THE 1001012. JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Fahreary 12, 1971-19
Senator Javits Warns of Extremism on
This Week in Jewish History
(From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
40 Years Ago This Week: 1931
Britain's clarification of its 1930 White Paper denied a ban on
Jewish immigration to Palestine and Jewish land buys there, re-defined
"landless Arabs" as those displaced by Jewish purchases, denied de-
nunciation of Jewish organizational efforts, and permitted the Jewish
Agency to use only Jewish labor on its projects. Dr. Chaim Weizrnann,
who had quit his Zionist posts over the White Paper, called the new
letter "a basis for cooperation." But Vladimir Jabotinsky threatened
Zionist Revisionist secession.
Reports from Riga said Soviet authorities had closed all Kiev syna-
gogues.
Rabbi Dr. Adolf Schwarz, rector of Vienna's Jewish Theological
Seminary for 38 years, died at 84.
The daughter of Maj. Ferdniand Esterhazy horsewhipped Jacques
Richepin backstage after the Paris opening of his play "The Dreyfus
Affair."
10 Years Ago This Week: 1961
Dr. Robert Servatius, Adolf Eichmann's attorney, chose Mendel
Scharf from a list of Israeli lawyers willing to aid him.
Reports from Moscow said the Kremlin had approved publication
of the first USSR Yiddish periodical since the late 1940s —"Sovietish
Heimland," to be edited by Aaron Vergelis.
Ilya Ehrenburg said poet Osip Mandeistam, who had disappeared in
the 1930s Soviet purges, had died in a Siberian prison.
"Israel's position in the United Nations now faces new tests and
challenges, and the road ahead is likely to be rougher than it has been
for several years," said Ambassador Micheal Comay. "There are many
signs that the Arab states want to develop a new diplomatic offensive."
Jewish leaders urged stronger cultural and spiritual ties between
U.S. Jews and Israel to counteract the "conformity and. lack of purpose
of life in suburbia."
Bavarian indemnification of Nazi victims reached $41,000,000 in
1960, for a total since 1948 of $220,440,000.
New York City's Appellate Court reversed a lower-court decision
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barring public speeches by George Lincoln Rockwell.
Mass arrests of Jews were reported from Morocco, where they had
been protesting repression.
Sen. J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas criticized Israel for what he
called her press censorship, her invasion of the Sinai, her violation of
UN agreements and her minimization of the number of refugees.
President Ben-Zvi asked David Ben-Gurion, who had quit as
premier over the "Lavon Affair," to form a new Israeli government.
f.oul•ana's State Supreme Court overturned a lower-court ban on
mixed male-female seating in Chevra Thilim synagogue.
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Sapir Reception Attended by Ga. Governor Carter
ATLANTA, Ga. (JTA)—For the
. first time since the establishment
of the state of Israel in 1948, a
governor of Georgia has attended
a reception in the home of an
Israeli Foreign Ministry official,
it was reported this week.
"' According to informed sources,
:Gov. Jimmy Carter attended a
reception in the home of Israeli
Consul General Moshe Gilboa in
honor of Israel's finance minister
Pinbas Sapir.
The governor, who attended
the reception together with sev-
eral leading members of the
state legislature, was presented
by Sapir with a new edition of
the Bible printed In Israel.
Accepting the gift, Carter
stated: "The Bible, more than•any-
thing else, symbolizes the great
admiration in time between the
people of Georgia in particular
and the United States in general
for the state of Israel."
Sapir expressed his gratitude to
the governor for his support and
the support of the Georgian repre-
sentatives in Washington for
Israel.
WEST ORANGE, N.J. (JTA)—
One of "the three major crises
confronting world Jewry" is is
domestic "extremism" expreised
on the left in "vilification" of Is-
rael and on the right In " anarchy,"
Sen. Jacob K. Javits told a meet-
ing of the Jewish Community Coun-
cil here.
The New York Republican de-
scribed the first trend as "an active
alliance between extreme elements
in the American New Left and
radical Arab propagandists in a
campaign of vilification against
Israel and Zionism, often with clear
overtones of anti-Semitism," a
campaign "felt not only in the
United States but in Europe as
well"
He said "some campuses have
even seen active recruiting of
volunteers for the Palestinian
terrorist organizations—and trag-
ically, some of the organizers
and volunteers have been Jews,"
He added that "the intensity of
anti-Israel feeling among sup-
supposedly liberal student lead-
ers" was hard to understand
and outright racism that their
idealism Is supposed to reject."
This position, he added, "ad-
heres blindly to a policy line, en-
couraged by radical Arab groups,
which portrays 2,000,000 Israelis as
the aggressor and 100,000,000 Arabs
A grove in Migdal Ha'Emek
recently was inaugurated on the
60th birthday of KARL BERMAN,
a distinguished Jewish leader of
Stockholm. Among those attending
with Berman were the speaker of
Israel's Knesset, a personal repre-
sentative of President Shazar and
Idy Bornstein of Stockholm.
New Left; Right"
as the victims and which equates risk of becoining a modern lost
United States policy in the Middle tribe of Thad, disappearing for-
East with United States policy in ever into the quicksands of his-
Southeast Asia." tory" under the "slow, sophisti-
On the right, Javits said, the cated strangulation of a faith and
"extreme militancy" and "vio- culture that flourished for cen-
lence" of the Jewish Defense turies."
League leads chiefly to newspaper
headlines and TV news coverage,
"rather than to an advancement
of the cause espoused"—freedom
for Soviet Jews. He said the other
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two "crises confronting world
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Jewry" were the "threat" to
Soviet Jewry and the "uneasy"
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situation in the Mid East
If the Soviet Jewish community,
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the world's second largest, is not
aided, he stressed, it "runs the
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