U. S. Armed Forces Employe in Libya Fired for Christian Act Toward Israel • Rehired After Protest by Congressman WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States Army-Air Force Ex- change Service fired an American assigned to manage food facilities 1 at Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya, because he refused to sign 1 an anti-Israel visa declaration re- quested by the Libyan govern- ment, Rep. Richard S. Schweiker, Pennsylvania Republican, disclos- ed. Edward P. Hunt, a non-Jew, of Bala, Pa., was reinstated with full sack pay after Rep. Schweiker pro- tested the firing to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. But the Defense and State depart- ments refused to protest to the Libyan authorities and indicated that the United States would con- tinue requiring employes assigned to Libya to obey Libyan require- ments. Rep. Schweiker said: "It is ab- solutely outrageous for any agency of the United States government to fire an employe because he re- fuses to sign a declaration which he feels is anti-Semitic." Hunt, a 31-year-old food Super- visor for the Defense Depart- ment, was transferred last April from Fort Belvoir, Va., to man- age facilities at Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya. When he arrived at the Europ- ean Exchange Service headquart- ers in Nuremberg, Germany, en route to his Libyan assignment, Hunt was ordered, for the first time, to sign a Libyan visa ap- plication containing a discrimina- tory clause. The application included a state- ment that "I know that, in case of obtaining any Israeli visa, my visa More Funds for Jewish Education, Renewed Values in Home Urged KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y. (JTA) — The United Synagogue of Amer- ica, the congregational organization of the Conservative movement, called on the nation's Jewish federations and welfare funds this week to increase their allocations for Jewish education. In a resolution adopted at the closing session of the organization's biennial convention, the delegates said that some federation alloca- tions for Jewish education were "totally inadequate." The resolution said that the responsibility for maintaining Jewish education "must be . shared by the total Jew- ish community." In another resolution, the convention called on constituent congregations to work for the establishment of procedures to further observance of the dietary laws by the congregations, their affiliated organizations and their memberships. The r e s o l u t i o n noted what it described as "wide- spread violations of kashrut" under existing methods of super- vision. In an address, Dr. Louis Finkel- stein, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, warned of repetition in other cities of the recent riots which took place in the Watts section of Los Angeles "unless there is a change in the spiritual outlook of 1,000 Latin Americans Learn in Israel, 2nd Only to U.S. as Aid Source (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM — About 1,000 students from Latin American countries have received technical training in Israel, according to figures released here Tuesday on the eve of the start of negotiations with the Organization of American States for the third renewal of the agreement on technical aid to be held in Washington, D.C. soon. The number of OAS students trained in Israel is second only to the total trained in the United States. The major attractions for such students in Israel is the availability of Spanish-speaking teachers and the similarity of many development problems in Israel and Latin American nations. - A seminar on cooperation spon- sored by the OAS opened here Tuesday with participation of top leaders in the field from 20 Latin American states. The participants were welcomed by Labor Minister Yigal Allon. the whole nation along the lines of prophetic Judaism." At a session on intermarriage, Rabbi Saul I. Teplitz of Wood- mere, L. I., declared that while he could offer no "effective cure to this alarming phenomenon," he advised the delegates not to seek it primarily among the youth them- selves but in the home, the syna- gogue and the religious school. Rabbi Teplitz declared that it is in the home that we are "scoring our greatest failures." It is in the home where the Jewish child can come either to appreciate Judaism as a living faith or suspect it as a "message without meaning." Children who are dropped off at Sabbath serv- ices while the parents go else- where will -inevitably drop out of synagogue attendance in maturity, he said. Interfaith dat- ing "should be firmly discour- aged even in the young teen years," he advised. Rabbi Teplitz recommended that in the matter of picking a proper college for their children, they should not "abdicate to the wis- dom of the high school counselor" but consideration should be given to the number of Jewish students on the campus, the presence of a Hillel chapter or branch of Atid, the organization of United Syna- gogue college youth, the availability of a course in Jewish studies and the proximity to a Jewish commu- nity and synagogue. nizational life. Joseph M. Hochstein is the son of Philip Hochstein, senior editor of the Newhouse newspapers and president of National Publications, Inc., a family-held corporation that publishes the new newspaper. 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RIVKA RAZ STAR OF THE ISRAELI PRODUCTION OF "MY FAIR LADY" Also AKIVA EGER DIRECTOR OF HISTADRUT'S AFRO-ASIAN INSTITUTE Thursday Evening DECEMBER 2nd "Men often mistake notoriety THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 19, 1965-7 WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish community leaders here welcomed appearance of the first issue of the nation's newest English - Jewish weekly, Jewish Week. President Louis C. Grossberg and Executive Director Isaac Franck of the Jewish Community Council greeted Jewish Week as a "highly promising successor to the National Jewish Ledger." They wrote Joseph M. Hoch- stein, editor and publisher, that "on the basis of your own, and of Philip Hochstein's experience and distinguished record in the newspaper field, we have every reason to be confident that you will succeed" in enriching Jew- ish religious, cultural, and orga- to Libya will be considered in- valid." Hunt, a Roman Catholic, inform- ed his superiors that he could not conscientiously sign an anti-Israeli declaration. He felt that an American citizen should be able to work at an American base any- where in the world without com- mitting himself not to visit the state of Israel. "Due to my deep religious con- victions concerning the Hebrew faith and its people, I cannot in conscience sign any statement con- trary to my beliefs," he told the Defense Department. When he persisted in refusing to sign the Libyan oath, Hunt was notified by Brig. Gen. John D. Hines, commanding general of the European U.S. Exchange System, that he was fired. Hunt had to pay his own return transportation from Germany to the United States. The U.S. Exchange Serv- ice deducted from his final pay the cost of transporting him to Germany en route to Libya. Rep. Schweiker, a Protestant, learned of the case and protested to Secretary McNamara. The De- fense Department then acted to reinstate Hunt with reimburse-. ment of back pay and travel ex- penses, but sent someone else to the job at Wheelus Air Force Base. State Department sources said no protest was made to Libya be- cause of Moslem sensitivity on matters pertaining to Israel. The Army-Air Force Exchange Service will continue to accede to Libyan requirements, it was indicated. . for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not to be noticed at all." — Harry S. Truman. New Jewish Weekly Appears in D.C. For Ticket Information Call UN 4-7094 8:30 p.m. Morris L. Schaefer Auditorium 19161 Schaefer Donation $1.25 per person Refreshments • Social Hour