Historic Sense of Anti-Semitism Nonexistent in Black Community, Dr. King Tells Rabbis; Disavows Militants' Stand Against Israel (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) KIAMESHA LAKE—Dr. Martin Luther King, the Negro civil rights leader, declared here Tues- day night to a rabbinical audience that "there is absolutely no anti- Semitism in the black community in the historic sense of anti- Semit- ism." Speaking at the 68th annual con- vention of the Rabbinical Assem- bly, the association of Conserva- tive rabbis, Dr. King said that such anti-Semitism as does exist among Negroes "is almost com- pletely an urban ghetto pheno- menon and virtually non-existent in the South. He added that it emerges in the northern ghettoes because the Negro "confronts the Jew in two dissimilar roles" — one of them that of the Negro's "most con- sistent and trusted ally in the Negro's struggle for justice in the civil rights movement" and also the Jew as landlord and as "owner of the store around the corner where the ghetto dweller pays more for less." He said that "the irra- tional statements" made by some Negro spokesmen "were the result of these confrontations. I think the only answer for this is for people to condemn injustice wherever it exists." About 1,500 rabbis and guests at the convention greeted Dr. King, when he approached the podium, with an ovation, singing the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" in Hebrew. Responding to a question about anti-Israel and pro-Arab stands of some of the more militant young black leaders, he said that this did not represent "the position of the vast majority of Negroes. I think it is necessary to see that what is basic and needed in the Middle East is peace. Peace for Israel is one thing and peace for the Arabs' side of that war is another thing. Peace for Israel," he continued, "means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity." He called Israel "one of the great outposts of democracy in the IMPERIAL APPAREL A Big Selection of Notionally Advertised TOP QUALITY CLOTHING WITH A 'YIDDISHE TOM' •• SID WEINER Has Prices to Suit You • PANDORA • BILLY THE • FARAH • LEVIS • HIS KID • ITALIAN IMPORTS • • • Ladies' Men's Children's Bel-Aire Shopping Center 10 Mile at Orchard Lake Rd. Farmington Phone 477-7990; 477-7991 Security Charge Michigan Bankard Sunday 11 to 5 p.m. Daily 9 to 9 Sunday 11 to 5 p.m. IMPERIAL APPAREL • The MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS OF PRINTMAKERS will hold its Friday, March 29, 1968-33 fifth biennial exhibition at London Arts Gallery April 1-13. There will be an informal opening Monday from 6 to 9 p.m. Marilyn Levin Schecter won the London Arts Award for her etching, "City Folk." world" and said it was "a marvel- example of what can be done how desert land can be trans- formed into an oasis of brother- hood and democracy. On the other hand," he asserted, "we must see that peace for the Arabs means, in a real sense, security on another level. Peace for them means a kind of economic security they so desperately need." He urged a "Marshall Plan" for the Middle- East which would "lift those who are at the bottom of the economic level and bring them into the main- stream of economic security." The Rabbinical Assembly took steps Monday to meet "a desperate need in Israel today for an alter- native religious expression" to Orthodox Judaism. native religious expression. At the present time, the average Israeli who is unhappy with the establish- ed Orthodox tradition and who cannot satisfy his spiritual needs with that type of rigid fundamen- For the Ultimate in talism is left with inadequately Fine Photography supported and few means of ex- pressing his religious feelings." There Can Be No The program is supported in Compromise With Detail Israel by the assembly's Klal Yisrael fund, to which only rabbis THE NEWEST It is the extra "Little contribute. IN WEDDING • BAR MITZVAH Things" we give which CONFIRMATION AND PARTY The assembly announced that are so much appreciated. it was planning a comprehensive revision of the synagogue liturgy Accessories which will focus attention on the three major Jewish events of the past 2,000 years — the Hitler ** ENTERTAINMENT 40(-)C Holocaust, the rebirth of Israel and the reunification of Jerusa- * SEYMOUR SCHWARTZ Rabbi Ralph Simon of Chicago, lem. The status of the revision AGENCY vice president Of the assembly, was reported by Rabbi Jules * Berkley, Michigan studio of photography declared that he would leave for Harlow, assembly director of * Kenny Milton ''T * Mary Michaels Israel in a few weeks to consult publications. 19492 Livernois Avenue )1t. * Field Caricature Artists with lay and rabbinic leaders of 4c Declaring that the liturgy "must • * Organ Grinder Man dir the Israeli Conservative and Re- UN 2-0660 Balloon, Comedy Acts form institutions on measures to also express our concern for peace • * * in our time" and that "all these Jock Barnes & Dancers -UN 2-0200 "FL further the program. * Dino Valle factors must be integral to the Rabbi Myron Fenster of Roslyn, fabric of each service," Rabbi * Harry Jarkey N.Y., chairman of the assembly's Harlow stressed that the basic * Bob Bennett Orchestra Israel committee, who has just elements of the liturgy would be * *Strollers, Singers, etc. * returned from conferences in Is- retained in new prayerbooks for 356-8525 **** Classified Ads Get Quick Results rael, reported that 32 Conserva- the Sabbath, the High Holy Days tive rabbis are now serving there, and the festivals. He reported that in congregations and as faculty a new daily prayerbook, incorpor- BETTER THAN EVER! members in universities and other ating these elements, had already educational institutions, as well as been published. He told his col- in youth villages and as student leagues that "God is not dead; he advisers on campuses. has merely fallen asleep at some Rabbi Simon said that the Rab- of our services." binical Assembly was also pre- Several rabbinical delegates re- pared to bring promising young ported experimental efforts to MARTY KOSINS Israelis to the United States to make synagogue services more study for the rabbinate at the Jew- relevant to the times, including Office: 626-9680 Res.: 626-9662 ish Theological Seminary of Amer- substitution of scenes from con- ica for service in Israel. temporary plays for sermons, and He said there was a desparate use of musical instruments — such need in Israel today for an alter- as the recorder and cello. 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One problem is to provide them with proper work; the other is to pre- pare proper housing for them As far as aliya from the United States is concerned, the question of housing is no less important than the question of work. . . . American Jews cannot be expected to settle in Israel in any great number without specific jobs in the areas of their professional and technical competence. . . . Neither will they accept the sort of housing which Israel has had for years for its mass immigration from other countries. . . . Few American-Jewish families will consider living in cramped quarters where parents and children sleep in the same room. . . . The head of the family may willingly work for less than he makes in the United States . . . But generally, he is not prepared to give up the career for which he is trained nor expose members of his family to housing facilities vastly inferior to those they enjoy in the United States. . . . This is the problem that must be solved by the Jewish Agency and the Israeli Government working together. * AN AMERICAN VIEW: Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency, following her return from the recent meetings in Jerusalem of the executives of the Jewish Agency and the World Consultative meeting of the Zionist leaders, emphasized that there is no disagreement among Zionist leadership throughout the world of Israel's need for aliya. .. She pointed to the fact that never in her recollection has the sentiment in this country been more favorable to aliya. . She says it is much easier to talk aliya to American Jewish organiaztions and to Jewish students on college campuses. . . . There is no doubt, she says, that the attitude toward aliya was very improved since the Six-Day War. . . . It has certainly improved since the confer- ence in New York called by the Jewish Agency last September where almost 2i0 national Jewish organizations participated. . . . Some in Israel have advanced the thesis that only a Zionist leadership which is itself aliya-bound can induce others to follow suit. . . Mrs. Halprin says this premise is wrong• that it is too restricting. . . Aliya of Zionist leader- ship, she says, is significant, but not the whole answer. . . • She believes that aliya will follow from a many faceted program. . . . That education, the creation of a greater Jewish receptivity among our youth, is an im- portant ingredient in any successful aliya program that may develop over the years to come. . . . She believes that a program of close co- operation between the government and the Jewish Agncy in meeting the specific problercis* of Western allya is the only .answer, particularly in the field of absorption. Famous Hallmark Cards 13645 W. 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