By NORMAN LEBOW
Dr. Joachim Prinz, president
of the American_ Jewish Con-
gress, in Detroit this week for
an AJC meeting, sounded a
call for consolidation of all
American Jewish forces towards
common goals of full equality,
survival of Jewish identifica-
tion and peoplehood and the
creation of a meaningful two-
way relationship with the peo-
ple of Israel.
He said that urgency was
needed in the planning of Jew-
ish life for the next decade.
"The survival of the Jewish
people is not as positive and
self-evident as some people
think." He noted that there is
no longer as much money or
leadership available for Jew-
ish organizations and that the
most efficient method of utiliz-
ing what is available must be
found. This indicated consoli-
dation of diverse forces for mu-
tual benefit.
Dr. Prinz, who took office
as AJC president in May of this
year, has been rabbi of New-
ark's Temple Bnai Abraham for
20 years and a rabbi for 32
years.
He expressed hope for
Israel, and said its prospects
were looking up. He cited a
change in the United States'
attitude which now recognizes
that the Mid-East conflict is
not a result of Israel-Arab
friction, but rather is basic to
Russia-Free World competi-
tion. There is a completely
new climate in both public
and government opinion on
Israel. In terms of foreign
aid, and willingness to sell Is-
rael defensive weapons, this
year is Israel's best.
He said that he did not think
a treaty necessary between
Israel and the United States,
since the U.S. has demonstrated
by its action in Lebanon and
Jordan that it will aid in the
maintenance of the integrity
on national borders.
Dr. Prinz said that Israel's
prospects for peace with the
Arab world were good. He cited,
as indications of this, Israel's
offer of compensation for Arab
refugee resettlement, the con-
viction of the guilty parties in
the Kafr Kassem incideht and
a recent conference on Medi-
terranean problems, at which
Israel was represented along
with all the Arab nations.
He indicated that even UAR
president Gamal Abdel Nasser
may be seeking peace with Is-
rael. The war propaganda put
out by Nasserist forces, he be-
lieves, is mostly for home con-
sumption.
Rabbi Prinz also noted that
other nations were pressuring
for solution of the refugee prob-
lem and their resettlement. He
indicated that the U.S., the
major contributor to the relief
fund for the refugees, is "get-
ting fed up throwing money
down the drain," when no effort
at the problem's solution is be-
ing made.
The UNWRA program under
which the refugees are being
fed, clothed and cared for, ex-
pires in 1960, Dr. Prinz said,
and nobody in the Arab world
really believes in the - prospect
of a refugee return to Israel,
which was a propaganda fan-
tasy to begin with.
On the American Jewish
scene, Dr. Prinz indicated his
satisfaction with the united
stand taken by major national
Jewish organizations on the
wave of bombings in the South.
He believes that the bombings
of Jewish houses of worship is
not a specifically anti-Semitic

manifestation, but rather a
phenomenon of the aura of vio-
lence and lawlessness that now
pervades the South.
Dr. Prinz whose own syna-
gogue in Germany was burned
by the Nazis, after which he
was exiled, said that he saw no
parallel between the U.S. syna-
gogue bombings and the "Crys-
tal Night" under the Nazis. He
noted that the Nazi destruction
was massive, and government
supported, in contrast to the iso-
lated and publically-condemned
U.S. incidents.
He charged that President
Eisenhower was evading his
responsibility in acting as
merely legal leader in the
civil rights dispute and has
abdicated his moral leader-
ship. He said the President
has ignored a large national
call for this leadership by
"pooh-poohing" the idea of
a White House conference
on moral principles, which
would be composed of leaders
from all segments of Ameri-
can society and would serve
to effectively convey the
moral as well as the legal re-
sponsibility of citizens. "This
is not a Jewish problem," he
said, "but an American one."
On Tuesday night Dr. Prinz
addressed 600 persons at the
combined meeting of the Worn-

AJ Congress Appeals Aramco Decision

The American Jewish Con-
gress has filed an appeal against
the dismissal on Nov. 10 of its
complaint charging the Arabian
American Oil Company with
refusal to hire Jews.
The appeal, in the form of
an application for an oral hear-
ing, was filed with Charles
Abrams, chairman of the New
York State Commission Against
Discrimination.
Previously the commission
held that because Saudi Arabia
does not admit Jews, Aramco
is exempt under the "bona fide
occupational qualification" of
the New York State Law
Against Discrimination.
The American Jewish Con-
gress appeal advanced four ar-
guments calling for reversal of
the decision:

en's and Men's divisions of the
AJC at Beth Aaron Synagogue.
Program chairman Marshall
Brenner opened the meeting.
Other speakers on the program
were Rabbi Benjamin Gorre-
lick, Frank Rosenbaum, presi-
dent of the Michigan AJC
Council; Rabbi Morris Adler,
who with Rosenbaum serves on
the national executive and ad-
ministrative AJC board and
Dr. Leon Fram, a former Mich-
igan Council president.
Dr. Prinz also presented the
charter for the new Ruth Red-
stone Chapter to Mrs. Minerva
Michaels.

1. The "bona fide occupa-
tional" exception in the New
York State anti-discrimination
law applies only in cases where
the race or the religion of the
applicant affects his intrinsic
ability to perform the job. An
engineer or oil driller is no
less competent because he is
Jewish.
2. The commission has uni
formly held that the prejudice
of third parties cannot be the
basis for the occupational ex-
ception.
3. The commission decision
failed to give sufficient consid-
eration to the U.S. Senate reso-
lution of 1956 that religious dis-
tinctions are "incompatible with
the relations that should exist
among friendly nations."
4. The commission's finding

that a decision against Aramco
"could not be made effective"
was in error since SCAD had
been asked only to prevent
Aramco from discriminating in
the New York State labor mar-
ket.

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Prinz Urges Pooling of Jewish
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