New Chance for Israel Promised in the Euromart
Friday, Janu ary
B. B. Awards for Koufax, Stuart
Sandy Koufax (left) of the world champion Los Angeles
Dodgers and Dick Stuart of the Boston Red Sox hold baseball
awards presented to them at a Bnai Brith sports dinner in
Boston.
JWB Canal Zonein Panama Crisis
BALBOA, Canal Zone—The was successful in working with
National Jewish Welfare police to find routes home for
Board's Armed Forces Service other Panamanian families be-
Center in Balboa served as a fore blockades were set up.
During the first night of the
focal point for welfare activi-
ties during the recent crisis upheaval, a number of GI fami-
lies who live in Panama had to
in the Canal Zone.
According to word received leave their homes because of
threatened violence and came,
by JWB from the Center's di-
rector, Rabbi Nathan Witkin„ with police assistance, to the
C
who also serves as USO area Center.
Rabbi Witkin and his
director in the Canal Zone, at aides got in touch with the
refugees' husbands and in the
the moment that the rioting be- morning helped them to trans-
fan, the Center was host to a fer to reception centers set up
large group of American mili- by the military authorities.
tary personnel and their wives, Since that time, personnel as-
civilians, Panamanian citizens sociated with the Center have
and U. S. residents of the Re- helped at these reception cen-
public of Panama who were at- ters, where more than 3,000 de-
tending a lecture.
pendents were taken after leav-
As the lecture ended, word ing the Republic. Tasks have
came to the Center that the included gathering clothing,
borders were closed, and no toys and contributions, working
one could return to Panama be- with children and giving special
cause of violence on Fourth of assistance to adults.
July Avenue, the street which
An amateur radio station at
forms the border between the the Center handled thousands
Canal Zone and the Republic. of messages to the States. No
As a result, the Center remain- mail was moving, and it was
ed open all night and many fam- virtually impossible to place
ilies slept there. Rabbi Witkin commercial telephone calls, so
the station provided an impor-
tant link between personnel in
the Canal Zone and their people
at home.
In 1962 Rabbi Witkin received
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the Order of Balboa, the high-
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. est decoration given by Pan-
ama, in honor of his 25 years
Max Nussbaum, president of
the Zionist Organization of of service.
Dr. Nussbaum
Heads American
Zionist Council
A m e r i c a, was unanimously
elected chairman of the Ameri-
can Zionist Council, coordinat-
ing body of all nine Zionist or-
ganizations in this country. He
succeeds Rabbi Irving Miller
who accupied the post for the
past ten years and who was
elected honorary chairman.
Nathaniel S. Rothenberg, for-
mer president of Bnai Zion,
American Fraternal Zionist Or-
ganization, was unanimously
elected chairman of the adminis-
trative committee of the Coun-
cil. The election took place at
a meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Council, the high-
est governing body of the or-
ganization, attended by repre-
sentatives of all nine constitu-
ent Zionist organizations.
The following Zionist organi-
zations are the constituent bod-
ies of the American Zionist
Council: American Jewish
League for Israel, Bnai Zion,
Hadassah, Religious Zionists of
America, Labor Zionist Move-
ment, Pr ogressive Zionist
League — Hashomer Hatzair,
United Labor Zionist Party,
United Zionists — Revisionists
of America, and Zionist Organi-
zation of America.
STRASSBOURG, (JTA) — A
key official of the European
Economic Community promised
that a third round of talks with
Israel on a trade agreement with
the six-nation Euromart would
begin in March. The promise
was made by Jean Rey, Minister
of the EEC Commission in
charge of its foreign relations,
in a report to the regular meet-
ing of the European Parliament,
an advisory body to the EEC.
Rey s p o k e after members
of the Parliament voted unani-
mously to ask the Council of
Ministers, the key policy-mak-
ing body of the EEC, to give
the EEC Commission a new
mandate to make possible an
initial agreement with Israel. In
the first two rounds of talks,
the EEC negotiators offered
Israel minor concessions of
three relatively trivial exports
which the Israeli negotiators re-
jected, asking for new talks. At
that time, the Israelis offered
several technical proposals as a
basis for such talks.
A. Blaisse, Deputy Presi-
dent of the European Parlia-
ment, told the deputies that
those proposals were a "good
basis" for renewed talks. He
said the lengthy negotiations
had been "very disappointing"
and that there was a "moral
obligation" of Europe toward
Israel "if it exists as the poli-
tical will of the member
states."
He called for a commercial
agreement with Israel "which
will be only a first step, as with
Turkey, towards a larger agree-
ment." Another deputy, Ludwig
Metzger, a German Socialist,
said Israel had not been treated
well by the EEC. He added
that "we are happy that we
reached an association with
Turkey and Greece," which re-
ceived an associate membership
"and we do not understand why
negotiations wtih Israel did not
have any results." He asserted
that "Europe cannot stay in-
different to Israel."
The West German deputy
said that the European Parli-
ment had not given up the
idea of an associate status for
Israel "but in the meantime
a general agreement is need-
ed. The EEC can help Israel
with a small effort on its part
if the political will exists."
Rey opened his report with
a description of his recent visit
to Israel where he said, gov-
ernment officials had indicated
their disappointment over the
laggard talks. He said he left
with a renewed feeling of the
urgent need to find a solution.
He added, however, that there
were difficulties, some arising
from the fact that all of the
member states had interests in
the Mediteranean area.
He said he was not certain
Toronto Police Agree
to Settlement With
Rabbi They Assaulted
TORONTO (JTA) — Eight
metropolitan Toronto police-
men, named in Civil action by
a New York rabbi who claimed
they assaulted him in 1962,
have agreed to an out-of-court
settlement, Austin Cooper, the
rabbi's attorney, stated.
Cooper said that the agree-
ment requires a written letter
of apology to Rabbi Norbert
Leiner from Police Chief
James Mackey.
The attorney declined to in-
dicate how much money was in-
volved in the settlement, but
another source said Rabbi Lei-
ner, who had asked $7,000,
accepted $4,000.
The defendants in the civil
suit, filed on June 11, 1963,
were two detectives and six
constables. Rabbi Leiner
charged he had been unlaw-
fully arrested and imprison-
ed, detained in custody and
Meritorious Verses
assaulted, causing him ner-
vous shock, bruises, sprains
by Rabbi Adelman
and a broken rib.
Arrested on January 26,
Rabbi Samuel Adelman of
Denver makes use of daily oc- 1962, the rabbi had refused to
currences to express himself in enter a police car on the Jew-
verse. He has written many ish Sabbath and for the same
poems, some of which are of reason he had no identification
on his person. He was arrested
very high quality.
His "Windows to My Soul," on vagrancy charges in an area
published by Golden Bell Press where police were seeking a
of Denver, express many pro- deviate.
A royal commission, headed
found thoughts.
He begins with "Language" by Justice Dalton C. Wells,
in which he aims to show that was named to investigate the
"words are bridges between rabbi's charges. The justice
men." Interestingly enough, the found that the rabbi had been
final poem is "Music" in which arrested unlawfully but that
he delineates on the universal- both he and the police were at
ity of songs.
fault.
Each of his poems commences
with a prose explanation of his
theme. His subjects are uni- Brazil's Foreign Minister
versal—dealing with Iron Cur- Honored by Jewish Body
tains, Kingdom of God, Faith,
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) —
Prophet and Cynic; and many
Jewish themes—Kaddish, Nei- The foreign minister of Brazil,
lah, Jephtha's Daughter, the Joao Auguste de Araujo Castro,
was honored at the annual meet-
Sabbath, etc.
Reflecting the feelings and ing of the Jewish-Brazilian In-
impressions of a rabbi, these stitute of Culture and informa-
meritorious poems have a place tion, an organization sponsored
in the spiritual leader's literary by th Brazilian branch of the
American Jewish Committee.
efforts.
that the matter could be pre-
sented to the Council of Min-
isters on February 3, as had
been announced recently but it
will definitely be discussed on
February 25. "Later we shall
be able, in March, to invite once
more our Israeli friends to the
third round of negotiations and
to reach an agreement which
will not be a complete solution
of all the problems "but would
be a first step for later enlarge-
ment," he stated.
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