Jewish Units Back Decentralization: Teachers
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As an example, he cited the
, D
ee: threaten. " However
the Negro sf Ginzberg asserted, it is "wrong teachers' strikes in New York City
NEW YORK (JTA) — The New, groups endorsing decentralize- rabbis not to see Nu
equality
and dangerous for Jewish leaders as a "Negro-labor union conflict,
York chapters of nine major Amer- I tion were New York chapter, quest for power and ." The noted
American Jewish Committee; as a "racial
ican Jewish organizations have en-
to raise the cry of anti-Semitism not as a racial-ethnic confronta-
Jewish Labor Com- economist and manpower spe-
tion."
an- when such conflicts occur."
dorsed the concept of , school de- New York
cialist, speaking at the 69th
mittee; New York Federation of
centralization, t h e controversial
issue at the heart of last fall's t Reform Rabbis; Labor Zionist nual convention of the Rabbinical --
Movement; National Council of Assembly (Conservative), warn-
strikes by New York City teachers.
ed that the upward thrust of the
The organizations expressed their
Jewish
Women;
New York
re- Negro community will create in-
gion,
Union
of American
Hebrew
approval of decentralization in a
evitable conflict with Jews.
Congregations; and the New
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Circle.
cil of New York.
Meanwhile the United Federa- ghetto, when large numbers of
It called for "increased commu- lion of Teachers, which had been Negroes move into Jewish neigh-
nitv participation in the operation i accused of exaggerating black anti- borhoods, when Negroes seek pre.
itism as an issue in last fall's ferential treatment in the school
Sorting Tow Since 1925
of our public schools . . . predi-
cated on meeting New York State teachers' strikes, was apparently system or elsewhere in municipal !
government,"
he
said.
"many
will!
standards of education and on the playing down the issue.
assurance of equity and justice to
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the parties directly concerned." It weekly "United Teachers," carried
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
also declared that To the extent I an article headlined, "Black Anti-
Anti-
that anti-Semitic and' anti-Negro Semitism Seen as Exaggerated
sentiment have been injected into Issue by Parents and Staff of PS
the issue of decentralization, we 144."
THE DETROIT COUNCIL OF ORTHODOX RABBIS
condemn it as a disservice to the
The school named is in the Ocean
racial and religious harmony in-
Will Again Conduct the Supervision of
dispensable to the viability of our Hill-Brownsville district. The ar-
tide quoted Harriet Goldstein,
multi-ethnic city."
UFT chapter chairman at PS 144
The statement warned that "anti- ! as saying, "Anti-Semitism has
Semitism and any other type of I been attributed to the Ocean Hill
bigotry will be resisted to the full- , district on the basis of the com-
est extent of our capabilities."
ments of a very few individuals
The issue of anti-Semitism , whom I don't think are represent-
arose in the school strikes from ! ative of the district. I have never
the confrontation between the witnessed anything I would term
Jewish-led, predominantly Jew- , as anti-Semitism in my own
ish United Federation of Teach- school." Several Jewish teachers
ers and the largely Negro at the school were quoted as deny-
Ocean-Hill Brownsville exPeri- ing the existence of anti-Semitism
mental school district. there. One said, "Most of the anti-
In a related action, the New Semitism in our school comes
York Metropolitan Council of the from white Jews."
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United Synagogue of America, one ,
Ralph Rogers, the Negro princi-
LOOK FOR THE LABEL
INSPECTION
of the nine organizations, urged pal of PS 144, Was quoted as say-
for
CORDIALLY
Gov. Rockefeller and the New 1 ing that newsmen spoke to outside
York Legislature to include in any
INVITED
er. than community
ts
"Worry Free"
decentralization p 1 a n protection residents rather
-ep ,,rts of anti-
tn
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and guarantees "in every marine.-
m s ate ents. He said the
Semitic
Home Delivery
and
form, in against
personnel
and sub- parents in the area do not care if
ject matter.
elements
teachers are "black or white or
which are anti-Semitic or racial, Jewish or gentile" so long as they
either directly or indirectly." do a good job in the classroom. A
The stipulation was contained in group calling itself "The Jewish
letters from David Zucker, presi- Citizens Committee Control" used
dent of the United Synagogue's a full-page advertisement in the
New York region, to the governor New York Times to reprint an ar-
FARM DAIRY
and legislators from New York ticle from "The Public Life" a bi-
City and suburban communities.
weekly journal of politics, which
Zucker declared that "We feel accused the UFT leadership of de-
that anti-Semitic and' racial in- liberately raising and spreading
struction or materials have no the issue of black anti-Semitism
place in the New York City school during the teachers' strike to 1,3 4
system." He urged that all school alarm the Jewish community and
personnel be selected on the basis gain its support for the strike.
of merit, not such criteria as race,
Anti-Semitism in the the white
creed, color or national origin.
community of New York City is
The endorsement of school de- much stronger than is black
i.
centralization represented a re- anti-Semitism, the Human Rights
versal of position by at least one Commissioner told a meeting of it
organization that joined in it. The Reform leaders.
: . C .
Metropolitan Council of the Ameri-
Simeon Golar, speaking on
can Jewish Congress had urged "Improving Black-Jewish Relation-
the legislature last month to defer ships in New York City," told
action on decentralization for at rabbinic, lay and educational lead-
least a year. But in a separate ers that the troubled Jewish corn- .
statement this week, the group munity here has over-reacted to :- ;:t:
called - for a decentralized city black extremism. :;:t
school system of 20 to 30 local
Addressing some 150 people at
sc ool districts. It said the botm- the Union of American Hebrew h
daries should be drawn to achieve Congregations, Golar called upon
"maximum integration" and add- the white middle class, including :.ti
ed, "Nothing we sponsor derogates Jews, not to flee the city but to h
from the protection guaranteed to remain and "help the civil rights
teachers and supervisors, by law struggle."
and contract, against arbitrary or
Responding to a q u e stion,
discriminatory selection assign- Golar denied that responsible
ment, transfer or dismissal." Negro leaders have been silent on
In addition to the United Syn- the black anti-Semitism issue. He
said that a number, including Roy
agogue and the AJCongress, the
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Wilkins of the NAACP, had spoken
out "forcefully" against it. "The
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trouble is that the extremists
have gotten 'disproportionate'
space and time in the press and on >,'"t
television," he said. Virtually all
the anti-Semitic epithets in the
racial crisis have come from
"black extremists and nuts who
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