Williamsburg Hasidim Charge Bias
by Antipoverty Body; 12 Jews Resign

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

NEW YORK .— Twelve Jewish
members of the Williamsburg
Committee Against Poverty have
resigned in protest against alleged
discrimination by the committee
against needy JeWs in the area,
the United Jewish Organization of
Williamsburg reported Tuesday.
The. Jewish group included four
rabbis.
The principal function of the
committee is to set up a perman-
ent corporation to direct antipov-
erty activities in the area under a
directive from Mitchell Svirdoff,
administrator of New York City's
human resources department.
In tendering their - resignation,
the 12 Jewish members indicated
they were refusing also to accept_
responsibility for creation of the

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permanent organization. Their let-
ter was sent to the Rev. H. Carl
McCall, chairman of the New York
City • Council Against Poverty.
Williamsburg is a Brooklyn com-
munity with a large concentration
of Negroes, Puerto Ricans and the
largest community of Hasidic Jews
in the United States.
The 12 signers charged that
other ethnic groups represented
on the committee had refused
to recognize that there were
"acute pockets of poverty"
among the Hasidic Jews, who
were entitled to consideration of
their . needs in the. antipoverty
program.
One particular action by other
members of the committee to
which the resigning Jewish mem-
bers. objected was an insistence on
removal from membership in the
proposed permanent corporation of
all nonresidents. Such a rule would
eliminate Sol Levy, executive dir-
ector of the YM and YWHA of
Williamsburg and chairman of the
committed, as well as other pro-
fessionals now directing social
agencies in the Williamsburg com-
munity. Such an action, the Jewish
leaders declared, "destroys the
essential recommendation of the
Svirdoff report which seeks to
integrate existing services and
agencies within the: community
with poverty programs."
The- signeri also asserted, in
their letter, that there were
"subtle overtones -of hostility" to-
ward- them as Jews "when picket-
ing,- took place outside the YM and
YWHA of Williamsburg, during
the meeting of the community
committee." They declared that
the picketing had no other purpose
"than to protest the professionals
on the committee.
"In view of the fact that out of
the total membership of 54 on the
committee, only four nonresident
professionals were involved, the
picketing could be interpreted in
no other way than as a move
against the Jewish community" in
Williamsburg. .
The signers said that, while
there were no statistics available,
it was the belief of the signers
"and the sociological experts who
have examined the Williams-
burg community, that there are
in fact innumerable instances of
poverty among Jews in the
community."
They also stressed that the usual
indices used to measure poverty—
such as juvenile delinquency, de-
livery at wards in municipal hos-
pitals, venereal disease and welfare
role membership — "are not ad-
equate instruments for measuring
poverty among Jews."
The signers said that the refusal
of the committee to consider aid
to the Hasidic Jews in need "was
an affront to the total Jewish com-
munity" and that, if necessary,
they would take their case to Sar-
gent Shriver, director - of the Office
of Economic Opportunity in Wash-
ington.
The signers added they had de-
layed action on their protest for
some time out of concern that such
action might lead to similar. resig-
nations in other parts of the city
— but that the situation had be-
come "unbearable."

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Utrecht.– • •

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 10, 1967-7

Neo-Nazi Signed Fascist Manifesto

Tel Aviv U. President
Warns Closing if No Cash

- (Direct JTA Teletype Wire
• to The Jewish News)

AVIV — Dr. George Wise,
president of Tel Aviv University,
Wednesday warned that unless the
Knesset and the government rec-
ognize the need for more financial
support to Israel's institutions of
higher learning, closing down of
faculties and laboratories may re-
suit.
Dr. Wise said there is real dan-
ger that academic standards would
deteriorate, if added funds are not
forthcoming. – He also called for
unification of the individual cam-
paigns in the -Diaspora for Israel's
institutions for higher learning.

TEL

Adolph von Thadden, deputy chairman of the West German
neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (second from left) has par-
ticipated in a number of meetings with other European fascists. In
1962, von Thadden was a signatory in Venice to a "European. Protocol"
which was intended to set in motion a "European National Party,"
a combination of right-wing elements in Germany, Britain, Italy,
Belgium and other countries. The "Protocol" seemed to have little
significance and the planned "European Party" crumbled although
attempts to revive it - are on a continuing basis, according to the
World Jewish Congress. 'the above picture, reprinted from "Action,"
the organ of the British Union Movement, shows (from left)
Jean Thiriart, Belgian rightist; von Thadden when he was _a mem-
e National
N
- her of the- Deutsche Reichspartei, now included in th
Democratic Party; Oswald Mosley of the British Union Movement;
an unidentified participant, blacked out because be did not sign the
"Protocol;" and Giovanni Lanfre, of the Italian Social Movement.

* *

Swiss Bar Entry
of Von Thadden

GENEVA (JTA) — Friedrich
Thielen, chairman of the extrem-
ist National Democratic Party of
West Germany, and Adolf von
Thadden, deputy chairman, have
been forbidden to enter Switzerland.
A spokesman for the Swiss Jus-
tice Ministry said the ban did not
stem from any information that the
NPD leaders had plans to visit his
country. He said the order had
been made under the government's
program of keeping out undesirable
extremist elements of all kinds.
(Various American organizations,
Jewish and non-Jewish, have re-
quested that the United States De-
partment of State bar admission of
the NPD leaders, but no action on
these requests has been announced
by Washington.)
Earlier, in Winnipeg, some 500
civic and communal leaders of
various faiths accepted a resolu-
tion expressing concern over the
growth of the NPD in West Ger-
many, and taking strong excep-
tion to the manner of presenta-
tion of a recent interview on
Canadian Broadcasting C o r p.
television with von Thadden.
The resolution, approved at a
meeting on neo-Nazism held at. Rosh
Pina Congregation. called for spe-
cial efforts aimed at informing and
instructing young persons "about
the evil philosophy of fascism and
its destructive deeds during World
War II, all of which were carried
out under the Nazi banner and the
swastika symbol, which have be- ,
come synonymous with mass mur- 1
der."
The meeting was one of a num-
ber of such gatherings held recent-
ly in Canadian cities, including
Montreal and Toronto, called to ex-
press concern of Canadian's gener-
ally over the growth of neo-Nazism

Big Chicago Welfare Tab

CHICAGO (JTA) — The Jew-
ish Federation of Metropolitan
Chicago has adopted a 1967 ex-
penditure budget of $43,205,703
for health and welfare services —
the largest budget in its 67-year
history.— A. .D. Davis, president
of the -federation, told the federa-
tion's anniversary dinner here. He
said this total represented the
operating costs of the federation's
twelve medical and social service
agencies.

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