Federation Annual _Meeting to Cite Hebrew Free Loan,
Community Workshop: Nate Shapero Gets Baize, Award
Nate S. Shapero will be the 1965 recipient of the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award for Communal Service, it was announced by
Hyman Safran. president of the Jewish Welfare Federation and chairman of the Butzel memorial award committee. The award is given
for outstanding leadership in those aspects of communal service encompassed by Federation and its agencies. The committee which selected
Mr. Shapero consists of the presidents of Federation member agencies, Detroit Service Group and Women's Division, and recipients of the
award in previous years.
Presented annually since 1951, the award has gone to Julian H. Krolik, Henry Wineman, William Friedman, Abraham Srere, Mrs.
Joseph H. Ehrlich, Samuel H. Rubiner, Justice Henry M. Butzel, Abe Kasle, Sidney J. Allen, Judge Theodore Levin, Irwin I. Cohn, Mrs.
Henry Wineman, Leonard N. Simons and Max M. Fisher.
The annual dinner meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation, to be held at the Jewish Center Wednesday, will honor the Hebrew
Free Loan Association, oldest agency of the Federation - group which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, and the Community Work-
shop. ceelbrating its 10th year of service. Sam Lieberman is president of the Hebrew Free Loan Association, and Paul Broder is president.
Albert Cohen is executive director of the Community Workshop.
Commitment to the Jewish tradition of helping people help themselves has been the guiding principle of the Hebrew Free Loan
Association. Seventy years ago a few local leaders joined to help immigrant families meet the rigors of life in a new world. The needs were
great and the loans were small, but in 1895 and for many years later $5 enabled some families to eat for a week; $10 paid the monthly rent;
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Jewish Organizations Are Split
on LBJ's Aid to Education Bill
Argentina Uncovers Nazi Plot:
Police in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, seized the uniforms, Molotov cocktail bombs, cash and other materials
shown here, after discovering a Nazi-inspired anti-Jewish plot. Among the items
found by the police are documents listing Jewish institutions and names of 100
Jewish business leaders who were apparently marked for assassination. Seven men
carrying large packages escaped during the seizure after a gun battle with the police.
The Buenos Aires provincial police hinted Tuesday of possible arrests in the next 48
hours. Local newspapers meanwhile reproduced a half-coded, half-clear message order-
ing Nazi cells in the area to prepare for future action. Police said that the message
was found near the airport. Interior Minister Juan Palermo said at a press conference
that he had no information on the situation and that the provincial police were han-
dling the case. The United Front Against Anti-Semitism and the Progressive Demo-
cratic Party issued statements protesting Nazi activities in Argentina.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Spokesmen for American Jewish
organizations took conflicting positions on the President's aid to
education bill in testimony before the House Education subcom-
mittee.
Harold M. Squadron, representing the American Jewish Con-
gress, testified that his organization was "vigorously opposed" to
provisions of the proposed legislation that would benefit non-public
schools. He claimed that the public school system would be "gravely
threatened" if public funds were made available.for private schools.
Rabbi Morris Sherer, executive vice-president of the Agudath
Israel of America, welcomed the administration's proposals as "a
major step forward in meeting the educational needs of school
children of our nation." He hailed the education bill for "estab-
lishing a principle which recognizes that students of public and
private schools are partners in the mosaic of the American educa-
tional structure."
The President's education proposals envisage the expenditure
of $100,000,000 in federal funds to provide books and other edu-
cational materials for both public and private schools, including
parochial schools. Another provision of the bill would make avail-
able $100,000,000 for "supplementary education centers" in which
private school children would be able to use public school facilities.
The American Jewish Congress spokesman maintained that
"bitter rivalry" between public and parochial schools would devel-
op if these proposals were enacted. The Agudath Israel called for
a more flexible formula in the distribution of federal funds to
needy school districts. Under the existing proposals, distribution
of funds would be determined by the number of children whose
families have annual incomes of less than $2,000. Rabbi Sherer
suggested that the yardstick of poverty be related to the size of
family and the differential between urban and rural family needs.
Rabbi Sherer's position wsa endorsed by Prof. William W.
Brickman, of the University of Pennsylvania, representing the
National Association of Hebrew Day Schools. Dr. Brickman said
that the principle of equality would be violated if children attending
religious-oriented schools were denied the same benefits as public
school children. His organization represents 272 schools with ap-
proximately 71,000 students throughout the country.
Testimony against the bill was presented by Rabbi Richard G.
Hirsch of the commission on social action of Reform Judaism.
Rabbi Hirsch maintained that tax moneys should be used for public
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Congress versus Nasser: Not Petulant Gesture,' Nor Jewish
Vindictiveness. but Refusal by U. S. to Be Spat in the Eye
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright. 1965, Jewish Telegraphic Agency Inc.)
WASHINGTON — The State De-
partment cannot accept the fact that
Congress, reflecting American public
opinion, wants to sever aid to Egypt
and end appeasement of Egypt's Nas-
ser regime.
The Department was stunned by
the surprise 204 to 117 House vote
for an amendment banning food ship-
ments to Egypt. The amendment was
Senate Compromises on Aid
to Egypt . . Story on Page 40
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attached to an agriculture appropria-
tions bill by Rep. Robert Michel,
Illinois Republican, and drew support
from all Republicans and many
Democrats.
The Department did not conclude
from the House action that America
felt Nasser had gone too far. Depart-
ment officials made sly suggestions
that congressmen backing the amend-
ment were either dominated by. vin-
dictive Jewish constituencies or were
so reactionary' they would take the
bread from the mouths of Egyptian
children. Newsmen were told that
adoption of the measure by the Senate
would undermine American influence
in Cairo, and cause Nasser to behave
badly.
Many senators are convinced,
however, that America has no more
effective influence in Cairo. Nas-
ser's contempt for America reached
the point where he told this country
to take her aid and "go to hell"
with it. Nasser. then bragged of his
shipments of Soviet arms to the pro-
Communist Congolese rebels who
are busily hunting and shooting
American missionaries.
The House action did not come
out of the clear sky or as the "petu-
lant gesture" depicted in some pro-
administration newspapers. Egypt
had abused the United States through
vituperative press and radio assaults,
pushed for the ousting of American
bases in the Near East and North
Africa, burned the U.S. library in
Cairo, diverted funds for purchase of
Soviet arms, backed the pro-Commu-
nist elements in the Congo, and par-
ticipated in other aggressive and sub-
versive activities.
_ Although some ad-
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