Community Slew;-- Parents Asked to Join Propaganda Fight To help counteract Arab pro- paganda on campus, the Flint Jewish Community Council wants to send fact sheets to col- lege students. Parents are ask- ed to call in the names and addresses of their children at- tending college to the Council office, 767-5922. Ruth Winogron to Wed Mark Magidson in Fall Trainees to Host UJA Leader The 1969-70 Young Leadership Training Group of the Flint Jew- ish Community Council will meet 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home of Dr. and Mrs. William Bernard. Saul J. Freedman of Philadel- phia, chairman of the missions committee of the national UJA Young Leadership Cabinet and im- mediate past regional chairman for Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, will speak on over- seas needs. Freedman is a member of the board of trustees of the Federa- tion of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia and has served as chairman of many Bnai Brith in Party Mood Bnai Brith men, women and youth will hold their annual games party 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Town and Country Gold Attic Room. The donation fee will include a late supper. Grand prize is a weekend for two at the Elmwood Casino. Committee workers for the men's group are Sam Winston, Carl Rittman and Chuck Silver- man. On the women's committee are Sybil Goldberg, Ann Gutter- man, Lee Karsh, Rita Persky, MISS RUTH WINOGRON Sandy Wanetik, Eleanor Winston Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Winogron and Shirley Winston. BBYO com- of Helber St. announce the en- mittee members are Larry Brav- gagement of their daughter Ruth er, Shelly Apel and Sue Winston. Ann to Mark Henry Magidson, son For reservations, call 732-7693 or of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Magidson of Bay City. 694-5113 no later than Monday. Miss Winogron attends the school of special education at Michigan State University. Mr. Magidson is a senior at Michigan State and plans to enter law school. A Sep- tember wedding is planned. committees of the federation and in the general community. Freedman earned his bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsyl- vania and is now president of Penn Federal S & L Association. He and his wife were on the UJA Study Mission to Israel in 1967 and on the UJA Young Leadership Missions in 1965 and September 1968. Comings ... and ... Goings Saul Seigel, executive director of the Greater Flint Downtown Corporation, will address the Ala- bama Press Association's 99th an- nual convention Feb. 12-14 at the Hotel Stafford, Tuscaloosa. He w ill conduct a session on brain- storming, to show members and guests how to solve problems and stimulating creative thinking His brainstorm- Seigel ing talk has been given to top management classes at General Motors Institute, to national sales conferences and sales meetings throughout the country, as well as to numerous civic and community organizations. ,9Aand Rapid& Mica, Community Calendar Jan. 9-11—UJA Midwest Leader- ship Institute, St. Louis 10—Temple Beth El Sister- hood Torah Convocation, 10 a.m. 11—Forum '70 Cultural Scr- ies—Dr. Milton Covensky, 8 p.m., Temple Beth El 12—Hadassah Board Meeting, 12:30 p.m., home of Mrs. Jerome Arenson —Council Community Rela- tions Committee Meeting, 8:30 p.m., at Temple Beth El 13—Council Young Leader- ship Training Program, 7:30 p.m., home of Dr. and Mrs. William Ber- nard —Bnai Brith Women Board Meeting, 8:30 p.m. 14—Hadassah Study Group, 12:30 p.m. 15—Beth Israel Board of Education Meeting, 8:30 p.m. —JWVA Donor D i n n e r, 6:30 p.m., Country Squire Restaurant * Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary 231 will have its silver donor an- niversary dinner 6:30 p.m. Thurs- day at the Country Squire Restaur- ant. Guests are welcome. For re- servations, call Mrs. Ruben Wis- nudel, 787-8362, or Bernadette Ma- jor, 234-2509. Assisting Mrs. Alex Kalmar are Mrs. Felix Schul- meister, Mrs. Gordon Suber, Mrs. Irwin Shapiro and Mrs. Joseph Fishier. Jan. 11—USY Board —Grand Rapids Temple Youth —Temple Emanuel Men's Club —Jewish Cultural Commit- tee Program 13—Ahavas Israel Sisterhood Board 14—Temple Emanuel Sister- hood 16—Cultural Series Service 16-18—Second Michigan State Temple Youth Board * * * Steve Koss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Koss, and Charles Wapner, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Wap- ner, are stationed in Vietnam. * * Ahavas Israel will hold an educa- tion conference for parents and teachers 8 p.m. Tuesday to "Tell It Like It Is." * * * Seven Temple Emanuel women journeyed to Lansing to express to their representatives their convic- tion that parochiaid would weaken Michigan's public education sys- tem. The seven are Mesdames David Weiss, Sam Kravitz. Si Ro- senbaum, Al Drasin, Alex Tauber, Arthur Siegel and William Deutch. * * * •Ahavas Israel Sisterhood will present a full day of programs with noon buffet luncheon Wednes- day. The morning program at 9:15 will feature a simulation game to enable participants to learn some- thing about social structures. It will be directed by Rev. Raymond Kretzchmer of the Grand Rapids Youth Ministry. Following lunch- eon, Mrs. Wadsworth Bissell will present her collection of appliqued wall hangings. Sisterhood' will present a can- tata, "Jeremiah—Prophet of Hope" at the Torah Fund Luncheon Jan. 20. Directed by Dr. Eugene Cohen, the choir members are Mesdames Eugene Cohen, Sol Kleiman, Sid- Michael Alan Levey, son of Mr. ney Mossman, Sidney Muskin, San- and Mrs. Marvin Levey, will be ford Norian, Melvyn Rapoport, called to the Torah as Bar Mitzva William Reines, Lewis Roth, Alan Siegel and Jerome Subar. Jan. 17 at Temple Beth EL • • • Bar Mitzva .17■■•■■••12.•3■0■1•=43.1111•••■■•■■■■■■•”13.1■ Narration will be by Mrs. Leon- ard Brenner and Mrs. Reuben Turner. Cantor Rosenfeld will be soloist. Co-chairmen are Mrs. Harry Goldberg and Mrs. Philip Rotenberg. The Sisterhood Study Group will meet at the home of Mrs. Victor Levenburg at 1 p.m. Jan. 27. Rabbi Chazin will lead a discussion on "The College Student Today: Where We Have Failed—What We Can Do About It." * * * United Synagogue Youth will hold a "Shu-In" Jan. 17 at the synagogue. The all-night activity is open to all Jewish youth in Grand Rapids and all USY'ers in the Central Region. There will be a dance, creative peace service, movie, two discussion groups, a creative shaharit service and breakfast. There will be adult supervision the entire evening. * * Bnai Brith Women will host Dr. Joseph Mann, director of labora- tories at Butterworth Hospital, as guest speaker Jan. 28 at Regency House. Luncheon will be at 12:30. Dr. Mann received the "Out- standing Physician" award from the Butterworth medical staff for his service to patients, teaching and extensive research. In 1961, Dr. Mann was co-dis- coverer of the Xg. Blood. Group System, the first sex-linked blood group found in man, which made possible, for the first time, the study of the linkage relationships of Xg with other hereditary condi- tions, such as hemophilia, muscu- lar dystrophy and color blindness. * * Ten men of the Julius Houseman Lodge of Bnai Brith pitched in to assist East Grand Rapids police over Christmas to give patrolmen a breather during the holiday. Police Chief Farrell Babcock said he was grateful for the help over what he termed "a quite 30 hours," which gave East Grand Rapids policemen more time with their families. The men from Bnai Brith assisted as the "second man" in patrol cars and as dispatchers. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 9, 1970 35 - National Emergency Meeting of Jewish Leadership Called (Continued from Page 1) On Wednesday, a former Johnson White House aide challenged claims by the Nixon administra- tion that policy changes on the Middle East were necessary be- cause the Johnson administration had followed an "unbalanced" pro- Israel policy. Prof. John P. Roche, who func- tioned in the White House as Pres- ident Johnson's contact with the intellectual and scientific commu- nity, asserted instead that the Johnson administration did noth- ing to aid Israel militarily except to help maintain a military equili- brium. In a nationally syndicated col- umn, Dr. Roche pointed out that the U.S. had refused to provide arms to Israel before the Six-Day War. "Following a careful ap - proach designed to maintain mili- tary equilibrium," he declared, "we sold some arms to Israel and to Jordan. Their hot equipment, the Israelis bought from France for cash. Only after the war, when it became clear that the Russians were setting the Arabs up with brand new supersonic jets, did we agree to sell the 50 Phantom jets." Prof. Roche, now a member of the Brandeis University facul- ty, stressed that "Our policy in short, was aimed at balance. We did not charge Israel up, but when the French refused to sell Israel the Mirages (which were bought and paid for) we did not permit the Soviets to provide their Arab clients with prepon- derant air power. "This can only be called "un- balanced," if one accepts the po- sition of Al Fatah that the way to restore the balance of power in the Middle East is to eliminate Israel," he said. Dr. Roche, a political scientist, also challenged the contention that restoration of the balance was nec- essary because the Democrats had been "pro-Zionist" and that the Johnson administration had been responsive to the "Jewish vote." "The justification for Israel is that it is there, a small interna- tionally recognized, Democratic en- Need for Reappraisal of Policy on Soviet Jews Seen by WJCongress TEL AVIV (JTA)—An official of the World Jewish Congress has conceded that the organization's efforts to secure full minority rights for Soviet Jewry have failed so far. Dr. Gerhart Riegner, gen- eral secretary of the WJC, said the time had come for a "profound reappraisal of our policy toward the Soviet authorities." That is one of the main topics at the current meeting • of the WJC's executive. The Jewish communi- ties in 65 countries are represent- ed at the parley, including dele- gations from Romania and Yugo- slavia. Other major topics are the widening generation gap and Arab propaganda activities which have assumed not only an anti-Israel but an anti-Jewish cast. Premier Golda Meir was expected to par- ticipate in the discussion of world Jewry and its relationship to Is- rael. Previously, Dr. Nahum Gold- mann, president of the World Jew- ish Congress, told Israeli editors that large-scale emigration of Rus- sian Jews to Israel might be the most important and most desirable solution. But, he said, of immediate importance were demands that Soviet Jews be given the right to freedom of religion, freedom of education and freedom to practice their own culture. Dr. Goldmann said he feared that Jewish youth had no com- mon language with the Jewish establishment and may be lost to Jewry. clove in a hostile world," he de- • dared. "Though I understand the spe- cial anguish of the Jews, if Israel were populated by Armenians or Kalmucks, I would defend its right to survive with equal vigor. In fact, I would even defend it if It were populated by Vietnamese.' The Johnson administration did not have to cater to the Jew- ish vote, he asserted, because "any Democratic candidate for President knows that the 'Jewish vote', being predominantly lib- eral, has nowhere else to go." In broad national terms, he pointed out, "the Jewish vote is statistically trivial—perhaps 4 per cent of the electorate." Meanwhile, a State Department spokesman said that the United States was prepared to resume hi- lateral talks with the Soviets on the Middle East "whenever the Russians wish" despite the Soviet rejection of the last U.S. proposals. The spokesman. Carl Bartell, conceded that no talks were cur- rently scheduled. He said the U.S. had not yet responded to the So- viet note of Dec. 23 but intended to so so. The ambassadors of the Four Powers, who met in New York last week, arranged for their deputies to meet on Tuesday to try to detail the points of agree- ment in the Four Power talks to date, the points on which agree- ment appears to be fairly close and those on which the Four Powers remain wide apart. The ambassadors will review the re- sults at a meeting Tuesday. Interviewed on NBC-TV's "To- day" show last weekend, Ambas- sador Itzhak Rabin of Israel called on the United States and the So- viet Union to declare a "morato- rium" on involvement in the Arab- Israel conflict. He said that the people of the Middle East should be allowed to solve their own problems and asserted that if this were done, nothing would. "drag" the U.S. and the USSR into a Mid- dle East confrontation. Gen. Rabin voiced the hope that "the proper circles" in this coun- try would draw the "proper con- clusions" from the latest Soviet re- buff on American initiatives for Mid-east peace. He said that the results in 1969 demonstrated the failure of efforts to solve the prob- lem through the Soviet Union. The Middle East situation would be re- solved, he said, only when the conflict entered into meaningful negotiations. Members of Congress disclosed that they have been receiving a barrage of mail and telegrams from constituents protesting the alleged erosion of United States policy toward Israel and a Mid- dle East settlement. When they ask for clarification from the State Department, these cong- ressmen are told that there has been no shift in U.S. policy toward Israel, the Jewish Tele- graphic Agency learned. Inquiries at the White House and the State Department have elicited administration responses which ranged from insistence that there is no change to hints that there may be differences between President Nixon and Secretary of State Rogers. these congressmen say. But one highly placed cong- ressional source said that key ad- ministration leaders were told at a White House briefing that the U.S. is taking steps to assure that it does not become embroiled In a Mid East war as Israel's partner which could lead to a confronta- tion with the Soviet Union. Rep. Seymour Halpern. a New York Republican who wrote to Secretary of State lingers for a clarification of his Dee. 9 speech on the Mid East, said the reply he received was "an obvious eva- lion of the erosion of the U.S. po- sition on Israel." The reply was written by H. G. Torbert. Jr., act- ing assistant secretary of state for congressional 'reratiOns.