Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1966-11-25

              Serving ColumbUjs. Dayton. Centraf and Southwestern Ohio
Vol. 44, No. 48
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The Jewish coihmunity of Columbus will participate in a gi¬ gantic rally to protest Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, oh Sun¬ day, December 11. The rally, which is sponsored by the Council of Organizations of the,ctJnited Jewish Fund and Council, will be at Congregation Tifereth Israel, commencbig at 8 p.m.
The protest meeting, which will be duplicated in a large num¬ ber of the major cities of the United States and Canada, grows out of  the  indreasihg  alarm with
which Jewish communities throughout the world view the silent, vicious and effective way in which Jewish life, secular, conimunial'ahd reli^ous is being throttled in the Soviet Union to the point that, the future exist¬ ence of a Jewish) ciiture in that land is hi great peril.
THE KEYNOTEi speaker for the evenhig will be the nationally prominent president of the religi¬ ous Zionists of America, Rabbi Herschel Schachter, who as re¬ cently returned from a visit to tlie (Soviet Union and has oh served, at first hand, the plight of Russian JeWry. He is one of the few Americ^ rabbis to have visited the satellite pations.
Catrl Mellman is chairman of the Program Committee, and Mrs. Bernard YenBrt of the Arrange¬ ments Committee.
Schaffer, in announcing the rally, Stated that 'All tadlvlduals and organizations coiiiprishig the Jewish community of (Jolumbus are lirged to partidpate hi this great enterprise which' ^ involves the freeing of our brethren in the Soviet Union.from an intolerable burden.
"DESPITE A few tokeiji con¬ cessions following the last series ot protests in 1964, the policy of the Soviet Union toward its Jewish community continues to be one of spiritual and cultural attrition. The few concessions testify to the Soviet Govern¬ ment's increashi^ sensitivity to world public opinion regarding its treatment of its Jewigh citizens and, therefore, it \vill require constant alertness and militancy about these conditions, as exampllfied by this planned protest, to wring more conces¬ sions' from the HSoviets;-and to eventually ameliorate the con¬ dition of Soviet Jewry, Schaffer concluded.
The World's Week
Compiled from JTA and WUP Reporh
JEWISH-NEGRO RELATIONS DISCUSSED
Mrs. Joseph WiUen of New York City, national presi¬ dent of the National Council of Jewish Women, discusses Jewish-Negro relations with Miss Dorothy Height, national president of the National Council of Negro Women and Mitchell Krauss, moderator of the television program, "News Front." The women's leaders appeared on the educa¬ tional television broadcast in New York to encourage con¬ tinued support of the civil rights movement.
Ijiwrence Schaffer
The program will also feature an invocation by Rabbi Nathan Zelizer of Congregation Tlfereth Israel, and a Iienediction by Rabbi Bennett Hermann of Temple Beth Tikvah. Cantor Philip Gelhnan of Agudas Achim Congregation will light the Me¬ norah; the Tifereth Israel choir, directed by Saul Wachs, will offer several selections and UJFC vice-president, Edward Schlez¬ inger, will extend greetings on behalf ot the United Jewish Fund and Council.
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been named chairman of the Protest Derfionstration; Hersh Adlersteln, Associate Director of the Community Relations Com¬ mittee of the UJFC, is staff Co¬ ordinator for the demonstration, and may be contacted at 221-5417 for   further   information.   Mrs.
B'NAI B'RITH TO HONOR UBa KATZ
NEW YORK—-Label A. Katz of New Orleans,-immediate past president of B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish service order in the United States, will be honored by that organization at an in¬ ternational salute and dinner at the Americana Hotel in New York on Tuesday evening, Janu¬ ary 17.
Announcement of the tribute was made by Dr. Wiliam A. Wexler, current president of B'nai B'rith, who said the project has drawn enthusiastic endorse¬ ment from government, educa¬ tional and religious dignitaries here'and abroad, as well as from Jewish leaders throughout the world.
Grim Picture Given For Middle East
BY DAVID HOBOWITZ
UNITED NA-nONS, (WUP) —"Unless the U.S. steps in to fill the vacuum that will be left hi Aden^i^d the South Arabian Federation of States after Brit¬ ain withdraws hi 1968, the entire Arabian peninsula may well turn into another Congo inferno."
This grtai picture was given this writer this week during an exclusive interview with a noted Lebanese correspondent who has just returned to the UN follow¬ ing a four-week visit in the area during which he had conferred with many of the Sultans and other leaders hi te region.
ACCORDINO TO the corres¬ pondent—^l>earded and who gives the appearance of a typical be¬ douin. President Nasser is the main trouble-maker in the area.
"Nasser's ambition," he s£iid, "is not only to control Yemen, but primarily Aden, the gateway to the entire peninsula. With access to French Somaliland, which lies directly across the narrow sound, the Egyptian dic¬ tator will have it within his power to' close the Red Sea to shipping going to and coming from Israel."
IN ANTICIPATION of Brit¬ ain's scheduled withdrawal from Aden, the Lel>anese correspon¬ dent noted, the remahihig 2,000 Jews there as well as the other non-Arabs, feel insecure as to their future and they are already making plans for eventual de¬ parture.
The South Arabian Federated States, comprising the entire coastline of the peninsula, he stated, represent rich and fert\le re^ons'as disthict from the vast northern Saudi Arabian area, the major portion of which is desert,
Dramatic Nazi Film Silences Audience
NEW YORK ,(WUPj),:— A_9ne:hpjirjJongJUmJtePicto a re- "viiif to TSfazi~dSath 'c1ffips™6r a'ifbTmaief^himate, now''a"resident in Canada. left an audience of several hundred stunned onlookers in dead silence during a shovt^g at the Regency Hotel here last week.
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada under the dh%ction of Donald Brittain and John Spotton, the production, entitled "Memorandum," — so designated on the basis of memo¬ randum   dated   July   21,   1941,
which Hermann Goering had sent to SS chief Heydrich setting hi motion the 'final solution to the Jewish question' — was made this summer on the occasion of the 20th anniversaory of the lib¬ eration of the Nazi death camps jn Europe.
"MEMORANDUM" has al¬ ready won four film awards, in¬ cluding fhrst prize at the recent Venice Fihn Festival.
Before the showing of the awe¬ some fihn, Josef Rosensaft, pre¬ sident of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, ad¬ dressed the audience and strong¬ ly criticized Peter Weiss' Broad¬ way play, "The Investigation," for "ignorhig the martyrdom of the Jews who were the principal sufferers of Hitler and his Nazi cohorts.
"THE FILM we are seeing tonight," he said, "sets in the proper historic and moral per¬ spective the question of the guilt of those tens of thousands of Nazis who murdered Jews and then denied theh: guUt by sayhig that they only killed Unperson- ally because they were ordered to do so by the higher-ups."
The vuiique film tells the whole gruesome story of the Nazi holo¬ caust — Auschwitz, Trebllnka and the other concentration camps as well as Bergen-Belsen. It includes terrifying scenes of the killings taken by the mur¬ derers themselves.
THE CANADIAN inmate of the camps was Bernard Laufer who, with his young son and other escapees from all over the world, are shown in the film as they revisit the camps where they had lost their parents, wives, husbands and children.
Twenty years after the libera¬ tion, one of the scenes shows the group standhig by mass graves recithig Kaddlsh. The British lib¬ erator of Belsen was one of the partic'pants during the chant of the Kaddlsh.
PRESENT during the showing of the production was Mr. Lau¬ fer himself as &Iso the producer.
director Donald Brittain.
The  basic  lesson  "Memoran' dum" teaches was summed up by Mr. Rosensaft in these words "Never to forget and never to forgive."
UNITED NATIONS, (WUP) — The resolution adopted' last week by the Special Political Committee on the Arab refugees dealt a severe blow to thejArabs who had enx- barked on a campaign to place tiiei problem In the cate¬ gory of a colonial issue. The adopted draft contains;;no reference whatsoever to this phase although the Arab speakers had made much of it in their statements.
NEJW YORK, (WUP) — Harify Golden was honored last week at a luncheon at the Jewisli Agency Building by the American Jewish Public Relations Society on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his publication, "The Carolina Israelite." In a citation presented by Henry W. Levy, president of the Society, Mr. Golden was cited "as on^ of American Jewry's foremost publicists and spokes¬ men, a man whose voice has always been in the forefront of those dedicated to the furtherance of the American principles of freedom, civil liberties and better understand¬ ing between peoples of all races and religions."
NEW YORK, (WUP) — Benjamin R. Epstein, National Director of the Antl-Defamatlon League of B'nal B'rith, Issued a statement scoring the Erhardt Party for selecting a former Nazi as its candidate for the Chancellorship. "More than anyone," Epstein stated, "Germans themselves should find It incredible that the party of Adenaur and Erhardt has turned to Kwct George Kiesinger, a man with a Nazi record, to lead their party and nation."
NEW YORK, (WUP) — The Rabbinical AlUance of America, an Orthodox body representing some 500 member rabbis in the United States and Canada, has strongly criti¬ cized Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva University, "for haying accepted an award-at the dinner ofi thfr Syna' gogue Council of Amerca on November 6."
NEW YORK, (WUP) — A rare Indian Torah, gift of the Calcutta Jewish Community and which has been des¬ ignated for use at a projected Hebrew Institute In Japan under the leadership of Prof. Abraham S. KotsujI, has not reached Its destination due to the non-materlallzation of the Institute. Currently on loan to an American synagogue, the Torah Is still earmarked for use in a religious center In Japan, according to a recent decision taken by the U.S. custodians of the Indian scrolls, a decision made in con¬ sultation with representatives of the Calcutta Jewish com¬ munity.
Oliaplain David Saltcman
A New Chaplain Is Appointed To Viet Nam Duty
VIETNAM — "The life of an I Corps riding chaplahi in Viet¬ nam is hectic and unique, land there are many rewarding ex¬ periences," Chaplain (Lieuten¬ ant) David B. Saltzman stated in his first report to the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) Commission on Jewish Chap¬ laincy after his recent assign¬ ment as Jewish chaplain of the Fh:st Marine Aircraft Wing, Viet¬ nam.
Chaplahi Saltzman came to Vietnam from his special High Holy Day mission in Taiwan. He replaced Roljert L. Reiner who, fafter completing his tour of duty hi Vietnam, is being reassigned in the United States. Tlie other two Jewish chaplains in Vietnam are Chaplain Alan M. Greenspan and Chaplahi Ernest D. Lapp.
Solution To Educational Imbalance To Be Probed
Dr. Samuel Globe, chairman, Jewish Center Public Affairs Forum Planning Committee, announced the next session Of the Public Affairs Forum will be held on Tuesday, November 29, 8:30 p.m. in the Center Adult Lounge. It will focus on "The Solution to Educational Imbalance"—Bushig, Financing, Private School, Demonstration Projects—^How Do They Affect Us? -,.,
Serving on the panel will be Rev. Phale Hale, Pastor, Union Grove Baptist Church; Dr. Nason E. Hall, Jr., Assistant Professor Department of Sclology, Ohio State University; and Tom Mc- Collough, vice president, Ross Laboratories; with Moderator Dr. Henry Samuels.
THIS PANEL will be examin¬ ing such concerns ets Eastmoor, Broadleigh, Berwick, and Alum Crest Schools, leaders in integra¬ tion, how realistic are the Inter- Cultural Council's Proposals and The Board of Education's Plans? They will review the fact and fantasy surrounding the dilemma of racial imbalance in our schools.
Dr. Hall received his graduate degrees from the University of California. He currently serves in the important post as Educa¬ tional Materials Chairman for the Urban League, as well as chairman for the Committee on Student Rights and Disclplbie at Ohio State University, which brings him into contact with many facets of community and student life.
REV. HALE is well known hi the community for his activity and concerns in the area of Civil Rights and Liberties where he has stood for equality and fair treatment for all groups in the community.
Mr. McColiough currently
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Manpower Crisis In Jewish Centers
To develop new directions and programs tdmed at overcoming the manpower crisis in the Jewish Commimity Center field l>oth to fill immediate shortages and cope with long range needs, the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) has established a JWB Manpower Commission.
Primary causes of the man¬ power crisis in the Jewish Ctom- munity Center field toe Its con¬ tinuing expansion and the urgent need to Staff new and existing Center facilities not only with professionally trained workers but with workers thoroughly equipped to carry out the Jewish purposes and programs of the Centers,
THE CENTERS are reaching out more and more foir trained specialists in Jewish cultural and performing arts, early childhood workers and other skilled 'pro¬ fessionals in order to keep pace with the broadened Jewish char¬ acter and quality of the Centers' services to the enthe Jewish community. '
Creation   of   the  Manpower
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