Friday, Nov. 15, 1963 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- 18

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Supreme Court to Act on Rabbi's Conviction in Civil Rights Issue

("CORE") in non-violent pro- the case on the basis of a tech- dent and even the CCAR in ent with true Judaism.
By MILTON FREEDMAN
Once a kibbutznik in Israel,
attempts to undermine his pro-
(Copyright, 1963, JTA, Inc.)
test tactics. Rabbi Dresner nical, jurisdictional issue.
WASHINGTON — The United knew the leading advocate of
The Central Conference of Negro activities in Albany. He Rabbi Dresner said: "I am in
States Supreme Court is ponder- non-violence, the Rev. Martin American rabbis adopted a reso- was told that his presence en- this struggle primarily because
ing whether two rabbis who prac- Luther King, who had ad- lution commending both rabbis dangered everything Albany I am a Jew. The commandments
for their courage in the civil Jews had built in over 100 of our faith are clear. Injustice
ticed what they preached should dressed the rabbi's Temple.
years. They were dread of anti- anywhere is a threat to justice
serve a Florida jail sentence for
At Tallahassee, the clergymen rights struggle.
everywhere. Just as no group is
supporting the civil rights of sought to eat at the airport
The Rev. Martin Luther King Semitic reprisals.
In Danville, Va., Rabbi Dres- really safe if the Jew is in
Negroes.
restaurant before their planned invited Rabbi Dresner to Al-
The case, "Dresner vs. Flor- departure home. But service was bany, Ga., in August 1962. Three ner subsequently found a spark jeopardy, so it is with the
ida," involves the fate of Rabbis denied. They were arrested. In Negro churches where the rabbi of courage among Southern Negro."
Israel S. Dresner of Temple jail other inmates sought to set spoke in Georgia were later Jewry. As police dogged Rabbi
Dresner's steps through Danville,
burned.
Sharey Shalom, Springfield, fire to Rabbi Freedman's bed.
IF YOU TURN THE
Rabbi Dresner and the Rev. the rabbi became aware of the
The only Tallahassee clergy-
N.J., and Rabbi Martin Freed-
brave
pro-Negro
stand
taken
by
Roy
organized
the
prayer
pil-
man, Barnard Memorial Temple, men to visit the jailed ministers
was the local rabbi. Rabbi Dres- grimage to Albany, getting '75 a local Jew, Dr. Sam Newman.
Patterson, N.J.
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
There has been pressure on
The two were sentenced to 60 ner said the visitor seemed terri- clergymen to participate. Ten
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
Rabbi
Dresner's
Temple
to
dis-
rabbis
took
part—six
Reform,
fied
that
the
freedom-riding
days in jail on charges of un-
miss
him.
He
has
received
abu-
three
Conservative,
and
o
n
e
rabbis
might
endanger
the
status
lawful assembly when they ap-
sive letters from some Jews and
peared at the Tallahassee, Fla., of the local Jewish community. Orthodox.
death threats from anti-Semites.
When
a
prayer
service
in
front
After
being
confined
for
20
airport restaurant with an inte-
Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
grated group of clergymen. Eight hours, the group was finally of the City Hall was attempted, But the congration staunchly
backed his activities as consist-
others, including five whites and arraigned—but in secret. At the arrests were made.
In jail, a Yarmulka w a s
three Negro Protestant minis- trial a question was raised about
ters, were similarly convicted the "police records" of the taken from Rabbi Richard Is-
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leading Protestant theologian ous "anti-s o c i a 1" activities,
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Rabbi Kurt Flasher, of a New
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waged
a
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Another is the Rev. Ralph Roy, to sit with Negro fellow min- leader of the group and con-
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the $1,000 bond. The Su- they contacted his Temple presi-
Hebrew prayers for Negroes raise
preme Court is now deciding
in Albany, Ga.
Rabbi Dresner was inter-
viewed by this reporter after the French Delegation
hearing. The rabbi is a New
Yorker who graduated from a Reports Failure to
Hebrew Day School in Brooklyn,
the University of Chicago, and Win Khrushchev
was ordained by the New York
PARIS, (JTA) — French So-
School of Hebrew Union College, cialist leaders admitted that
Jewish Institute of Religion. He they failed completely in their
has served the Springfield, N.J., efforts during a visit last week
Reform group for about five to Russia to induce Premier
years.
Khrushchev and other Soviet
The event that generated leaders to change their attitude
Rabbi Dresner's first freedom on the question of Soviet Jewry
ride was a sermon he preached and on Israel and the Middle
in June 1961, at an installation East.
of new officers of the Temple's
Reporting at a press confer-
youth organization. He urged ence on their discussions with
the young people to live as Jews Soviet leaders on the situation
by becoming Halutzim, peace of Russian Jewry, Professor
corpsmen, and freedom riders.
Quillot said the French delega-
Reflecting on the sermon, the tion was told that no anti-Jewish
rabbi realized that he must prac- discrimination exists in the So-
tice what he preached. In previ- viet Union and that the Soviet
ous weeks, busses had been authorities w e r e considering
burned in Alabama and free- terminating the use of the term
dom riders beaten. The rabbi "Jew" which now appears on
notified the Temple's president passports of Soviet Jews. He
and the chairman of its social noted that Soviet officials look-
action group that he was going ed with suspicion on all Zionist
south.
movements.
With Rabbi Freedman, he
Former Premier Guy Mollet
joined the eight Protestant min- admitted that the delegation
isters — three being Negroes — found a "total difference on
and took a southbound bus. They approach and appreciation be-
insisted on integrated travel fa- tween ourselves and the Soviets
cilities as they crossed Virginia, on possible solutions to existing
the Carolinas, Georgia, and Flor- conflicts" in the Middle East.
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© In Rome it's
Premier Khrushchev seemed
skeptical of any proposals for
neutralization of the Middle
East.
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British Unions Plan
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to Invest $700,000
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in Histadrut Projects
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — British
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But in Detroit it's
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