Interfaith Coalition Pledges $10,000,000 to Aid Negroes, in 5 Urban Centers, Including Detroit; Herschel a Leader 6—Friday, March 22, 1968 NEW YORK — A pledge of $10,- Rev. Cleage said "If this fails, 000,000 to be used in five urban then Roman Catholics, Jews and centers, including Detroit, to help Protestants might as well close Negroes achieve full equality by shop. The problem of the black is powerlessness. We their own efforts, was made by are facing the most distressing religious leaders last week. situation in the history of our Among the leaders announcing country and if the black commun- the interfaith coalition were Rabbi ity is ignored by the church and Abraham Heschel of the Jewish the synagogue, then the whole pro- Theological Seminary of America; gram will turn out to be a farce. the Rev. Albert Cleage Jr., pastor It must work, or else." of the Central Congregational Rev. Cleage said his sole goal is Church in Detroit and president "power for the black community" of the Federation for Self-Deter- and that this constituted no mination; and Rabbi Marc Tanen- "threat." baum of the American Jewish Rabbi Heschel said: "It is clear Committee. Catholic participation that we have failed to help the also has been pledged. black community develop a sense The initiative for the new group of power. We must stop thinking was taken by Rev. John E. Hines, of the Negro community as recipi- presiding bishop of the Protestant ents, but as participants." Rabbi Episcopal Church. It includes par- Heschel is a vice chairman of the ticipation by the National Confer- program. Rev. Cleage is a co- ence of Catholic Bishops, the Na- chairman. tional Council of Churches, the Rabbi Tanenbaum said that major Protestant denominations, the Council of Jewish Federa- and major Negro church groups tions and Welfare Funds was rep- which include many black militant resented in the organizing stages leaders. of Operation Connection and that Known as Operation Connec- invitations were being extended tion, the coalition will use funds to other Jewish religious and now existing or to be raised community organizations to join through church and synagogue the group. A meeting was held groups. Monday in the offices here of BONN (JTA)—Foreign Minister Willy Brandt Tuesday publicly at- tacked the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party and declared that neo-Nazism is treason against the German people. the National Community Rela- tions Advisory Council to dis- cuss the urban crisis. It was ex- pected that the Operation Con- nection program would be con- sidered at the meeting. Rabbi Tanenbaum was asked by a reporter about the ties between black nationalism and anti-Semi- tism among Negroes. He replied that the prolem existed but that it should not be used "as a pretext for joining the general white back- lash against the just claims of the poor and deprived." He added that "a Jewish pres- ence in the ghettoes, side by side with the Christian presence that seeks seriously to meet the basic human needs for dignity through adequate jobs, decent housing and access to adequate education, are the most effective answer to the problem of anti-Semitism in the ghettoes." Rev. Cleage commented that "of course there is anti-Semitism in the ghettoes but it is not as signi- ficant as some people try to make it out to be. The black man hates his exploiter whatever his religion or color. If you put an end to the gouging of the Negro in the ghetto, anti-Semitism will practically not be worth talking about." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Neo-Nazism Treason,Says Brandt of NPD Federal Republic were urged Tues- day to support the National Demo- cratic Party. Dr. Limus Kather, a refugee leader and former mem- ber of the Bundestag, told a rally of 1,200 to vote for the NPD be- Brandt, who is leader of the So- cause it is "the only party defend- cial Democratic Party, said "we ing the rights of the homeland." shall not wait long before asking One reason the future looks bad the high court to investigate whether the NPD is unconstitution- to some people is that they know al." The government has so far re- nothing about the past. frained from making such a re- quest to the constitutional high IF YOU TURN THE court on the grounds there is in- sufficient evidence against the NPD to make the charge stick, MIME DOWN YOU wolfs? MID A !:BIER WINE THAN Should the court turn it down, the government would be embar- rassed and the right-wing party's stature would be enhanced, gov- ernment spokesmen have said. 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Deroit Jewry has pledged itself to a two- fold task * supporting education, health and welfare, com- munity relations services in Detroit and the nation. * caring for increased crucial human needs in Is- rael and 30 countries overseas. through the 1968 ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND Your Pledge Supports These Detroit Agencies Fresh Air Society Jewish Community Center Jewish Home for Aged Hebrew Free Loan Association Jewish Community Council Jewish Vocational Service—Community Workshop House of Shelter Jewish Family and Children's Service Midrasha Resettlement Service Sinai Hospital and its Shiffman Clinic Tamarack Hills Authority Hayim Greenberg Hebrew Yiddish School United Hebrew Schools and affiliated schools: Combined Jewish Schools of Sholem Aleichem and Arbeiter Ring Yeshivath Beth Yehudah Afternoon School Alfred L Deutsch • t•••.- — Maxwell Jospey, Co-Chaim(