StateLegislatureStslutes TifseJewish News With this issue, The Jewish News commences the 26th year of publication. Both Houses of Michigan's State Legislature last week adopted a resolution greeting The Jewish News on its 25th anniversary. The House of Representatives adopted ' the resolution March 14 and the Senate on March 16 — both unanimously. It was co- sponsored by Representatives Stevens, Kramer, Faxon, Mrs. Hunsinger and Cooper and Senator Dzendzell. The full text of the resolution appears on Page 21 in this issue. Last week, the Detroit Common Council and Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh declared. March 27 Jewish News Day in honor of our 25th anniversary. In observance of Jewish News Day, the offices of The Jewish News will be closed on that day beginning at noon. The Editors and Staff of The Jewish News.are deeply grateful to the many national and local leaders, to the heads of major Jewish organizations, to the official families of our Nation, the State of Michigan and the City of Detroit, for the deeply moving messages of greeting we received on the occasion of our 25th anniversary. HE JEWISH NEWS We begin a new Volume with a re-dedication to service 1=, in behalf of our people, our City, State and Nation—with a sense of confidence that community cooperation will enable Us to continue to provide our readers with total coverage of news on all fronts, ever mindful that the interpretations we provide of world events must serve the highest standards in communal relations. 1=2 0I "1— A Weekly Review l I of Jewish Events NI I G I—I I Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper Vol. LI, No. 1 March 24, 1967 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 48235 Pledges Totaling $4,229,000 Mark Opening of Allied Jewish Campaign • `Re-Examine Motives Involving Vietnam,' Klutzniek Proposes Philip M. Klutznick, of Chicago, who served in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under the late Adlai Stevenson, this week proposed that the United States "earnestly re-examine its political motivations" in Vietnam and expedite efforts toward negotiations or diminish its military commitment "if the containment policy of 1954 no longer serves the national interest." Klutznick criticized the strident tones that have escalated in public debate over the strategy of bombing North Vietnam. He decried the argument over military tactics as "a profitless and avoidable form of dis- unity" that is obscuring a need to review and update "the political policy that got us into Vietnam." If a reassessment of that cold war policy Concludes that vital national interests and peace justice are not particularly accommodated by our military involvement in Vietnam," the United Klutznick States should reduce its presence there "to adviser status and reasonable support as quickly as possible," Klutznlck said in a luncheon address to the board of governors of Bnai Brith, at the Biltmore Rotel, New York, on Sunday. (Continued on Page 5) with Pledges totaling $4,229,000, announced Wednesday night at the formal opening event of the Allied Jewish Campaign, at the public meeting held at the Jewish Center, gave the drive's leadership new encouragement that the hoped-for $6,000,000 goal could be attained by the time the drive ends on May 10. The formal opening of the 1967 campaign gained special significance from the address of Philip M. Klutznick, distinguished American Jewish leader, whose evaluation of the Vietnam situation has drawn nationwide attention. In his address to the Detroit campaigners, Klutznick emphasized the merits of voluntary services of the type rendered by those who dedicate them- selves to aid their fellow men and he commended the labors of Allied Jewish Campaign volunteers as a boon to democracy. Alfred L. Deutsch, campaign chairman, who addressed both the dinner that preceded the public meeting and the rally of workers, reported that the total achieved so far was $4,229,000—the second largest ever attained at a formal cam- paign opening session. He said that while last year's drive opened with the sum of $4,412,520, there are so many large donors yet to be reached that no one in the drive has abandoned the hope that the goal of $6,000,000 will be ap- proached. This sense of confidence was shared by other participants in Wed- nesday night's program. - Deutsch said that the sum of 54,229.000 secured so far represented a 10 per cent increase over last year's gifts—the same contributors having given $360,000 more than in 1966. "There is still a big job ahead, and we will not rest until our aim is achieved by the time we complete the campaign on May 10," Deutsch asserted. . Especially encouraging was the report that the women's division, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Arthur Rice, had already enrolled 6,110 donors for a (Continued on Page 7) Matzo Baking Started in Several Itussian Communities, Jewish News Informed in Exclusive Embassy Statement , In a statement issued, this (week to The Jewish News by the Embassy of the USSR in Washington, it is announced that the baking of matzot for Passover has started in a number of Soviet Russian communities. It quotes a statement by Chief Rabbi Isaac Leib Levin of Moscow who said he was "confident that all who have the desire, and,' more so, members of the community. will not be left without matzot." The statement, issued on behalf of the USSR Novosti Press Agency (APN), declares: "Jewish religious communities in Leningrad, Tbilisti, Kiev, Odessa, Vilnius and in many other cities throughout the country have also started to bake matzot." The USSR Embassy's statement was accompanied by photographs which were taken in Moscow by I. Ivanov showing the actual baking of: matzot there, and of Rabbi Levin and the head of the Moscow religious Jewish community, Mikhail Mikhailovich, displaying fre,shly baked matzot. This declaration negates the previous policy which interfered with matzo baking in Russia and made the securing of matzot by Russian Jews virtually impossible. (Continued on Page 6) a ,- Photos submitted by USSR Embassy to , Jewish News: Left, reported.actual commencement of matzo baking in Moscow; right, Rabbi I. L. Levin and Mikhail Mikhailovich.