An overflow Jewish Commun- sions" which folloWed. The ties from Boris M. Joffe, execu-
this week that the Administra-
(Continued from Page 1)
ity
Council delegate assembly, problems relate to the location tive director.
tion
was
studying
legislative
were strongly criticized Monday
Rabbi Morris Adler, acting
meeting
at the Hayim Green- and adequacy of new institu-
night by Abraham A. Redel- proposals covering "the whole
president of the Council, pre-
tions,
the
absence
of
public
berg
Center,
was
warned
of
the
heim, newly elected president gamut" of civil rights including
transportation in the new areas, sided in the place of Council
of the Zionist organization of the mailing of hate literature necessity for comunity planning the sometimes lesser-serviced President Lawrence W. Crohn
to
meet
neighborhood
shifts
and
and
bombing
of
synagogues.
America. He spoke at a $100-a-
and staffed public school sys- who is visiting in Israel. On be-
plate dinner of the ZOA at Ho- He said various proposed meas- to avoid dissipation of commun- tems and the increasing civic half of the executive commit-
ity
assets,
and
heard
a
summary
tel Waldorf Astoria at which ures were under "serious" con-
responsibility which often at- tee Rabbi Adler presented a gift
$100,000 was raised for the sideration although no definite of current Council activities.
taches
itself to suburban resi- to Dr. S. Joseph Fauman in
Prof. Albert J. Mayer of
American Zionist Fund, the decisions have been taken.
dence. The Detroit trend toward recognition of his eleven and a
Wayne
State
University
and
financial arm of the ZOA, to
He called increased distribu-
Jewish suburban residence par- half years of service as a mem-
finance the projects of the or- tion of hate material an indica- Prof. S. Joseph Fauman of allels the experience in other ber of the Council staff before
Eastern
Michigan
College
led
ganization in the United States tion of "illness" of "certain
American urban centers of Jew- his recent appointment to the
and Israel.
people." He termed synagogue a panel discussion on ."Neigh- ish population, such as Cleve- faculty of Eastern Michigan Col-
Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman bombings "cowardly" and said borhoods in Transition" which land, where it is estimated that lege.
of the American Zionist Coun- all decent Americans were traced the pattern of Jewish 95% of the Jewish residents
residential occupancy in De-
British Ship to Visit Israel
cil, presided.
ashamed of them.
troit. Depicting the historical live outside the political limits
Discussing the recent syna-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — HMS
Rogers said the government shifts of the bulk of the Jewish of the city.
gogue bombings in the South, was not sitting on its hands in
Pointing out that the Detroit Sheffield, a cruiser of the
population
from
Hastings
to
the
Redelheim said that the reaction the wake of recent school and Twelfh street and Dexter areas Jewish comunity is no longer an British Navy, will visit the port
of the American people "re- religious bombings. He pointed
and then to the northwest sec- identifiable geographic entity of Haifa between Nov. 27 and
flected full awareness of the out that the FBI has been as- tion, the panelists forecast that contained within a few square Dec. 2, according to an an-
true nature of these incidents." sisting local authorities in their on the basis of present trends miles, as it once was, the pan- nouncement by the British
He stressed that "this is an inquiries. He said the FBI has the metropolitan Detroit Jew- elists declared that Detroit's Embassy here. Two other units
American problem and not a held 11 conferences with local ish population will be predom- Jewish population is now dis- of the British Navy will visit
Jewish problem as such," term- police on the bombings. He inantly suburban within the persed within a hundred square Beirut, Lebanon, the Embassy
mile area and under the juris- declared.
ing the reaction of the Jewish
forseeable future.
community as an "altogether added that 167 more confer-
The problems of population diction of scores of separate
sound and correct appraisal of ences were scheduled before shifts were outlined by the par- governmental units. Careful
HAVE YOUR
the ' bombings as lunatic acts the present program is COM- ticipants and discussed by the planning is called for if the
WATCH REPAIRED
Jewish
community
is
to
avoid
which do not reflect the atti- pleted Deceniber 12.
Council delegates in "buzz ses-
Where Satisfaction
mistakes of the past which re-
tude of the American people as
Is Guaranteed
sulted
in
vacating
institutions
whole.
a
George Ohrenstein
almost as soon as thew were
At the same time, however,
Certified Master
created.
Redelheim deplored that "in
Watchmaker & Jeweler
The delegates heard a sum-
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The Zionist leader stressed gaged
Israel." We are aware of this rumor
his belief that "the American and I think you are entitled to
Jewish community will not be know the facts.
burdening you with a
pressured into a defensive lot "Without
of details, what happened is
this:
frame of mind."
"The British-American Tobacco
"Speaking for the Zionist Or- Company,
the parent company of
ganization of America, I can Brown & Williamson Tobacco Cor-
poration,
some
years back was
promise that our reply will delivered an absolute
ultimatum
take the form of an intensifica- by the so-called Arab bloc which
of
course
includes
all
the
tion of Jewish consciousness, of the Arab Middle East. In countries
essence
especially among our young the threat was that if the British-
American
Company
continued
to do
men and women, so that they its very small volume of business
will be spiritually and morally with customers in Israel, the Corn-
very large business in the
strengthened against any mani- pany's
rest of the Middle East would be
festations of hostility and live cut off. There was every reason to
that the threat would be
their lives proudly with pro- believe
carried out, not only as applied to
found understanding of their the Middle East but to the whole
world as well. Nobody likes
Jewish spiritual heritage," Re- Moslem
threats and certainly the British-
delheim emphagized.
American had no animosity or pre-
British American Tobacco Co.
Charged With Boycotting Israel
Because of Arabs' Ultimatum
'Americans Against
Bombs of Bigotry
Organized in D.C.
WASHINGTON (JTA) Na-
tional committee to rally pub-
lic opinion against the current
wave of bombings of syna-
gogues and schools was formed
here.
Columnist Drew Pearson an-
nounced organization of the
group to be called "Americans
Against Bombs of Bigotry." Co-
chairmen named were . Gover-
nor-elect Edmund G. Brown of
California and Charles P. Taft
of Cincinnati, Ohio. Other
members listed included evan-,
gelist Billy Graham, president
Eric Johnston of the Motion
Picture Association, president
George Meany of the AFL-CIO,
and Sen. John Kennedy of
Massachusetts.
A statement by Brown and
Taft said the organization
would "provide a means by
which citizens can contribute
to the communities and congre-
gations which have suffered,
and post standing rewards for
apprehension of the guilty."
Attorney General Rogers said
judice of any kind toward Israel
or anybody concerned with Israel's
welfare. Just one question was in-
volved, namely, did a large com-
pany with thousands of stockhold-
ers looking to it for earnings have
any right to defy a threat which
inevitably would hurt every one of
those . stockholders? I do not see
what else the British-American
Company could have done except
to stop its very small export busi-
ness to Israel, and that was done.
But bear this in mind: the decision
did not in any way affect Brown &
Williamson's business and Brown &
Williamson has not ever refused nor
will it refuse, to ship its own
brands—VICEROY, KOOL and RA-
LEIGH cigarettes—to customers in
Israel or anywhere else. That has
always been our position and it
will continue to be so.
"This is the whole story without
all of the details. I cannot help
feeling that the sort of attack made
on us is unfair and prejudiced. I
know though that people's emotions
are strong and that loyalty to any
Anti-Bombing Bill
to Be Re-introduced
by Rep. Griffiths
Congresswoman Martha W.
Griffiths announced this week,
in Washington, that she will re-
introduce her bill to make a
Federal crime of bombing of
religious centers. She said she
felt it had a chance of passing
this time.
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3-THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, November 21 , 1958
Predominantly Suburbanite Community Predicted
Leaders Discuss Southern Issues;
Group Organizes to Fight Bombings for Detroit Jewry; Council Warns of Planning Need