Arms Embargo
Becomes French
Election Issue
Supporters of Ex-Columbia Chaplain
Take On NY Times' Sulzberoer
NYC Rights Unit Chief Urges Housing Bias Suits
NEW YORK (JTA)—The chair- I within the commission's jurisdic-
man of the New York City Com- tion.
The letter was prompted by a
NEW YORK (JTA)—Supporters
a 15.0 vote by the City Human mission on Human Rights has
of Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, dis-
Rights Commission requesting it urged anyone who has been denied statement which the AJCommit-
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missed Jewish chaplain at Colum-
to do so confirmed its unaware- rental or purchase of housing tee released May 21 charging
said, "I have been away from bia University, have accused a
ness of the "shabby bigotry" accommodations because of race that more than 100 privately
power for nearly one year now. trustee of the university of trying
contained in the article. The or religion to file a complaint with owned cooperative apartment
If elected I shall study these files to block Rabbi Goldman's appoint-
article dealt with the 1968 cam-
buildings in Manhattan were dis-
and should it become clear that ment to a similar post at Wesley-
pus disorders and was branded the commission,
criminating against Jews and
one of the two sides has been sup- an University.
anti-Semitic by some because of
other minority group members.
In a letter to Edward D. Mold-
plied with weapons, France will
its references to the Jewish
The
charge
was
leveled
against
over,
president
of
the
New
York
The charge, made by Frederic S.
reconsider her entire stand on the
background of some of the stu-
Chapter of the American Jewish Berman, former commissioner of
issue. There can be no double Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, president I dent leaders.
Committee, Simeon Golar asked rent and housing maintenance, was
standard for the parties con- and • publisher of the New York
Times, who is a member of Col-
cerned."
On other occasions, Rabbi Gold- the AJCommittee to advise victims based on a year of investigation
Pompidou's statement was the umbia's Jewish Alumni Advisory man has charged that the Jewish of housing discrimination of their of discrimination housing by the
most detailed and specific he has! Board, the body that originally ap- Alumni Advisory Board dismissed right of recourse to the commis- AJCommittee. Berman is chair-
yet made on French Middle East pointed Rabbi Goldman to his cam- him because they felt he reflected sion. He also asked Moldover for man of a new committee set up
policy. Observers here said it pus post and subsequently advised badly on the "Jewish image" they any information his organization by the New York Chapter to deal
greatly diminished the possibility him that his contract was not be- wanted to cultivate at Columbia. may have on illegal practices with the problem.
that the arms embargo against ing renewed. "They told me to shave off my
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 13, 1969-5
Israel would be lifted if Pompidou
The accusation was contained in beard—they said it made me look
is elected. They noted that he a 350-word statement issued by the too Jewish," said Rabbi Goldman
carefully avoided making any Committee for Freedom for Univ- a 33-year-old graduate of the Re-
prOmises or commitments on the ersity Clergy.
form Hebrew Union College-Jew-
issue that he might be held to
ish Institute of Religion.
Sulzberger said that he was con-
after the June 15 election.
sulted by Edwin Etherington. pres-
About two dozen Jewish students
The newspaper Le Monde re-
ported that an anti-Semitic ident of Wesleyan, regarding Rab- and alumni of Columbia University
bi Goldman's qualifications and "I demonstrated a week ago in front
"whispering campaign" is going
on in the city of Orleans where told Mr. Etherington that from of the Newsweek building in Man-
Abba Eban's
anonymous letters and posters my experience I did not think Rab- hattan, owned by Gerald Oestreich-
attacking Jews have appeared. bi Goldman was the man best er. the chairman of the Jewish
suited
for
the
job."
Alumni
Advisory
Board.
Oestreich-
The paper said the campaign
was characterized by word-of-
A spokesman for Wesleyan er told a reporter in April that
mouth slander accusing Jews of
confirmed that Rabbi Goldman Rabbi Goldman had been dismiss-
engaging in white slave traffic.
had been considered for the job ed because the board felt "that he
It called on police authorities to
but that it was never offered to had overstepped the bounds of a
act promptly before the cam-
him and would not be. Other uni- religious man and was a co-bel-
$1
paign spreads to other cities.
ersity sources said that Sulz- ligerent with the students" in the
Le Monde has published a six-
berger was one of a number of Columbia campus disorders.
page special supplement devoted
references consulted in connec-
to "France and the Arab world"
tion with Rabbi Goldman's pos-
which stresses the interdependence
sible employment.
Bring In Ad
between the two and their lini:s
Rabbi Goldman, who has the
of trade and culture. Political ci:-
Sale! Reg. 9.99
cies here saw si.tnificance in the support of several student and
appearance of the supplement a faculty groups at Columbia, has
week before the run-off Presi- acused- the Jewish Alumni Advi-
Reg. $800
sory Board of complicity with the
dential elections.
,
university administration in firing
Israeli Defense Official
$10.00
Finds More Sympathy Since
him because of his support of stu-
Departure of de Gaulle
dent rebels in last spring's dis-
orders
on the Columbia campus.
TEL AVIV (.1TA1—lsrael's as-
If Purchased Together
sistant Defense Minister. Gen. Zvi
Sulzberger said that as far as he
Tsur. said on his return from Paris could recollect. Rabbi Goldman
that no developments could be ex- was informed of his dismissal be-
pected on the French arms em- fore the campus troubles.
bargo against Israel until after
Rabbi Goldman took issue with
next week's presidential run off
Columbia University on another
election.
matter.
He walked out of the an-
Gen. Tsur. who conferred with
OR ... JUST RELEASED
French Defense Minister Pierre nual baccalauretate service June
Yes, Junior,
Messmer and other government of- 2 after addressing the gathering
and
demanding
an
apology
from
?‘'Misses,
1/2
Sizes
ficials and aircraft industrialists.
said "the general feeling was more the university for an allegedly
BY ROBERT ST. JOHN
sympathetic and it was more pleas- anti-Semitic article published last
ant to talk to them" since the winter in Columbia College Today,
departure from political power of an alumni publication.
542-7520-1
24900 COOLIDGE at 10 MILE
ex-President Charles de Gaulle.
Rabbi Goldman told Columbia
154 So. Woodward
Gen. Tsur visited Paris at the
In The Dexter Davison Shopping Plaza
and Barnard College seniors and
Birmingham, Mich.
invitation of officials of the inter-
their parents that the univer-
Open All Day Sunday
national air show held at Le
sity's refusal to apologize despite
Bourget Airport.
He was accompanied by Admiral
Mordechai Limon. head of the Is- -
raeli purchasing mission for West-
ern Europe. at his meeting with
Messmer. He also met with Pierre
Blanchard. ministerial delegate for
arms and munitions supplies, and
Marcel Bloch-Dassault whose firm
manufactures the Mirage super-
sonic jet fighter-bomber.
Fifty Mirage V aircraft. built
to Israel Air Force specifications,
were bought and paid for in full
by Israel more than a year ago.
They are still held in a French
warehouse pending an end, to the
embargo on aircraft and spare
parts imposed by Gen. de Gaulle
following the June. 1967 Six-Day
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