Observer Article Branded as a 'Distortion'
WASHINGTON — Bnai Brit h
labeled as a "distortion" an article
in the National Observer, a nation-
al weekly, which said the Jewish
service organization was being
used as a "front" for political
activities in behalf of Israel and
Soviet Jews in violation of Federal
law.
A Bnai Brith spokesman noted
that the newspaper's "false charges
and innuendoes" were taken from
pretrial depositions of a "disgrunt-
led employee" without reporting
that "the same court records re-
veal that every one of the plain-
tiff's material allegations is denied
under oath."
A letter citing this "curious
omission" and the "false intima-
tions" in the article has peen sent
by Dr. William A. Wexler, presi-
dent of Bnai Brith, to the editor of
the National Observer, the Bnai
Brith spokesman said.
The letter, he added, pointed out
that the same allegations, "culled
from the same source," had been
publicly rejected at the United Na-
tions in February when an Arab-
Soviet bloc sought to use them as
a basis for expelling Bnai Brith
from its 22-year-old status as an
accredited non - governmental or-
ganization.
"The plain purpose" of the
Arab-Soviet bloc "was to punish
Bnai Brith for its effective sup-
port of Israel and its campaign
against anti-Semitism in the So-
viet Union and the persecution
of Jews in certain Arab lands,"
Dr. Wexler asserted in his letter.
The letter also asked: "Is it news
to the National Observer that the
members of Bnai Brith, like Jews
everywhere, have a deep and spe-
cial spiritual affinity for the land
and people of Israel?" It cited the
Keweenaw Central RR
CALUMET — The "Northern
Michigan Special," a "name" pas
Catholic Church's guidelines on senger train that vanished decades
Christian understanding of the role ago, returns to Upper Michigan's
of Israel in Judaism, which de-
clared: "Jews have indicated in a Copper Country this summer, start-
thousand ways their attachment to ing operations again on the Kewee-
the land promised to their ances- naw Central Railway May 30.
tors."
Although the phrase "You can't
Dr. Wexler's letter also asserted
get there by train any more"
that "Bnai Brith is proud and jea-
applies to many parts of the coun-
lous of its autonomy and integrity.
try, in Upper Michigan's Copper
America has not and does not ask
Country you can . . . and with a
her sons to empty their hearts of
1907 full size, coal-burning, 135 ton
ancestral memories on a sense of
steam locomtive at that.
common destiny."
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PERSONALITY PROFILE: Among Jewish educators in this coun-
try., Dr. Louis L. Kaplan stands out as a leading figure. His name is
pronounced with great reverence by all who are active in the work of
promoting Jewish education. Dr. Kaplan, president of the Baltimore
Hebrew College, who is retiring from his position, also will be leaving
his post as executive director of the Board
of Jewish Education. He has been president
of the college for 40 years, developing it
from a small institution into a nationally-
known college of Jewish learning which to-
day has an enrollment of more than 800
students and a faculty consisting of disting-
uished scholars in all branches of Jewish '
scholarship.
Dr. Kaplan will shortly complete 18 years
as a regent of the University of Maryland.
He has also been on the board of governors
of Dropsic University for 30 years. Coming
Dr. Kaplan
to Baltimore as a young man in 1930, he
took over a fledgling Jewish educational system which he, as execu-
tive director of the Board of Jewish Education, developed into a net-
work of schools considered today among the best in the country. In
Baltimore today, all the Conservative and Reform — as well as the
major Orthodox—congregations are affiliated with the Board of Jewish
Education.
The Jewish Community of Baltimore considers itself fortunate to
have Dr. Kaplan for so many years in its service. In recognition for
his services, the Associated Jewish Charities and Welfare Fund has
now established the first fully endowed chair at the University of Mary-
land, to be known as the Louis L. Kaplan Professorship of Jewish His-
torical Studies. The comr.unity is also honoring him with a farewell
convocation, on June 1. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
will mark the event by bestowing an honorary Doctorate of Hebrew
Letters upon him. Dr. Kaplan was awarded a similar degree by the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1958.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The U.S.
State Department has taken the
position that by military opposi-
tion to the creation of the state
of Israel, the Palestinian Arabs
forfeited their right to the estab-
lishment of the independent Arab
state contemplated by the 1947
UN partition plan.
The department's stand was re-
vealed in a response made public
Tuesday to a letter from Rep.
Lowell P. Weickler, Jr. (Rep.-
Conn.) inviting its comment on a
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MAN OF ACTION: Dr. Kaplan has also acquired a reputation as serve only to exacerbate the sit-
"a man of action." His popularity in the world of Jewish education uation."
stems not only from the fact that he is a perison of great erudition, but
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also because of his philosophy and approach to Jewish education. He is
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much at home, as they do with him.
After four decades, he still finds himself championing the causes a request for a grant to under-
of youth against the "establishment." On weekday nights and Sunday write the cost of a meeting of
afternoons, a stream of high school and college youths flow to his Palestinian leaders in a neutral
study. Some are sent by their friends who are students at his college, country to work out the terms of
others by parents who were themselves counseled by Dr. Kaplan. He a political settlement.
spends considerable time in giving advice to the young people who, on
their side, display great affection for him. They consider him their Foreign Armies Must Go
mentor in the highest sense of the word. This is a great achievement Before Peace
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any educator dreams of reaching.
As member of the board of regents of the University of Mary-
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land, he spearheaded the "Upward Bound" program to help boys and condition for peace in the Middle
girls from black ghettos meet the challenges of college life. He also East is the evacuation of all for-
chaired the regents committee to bring the prdominantly Negro Mary- eign armies from this area," ac-
cording to Minister of Immigrant
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Dr. Kaplan believes that a dent could be made in the mood of in- Absorption Shimon Peres.
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Addressing a foreign students
youth toward Jewish knowledge by increasing the number of chairs of convention at Nahariya, Peres de-
Jewish studies on university campuses.
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Although Dr. Kaplan is officially disengaging himself from the of Egypt, the Iraqis out of Jordan
collge and the Board of Jewish Education on Aug. 31, it is taken for and the Syrians out of Lebanon."
granted that his concern for Baltimore Jewish education will continue He said when that happens, "each
undiminished, not to speak of his interest in national problems of Jew- side can appoint representatives
ish education. In a recent address to leaders of the Associated Jewish who can then sit down at some
Charities and Welfare Fund, he projected a number of new programs agreed place a n d start talking
;.which he hoped his successor will consider.
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