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VOL. S3 NO. 27
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nt ford Angrily Denounces leak' Of
Israeli Peace Offer To Egyptians
Columbus Responds To
UJA Request For Gash
Mrs. Milton M. Parker, Chairman of the 1975
Women's Division, presenting a check from the
Columbus Jewish Federation to the United Jewish
Appeal at an emergency meeting, June 13, in
Washington, D.C.
The response to the UJA's request for partial
payment on our obligation to the people of Israel was
made to Mr. Gerald S. Colburn, a National; Board
Chairman of the UJAi
The cash mobilisation presentation was held in
conjunction with a special luncheon meeting for Israeli
Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin on his recent visit to' this
country.   .>
Mrs. Parker andMr. Gordon Zacks, a member of the
UJA  National  Board,  represented the  Columbu_s...
Jewish Community. ''.
WASHINGTON (WNS) -
In an unusual and angry
statement that implied
criticism of Israel, President
Ford declared that the
United States would hot
compete with leaks in
diplomacy affecting a
Middle East settlement. His
statement read by State
Department spokesman
Robert Anderson referred to
an article by the Jerusalem
correspondent of the New
York. Times which reported
an Israeli offer for a second -
stage agreement with the
Egyptians accompanied by
maps. According- to the
Times, Israel has offered
Egypt a land corridor to the
Abu Rodeis oilfields and an
Israeli withdrawal from the
western part of the Gidi and
Mitla passes in return for an
Egyptian commitment not to
use force for three or four
years. Ford's statement
declared that the U.S.. "will
not get into the business pf
competitive leaks' of con¬
fidential .. diplomatic- Zjsi-..
changes.   The   maps   that
Syria To Get $58 Million In U.S. Aid
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON  (JTA)  -
Congress will allow the Ford
Administration to make an
additional economic loan of
$58 million to Syria without
opposition but with ample
warning     that   . further
financial assistance will be
opposed with  floor action
unless the plight of Syrian
Jews is alleviated. With the
House going into a ten - day
recess on June 26, those who
chose to make a fight against
the   second  loan   to  the
Damascus government have
found they had virtually run
out in their legislative time
to block the Administration's
action. On the first loan of
$25 million granted earlier
this year, Congress made no
move to prevent it in view of
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger's preparation at
the time for his ill - fated
venture   for   a 2-second
Egyptian - Israeli interim
agreement.    Congressional
-supporters of a better at¬
mosphere for Syrian Jews
felt pressure against Syria
would he considered by the
Administration  as  jeopar¬
dizing the Kissinger mission.
The Administration's move
to allow a second loan for
Syria   brought  angry   op¬
position  at  a* hearing  in
which Administration policy
was " roundly,  scored  as
detrimental to American
interests since principle was
being      sacrificed      for
pragmatic deals which, as
Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal
(D. NY) and others in¬
dicated have resulted in
failure iri other parts of the
world.
In addition to the op¬
position at a public hearing,
57 House members called on
President Ford to take up
the issue of harassment of
Syrian Jews arid refusal to
allow them to emigrate, with
Syrian Foreign Minister
Abdal   Halim   Khaddam
during his visit here last
weekend. The President, it
appears, did not refer to the
issue with Khaddam in their
one-hour White House
meeting, but Administration
sources hinted that it was
mentioned in "diplomatic
channels:" "Our general
policy for supporting free
emigration is known to the.
government of Syria," a
White House spokesman told
the   Jewish   Telegraphic
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Bexley Salutes Rabbi Zelizer
Rabbi Nathan Zelizer, who
retired in 1974 after 43 years'
service to Temple-Tifereth
Israel, will be saluted July 4
as Bexley's Citizen of the
Year. He and his; wife,
Florence, will ride in: the
morning parade in the
suburb, and he will receive
the annual award , that
evening at 2 Bexley High
school stadium.   2
The award, made by the
Bexley Celebrations
Association, is largely for
Rabbi Zelizer's long - time
and c o n t in u in g
humanitarian efforts. He
was a member 21 years and
president four years of the
Columbus Recreation
Commission, covering a
period of great expansion.
. He was the first and 10-year
president of the Senior
Citizens Advisory Board,
during which period the
number  of   Golden   Age
appeared in the New York
Times are inaccurate and
highly misleading. We would
caution anyone" from
drawing any conclusions
from ,these press accounts.
Finally, competitive leaks of
confidential diplomatic
e x changes make
negotiations extremely
difficult."; In Jerusalem,
Ford's statement caused
concern that it might lead to
a new period of tension and
recriminations in American
- Israeli relations. A foreign
Ministry spokesman, in an
official reaction, said Israel
also disapproved of leaks of
secret negotiations,
'Whatever the source of the
leaks. 2 This was seen by
observers as an oblique hint
that    Israel    had    been
Arab Jewish Youth Meet
To Share Ideas Of Peace
JERUSALEM - Mrs.
Anwar el Sadat refused to
talk to Mrs. Yitzhak Rabin at
the Women's International
Year Conference in Mexico
City last, week, but in the _
heart of Israel's capital '<
other. Arabs and Jews are
talking, debating peace
plans and even living
together.
At the Louise Waterman
Wise Youth Hostel in
Jerusalem," built ■ and
maintained by the American
Jewish Congress Women's
Division,- a group of 75
teenagers from two trade
high schools recently ended
a three-day seminar devoted
to Arab - Jewish relations
today and what the future
may be like tomorrow.
Half of the participants
were Jewish students from
Hadera; half were Arab
youngsters from the village
of Tybe. All were citizens of
Israel. And despite the
widely divergent viewpoints
that marked' their
discussions, they left
Jerusalem exchanging
addresses, promising to
write and planning visits.
The seminar — which also
included tours of Jerusalem
and dancing and singing in
the Hostel's Steinberg
Pavillion — revived a
project initiated, several
years ago by the Hostel in
cooperation with the Israeli
Ministry of Education, the
Government Information
Office and Histadrut  to
foster better understanding
between Jews and Arabs. In
. the immediate wake of the
Yom Kippur War, the series
was suspended. But the
success of the recent
meeting has encouraged the
Hostel to set up additional
meetings between young
Jewish and Arab Israelis
Wlater this year..
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unhappy by some leaks that
appeared in Washington,
often as a means of exerting.
subtle pressure upon.
Jerusalem. The Foreign
Ministry spokesman also
said the Times article
contained inaccuracies and
should not seem as
mirroring proposals by
Israel. Later White House
, Press Secretory Ron Nessen
said Ford is "not personally
angry" with anyone over the
article. '
Meanwhile. Israeli
Premier Yitzhak Rabin told
150 Israel Bond Organization
leaders from Europe that
negotiations for a new in¬
terim agreement with Egypt
are being conducted quietly
"through diplomatic
channels." But he stressed
that if,Egypt's conditions are
unacceptable Israel will say
"no" as it did last March.
Defense Minister Shimon
Peres, addressing a Labor
Party group, said it would be
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NEW YORK (JTA) — A call for 'new initiatives' by
the American Jewish community to prod Soviet action
on both Jewish emigration and rights of "hundreds of
thousands who will never be able to leave the USSR,"
was sounded June 26 at the annual plenary meeting of
the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory
Council. Stanley H. Lowell, chairman of the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry, warned the 450 delegates
against "letdowns" in their protest campaigns
because of passage of the Jackson - Vanik Amend¬
ment. "It was a major breakthrough, but it has not, as
the general public may have been led to believe ac¬
complished the job of accelerating.the emigration," he
said.
NEW YORK (WNS) — Budget-cuts and the sharp
declinein aliya from the United States has resulted in a
reduction in the number of Israeli "schlichiiri"
(representatives) in the U.S. as well as the closing .of
some offices throughout the country. "All these
measures do riot mean that we are going to cut our
activities on behalf of aliya," it was stressed by
Yehoshua Yadlin, director of the Israel Aliya Center in
Norm America. He said aliya will be encouraged by
seeking to involve members of local Jewish com¬
munities and organizations in working to promote
immigration to Israel. Yadlin said aliya desks will be
established in major Jewish organizations and Jewish
communities throughout the U.S.
Rabbi Nathan Zelizer
Centers grew to six.
Since 1947 Rabbi Zelizer
has served as Jewish
chaplain to the Central Ohio
state mental and correc¬
tional institutions, and to the
VA Hospital at Chillicothe,
land he has helped hundreds
of ex-convicts find job op-
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