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East Europe Gov'ts . Fail to Browbeat Intellectuals Into Attacking Israel
• BOSTON (JTA) — The East of party policy. On the contrary. "by the fact that even Radio War-
European countries "and that
Among U.S. Blind European
Communist regimes ap- Bourne reported, there have been saw felt constrained to quote a
it backfired."
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Dur-
ing the past 12 years, there have
been 134 Bnai Mitzva and 20 Bnot
Mitzva among blind children at-
tending Orthodox, Conservative
and Reform religious schools in
the United States, according to a
report by Dr. Jacob Freid, execu-
tive director of the Jewish Braille
Institute of America.
Dr. Freid said this had come
about as a result of a campaign
by the institute to enable the blind
to join seeing children in regular
classes, in contrast to the general
practice, up until around 1950, of
segregating blind children in spe-
cialized training classrooms. Dr.
Freid presented this information
in a report to the annual conven-
tion here of the National Federa-
tion of the Blind.
He said Los Angeles was one of
several cities which were "pilot
areas" where a breakthrough has
been made in educating the blind
during the past decade, both in
public schools and in Jewish reli-
gious schools. The religious schools
receive Braille textbooks without
charge from the institute, he said.
pear generally to have failed to
win support from their intellec-
tuals for their virulent official
campaigns of hostility against Is-
rael stemming from Israel's mas-
sive victory in the June war, ac-
cording to a Christian Science
Monitor report Wednesday.
Eric Bourne, writing from a
Vienna listening post, said that the
official campaigns against Israel
and in support of the defeated
Arabs ha • "overtones of anti-
Semitism." Breaches of the cease-
fire have been regularly exploited
for new and violently biased at-
tacks on Israel and also the Uni-
ted States.
In Poland, pro-Arab "protest"
meetings have been organized in
factories but none have been tried
in the universities or similar in-
stitutions , a standard channel for
pushing demonstrations in support
reports of censorship which pre-
vented publication in Poland of
intellectual viewpoints sympathetic
to Israel.
In Czechoslovakia, leading
cultural weeklies which have
had a leading role in promoting
the "liberalization" of arts and
opinions "have simply main-
tained a meaningful silence on
Middle East issues and thus
conveyed dissent from official
policy as eloquently as an overt
effort to present a balanced
picture or defend Israel," Bourne
reported.
The Monitor correspondent cited
charges by Polish media and offi-
cials of "massacres of Arabs in the
occupied Gaza Strip and a Warsaw
broadcast which dealt with "the
barbaric persecution" of Arabs
in the occupied territory. That all
this had little impact was indicated
R abbi"s Murder Confirmed
by Conference on Soviet Jewry
NEW YORK (JTA) — The denial of anti-Semitism in the
American Jewish Conference on Soviet Union, during his United
Education
Soviet Jewry reported independent Nations press conference here
Knowledge does not comprise verification of testimony of return- last month, were related to a
all which is contained in the large ing tourists that the rabbi of campaign of anti - Israel, anti •
term of education..The feelings are Sochum, an ancient Jewish com- Zionist and anti-Jewish vilifica-
to be disciplined; the passions are munity in the Soviet Georgian re- tion in the controlled Soviet
to be restrained; true and worthy public, was murdered recently press. He said the campaign was
motives are to be inspired; a pro- while going home from his syna- unleashed at the time of the
found religious feeling is to be in- gogue. Arab massing of troops on
stilled, and pure morality incul-
Rabbi Israel Miller, president of Israel's borders in May and in-
cated under all circumstances. All the conference, also cited other tensified during and after the
this is comprised in education.
authenticated reports of atrocities, six-day June war.
—Daniel Webster (1782-1852) terror and vilification against
The July 2 issue of Izvestia. the
Soviet Jews related to the May - official government newspaper, con-
June crisis and war in the Middle tained an article repeating the
equation of Nazism and Zionism
East.
Rabbi Miller said that Rabbi widely used in Soviet propaganda.
Michel Mozgorshvil of Sochum was In alleged frontline reporting of
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forced into a car and abducted and the June war, Izvestia and other
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that his mutilated corpse was found Soviet newspapers used such terms
hanging from a tree in the Chris- as "cannabalistic" to describe the
tian cemetery in Sochum the next behavior of the Israeli troops.
day. Rabbi Miller said that no ar- "Soviet authorities have stimu-
rests have been made in the lated and incited a virulent anti-
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murder.
Semitic atmosphere in conjunction
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He said assaults on Jews have with their vicious anti-Israel poll-
been reliably reported from Tash- cies and propaganda," Rabbi Mil-1
kent, capital of Uzbekistan. where ler declared. He added that the
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the lie to Premier Kosygin's the hooligans who are ever ready
to make pogroms."
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko joined the campaign with
a speech in Russia on the United
Nations handling of the Mideast
crisis, according to a report in
Izvestia. lie said that "Israel would
have liked to convert our honor-
able assembly into a small-town
bazaar." a phrase in Russian par-
lance equivalent to accusing the
Israelis of trying to make the
assembly into an East Side market
in New York City.
ELIZABETH. N.J. (JTA)—Rabbi
Pinchas Teitz. an Orthodox leader,
said he had been informed that
the Soviet Lithuanian government
had announced it will convert the
ghetto cemetery in Kaunas into an
industrial area.
The Jewish community of Kau-
nas was given until Sept. 15 to
transfer the remains from the
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Jews who perished in Kaunas dur-
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ing the Nazi occupation were
buried in the ghetto cemetery.
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There are less than a thousand
Jews remaining in Kaunas today.
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(In Warsaw, a pro-Communist
listener's letter protesting the in-
official Polish association of Polish Jews con-
justice
attitude"
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demned Israel July 14, apparently
In both Poland and Czechoslo- in keeping with the Polish gov-
vakia, there have been `distaste ernment's deminciation. The pre-
ful demonstrations" by leading sidium of the main administration
, spokesmen and in the press of of the Social Cultural Society of
anti-Semitism while in Hungary Jews in Poland issued its state-
the party leaders have gone to ment almost a month after Polish
some trouble to deny that the of- Jews were warned against becom-
ficial policy amounts to "pillory- ing "fifth columnists." )
ing" the Jews.
The correspondent pointed out
that "the very strong emphasis
DANNY
on the protests themselves be-
trays that this was precisely the
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impression the violence of of-
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ficial anti-Semitism conveyed to
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the man in the street" and to
the intellectuals in the East
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