Rabbi Rothschild Defies Hecklers, Asks Negro Unity By Jewish News Special Correspondent ATLANTA — Addressing t h e Hungry Club Forum here, Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, a pioneer in the civil liberties movement, told Ne- gro hecklers: "I resent t h e at- tempt to bar me from the battle to achieve hu- man rights and I resent being told this is not my battle." Rabbi Roth- schild, whose temple was bom- Rothschild bed 10 years ago by anti-Negro bigots, declared that as a Jew and as an American he will not forget his religious commitment "in the face of black separatism," no more than as a Jew did he forget it "in the face of white segregation." .He charged that an injustice is being done the Jews by black mili- tants, a number of whom inter- rupted his speech with heckling, and he declared: "I cannot believe the answer to our problem is to destroy our so- ciety and to create two separate societies, and while I at times despair, I see a ray of hope." 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The mother and the children can emigrate , but the father finds it very difficult to obtain an exit document, Many Polish fathers are not eager to leave Poland; they would rather give up their Jewish wives and children than to renounce their Polish citizen- ship, especially when the mother and children intend to settle in Israel. As "good Poles," they don't want to leave Poland for Israel, especially now when Israel is being constantly attacked in the Polish press and radio as an "enemy" of Poland. They consider them- selves Polish patriots, no matter what the regime in Poland is, and they don't want to be labeled as "Zionists" which in the present official Polish vocabulary means traitors. In some cases the fathers retain some of their children—espec- ially the boys—while separating themselves from their wives and the other children who leave the country with their mother. In other cases, they agree to have all the children go with their Jewish mother since this gives the father the opportunity to divorce himself from the "Jewishness" in the family. Of all the Jewish families whom I have seen in. Vienna coming out of Poland, there was only one non- Jewish father who joined his wife and two boys in leaving Poland for Israel. But even he refused to sign the usual declaration before his departure that he renounced his Poland citizenship. The authorities cancelled it anyway, against his will. MOTHER PROBLEMS: With non-Jewish mothers, the situation is different. They would like to leave Poland and remain with their I Jewish husbands and children in Israel. However, they hesitate to do so, They have learned that the Israel Rabbinate does not recognize the non-Jewish wife of a Jewish husband as Jewish, nor her children. Most of them therefore, fear emigrating to Israel. They fear not so much what will be their fate in Israel as the possible consequences for their children. The tragedies of hundreds of broken families can hardly be de- scribed. These families would have lived a normal life had the Polish Government not pursued its anti-Jewish policy. Some of the parents have been married for more than 20 years. The Warsaw Government is applying the rule barring non-Jews from emigrating with special rigor to Polish husbands who would be willing to emigrate with their Jewish wives and children not to Israel, but to the United States. There the Polish father or the Jewish mother, or both, have relatives, and can therefore get American visas after waiting several months. But even emigration to the U.S. with his Jewish wife and children poses great difficulty for the non-Jewish husband. ASSIMILATED CHILDREN: The Jews coming from Poland to Vienna enroute to Israel are usually families of four—a husband, wife and two children. But these are families where both the husband and wife are Jewish, or Jewish mothers who left their non-Jewish hus- bands in Poland and do not fear that their children will suffer restric- tions in Israel since they are children of a Jewish mother, even though they are not circumcised. The children are completely assimilated and cannot speak any language but Polish. They are aged between 10 and 18 and they ask all kinds of questions about life in Israel. While the Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia are mostly intel- lectuals, the great majority of the Jews coming from Poland are qualified artisans. Unlike the Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia, most of whom apply for visas at the American Consulate in Vienna—and receive them in a short time—few of the Jewish families coming out of Poland seek their way to the United States. The majority of them are interested in reaching Israel. In fact they come to Vienna with Israel visas on their documents—visas that are issued to them easily in Warsaw by the Dutch Consulate which represents Israeli interests in Poland. Jews Irked at Naming of Schroeder as CDU , President Candidate BONN (JTA)—The appointment of Defense Minister Gerhard Schroeder as Christian Democratic candidate for the West German presidency is regarded with some consternation by Jewish circles here. Dr. Schroeder sought to join the Nazi SA (Sturm Abteilungen or Storm Troops) in 1933 after Adolf Hitler's rise to power. The SA played an important role in the Nazi Party's early anti-Jewish ac- tions. After he became foreign minis- ter, Dr. Schroeder said that he sought membership in the SA be- , cause he wanted to continue his university studies. JTA's West Germany correspondent Alfred Wolfmann reports, "It is well known that in 1933 no student was expelled for not belonging to a Nazi group." Dr. Schroeder will face Justice Minister Gustav Heinemann, can- didate of Foreign Minister Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party, when the federal assembly con- venes early in 1969 to elect the head of state, succeeding Dr. Hein- rich Luebke. Dr. Heinemann was an opponent of Hitler. News) OTTAWA—A negative image that Reform Judaism appears to have presented among other Jews in Canada and the problem of Jewish adjustment to the predominantly French culture of Quebec Province were the subjects of papers pre- sented at the biennial convention of the Canadian Council of Reform Congregations here. Rabbi Arthur Benjamin of Otta- wa's Temple Israel said the "Achil- les Heel" of the Reform movement in Canada was "a negative ap- proach to Judaism that defined itself as running away from the old man with the beard rather than toward a pattern of Jewish obser- vance and expression of real qual- ity and import." There are approximately 15,- that, given a dominantly French province, Jews could turn to that culture for their cues?" Adam ob- served that most revolutionary movements seek to impose con- formity and that when a movement has a nationalistic base, "Jews have often been the first casual- ties." The 200 delegates attending the conference from Canada's 13 Re- form temples elected Dr. Bernard Shapiro of Toronto as president of the council, succeeding Lawrence Marks of Montreal. The council IS affiliated with the Union of Ameri- can Hebrew Congregations. 000 Reform Jews in Canada, out of a total Jewish population of 280,000 although about half of the latter are not affiliated with any synagogue. Most other Jews tend to label Reform' Jews as "secessionist, anti-Zionist, nega- tive, assimilationist, nonreligious and Jews of convenience," Rabbi Benjamin said. A position paper presented by G. Stuart Adam of Temple Israel suggested that Jews adapt to the French language and culture of their native Quebec. "The Jew of Quebec, if he is suspect at all, is so because of his identification with Anglo-Saxon values and culture," the paper said. "Is it not possible 4.11.P. • eetelleaC • SEE OR CALL VIC DOUCETTE AT UAL on-Crimm an Cadillac 1350 N. Woodward Birmingham MI 4-1930 Res. 357-0326 Invitation to a Preview You are cordially invited to attend a preview of the 1969 Members Travel Program of the American Jewish Congress. A guest speaker will describe the special group tours available to AJCongress members. These include visits to Israel, Europe, the Orient and Latin America. THE DATE: Monday, December 2 THE TIME: 8:00 p. m. 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