Nixon, Humphrey Reaffirm Phantom Position at ZOA Parley

WASHINGTON (JTA)—The two
major Presidential candidates —
Republican Richard M. Nixon and
Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey—
reiterated Sunday their call for
American military support of Is-
rael, including the delivery of F-4
Phantom jet supersonic fighter-
bombers that Israel said it needs.
Moth candidates, in messages to
the 71st annual convention of the
Zionist Orgathation of America,
stressed America's commitments
to Israel's indepeiident existence,
Humphrey spoke of military aid
to Israel "to maintain a balance of
-power in the area." Nixon, re-
peating a statement he made be-
fore the triennial convention of
Bnai Brith here last week, said
that he would "give Israel a tech-
nological military margin to more
than offset her hostile neighbors'
numerical superiority."
Vice President Humphrey said
in his message that "as a friend
of Israel from its inception . . . I
support active U.S. diplomatic
efforts for Arab-Israeli negotiation.
In the meantime, I have supported
and will continue to support U.S.
military aid to Israel, including
Phantom jet aircraft, to maintain
a balance of power in the area."

Nixon declared that Israel,
"faced with the direct threat to
her security - . . must have the
strength to deter any attempts
on her freedom and sovereign.
ty." Thus, he said, "I support
a policy that would give Israel
a technological military margin
to more than offset her hostile
neighbors' numerical superiority
and if maintaining that margin
should requii 'e-4
the U.S. sup-
ply Israel with supersonic Phan-
tom jets, we should supply those
jets."

Nixon said that "The U.S. has a
firm and unwavering commitment
to the national existence of Israel,
repeated by four Presidents—and
after inauguration day next year,
it will be repeated by another
President." He hailed Israel as the
nation that introduced democracy
to the. Middle East, "a full-fledged
exponent of the Western way of
life" and a "bulwark of strength
in the path of Soviet ambitions"
in the Mid* East.
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, chair-
man of the American section .of
the Jewish Agency, who was elect-
ed honorary president, told the
convention that %tile Humphrey
and Nixon had "spoken well and
clearly" about arms for Israel,
they have "not ventured to awaken
America to the extent of the dan-
"kers in the Middle East and the
increasing influence of the Soviet
Union in that region."
Both Dr. Netimann and Jacques

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Torczynei•, who was re-elected to
a fourth term as ZOA president,
stressed Israel's need for Western
immigration. Dr. Neumann urged
every American Jewish family to
send at least one df its members
to settle in Israel. He. predicted
that "thousands of American
Jews" would settle in Israel.
needed
Torczyner said Israel
Western immigrants to maintain
a Western orientation and culture.

Rep. John W. McCormack,
House speaker, told the ZOA
that Israel should not return "an
inch of soil" to the Arabs until
"they are ready to ' make an
honorable peace." He said it was
historically unique that the "van-
quished" 'in the Middle East
"have sought to lay down the
terms of peace to the conquer-
ors" and that "apparently, , Is-
rael's unforgiveable crime was
its refusal to lie down and die
and its extraordinary capacity
for self-defense."

He denounced ';cowardly" Arab
terrorism, including the hijacking
of the El Al plane. In reference
to criticisms of Israel's reprisal
actions, he said that "it is appar-
ently proper for Arab .terrorists
to make inroads into Israeli terri-
tory but utterly improper for Is-
raelis to enter Arab territory in
hot pursuit of a vicious foe."
Gerald Ford, House Republican
leader. said in a message to the
convention that the Republicah
leadership of Congress continued
to be "concerned by the failure"
of the administration to provide
Phantom jets to Israel and to
"answer massive Communist
arms' buildup in theL-Middle East
and Mediterranean." , -
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York
Republican. voicing "a feeling of
frustration'-' over the delay of the
administration in providing Phan-
tom jets to Israel, told the ZOA
that the United States should sell
the c supersonic warplanes to Israel
immediately. He said that the ad-
ministration "must no longer hesi-
tate to discharge the expressed
will of both political parties and
of both Houses of Congress—and
the will of the American people."
The convention heard 'a charge
from Torczyner that "thousands of
Jewish school teachers" in New
York City faced ultimate expulsion
from their jobs because of the
anticipated role of black power
advocates in the scheduled decen-
tralization of the city's school sys-
tem.
He said Jewish groups must
mobilize "in defense of Jewish
rights" and "stop appeasing mili-
tant Negroes" in an attack on "a
new brand of anti-Semitism
black anti-Semitism." Declaring

that Negro extremists were anti-
Semitic and anti-Israel," he
charged that "extremist black
power is the order of the day" and
predicted that the civil struggle
would take "a more violent turn
and endanger the position of the
Jew in America."
He criticized Jewish groups for
alleged failure to protest de-

struction of Jewish property in
racial rioting and alleged failure
to aid victimized Jewish mer-
chants. He also assailed Presi-
dent James Hester of New York
University for naming John
Hatchet as director of its new
Afro-American Center, accusing
the Negro teacher of anti-Semi-
tism. Torczyner criticized for-
mer Supreme Court justice Ar-
thttr Goldberg and "top Jewish
contributors" to the university
for "dangerous appeasement of
anti-Semitic forces" and con-
demned black power leaders for
alliances with A _ rab student
groups.

Torczyner said he would contact
various religious and secular
groups -to formulate plans for 'a
conference for the "express pur-
pose of defending Jewish rights."
He charged that the "black power
Negro movement" pledged -support
"to -Arab terrorists" and was
aligned with Arab students on
campuses throughout the country
in opposition to Israel.
Rabbi Richard L. Rubinstein,
Bnai Brith Hillel director at the
University of Pittsburgh and
author of the controversial "After
Auschwitz," appealed to American
Jews to think over their voting
patterns and adopt a "responsible
conservatism" that advocates due
proCess of law over violence, riot-
ing and racism. He expressed the
hope that black extremists, whom
he alSo attacked, did not represent
the vast majority of black' people
of America.
He 'criticized national Jewish
leaders who have contended that
left-wing Jewish youth have de-
fected from Jewish practice be-
cause they lacked Jewish educa-
tion. Instead, he said left-wing
Jewish youth on campus' are

"largely

suburban, affluent and

Arbitrator A. Horvitz

NEW YORK—Aaron Horvitz, for
many years one of the country's
foremost arbitrators in industry-

middle class in back- labor disputes, died Tuesday, 11
ground."
days short of his 80th birthday.
Alfred I,. Atherton Jr., direc-
Mr. Horvitz, a pioneer in media-
tor of Israel and Arab-Israel
tion and arbitration, served on a
affairs in the State Department,
number of special panels for Presi-
said he questioned if Israel's
dent Truman and helped resolve
current sense of security would
some of the country's major labor
continue if the "edges of Arab
disputes.

upper

hostility are not blunted" through
a settlement that Arab leaders
can find "just and homirrable."
The U.S. interest in Israel's se-
curity "remains undiminished, '
he said.

Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, mi-
nority leader, reiterated the need
for the U.S. to safeguard Israel,
saying that "the republic of Israel
should - not become another Czecho-
slovakia." 1

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12—Friday, September 20, 1968

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE

JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION

Nominees

to

the Board of Governors

Pursuant to the By Laws of the JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION OF
DETROIT, the following list of nominees, selected from the membership -
of the Federation eligible for election to the Board of Governors of the
Federation for a three-year term ending in 1971, is presented herewith
to the Executive Director not less than thirty days prior to the Annual
Meeting which will take place on Thursday, October 10, 1968 at the Jewish
Community Center, 18100 Meyers Road:

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Holy Tongue Adapted to Modern Life
as Ulpan Students Master Heb w

JERUSALEM—Hebrew, the holy
tongue, has a basic vocabulary of
just three words—or so claimed
the beginners' classes of the
Hebrew University's special sum-
mer ulpan, which numbered over
880 students in 42 classes.

The three words are yesh (there
is), aim (there isn't) and hamor
(ass), Just how effective this vo-
cabulary can be was skillfully

demonstrated in a sketch, "David,

the Professor, and Ruth, the Stu-
'dent" performed at a Sabbath
social staged° by the first six
classes.

In the sketch, Ruth finds she
can make a date (yesh concert?
aim concert, but yesh discoteque);
rent an apartment (yesh- gas? yesh
frigidaire? yesh radio? aim tele-
visia! yesh supermarket!); discuss

politics with Israelis (be Czecho-
slovakia yesh democratia im Com-

munism, ve haya lahem revolutsia

commercials, sketches about Is-
raelis lost in the New York sub-

way and comments on the hip-
pies and Eilat. A recent show
offered a pantomime, "Cinder-
ella in Easy Hebrew."
"Everyone participates," says
the ulpan's director, Shoshana I
Blum. "We have visiting profes-
sors, research fellows, young Arab
students, Americans and close to
40 other nationalities represented,
They all join in."

To deepen the students' contact
with Israelis, and their knowledge
of the Israeli scene, each class
heard a weekly lecture on a sub-
ject they had chosen. Another
weekly lecture was given to all the
classes, meeting together, on an
academic level, an indispensable
preparation for their university
studies.
Speakers have included ministry
of foreign affairs personnel, He-
brew University faculty members,
students and—a sign of the times
—a bus driver.

—there's democracy with commu-
nism in Czechoslovakia, and they
had a revolution); and understand
an argument between two bus
drivers (degenerat, idiot, imbecil,
Beware of jealousy, it is the
psychi, debili, hamor!).
green-eyed monster which doth
Programs this year have in-
mock the meat it feeds on.—Shake-
cluded a TV show complete with
speare.

FOR RE-ELECTION:

Irving Rose

Alan E. Schwartz

FOR ELECTION:

N. Brewster Broder
Rabbi Hayim Donin
Ronald. L. Greenberg

Mrs. Harry L. Jones'
Edward C. Levy
Max M. Shaye
George M. Zelter

Other persons may be nominated by petition or petitions signed by not
fewer than 25 members of the Federation and filed with the Executive
Director of the Federation not less than ten days prior to the date of the
Annual Meeting Only one person may be nominated in each petition and
no nomination shall be valid unless the nominee shall have consented to
be a candidate.

1968 NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Paul Broder, Chairman
•
Irwin Green
Milton J. Miller
Mrs. Max Stollman
George M. Stutz

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