Newark Police Search for Arsonists
in Fire-Bombing of Prinz's Temple
NEWARK (JTA) — Newark po-
lice were continuing their search
for suspects in the fire-bombing
last week of Dr. Joachim Prinz's1
synagogue, Temple Bnai Abraham.
The incident followed the failure
of a plot allegedly involving ex-
tremist Black Panthers aimed at
extorting 55,000 from Dr. Prinz.
Authorities were investigating a
Possible link between the fire,
officially listed as arson, and the
alleged kidnaping of Alfred Whit-
ers, synagogue custodian, by two
men who demanded but failed to
get Dr. Prinz's address and tele-
phone number, police said.
Firemen fought the blaze, ap-
Militant Jewish Defense League
Likened by Eisendrath to KKK
NEW YORK (JTA) — The mili-
tant Jewish Defense League was
denounced last weekend by a Re-
form rabbinical leader as "in es-
sence, no different" from the Ku
Klux Klan and as a group which
"violates every ethic and tradition
Of Judaism and every concept of
civil liberties and democratic pro-
cess in American life.
requesting such aid is not the solu-
tion of the problem. "The issue is
whether or not we shall adhere
to a democratic, orderly process
of dealing with grievances or
whether we shall accept willfully
created disorder and terror as
legitimate means of the social in-
tercourse. This is why legislative
measures are needed." he de-
Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, clared.
Rabbi KarasiCk delivered his ad-
president of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, the Reform dress to over 1,000 delegates and
congregational body, made the guests attending the UOJCA's an-
charge in a report to the UAHAC nual national dinner. Guest or hon-
board of trustees. which was hold- or was Julius J. Rosen, Miami
ing its semiannual three-day meet- industrialist, who received the
Kether Shem Tov (Crown of the
ing.
Good Name) Award of the organi-
Rabbi Eisendrath's attack on
zation.
parently caused by incendiary ob-
jects hurled through a window that
had been forced open, for nearly
an hour last Thursday night. Four
rows of pews in the rear of the
large temple were burned out,
several memorials were damaged
and part of the structure was
burned.
Leaders of NeWark's black com-
munity denounced the fire and the
kidnapping in a statement read to
the congregation by Dr. Prinz last
Friday. Several black leaders were
present at the time.
"The fire bombing of this
temple," they said, "finds its
only likeness in barbarity in the
Fire-bombing of black churches
in Selma, Ala. and other South-
ern towns. "We deplore violence
by anyone and we cry out
against its madness by blacks
as fiercely as we condemn its
use by whites."
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Dr. Prinz, who has long been in
the forefront of the civil rights
movement and is well known as a
champion of the cause of Negro
rights, said: "We will not yield
to any kind of terror ... and will
not be intimidated by arson or
threats on our lives."
Dr. Prinz said that he did not
know why Bn.ii Abraham had been
singled out for the attack. He was
the Jewish Defense League was
convinced, he said, that it was the
the first from any Jewish organ-
Hebron Settlers Move
work of a small group of hoodlums.
ization. A number of league
members gathered last week in Into Permanent Housing The alleged plotters last week did
not reach Dr. Prinz, 67, who lives
front of Temple Emanu•El,
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jewish in Orange, a Newark suburb. The
armed with baseball bats and settlers
in Hebron has moved into custodian refused to tell where the
chains for an expected confron-
tation with James Forman of permanent housing, little more rabbi lived despite threats on his
than
a
year
after they established life, police said.
the National Black Economic
themselves in the West Bank Arab
Development Conference, which town without
The alleged plotters sought mon-
government permis-
is demanding "reparations"
ey to pay for legal aid for an un-
and announced their intention
from churches and synagogues sion
identified
"brother," police said.
to stay.
of half a billion dollars.
A Jersey City man was arrested
The two new buildings, which
and
charged
with threatening to
Forman did not appear at the were authorized by the cabinet,
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Reform synagogue, and its Rabbi contain 13 apartments and various kill and kidnaping. The man's car
Nathan A. Perilman. deplored the public institutions including a was filled with Black Panther lit-
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He asserted that "neither Jews
nor Christians nor America need
such 'protectors.' If these be our
friends, then God preserve us from
our enemies." Ile said that thus
far, the league was limited to
New York City "but in a climate
of emotionalism, such vigilantism
may grow."
With regard to the Forman
demands, Rabbi Joseph Kara-
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for "federal legislation in pro-
tection of divine worship." Rab-
bi Karasick said: "We do not
consider the interruption of Di-
vine services an acceptable way
of dealing with civil right issues.
The few remnants of sanctity in
our secular world must be pro-
tected. We reject this method as
a sacrilege and as a flagrant
violation of one of our basic
freedoms, the freedom to wor-
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dated."
The Jewish leader stressed that
he was not discussing the merits
of the demands nor whether or not
the spokesman of these demands
are the legitimate representatives
of the black community. He also
stated that the offer made by
Mayor Lindsay to send policemen
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