Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1969-09-18

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VOL.47 NO.39
2(S_:Serving Celumbus, "CentSr ^ndSouthwestern Ohio \WK
THURSDAY,SEPTEMBER 18, Isieg-TISHRI 6
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Surrounding Hijacking
Polish Jews Halted From Emigrating
LONDON, (JTA) ~ The special regiilations wMch al¬ lowed Polish Jews to emi¬ grate to Israel expired in Poland onSept. 1. Jews wish¬ ing to leave the countiy from now on will he subject to the same restrictions as all otbeif Poles wMch make it almost impossible for the average person to travel abroad.
There are ndy about 12,000 Jews left in Poland compared toaboutZO^OOOtwo years ago. EmigraUon has depleted the Jewish commu-. nity, especially since the government's anti-Zitmist drive and puige dJevs tram government^ Communist Par
Parly and other jobs in the spring d 1968.
The Warsaw regime per¬ mitted Jews ta emigrate but iQljosecl smre restrictiaas ' ^^ tfie'amount * '"'" ' Iiersanal Me nitii'i
secure Israeli'visas from the Netherlands Embassy in Warsaw, which handles Is¬ raeli a^tirs in Poland since tbe letter's diplomatic break with Israel in June, 1967. But Polish authorities an¬ nounced last May that exit permits would no longer be granted alter Sept. 1,1969. The date is the 30th anni¬ versary, d the Nazi Invasion -of Poland vriiicb started World War n. On Sept. 1, 1939 there were an esti¬ mated three million Jews in Poland. About200,000Fclish Jews who ttjund retagje in I{u6sia~retumed to Poland af^r tbe war.   .    •
br. Pike Is Buried In Israel
JAFFA, (JTA) — Dr. James A. 'FiKe,'the former Episcopal Bi^p of Cali- fomia who ^eU of exhaustion in the Judaean desert after becoming lost, was buried in tids Biblical seaport town. His widow, Mrs. Diana Pikoi lAo accompanied him oh his tUal Journey to Israel and later walked a whole niglitin search ot beln said yester¬ day that ber husband had Itmd tbe Holy Land "ais if it nere his own" and that it would be appropriate if lie were burled here. Funeral arrangements were made by Mrs. Pike and her brother, Richard Scott Kennedy, after consulting with Dr. Pike's 84-year-oId mother in Call-' fomla.
The 56-year-Qld cleric, ivho was a controversialflg- ure at home and a staunch champion of Israel, was in^ terred at St. Peter's I*o-
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Accused Mosque Arsonist Agrees To Televise Trial
Bond Chairmen Awarded
Irving Baker (left), 1968 and 1969 High Holiday Chairman for Ahavas Sholom Congregation and Martin Hoffinan (center). High Holiday Chairman for Beth Jacob Congregation in 1968 and 1969. accept the
'Jerusalem Award oo behalf of tiieir congregati<«s tor selling over $10,000 in Israel Bonds at the High -HoUdays In 1968. Columbus Chairman, HowardSchoen- baum (right) presented the awards ad^ng he was certain
. he would, have the samie privilege after the 1969 Yom Kippur appeal forlsraelBondstakesplace.The awards are given to congregations holding Israel Bond Drives producing at least $10,000 for Israel's development
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Michael Denis WiUiam liohen, accused of settinis the Al Aksa mosque fire here Au^. 21 has agreed to permit his trial to be televised. Mr. Rohen's decision, announced in Jerusalem district court, will enable Israel to use the trial in an effort to offset Arab propaganda on the (ire.
A prominent Israeli criminal lawyer, Isaac Tunik of Tel
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — Trans-World Airlines has defended its actions surrouncUng the Aug. 29 hijacking of one of its Israei-liaund planes to Syria in a letter to members of the Conference .of Presidents of Major American Jewish Or¬ ganizations, it was disclosedthis week, mthe letter, Charles C. TilHnghast, Jr., chairman ofthe board of TWA,, said there hadbeen "a cettahi amountof criticism^'ofTWA'"which we regard as unfounded.!' He
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declared, "From the outset of this act of air piracy, of which we have been the un- fortimate victims, we atT WA have regarded it as our re¬ sponsibility to do eveiTthing within our power, as a pri¬ vate corporatioh to assist in securing the speedy release of all the passengers" onthe hijacked airliner.
Rabbi Herschel Schacter, chairman ot the Conference ot Presidents, expressed "satisfaction' with ttejet- ter and -also .wtth. what he described ias 'IHfe-vigorous action d!SttSB,K!med States Govern4n>e)n!tuaQ&!Jll!tSili»- Worid Ail!|tti$ii|l!^HHn«t)l« to secui?eitbe|i.>t^G9f«Eise dttlie two Israeli passengers held captive inDaniasiciis."Rabbi Schacter ~was critical, how¬ ever, ot the "Impotence of the United Nations and the action of Secretary-General U Thant in opposing i^ the Ut^nuAlonal Federation at Afrlliie; Pilots .Assibcia- tions to launch a vrorldTwlde pilots' strike aimad ait flree- ing the captured Israeli jiaa- sengers." ,.¦>'
Rabbi Schacter said,"Itis serious enough that the Sec¬ retary-General has failed to take fOTtbrlght action in re¬ sponse to the international banditiy in whch Syria is ah accomplice—an act of piracy that poises a threat to every countiy whose citizens travel by air at hiome or abroad — But his state- , ment publicly opposing a
serious eCTort to win the prisoners' release is nothing less than shocking." Rabbi Schacter noted that the two Israeli prisoners r- Prof. Shiomo Samueloft and Sallah Muallem -- appeared on French television Sejit. 4 in a. taped interview. Both ap¬ peared desponded and har- rassed. Rabbi Schacter said.
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. the court to defend Mr. Rgh- en, but the defendant has not yet accepted the court's choiie.f he trial is expected to begin later this mmith. Judge- Hemy Baiter, the
. courts president, extended Mr. Rohetf s detention until the end ottbe trial.
Mr. Rdien'is charged with two couitts of arson and two counts ot "violatian ct holy places." Each count ot arson carries a maximum 15-year penalty  and each count ot
, ,'vlol|tlon,ot i( shrine carries;
- a possible seven-yearpenal-' ty. A 300-seat haU in Jeru¬ salem's convention center' will be turned into a court¬ room for the trial so that hundreds ot newsmen can cover it._
Kfr. Rohen has refused to. appear before aspeclaljudi- cial committee inquiring iitto the causes d the Ore even though several witnesses, have incriminatedhimandhe is entitled, under Israeli law, to questicm thenu Mr. Rohen, reixxrtediy a member of a fundamentalist Protestant sect, confessed to IsraeU police that.be setthe mosque afire because "God tdd him to." But he signed a paper waiving the right to appear , as a witness or to qiiestion other witnesses.
Meanwhile, three promi¬ nent East Jerusalem Moslem
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LONDON,- (JTA), — An ai|ti>!Americw ,riot broke out in an Amman movie house, this week where the audience was viewing the John Wayne war film, "The Green Berets." When United States jet4)ombing the Viet Cong in Vietnam appeared on the soreen, someone shouted "Phantoms, Phantoms.^' The audience went -wil^ ripping down the screeiv iqirooting seats and smashing the glass lii the theater lobby, according to relports received here. The "Phantoms" are the Am¬ erican F-4 supersonic jetfighter-bombers the US. has sold to Israel. Tihe first consignment was dellveredin Israel last week. -V
TEL AVIVj (JTA) — An American-Jewish writer who arrived here after ai visit to Russia said this week that!S(ivipt Jews are holOngerafi:tddt6 complain ixibilclybt their grievances against the Soviet regime. . According to S^t Schneiderman of New York, the liber¬ al trei|d among young Soviet writers and poets has - encouraged Jews tb Voice' protests against alleged discrimination In unlyer^itie?; pubUc institutions and other areas ot life in Russia. !
JERUSALEM, (JTA) -"IntemationalRedCrossrep- ¦ resentatives visited the two Israelis detained in Syria after their TWA plane was hijacked to Damascus, it was reported here this week. The representatives said that Israeli Prof. Shiomo Samueloff and SaUah .Muallem were in good health.  ,, i.,. ,.,,...., ,'..
leaders have informed the commission investigating the fire that they would nottesti- fy. Sheikh Hilmi el Miditasib and Hassan Tahbotib, direct¬ or of the Waqf (Moslem re¬ ligious trusteeship), said they were rejecting invita¬ tions to testis on tiie ground that they do not recognize the legaUty of the commis¬ sion. A tiiird Arab and a former Jordanian minister, Anwar Nusseibeh, wrote tliat he h^. no person^ kno;w^ ledge of theflre or its cau'scis. ;.AriiArab'guard ait the El Aksa mos^qiue .when, the fire brote)'out^early, on Aug. 21
3layed running for help be¬ cause he was accosted by Rohen, a witness testified. The guard said he recognized the 28-year-old AustraUan national who emerged from the shrine justbeforethefire^' was discovered. He saidRoh- en offered him a ten pound note (about $2.80) presum¬ ably as a bribe because the mosque was closed to visit¬ ors at the time.
Questioning by Attorney- general Meir Shamgar re¬ vealed that the'guards ap¬ pointed by the Moslem Su¬ preme Religious Council, had no ready means of contacting poUce or civil defense authorities and did not know how to operate the fire- Qghtlng ^qjdpment in the mosque. The witnesb told 'Mrl^jSltilutear tha^in case of
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U Thant Asks Pilots Not To Have Strike
JERUSALEM (WNS) — United Nations Secretary General U Thant has asked abrline pilots.not to strike in protest against the Arab terrorist hijacking of an American jetliner and the continued detention ot two Israelis by the Syrian Government.
His plea came as the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association, which represents about 44,000 pilots, was polling its members on
a pressed 24-hour strike as a protest against the lack of intematloiial efforts to stc^ airUne hijacking. Associa¬ tion president Ola Forsb^rg of FInnair, the Finnish air¬ Une, said the strike would be called .off if the Syrians , released the two Israelis. But he said his groups stiU demanded international act- Ion through the UN to deal }^lfb aeriAl .hijacking. ; 5(i(^|^,^^t!^p; who met with a ^i^^M^j^^a^s while he was'j[^i^nejraf^ald the prb- pij^^lirike^^^dnctpro- diice the deshred results" and woidd "only cause seri¬ ous inconvenience to airline passengers throughout the world." He told the pUots they should raise the hijack¬ ing problem directly withthe Security CouncU or ask some goveitape'nt tb do so.
Israel has'declined to comment onMr.Thant'splea- or the planned action by the IFALPA. Jeruisalem is con-, tinufilg to' fopOoward' the United States which is ^leg¬ ally responsibly forthe safe¬ ty <tf the passengers ot the Trans-World Airlines plane for release of the two Is¬ raeUs. It has warned Dam¬ ascus that it would hold Syria responsible for the weU- being ot the two men.
UN spokesmen have stated that Mr. Thanf s office is maintaining contact withthe'
Syrian Government on the question of the releaJse otthe passengers. But no non- Syrian has so far been per-*" mitted to visit the Israelis despite requests by TWA, the International Red Cross and the ItaUan Ambassador - in D^ascus, which repre¬ sents Israel in tiie Arab nation.
The Israeli threat facing Damascus Is the fact that the Syrian capital Is only 16 miles from the nearest IsraeU p^^tion on the Golan Heights, .j^^ hours away, an IsraeU^npitary spokes¬ man said, imd its recently opened new airport has the longest runway in the Middle East. . '
Another problem for^ Syria, it was indicated, was the belief among some lead¬ ers that the most mUitant Arab terrorist oorgarilzatlon, tiie Popular Front fdl' the Liberation (tf Palestine, set iip the incident to embarass. tiie Baath regime. TheBaath parly and the PFLP are po¬ litical enemjles and despite thpir'libstiUty to Israel have acted against each other ina number of Arab states.
The Tel Aviv daily, Haar¬ etz, reported that the Soviet Union told the United States that it .|ia3 recommended to Syria that It releaise the two
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