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NEW YORK (WNS)—The American Jewish Con¬ ference on Soviet Jewry reported that Jews in the city o( Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in. Spviet Centra) Asia, are being prevented from buUding a new synagogue witliin walking distance of observant members of the city's Jewish community. The old.siynagogue was destroyed by ah earUiqtiake. Tashkent authorities have suggested the synagogue be built on the outskirts of Uie city.'The local Jewish community has appealed to Moscow for a change.in.the decision.;
NEW YORK (WNS)—Mayor John V. Lindsay, who recently switched party aiffiliations from Republican to Democrat, went on a waUcihg tour of Borough Park, the city's largest JewishL neighborhood. Lindsay, who lost the area by a margin of more than 3-1 when he ran for his second term as Mayor in 1969, was greeted by enthusiastic crciwds, including many rabbis. The tour. ended in, the private chambers of Grand Rabbi Halberstam,'the Bobover Rebbe, who told the mayor "it does hot matter which party you belong to, I lUce you as a person and give you my support and blessings for reaching hi^er office."
TEL AVIV (WNS)—U.S. youUis, 18 and under, won most of the medals in the sports segments of the ' Se(:ond Intemational IsraeU Youth Festival held in Beit Berl, on the outskirts of this city. In addition to individual championships, the U.S. contingent Won the team competition in track and field, swimming, tennis and boys basketbaU.
Slate Deparlment Refuses Endorsemeiil On Emigration Bill Before Congress
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - The State Department has refused to endorse Uie biUs in both branches of Congress to provide 30,000 emergencjy visas for:Jewish citizens of; the Soviet Union who wish td leiave that country andsetUe in the United States, it was disclosed here. The State Department claims that the U.S. Attorney General has Uie authority to admit "a substantial number of Soviet Jews" and "there is therefore little technical need" for the proposed legislatipn. "The Depart¬ ment's position was revealed in a lietter to Rep. Emanuel
Celler, Democrat of New York and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wKose office made It public. The Congressman, who was traveling in Europe, was Informed about it In Oslo.
David M. Abshire, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, signed the Department's letter to Celler. While "deeply sympathetic to the humanitarian aims of the proposed legislation," Ab¬ shire said, the Attorney General, has acted in a number of emergency refugee situations to take refugees into the U.S. when
Miff-East Statements Summarize Tbe Current Political Situation
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JERUSALEM (JTA)-The Foreign Ministry charged Aug.  24 - tiiat   Uie   United
Hebre^ SehoQl Fall TermSSf r^'^S IMfiil Beslln Septennber 12
The FaU term of the Columbus Hebrew School wiU begin Sunday, Sept. 12, at the religious schools; Agudas Achim and Beth Jacob. Students wiU attend regular classes twice a week at the Jewish Center, starting Monday, Sept. 13, 4 to 6 p.m.
Letters will be mailed to all parents; indicating the days the students will attend. Pupils who attended scihool last year are automatically enrolled.
EAST-SIDE BRANCH
Classes at the East^side Branch will begin oh Tuesday, Sept. 14. At the present time instruction will i>e given there twice a week;
Tuesday and lliursday; from 4 to, 6 p.m. An additional period of Hebrew instruction for students affiliated with Temple Israel will be given on Sunday, beginning Sept. 19.
Pupils attending the East- side Branch during the week, wlU attend on Sunday tlie religious  school of  their famUy   congregation   af¬ filiation and will participate there In the Hebrew School share-time program. NORTH-SIDE BRANCH Students of the Northrside • Hebrew School wiU  attend classes    twice 'a .'week, Mpnday and  Wednesday, beginning Sept. 13, from 4 to
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JDL Prolesls Indifference To Jewish Poverty In N. Y.
NEW YORK (JTA)- Thirty-five members of the Jewish Defense League, including national chairman Rabbi Meir Kahane, arrived unannounced at the office pf the city's Human Resources Administration to protest city "indifference to Jewish poverty.'" HRA officials conferred with a lO-member JDL delegation and agreed to initiate a series of meetings on the problem. Tliefirstmeeting will be held next Tuesday. Joseph Aguayo, special assistant to Jules Suganhan, head of the HRA and Commissioner of Social Services, told the Jewish Telegraphic: Agency Uiat although the JDL'ers had arrived unannounced, there was "no disturbance of any kind." He called the meeting with the JDL delegation . a "highly, .productive" consideration of "valid issues ... . very, very
critical concerns." He said there was "no pressure or anything."
The JDL charged that- Jews represent 12 percent of New York's poor biit receive less than 2 percent of anti- poverty funds; that 15 of the 26 official anti-poverty areas of Uie city have "sizeable" . Jewish populations but only two have "proper Jewish representations on local' comm unity corporation boards," and that some "pockets of Jewish poverty"' are denied anti-poverty funds.
The JDL relected "Establishment Control" of local Jewish community groups, and demanded thaf the HRA report on the problem be made puUic. Aguayo told Uie JTA that he agreed with Rabbi Kahane that the problem, existed and that there was not enough
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in Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's tallc of a "per¬ manent" Israeli regime in the occupied Arab territories with the statement by Egypt, Libya and Syria liarring negotiations and peace with Israel. State Department spokesman Robert J. Mc¬ Closkey had said Aug. 23' in ^yashihgton that the Arab Federation statement was "equally unfortunate in the same sense about which we commented about Minister Dayan's statement last Friday.'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Avraham Avidar said "We are sorry to say that these statements (by McCloskey) create the wrong, impression." He explained: "The speech by the Defense Minister to which the State Department spokesman referred was an evaluation of the situation and expression of a point of view not meant to change the decisions of the Cabinet.
In contrast, the Damascus statement is an official announcement by three Arab Presidents which confirms the draft Constitution of the future Federation. The Damascus statement details poUtical principles and goals' of the Federation, and therefore it is a grave matter that it emphasizes there will be no peace and no negotiations with Israel." Avidar stated further that McCloskey had in fact not taken into account Dayan's clarification of his speech in a radio address Aug. 24. Dayan said then that he had not proposed annexation of the administered areas but did feel that certain projects should. hot be delayed or cancelled pending a Middle East settlement. Dayan stressed that the Israeli government had not changed its viewdn Uiis matter. "The
second. State Department statement disregards, for some reason,' these clarifications," Avidar protested.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned that the text of Avidar's complaint has been submitted to the American • charge d'affairs here, Owen Zurhellen. In addition, Israel's grave view of the Damascus statement is being conveyed to Israeli ambassadors aroUnd the world.
In Washington, Nikon Administration experts on the Middle East appeared to be uncertain as to whether the new Arab Federation's unity statement, barring peace talks with Israel, constituted rhetoric designed for local con¬ sumption or represented agreement by Egypt,. Syria and Lilly a on a firm-policy. The issue arose when Mc¬ Closkey was asked whether the department had any information from any source aS loWhether the statement, circulated in Damascus on Aug. 20 after the Presidents of the three Arab nations signed    the    charter    of
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"existing machinery and visa and conditional-entry numbers were insufficient to meet thedemand." Abshire elabcirated: "This means was used to assist large numbers of Hungarian refugees after the 1956 uprising in Hungary, and Is presenUy being used for large numbers of Cuban refugees. You may be cer¬ tain that in a similar situation the Department would strongly support the use pf parole-by the Attorney General for a substantial number oif Soviet Jews."
One hundred and 18 Representatives have co- sponsored the visa measure Introduced by Rep. Edward I. Koch, Democrat of N.Y. on Mar. 4. "Thirty-five Senators support the upper house version. The Jewish leadership in the U.S. has split   on   the   issue.   Such
leaders as Rabbi Bernard A. Poupko, president of the Religious Zionists of America, and Rabbi Abraham^Gross, president of . the Rabbinical Alliance, have argued for the legislation. Herman L. Weisman, president of the Zionist Organization of America, has asserted that "at thc present time It is neither realistic nor productive to support un- proven propositions which serve only to divert attention from the basic issue—aliya (to Israel) for Soviet Jewry. "Political observers here believe . that the State Department's opposition to the visa bills, as well as to the proposal for Yiddish and Hebrew broadcasts Into Russia on the Voice of America, is based on a desire   not   to   offend   the
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Campaign Leadership To Be Honored Al UJFC Meeting
Recognition and Awards wiU be presented to the leaders of the highly suc¬ cessful 1971 Campaign by Ben Goodman, General Chairman, at the annual meeting of the Uijited Jewish FundandCouncil, on Siinday evening, Sept. 12. Reser¬ vations received to date Indicate a capacity at¬ tendance at Temple Israel for this outstanding com¬ munity event.
Mr. Goodman wUl receive a special award for his ef¬ forts In behalf of the Cam¬ paign. The following Chairmen will be honored: Gordon B. Zacks, Advance Gifts; Martin Hoffman, Trades & Professions, Mrs. Melvin N. Furman, Wonien's Division; Dpnald Katz, Young Men; Mrs. Gerald Swedlow, Young Matrons; Carl Erkes, Junior Division; Jeff Glassman, Ohio State University ^udents Cam¬ paign;    and    the    Hillel
BEN GOODMAN
Foundation at Ohio University for its par¬ ticipation in the Campaign. Mrs. Raymond Kahn, Chairnian of the Planning Committee, has appointed Mrs. Alvin GlUitz to head the large committee which is now calling'" to secure reservations for the affair. Assisting Mrs; Gitlitz are Mrs. Martin Gold, Co- Chairman, and the following
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Religious Emphasis Week To Examine Womens Lib Second Vigil For Soviet Jewry To Be Held
As our thoughts turn toward the end of Summer and the beginning of FaU, we are mindful that another New Year on the Jewish calendar draws near.
With the coming of the High Holy Days at Uie Betti Ja'cob Synagogue,; our thmights automaticaUy turn to the stimulating and^ in¬ spiring days of R. E. W., Religious Emphasis Week.
For the past 12 years Rabbi David Stavsky has brought to Columbus many intellectually prominent and spiritually uplifting scholars and rabbis who have spoken On a variety of subjects. We have listened to thoughts on "Prayer,    Charity     and
Repentance," "Jewish Identity - Bond or Shackle," "Religion and Rebellion" and many other thought provoking and religiously awakening topics.
Mr. Irvin Flox, this year's Chairman for R.E.W. has: announced that the theme for the thirteenth con¬ secutive year Pf R.E.W. wlU be "Torah Judaism Looks at Women's Lib." Speakers will discuss and answer such questions as "What Is Happening to. the . Jewish Woman Today," and "The Relationship of Women's Lib to the Jewish Woman." <> Religious Emphasis Week will take place this year at the Beth Jacob Synagogue
between Wednesday, Sept. 22 and Sunday, Sept. 26. The Beth Jacob Youth Group wiU start the series off by having Its second Vigil for Russian Jewry at City HaU on Wednesday evening, Sept. 22. The entire Jewish teenage community Is in¬ vited to participate. A special luncheon program will be prepared by the Sisterhood on Thursday, Sept. 23, followed by the first Keynote Speaker on Thur¬ sday evening. Sunday morning there will .be a special Talis and Teffilin Club session and the final Keynote address is scheduled     for     Sunday
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