No One Can Build F reedom on Backs of 0 thers Rabbis Told

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

LAKEWOOD, N.J. — Leading
Orthodox rabbis expressed shock
and sorrow Monday at Negro anti-
Semitism and at the "ironic" turn
of events in which Jews, tradition-
ally in the forefront of the strug-
gle for civil rights, now find them-
selves the victims of those they
have sought to help.
The rabbis expressed their views
at the annual conference of the
Rabbinical Council of America,
the association of Orthodox rabbis.
About 500 rabbis are attending
the event here. The comments
were made by Zev Segal, of New-
ark, president; Rabbi Bernard L.
Berzon of Brooklyn, first vice
president; and Rabbi Israel Kla-
ven, executive vice president. The
views were contained in interviews
with the rabbis and in speeches
at the conference.
"It is improper to classify the
current wave of anti-Semitism in
America strictly as black anti-
Semitism," Rabbi Segal said.
"There has been a tendency among
the white non-Jewish community
to play the role of coat-holders as
they enjoy the Negro and Jew in
conflict."
He added that it was unfair to
leave the struggle against black
to the Jewish
anti-Semitism
population alone. He added,
"There must be an aroused Com-
munity at least as much as there
was concerning the Negro's
struggle for civil rights.
Rabbi Klaven warned the Ne-
groes that "No one can build his
freedom on the back of someone
else. Negroes who have suffered
so much from prejudice ought to
recognize it." To combat this con.;
dition, the rabbis urged better
communications with Negro lead-1
ers to express continued support
of the Negro struggle for equality. I
At the same time, they said, anti-1
poverty programs are "missing the
mark because they are designed to
find favor with the militants in the
Negro community rather than
meet the needs of the masses."
Sociology Professor Jerry
Ilochbaum of Yeshiva Univer-
sity declared Tuesday:
Unless the process of polariza-
tion of white and Negro is ar-
rested, and unless the social and
economic pathology in our cities
responsible for this is reduced, it
is inevitable that there will be
greater upheaval and even vio-
lence. What more compelling rea-
son for the Jews in the urban
crisis as citizens than our self-
interest to protect our businesses,
homes, families and in the ex-
treme, perhaps, our lives?"
"As Jews," Prof. Hochbaum told
the rabbinical leaders, "our selfish
purpose may be even more pro-
nounced. The social, economic and
psychological forces that under-
lie the problem of our "cities, the
despair, frustration and hopeless-;
ness they generate—these are the
same forces responsible for the
surfacing anti-Semitism which
Jews are now confronting in the
militant black community."
In Washington, Rabbi Jay

Kaufman, executive vice presi-
dent of Bnai Brith, accused Ne-
gro extremists of using anti-
Semitism as a "conscious and
cynical deceit" to win a follow-
ing in the black ghetto. He said
"effective counter-action" to the
rise in anti-Jewish sentiment

"must come from within the Ne-
gro community itself," adding
-that the white community, while
"offering aid when requested or
when mutually agreed upon, can
only play a secondary role."

Addressing Bnai Brith's board of
governors, Rabbi Kaufman charg-
ed that Negro extremists are ex-
ploiting anti-Semitism to "cloak
the emptiness of their solutions to
real ills and to gain support" in
black ghettoes. "Unable to offer
any constructive program to miti-
gate the suffering among deprived
Negroes, they offer them the jobs
Jews have attained through train- I
ing, labor, proficiency and senior-
ity," he said. "It is a cheap and
larcenous scheme,"
In calling for a "vigorous cam-
paign of Negro counter-action to
black anti-Semitism," Rabbi Kauf-
man said it was deplorable that
while the vast majority of Negroes
may not 'accept extremists' views,
"little has been done to resist the
infection." "The problem," he
added, "is that quiescent accept-
ance of anti-Semitism in the Ne-
gro community is regarded as a
fact of life—realistic if not legiti-
mate."
Daniel P. Moynihan, the new
White House assistant for urban
affairs, urged Monday that the
Jewish community "not turn in-
ward" because of Negro hostility
and remove itself from the strug-
gle for racial equality. While rec-
ognizing the dilemma facing Jew-
ish groups created by a rise in
anti-Semitism, "this is no tune for
turning back," he told the board
of governors.
Making his first public speech
since joining the Nixon administra-
tion, Dr. Moynihan said that "or-
ganizations such as Bnai Brith
were never more needed than to-
day in the cause of equality. - He ,
said the nation will have paid "a
very heavy price" if such tradi-
tional elements in the fight against ;
prejudice and discrimination as;
the Jewish community withdraws
from the effort for racial justice.
Nationally syndicated columnist
Stewart Alsop denounced Wednes-
day Negro and white extremist
anti-Semitism saying that the "real
watershed" of black anti-Semitism
was Israel's Six-Day War victory.
He said that after that triumph,
the Student Non-Violent Coordinat-
ing Committee (SNCC) "published
its famous newsletter accusing
Jews of imitating their Nazi op-
pressors.
"After the SNCC newsletter,
more or less open anti-Semitism
became common among the more
far-out black militants, just as
opposition to Israel spread through
the white New Left" after Wash-
ington journalist I. F. Stone pub-
lished an anti-Israel article in "the
New York Review of Books," he
wrote .

tween Mayor Lindsay and local
Jewish leaders, the mayor "was
unable to recognize the validity
of our observations" with the re-
sult that "by acts of commission
and omission on
the part of the
city government,
there was gener-
ated a permis-
sive atmosphere
that ignited a fire
of hate and vio-
lence which now
threatens the en-
tire city."
Rabbi Klaper-
m a n demandedRabbi Klaperman
that: the Board of Education dis-
charge Albert Vann and Leslie
Campbell, two Negro school teach-
ers who have publicly made anti-
Semitic remarks; the mayor not
re-appoint Human Rights Com-
missioner William H. Booth who
allegedly showed "singular insen-
sitivity" to anti-Semitic incidents;
the mayor and city council with-
hold funds from the Metropolitan

Museum of Art until it withdraws

a catalogue for the "Harlem on
My Mind" exhibit containing anti-
Semitic remarks New York State
Commissioner of Education Dr.
James E. Allen Jr. reorganize the
board of education "so that its
members will represent education-;
al excellence, rather than being

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ganization, which represents some j
900 Conservative, Orthodox and
Reform rabbis, that "the guilt for
Negro disenfranchisement should

in a Jewish society, but in
the
midst of an overwhelmingly
large white community, of which
the Jew is just a small part; •
and if the Negro is deprived, it
is the community at large that
must accept the guilt and work
for its atonement. The Jewish
community cannot undo what it
did not create, and we cannot
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lynchings. It was not the Jews
who had segregated churches and
segregrated schools and segre-
gated buses.
"It was not the Jews who
denied them employment in in-
surance companies — which still
do not employ Jews who qualify,
or banks or in the utility com-

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A bitter attack on Mayor John
V. Lindsay and his administra- ,
tion for alleged failure to stem
growing manifestations of Ne-
gro anti-Semitism in New York
City was made by Rabbi Gilbert
Klaperman, re-elected president
of the New York Board of Rab-
bis.

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charges in his acceptance speech ;
at the Board of Rabbis' 88th an-
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panies. The Negro is not /Icing

Negroes to America to enslave
them. It was not the Jews who
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