II—Friday;
May
2, 1969
High Court Ruling on Pornography Hit by Schools Body
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
neglected."
According to Rabbi Hecht, it is a
case of "letting George do it, the
George being the school, the syna-
gogue or church, the municipal
government, or what have you—
everyone but themselves, the real
ones to be blamed."
BROOKLYN—A flood of porno-1 haps the decision was judicially
graphy will soon engulf the United; correct, but it ignored the conse-
way now that
States because of the Supreme' quences. "The only
Court decision on pornography, it we can possibly stem the tide of
for parents,
this
pornography
is
little progress Wednesday in their was charged by the Orthodox Na- educators, and religious leaders to
sixth meeting but have started to tional Committee for Furtherance take militant action against it," he
of Jewish Education I NCFJE).
Pravda Article Warns Israel: Leave
Arab Lands or Big 4 Will Make You
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON—The Soviet Union ad
vised Israel Wednesday that any
Big Four proposal for Mid East
peace will oblige Israel to quit the
occupied territories. The Commu-
nist Party newspaper Pravda de -
Glared that if Israel tried to remain
in the territories, it would face
concerted pressure from the United
States, Britain, USSR and France.
A signed article by "Observer, '
giving it the force of a semiofficial
statement, said that "under no
conditions or in no case can Israel
count on acquisition of Arab terri-
tories."
The newspaper expressed assur-
ances that the "Big Four talks
can become an effective means of
ensuring the implementation of the
November (1967) United Nations
resaution." It warned Israel that
its leaders "should clearly under-
stand how dangerous for Israel
itself are the consequences of those
provocations it commits on Arab
territories."
(The article was published before
Wednesday's Israeli reprisal raid
deep inside Egypt.)
deal with the Palestine refugee
problem, a UN source said. A
working party was set up to ap-
praise the progress of the talks
1 involving a drawing-up of a list of
those issues on which the ambassa-
dors agree and disagree.
The talks, the next slated for
Tuesday, have focused on methods
of carrying out the Nov. 22 resolu-
tion. It was indicated there has
been no progress on the issue of
Israeli withdrawal from occupied
areas.
(Informed sources acknowledged
that the most important discussions
are being carried on in Washing-
ton between Joseph Sisco, assist-
ant secretary of state for Near
East affairs, and Soviet Ambassa-
dor Anatoly F. Dobrynin. Points of
agreement reached in the capital
are then reflected in the Four
Power talks at the UN which are
aimed at spelling out details and
reconciling other differences.
(For this r e a so n, whatever
changes occurred in the French
(The Soviet Union continued to position as a result of President
build up its Mediterranean naval de Gaulle's departure are not ex-
power, with the numeric al pected to have much bearing on
strength of its fleet now believed the talks. A French proposal that
to equal that of the United States Egypt and Jordan, on the one
Sixth Fleet in the area, creating hand, and Israel on the other, issue
a situation of unprecedented declarations of intent to implement
Soviet naval power.)
the solution has not been brought
The Big Four reportedly made to an agreement.)
According to Rabbi Jacob J.
Hecht, NCFJE executive vice
president. when the Supreme
Court ruled that a man could pos-
sess or exhibit pornography in the
privacy of his home, it removed
the last major legal barrier keep-
ing pornographic films and litera-
ture underground.
•'Admittedly there has been a
pornographic revolution in the past
few years, with films and thea-
trical productions being made
available on ordinary bookstands,"
Rabbi Hecht said. "Despite all this
publicity, however, pornography
has not been very much out in the
open."
But now, according to Rabbi
! Hecht, everything is changed be-
: cause of the Supreme Court ruling.
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; cially acceptable and desirable.
"The home of the future will
consider pornography as common-
place and necessary as a color TV
or dishwasher. - he said.
According to Rabbi Hecht. per-
Tora scrolls is decorated by two
gilded, doves and a gilded crown.
Finland's chief delegate to the' These come from warships of the
United - 1Nrifions (afidslti Security' Czar who then ruled Finland and
Council member) is Max Jakobson, whose Navy, which often anchored
the son of one of the best known in Helsinki, had Jewish conscripts.
Jewish families in Helsinki. His Some of them, so the local legend
mother, who was not Jewish, now , goes, "lifted" the ornaments from
understands and speaks Hebrew. the ships and brought them as a
When Jakobson's parents were present to the newly-built syna-
married, mixed marriages in Fin- gogue.
In fact, ex-servicemen from the
land were still relatively few. To-
day, about half of the Jews marry Czar's armies were the founders
out of their faith. Some of the corn- of the Finnish Jewish community.
triunity's leaders are trying to see Having served their 25 years of
some signs of hope for the future. service and thus much more self-
"The third generation is coming assured than the rest of their breth-
back to Judaism," says one of , ren, their return to oppressed and
them. "About half the children in persecuted Jewish communities
our day school come from mixed was not welcomed by Russian
marriages." authorities. Therefore they were
The Helsinki day school is the encouraged to settle in other areas,
pride of the community. Located 'I including Finland.
in the modern bright building of
Of the 2,000-member. Jewish
the Jewish Community Center, next community during World War II,
to the synagogue, the !ctiool has' more than 400 were on active
nine grades and a kindergarten. military duty — practically the en-
There are probably not many Jew- tire male adult population.
ish schools in America in a Jewish
The community is so at home in
community of 1,000 — Finland has Finland that in a few decades it
1,300 Jews and they live in Hel- may become completely absorbed
sinki and Turu — that could boast in the local population.
of such facilities as exist in Hel-
sinki.
By no means do all children of U.S. Contestants Score
mixed marriages go to the Jewish
at World Bible Contest
day school. There is a movement
JERUSALEM—Second, third and
out to the suburbs, the difficulty
of getting the child to the Jewish fourth places in the 10th annual
International
Bible Contest went to
school in downtown Helsinki is
growing, and among partners of American teen-agers, and the win-
mixed marriages there seems to ner, Zohar Noam, was an Amer-
be little determination to send the ican-born youngster who went to
live in Israel permanently at age 4.
child to Jewish school.
The community center also has The Americans were: Howard
clubs for adults, a sports club for Koenig, Yaron Reich and Gillian
young adults, woodwork, handi- Ratzersdorfer, all of New York.
They were among the 26 finalists
craft and sewing workshops for
after-school activities, and even a from 15 countries throughout the
mikva, fashionably paved with world, of which the American
modern mosaics but built accord- group numbered seven. They were
the winners of contests sponsored
ing to all the rules.
The government participates in , in the United States in 1967 and
the budget of the day school but 1968.
The three American winners
the overwhelming part comes from
two other sources: membership each won a year's scholarship for
taxes and income from some pru- study in Israel, as well as other
dent real estate investment made, prizes, which were presented to
by the community several years them by Prime Minister Golda
ago when the prices were quite M e ir.
low. The community owns an'
apartment house and a downtown KINDNESS
Whoever gives a small coin to a
office building (the latter houses
the offices of the tax division of poor man has six blessings be-
stowed upon him, but he who
the Helsinki Municipality).
The synagogue was built before speaks a kind word to him obtains
World War I. The ark holding the 11 blessings.—Talmud.
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"By telling everyone that por-
nography in the home is permis-
sible, the Supreme Court is not
only sanctioning dirty movies
, and lewd books, it is actually
i promoting them." Rabbi Hecht
said.
Jewish Community of Finland
By ELIAHU SALPETER
(Copyright 1969, JTA, Inc.)
said.
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