NEW YORK (JTA) P a ul State, charged Tuesday that "lurk- mation of Abe Fortas as chief jus-
O'Dwyer, Democratic candidate ing behind all the mumbo-jumbo" tice was anti-Semitism.
for the Senate from New York of Senate hearings on the confir-
The New York Times reported
that sources in the office of Sen.
Jacob Javits, New York Republi-
can who is seeking re-election,
had called a number of influential
Jews around the nation to assure
them that Senator Robert P. Grif-
fin, Michigan Republican, who • is
leading the campaign to block the
confirmation of Fortas and Su-
preme Court nominee Homer
Thornberry, was not anti-Semitic.
The Times reported that the
calls- were assertedly made at the
request of Sen. Griffin, who "had
expressed concern that he was
being tagged as an anti-Semite,
since Justice Fortas would be the
first Jewish chief justice."
Prof. Fred Rodell of the Yale
Law School was quoted as saying
that "a couple of Fortas' colleagues
on the court have told me that
they haven't the slightest doubt
that one of the objections is the
fact that Abe is Jewish. It may
not be the whole thing, but it's
definitely there." He declined to
name the colleagues.
After-Convention- Delay Is Possible
ill Senate on Fortas' Nomination
Crowd gathered as Abe Fortas left the U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee hearings after considering his elevation to the chief
justiceship.
I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine
tonight.
-,Shelley
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Predictions in Washington are
that President Johnson's appoint-
ment of Supreme Court Justice
Abe Fortas as successor to Chief
Justice Earl Warren is taking on
a struggle for separation of pow-
ers, affecting administration poli-
cies.
It is believed that it will not
be difficult to secure a two-thirds
vote to stop- a filibuster and that
the consideration of the appoint-
ment may be postponed until after
the Republican convention which
will open in Miami on Aug 5,
Senator Wayne Morse has read
into the Senate Record a tele.
gram from 480 dems and profes-
sors of law schools rejecting the
argument that because President
Johnson is not running for re-
election he can not make judicial
appointments.
Senator Philip A. Hart of Mich=
igan, who supports the Fortas ap-
pointment, presented a 27-page
memorandum on Fortas' record.
It was prep _ ared by the Justice_
Department and declares that Mr.
Justice Fortas "deserves extremely
high marks" for his court record.
Senator Everett Dirksen, who
backs the Fortas appointment, now
says he is not sure a filibuster
can be stopped.
AJCongress' Dialogue
in Israel Starts July 29
NEW YORK—The sixth annual
"American-Israel Dialogue" spon-
sored by the American Jewish Con-
gress will take place July 29-Aug.
2 at the Weizmann Institute of
Science in Rehovoth.
Leading communal figures and
scholars from the U.S. Jewish
community and Israel will ex-
change views on _the major religi-
ous and cultural issues affecting
the two communities.
The subject of this year's dia-
logue is "The Future of a Rela-
tionship: American Jewry and the
People of Israel." Two themes ex-
pected to dominate the discussion
are the function of religion in con-
temporary Jewish life (including
the difference between Judaism
and Jewishness) and the effect on
Jewish life in the Western world
as Israel assumes permanence as
a part of the Middle East.
The U.S. delegation will he
headed by Rabbi Arthur J. Lely-
veld of Cleveland, president of
the American JeWish Congress.
0 t h e r American participants
will include: Marvin Fox, pro-
fessor of philosophy at Ohio
State University; Rabbi Richard
L. Rubenstein of the University
of Pittsburgh, author of "After
Auschwitz" and a leading Jew-
ish theologian, of the "death of
God" movement; and Mrs.
Charles Snitow of Scarsdale,
N.Y., president of the National
Women's Division of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress.
Israeli participants in elude
members of the Knesset; Lt Col.
Mordecai Firon, acting chief chap-
lain. of the Israel Defense Forces;
Moshe Rivlin, director-general of
the Jewish Agency; and Prof.
Yeshayahu Leibovitz of the He-
brew University in Jerusalem.
Palestine, when inhabited, ex-
pands; when uninhabited, it eon-
tra cts.—Gittun 57
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outstanding and most knowledgeable
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