THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, February 14, 1969
Moynihan Rates C hinese, Japanese
and Jews as Elite M inorities in U.S.
(Direct. JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewisli News)
WASHINGTON — Americans of
Chinese, Japanese and Jewish de-
scent have been cited by the gov-
ernment's chief adviser on urban
problems as the most outstanding
examples of ethnic minorities that
have advanced to the highest
status in this country.
The achievements of the three
groups were chosen as examples
of upward mobility by Daniel P.
Moynihan in a book he was-about
to publish when he accepted his
Hillel Parley to Probe
Hang-Ups Between
Establishment, Youth
WASHINGTON—An effort to ex-
plore the "hang-ups" they have
about each other will be made be-
tween the Jewish "Establishment"
and its college youth when leaders
of both groups are brought to-
gether by the Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundations next month for a
"face-to-face" conference.
Jewish student leaders repre-
sentative of the political and social
spectrum on campus — from the
New Left to traditional and reli
gion-centered movements—are be-
ing invited to "talk it out" with
the lay and professional heads of
Jewish secular and religious
groups, academicians, federation
and welfare fund leaders and
others of the Jewish Establish-
ment in a three-day meeting,
March 8-10, here.
Hillel Foundation officials, par-
ticularly staff rabbis who minis-
ter to Jewish students on campus,
have recently expressed concern
over the lack of communication
between Jewish community spokes-
men and the campus generation
over the latter's character and at-
titudes.
Meanwhile, a Hillel Founda-
tion director, has claimed that a
growing number of American
Jewish youth, increasingly alien-
ated from a society it condemns
as materialistic and conserva-
tive-prone, is likely to become a
greater source of Western aliya
to Israel in the next decade.
Rabbi Gerald Engel, Hillel direc-
present assignment in the Nixon
administration, syndicated colum-
nist Joseph Alsop reported in the
Washington Post Wednesday.
Dr. Moynihan's credo is, "In the
United States, what you do is what
you are," Alsop wrote. "To illus-
trate his ideas, he rather pointedly
chooses the Americans of Chinese,
Japanese and Jewish descent. It
will astonish everyone, but these
three groups now constitute the
three identifiable American elites
if elite-status is to be judged by
the percentage of a group's mem-
bers in high status occupations,
plus the percentage of the group's
next generation receiving univer-
sity education," Alsop said.
—
"In these respects, according
to the 1960 census, the Chinese,
the Japanese and the Jews are
all well ahead of the WASPS—
the white Anglo-Saxon Protes-
tants usually supposed to be
America's most privileged
group." Dr. Moynihan pointed
out in his book that these three
groups were formerly victims of
the bitterest prejudice, and the
Chinese and Japanese further-
more were as much set apart
by the color of their skin as
Negro Americans.
According to the 1960 census,
Alsop reported, "the Chinese and
Japanese had over half their chil-
dren between 18 and 24 in univer-
sities, while white Americans had
only a bit more than one-fifth go-
ing to college. The Jews, not
singled out by the census, mean-
while had above 70 per cent in
college according to a Bnai Brith
study."
Alsop said that the Moynihan
book attributes the success of the
Jews, Chinese and Japanese to
their traditionally strong family
ties and ethnic pride.
Churchman Deplores Any Trend to Rift Between Christian, Jew
b e
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tour the U
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United
LSitnactoein
s,
MILWAUKEE— Conflict between whose welfare and lives are threat- who
honored Feb. 16,
ISrael and the Arab states must ened by violence and the possibili-
Synagogue,
150
West
End
not be allowed to injure good rela- ties of renewed warfare."
York, for the opening of the
He urged men of good will to
tions between Jews and Christians
14th Annu l Summer in Israel and a
in the United States, the president "demand that this senseless terror European Extension Tour, spon-
govern-
of the 2,000,000-member United stop, and to call upon the
sored by the Youth Bureau of the
Church of Christ warned here to- ments of the world, including those Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological
of Israel and the Arab nations, to
Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva
The Rev. Dr. Ben M. Herbster bring an end to the conflict with the University.
of New York, addressing the ninth greatest possible degree of justice
annual assembly of the denomina- to both sides."
Talk, to me, is only spading up
tion, said he was "deeply concern- Dr. Herbster also expressed re-
ed that our warm, constructive gret at charges and counter- the ground for crops of thought, I
can't
answer for what will turn up,
relations with our Jewish neighbors charges of prejudice between Ne-
shall not be disrupted." gros and Jews. "I am troubled by If I could, I wouldn't be talking,
but
"speaking
my piece."
"No matter to which side our irresponsible charges that Jews are
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
be directed," he limiting the freedom and oppor-
.
sympathies may
said, "we must understand and tunity of black men, and the angry
sympathize with the earnest con- retorts that the great majority of
cern of men for their co-religionists black men are anti-Semitic."
Stressing that many Jews have
been "in the forefront of the fight
for equality," he said he did not
believe that any large number of
Shown
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mite found on his premises. His
elainied. that most. of-the fire-
arms were "collectors items."
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The Zionist Organization of
America announces that MRS.
DOROTHY SERELS has been ap-
pointed director of the speakers'
and artists' bureau and the ZOA
women's committees for projects
in Israel.
* * *
The Chief Rabbi of Venice,
AVRA.HAM PIATELLI, who traces
his Roman Jewish lineage almost
2,000 years to the days before the
emperor Titus, is the guest of Ye-
complete
shiva University, New York, for
several functions.
Ports of Israel are depicted on
a new postage stamp series issued
by the Israel Postal Ministry's
philatelic service. The three, in
mauve, brown and green, respec-
tively, show Eilat, Ashdod and
Haifa.
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Man Held in Blast
of D.C. Synagogue
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Police
are holding for grand jury action,
a 30-year-old Cheverly, Md. man
on charges of dynamiting Jan. 11
the Shaare Tikvah synagogue in
suburban Temple Hills, Md. Dam-
age to the year-old synagogue was
tor at Purdue University, studied
estimated at $200,000.
443 American Jews who became
A small arsenal was found in the
permanent residents of Israel and
found that more of them were home of David V. Maness, an elec-
trical
worker, along with a printed
motivated by a "push" from
America than the "pull" of Israel. list of synagogues in Prince
Writing in the National Jewish Georges County, where Shaare
Monthly, a Bnai Brith publication, Tikvah is located, and a hand-
Rabbi Engel reports that among drawn map of the Temple Hills
the emigres he found that a "mu- area.
Among the charges filed against
tual feeling of uneasiness about
life in America" was a greater Maness were dynamiting of a house
factor in their emigration than of worship. Some 38 pounds of
religion, Zionism or Jewish organ- dynamite, fuses and detonation ,
tapes were found in his home
izational involvement.
Some 72 per cent of them were along with weapons and ammuni-
disturbed by "the total (American) tion after police picked him up in
community's moral problem of a car, stopped when it was recog-
materialism," the survey disclos- nized as belonging to a convicted
felon.
ed.
Found also in the home was a
This and a rising fear of violence
quantity of literature produced
are having a great effect on a
Jewish youth generation that is by the extreme right-wing Min-
utemen organization which
"facing an unhappy time in Amer-
ica" and which is "now being teaches its members guerilla
alienated from a society which (it warfare. Officials did not say
feels) does not live by its own whether Maness was a Minute-
social values of freedom and men member.
equality," Rabbi Engel writes.
Rabbi Robert Chernoff, the syna-
Among the disenchanted Jewish gogue's spiritual leader, said he
youth are many who believe that hoped "there will be no premature
Israel can be "more representative judgments made against the man."
to prophetic ideals" and who will There were no injuries in the ex-
"seriously consider starting life plosion, as the synagogue was
there," he says.
empty on the Saturday night that
Rabbi Engel's study took in it occurred. The rabbi said repairs
about 63 per cent of the native had begun. The congregation is
American Jews who became per- meeting in a church.
manent residents of Israel between
Maness has seven felony convic-
1962 and 1966.
tions on his record, and U.S. Attor-
ney Benjamin R. Wolman said the
suspect would jump bail if he were
released.
Maness denied that he was re-
sponsible for the bombing. He pro-
fessed no knowledge of the dyna-
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