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Brutal Anti-Semitic Attack
Stirs Argentinians' Anger;
Jews Close Firms in Protest
Court Tests Expected
on High Court Ruling
on Religiose in Schools
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
—First Amendment to the Constitution.
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NEW YORK—The historic decision of the United States Supreme
Court. barring prayers in the public schools, was greeted Tuesday with
unanimous acclaim by Jewish organizations. criticism from Catholic
spokesmen and a mixed reaction from the Protestant community.
The New York Board of Rabbis, representing the Orthodox, Con-
servative and Reform rabbinate of Greater New York, lauded the ruling,
and said "the recitation of prayers in the public schools, which is tanta-
mount to the teaching of prayer. is not in conformity with the spirit of
the American concept of the- separation of church and state. All the
religious groups in this country will best advance their respective faiths
by adherence to this principle."
The American Jewish Committee. in a statement from its president.
A. A. Sonnabend. declared that "in ruling unconstitutional the prayer
sponsored by the Board of Regents in New York public schools. the
Supreme Court has affirmed that prayer in our democratic society is a
matter for the home. synagogue and church and not for state institutions.
We particularly welcome the court's decision because in the case of the
Regents' prayer, a state agency undertook to evaluate the religious needs
of the student population of the public schools and to establish the means
of satisfying such needs. This action, in our opinion. diseregarded a basic
precept of the American constitution and the American way of life: that
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Background: fi. James Madison's "Remon-
strance Against Religious Assessments":
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The DAIA, the representative
BUENOS AIRES —
organization
of Argentine Jewry, sent an appeal to President Jose Maria Guido asking
him to take "immediate and effective repressive and preventative action"
against "Nazi-Fascist bands" responsible for recent anti-Jewish violence
which culminated in a brutal attack on a Jewish girl by neo-Nazi hoodlums
who carved a swastika on her breast with a razor..
The DAIA cited the incident as an example of police laxity in a
mounting number of cases of violence against Jews in Argentina. The
girl, who was identified as Graciela .Narcisa Sirota, 19, a student at the
science faculty of Buenos Aires University, was accosted last Thursday
by three hoodlums who stepped from an automobile and knocked her
unconscious.
When she regained consciousness, she said, she was forced to lie on a
table in an unfamiliar room where the - hoodlums removed her clothes
and carved the swastika on her right breast with a razor. The ruffians also
inflicted severe burns on her body with the ends of lighted cigarettes,
and told her: "For your guilt, Eichmann was killed."
Miss Sirota, who fainted from the pain of the ordeal, said she later
awoke in the street in a suburb of the city. The girl's parents immediately
notified the police, but their complaint was not accepted until two days
later when a police physician corroborated her story.
In its protest telegram to President Guido, the DATA declared: "We
beg to denounce to Your Excellency this fact of unheard of brutility which
follows a series of earlier attacks which were not punished. On the same
day, a Jewish restaurant was machinegunned for the second time. Earlier
acts of vandalism are evidence of the total and intolerable lack of pro-
tection suffered by the Jewish community. We request immediate and
effective repressive and preventive action against the Nazi-Fascist bands
which offend freely human dignity and attempt to destroy democracy and
injure irremediably Argentine prestige."
DAIA leaders Tuesday called upon all Jewish-owned firms and shops
in Argentina to close their places of business Thursday afternoon in pro-
test against the recent wave of anti-Jewish violence in reaction to the
hanging in Israel of Adolf Eichmann.
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Administration Reported to Mare Interceded with
Arab Potentates on Anti-Israel Discriminations
BY MILTON. FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1962. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON—Has the Administration really
embarked on a "one-sided" purskiit of Arab friend.
ship at Israel's expense?
Congressmen have criticized American co-spon-
sorship of a United Nations resolution censuring
Israel for a reprisal raid. Attacks have been made
on current plans to give the Nasser regime vastly
increased aid. Also, the Executive Department was
charged with ignoring legislation providing the
President with discretionary power to sever aid to
Arab states discriminating against Jewish Americans.
However, the reaction of the Israel government
was described as less concerned than that of some
non-Israeli Jewish leaders. That is because 'the
Israeli diplomats have more facts on which to base
an objective evaluation, according to high Admin-
istration sources.
The Administration sees itself in the situation
_described by Maimonides, dispensing a higher degree
of charity—the anonymous variety. It cannot seek
Credit for various pro-Israel and pro-Jewish actions.
Publication of any Arab concession would invite
fanatical Arab attacks on the Arab leader or nation
ameliorating hostility.
President Kennedy personally intervened with
King Saud during the latter's visit to Washington.
The President told how the anti-Jewish ban imposed
by Saudi Arabia was an American domestic matter
in that it discriminated unfairly against: a section of
American citizenry. It was not just a foreign policy
issue linked with Israel when American citizens
were banned from a friendly nation merely because
of their religion, in Kennedy's view.
King Saud reportedly promised the President to
reconsider. He is believed to be discussing the ban
with Crown Prince Faisal. Any change is apparently
up to Faisal. Saudi Arabia is rigidly anti-Jewish and
will probably remain so.
But, if this authoritative version is correct. at
least Saudi Arabia leaders know at first hand of the
President's personal feelings.
In another case, Washington quietly interceded
to get an Arab state to look after Israeli graves.
Such moves cannot be published when they occur.
Publicity would be counter-productive. Arabs in-
volved in negotiations might be attacked for ap-
peasement. Approaches, even on the smallest matter,
would collapse.
American diplomacy in Arab capitals would be
undermined if it were suspected that Washington
was advancing Israeli or Jewish interests.
The Administration has ordered the Commerce
Department not to publicize discriminatory Arab
bids. Application of the Arab shipping boycott to
applicable aspects of the Surplus Commodity Law
(P.L. 480) was eased by Washington action.
Approaches were made to a number of Arab
states on anti-Jewish restrictions. Egypt gave assur-
ances recently that it would respect the rights of
American Jewish tourists. Cairo, of course. is eager
for tourist dollars as well as huge new American
loans.
The Administration claims it has no alternative
in the UN resolution condemning fsrael for the Lake
Tiberias reprisal raid. A point is made that the
British co-sponsors wanted to go even further against
Israel but were dissuaded. In any event, it is today
doubtful that the United States delegation would
take the same stand against Israel unilaterally if
the identical issue came up again.
Administration leaders feel that pending aid to
Nasser is adequately balanced by massive assistance
to Israel. America has to get • along as best it can
with the Arabs as well as Israel. in the Washington
view. Foreign policy requires flexibility. Maneuvers
to win Arab favor were termed "in no sense anti-
Israel" but rather in another context. America's
actual objectives are to block Soviet penetration
while promoting peace and American friendship
with all peoples.
Whether every U.S. policy- in the Near East is
wise, or in America's own national interest, is
debated. Even some Administration Senators have
openly dissented, calling for a more courageous and
vigorous stand against Arab bias affecting Americans.
But if a fair judgment is to be made of whether
a "one-sided" pro-Arab, anti-Israel policy has indeed
emerged, both sides of the Washington case must be
considered.