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" • • 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. 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