Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1967-10-12

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JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Thousands of Jews, Israelis ai)d visitors, assembled last week for Rosh Hashanah services before the Western Wall in East Jerusalem for the first time in two decades and' Israeli officials prepared for an even larger turnout for Yom Kippur rites. Some officials said as matty as 15,000 persons came before the huge stones formfaig the wall of what is believedtobe the Second Temple which was destroyed fay the Romans in 70 C.E. Tlie shofar was blown to mark the tirst time that all of Jerusalem was under Jewish control in nearly 2,000 years.
LONDON, (JTA) — President Nasser of Egypt sent New Year's greetings to Egypt's Jewish community, the Middle East News A^nqr reported. The Agency reported that the greetfaigs were conveyed at celebrations in Cairo's Grand Temple by Chamberlabi NabU FathyE^Ibab. Reliable sources have reported that the Nasser regime expelled hundreds of Jews with foreign passports in the aftermath of the June ' war and Jailed between SOO and 600 Egyptian Jewish males wbo reportedly are still in Nasser's prisons and jail camps.-
NEW YORK, (JTA)-Jews throughoutthe world assembled
In synagogues to greet the New Year of 5728 and to express
in communal prayer thebr hopes for world peace, for the
>'. security .of an Israel which once agahi passed through the
^ -'trial of war last June and for the security of Jews in the
K|,,, Soidet Union and four lands where, persecution continued.
sh' -Jews in uniform offered prayers on battleships, in fooc
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PITTSBURGH, (JTA) —RabbiBemardA. Pouplco reported ,this week that he had received a letter from Chief Rabbi ^:^e1ni^^%evin of Moscow in which the Chief Rabld.declared "'"' ""' omis^jnmgpr^erbooH'vyasVnowbefaigi^blished''
«* ln-tl»\ Soviet MoA of ttie 50th aniflverajry of >i£e Bolshevik Revolution. Rabbi Poupko, a vice-president of tbe RabUnical Council of America, cited a promise he had received oi a recent visit to the Soviet Union, that a new prayerbodt would be published. He said he had received die promise ftom Aaron Vergelis, editor ofthe Sovietische, Heimland, the Soviet-spcmsored Yiddish publication.
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Gen. Yitzhak RaWn, Israel's chief of staff, declared that if war broke out a^dn, Israel was ready to carry the fieJit £rom its present bases hi occupied Arab territory, in a strategy of flghtbig the enen\y on the enemy's soil. Meanwhile, he told Yediot Achronot in an biterview, Israel would continue to nudntabi its occupation positions untU a settlement was reached, with the Arab ' countries.
UJFC Foresees Capacity
Dinner Crowd
RABIN'S WIFE VISlTjS
Mrs. Lea Rabhi, wife of.Maior-General Yitzhak Rabin, Commander-in-Chief of the Israel Defense Forces, is shown behig greeted by Mrs. Rose Kauf¬ man (center) of Cleveland, national president of Pion¬ eer Women, and Mrs. Israel Goldstein (right), fdi^merly of, New York - now of Jerusalem, past national presi¬ dent of the Pioneer Women Organization. Mrs. Rabin attended the 20th National Biennial Pioneer Women Convention bi Chicago recently as a special delegate ftom Pioneer Women's sister organization in Israel, The Council of Workbig Women (tbe largest Women's organization in that country).
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- The 1967/68 Vomg Lead¬ ership Development Pro¬ gram of the United Jewish Fund and CouncU will hold its opentag session on next Tuesday, Oct. 17, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ir¬ ving Baker, 268 .S. Hardhig Rd., at 8 p.m. accordbig to Mrs. Maurice Katclwr and Marvfai Pliskfai, chabmen. The program for the 1967/ 68 season will center around the theme: "The Orj^zed Jewish CommunUy — Is It For Me," and wQl consist
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SPEAKER fbr the flrst
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According to Herbert H. Schiff, cimlrman of the An¬ nual Dinner Meeting of the United Jewish Fund and Council, a capacity attend¬ ance is assuredfortheaffair next Sunday evening, Oct¬ ober 15, at' 6 p.m. at tho Whidfaig; Hollow Country Club. Schiff is askbig aU who Iiave made reservations to be at the-Club promptly for the 6 o'clock cocktail hour, so that die dinner can begin at 6:45 as scheduled.
The program will begin at 8 p.m. and arrangements have been made so that any¬ one who could not get a reservation for the dinner can be seated for the pro¬ gram portitm of the evening. Herman M, Katz, president of the UIFC, willgiveabrief report of the activities and pay tribute to the leadership of both the Regular 1967 Campaign andthe Israel Em¬ ergency Fund Campaign, as well as introduce the leader- shilp for the 1968 Campaign.
ANOTHER fbature/of ttie •• evemagiwiU be the^I^^rfent-- ation fay Mrs.,Simon Laz¬ arus, Chahrman of tbe Young Leadership''Award Com¬ mittee, of the 1967 wfainer of the Therese Stem Kahn Young Leadership Award to Millard Cummins; Cummins was selected for the award on the basis of his outstand¬ hig leadership of the Young Men's Division hi the 1967 Campaign, and for his many other-activities in the UJFC and the Jeviiab and general community.
Troy Feibel, chairman of
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the Nominatfaig Committee,, will present the slate of nom¬ inees for officers and mem¬ bers ofthe Board ofTrustees of the UJFC and of the Col- . umbus Welfare Foundation.
An especially outstandhig and intev^stbig program has been planned for the meet¬ ing,  with the  honoring of Samuel M. Melton' tor Ids ' many contrlbutionsvto ^ew-, ~lsh/'ai^''^U6rai;-.6dabkt(i#; ' Prfaictpal speaker will'tie Charles J. Bensley, presi¬ dent of the Israel Education Fund of the United Jewish Appeal. In a recent state¬ ment released fay Mr. Ben¬ sley, paying tribute to Mr. Melton, he said:
"Samuel Melton's dream of quality and equality in education for all of Israel's children paralleled the basic aim of the Israel Education Fund: to establish a univer¬ sal, free system of second- (Contfaiued on Page 4)
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Bankers
"You know what I was going to say and you still bwited mel" the president at the American Jewish Committee remarked to 1,500 of the nation'«i;top bankers, gathered at an Am- erican Bankers Association workshop on equal employ¬ ment opportunity fai New York.
"I commend you for squarely facing the ugly fact of racial, ethnic and relig¬ ious discrimination that has been all too common in Am¬ erican industry," said Mor- Tis B. Abram,. who called on the bankers to present to members of minority groups "convincingevidence -that barriers to promotion do not exist."
ABUAM said that he hbn- self might have become a banker some 20 years ago U he had not felt that he f^ccd special handicajps as a Jew.
George Champion, Board chairman of the Chase Man¬ hattan Bank, was moderator ¦ a(the workshop.
ONLY IN IHE USSR.
Jew Who Never Heard Of Yom Kippur
NEW YORK, (WUP)~Yes, Fred Yusfin, a Soviet-Jewish engineer, who was fully
. aware of his Jewish back- aaata, did not know wfaiat Yom Kippur was. At least
^n^ until he was recently faderviewed  by  Leonard
,,gross, the European editor of LOOK Magazbw, on his possible link to Judaism.. Gross and Look photo¬ grapher Paul Fusco had gone to the USSR'to do a back¬ ground stoiy <in connection with the SOth anniversary of the Revolution; Theb: report and photographs anpear in the October 3rd issue of the Magazfaio, entirely devoted
' to the Soviet Union, hi. its many facets of life. ' SPENDING three weeks fai
, the Siberian town of Bratsk, they met up with many Rus¬ sians, including Fred Yusfin. During a discussion aCwhich the wife of aMoscowprofes¬ sor argued that "the" only
.happiness   was'  collective
»happfaiess," agafaist which Gross and Fusco protested, Yusfin spoke out as if fay taiistinct: "LetGodhrbighap- pinesB. to everybocjy,"
Surprised, Gross biqutred "God? Are~you religious?"
"NO, IT'S habit, sayfaig that, like swearing," Yusfin justified himself.
Having previously been in¬ formed that Yusffai was Jew¬ ish, Gross took the occasion to ask further: "Are you teachfaig your kids anything about Jewish customs or traditions?"
"I CAN'T," said Yusfin. "I don't know themmyself."
'"Don't yoii even know what Yom Klppur is?"
"No, I've never heard of it," Yusffai admitted.
STILL taiquisitive. Look's Leonard Gross confronted the Jewish engineer several days later with some more questions, and this is the reply he received:
"My grandfather practic¬ ed Judaism until he died. My father did not practice at all, and my own attitude is. Give to God what is God's and to Caesar what is Cae¬ sar's. My mother and father , tpld me that before the Rev¬
olution, Jews were not given the right to live fai the big cities, that they had been deiilBd access to any pro- fiesslons. These tales didnot bear on my life. Today, it means nothing special to me to be a Jew. I don't feel Jewish. Ifeel Russian. There may be people who want to have Jewish culture, but it's been no p^ of my life. When I Iiear that a man of high standing is a Jew, I'm very proud. It's pleasing to me that the Jewish culture was one of the most'highly dev¬ eloped. I suppose I would be enriched fay acquaintance with the Jewish culture, tut I just'don't do anything about
"I DON'T understand Sov¬ iet Jews who Voidd like to emigrate to Israel, but if they want to, I think we should let them. Yes, I^know of the reputation atroad of theSov¬ iet Union and the Jewish question. I think this rep- utatim is entbrelyfaic<>rrect. I don't believe tho charge that Jews are keptfromres- ponsible jobs. The com- ¦ mander of the military area
of Eastern Siberia is a Jew; If you were to sift our aca¬ demicians, you would find many Jews. I myself am a good example of tbe life of a Jew. I feel nothfaig at all In the way of anti-Semitism.
"What would happen tome if I wanted to practice as a Jew? I can't imagine my¬ self fai such a position. Tem¬ ples? Rabbis? Matzos? Prayer books? I beUeve that the faitroduction of these fac¬ ilities is artificfad. New val¬ ues are being accepted fay all the modern Jews.
"IF THE people want to pray, it's uP to them. No¬ body stopped my grandfather firom praying. I don't believe it's true thatJews are denied the right to learn their own language, but if it were true, I would be very much op¬ posed. I don't want Jews op¬ pressed in any way."
As a footnote to this re¬ port, Leonard Gross has this to say: "There were 80 hous¬ es of worship in the area of Bratsk before the Revolu¬ tion. There are none today."
THE SPECIAL October 3rd issue of U)OKMagazfate is entiQed "Russia Today."
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Dore Schary ,
Call SNCC Anti-Semitic
BY TRUDE B. FELDMAN Chronicle's White House
correspondent Dore^Schary, National Chabrman of the Anti-De¬ famation League of B'nai B'rith, was fai the nation's capital last week to address a dinner meetingof theDiC- Maryland Regional Advisory Board. The dfamer, held at the Shorcham Hotel, was in honor of David Lloyd Kreeg- er, wbo was presented with the A.D.L,'s Torch of Lib¬ erty award for his pMlan- thropic, humanitarian and commuMal activities.
Schary, at a press con¬ ference at the Madison Ilotelt emphasized that tho Student Non-Violent CoordfaiatfaK Committed (SNCC) has rec- (Contfaued on Page 4)
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