THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, February 17, 1967-13 Label Katz Reaffirms Stand That Jewish Centers Be Jewish NEW ORLEANS (JTA)=Label A. Katz; former international pre- sident of Bnai Brith, has defended his position that Jewish centers should maintain a Jewish sectarian character, against criticism from Reform rabbis in this city. Katz -raised the issue initially last month in an address here to the executive committee of Bnai Brith Grand Lodge No. 7 in which he declared that he had been one of 140 members of the New Or- leans Jewish Community Center who had protested the admission of 18 non-Jewish families to cen- ter members-hip. After • the protest, the center halted admission of non-Jewish families, pending a report by a study committee, allowing the pres- ent non-Jewish members to retain Is Vietnam Policy Stumbling Block o •OK of Resolution on Genocide? By MILTON FRIEDMAN by the international community. Such a hypocritial stance can WASHINGTON—Administration hardly serve our interests abroad." sources are using Vietnam as an The Congressman called on the excuse for deferring action by the President to send Congress a spe- White House to seek' Senate rati- cial human .rights message. He fication of the United Nations Con- pointed out that initiative from vention on Genocide. the White House is essential if This treaty outlaws persecution Congress is to act on five pending and destruction of religious, racial, human rights treaties—genocide, and nationality groups. It was forced labor, slavery, political drafted in 1948 because of Nazi rights of women and racial dis- crimes against the Jews and crimination. He introduced a reso- Hitler's policies in occupied - ter- lution asking the President to ritories. The treaty has now bebn submit a special message as the ratified by 67 foreign nations in- only effective means of obtaining eluding some Communist regimes. action. Opposition to American ratifica- Now pending in Congress is tion was originally based on fears H.R. 669, a bill to establish a that Communist governments might U.S. Committee on Human invoke the treaty and intervene in Rights to prepare for American domestic affairs of the United observance of International States. Afro-Asian nations, for in- Human Rights Year in 1968, as stance, could conceivably support proclaimed by the UN. The a resolution to have a UN group measure would, in effect, imple- probe racial violence in Alabama ment the recommendations of - or Mississippi. the 1965 White House Confer- The State Department will ence on International Coopera- not publicly admit it, but offi- - tion. cials are currently fearful that The legislation was passed by American involvement in a UN undertaking against genocide the Senate in 1966. The House might provide a device by which Foreign Affairs Committee re- the UN could probe American ported it favorably. But the 89th actions in Vietnam. The deporta- Congress adjourned before the tion of populations of certain measure was scheduled for floor strategic areas, use of chemical consideration. The bill would establish a warfare agents on fields and forests, and police powers as-, dOnamibtee on Human Rights to sumed by American forces over evaluate the American role. The Vietnamese civilians might be proposed committee would submit a report to the President recom- questioned. Rep. Seymour Halpern, New mending means whereby the U.S. York Republican, is fearful lest could make a positiVe and fresh another Congressional session pass contribution to human rights. The without action on the genocide committee's work would -coincide accord. In a letter to President with the forthcoming International Johnson, he said that "our reluc- Human Rights Year in 1968. tance to consider these interna- In asking the President to also tional agreements beclouds the encourage creation of the commit- integrity of expressed foreign tee, Rep. Halpern said "this great policy objectives." cause cannot be ignominiously Rep. Halpern said "a bewilder- ignored by the .United States, a ing gap has ,_developed between great power, whose very policy our traditional allegiance to in- aims at the evolUtion of an inter- dividual rights at_home and our national community of order, apparent unwillingness to abide mutual respect, and amicable rela- by those basic safeguards imposed tions between states." membership - "at their option." - In the petition, a special meet- ing of the general membership was asked to clarify a phrase in the JCC charter that the goal of the center was "to develop an af- firmative attitude toward Jewish life." Katz said he and the other signers understood this phrase to mean that, to be eligible for cen- ter membership, one must be a Jew. Katz's stand was disputed on the national level by Sanford Solender, executive vice president of the Na- tional Jewish Welfare Board. In the newest development in. (Copyright, 1967, JTA, Inc.) Workers' Wives Call Off Picketing at Ashdod Port (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) - be paid only to workers earning less than 500 Israeli pounds ($167) monthly. The compromise was en- dorsed by finance ministry_ experts and the Histadrut, Israel's labor federation. A further modification speci- fied that one-quarter of the al- lowance would be paid to those earning more than 500 pounds a month. 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The- alignnient's eco- nomic committee proposed Monda - Eshkol a compromise un- der which payment would be made of a 4 per cent cost-of-living allow- ance — half of !the official rise in the cost-of-living hei to ,wch, the allowance is pegged. It would Deaf your Family to a real Italian Mychel ASHDOD—Operations returned ,to normal Tuesday at the Ashdod port after two days of picketing by wives of dismissed port workers. Police continued to patrol the area. Forty dismissed workers went on • a hunger strike in protest against their layoffs. Wives of 30 of them formed a living wall at the port -to prevent other workers from entering. One consequence of the brief tie-up -was that three ships left the port unloaded and captains of another seven vessels said they might have to follow suit. However, with resumption of work,, it appeared the seven ships would remain for unloading. The 411 workers remained on their hunger strike. ' The wisdom of nations lies in Another phase of the port dis- pute involved a demand by tem- their proverbs, which are brief porary workers for permanent and pithy. — William Penn (1644- jobs. A committee of the workers 1718). agreed to a proposal' that the de mand be referred to the Hista- IF YOU TURN THE drut for a decision. - Forty temporary workers at Ash- dad port reluctantly ended their UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T week-long strike at midnight Tues., FIND A FINER WINE THAN day when Histadrut, the Israel Labor Federation, announced that efforts would be made to provide a minimum of 16 days of employ- ment per month _for each of the Milan Winifies, Detroit, Mich. striking workers. Eshkol Coalition Faces Possible Split Over Cost-of-Living Payments Issue (Direct- JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) :the controversy, Reform rabbis here criticized Katz in sermons and _ statements in their sync-' gogue bulletins. Rabbi Leo A. Bergman, Rabbi Nathaniel Share and Rabbi Jay Rosenberg chal- lenged Katz in sermons and bul- letin statements. Rabbi Bergman said that he saw no harm resulting from the pres- ence of non-Jewish members and that the Jewish •content of the programing was not adversely af- fe,cted by non-Jewish members. Rabbi Share said that it was true that open memberihip '"exposes our youth to contacts with non- Jews." qlowever," he said, "our young people are -going to live in a soc- iety in which the majority will be non-Jews." He added that "it rests upon those who are fighting for closed membership to demonstrate that the center's policies and pro- grams are less affirmatively Jew- ish now than they would be if membership were limited to Jews alone." 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