AJCommittee Annual Meeting Hears of Danger if U.S. Fails to Aid Israel
NEW YORK (JTA)—Prof. Nadav part of a group of young people
Safran of Harvard University's who had come to the synagogue
Center for Middle Eastern Studies to protest the war in Southeast
warned that a critical situation Asia and to present a number of
"of unforeseeable consequences demands to the congregation. Dur-
will develop in the Middle East un- ing his address to the AJCom-
less the United States restores the mittee, Levin also urged the hu-
balance of power in that area by man relations agency to use its
providing arms, particularly air- influence to demand "unilateral
and immediate withdrawal from
planes, to Israel."
Prof. Safran, who has served as Cambodia." The student added,
adviser to the White House, the "Jews must speak up. Jews must
State Department and congres- support their brothers."
sional committees, made this pre- Earlier, two Christian scholars
diction in an address to the Amer- —one Protestant, the other Catho-
ican Jewish Committee's 64th an- lie—reported that Christian church
nual meeting. school materials are seriously
Describing the entrance of So- lacking in information about the
viet personnel into the Egyptian Holocaust and about the state of
military forces as "a potentially Israel and its meaning for
critical turning point in the Mid- Judaism and the Jewish people.
dle East conflict," Dr. Safran, a Dr. Gerald Strober, Protestant
native of Egypt who has lived in educator and consultant on reli-
Israel. added: "Whether or not the gious curricula to the AJCommit-
conflict can be kept under control tee, and the Rev. John T. Pawli-
and the prospects for peace pre kowski of the Catholic Theological
served will depend on a clear per- Union of Chicago, said the absence
ception of the situation by the of such references inhibits Chris-
United States and an appropriate tians from corhprehending the per-
sonal and group interests, the fears
response."
Failing such response, Dr. Saf- and aspirations of Jews, both in
ran warned that "The Soviets and the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Strober, who has studied
the Egyptians would be encourag-
ed to believe that they can achieve more than 3.000 lessons prepared
what they want by intensified mill- for junior high, senior high and
tart' pressure, meaning further adult students and teachers, stated
Soviet involvement. This would that he found that less than half
elicit a determined Israeli re- of one per cent of these lessons
sponse, and thus, a critical situa- mentioned Israel in any manner,
tion of unforeseeable consequences and that only one lesson in , the
, 3,000 dealt at any length with the
would develop in the area."
Raymond Aron, eminent French contemporary Jewish state.
Pawlikowski observed,
political analyst, told the Ameri- Rev.
can Jewish Committee that an "The often terrible record of the
relationship,
of the persecutions
American disaster in Southeast
and slaughter of the Jews by
Asia could put into jeopardy "the
Christians
through
the centuries,
present precarious balance in the
has been systematically excluded
Middle East."
from
our
courses.
This
silence is
Explaining that direct Russian
indefensible." Among the 3,000
intervent in the Middle East has
lessons studied, Dr. Strober
been restrained by risk of a con-
found only six that mentioned
frontation with the United States,
the Holocaust. Dr. Strober urged
Aron told the final-day session
Protestant bodies to incorporate
"Between the Vietnam war and
in their teaching materials infor-
the Israeli-Arab conflict there has
mation on Israel and the Holo-
been no direct connection, but this
caust.
connection soon may be prog-
The first step in a major new
ressively created. An American
disaster in Vietnam, a loss of con- program to overcome that lack
fidence. a refusal of outside inter- of information about Jewish his-
vention by the Congress or the tory in social science textbooks
people may put in jeopardy the used in high schools in the United
present precarious balance in the States was taken by the American
Middle East. 1 Jewish Committee with the publi-
Philip E. Hoffman, re-elected cation of "Writings on Jewish
president of the AJCommittee, History," an annotated 32-page
declared that the Nixon admin- bibliography.
Announcement of the program
istration's peroccupation with
Southeast Asia must not deter it i was made by Maynard I. Wishner,
"necessary material" that could chairman of the AJC's Jewish
make the difference between , communal affairs committee. At
"Israel's survival and her ulti- the same time Wishner announced
the publication of "What We Know
mate destruction."
Hoff man said there was a need About Young American Jews," a
for a "new and meaningful coali- 20-page bibliography of writings
tion" to correct injustices in the •
United States, and that the Kent Lutheran, Jewish Clergy
State College tragedy might help
to Air Israel's Meaning
bring about such a coalition.
Victor Levin, a member of the NEW YORK — Lutheran and
Radical Jewish Union at Columbia Jewish theologians will analyze
University, called upon the Ameri- the emotional, theological and his-
can Jewish Committee to open its torical importance of Israel to
offices to anti-war activity, estab- Judaism and the concept of land
lish draft counseling centers and in Lutheran thought at a two-day
offer legal counsel to protect young academic colloquium Tuesday and
Jewish war resisters. Wednesday at Concordia Seminary
He also urged the delegates in St. Louis.
Announcement of the conference,
attending the meeting to contribute
8100,000 to the legal defense of co-sponsored by the the division
the Black Panther Party and an of theological studies of the Lu-
additional $250,000 for what he theran Council in the USA and
termed a center for creative Jew- the interreligious affairs depart.
ment of the American Jewish Com-
ish living.
Levin, a graduate student of mittee, was made by Dr. Fred
anthropology at Columbia Univer- Meuser, executive secretary of
sity, had been invited by the the Lutheran division of theologi-
AJCommittee to address its ses- cal studies, and Rabbi Marc H.
sion after he and Rabbi A. Bruce Tanenbaum, interreligious affairs
Goldman, the rabbinical advisor director of the AJC.
to the RJU, were arrested Friday
To do easily what is difficult
evening on charges of disrupting
services at Temple Emanu-El, the for others is the mark of talent.
largest Reform congregation in To do what is impossible for talent
is the mark of genius.—Frederic
the world.
Rabbi Goldman and Levin were Amid"
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on Jewish community studies,
studies of college-age youth and
studies of teen-agers.
Roy Wilkins, executive director
of the NAACP, received the Amer-
ican Liberties Medallion, the AJ-
Committee's highest award, in
special ceremonies.
A 10-point program to help New
York and other cities avert clashes
over planned school decentraliza-
tion, like that which shook Blacks,
Jews and others in New York City
in 1968-69, was offered at the
closing session. At the same time,
the AJC made public a proposal
for a training institute on school
affairs, designed to help groups
identify the real issues in contro-
versies over education, and to dis-
cuss them rationally.
Detroit Chapter members who
attended the annual meeting are
Gerald Clay, David Maxon, Abba
Friedman, Irving Tukel, Harold
Gales, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Al-
pern, Chairman of AJC National
Executive Board Max Fisher, Mr.
and Mrs. Levine Kroll, Detroit
Chapter President Norman Katz
and Mrs. Katz, and Mrs. Walter
Shapero, Midwest Regional Chair-
man Lewis Grossman and Mrs.
Grossman, Mrs. Kathleen Straus,
Mrs. Nathan Kalichman and Mich-
igan Area Director Sherwood
Sandweiss.
Fisher was re-elected chairman
of the executive board.
Mrs. Sanford Samuel was the
first woman named to national
office in the organization as sec-
retary.
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