AJCongress Condemns an Editorial in Teacher Magazine as Black Racism NEW YORK. (JTA)—An editor- ial in the African-American Teach- ers Forum charging Jews. with responsibility 'for "stifling" the education of black children was criticized Smiday by the American Jewish flOngress as a . "vicious piece of racism that can serve only to .debase any rational ap- proach to .tlie school problem." Shad.Polier, - Uhairman of the na- tional goverriing council, noted that the magaiine was -the same publication that had "opened its columns - last year to - the malign ignorance of John F. Hatchett' and described- the editorial as "an obvious and calculated attempt to stoke the fires of racial and reli- gious tension that are already burning in our city." Hatchett became involved in con- troversy after writing in the magazine that Jewish teachers dominated the New York public school system and were mentally poisoning Negro pupils. This and other incidents led to his being fired by New York University- as director of its Marthr Luther King Jr. Afro-American Student - Center. "The inadequacies , of the city school system," he said, "are ac- knowledged by Men and .women of all religions and races who are concerned with improving public education in New York. To ,charge that these inadequacies are the re- 'suit of a specific policy and design by_ JeWs is a disheartening ex- ample of extremist tactics and in- sults the great mass of Jews who are concerned about the very evils of racism, discrimination and the failure of our schools,"_Polier said. "I am confident that the Jew- ish community will not be deter- red by this attack from the great effort that must be launched to strengthen and improve the edu- cation of all our children. We are equally confident that the - • • • • Lindsay Responds to New Arson With Creation of Special Police NEW YORK—A recreation room was destroyed and 300 religious books charred in a suspicious fire Monday at the Young Israel of the West Side, a four-story building at 210 W. 91st St. Pearl Shapiro, an employe of the Orthodox synagogue, said she saw two teen-agers running out of the building shortly before the blaze was reported. It was the 14th blaze reported in the last several months in Jewish institutions. On Sunday, Mayor John Lind- say announced the establishment of a special police unit to inves- tigate fires and acts of vandalism against religious institutions. Sev- eral hours before his announce- ment, two more small fires had broken out at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center in Brooklyn. The mayor said they were "defin- itely cases of arson." A 10-year- old boy was taken into custody in connection with the latter. The police commissioner said police would post patrolmen at synagogues requesting special pro- tection. The Monday fire burned for 10 minutes before it was discovered and firemen called. The superin- tendent's family in the apartment next door were unharmed. A yes- hiva on the second floor was in session; 20 students rushed into the synagogue on the main floor and removed several Tora scrolls from the Ark. A Roman Catholic priest and 25 parishioners helped restore 300 Jewish manuscripts and rare books damaged by fire last Friday in a Queens synagogue. Three faiths were represented in a joint state- ment condemning recent vandal– isms and fires at houses of wor- ship. Meanwhile, the dean of a Brooklyn yeshiva that was sev- erely damaged by a fire attribu- ted to vandals last Thanksgiving Day described how a "kitchen dollar" campaign started by the mother of two students has mushroomed into a nationwide drive to help the school rebuild so •BRING IN AD= l■ TARGET SALE $99 MISSES, HALF SIZE I GOWNS I $49 I $79 COCKTAIL COATS ) I $39 SHANDELS 154 So Woodward float Maple I Birmingham Mich MI 2-4150 I NEMBINNammOMIMInimm its damaged classrooms and other facilities. According to Rabbi Meilich Sil- ber of the Yeshiva of Eastern Parkway, more than $4,000 was raised in the first 10 days of the campaign. The yeshiva is seeking $200,000 to restore its building. He said that the mother, a New York public school teacher, approached fellow teachers with the request, "Give me a dollar—just one dol- lar" to rebuild the school. Teachers—Jewish and non-Jew- ish, white and black—responded, Rabbi Silber said. The campaign was taken up by the Association of Orthodox Jewish Teachers in - New York and later by the principals of a half dozen schools who organized Hanuka campaigns to raise funds for repairs. Through Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, director of Torah Umesora, the national society for Hebrew day schools, the fund- raising campaign was extended to other states and to Canada, Rabbi Silber said. He said that in many instances kindergarten children have joined in. The Yeshiva of Eastern Park- way is one of three Orthodox Jew- ish day schools damaged by fires that are beneficiaries of a special $200,000 grant from the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. black citizens of our city will reject this blatant appeal to bigo- try," he said. The Negro teachers' magazine bitterly attacked the "Jewish dom- inated United Federation of Teachers" and the New York City Board of Examiners for allegedly preventing Negroes and Puerto Ricans from becoming teachers and principals and for keeping "our children ignorant." The African-American Teachers Forum, a bimonthly publication, also charged in an editorial that "the Jew, our liberal friend of yesterday, whose cries of anguish still resound from the steppes of Russia to the tennis courts of Forest Hills, is now our exploiter." The magazine said "the time has come for a great responsible voice to speak up in the Jewish com- munity. It is time to right these grave wrongs." The African-American Teachers Forum said it is now fashionable not to criticize Jews "who have hidden behind the cloak of anti- Semitism as a broad shield against criticism." The editorial said, "Don't tell us any more about the six million destroyed by Hitler: Tell us instead about the 12 million blacks slaugh- tered in 300 years of black geno- cide. The Jews have recovered and now prosper. We blacks . . . hampered by vicious laws, beaten by sadistic police, exploited by employers, landlords and mer- chants, still exist in the stifling slums of our poverty-ridden ghet- toes." The editorial specifically ac- cused the board of examiners of systematically disqualifying Ne- gro and Puerto Rican applicants for licenses as teachers and charged UFT President Albert Shanker with "racist diatribes" that "do a disservice to the en- tire Jewish community." A spokesman for the teachers' union refused to answer the charge. Paul Denn, a member of the board of examiners, denied that discrimination existed. He pointed out that all applicants for licenses were assigned numbers, and their identities were unknown until their examination papers were rated. 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