THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
38 — Friday, September 18, 1970
N. Y. Anti-Poverty Agencies Charged With Bias
NEW YORK (JTA)—A group o!
Brooklyn rabbis and Jewish com-
munity workers charged that the
city's anti-poverty agencies were
guilty of "blatant discrimination"
against Jews generally and against
Jews in Crown Heights in particu-
lar.
All Jewish Teens
Invited toHabonim
Supper, Seminar
,
All Jewish youth are invited to
Habonim Labor Zionist Youth's
Kupa Supper 7:15 p.m. today at
Workmen's Circle Center. There
will be a musical program, as well
as Israeli singing and dancing.
For information, young people
between age 10 and college age
may call Mark Linton, 851-1536.
The first of seven seminars
will be held 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25
at the WC Center. "What Is
Habonim7" will be the topic.
These seminars will be open to
all Jewish youth, not only mem-
bers of Habonim. Other topics will
be "American Jewish Community,"
"New Left Politics," "Forms of
Communal Settlement in Israel,"
"Socialism," "Zionism" and "The
Middle East Conflict." For infor-
mation, call Danny Drachler, 645-
9116.
Habonim states its goals are to
"educate its members toward the
revitalization of the Jewish culture,
the building up of the state of
Israel, working for the creation
of a new social order throughout
the world based on the princi-
ples of economic and political de-
mocracy, by living full halutzic
(pi alepring),,,4yes
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munal framework in Israel — and
by working to effect change where
necessary to achieve these ends."
They Made
The Grade
Oak Parkers HASSIDAH N. BIG-
MAN, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Oscar Bigman, 25960 Raine, and
RHODA BODZIN, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. David Bodzin, 235 S.
Kenosha; and ILANA RUTH ARM,
daughter of Rabbi and Mrs. Milton
Arm, 29180 Woodcrest, Southfield,
are new freshmen at. Barnard Col
lege, the women's undergraduate
,y college at Columbia University.
Beth Moses Senior USY
Plans a Busy Week
Beth Moses Senior United Syna-
gogue Youth has several activities
planned for the coming week. The
group will meet for roller skating
party 8 p.m. Saturday at the North-
land Roller Rink. Guests are wel-
come.
A general membership meeting
will be held in the youth lounge 7
p.m. Sunday.
The group will conduct a Selihot
service 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Sept. 26 at
the synagogue. For information,
call Josh Leopold, KE 5-2953.
Young Magician Duo
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One of the demands, he said,
was for apprehension of an indi-
vidual who "assaulted" Elliot
Rosman, a Jew, who is man-
power director of the Crown
Heights Community Corp. He
charged that Rosman was as-
saulted on Aug. 27 at a summer
festival in Prospect Park, spon-
sored by the community cor-
poration as part of its program
this year.
David Garber, executive director
of a newly formed Association of
Jewish Community and Anti-Pov-
erty Workers, charged the CDA
with "insensitivity toward the Jew-
ish delegate agencies which are
funded by the CDA." He cited, as
an example, "the fact that al-
though numerous requests were
made by Jewish delegate agencies
for funds for spot announcements
and advertisements" for elections
to Community Corporations sched-
Wed for this week "such as those
granted to other minorities, they
were not even granted the cour-
tesy of a reply, let alone the funds
themselves." Rabbi Arnold Wolf,
chairman of the Crown Heights
Jewish Community Council, ex-
pressed "dismay that after two
months of a so-called city dragnet
to apprehend the bombers, no sig-
nificant leads have been uncov-
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Robert H.
Arnow, president of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, announced
Tuesday a number of develop.
ments which followed JTA board
decisions and which were "in the
mainstream of our efforts to keep
abreast of the fast-moving times."
He said that, following a summer
visit to Europe and Israel where
he surveyed JTA operations, the
Israeli news agency (INA), a sub-
sidiary of the JTA, arranged for
distribution of foreign news to Is-
raeli newspapers through ITIM, a
cooperative news service of the
Israeli press.
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Arnow said the arrangement
"will ultimately eliminate a deficit
but will continue-to provide world-
wide news to the Israeli commun-
ity." Noting that members of the
JTA board ''are taking an active
part in all of these changes and
operations," Arnow added that
Raymond Epstein, president of the
Chicago Welfare Fund, had acted
in his behalf in overseeing the
transfer of INA service to ITIM
and in discharging JTA obligations
to 12 long-term employes.
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executive committee, and
David Starr, a board member
who is managing editor of the
Long Island Press and editor of
the Newhouse National News
Service, had been active, on
overseas trips, in connection with
JTA plans in London.
The JTA president said that
Hoffberger discussed JTA matters
with Michael Sacher, head of the
Joint Palestine Appeal and of the
London JTA committee, and that
Starr was now in London discuss-
ing with Sacher some of the JTA
board plans for the future. He said
other board members, represent-
ing American and Canadian com-
munities from coast to coast, par-
ticipated in board meetings and
represented JTA in the community
and at budget hearings.
He described as "an exciting
new development" the JTA's first
news internship program, design-
ed to bring young people into Jew-
ish journalism. He said several
apprentices had started work on
the Detroit Jewish News under the
aegis of Philip Slomovitz, its editor
and publisher and JTA vice presi-
dent. Arnow said the internship
program, for which board mem-
ber Julius Berman of New York is
chairman, would also "insure con-
tinuity in Jewish communal af-
fairs."
The JTA president declared, "It
is essential, if we look at condi-
tions world-wide and in the Middle
East, that we provide a service
which can supply the total Jewish
community with the news at the
very moment it becomes news."
He declared this would require "an
examination of every area of our
editorial operations to reach the
high level of quality we seek as
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JT A Establishes Co-Op Agreement;
Will Publish French News Bulletin
Arnow also announced that,
after a series of meetings with
Harry Houdini, the f a m o u s the leadership of the French-
escape artist, had little on two Jewish community, plans were
Lathrup Village boys, Keith Reich completed for a daily news bul-
and Lewis Check.
letin, in French to begin pub-
Known professionally as "The lication in Paris in October, thus
Great Kid-this," they have been extending the network of JTA
performing in their own shows for publications, Be said Epstein bad
some four months. But the interest
joined hint in working out the
in magic goes back about a year.
arrangements for the new bul-
Both enjoyed reading about magic, letin. He said it was significant
and they developed their art by that busy people" like Jerold C.
practicing before their families.
Hoffberger, Baltimore board
Both live on Sunbright Ave., in
member and chairman of the
Lathrup Village.
Whatever they raise goes into
more equipment. Their "magic Beth Yehuda PTA to Meet
fund" was supplemented this sum-
The first general meeting of the
mer by plain old elbow grease: Beth Yehuda Schools PTA will
washing windows and cars.
take place 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at
the Southfield building. Parents
Some folks are too polite to be will be given a preview of class
up to any good.—Kin Hubbard.
activities for the year.
Perform Like Pros
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Crown Heights is one of the city's
26 officially-designated poverty
areas and has been the scene of
sharp differences between Jews
and blacks over funding of anti-
poverty projects for the section.
It is one of two of the areas where
Jews have substantial representa-
tion on the local community cor-
porations through which anti-
poverty funds are channeled by the
Council Against Poverty, the
policy-making city agency for pov-
erty programs, and the Community
Development Agency, the operat-
ing arm of the Council.
On July 20, the offices of the
Crown Heights Jewish Community
Council, an umbrella agency for
Jewish organizations and syna-
gogues in the area, was wrecked
by a firebomb. Mayor John V.
Lindsay paid a personal visit to
the scene and promised intensive
action to find the vandals and to
provide city aid in rebuilding tne
burned-out office. In a statement
distributed at City Hall, in connec-
tion with a protest visit by the
30 rabbis and communal workers,
Rabbi Sholom Gorodetsky, Crown
Heights representative on the Coun-
cil Against Poverty, declared:
"The situation in regard to dis-
crimination against people of the
Jewish faith in general and resi-
dents of Crown Heights in par-
ticular has reached proportions of
grave concern."
The group charged there was a
"conspiracy" by a "militant few"
to drive- all—Jews out of Crown
Heights. Rabbi Gorodetsky added
that "so-called responsible people
who are supposted to represent
various ethnic groups in the Coun-
cil Against Poverty" are "in fact
blatantly indifferent and outright
discriminatory against the Jewish
people." He charged that such
statements as "It's not my fault
you were born Jewish" were "un-
fortunately very common and to
be expected at most of the meet-
ings of the Council" he had at-
tended. He said a list of six de-
mands had been prepared for
presentation to Councilman Theo-
dore Silverman, who represents the
section on the City Council.
The heart of the wise, like a mir-
should reflect all objects,
without being sullied by any.—Con-
fucius.
ered." Other demands prepared
for submission to Silverman urge
a stop to the purported conspiracy
to drive Jews out of Crown
Heights; arrest of those responsible
for the fire-bombing; immediate
reconstruction of the fire-bombed
office; and a stop to "the blatant
discrimination" charged against
the Council Against Poverty and
the CDA. The CDA was charged
specifically with bias in allocation
of funds for the forthcoming pov-
erty agency elections and in day
to day contact with Operation
Belfrye, an anti-poverty project
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