Negroes, Jews, Muslim Issues Cross Paths
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By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1963,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Jews. The Jew sells to Negroes,
rents to Negroes, treats Negro
patients, defends Negro clients,
Muhammed, and Malcolm X, teaches Negroes, and jointly
who irresponsibly ignite a backs progressive community
struggles. This proximity ex-
racist explosion.
American Jewry is still in poses Jews to closer scrutiny,
closer contact with the Negro as individuals as well as organ-
community than white non- izationally and communally.
anti-Semitism. Yet there are
the demagogues like Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell, Elijah
WASHINGTON—"Why don't
the Northern rabbis who flew
to Birmingham urge members
of their own congregations to
give Negroes equal employment,
housing, and social opportu-
nities?"
This is the question posed
here by the new, articulate,
rising Negro, surging ahead in
the rampaging struggle for full
rights and human dignity.
In Washington, a Negro ac-
tion group picketed the re-
sidence of a prominent real
estate man. He was attacked in
the local Negro press for bar-
ring Negroes from his apart-
.
ment buildings.
PURE BEEF
Both the United States De-
partment of Justice and many
Plump, Juicy
Birmingham Jews were anxi-
Bursting with Flavor
ous to get a group of 20
Enjoy Superior
Conservative rabbis — "free-
Wilno Kosher Salami
dom fliers"—out of Birming-
and Bologna too!
ham. Concerned lest the
At Leading
presence of the rabbis spark
Delicatessens,
an
incident
to
upset
the
tense
Chaplain Marvin Labinger, right, Jewish chaplain at
truce, the Justice Department
Supermarkets and
U.S. Air Force Academy, bids farewell to four Jewish cadets
sought departure of the rab-
Restaurants.
who will be commissioned at 1963 commencement exercises
bis. There was also concern
of U.S Air Force Academy. Each new officer will receive a
in Washington for their physi-
personally-inscribed Bible from JWB's Commission on Jewish
cal safety. But by the time
Chaplaincy as will the 21 other Jews to be commissioned at
the word got to Birmingham,
the four other national service academies. Shown with Chaplain
the rabbis had already left.
Labinger are, left to right, Michael Roth, El Paso, Tex.; Gary
The Rev. Martin Luther King,
FRANKFURTERS
Saban, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Sherwin Kraye, Oxnard, Calif.; David
Jr., and other responsible Negro
Wax, Brookline, Miss.
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Distributed in Detroit and Michigan by:
leaders lauded the rabbis' visit.
It lent moral support to the JULIUS POLLAK, 7522 Fenkell, Detroit Tel: UN 2-5822
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to
Be
Commissioned
embattled Negroes.
Sen. Morse Raps
by 5 U. S. Academies The rabbis told Birmingham
Nasser's Hypocrisy
Twenty-five Jews will receive Jewish leaders they would con-
at Histadrut Parley
officers' commissions at the fer with them only in a de-
MONTREAL (JTA)—Egypt's 1963 commencement exercises segregated hotel. Local people
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the country's five national wanted to know if the rabbis
is practicing "hypocrisy" when service academies during June were so consistent and militant
he joins Yugoslavia's President and July, it was announced ay in demanding Negro equality in
Tito in calling for world-wide Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman the North. The visitors faced
disarmament while, at the same of JWB's Commission on Jew- not only the sarcasm of some
time, employing German Nazi ish Chaplaincy.
northern Negro extremists, but
Scientists for development of
Eleven new Jewish ensigns also a chilly welcome from their
missiles, U. S. Sen. Wayne wil be commissioned at the U.S. Southern Jewish brethren.
Morse, Oregon Democrat, charg- Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Served at bar mitzvahs, brunches, barbecues,
The central Negro element
ed here. Morse was the princi- Md., June 5. On that same day which decries efforts of white
pal speaker at the fifth national the U.S. Military Academy, liberals, like the rabbis, is the
convention of Histradrut of West Point, N.Y., will commis- so-called "Black Muslim" move-
Canada.
sion five new Jewish second lieu- ment. The Muslims' appeals to
tenants; the U. S. Coast Guard emotion s, chauvinism and
Academy, New London, Conn., racism-in-reverse are publicly
will commission three new Jew- deplored by most Negroes. But
ish ensigns, and the U. S. Air responsible Negro leaders re-
Force Academy, Colorado Springs, port a rising tide of secret sym-
Colo., will commission four new pathy for the militant Muslims
second lieutenants.
and their fiery leaders.
On July 29 the U.S. Merchant
The latest issue of "Muham-
on crackers, canapes, cucumbers,
Marine Academy, Great Neck, med Speaks, the Muslim organ,
N.Y., will graduate three new makes no appeal to anti-Semit-
Jewish ensigns.
ism. It does laud Nasser, his
unity movement, and justifies
the United Arab Republic's bias
Canadian JNF Will
against • Coptic Christians, The
Launch $2 Million
newspaper openly defames
Christianity as the "white man's
Project in Israel
phony religion."
The
TORONTO, (JTA)
A letter to the editor ques-
Canadian Jewish National Fund tions -the presence of mem-
voted at its national conference bers of the all-white Ameri-
to accept complete responsibil- can Nazi Party at a Muslim
in salads, sandwiches, smorgasbords, -
ity for a $2,000,000 - land re- meeting. The Negro writer
demption and resettlement proj- termed the Nazis "fascist
ect on the Jordanian border be- psychopaths" and stated that
tween Jerusalem and Beersheba. "it is not the Black Muslims,
The proposal was submitted but white Americans and the
by Dr. Jacob Tsur, JNF board American way of life which
of directors world chairman. It spawn e d these swatstika-
will be known as the D'vir
bedecked - Nazis." He said
project and to make possible an
"Rockwell's Nazis are pa-
immediate start on land recla- triotic, clean-cut white Amer-
mation for the project, the con-
ference voted to obWn a bank ican boys, a natural product
loan of $2,000,000 to be advanc- of American life, and irrecon-
CHEF BOY-AR-DEE
ed to Israel. The loan will be ciliable enemies of all us
with boiled potatoes, chilled tomatoes,
repaid from future campaigns black people."
It
would
be
misleading
to
or straight from the jar.
of the JNF in Canada.
generalize that the new Negro
is a rabid anti-Semite. His atti-
British Financier
tude toward Jews emerges on
the periphery of his main strug-
Gives $2 Million for
gle—against white supermacy.
Just heat vre eat!
Israel Institutions
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The But the need to dramatize the
hypocricies, the gaps between
Hear family, guests, cheer for establishment of a fund of practice and preachment, makes
6,000,000 pounds ($2,000,000)
that real Italian flavor created by for the support of Israeli hos- the lib e r al Jew an obvious
famed Chef Boy-Ar-Dee. Tender pitals and yeshivot by Nahum target.
Rev. King advocates non-
little macaroni pies...filled with Zeev Williams, a British finan- violence and social justicp,
cier who lives half a year in
tangy Italian Cheese...simmered London and half a year in Jeru- discourages hatred and abhors
with savory tomato sauce and salem, was announced here. The
Jews in Northern Ireland
cheese... seasoned the real Ital- fund will be administered by
The Jewish community of
the Heichal Shlomo Religious
ian way. So much tastier and Center.
Northern Ireland, which dates
easier than the frozen kind. So
back to the eighteenth century,
Alexander the Great was born today numbers some 2,000 per-
much thriftier, too—costs only
in what is now part of Yuglo- • sons, the great - majority of
about 15c per serving!
whom live in Belfast.
slavia.
If you like
CHEESE
KREPLACH
You'll love
MEATLESS
CHEESE
RAVIOLI
VITA HERRING
IS CATCHING
ON FAST
.