Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1968-04-18

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THURSDAY, Al>Rli: 18, 1968-20 NISAN
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NCRAC Proposes Mass Program To Outlaw Inequality, Poverty
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NEW YQRtC, (JTA)~NlnB major national Jewish agen¬ cies and 81 cominiunity re- ladons agencies affiliated with the National Camniiiniiy ^RelatlaoEi Advisory Council, called fdr a comprehensive Federal program to "ban¬ ish lnequality> iqjustice and poverty* from this land and , said that they and their mem- I bership were prepared 'willingly to assume what¬ ever  share may fall upon us" of tbe eccncRiic costs entailed. They called upon President Johnson tb pro- I'. pose tMscomprehensive program and on Congress to enact it. A resdutioDadoptedbythe ^ executive   committee  ot M^ NCRAC and transmitted to Ji^, President Joimson affirmed "H'^' that this country "has the :^ii resources to inrovide all our :Qeople with the essentials cf a -decent,  dignified human e\ life, while meeting our obli- E^^^ gaticns abroad." tt said tbat l&l "failure to use those re- "'"Viisaurces to banishineq^alily, istice and pofverty is as iminohil as »«§£:' s]ble.'There canbe no high¬ er priority for the nation." l^he resolution expressed readinessto assume a share of tfag/^b^ involved and urged member organizatians and their constituents '<to make  known to tbeir leg¬ islators and other officials of govemment their like commitment." ft pledgedthe fullest commitment to pro¬ grams of educati(m and in¬ terpretation to assure ac¬ ceptance and support ofthe proposed measures "as mat¬ ters of tbe greatest Murgen- cy,"
The program urged on the President and Congress would provide, the resolutian stated, a decent job for all who are employable ,ar 'can be made so by retrainine^ income sufficient to provide all others with essentials of civilized living; decent
dweUings for all; medical care for all; education totha limits of each persoi^s ca¬ pacity, and' the elimination of all forms of discrimin¬ ation and segr^ation firom tfae life of our society.
THE resfdution noted that tfae assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the emotions aroused |]^ it, attested to tfae urgency of decisive action, tt warned that such action must be in- - -itiated now lest tbe natian "be precipitated into an ir¬
reversibly destructive cour¬ se toward internecine sfarife that could sunder our na^ tionalunily and debase the ^baxacter Xt our social or¬ der."
. It denounced rioting, pill¬ aging and looting but warned that the alternative to vio¬ lence must not be "blind repression," -noting that the sources ofthe disorders "lie deep in the long his¬ tory of enslavement, oppres¬ sion, denial, segregation and discrimination to which Ne?
Lieberman To Be New T.l. President
Tifereth Israel will elect and install officers and Board members for 1968-69 during the Annual Congrega¬ tional Dinner Meeting on Sunday, May 5, in the S^- agogue Social Hall. The dbi- - ner will be catered by the Executive'jCaterers» Meniy Clnci6ne»s^ly^To*wn''BratfS*<' will entertain and provide the dance music.
Richard A. Ueberman, a life-long member of Congre¬ gation Tifereth Israel, will be installed by Rabbi Nathan Zelizer as incoming presi¬ dent of the  Congregation.
UEBERMAN, a former vice president and chairman of the Board of Education, was a member of the second Confirmation Class taught by Babbi Zelizer 36 years ago, and has been active in syn¬ agogue ^ affairs since that time. His wife, Evelyn, waa president of the Tifereth Is¬ rael Sisterhood, and their children, Sharon, Larry and Jeffrey, received their re¬ ligious school training at Tifereth IsraeL Presidentof Ludlow Sales,' he has been active in the United Jewish y^ipeals, and served ofQ many committees  at the Jewish
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Center since its inception.
VICE PRESIDENTS wUlbe Melvin Rackoff andDr. Jesse Shapiro. Martin J. Polster has been nominated to serve as treasurer and David Der¬ row, secretary.
Nominated for the Board of Trusses are Martin Ad¬ ler, Dr. Harold M. Epstein, Ben Goodman, Norman D. Katz, George M. Levine, Manuel-M. Sobel, Charles M. Talis, Sanford Topolosky and Albert Wasserstrom.
MR. AND Mrs. Lieberman bave Invited the Congregation to participate in a cocktail hour preceding the dinner.
Reservations can be made by'calling the Temple Office, 253-8523.   '
groes have been subjected in our society."
IN HIS letter of transmit¬ tal to President Johnson, Jordan C. Band^ NCRAC chairman, expressed the bape that the Civil Rights Bill of 1968 would be en¬ acted within the next few days.
Johnson Popular In Israel
President Johnsons pop- ulariiy has risen to an all time high in Israel, National Commander SamuelSamuels of the Jewish War Veterans ofthe U.S.A. anticipates re¬ porting to tbe White House on his return flroni ameeting of the JWV NaUonal Execu¬ tive  Conunittee in IsraeL
In a statement released on bis return-ftom a trip to
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said that "the image of America is seen by the Is¬ raelis in bighly^favorable terms. This is true firom the t()p circles in government to .the average man in the street'.' He added that "it was heartwarmingforthecne thousand American Jewish veterans who this monthmet in Israel to discover that the Uiited States and the President were tremend¬ ously appreciated."   .
COMMANDER Samuels said that"President Johnson is known to the Israelis as a man who keeps his com- mitments and does not swerve from his course, whether in Vietnam or the Middle East." He said thid; tbe President's position, stated last June 19, on the basis for settlement of the Arab-Israel conflict wasj known to every Israeli.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (WNS) Ambassador Yosef Tekoah of Israel, in a lettei- lo the Security Council dealing with most recent events along the Israel- Jordanian border, declared that Jordan must take
steps to halt the "continuous acte of aggiressicm" |
against Israel. Refeifring to the most recent of the ;
"grave./^olations of the cease-fire" from Jordanian i^'
territcn^,: the Israeli deplomat said they were "the !
latest in acontlnuous series of violations ofthe cease [
fire .committed by  regular  and irregular forces j; fi-om Jordah,during the past week."
LONDON (WNS) Saudi Arabia's reneging on its pre- >. vious. acceptance of Horace Phillips as its .new Am-    ^ ^^
bassador firom Britain has triggered sharp denunipi- \
ation by the British press, which generally regarded ['' the development a clear instance ot anti-Semitism..
NEW YORK (WNS) An outdoor Seder, sponsored by ;
the New York Jewish Communily Council Coordinating ' Committee, was held here on tiie v             '. Conkinittee, was held here on the eve of Passover on . a sidewalk auiiacent to the building occupied ior the
Soviet Mission to the United Nations by way of sym- | bollzing Jewish demands for freedom for the Jews in the Soviet Union. The purpose of the ceremony was ,
to caU on the Soviet Union to restore full religious, |
communal and cultural rights to the Jews inthat coun- ' j
try, to permit Jews toleaveRussiatobecome reunited ;
with families alnroad and to cease engaging in anti- [
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NEW YORK (WNS) Sharp rejection of the charge r
hi Poland that ORt had been engaged in espionage .'
was made here by Dr. William Haber, president of the y American ORT Federation, who said the accusation !f<wto*"utterly: prepofattepus'and'wlthout^a Bcintilla"ojh'^;i| truth." The charge'was made over the PoUsh State'^ l^V
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Dr. Charles Young, pvesid^nt of the JBeth Jacob Congre¬ gation, i^ a sjiedal announcoihent said that plans arobeing finkized for :tiie c.oriier stone laying ceremony for tiie new Beth Jactibt ii^ab will take place cm Sunday, May 19, st 11:30 a.m.i,i^- - '  -
A highUghUng feature of the occasion will be the placing into an air-tight stedi box, a scroll of honor Usting the names of aU the menibers
and firiends of the Beth Jacob Congregation vdio have made a first payment on their building pledge. J)r. Young said^ "These names will be Inscribed gn a scrdU and placed in the corner stone for posterity, alo^ with
SPECIAL REPORT ON POLAND.
Passover Brief Respite For Polish Je'ws
BY SAMUEL^^J.  GOLDSMITH
LONDON (By Cable)
'' Passover cametotheJews , in Poland this year with Itt- tte outward difference firom years past. In Warsaw, Lodz and elsewhere, as In recent > years, tbe Jews in tbe old- age homes - they number . some 5,000 - bad prepared In advance for the strictest observance of the holiday. ¦^ They had baked enough mat¬ zos for the eic^ days for themselves and for the pri¬ vate fiunilies which so often In the past have chosen to celebrate the seders with tbem. .The dd-age homes are, in
effect, Jewish religious cen¬ ters with their own syna¬ gogues. Many families at- . tended seders Inthese homes but there were no difficul¬ ties foqr ]^ivate fiuniltes in obtaining all the matzestbey required ani in holdingthebr own seders.
FOR many of Poland's 20,000 Jqws, the-advent of Passover meant a brief re¬ spite firom the tension and concern of tfie day although tiiere was no Ie£-uP' in the Government and Comlnunlst Party campaign against Is¬ rael and "Zionism." Offic¬ ial spokesmen took pains to stress thatthiscampai^was , ppt a{itl,-^mitic and several,
oMhem have recently denied the charges that*the Polish authorities were seeking to minlinlze Jewishmartyrdom and Jewish reslstence during the Nazi era.
Birt despite the denials, this is exactly what Is hap- '^pei^nK aii along tiie line and in some^ almost Imiiercep- tible directions. There has been, finr teuonple, so-called * "rei^e^cbVir^reportbig' dttSJ' feil^'nt<ltgiires,!^i lesser for ^ the^Jews In every case and rearrangement of exhibits at the sites of concentration and death camps designed to show that the Jewish suffer¬ ing and the Jewish- losses' were not as great as they warp... 1	
WESTERN Jewish travel¬ lers leaving Poland l^ye been searched at the airports and;, interrogated abouttheir Jew¬ ish contecte in Poland. & one case, the address book of a Jewish traveller «ras pbotqsrapbed before he was permitted to board Us plane. These measures have been enforced, presumatdy. In an attempt to justli^ allegations against Polish Jews ot "Zionist contacts."
For many Jewish InteliecT tuals, this Passover season is marking the end of an era. Those who have been dismissed from thebr posts in the ohgobig purges,,are finding it difficult to secure .any ptbQF, m^ans of Ilyeli-.
hood. They exist, meanwhile, on small pensions or their savings. There is no pos¬ sibility f(»i;kthem to write as no^iPolislt pubUcation would ¦print them and th^ would ^ptitoe to send tbehr vnrit- ings abroad.!
OBSERVERS noted that Marshall Marian ^chalski, the' former Defense Minis¬ ter, who-wbs InstaUed as clilef of state, was a one¬ time firiend of Israel and an admtrer "of the Israeli De¬ fense Forces. He has been aUent on the subject of Is¬ rael since the Six-Day War when the PoUsh Government severed relations with Is- .rael., .,.,.-
other vital documents and papers. These names wiUbe ! read during the ceremony and wiU Uve on in the annals i cf Columbus Jewish histoiy 'recording the'jpeiople  who j coiitrlbuted to the building of our tiew and beautifiil Houi^e of G-d."
Julius Cohen, chairman of the Bulding Committee, in a progress report, said that ninety per cent of the class rooms are complete^ the sanctuary floor and the soc¬ ial haU floors wiU be ccrni- pleted by the first bait of ApriL The exterior stone waUs wiU be started by mid AprU and the entire struct¬ ure wiU be under roof by May 19, giving the member¬ ship, friends, and visitora an (ipportunity to tour the complete sheU of the new synagogue.
AN IMPORTANT feature "^ the corner.stone laying ceremony wiU be tbe comer stone Itself, m addition to the previous stone of the Bulen Avenue Synagogue, a beautifiil nevy stohe has been sent by the State Of Israel, trom the Sacred United City ' at Jerusalem to Rabbi Stav¬ sky, to be placed as the cpr- ner stone of the new syna¬ gogue-.
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