4,000 Immigrants in '69
Clergymen Study
ADL Issues Book
on Role of Police
Alleged
Vietnam
Young Refugees Aided by NY ANA
Some
4,000
were
helped
in
1969,
NEW
YORK—More
than
130,000
by Leading Officer refugees have been helped to build Harris said, most from Poland and Rights Violations

Police who allow themselves to
be made "the patsy" of protest
demonstrations "are not on their
toes," according to Herbert Jen-
kins, Atlanta chief of police for 25
years and the only police officer
to serve on the President's Com-
mission on Civil Disorders.
The policeman's proper role, Jen-
kins asserts, "is to be a referee
. . . to keep order without becom-
ing a party to the protest." He
commits "a grave error" in letting
himself "be maneuvered into the
position of taking the brunt of the
protest."
Jenkins gives his views on law
enforcement in a new book, "Keep-
ing the Peace," published by Har-
per and Row. In an Atlanta recap-
tion•and press conference sponsor-
ed by the publishers and the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith,
Jenkins said he wrote the book at
the urging of the ADL in order to
make the general public, as well
as the officer on the beat, more
aware of continuing changes in po-
lice practices.
The ADL will distribute a
paperback version of the book
through its 29 regional offices
around the country.
Pointing out that police should
not rush into a situation without
careful thought and planning, Jen-
kins goes on to say that "the mere
occupying of a building by pro-
testers is not violence — violence
occurs only when the police begin
moving them out."
He asserts that it is not a police
function to battle students on col-
lege campuses and that he would
like to tell the faculty of universi-
ties who decide after "everything
else has failed, let's call in the
cops" to "straighten out their own
mess. Don't be calling in the police
to bail you out."
In all disturbances, Chief Jen-
kins declares, police should go in
"not with the idea of controlling
people but of offering protection
to all those involved wherever
needed."
"They ,should go in," he con-
tinued, "with sufficiently well-train-
ed policemen who can separate
'eyeballers' (onlookers) from the
leaders among the protesters. The
latter should be arrested if neces-
sary and removed from the scene
. . . without major upheavals."

Mapam Votes to Accept
Two Minister Portfolios

new lives in the Greater New York
area since 1949, it was reported by
Howard M. Harris re-elected pres-
ident, at the 21st annual meeting
of the New York Association for
New Americans, an agency of the
United Jewish Appeal.

Black Jew Calls
Jewishness Claim
of N.J. Unit Invalid

NEW YORK (JTA)—A black Jew
converted halakhically four years
ago said that Israel would be "jus-
tified" in rejecting as Jews a 70-
member black Jewish New Jersey
community that is planning to emi-
grate en masse to that country.
Avraham Coleman of Brooklyn,
who runs a commercial collection
agency in Manhattan, told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency that
the claims of Jewishness of the
black community of Elmwood,
N.J., were "invalid."
Coleman, who addressed the con-
vention here of the Rabbinical Al-
liance, told the JTA that the com-
munity, including Rabbi Abel
Respes of Adat Beit Moshe syna-
gogue, "come from Christian
backgrounds," and that "even
white Jews would be rejected on
this basis."

Black Jews like himself who
have proof of halakhic conver-
sion" have been accepted by the
white Jewish community "with-
out any incident at all," he said.
He charged that Rabbi Respes'
parents were married in a Chris-
tian church. Coleman said that
two of his children, age 6 and 8,
were enrolled in Brooklyn's
United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, and
a third, age 4, in that institution's
Bat Rivka School.

Rabbi Abraham Gross, president
of the Robbinical Alliance, told the
300 Orthodox rabbis attending the
convention they must act to make
known to all Jews that abortions
are banned by Jewish religious
law, except in cases of health re-
quirements and with approval from
"a competent rabbi."
Referring to the fact that New
York State's abortion law, the most
liberal in the nation, became effec-
tive July 1, he commended the
New York City Health Department
for ruling that a death certificate
must be issued in connection with
each abortion performed in the
city.
Rabbi Gross warned that the
growing liberalization by states of
abortion control laws would soon
become another factor in the de-
clining Jewish population.
He reported that the Rabbinical
Alliance had sent letters to the
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congre-
gations of America and to its rab-
binic adjunct, the Rabbinical Coun-
cil of America, urging the two
organizations to quit the Synagogue
Council of America.
Rabbi Gross said that his group
also had asked the Rabbinical
Council to forbid its members to
belong to the New York Board of
Rabbis. Both agencies have Ortho-
dox, Conservative and Reform
members.
He declared that the continued

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Ma-
pam Party took a long step toward
becoming a full-fledged member of
the national coalition, government.
The party's political committee
voted 37-26 to recommend accept-
ance of the two ministerial port-
folios, immigrant absorption and
health, that have been held open
for it since the government was
formed late last year.
At that time Mapam, a member
of the Labor alignment, refused to
accept ministerial responsibilities
on the grounds that it could nct
be a partner in the same coalition
with the rightist, nationalist Gahal
faction.
Mapam stipulated that it would
accept collective responsibility only
in foreign affairs and defense mat-
ters. But the party secretary
association of a "segment" of
general, Meir Yaari, said that Orthodox rabbis and synagogues
"changes have taken place as a with such umbrella groups had
result of the political and security
led to the "false recognition" of
situations."
non-Orthodox rabbinical and lay
A final decision will be made by
leaders. He added it was "un-
the party's central committee.
thinkable" not long ago for Re-
The two portfolios assigned to
form and Conservative rabbis
Mapam are being administered on
to ask that their rulings on mat-
a temporary basis by Shimon ters of Halakha be recognized.
Peres, acting minister of immi-
The delegates called on the Nixon
grant absorption, and Haim Gvati, administration. to "stop procrasti-
acting health minister.
nating" on selling Israel the addi-
tional jet planes it has been seek-
ing. The resolution said that until
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Czechoslavakia, with others from
Romania, Hungary and Arab coun-
tries, at a cost of $1,002,056.
A highlight of the meeting was
a symposium on the problems of
Jews in unfriendly countries and
the difficulties of uprooting and
resettlement. led by Samuel J.
Habre, executive vice chairman of
the Joint Distribution Committee.
Participating were four 21-year-old
newcomers from the Soviet Union,
Poland, Czechoslovakia and Egypt.
Harris reported that more than
1,200 persons were assisted in ob-
taining jobs through direct place-
ment,, special training and retrain-
ing services. An increasingly im-
portant aspect of vocational serv-
ices has been provision of intensive
English language courses and
placement for professionals who
arrived in large number during
1969.

The tone of the symposium
which followed Harris' report
was set by a remark from Tomas
F., Czechoslavakia, who said
that on his arrival in Vienna,
"For the first time, somebody
helped me because I was a
Jew."

Tomas left on a vacation tourist
visa determined not to return last
year. He had no money, didn't
know what would happen and ex-
pected no help. He was astonished
to be met at the railroad station by
representatives of the JDC and to
learn that the Jews of America
were actually offering him aid.
Antonia H. Poland, said they
had heard stories of some kind of
help but didn't really believe them.
She and an older sister arrived
alone in Vienna with five dollars
between them and were very fright-
ened. Both were cared for in Vi-
enna and Rome by JDC and United
Hias Service until their emigration
to the United States was approved.
Their parents have since been able
to join them.
Charles C., Egypt, worked for
HIAS as an interpreter in Paris
for a year before his arrival in this
country so he had a better idea of
what to expect. He was taken
from his home by the police on the
last day of the Six-Day War, and
his parents were told he would be
returned in 10 minutes. He didn't
see them again for two years,
which he spent in a variety of
Egyptian prisons under harsh con-
ditions. He was finally released
and expelled as a "stateless" per-
son.
Ira G. and her family, USSR, had
waited a long time for permission
to come here and rejoin relatives.
From Brussels onward, they were
aided by HIAS on the trip to New
York.
NYANA's first provision for the
young people, after necessary
housing and maintenance aid, was
intensive English language courses.
Jobs were found for Charles and
Antonia, who are continuing their
studies at night. Ida is a fulltime
piano student at a top music school
on a scholarship; Tomas is a full-
time engineering student on a
scholarship. Their scholarships are
provided by NYANA and the
schools.

NEW YORK—Political repres-
sion, with which the Thieu-Ky gov-
ernment of South Vietnam has
been charged by some critics, is
being assesed by 10 religious and
lay leaders of the Catholic, Prot-
estant and Jewish faiths.
The group left for Saigon July 3
in response to an invitation from
Buddhist and Roman Catholic re-
ligious leaders and student groups.
The members are remaining for
an
eight-day examination of
alleged violations of civil liberties.
The Saigon press has carried
numerous reports of massive, non-
violent peace demonstrations re-
sulting in severe retaliatory mea-
sures from the government. It is
the purpose of this group to invest-
igate the truth of such reports,
many of which have not gained at-
tention of the news media in the
United States.
Rabbi Balfour Brickner, direc-
tor of interfaith activities of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, will join the nine

other religious, lay and student
leaders in an effort to determine
the extent, if any, of abridged
personal rights of South Vietna-
mese citizens who dissent from
the policies of their government.
The trip is being financed and

arranged by the Fellowship of Re-
conciliation, devoted to humani-
tarian and peace efforts. Members
of the group will interview repre-
sentatives of the dissident factions
in Saigon, including prisoners.

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