10—Friday, December 1, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS,
Flint News
Community
Calendar
Two Leaders
Dec. 5—Temple Beth El Sister
hood Board Meeting. 12:30 p.m
Dec. 5—Bnai Brith Women's Thea
ter Party at Fisher Theater. De
troit
Dec. 6—Beth Israel Sisterhood:
Meeting. 12:30 p.m.
Dec. 7—.IWVA Board Meeting.!
8:30 p.m., home of Mrs. Irwin
Shapiro
Dec. 7 —Cong. Beth Israel board
meeting. 8:30 p.m.
The .Iewish War Veterans Auxil-
iary of Flint made visits last
month to Caro Hospital and Sagi-
naw Veterans Hospital. serving a
total of 244 patients. Hanuka gifts
have been sent to .Jewish soldiers
from the Flint area. The next
board meeting will he held 8:30
p.m. Thursday at the home of
Mrs. Irwin Shapiro. Reservations
for the New Year's Eve Dance.
to be held 9 p.m. at Beth Israel
Synagogue. may be made with the
general chairman, Mrs. Irving
Wiseman. Mrs. Martin Cohen was
elected department historian.
Members of the newly formed
Flint Chanter. Bnai Brith. will pro-
vide baby-sitting services and
transportation for the new March
of Dimes Maternity Center at
Berston Field House. The National
Foundation will join the Flint
Health Department. Community
Planned Parenthood Association
and Bnai Brith Women in offering
free prenatal and postnatal care
to the indigent. regardless of mari-
tal status. Flint chapter has 12,000
leaflets and window poster in the
Berston area announcing the open-
ing of the center.
Pelav-in Elected
Region Officer at
CJFWF Meeting
B. Morris Pelavin of Flint was
elected vice chairman of the
East-Central Region, Council of
Jewish Federations and Walfare
Funds. He was elected at the
CJFWF general assembly in
Cleveland, where Mrs. Noah
Miller of Akron (above) was
named chairman of the region.
Dr. Ira B. Marder, who won
the Flint Jewish Community
Council's 1967 Young Leadership
Award, is shown with Louis J.
Fox, president of the Council
of Jewish Federations and Wel-
fare Funds, at the council's 36th
general assembly in Cleveland.
S25,000 Reward
Posted in Bombing
of Rabbi's Home
JACKSON. Miss. (JTA)—Gov-
ernor Paul B. Johnson of Missis-
sippi and Governor-elect John Bell
Williams denounced the night
bombing last week which virtually
wrecked the home of Rabbi Perry
E. Nussbaum of Temple Beth
Israel of Jackson and nearly cost
the rabbi his life. Mayor Allen ,
Thompson announced that the city
had increased its reward for the
arrest and conviction of the bom-
bers from $5,000 to $25,000.
The explosion, which shattered
Rabbi Nussbaum's home shortly
after 11 p.m., was the second act
of violence in recent months
I against the rabbi who has been
active in the civil rights move-
' ment. Last Sept. 18, hit-and-run
bombers blasted Temple Beth
Israel.
Jewish organizations
quickly demanded federal protec-
tion for the rabbi and for others
whose lives and property were
threatened by racist violence. The
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations in New York. congre-
gational organization of Reform
Judaism, sent a telegram to fed
eral officials asking them to take
firm action to end the "reign of
violence, terror and intimidation"
in Mississippi.
American
Adolph Held, president of the
Jewish Labor Committee, tele-
graphed U.S. Attorney General
Ramsay Clark expressing "shock"
that after the bombing of Rabbi
Nussbaum's synagogue, "no ade-
quate protection" was given to
the rabbi, who "has been made the
target of violent terrorism in vio-
lation of his own civil rights."
Held urged "immediate federal in-
tervention and protection in this
case."
Nathan Perlmutter, national af-
fairs director of the committee,
Among the Flint public high called for "round-the-clock inves-
school students receiving all As tigations by local and federal au-
during the first marking period thorities." He cited the "string
are: Debra Arenson, daughter of of terror bombings of St. Paul's
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Arenson; Church Parsonage in Laurel, Miss.,
Mitchell Sorscher, son of Dr. and and the Jackson residencies of
Mrs. Sam Sorscher: and Bruce Methodist lay leader R. B. Kochit-
Osher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed- zky and of Rabbi Nussbaum, all
ward Oster.
within a week."
Youth on the Move
Benjamin Winsen, 68
Benjamin Winsen, owner of a
Flint jewelry repair shop who died
Nov. 9. leaves his wife. Frances;
two sons. Glenn E. and Daniel R.;
a daughter, Mrs. Wayne S. Scha-
fer: six sisters, three brothers and
four grandchildren.
The Jewish News regrets the
omission of Mrs. Winsen's name in
the list of survivors last week.
Classified Ads Get Quick Results
Rabbi Nussbaum, who is search-
ing for new living quarters, hit
out against the Ku Klux Klan and
the segregationist "Americans for
the Preservation of the White
Race." He said that while he had
no proof that either of these or-
ganizations were implicated in the
bombings, they had helped create
the kind of "climate" that per-
mitted "this present reign of ter-
ror," Gov. Johnson urged all Mis-
sissippians to cooperate with law
enforcement officials in "appre-
hending these depraved bombers "
AJCornmittee's `Many Faces of Anti-Semitism'
Explores Roots of Irrational Ma ss Hostility
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ameri-
can Jewish Committee is calling on
social scientists to examine the
roots of mass psychopathology as
the next frontier in which to pur-
sue the fight against anti-Semitism
This new approach to the un-
derstanding of anti-Jewish hostil-
ity is urged in a booklet, "The
Many Faces of Anti-Semitism," to
be published Saturday and made
public here at the American Jew-
ish Committee's annual national
executive board—Western regional
conference meeting, at the Fair-
mont Hotel. The booklet also sug-
gests that the study of anti-
Semitism, which has been called
the world's "classic prejudice,"
can provide insights useful in
fighting bigotry against other
groups, such as Negroes.
The 40-page illustrated booklet.
which summarizes the theological.
economic, sociological, political
and psychological sources of anti-
Semitism. points out after exam-
ining the behavior of demagogues
like Hitler that "even these in-
sights into the psychology of viru-
lent prejudice do not supply all
the answers concerning the path-
ology of anti-Semitism."
The authors of the booklet. Rose
Feitelson and George Salomon of
the AJC's publications service, add
that people in a group often have
been known to condone and join
actions that they would never ap-
prove as individuals. In Nazi Ger-
many, for example. "seemingly re-
sponsible men and women were
transformed into a frenzied rab-
ble. ready to perpetrate, or ac-
quiesce in. the most staggering
atrocities."
How was it possible? the au-
thors ask, then indicate that so-
cial scientists, who earlier had
investigated the roots of indi-
vidual prejudice, are just be-
ginning to look into the roots
of irrational mass hostility.
"Mass injustice and violence are
not a German monopoly," they
add, pointing to the record of how
Americans have acted in conflicts
with the American Indians. in the
mistreatment of 100,000 people of
Japanese ancestry on the West
Coast during World War II, and
on countless occasions as mem-
bers of "howling lynch mobs."
Systematic inquiry along these
lines has been begun at the Center
for Research in Collective Path-
ology.at the University of Sussex.
in England, under the direction
of Prof. Norman Cohn. A historian
and behavioral scientist. Dr. Cohn
is the author of "Warrant for
Genocide," a study of the myth of
"Jewish world conspiracy."
The authors of "The Many Faces
of Anti-Semitism" acknowledge
that overt hostility against Jews,
in the U.S. and various other coun-
tries, appears to be at a low ebb
today—a view also expressed in a
preface by Nathan Glazer, profes-
sor of sociology at the University
of California at Berkeley.
Even so, they warn, "no one
knows what the future may hold
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