Mood in Israel Optimistic

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independent arbiter" and that
there are pressures upon other
nations involved which put them
in a prejudiced position. Dr.
Jarring's position was viewed by
Eban as unprejudiced, and he de-
clared that "So long as diplo-
matic initiative is pre-empted, Jar-
ring cannot act."
In the main, Israelis are wor-
ried: what'll America do? There
is fear of an anti-Israel posi-
tion by the Nixon administra-
tion, and Israel needs assurance
that anything of a destructive
nature cannot possibly happen
in Washington.
Hope is mixed with prayer that
there will not be an abandonment
of a friendly position by Washing-
ton. But Eban insists that cur-
rently "Discussions are between
friends," that "Frankness is one
of the duties of friendship," and
his emphasis is on the hopeless-
ness of getting Russia to act fairly
in the entire matter.
• • •
Pincus' fears about a spiritual
decline in American Jewry, the
loss of youth to the community,
the failure to improve the educa-
tional system, find occasional
echoes. He pleads for a return to
Zionist idealism and the strength-
ening of the movements so that it
should serve again as the instru-
ment to bring strength to world
Jewry and to Israel. These are
factors that indicate the desire
here for a strong Israel and
greater concern over loss of the
cultural powers attributable to
Jewish communities than with the
dangers to Israel that loom so
great in the press outside Israel.
For Moshe Rivin, director-gen-
eral of the Jewish Agency, the
new events in Jewish life point
to a back to Zionism movement.

In all instances, anxieties are
linked with the reactions of the
youth. Therefore the appeals di-
rected to American Jewry are to
strive for renewal of Jewish loy-
alties among university students.
There is a note of great encour-
agement in the progress of the
Hebrew University, whose distin-
guished president, A‘Taham Ilar-
inan, took pride in the attained
fact of having projected through
this great university "the name
of Israel on every scientific and
economic map of the world." Har-
man is emphatic in indicating that
Israel is not a military nation, that
life goes on normally even though
everyone through age 54 must

serve in the reserves.
Ile asserted that Israel must
avert an Arab aim "to make us
a people always defending it-
self." Ile emphasized the con-
trary aim of attaining a peace
that will eliminate the military
pressure.
It is a hopeful people That car-

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ries on its tasks in Israel without
complaint. It now suffers a deficit
of 2.000,000,000 Israeli pounds- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
560,000,00o. But even if the taxes
Friday, January 16, 1970-5
keep rising, t:1e spirit remains as
high.

Quiet Diplomacy Fails
to Ameliorate Conditions
of Jews in Russia
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thirty-
two American Jewish editors cur-
rently studying conditions in Is-
rael were warned that "quiet
diplomacy" had proven ineffective
in securing amelioration of the
condition of the Jews in the Soviet
Union and more drastic measures
were required to save the Rus-
sian Jewish community.
Moshe Rivlin, director-general
of the Jewish Agency, declared
that an outcry must be raised on
behalf of Soviet Jewry "that will

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Jewish Groups Protest Rocky's Call
for Repeal of Law Against Parochiaid

NEW YORK (JTA)—Jewish or- I
ganizations are in the forefront of
a rising chorus of protest against
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's pro -
posal fo repeal the Blaine Amend-
ment that prohibits state 'aid to
parochial schools.
The American Jewish Congress
declared that it will fight the pro-
posal with "a massive educational
program that will reach every
New York citizen." The Jewish
Labor Committee also assailed
the repeal proposal and sharply
criticized other aspects of the
"State of the State" message that
Gov. Rockefeller delivered before
the legislature in Albany Jan. 8.
Theodore J. Kolish, chairman of
the AJCongress' New York metro-
politan council, called the gover-
nor's proposal to repeal the Blaine
Amendment "a grave threat to the
survival of the public school sys-
tem and to the liberty of millions
of New Yorkers whose tax money
wall be used to promote the reli-
gious beliefs of others."
In a statement issued here, he
said "We should like to remind
the governor that private and
parochial schools are selective
and restrictive in their admis-
aorta policies; the public schools

are open to all. In a democratic
society, the state cannot support

Institutions which choose their
pupils on racial or religious
grounds."
David A. Ashe, chairman of the
New York State Jewish Labor
Committee, said the governor's
priorities and goals for the 1970s
"offered nothing sufficient in pro-
gram of funding. Indeed, a serious
backward step was taken with the
governor's call for the repeal of
the Blaine Amendment."
On the other hand, the Orthodox
Agudat Israel of America, respond-
ing to Gov. Rockefeller's message,
demanded that the state aid paro-
chial schools without waiting until

"the time-consuming

machinery

needed to repeal the BlaMe

Amendment is set into motion."

Most Students to Resume Communal Work School

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Only the Reform seminary, the school
one of the 15 students attending is being operated by the IIUC
the initial summer session of the California branch, under direction
shake public opinion in the world." new School for Jewish Communal
'off Gerald Bubis. The idea for such
Ile charged that years of efforts, Service is not certain of returning
a school was proposed more than
employing diplomatic means, had for the second eight-week
session three years ago by Dr. Alfred
proven fruitless.
when it opens next July 6.
Gottschalk, dean of the HUC Cali-
The editors were visiting Israel
The school, the only one of its fornia school, with the goal of
as the guests of the Jewish kind in the United States, is
held strenghtening "the Jewish soul in
Agency's information and organ-
on the campus of the University of , Jewish communal work." Students
ization department. In a discus- Southern California here.
completing the two summer
sion, members of the group ex-
Created by the Hebrew Union . courses will receive a degree in
pressed criticism of the approach
College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Jewish communal studies.
to American Jewry by Israeli and
Zionist organs.
Mrs. Meir attributed the failure
to achieve peace to President
Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt who,
she said, was "obsessed" with the
idea of trying to destroy Israel and
was "frustrated" because he tried
three items and failed. She said
Nasser's preoccupation with war
against Israel to the neglect of
grave social and economic prob-
lems in Egypt, served the interests
of Soviet Russia.
"Russian interest can thrive only
as long as there is no peace and as
long as Nasser thinks a tank is
more important than a tractor,"
according to Mrs. Meir.

According to Rabbi Moshe Sher-
er, president of the Orthodox,
group, there are "a number of pro-'
grams that could already be adopt-

ed at the current legislative ses-
sion to help nonpublic school chil-
dren without violating the Blaine
Amendment."

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