JDC, Romania Agree on Aid to Jewish Communities

GENEVA (JTA) — An agreement between the Federation of Jewish Commun-
ities in Romania and the Joint Distribution Committee to provide for special needs of
Jewish communities in Romania was announced here by Charles H. Jordan, JDC
executive vice chairman, on his return from a tour of East European countries.
He said thit after he and Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen, president of the federation,
signed the pact, they were received by D. Degaru, chief of the religious affairs depart-
ment of the office of the Romanian prime minister. Jordan expressed to the Romanian
official appreciation for his government's policy of religious freedom.
Jordan told the official that the policy was more than tolerance of the practice
of Judaism. He said the government had given recognition and financial aid to the
established institutions of the Jewish religion and had made it possible for the Jewish
community to survive.
Jordan also said that the JDC was "grateful to the government, to Dr. Rosen and
to all concerned for giving us the opportunity to resume here once again the job

assigned to us by the Jews of America more than 50 years ago — to serve Jews
wherever they may be."
Rabbi Rosen expressed the belief that cooperation between the JDC and the
federation would produce a new surge of life and vitality of Judaism in Romania. He
declared that the new agreement "is another evidence of the waning of the cold war
that has so long kept us from working hand-in-hand with our religious brethren in. other
lands and as the climate grows still warmer, the way will be opened for still further
association between the Jews of Romania and those of the rest of the world."
Moses Levine of the JDC office in Geneva was made JDC representative in deal-
ing with the Romanian federation. He said that with JDC help, the federation had set
up eight canteens in Jewish centers throughout Romania at which 1,300 persons were
provided meals for Passover. In addition; special cash grants and kosher food packages
were provided to 4,000 Jews to enable them to observe Passover in their homes. Details
of the permanent program are being worked out in Bucharest between Dr. Rosen and
Levine.

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Continued Acts of Sabotage
Elicit New Eshkol Warnings

U. S. Sixth Fleet's Role:
Communist Mid East Target

BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
JTA and Jewish News Washington Correspondent

(Copyright, 1967. JTA,

WASHINGTON — An answer by the Soviet Union to United
States policies in Vietnam is seen here in the new Russian warnings
to Israel and demands that the U.S. Fleet leave the Mediterranean.
Reacting to the intensification of American air actions against
North Vietnam, a Communist response is emerging in the Middle
East. As in the recent rise in tensions in Korea, the Communists are
seeking to divert American reserves from Vietnam and keep forces
tied down elsewhere. By insisting that America abandon the Mediter-
ranean, the Kremlin knew very well that the Sixth Fleet would not
Only be kept there but possibly reinforced.

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A recent Soviet note handed to Israel openly supported Syria.
Moscow ignored the long pattern of Syrian terrorism. The note warned
Israel against responding to Syrian provocations, citing the aerial
counter measures by Israel in early April as a threat to the Soviet
Union.
Egypt, which closely adheres to Moscow's strategems, has esca-
lated turmoil in the Middle East. This is especially apparent on the
Arabian peninsula. Deposed King Saud of Saudi Arabia has broadcast
an appeal from Cairo for revolution against the Faisal regime. Nasser-
Inspired mobs rioted against U.S. offices in Yemen. New eruptions
convulsed Aden where pro-Nasser agitators are seeking to take over.
U.S. policy-makers have announced that United States is plying

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Israel with a limited iquantity of defensive arms because of the obvious
threat from the Soviet-armed Syrians and Egyptians. But Vietnam
haS lessened chances for direct American intervention in defense of

Israel.
Official sources maintain that the United States would like to

Continued acts of sagotage which included the blowing up of an old bridge on the
Beersheba-Hebron road south of the Jordanian border and the blowing up of a waterpipe
near Kibutz Hagoshrim at the Syrian border elicited new warnings from Israel's Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol for these terroristic actions and for the shelling of Israeli settlements.
Declaring, "let there be no mistake—we shall reply and our reaction will be immediate
and unhesitant," Eshkol said in an interview with Maariv:
"We cannot permit ourselves the luxury of reacting to every act of mining or other
type of sabotage. But we shall not tolerate the shelling of our settlements. If they are
shelled, there will be reaction. I cannot say what form it will take, but the Syrians will
get the reaction."
Eshkol recalled in that connection Israel's action against Syria, on April 7, when
Israel's Air Force downed six Soviet-made MIG-21 jet fighters flown by Syrians, after
the Syrians had shelled Israeli settlements in the north. He revealed that he had himself
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Arnow Named JTA President; Jewish News
Editor a Vice-President; Safran on Board

NEW YORK (JTA) — Robert H. Arnow, of New York, has been elected president of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, the worldwide news service gathering and distributing news and information con-
cerning the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
Arnow, 42, was born and reared in Boston and became a real estate investor after completing
service in the Far East with the U.S. Navy during World War II. He is a partner in the realty firm of
Swig, Weiler and Arnow. He is vice-president of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York
and chairman of its 1967 campaign in Scarsdale. He is vice-chairman of the
executive committee and member of the board of the Bronx Lebanon Hos-
pital Center and a member of the board of Temple Israel Center, White
Plains. Long deeply concerned over Jewish education, Arnow is vice-
president of the American Association for Jewish Education.

Eleazar Lipsky, president of JTA since 1962, was elected chairman
of the board; Edward Ginsberg of Cleveland, associate general chairman
of the United Jewish Appeal, and Philip Slomovitz, editor and publisher of
the Detroit Jewish News, were elected vice-presidents; Isidor Schifrin of
Cincinnati, secretary; and Abraham Goodman of New York, treasurer.

assist Israel openly if the need arises but point out that Israel may

have to fend for herself. Washington is determined to maintain the
best possible relations with "pro-western" — but anti-Israel — nations
as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon. Another factor is the State
Department's desire to avoid embroilment on the side of Israel when
the crisis is growing in Southeast Asia.
Even though Israel came under extreme attacks from Communist-

inspired guerrilla terrorists, the State Department would not see

Israel in the same light as Secretary of State Dean Rusk views South
Vietnam. American intervention in support of Israeli freedom, it is
noted, would facilitate Communist penetration of Jordan, Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, Iraq and the oil sheikhdoms. The United States has long
sought to avoid involvement with Israel in ways that allow Moscow
to identify with the Arab cause.
Another factor is the reluctance of the United States while esca-
lating the war in Vietnam, to court confrontation with Russia In the
Middle East. Therefore, the State Department tends to minimize the
Communist threat to Israel while emphasizing the dangers from Hanoi.
The United States intends to retain its influence and strength
in the region. Washington carefully follows developments there despite
preoccupation with Vietnam. But the growing war in Vietnam is les-
sening rather than increasing the prospects of American military
intersession in defense of Israel.

Four Days To Go
to Mahe Allied
Drive a Success

Arnow announced that Jerold C. Hoffberger of Baltimore would
serve as chairman of the JTA executive committee which will exercise
authority between meetings of the full board. Also serving on the JTA
Board for 1967 are: Albert B. Adelman, Milwaukee; Lavy Becker, Montreal;
Daniel M. Bernheim, Newark, N.J.; Rabbi Isadore Breslau, Washington;
Lawrence Freiman, Ottawa; Charles Frost, New York; Arthur Gelber,
Robert H. Arnow
Toronto; Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, New York; Isadore Hamlin, New York; Sol Hance, Winnipeg; Label A.
Katz, New Orleans; Irving Levick, Buffalo, N.Y.; Jacob M. Lowy, Montreal; Dr. Emanuel Neumann,
New York; Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, New York; Hyman Safran, Detroit; Joseph D. Shane, Los Angeles;
Isidore Sobeloff, Los Angeles; Dr. Dewey D. Stone, Brockton, Mass.; Victor Carter, Los Angeles;Joseph
W. Feldman, Pittsburgh; Louis J. Fox, Baltimore; Benjamin H. Swig, San Francisco; Ralph Wechsler,
Newark, N.J.; and David H. White, Houston.
As president, Arnow will oversee activities of the JTA news service operating in more than 50
countries and transmitting more than 10,000 words of news each day.
Arnow also will have a leading role in the observance later this year of the 50th anniversary

of the founding of the Jewish Correspondence Bureau, forerunner of the telegraphic agency in the

Hague in 1917.

Only four days of campaigning remain before the dinner meeting 6 p.m. Wednes-
day at the Jewish Center, at which the 1967 Allied Jewish Campaign will be concluded.
During the remaining period, thousands of potential contributors must be reached, and a
large sum must be raised to exceed last year's $5,628,000. It is urgent that those who
have not yet given should do so at once by calling the campaign office, WO 5-3939. (Cam-
paign story on Page 3).

