite controversial spealcers witliin limi¬ tations set up by the university to ensure that the whole truth is pre¬ sented and not just a distorted seg¬ ment." He said such speakers should not be banned by pickets, placards or censorship, nor by push¬ ing or violence, but rather "by exposing those same students tq the truth so graphically and sc forcefully that the students, will be revolted by the Rockwells and their cohorts."
COLUMBU^ RESIDENTS TRAVEL TO ISRAEL, EUROPE ON LEADERSHIP STUDY MISSION
Mr. and Mrs. Irving A. Baker, Qf 1629 Kenview Ave., promi¬ nent figures In the United Jewish Fund and Council of Colum¬ bus, will take part with a group of 70 young American Com¬ munity representatives in the national United Jewish Appeal's Third Annual Young Leadership Overseas Study. Mission.
Mr. and Mrs. Baker will join other members of the mission at New York International Airport on Monday, July 8 for de¬ parture via Ei Al Israel Airlines.
HEBREW APPROVED
The Dade County Board of In¬ struction approved this wiek the inclusion of Hebrew among the mo¬ dern languages to be taught in the public liigh schools in the Greater Miami area.
The mission will spend three and a half weeks in Israel and Europe studying the refugee aid and im¬ migrant resettlement programs fi¬ nanced through the United Jewish Appeal, which annually receives a major allocation trom the United Jewish Fund and Council of Colum¬ bus.
Mr. Baker is the head of the Bak¬ er Construction Company here, a partner in the Baker Supply Com¬ pany and the B.S.W. Development Company, and vice-president of R. & B. Investments, Inc.
Memberihlp In the mission, which will, be led by Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, UJA executive vice- chairman, was by invitation to men and women in the 25-40 age group who have demonstrated leadersiiip potential in their home communi¬ ties. The mission members  come
from 32 cities, and each is paying his own way.
"The young men and women of this mission," Rabbi Friedman stressed, "represent the generation who wiU be the American Jewish leaders of tomorrow. Their first¬ hand survey of the overseas hu¬ manitarian responsibilities of the American Jewish community and their discussions with leaders of Israel and Jewish communities in Europe will certainly provide them with a deeper understanding of, and a fuller dedication to, the work that lies ahead."
Now in \ii 25th anniversary cam¬ paign, the UJA must provide funds to aid 575,000 distressed Jews in 27 countries throughout the world this year. Its 1963 goal is $96,000,000, including a $36,000,000 Special Fund specifically to aid newcomers to Israel and for aUied refugee needs.
Moscow Also Concerned, Angry Over Israel's Aid To Africa
By JOSHUA H. JUStMAN (Chief JTA Corr. In Israel)
(Copyright, 1963, JTA, Inc.)
Jerusalem — It appears Nas¬ ser is not the only one worried' by Israel's success in develop¬ ing close and friendly relations with the African naUons. Mos¬ cow, too, seems to be quite concerned, and indeed angry, — over the wide scale tectinical and economic aid being extended by Israel to the awakening Afri¬ can continent.
This concern we found express¬ ed in a recent official Soviet publication, the b i -'m o n t h 1 y "Peoples of Africa and Asia," wtiich is one of the organs df the Soviet Academy ot Sciences. There we found an extensive article entitled "Urael Penetra¬ tion Into Africa and Neo-Colonlal- Iim," which, judging by the date of publication, was quite obvious¬
ly aimed to coincide with the African summit held at Addis Ababa.
THE    OBJECTIVE    of     the
lengtliy dissertation is quite clearly stated. It is to open the eyes of the Africans to see Is¬ rael's unlioly Intentions dictated to her by "American imperial¬ ism." This indeed is the main point wtiich the author, Mrs. G. S. Nilutina, is driving home: that Israel is notliing more than a tool in the hands of the Ameri¬ can imperialists and a vehicle for imperialism's re-entry into the liberated African continent.
The amusing part of II all Is that, whila criticizing Israel'* actlvltiei In Africa, the article provides a detailed review of these activities and thus reveals to Ihe reader the wide range and the Innporlance of the aid extended by Israel to the Afri¬
can nations, which can hardly fall to impress him greatly, in¬ deed, after reading it, he cannot but realize the important and welcome role Israel is playing in the development of these new lands.
THE AUTHOR endeavors to explain to its readers the rea¬ sons for Israel's success which, she says, benefits from three "advantages" attributed to her by the West and seemingly ac¬ cepted at face value by the Af¬ ricans, (a) That Israel is free trom any colonial stain, both in the past and in the present; (b) That Israel has no colonial am¬ bitions, and (c) The attraction ot Israel's "social experiment."
One of the main ways of Is¬ rael's economic and political penetration into the African continent, says Mrs. Nikitina, is the grant of loans and credits and the conclusion of agreements providing tor "teclinical coopera¬
tion and the training ot person¬ nel." All this, says the journal, is being carried out in tuU ac¬ cord and coordination with the American and other Western monopolies.
The articio gives ample evi¬ dence of the extent of Israel '-'penetration." Thus It points out that there are now In Ghana 95 Israeli advisers in the fields of
. agriculture, public health, trans¬ portation, vocational training, economic planning, etc., that many Ghanlans study In Israel on grants givon them by the Israel government; and that Is¬ raeli officers are engaged In Ghana's  Air   Force  and  Naval
' schools.
In Tanganyika, (he article says, Israel experts have l>een invited to advise on the develop¬ ment ot agriculture, housing and public health. In Kenya agree¬ ment has been reached for the establishment ot a large num¬
ber ot joint Kenyan-Israel econo¬ mic enterprises and also Kenya's armed forces are trained with the help of Israeli officers.
THE ARTICLE devotes spe¬ cial attention to the vast pro¬ jects being carried out with Is¬ rael's aid in Ethiopia ("in co¬ operation with American capi¬ tal") including the building ot airfields," housing, transporta¬ tion, etc. Israelis head and teach in Ethiopian schools and colleges and more and more joint Ethi¬ opian IsraeU companies are be¬ ing established and more and more Ethiopian students are go¬ ing to study in Israel.
Thus the article goes on listr ing Israel's activities tn Volta, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Sierra Le¬ one, Liberia, Togo, Nigeria, Congo, etc.; etc., recounting al length the numerous visits ot African heads ol slates to Is¬ rael and fhe large number of African students .that study  In
Israel. Here, too, the objective, of course. Is the training of cadres of "pro Western Instruct¬ ors" and the p^per tells Its read¬ ers that Israel's Afro-Asian In¬ stitute Is financed and supervis¬ ed by the "right wing American trade unions."
THE CONCLUSION which Mrs. Nildtina draws frpm the facts she lists is that the African na¬ tions are "liecomiftg more and more aware ot the fact that Is¬ rael is a tool in the hands ot neo-colonialism."
Upon reading the article there comes to one's mind the story ot Balaam who answered Balak's call to curse Israel and instead ended up by praising it. Israel could not have asked for a more comprehensive report to appear in a Soviet journal demonstrat¬ ing the close ties of friendship and cooperation she has succeed¬ ed in developing with.the Afri¬ can continent.