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July 26, 1968 - Image 10

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1968-07-26

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

World Council of Jewish Education
Names Group to Study Reorganization

GENEVA (JTA) — Agreement that the Conference of Jewish
was reached here on a reorgani-
Organizations has" the makings
zation of the World Council of of just such a "central address."
Jewish Education which would link The conference agreed to a re-
it with the Conference of Jewish quest affiliation by the World
Organizations (COJO) and with which held its own sessions here
the Memorial Foundation. for Jew- earlier.
ish Culture if this should be
It also authorized Dr. Gold-
feasible.
mann as chairman, to name a
The decision was taken at a committee that will come up with
meeting of the COJO over which proposals for the extension of the
Dr. Nahum Goldmann presided. conference membership and its
A committee was appointed to di- area of activities. The latter will
rect the reorganization and report embrace educational. and cultural
back before the end of 1968.
matters as well as political issues
The committee will also rede- confronting Jewry.
fine the tasks of the World Coun-
It was decided also that a fifth
cil and seek to clarify its relations
conference of Jewish communities
with the Jewish Agency. Sixty-five
delegates attending the COJO meet- of Latin America will be held
Oct. 26-30, at which Dr. Goldmann
ings here as well as • a delegation
agreed to deliver the keynote ad-
of observers representing the Con-
ference of Presidents of Major dress.
The conference urged United
Jewish Organizations headed by
Nations Secretary - General U
Rabbi Herschel Schacter.
Thant to insist that any represen-
Representatives of three interna-
tional Jewish organizations, the tative appointed to inquire into the
situtation of civilians in the Mid-
World Zionist Organization, the
World Jewish Congress and Bnai dle East be given an unrestricted
Brith—attended the conference to- opportunity to visit Jewish com-
gether with representatives of the munities and Jews under detention
Board of Deputies of British Jews. in Arab countries.
The request was part of a. reso-
the Representative Council of
French Jews, the South African lution on Jews in Arab lands
Jewish Board of Deputies and the passed by COJO. The resolution
expressed the organization's "deep
Jewish Labor Committee.
An American Jewish author distress' at the plight of Jews in
and educator warned here that Egypt, Syria and Iraq and called
the fact that. most Jewish an those goverements to end their
"discrimination a n d inhuman
youngsters do not continue their
Jewish education beyond ele- treatment • of Jews living in their
mentary school level is "the midst' and to restore to them "ele-
number one problem of the mentary human rights."
At the conference's closing ses-
Jewish world."
Dr. Azriel Eisenberg, one of the sion, Dr. Goldmann was re-elected
speakers at a meeting of the chairman. Vice presidents chosen
World Council, said that 717,260 were Louis Pincus, chairman of
children between the ages of 3 the Jewish Agency; Dr. William
and 7 attended Jewish schools Wexler, president of Bnai Brith;
out of an estimated Jewish school Dr. Isaac Goldenberger, president
population outside of Israel of of the DAIA, central representa-
1,523.361 — slightly over 47 per tive body of Argentine Jewry; and
Michael Fidler, president of the
cent.
Board
of Deputies of British Jews.
"The fact that at least half of
our diaspora children are attend- Yehuda Hellman was re-elected
ing some type of Jewish school at general secretary.
any given moment does not lend
itself to the interpretation that Congress Testimony
Jewry outside of Israel is fast
on Liberty Is in Israel;
approaching total assimilation,"
he said.
U.S. Action Awaited
"On the other hand," he con-
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel has
tinued, "the fact that outside of received United States Congres-
Israel there are only 90,000 at the sional testimony regarding the
very most who continue their .Jew- U.S.S. Liberty, and government
ish studies beyond the elementary officials here said the next move
school level is cause for serious was up to the American govern-
concern. the number one problem ment on the question of compensa-
of the Jewish world."
tion claims.
Dr. Goldmann called for the
The testimony showed that a
establishment of "a central ad-
dress of the entire Jewish people comunications foul-up was respon-
outside of Israel." He said such sible for the failure of the elec-
an. entity was vital not only to tronic spy ship to receive orders
Jewish _unity and the successful to leave the Sinai battle area dur-
struggle for Jewish rights but ing the Six-Day War.
Israeli officials expressed the
also to present Israel with a sin-
gle channel to all of . diaspora view that this information might
be expected to result in a differ-
Jewry.
Philip Klutznick of Chicago, na- ent American attitude on Israel's
tional Jewish leader, warned that responsibility for attacking the
"we ought to be' warned that any ship, killing 34 crew members,
American neo - isolationist ten-1 wounding 75 and so severely dam-
dencies would inevitably affect the aging the vessel that it was de-
outlook and attitudes of American cided not to repair it.
Israel apologized to the U.S.
Jews in• regard to international
Jewish problems—and even in re- _ for the attack and paid $3,323,506'
gard to Israel." Klutznick had to the families of the men killed,
been chairman of an ad hoc com- but no claims for the wounded
mittee named to look into the or the damage have been sub-
mitted by the U.S.
structural problems of COJO.
Dr. Goldmann stressed that he
The State Department, which
did not propose that his umbrella still officially holds Israel entirely
organization "could or should par- responsible for the accidental
ticipate in Israeli policy-making." June 8, 1967 attack, was studying
The state. he said, decides its own I the testimony. and officials con
policy in accordance with the ceded that a complicated legal is-
wishes of its own citizens.
sue of contributory negligence ex-
"But there is room for free con- isted. It was expected here that
sultations and exchanges of views this factor would be taken into
between Israel and the diaspora account when Washington pre-
on problems concerning the Jewish sents its final bill for all compen-
people as a whole," he said, "and sation claims.
it is important that we should pre-
The ship was off the Sinai coast
sent Israel with an all-embracing and was assaulted by Israeli jets
diaspora Jewish address."
and torpedo boats which had mis-
Among the Jewish leaders as- taken it for an Egyptian ship when
sembled here it was indicated . it failed to identify itself properly.

U.S., Israel Vary Little on Method to Reach Peace, Eban Insists

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Peace —
and how to achieve it—were the
themes of speeches by three
government officials over the
weekend.
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
said in a radio interview that dif-
fences between the United States
and Israel over the method by
which peace with the Arabs should
be reached were more apparent
than real.
- Eban told the cabinet on Sunday
that there was a wide range of
understanding betwen the U.S. and
Israel on ways and means to settle
the conflict.
Speaking at a Haifa labor rally,
Defense Minister Gen. Moshe
Dayan said that "today more than
ever, the way to peace is in stand-
ing fast." Israel was closer to a
settlement with the Arabs, both in
neighboring, countries and within
present borders, today than ever
before, he declared...
Information Minister Israel Ga-
lili, in a speech in Tiberias to
hundreds of new recruits in Nahal
para-military units, declared that,
"It is time Arab rulers understand
that time is not working in their
favor. Israel of tomorrow will not
be softer or weaker than in the

Mrs. DAVID M. LEVITT of
Great Neck, N. Y., president of the
National Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods, headed the NFTS dele-
gation to the 15th international
conference of the World Union for
Progressive Judaism, held in Jer-
usalem.

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past. It will be even stronger than
in the past." The Arabs' position
that there can be no negotiations,
no peace and no free navigation in
the Suez Canal indicates that the
war is not yet over, he declared.
Eban told the nation that in his
conferences last week with
George Ball, the new United
States ambassador to the United
Nations, and Ball's delegation, it
was established that the U.S. did
not believe in any permanent
solution that was not based on a
treaty signed directly between
the Arabs and Israel.
The Americans, Eban said, did
not concur with Israel in her in-
sistence that any matter of sub-
stance must be discussed only in
direct talks with the Arabs from
the start.
Gen. Dayan said that Israel
must have plans for peace but
must be ready to carry on without
peace until it was reached. "If
we insist this time on firm and

binding terms on the normaliza-
tion of relations, then we shall
eventually achieve real peace," he
asserted.

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