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Operation
To Begin
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PHILADELPHIA — Operation Rice Bowl — a
unique, interfaith program designed to help feed the
world's starving — will be launched throughout the
country on Mar. 3 (Ash Wednesday). American
families are asked to pray a common prayer, give up
for one meal the type of food pictured here and make
an offering at their own dining room table to feed the
millions who exist on the brink of starvation. Money
saved by eating a sacrificial meal may be placed in
specially provided "rice bowls" provided by many
churches and synagogues.
The program was conceived last year in Allentown,
Pa., by Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish
clergymen. The national campaign this year, which is
being sponsored by the Roman Catholic International
Eucharistic Congress to be held in Philadelphia in
August, is an outgrowth of that effort in which more
than $100,000 was raised locally.
Suggested menus for Operation Rice Bowl include
meals such as potato soup and a slice of bread, tuna
fish salajl and pudding, spaghetti and tomato sauce
and jello, and tomato soup and crackers.
R'ELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
by Linda Pfelffer
Federation Sabbath Will Be Held
Federation Sabbath will
take place on Friday and
Saturday, Mar. 12 and 13, it
was announced by Rabbi
David Stavsky, Chairman of
the Rabbinical Advisory
Committee of the 1976 United
Jewish Fund Campaign. "It
is fitting and proper," said
Rabbi Stavsky, "that
Federation Sabbath be held
on Shabbat Zachor, the Sab¬
bath of Remembrance, when
we recall the tyrants — from
Haman to Hitler T who have-
attempted to destroy the
House of Israel."
Federation Sabbath, an
annual program of the
Columbus Board of Rabbis,
is designed to bring — in
every Columbus synagogue
—the message of the current
UJF Campaign. "We are
particularly mindful," said
Rabbi Stavsky, "that this is
a crucial year for Israel and
for world Jewry. Since the
United Nations passed the
despicable resolution
equating Zionism with
racism on Nov., 10, the
Jewish people have been at¬
tacked constantly and
viciously. Israel must be
strengthened and the United
Jewish Fund Campaign is
the only total community
vehicle we have to, do so, 1
urge all members of the
Jewish community, on Shab¬
bat Zachor, to rededicate
themselves to supporting
and working for the United
Jewish Fund Campaign."
Federation Sabbath will be
commemorated in all
Columbus synagogues,
either in a sermon by the
rabbi or in a guest pulpit ap¬
pearance by a leader of the
congregation. Details will
appear in the next issue of
the Chronicle.
"Moderation" Image Of Palestine Liberation
Organization In The U.S. Is Disappearing
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Two nationally prominent
U.S. Senators, both mem¬
bers of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, who
believed they saw the bloom
of "moderation" on the
Palestine Liberation
Organization a year ago, are
now disappointed with it.
Statements by PLO leaders,
before and after the Security
Council debate on the Middle
East last month have made
it plain that the PLO's in¬
tention to bring about
Israel's disappearance has
not changed. The intense
campaign by important
politicians and media in the
West to wrap the PLO in a
cloak of respectability in the
hope, analysts here believe,
that encouragement from
the West might induce the
terrorists to become
reasonable, has failed. Sen.
Charles Percy (R: 111.) last
winter angered many of his
constituents by implying
Israel should deal with the
PLO following his visit to the
Middle East. On Feb. 19,
however, after the PLO's
leadership showed - no
change of intent, he said: "I
believe it is a terrible
mistake for the PLO to rule
out recognition of Israel
because such an attitude is
counter-productive. Recogn¬
ition of Israel would have to
be one condition of any
future agreement for. the
establishment of a
Palestinian state;" Sen.
George McGovern (D. S.D.)
was hailed as a hero by the,
PLO and its supporters for
being the first high
American official to speak!
with PLO chairman Yasir
Arafat. A statement issued
by his office Feb. 18 said:
"In light of recent statemen¬
ts from some Palestinian
leaders with opposition to
eventual recognition of
Israel by the Palestinians,
Senator McGovern today
reconfirmed his conviction
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
Israel Agrees To Return To Geneva
JERUSALEM (WNS) -
Israel would agree to return
to the Geneva conference on
the basis of United Nations
Security Council Resolutions
242 and 338 and with par¬
ticipation limited to the par¬
ties who attended the brief
original session in December
1973, Foreign Minister Yigal
Allon told visiting UN Un¬
dersecretary Roberto
Guyer. The UN official is
scheduled to visit Arab coun¬
tries to find out their position
Soviet Activist Criticizes
Policies Of Ford, Kissinger
TEL AVIV (WNS) - The
policies of President Ford
and Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger on emigration
from the Soviet Union has ,
led to increased pressures on
Jews seeking to leave the
USSR, according to Prof.
Alexander Lunz, a leading
Jewish activist from
"Moscow. The 52-year-old
mathematician made his
charge as he arrived in
Israel as part of a group of
100 Jews from the Soviet
Union." Lunz, who received
his exit visa after a four-year
struggle, said "quiet
diplomacy" brought no
results while direct pressure
did. He said that when Ford
and Kissinger stated
publicly that the Jackson
Amendment was coun¬
terproductive in that it
resulted in fewer Jews
leaving the Soviet Union,
they were making a
dangerous allegation that
was interpreted by the
Soviet authorities as an in¬
centive-to increase pressure
' on Jews. Lunz, who arrived
with his wife and 18-year-old
son, said that last year there
were 4000-5000 visa refusals.
However, many of the per¬
sons who arrived with Lunz
agreed with some Israelis
that they were the vanguard
of a new wave of im¬
migration from the USSR
that was attributed to the
recent Second World Con¬
ference on Soviet Jewry in
Brussels. One of the new
arrivals was 101-year-old
Rabbi Moshe Epstein, who
once headed the Jewish com¬
munity in Leningrad and had
been at one time exiled to
Siberia for Zionist activities.
Meanwhile, scientists
from eight countries that at¬
tended the Brussels Con¬
ference have formed an In¬
ternational Federation of
Concerned Scientists to be
located in Paris which will
gather and disseminate in¬
formation and will coor¬
dinate the activities of its af¬
filiates in various countries.
The Federation will en¬
courage its affiliates to in¬
crease their efforts and ac¬
tivities on behalf of Soviet
scientists who are denied
fundamental scientific and
personal rights. Dr.
Polykarp Kush, a 1955 Nobel
Prize winner in physics, said
American scientists should
think .twice before engaging
in scientific exchange
programs with the USSR sin¬
ce the Soviets interpret par¬
ticipation in such programs
as a support of their
repressive measures against
dissident Soviet scientists. In
New York, Josef Tekoah,-
Israel's former Ambassador
to the United Nations, said
the Brussels" Conference will
influence Soviet emigration
policy. "The Soviet govern¬
ment has paid attention to in¬
ternational public opinion in
the past on the question of
Soviet Jewry," he said.
on   reconvening   the   con¬
ference. Allon, meanwhile,
said that the Israel Cabinet'
has agreed to allowing the
United States to sound out
Egypt,  Syria  and  Jordan
about    a    non-belligerence
treaty to see if the Arabs are
willing to end the state of
war. If the Arabs are willing
to talk about ending the state
of war, he said, only then
would Israel be "required to
discuss   territorial "con¬
cessions. Government sour<
ces indicated that the first
"step   is   for " Israeli : and
American legal experts to
agree on a precise definition
of   end-of-war    or    non¬
belligerency and that such a
definition   would   be   sub¬
mitted to the Israeli Cabinet
for approval.
Meanwhile the Cabinet's
decision has been attacked
on both the right and left.
MK Yehuda Ben Meir of the
National Religious Party has
demanded   an   immediate
dissolution of the Knesset
and a new election. David
Koren, of the Labor Party's
Rafi wing, demanded that
Premier Yitzhak Rabin ex¬
plain the decision to Labor's
Knesset faction "so I can
know if Tarn for it or against
it."    Former    Foreign
Minister  Abba   Eban .and
others have warned that the
Arabs   would   demand   as
much  for non-belligerency
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
NEW YORK (WNS) — The University of Haifa will
hold a conference — the first ever held anywhere in the
world — on all aspects of the Palestinian problem, it
was announced here by its president, Eliezer Rafaeli.
He said leading experts have been invited to attendjn-
cluding those in the Arab world and ;'we hppe they
come." Rafaeli said that whether or not one believes
there is such a thing as a Palestinian people, "there
are people who call themselves Palestinians'-' and they
must be dealt with. "If we as Zionists: assumed the
responsibility to decide the future of; the State of
Israel," the 50-year^)ld Tel Aviv-born university
president said,- "we also have the responsibility to
discuss the Arab problem." :•
/ WASHINGTON (WNS) — Former Pennsylvania
Governor William W. Scranton has been officially
nominated by President Ford to; replace Daniel P.
Moynihan as Ajnbassador to tKeUnjted Nations.''I am
a Pat Moynihan fan and delighted the way he handled"
the UN post, Scranton said. In 1968 Scranton was sent
by then President-elect Nixon to the Middle East and
returned urging the U.S. to pursue a "more even-
handed policy'' in the region. v
NEW YORK (WNS) — The National Coalition for
Public Education and Reiigious Liberty (PEARL) and
a group of taxpayers have filed a suit to enjoin city and
federal educational authorities from assigning public
school teachers to remedial education duties at
religious schools during regular school hours. The suit
named as defendents, Irving Anker, Chancellor of the
New York City school system; F. David Matthews,
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and U.S.
Education Commissioner Torrell H. Bell. The suit was
immediately attacked by Dr. Bernard Fryshman,
chairman of the Agudath Israel of America's com¬
mission on legislative and civic action; who said the
suit was "a deplorable attempt to deprive poor hand¬
icapped children of corrective and remedial services
so that they should not go through their lives hand¬
icapped."
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