Arabs Flock to Hadassah for Medical Aid

An Arab couple from the Old City of Jerusalem is shown registering for treatment at the Outpatient
Clinic of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. Hundreds of Arabs from the Old City and the
West Bank are flocking to Hadassah in search Of cures for diseases that had been eliminated from Israel
years ago. The changes wrought by the Six-Day War are making available to them the knowledge and

skill of Hadassah physicians.

Many of the patients had made the rounds of Arab hospitals in the Middle East. seeking cures
between the Mediterranean and the Euphrates. while they were denied access to the largest medical center
in the area, only a few miles from their homes.

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Editorial
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of Jewish Events

Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOLUME LI — No. 22

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Truth Emerges
in Middle East
Controversy

Expose of
the Bias of
Ruling Powers

Commentary
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SNCC Attack on Zionism, Israel
Branded 'Anti-Semitic Tragedy'
Affecting Race Relations in U.S.

Soviet Press Emulates
Streicher With Vilest
Anti-Semitic Cartoons

The rulers of Soviet Russia are accused of launching
a -",cold war" against the 3,000,000 Jews of the USSR
after Israel's military victory over the Communist-backed
Arab states, in a 48-page report published by the Confer-
ence on the Status of Soviet Jews. a nonsectarian group
sponsored by Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas.
the Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr., Episcopal Bishop James
A. Pike, Norman Thomas and other religious and intellec-
tual leaders.
The report, entitled "Israel and the Jews in the
Soviet Mirror." was edited by Moshe Decter, a Soviet
affairs specialist It contains reproductions of 36 recently-
published cartoons from leading Soviet newspapers and
magazines described as "calculated to revive, bolster and
perpetuate anti-Semitic prejudice in a country where it is
pervasive, endemic and persistent."

In an open letter accompanying the report, Bishop
Pike and Thomas declare that "Soviet policy in the
Middle East, culminating in its diplomatic break with
Israel, has been accompanied by an enormous anti-Semitic
propaganda effort at _home and abroad whose virulence
has rarely been equaled in recent Soviet history."
The letter makes the further charge that the anti-

Semitic campaign is "the product of a policy fixed at the
highest levels, as reflected in the speeches of Premier
Kosygin and Communist Party Secretary Brezhnev and
in the output of the entire Soviet propaganda apparatus."
Soviet policy threatens the Jews of the USSR with
"extinction by attrition." the two spokesmen for the Con-
ference on the Status of Soviet Jews charge in their letter.
"For many years the tenuous situation of Soviet Jewry
has caused deep concern," Bishop Pike and Thomas
declare, adding:

"Now that concern has become alarm as a result of
the impact of Soviet policy in the Middle East crisis.
(Continued on Page 5)

NEW YORK—National Jewish organizations Tuesday sharply criticized the Student Non-
violent Coordinating Committee, which has issued a .newsletter attacking - Zionism and accusing
Israel of committing atrocities against Arabs. Among those deploring the SNCC attitude on this
issue, pointing out that "SNICK" now follows the lines laid down by American racist organiza-
tions like the National Renaissance Party and the Ku Klux Klan, and calling the attack a divisive
disservice to the civil rights movement in this country, were Morris B. Abram, president of the
American Jewish Committee; Dore Schary. national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith, and Will Maslow, executive director of the American Jewish Congress.
The SNCC bi-monthly letter, issued at Atlanta, accused Zionists of massacring Arabs, car-
ried a cartoon depicting Israel's - defense minister. Gen. Moshe Dayan, as wearing a uniform em-
bellished with the dollar sign: accused Israel of segregating Arabs living in Israel: charged that
Oriental Jews in Israel are treated as second class citi7ens because of their color: said that the
United States has constantly given military and financial aid to the "illegal" state of Israel; and
declared the Rothschild Family had been involved in Britain's original "conspiracy" to create Israel.
Ralph Featherstone. SNCC program director, told newsmen at his headquarters in Atlanta
that the SNCC attack against Zionism and Israel is not anti-Semitic but is directed against ".Jewish
Among those "op-
oppression."
pressors." he said, were "those
Tiska b'Av Observed in 'Old City':
Jew shops in the ghettos. -
Rabbinate Decrees Its Continuity
Abram declared in his retort
to SNCC:
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tisha WAN . . which commemorates the
"Anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism
destruction of the first and second Temples. was observed on Tuesday
Whether it comes from the Ku
as a traditional day of mourning and fasting despite the fact that the
Old City has been .returned to Jewish control. The Israeli Chief
Klux Klan or from extremist
Rabbinate ruled for continuation of traditional observances.
Negro groups. SNICK included. We
The Old City is the site of the two Temples where the Western
must remember, however, that
Wall remains as a remnant of the Second Temple.
SNICK
is no more representative
The Rabbinate said that while the Temple grounds were back in'
of American Negroes or the civil
Jewish hands. the Temple still has not been rebuilt and millions of
rights movement than the Ku Klux
Jews throughout the world live under conditions of oppression. The
Klan is of white America.
observance of the Ninth of Av was in earlier periods a day of pil-
grimage to the Western Wall where Jews recited front the Book of
"It is tragic that SNICK has
Lamentations. This year. hundreds of thousands of Jews made the
now adopted the oldest and most
pilgrimage to Old Jerusalem.
pernicious form of prejudice,
Reading from the Book of Lamentations of Tisha bAv services
namely anti-Semitism. Anti-Semi-
were broadcast live from the Western Wall for the first time in
tism has the historic quality of
history. There was no unified service on the occasion, but each
community conducted prayers according to individual manner and
destroying whoever or whatever
custom.
(Continued on Page 61 7,
Israeli Developments on Pages 8. 9. 10, 11

Reports ,,n

`Why HaveYou Forgotten Usr -Tragic Story of Russian Jews

First Installment of 'Between Hammer and Sickle'

Editor's Note: With this installment, The my mother. Shortly after they were mar-
Jetirfsh News commences the serialization of ried, and while my mother was pregnant
the revealing book, "Between Hammer and with me, my father went into hiding in
Sickle," by Ben Ami, published by the the city suburbs, having learned that he
Jewish Publication Society of America. This was wanted by the G.P.U. (Soviet Secret
a "merchant
volume exposes the entire tragedy of the Police) on a charge of being
Jews in the Soviet Union. The book is a and Zionist." At the time of my birth our
best seller in Israel where it • has been home and our town were in the grip of
severe hunger and cold. Life was precarious.
awarded the Ussishkin Prize for Literature
Occasionally, my father would secretly
in 1966-67.
bring home some potatoes and other meager
* *
foodstuffs which he had somehow gathered
By BEN AMI
in the suburbs or villages.
I am a citizen of Israel. But I am, in a
When I was 3 years old, my father de-
sense, a Soviet Jew as well, For I drew
cided to take his life in his hands and
my first breath in Russia where I was
attempt
to escape from the Soviet Union.
born on a winter night in the early nineteen-
He had been a member of the Zionist
twenties. There I learned to walk and to
since youth, and he now de-
movement
utter my first word "mamma"—in Russian.
cided to save himself and his family at
My father was a native of a small town
and
to start a new life in Pales-
all costs,
in western Russia. He lived for a long
tine. One night 1!e crossed the Soviet
time in Vilna and dealt in timber. At the
border illegally iiito Latvia and from
end of the First World War, he wandered

away, together with other groups of refu-
gees, and arrived in central Russia during
the Bolshevik revolution. There he met

there he made his way to Palestine. My
mother, who earlier had gone through a
mock divorce, secured a permit to emi-

grate to Palestine with her little chil-
dren. In 1924 we boarded the Soviet
ship Lenin at Odessa. and arrived at Jaffa
a few days later. Father was waiting for
us there.
My childhood and adolescent years were

and varied angles. My deepest experiences,
and

those that are uppermost in my memory,
were .Jewish experiences. I shall never for-
get them as long as I live. The situation
of the .Jews in the Soviet Union concerns
me deeply. I read, listen to, and study all
spent in tiny Tel Aviv. which was then that is available on the subject; indeed, I
being built on the sand dunes by the sea. regard myself as a partner sharing the
I grew up as a sabra. At 15 I was already fate of the .Jews who live then.. For there
caught up in the first of the series of wars my ancestors are buried: there I was born;
that my generation was to live through. I there my cradle stood: there my cousins
was enrolled in the liaganah, was taught live to this day. And there, among the
the use of firearms, then sent to protect Jews. I left behind a portion of my life
and my heart.
Jewish settlements against Arab attacks.
"Why have you forgotten us?"
At the beginning of the war against Ger-
When I returned from the Soviet Union,
many, I enrolled in the Jewish Brigade
family and friends abOut the
of the British Army and served in Egypt. I told my
conditions
of the Jews there. Invariably,
the western desert, and in Italy. At the end
wa,; asked the same question..On whose
of the war, we established contact with
the 'Jews who had survived the extermina- behalf do you speak? Who authorized you
to describe their conditions and say "they'
tion camps.
want. "they" feel? Is it true that you met
During the past few years: I have had
the synagogues and that
the opporttmity to make a number of only old .Jews in
them you gathered what was
lengthy visits to the Soviet Union. I have it was from
(Continued
on Page 40)
any
seen Soviet Russia and its life from many-