Nixon. Humphrey Ur &!• de U. S. Aid to Israel at Conclave were needed to overcome a "criti- fore the. convention that the United cal shortage that can cripple the States was still seeking a more ex- cultural growth of the American tensive "detente" with the Soviet Jewish community." Union "and cannot, therefore, be- Acting on the report, a conven- come exercised about the Soviet tion committee made plans for a penetration of the region" 'of the special scholarship program to Middle East. He said that despite encourage Jewish youths to seek the stalemate on the peace front, careers in Jewish communal serv- Israel is more secure than ever. He cited the security provided by ice. Deputy Prime Minister Yigal the results of the Six-Day War and Allon of Israel told the convention said "a new status quo has begun that Israel rejected pressures to to materialize." An over-emphasis by the Jew- abandon direct peace negotiations and declared that no intermediate ish community on "organization- arrangements short of _real peace al activities and apparatus" is discouraging many young Jews were acceptable. from taking part in Jewish life, The former Israeli general said -that' American and international Dr. Harold Weisberg, of Brandeis commitments received in 1949 and University, chairman of Bnai again after the Suez war in 1957, Brith's adult Jewish education - proved to be "valueless notes of commission reported to the con- false promises." He asked, "Can vention. He and other educators we be expected to agree to the and scholars told panel sessions repetition of the same performance that those active in campus pro- for a third time?" He asserted that tests and other anti-Establish- "only a formal and full-fledged ment movements are seeking to apply Jewish ethics to current peace treaty is acceptable." social concerns. But they reject Gen Alton said that a prime the attention given by Jewish condition for peace was the communal institutions, including strengthening of Israel militarily synagogues, centers and organi- deter aggression and that Is- to zations, to structure of the com- rael urgently required U.S. su- munity rather than to ethical and personic military jets. He de-` religious distinctiveness in Juda- nounced new manifestations of ism. _Soviet anti-Semitism in which "Zionists" have been blamed for -- Religion is done under auspices democratic strivings in Czecho- of the synagogue, anti-Semitism is slovakia and Poland. He asked, combatted by community relations "if the Zionist influence on the groups; recreation is conducted by internal policies of the Commu- centers and country clubs, Dr. nist countries has reached such- Weisberg said. As a result, Jewish heights, perhaps these govern- youth is exposed to a Jewish com- ments will free themselves of munity "fragmentary in character such influences by giving every and .without a continuity or organic Jew who so desires the right of relationships." • emigrating to Israel." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS (Allon later told leaders of m ican Jewry in New York that de- 36—Friday, September 13, 1968 spite the tension along the Suez Canal, Israel was not faced with Third Annual an immediate choice between im- . Art Show and Sale minent peace or inevitable war. He League For Labor Israel told the Conference of Presidents Morris L. Schaver Auditorium 19161 Schaefer Hwy. Near 7 Mi. Rd. of Major American Jewish Organi- Saturday, September 14, 1968- zations that it was quite possible 11 A.M. to 10 P.M. that Israel would continue to live Sunday, September 15, 1968- 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. under co nctl b ons of neither p eace Donation and Refreshments—$1. 00 nor war until the possibilities open- ed up for a fair and lasting peace between Israel and her Arab neigh- bors.) He said "The black community Dean Marver H. Bernstein of the is not partial to or organized Woodrow Wilson School of Inter- against the Jew. Let us be crystal national Affairs at Princeton Uni clear—the statements of a few versity, charged in an address be- must not be attributed to an entire - people. Negro anti-Semitism pre- BAR MITZVAH ADVICE sents none of the dangers of PARENTS, ATTENTION PLEASE fascism." Wherever your Bar-Mitzvah gets his A special study by the Bnai Brith instruction, if he did not learn any- thing until the age of eleven; adult education division indicated DO NOT WAIT ANY LONGER: that some 3,500 openings for train- Phone Call ed personnel in Jewish community JOSHUA SHAMES 549-7170 service "are going begging." The UN 2-0372 19318 Roselawn division said that college recruits WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vice House Republican Leader Gerald idealism and a passion for free- President Hubert Humphrey, ad- R. Ford of Michigan later chal- dom." He said that while it would be a dressing the triennial national con- lenged Humphrey to show his sin-. vention of Bnai Brith here, reiter- cerity on the issue of sale of Phan- mistake for Israel to take "formal ated his support of continued tom jet fighter bombers tc Israel and final" possession of all occu- pied territories, "it is not realistic United Stit^s iry aid to Israel by actions rather than words. and condemned anti-Semitism un- Rep. Ford said if the vice presi- to expect Israel to surrender vital leashed by the Soviet Union in con- dent really meant what he told the bargaining counters in the absence nection with the occupation of Bnai Brith convention about Phan- of a genuine peace and effective Czechoslovakia. toms for Israel, ."he should argue guarantees." He thought the United Richard M. Nixon, the Republican his case at the White -House to- States "should assert some leader- ship in bringing about talks, first nominee, in his most detailed state- day." with the moderate Arab leaders ment on the Middle East crisis to In a statement, Rep. Ford, head and later with the militants." date, called on the United States of his party in the House of Repre- He denounced the anti-Semitic Sunday night to tip the balance of sentatives, asserted that "All that military power in favor of Israel is required is President Johnson's propaganda emanating from over the Arabs. He warned that an approval, and' Hubert Humphrey is Moscow following the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Nixon exact balance of power between his political protege." said, however, that Soviet anti- the two adversaries would run the Rep. Ford said that Humphrey Semitism was linked with Soviet risk that potential aggressors has "apparently • endorsed the designs in the Middle East. might miscalculate and would offer position taken by the Republican Speaking at an earlier session, them too much of a temptation." leadership of the Congress and Nixon said his proposed policy the 1968 Republican platform that Dr. William Wexler, president of for the Middle East "would give Israel should promptly receive Bnai Brith advised Jews to have Israel a technological military the latest supersonic jet aircraft compassion for Negro aspirfltions, but said that at the same time margin to more than offset her from the United States." they could not ignore chauvinistic hostile noi'z' tor ,: n-mer;c - 1 su- Republican leader said "I (The discrimination against Jews. "There periority" and would supply Israel with supersonic Phantom jet fight- believe Mr. Humphrey owes it to should no c'19.11-nge to the black American people to explain community's desire to remove the er-bombers if they were required the whether or not lie is openly repu- to maintain her military superior- diating the present Middle East shackles and to share fully in the bounty of a society of freedom, ity. The Democratic Presidential policy, or nonpolicy, of the admin- equality and abundance," Dr. Wex- istration to which he owes his can- nominee told the 1,200 delegates ler said. and guests he felt that the real didacy.") On the other hand, he went on. Nixon maintained in his speech answer in the Middle East was "we cannot shrug off a practice of that the U.S. must render military discrimination in reverse that ousts "arms control" but that Israel had a right to be strong enwzgh support to Israel to meet the chal- a Jewish school teacher or Jewish to deter aggression and defend lenge of Soviet penetration into the principal or Jewish school adminis- itself and that the United States Middle East. trator from his job in a ghetto He termed America's interest neighborhood to satisfy the new • had "a duty to respond favor- ably" to Israeli requests for de- in that region greater than in Viet black militant criteria for self seg- fensive arms "on the grounds of Nam and declared that "we must regation. We cannot shrug off the make it crystal clear that the pena lt y o a g business to a our own - -nrity interests." He said that -"we should be par- stake of the free world in the Mid- victimized ghetto shop-keeper." ticularly outraged by the shabbiest dle East is great; we must impress The Bnai Brith head said that tactic, by the blatant appeal to upon the Soviets the 1• 1 l exi-nt of white America had failed to find an anti-Semitism as justification" for our determination and then, and acceptable answer to the Negro the invasion of Czechoslovakia, only then, will we cause them to problem. He called for "black an- which he declared dramatized "the re-examine their own policy to swers" from the "silent majority" cynicism a- 1 ruthlessness of the avoid a collision course." of the black community. "Perhaps• Nixon said that the United States' what is needed is a militancy of Soviet decision to occupy Czecho- "firm and unwavering commitment slovakia." He said he was "dismayed by to the national existence of Israel', the majority, a determination by the revival of anti-Semitism in was not determined by a bid for this silent element to find its voice Poland" but he asked that differ- Jewish votes but was undertaken and make heard." chair- S h , chair- owev itself , entiation be made between the because "Americans believe in the man of the Bnai Brith Anti-Defa- Polish regime and the Polish peo- self determination of nations, be- mation League, urged the Ameri- ple. He added that the United cause Israel is threatened by So- • can Jewish community not to States "has and will make clear its viet imperialism and because she exaggerate fears of Negro anti- revulsion to such policies." has displayed guts, patriotism, Semitism. NYU President Regrets Anti-Semitic `IDefense'; Hatchett Protests Mount NEW YORK (JTA)—The presi- dent of New York University ex- pressed regrets that comments he made in defending John F. Hatch- ett against charges of anti-Semi- tism were misinterpreted as a de- fense of an article by Hatchett critical of Jewish teachers in the New York City public school sys- tem. Hatchett is the recently named director of the university's new Martin Luther King Jr. Afro- American Student Center: Dr. James M. Hester, in a statement issued here, said that he recog- nized "the oversimplification in my reference to the complex pheno- menon of anti-Semitism," that he considered all forms of anti-Semi- tism "abhorrent" and strongly op- posed them wherever they ap- peared and that "I do not condone Mr. Hatchett's article about the public schools. )) that they and Negro imitators were mentally poisoning Negro pupils. Hatchett disclaimed any anti- Semitic intent but defended his right to identify the ethnic group of which he was critical. Dr. Hes- ter, in effect, upheld that right when he noted in the New York Times interview that Jewish teachers were organized in a Jew- ish teachers association. • In his statement issued Sept. 5, Dr. Hester said, "I want to affirm that New York University is de- termined to work to overcome all forms of prejudice, injustice and misunderstanding. In pursuing this goal in this difficult time, we may make mistakes in judgment on in- dividual matters, and there will be differences of opinion about the best way to handle complex issues. I assure the community that New York University's abiding commitment is to help build a so- ciety in which there is no preju- dice and in which all members live together with mutual respect." Meanwhile, the Far Rockaway, N.Y. Jewish Community Center said it will seek 100,000 signatures on a petition to protest the appoint- ment of Hatchett. Rubin R. Dobin, chairman of the Far Rockaway Jewish Commu- nity Council, said the anti-Hatchett petition would be directed to the attention of Dr. Hester. He said his group would seek to enroll as many NYU students as possible in the protest and to expand it on a nationwide scale. Dr. Hester was assailed last week by the Synagogue Council of America for his alleged "apologia" for a "scurrilous anti-Semitic ar- ticle." The council, representative body of six national synagogue and rabbinic organizations, took issue with a remark by the NYU presi- dent,. published in the New York Times, that while he did not sub- scribe to the views expressed in the Hatchett article, he could un- derstand how they might have been written without the author being anti-Semitic in the classical sense. The controversial article, which I disapprove of What you say, appeared in a Negro teachers peri- odical in 1967, charged that Jew- but I will defend to the death your ish teachers dominated the New right to say it. —Attributed to Voltaire York public school system a n d - • 34an- : - - CUSTOM FURNITURE & CARPET CLEANING ON LOCATION . PAY YOUR 1966 AND PRIOR YEARS COUNTY TAXES NOW AND SAVE Beginning October 1, 1968 a $3.00 charge will be added to each legal description in accordance with the state tax law. Bills are now being mailed to last owner of record. If you owe 1966 taxes and have not received a bill, please call 224-5990, 91 or 92. LOUIS H. FUNK WAYNE COUNTY TREASURER 208 City-County Building Two Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48226 Office Hours: 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. Monday thru Friday—Closed Saturdays