Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1966-12-02

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Vol. 44, No. 49
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1966 — 19 KISLEV 5727
The World's Week
Compiled from JTA and WUP Reports
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The National Committee for Labor Israel adopted, at the closing session of its 43rd annual convention here, a quota of $5,000,000 for Its 1967 campaign for the Histadrut, Israel's Labor Federation. In response to an emergency appeal for cash for inunediate transmittal to Israel to implement the Committee's pro¬ grams In the fields of health, education, vocational training and social welfare, the 2,000 delegates presented checlcs totaling $1,000,000. The delegates also resolved to obtain $2,000,000 in long-range commitments to the American , Histadrut Development Foundation in the form of wills and bequests.
BONN, (JTA) — Mayor Ernst Zwink of Oberammergau, site of the Passion Play presentation which has stirred international controversy for its version of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus, said here that the text of the play would be studied by a Catholic monastery for alleged anti- Semitic elements.
liONDON, (JTA) — The Radio Corporation of America has been added to the Arab blacklist of firms doing business with Israel, it was reported here from Kuwait where the Boycott Bureau of the Arab League has been holding a week-long meeting. The Kuwait Radio previously announced that Ford Motor Company and the Coca-Cola Corporation were added to the blacklist during the meeting. Mohammed Mahgoub, commissioner general of the boycott bureau said the ban on RCA covered "all branches of the firm every¬ where." Each member state decides whether and how the ban will Be applied in Its territory and Tunisia has been boycotting Arab League meetings.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) _ The Soviet Union was urged here, at the biennial convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, to allow Russian Jewish representation at a conference of Orthodox synagogue groups in Rome next May. A "fervent plea" for such permis¬ sion was made by Rabbi Joseph Karasik, who was elected president of the UOJCA, in an address to the convention banquet session.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — General Moshe Dayan, former Commander-in-Chief of the Israel Defense Forces, spoke up Sunday against the stationing of United Nations troops as a buffer between Israel and the Arab states. "We should aim towards normalization of relations with neighbors; the buffer of foreign troops merely creates a fiction in neigh¬ bor-relations, and thereby defers the peace," he said.
CANDLES GLOW AS JEWISH CBILDREN BEGIN CELEBRATION OF CHANUPH
It's a tall assignment for this young miss to reach the menorah holding the Hanukkah candles in the lobby of the Jewish Community Center of which she is a member. Youngsters like her learn the story of the Festival of Lights through informal Jewish studies in Jewish Community Ceifters and in Jewish homes and Institutions of Jewish learning throughout the world.
Israel Maintains Watch On Jordan
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Is¬ raeli observers maintained a close watch on the unrest in neighboring Jordan where riot¬ ing broke out again in Nablus and where local Arabs, incited by strong anti-Israel propagan¬ da, demanded arms from King Hussein to be used against Is¬ rael in retaliation of Israel's reprisal raid into Jordan on No-
Rally Part Of National Effort
On Sunday, December 11, the Jewish community of Columbus will join with scores of Jewish communities throughout the na¬ tion in holding a Rally to Protest Soviet   Anti-Semitism.
The Rally, which will be held at Congregation Tifereth Israel, 1354 E. Broad Street, starting at 8;00 in the evening, will express communal concern felt in the United States and throughout the Western Worid, over the So¬ viet Union's tacit policy of slow strangulation of Jewish cultural, religious and secular life.
RABBI HERSOHEL SCHAC¬ TER, president of the Religious Zionists of America, will be the keynote speaker for the Protest Rally. Rabbi Schacter, who has recently returned from a visit to the Soviet Union where he observed at first hand the sad plight of Soviet Jewry, is also one of a few American rabbis to have visited the satellite coun¬ tries.
The Community Relations Committee of the United Jewish Fund and Council has distribu¬ ted to community leaders copies of a new publication called "For Soviet Jewry: Guidelines for Community Action." This pub¬ lication is available to any or¬ ganization wishing to develop their own programming on So- vivet anti-Semitism. Hersh L. Adlersteln, Associate Director of the CRC, has made available factual   information   on   Soviet
anti-Seznitism,  as  follows:
Although accurate figures are not available, it is estimated that roughly 2,500,000 Jews re¬ side in the Soviet Union, of which 75% are concentrated in the Russian Republic and the Uk¬ raine. Major centers of Jewish population are Moscow, Lenin¬ grad, Kiev and Odessa.
SOVIET JEWRY has a fixed legal status as a nationality, ranking eleventh in number. By Soviet law, being Jewish is not a matter of personal preference. If both parents are Jewish, the child is Jewish.
Unlike other recognized relig¬ ious bodies, Judaism is not per¬ mitted any semblance of a cent¬ red or coordinating structure. Each congregation must func¬ tion in isolation from other con¬ gregations. Accordingly, Juda¬ ism, unlike other faiths, cannot publish periodicals and devotion¬ al literature including journals, prayer boolcs and Bibles; cannot produce essent'.al devotional ar¬ ticles such as "taUth" or "tefil- lin;" cannot have formal and official contacts with co-religion¬ ists abroad, as contrasted to the experience of Protestant, Cath¬ olic and Moslem faiths; and can¬ not publish (except in rare cases) religious calendars, indispensa¬ ble guides to religious holidays and   observances.
DESPITE THE fact that there has been much pressure on Juda¬
ism, there still exist vigorous and courageous expressions of Jewish   identification.
There is evidence to indicate Soviet officials are increasingly concerned about the unfavorable impressions, abroad resulting from public protests on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Only after such protests became wide-spread did the Soviet Government launch a counter public relations cam. paign; make new promises and minor concessions.
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It was felt here that the. sit¬ uation in Jordan is nearing some kind of climax, as troops from Saudi Arabia were reported to have arrived in Jordan Sunday to strengthen the position of King Hussein against the grow¬ ing restlessness in the country. A spokesman for the U.S. Sbcth Fleet, which is stationed in the Mediterrtinean, was also report¬ ed to state that the fleet is keep¬ ing an eye on the explosive sit¬ uation in the Middle East and is   ready   to   intervene,   should
Security Council Votes Anti-Israel
BY DAVID HOROWITZ
UNITED NATIONS, (WUP) — Following many pn-and-off behind-the-scenes consultations and negotiations, in which the ne¬ gotiator par-excellence Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg played a prominent if not the most important role as President of the Coun¬ cil, the 15-member Security Council finally got around to adopting' la resolution which, in its one-sided anO-Israel composition, solved nothing and only added fuel to the Middle East powder-keg. Streuigely   enough,   the  reso-
enough for us just to draft a paper and hand it to one of the parties concerned."
The Netherlands, Uruguay expressed  similar views.
AND AS FOR Arthur J. Goldberg, speaking after the vote as the representative of the U.S., merely repeated a state¬ ment he had made at a pre¬ vious meeting, namely: "U.S. policy respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries in the Middle East, Member States of the UN, as the U.S. is required to do vui- der the Cheuter. U.S. policy firmly supports the maintenance of a peaceful situation in the Middle East . . . We have voted for this resolution," he added, " because we believe it is di¬ rected towards this purpose ..." This correspondent wonders. OF COURSE, the adoption of the resolution — in line with previous resolutions against Is¬ rael's retaliatory moves—comes as no great international dis¬ aster for Israel. The whole ses¬ sion undoubtedly made an im¬ pression £md an awareness among delegates as to the basic issues involved. Yet the Council continues to remain "a one-way street on the Israel-Arab dis¬ pute."
"The fundamental cause of Arab-Israel tension in the Mid¬ dle East lies in Arab bellger- ence and military threat against Israel,". Ambassador Comay told the Council in his concluding statement.
Seminary Sends Its Librarian To Aid In Florence Flood
Dr. Menahem Sclimelczer, Li¬ brarian of The Jewish Theologi¬ cal Seminary of America and director of its Library Fire Res¬ toration Committee, left Ken¬ nedy Airport for Florence last week as a member of a group of leading American experts on art and book restoifetion which will advise the Italian Govern¬ ment on methods of salvaging the historic treasures damaged by the recent floods. . The group is the second to be sent to Italy under the auspices of CRIA, the Committee for the Restoration of Italian Art, set up here in response to the ap¬ peal of the President of Italy.
Washington give the command. The spokesman for the 50-ship fleet refused to state whether the fleet has already been plac¬ ed on the alert.
THE QUESTION here is of what' possible action Israel could take if King Hussein's regime should fall under pressure of the Palestinian Arabs on the West Bank of Jordan, and be replaced by a military junta linked either to the Ba'ath re¬ gime in Syria or to President Nasser's regime  in  Egypt.
Israel's declared stand in such an event is based on the an¬ nouncement by then Premier David Ben-Gurion in Parliament six years ago that if a major change in Jordan's government took place, Israel would draw the consequences and act to pro¬ tect its interests. To act in such a Jordanian crisis would place Israel in an awkward position in the United Nations. But not to act, it was pointed out, would convert Israel's longest border and the one most difficult to defend, into a permanent front controlled by an enemy power,
KINO HUSSEIN'S decision to, .arm settlers hi Israeli border villages was received here with mixed feelings. On the one hand, there was hope that such arming might weaken the vio¬ lence of the radio campaign from Cairo against King Hussein mounted   by  Ahmed   Shukahy,
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lution — which not only cen¬ sured Israel for its - defensive action on November 13 but also warned her against any future such acts without any mention whatsoever of Arab provoca¬ tions —\was accepted by most delegates minus any sense of conviction that the text was fair, balanced or likely to be effective. There was a general feelhig of distaste for it.
THE U. SL, France and the United Kingdom, in going along with the text, appeared clearly to have bowed to Soviet-Arab pressures, and they were un¬ doubtedly also influenced by the latest disturbances within Jor¬ dan.
Significantly, Frank Conner of New Zealand, expressing dis¬ gust at the one-sided aspect of the resolution stood out alone in refusing to vote for it. In protest, he abstained. The 14 other members voted for it.
ANT CENSURE against Is¬ rael, he said, "however merited, should be accompanied by fair acknowledgment of the total situation within which the act of retaliation took place, and by constructive proposals aim¬ ed at providing the means whereby the recurrance of vio¬ lence might most effectively be checked."
Admonishing iiis colleagues around the horseshoe table, Cor¬ ner continued: "Can the Coun¬ cil, in any honesty, maintain that it will be making an ade¬ quate response to the situation, if it does no more thein adopt a draft resolution in these terms? Is it really acquitting itself of its task by confining itself to the comparatively easy course of meting out censure" without looking at the situation as a whole?
AMBASSADOR KIRONDE of
Uganda, although he reluctantly voted for the resoltion, referred to the Council action as a fail¬ ure. "What we have before us is another document, to which we have Ijeen asked to subscribe. For a patient that is dying," he said, "or is in desperate cir¬ cumstances, we do not even go so far as to prescribe an as¬ pirin, or any sort of medication. We do not advise as to what should be done to avoid a fu¬ ture recurrence; all we do here is just state the case and leave it at that. My delegation is very unhappy about this ... In my view," he stressed, "it would be a failure on our part if we were to treat £iny one incident without regard to the prevailing circumstances   ...  It   is   not
Chronicling
The News
Editorial    2
Real Estate     12
Society 6, 7
Shopping Guide     8
Synagogues     8
Sports   9, 10
Teen Scene   12
GALLERY FUYERS MUSICAL TO OPEN
"Do-Re-Mi," a brassy and trauntiful blockbuster of a musi¬ cal being produced by Gallery Players opens at The Jewish Center, 1125 College Ave., Sat¬ urday night, December 3. Cur¬ tain is at 8:30 p.m.
Garson Kanin has written the book about a series of misad¬ ventures in the juke box racket of an innocent finagler with de¬ lusions of being a big shot rack¬ eteer. For this recent Broadway hit musical, Julie Stehi has turned out one of a compelling tune sheets, with lyrics by Bet¬ ty Cromden and Adolph Green.
HUBIE CRAM, played by Abe Green, is a fall guy who dreams of being Mr. Big and ends as a victim. He rounds up a group of small time hoodlums, tries to be a juke box tycoon, but is too soft-hearted to drive a hard bar¬ gain.
Hubie's loving wife, who ex¬ pects the worst and gets it, is played by Sue Kaye. The group of Runyanesgue racketeers in¬ clude John Crawford, Alan Gun¬ dersheimer, Jr., and Harold Co¬ hen. Sanford Weinberg is WoMlet who steers our anti-hero hustler, into the juke box' business,
UFROABIOUS. talent audi¬ tions eventUEilIy lead Hubie tp the discovery^ of Tilda MulUna, portrayed by' Cynthia Robbins, a singing waitress in a pancake parlor which caters to weird young students of Zeni She be¬ comes a juke box queen.
Joim Henry  Wheeler, played
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Very Best Wishes For A Joyous And Happy Chanukah