RFK Urges LBJ
Take a Stronger
Stand on Jewry
PORTLAND ,Ore. (JTA)—The
administration must take a stronger
position at once to alleviate the
plight of Jews in Communist Po-
land, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy,
New York Democrat seeking the
Presidential nomiation, said here
Monday. Kennedy said he deemed
the administration's response to
the Polish government's anti-
Semitism "to be inadequate in
view of the worsening dilemma of
the Jews in that country."
He urged that "the Polish gov-
ernment honor its statement that
Jews would be -allowed to leave
Poland and immediately issue exit
visas to all those who want to go."
He advocated "emergency refugee
legislation in the Congress in Wash-
ington to allow Jews, many of
whom are concentration camp sur-
vivors, to find refuge.in the U.S.
He added that "this is more than
just an anti-Semitic campaign. It
is an attack on freedom itself.
Anti-Semitism is being used in an
attempt to blame Jews for emerg-
ing new demands for liberty that
are heard from the Polish people
and to confuse the issue."
In New York, the American
League for Russian Jews said it
had called on 18 American im-
porters who handle the bulk of
the Polish goods sold in this
country to use their good offices
with Poland to secure issuance
of passports to 2,000 Polish-Jew-
ish families who have qualified
for entry into the United States.
Morris Brafman, its chairman,
said that entry visas for these fam-
ilies were available at the U.S.
embassy in Warsaw but would ex-
pire unless exercised by June 30.
The League's letter to the im-
porters noted that Poland was the
only member of the East European
bloc to enjoy "most favored na-
tion" trading status here. It said
that it had no wish to disturb this
relationship but "we do believe
that the conferral by this nation of
an economic privilege imposes on
the recipient certain basic moral
obligations, not the least of which
is the civilized treatment of its
ethnic minorities."
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Mississippi Synagogue Bombed; FBI Launches Investigation
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
MERIDIAN, Miss.—The Federal
Bureau of Investigation and local
police authorities here were in-
vestigating the night bombing
Tuesday of Temple Beth Israel, a
Reform synagogue, which caused
severe damage to the religious
school.
The nearby sanctuary a n d as-
sembly hall of the building com-
plex, put up three years ago at a
cost of $400,000, escaped serious
damage. The FBI has roped off
the area and is searching for
clues.
The FBI theorized that several
sticks of dynamite were fused into
a home made bomb which blew out
one wall of the synagogue. The
building was empty at the time of
the bombing, put at about 12:30
a.m. Windows in adjoining homes
were blown out, and a little girl
was cut by flying glass.
A member of the congregation,
who prefers to remain anonymous,
has posted a $10,000 reward for in-
formation leading to the arrest
and conviction of the person re-
sponsible for the explosion.
Meridian, a city of 54,000
which is about 90 miles east of
Jackson, the capital, has been
the scene of five night rider in-
cidents since Jan. 11.
Since that date, five Negro
churches have been damaged by
bombings. A Committee of Consci-
ence was formed about a month
ago to deal with the problem, and
last Sunday offerings were taken
in local churches to help restore
the Negro churches. Rabbi ,Milton
I. Schlager, of Beth Israel, who
formerly was religious leader of
a Reform synagogue in Melrose,
Mass., is a member of the commit-
tee. At services last Friday night,
a collection was taken up in Tem-
ple Beth Israel on behalf of the
Negroes. Rabbi Schlager, in a
statement to the press, said: "This
hasn't happened to me. It hap-
pened to the people of Meridian.
It is not a Jewish matter, it's not
my synagogue, it's one of the syna-
gogues of Meridian."
The rabbi, who lives about a 10
minutes drive from Beth Israel,
was home with his wife when they
both heard the blast.
Mrs. Schlager t o 1 d the JTA
that churches in Meridian have
offered Beth Israel the use of
their buildings for any events
that may have to be canceled
because of the damage.
Undamaged was a marble monu-
ment to the Six Million which was
given last year by three members
of local Baptist churches and
stands in a courtyard near the
school.
A special meeting of the city
council was called by Mayor Al
Key to see what could be done to
combat the night attacks.
Rabbi Schlager told the JTA that
10 classrooms and the synagogue
library were damaged in the blast.
The synagogue, he said, is modern
and has a design in which glass
is used extensively. The magazine
of the American Institute of Arch-
itects awarded it a prize, he said.
He said that the bomb had been
placed against the door of the
the city.
Last September, Temple Beth
Israel in Jackson was damaged
by a bomb. A bomb also exploded
at the home of its rabbi, Perry
E. Nussbam, but nobody was in-
jured.
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Ben-Gurion Wants Peace
Rather Than Territory
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — "If I
were to choose between a small
Israel within the boundaries prior
to the June war with peace, and
a greater Israel within its pres-
ently _ expanded borders without
peace, I would accept the smaller
Israel with peace," David Ben-
Gurion declared in an interview
in the student paper, "Nitzotz."
He contended that the smaller
state is capable of absorbing at
least 10,000,000 settlers.
"I know," he said, "We will
never reach 10,000,000. In that
case, why do we need the occupied
territories?"
He asserted that peace in the
Middle East hinges on the Soviet
Union and the United States, and
the Arabs will not accede to an
accommodation with Israel with-
out external pressure . . "And
why should they? They are not
frightened by the three military
defeats. Nasser would readily sac-
rifice 50,000 Egyptians more in
an eventual war." Ben-Gurion con-
cluded, "In Nasser's opinion there
are too many Egyptians anyway."
school and that the blast had left
a hole a foot deep. He was told that
persons five miles away and heard
the blast.
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