Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1964-05-29

              2f\V^      Serving Columbus, Dayton^ Central and Southwestern Ohio   "^AR
^  Vol. 42, No. 22
FRIDAY, MAY 29„ 1964 — 18 SIVAN, 5724
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The World's Week
Compiled from JTA and WUP Reports
PARIS (JTA)—The Moroccan Foreign Minister, Ahmed Balafred, appealed this week to France's Foreign Minister Malirice Couve de MurviUe, on behalf of all the Arab states, for action by France to oppose Israel's National Water Carrier plan. The Moroccan told the French Foreign Mini¬ ster that action by France to prevent Israel from imple¬ menting the project, vi^hich will tap the Jordan River through Lake Tiberias, "would be greatly appreciated by the Arab states and would further Franco-Arab friendship."
NEW YORK (JTA)—The American Jewish Commit¬ tee and the American Jewish Congress are among seven rnajor civil rights organizations that have joined in forming a corps of volunteer lawyers who will serve in the. deep South this summer to protect the legal rights of antl- seg^regation demonstrators and Negroes seeking the right to vote. The Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee will be a kind of "lawyer's corps" modeled after the Peace Corps.
JERUSAJjBM (JTA)—Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister, said in Parliament this week that it was "shock- - ing" to think that some Nazi criminals would avoid punish¬ ment because of the expiration of the statute of limitations next year on prosecution of such criminals in M^est Ger¬ many.
Replying to three motions concerning the May, 1965 expiration date, Mrs. Meir added that Israel was not moti¬ vated by revenge in its insistence that all Nazi criminals be pijnished, but by the feeling that "mankind could not breathe" as long as Nazi criminals found refuge in other , countries, such as Egypt.   •
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The West German Social Democrat party'will present to Parliament a bill to make it difficult for West German scientists to continue worlcing on Egypt's armament program. Prof. Karl Schmidt, deputy chairman of the Bundestag, lower house of Parliament, said here this week.
The Bonn government had introduced a bill but with¬ drew it when a paragraph dealing with passports held by the scientists in Egypt failed. Prof. Schmidt said the party's ~V measure, to be introduced in the fall would force the government and other parties "at least to show their hands" on the Issue.
DR. JOACHIM PRINZ REJECTS THEORY SCHOOL PRAYER ENGOURACES MORALITY
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Dr. Joachim Prinz of Newark, N.J., in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, re¬ jected .the position that public school prayer recitation and Bible reading encouraged national or personal morality.
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be difficult to explain the rise of Nazism and the total moral collapse and even depravity of the German people, which resulted in the tor¬ ture and death of millions of Jews and Christians."
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Dr. Jerome D.  Folkman
YOUTH & MORALITY TO DE DISCUSSED AT CENTER MEETING
Dr. Jerome D. Folkman, rabbi of Temple Israel, will address an open meeting of parents who re¬ side in the east end of Columbus on Thursday, June. 4, at 8:15 p.m. at the Jewish Center.
Dr. Folkman will speak on "Youth and Morality," the prol)- lems facing youth today in a soc¬ iety which cannot seem to make up its mind about the behavior of its young boys and girls.
The innovation of the automobile the emphasis on early dating by many parents; the accelerated soc¬ ial life often encouraged by par¬ ents, schools, and agencies; all these cause a dilemma which youth faces for they are continually thrown into close contact with tempting situations.
Nazism.
"The argument is false both in theory and practice," he told a hearing on proposals to amend the Constitution to permit school re¬ ligious  practices.
For decades, he said, all German public schools provided reiigj^s training for children of the ffiree major faiths, including daily prayer recitation and religious instruction twice weekly.
"Did that program effectively teach morality to the German peo-
It is in these many areas of boy-girl relationsliips, plus some discussion about the parent-ctiild re¬ lationship and the attitudes of the "ciety in which we live today that Dr. Folkman will concentrate his efforts.
The planning group for the meet¬ ing is composed of representatives of a wide variety of groups in east¬ ern Columbus; among these are the Jewish Center, Hartley High School, the South-East Council, Brookwood Presbyterian Church, Scottwood Church, and the Luth¬ eran Church of the Redeemer.
Representing the Jewish Center on the planning committee have been Mrs. Edward Ghitman and Mrs. Robert Hallett.
Dr. Folkman, the guest speak¬ er, is known locally and nationally as an expert in the tield ot sociol¬ ogy of the family and has held executive positions with the Nation¬ al Council on Family Relations, and other professional groups. He is a noted marriage counselor and he has appeared on the television program, "The House Divided" for two years.
Krushchev's Arms Offer To Egypt Arouses Eshkol's Ire
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Prime Minister Levi Eshkol ex¬ pressed his regret this week over Soviet Premier Khrushchev's offer to provide more arms to Egypt, and declared Israel Is ready now, as always, to "join in any endeavor for regional disarmament" in the Middle East, provided sucli an effort were coupled with "mutual inspection."
Mr. Eshkol made his statement in Israel's Parliament. He did not mention Mr. Krushchev by
name, but referred to the offers of more arms to Nasser, voiced by the Soviet leader during his recent visit to Egypt.
The Israel Government regrets, Mr Eshkol told Parliament, that, "despite Nasser's aggressive dec¬ larations with regard to Israel, he benefits from political support and arms supply from sources usually propagating peace and co-existence. Those aspiring to world peace must support  also  regional  peace.
"Arms in the hands of Egypt today bear neither an anti-imperial¬ ist nor a national liberation mis¬ sion, but are directed in accordance with Egypt's declared policy toward
an anti-Israel war, serving also Nasser's aims to dominate neigh¬ boring Arab countries, "Mr. Eshkol cpntinued. "All this negates funda¬ mentally the peaceful co-existence idea accepted by Russia and the West alike."
Reiterating Israel's readiness to join a regional disarmament move coupled with mutual inspection!, he noted that Israel, never intro¬ duced new weapons into this area. "But," he said,, "as long aslsrael's enemies 'are not ready for disarma¬ ment, Israel must and will fortify her deterrent strength, which is needed for the preservation of the peace."
Mr.   Eshkol   also  reiterated   the
BB PRESIDENT DISPUTES THEORY THAT JEWS THREATENED BY INTERMARRIAGE
B'nai B'rith president Label A. Katz disputed the "scare theory" that American Jewish life is threatened with "disap¬ pearance through intermarriage."
Mr. Katz told a meeting of the B'nai B'rith administrative committee that the increase in mixed marriages "Is a growing problem that needs to be explored." But he challWged "the advertised fears ot those who suggest the Jewish community could become an ultimate suicide
First VQ^N, left to right: Marc Shar, Allen Nichol, Barry Grossman, Larry Haas, David M. Neubauer, David Pin.sky and Solomofi A. Negt'in. Second row: Rena S. Cohen, Sarah Rousso, Bethanne Young, Phyllis M. Brener, Jean Tenen¬ baum, Susan H. Adler and Sharon S. Rubenstein. Third row: David S. Joseph, Leonard Guckenheimer, Gary M. Quinn, Michael Lewin, Donald Worly, Bernard Sigal, Mitchell  A.   Rofsky, Sidney A.  Snyder and  Elliot Baker.
HEBREW SCHOOL TO GRADUATE JUNE 11
Graduation exercises at the Co¬ lumbus Hebrew School wiil take place Thursday, June 11, 8 p.m., at the Jewish Center auditorium.
Rabbi Samuel W. Rubenstein, spiritual leader ot the Agudas Achim Congregation . will be the principal   speaker.
Twenty-three students will grad¬ uate from the elementary depart- metjt, having completed a six year course of studies. A Hebrew High School diploma will be awarded to Gary Alan Covel, who has com- plejed the four year course of stud¬ ies.
The elementary department course of studies includes: Hebrew language, conversational Hebrew, grammar, the Bible in Hebrew, highlights of Jewish history, back¬ ground of holidays, familiarity with
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because of it."
In the same period in which, ac¬ cording to recent studies, the ratio of intermarriages has risen sub¬ stantially, "there have been advaii- ces in almost every area of Jewish community life in - religious affili¬ ation, in education, in philantliropy, in social action," the B'nai B'rith leader declared.
"These are surely not the attri¬ butes of a vanishing community," he said.
The results of recent studies, coupled with a Jewish birth rate that has been below the national average, has led to some predic¬ tions that the Jewish community in the United States will face serious loss through attrition.
By contrast, Mr. Katz cited high¬ er enrollments in synagogue affili¬ ation and Jewish schools, the ris¬ ing popularity of adult Jewish study and other indications of "the ag¬ gressive growing pains of an Amer¬ ican Jewry that, in the main, is only three generations old and still in its formative stages."
"How can a community demon¬ strating so much vigor and growth be regarded as creeping to obliv¬ ion?" he asked.
As another example, Mr. Katz described Jewish activity on the college campus, pointing out that in the past four decades B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations has grown from a single campus center to 250 such programs at colleges and universities, and requests for 155 more. Such growth, he contended, contradicts any predictions of the disappearance of Jewish life.
Mr, Katz also noted that a gener¬ ation ago "a fantastically high" proportion of Jewish college stu¬ dents , denied any acceptance of Judaism, an attitude that has been strongly reversed among the pre¬ sent generation of students. "If we needed really dismal statistics that ail but guaranteed the dis¬ appearance of Jewish Ufe, the '30's were really good years for dismal statistics," he said.
Mr. Katz said he did not dis¬ miss the intermarriage studies "as irrelevant." But, he added, "1 also don't want to have them mis¬ read as clear evidence of an im¬ pending collapse of Jewish life." "The fact is," he continued, "in termarriage   and  assimilation   are
not a new phenomenon but as old as the Jewish people itself. There is no denying that they persist. There is also no denying that Jew¬ ish peoplehood persists. This may be a dilemma for gloomy analysts, butjjewish life seems to tlirive on its Own dilemmas."
fact that Israel's sole objective in nuclear development is aimed at research for peaceful purposes. In that context, he was replying to recent press reports abroad tliat stated that not only Egypt but Israel as well is engaged in the development   of  nuclear  weapons.
FEUERSTEIN OFFERS PRAYER SOLUTION
A formula for the solution of the controversy concerning prayers in the public schools proposed by Moses I. Feuerstein, national presi¬ dent of the Union of Orthodox Jew¬ ish Congregations of America, has been lauded by members of the Ju¬ diciary Committee of the House of Representatives currently holding hearings on projected amendments to the Constitution involving this issue.
Mr.   Feuerstein,   who   presented the proposal during testimony be¬ fore the House Committee suggest¬ ed  that  the  public  schools  begin (cdntinuecT on  paga  4) |
Levi Eshkol
ESHKOL TO ARRIVE JUNE 1; WILL SPEAK AT UJA DINNER
Prime Minister .,Le\d.Eshkol_Dj[ Israelr and J&s. EslScol wili~'& guests of honor at a dinner of the United Jewish Appeal's National Campaign Cabinet, at the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel in New York City, Wednesday, June 3, it was announ¬ ced by Joseph Meyerhoff, the UJA General Chairman.
The UJA Cabinet dinner is the first major Jewish function Mr. Eshkol is scheduled to attend while in New York City.
Mr. Eslikol, Mr. Meyerhoff and Max M. Fisher, associate general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, will speak at the dinner.
The Premier,, who arrives in the United States on Monday, June 1, will be the guest of Secretary-Gen¬ eral U Thant at a specially-arrang¬ ed UN luncheon on Thursday, June 4, in Mr. U Thant's suite.
After the luncheon. Deputy Chief of Protocol,  Mr.  Sinan A.  Kcrle,
Turkish national, will lead Mr. Eshkol and his party through a tour of the United Nations.
During,his stay in America, Mr. Eshkol plans to visit some of the nation's leading cities.
BRANDEIS GRANTS HONORARY DEGREES
Two of 10 distinguished men and women who will re¬ ceive honorary degrees at Brandeis University's I3th com¬ mencement on June 7 are Maj. Gon. Yaacov Dori (left), president of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and Maurice Samuel, author of "The World of Sholom Aleichem" and many other volumes. James Reston, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will deliver the commence^ ment address.
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