Two Eban Books for Current Year
NY Jewish Groups Seeking to Ease
Two books by one of the world's the dramatic events of Israel's
Negro-Jewish Tensions Over Strike;
leading statesmen, Abba Eban, will Six-Day War, its prelude and after-
be published during the 1968-1969 math, by a central participant in
Deny Lindsay Tried to Pressure Them season. The first work by Israel's the drama, and thus a uniquely
NEW YORK (JTA)—A spokes-
man for the New York chapter of
the American Jewish Committee
Said that chapter representatives
had been engaged in intensive
conversations" with Jewish and
Negro leaders in an effort to ease
the Negro-Jewish tensions develop-
ing from the teachers strike
against the city's schools.
The spokesman said the conver-
sations had been going on for sev-
eral weeks, and that there was
general agreement in both groups
that the situation was serious and
that action was essential to avoid
a severe Negro-Jewish confronta-
tion.
The New York City school
system has been shut down three
times since the opening of the
school year, amid charges that
black extremists were using anti-
Semitism in their battle against
the United Federation of Teachers.
Five Jewish organizations
which took part in a September
meeting with New York City
Mayor John Lindsay on the city
school crisis later denied pub-
lished reports that they were
• "summoned" to the mayor's
office and told to "control"
Shanker "and his UFT." The
organizations were the ADL,
AJCommittee, American Jewish
Congress, New York Board of
Rabbis and advisory council of
the board of rabbis.
The five organizations said re-
ports to that effect, which were
published in newspapers nation-
wide, and circulated anonymously
as handbills, were inaccurate. They
said such rumors "could conceiv-
ably have an inflammatory effect"
on racial tensions in the city. The
fact was, they said, they had met
voluntarily with the mayor Sept.
16 in a continuing discussion of
their concern over anti-Semitism
and racism and that they asked
the mayor to use his good offices
to bring together the leadership of
the white and Negro communities
to help ease such tensions.
The agencies also said that news-
paper reports quoting the mayor as
telling them that "New York Jews
were destroying" his administra-
tion and that "You Jews have
made me use up all my Negro
credit cards" also were false.
The agencies said that the mayor
told them he was "using all the
influence he had in the black com-
munity and in so doing was using
his. credit cards to bring about a
peaceful solution." The agencies
added that it was "deplorable that
a meeting held for constructive
purposes was being used to in-
flame racial and religious ten-
sions."
At the same time, Rabbi Marc
H. Tanenbaum, an AJCommittee
official who is president of the
Interreligious Foundation for Com-
munity Organization, -said in a ra-
dio interview that "We have begun
a series of conversations with black
religious and educational person-
alities focusing on the problems of
A Fighter for
Effective Education
ELECT JAMES A.
HATHAWAY
To BOARD of EDUCATION
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 1, 1968-19
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working out an effective decen- foreign minister will be "My Peo- authentic record of the political
GARAGE DOOR
ple: The Story of the Jews," to be background of the events before
tralization program.
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Rabbi Tanenbaum, who is di- issued on Nov. 20 by Random, and after the June 1967 fighting.
rector of interreligious affairs jointly with Behrman House. The
second, Eban's personal memoir of
for the AJCommittee, said also
Young Musicians to Meet
that during the past week he had Israel's Six-Day War, will come
The Student Music Study Club of
out in early spring of 1969 from
spoken with teachers and several
Detroit will meet 2 p.m. Sunday at
Random House alone.
Negro churchmen and commu-
the
home of Mrs. M. W. Stein,
"My People" is Eban's personal
nity leaders in the Ocean Hill-
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Six-Day War. Eban has been work- Michigan Federation of Musicians.
centralization, which has been
the focus of the teachers union ing on the book for the past six All music students are welcome.
years, whenever time could be
strike struggle.
Rabbi Tanenbaum said those spared from his many public re-
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sponsibilities.
The 512-page vol-
Negro leaders and teachers were
"deeply disturbed" by the "preva- ume will contain 120 pages of
lence of anti-Semitism and the role photographs reproduced in duo-
of black extremists from outside tone. The first printing will be
the community" and by "the polar- 25,700 copies.
The second Eban work, as yet
SELLS FOR LESS
ization which this has led to be-
tween the black and Jewish com- untitled, will be the first book on
(Tell Us If We're Wrong)
munities."
Tanenbaum was incorrectly re- ing and social work which had
BE A DODGE FEVER BELIEVER
ported to have charged the United previously attracted large num-
Federation of Teachers and Shanker : hers of Jews; and the rise of the
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GEORGE RUSKIN
with using the Jewish community Black Muslims and other mili-
Pontiac, Mich.
President
in artificially introducing a n t i- tant groups "who have intro-
Semitism into the school strike. He duced the Arab-Israel Middle
was referring to extremists on East conflict on the local scene." r
both sides of the controversy, not
Jews are deeply troubled, Ko-
the UFT or Shanker.
vach reported, by the anti-Semitic 1
The Synagogue Council of Amer- epithets and literature distributed
ica has charged that "irresponsible by black extremists. The United
and reckless individuals" had ex- Federation of Teachers is circulat-1
ploited the tensions of the school ing a sample, received at the JTA
dispute and warned there was a editorial office, which it said was
danger that disputes in America's distributed by the Parents Com-
major cities migh "deteriorate into munity Council of Junior High
black-white and Negro-Jewish con- School 271 in the Ocean Hill-
frontations."
Brownsville district. It warned
In a policy statement endorsed
Jews - to "Stay out, shut up, get off
Our meticulous attention to fine tailoring and
by the national synagogue and
our backs, or your relatives in the
rabbinic agencies of Conserva-
superb fitting, coupled with unparalleled personal
Middle
East
will
find
themselves
tive, Orthodox and Reform Juda- giving benefits to raise money to
service, offers that little bit more that makes a
ism, the SCA said exploitation of help
world of difference!
you get out from the terrible
the school dispute issues to fan weight
of an enraged black com-
anti-Semitic and racial animos-
munity."
ities was "poisoning the atmo-
"A careful study of the hate
sphere of public discussion and
literature
being circulated in the
striking at the roots of our exist-
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community
has been made by the
ence as a community."
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Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai
The statement asserted that the
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school controversy resulted from Brith (which) found no evidence of
the clash of "legitimate •interests. an organized effort behind the
To dismiss the legitimate goals of material," Kovach reported.
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the Teachers Union as motivated
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white racism or anti-Semitism,"
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the SCA said.
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Brith Abraham, a national Jew-
ish fraternal order, protested what
it called "the anti-Semitic remarks
by black agitators who use the
schools and colleges as their forum
for dissemination of hate." The
protest was contained in a letter to
Mayor John V. Lindsay deploring
"the increased evidence of racism
and anti-Semitism promoted by ex-
tremists and purveyors of hate,
both black and white, over the
school decentralization program."
Max Fisher, chairman of the
American Jewish Committee's
executive board, said here that
Jews must not "withdraw from the
battle for civil rights and Negro
justice" even in face of Negro anti-
Semitism.
At a testimonial dinner for
Youth and experience are a rare
Joseph L. Mailman of New York,
combination. But at 46 Bill Broom-
who received the AJCommittee's
field has them both. At an age when
1968 Appeal for Human Relations
many men are just beginning ca-
Award, Fisher said that even
reers in Congress, Bill Broomfield
though "black racism is as vicious-
has been on the job serving you in
ly dedicated to anti-Semitism as
Washington for the last 12 years.
white racism," Jews must remain
Before that he served you for 8
in the forefront of the civil rights
years in the Michigan State Legis-
struggle even "if Negro militants
lature. Keep Bill Broomfield work-
take it upon themselves to tell us
ing for you. Vote for Bill Broom-
to get out." Jews, he said, "should
field on November 5th.
be no more tolerant of black
racism than any other racism," but
"we must fight it by removing the
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causes," he said.
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Kovach said in a lengthy report
on Negro-Jewish animosity in
New York City, that the conflict
runs much deeper than the
school controversy. Among its
causes, he listed the influx of
Negroes into former all-Jewish
neighborhoods; the increase of
crime and different attitudes on
"law and order" between the two
communities; the m o v e by
Negroes into such fields as teach-
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