3 Young Jews, Claiming Membership in JDL, Accused of Wrecking Yeshiva
NEW YORK (JTA)--Three Jew-
ish teen-agers who claimed to be
members of the Jewish Defense
League were arrested in the act
of vandalizing the Rabbi Samson
Raphael Hirsch Yeshiva in the
Washington Heights section of
Manhattan.
The youngsters. age 15-16, were
released on $500 bail and ordered
to appear in court for a hearing
June 2. Their names were withheld
because of their age.
One was reported to be a stu-
Registration On
at Touro College
N
r
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Bernard
Lander, president of Touro College,
announced that the college is now
registering students for the fall
1971 semester. To attract compe-
tent students, Eugene Hollander,
chairman of the board of trustees,
has established a program of lib-
eral scholarships and fellowships.
The college's programs in the
liberal arts and sciences leading
to bachelor of arts and bachelor
of science degrees, have been ap-
proved by the New York State
Education Department.
In an almost unprecedented act,
the Middle States Association, the
accrediting agency of American
colleges,, awarded correspondent
status to Touro College, Dr. Land-
er reported. He noted that Touro
College combines academic stand-
ards, personalized education and
an emphasis on Jewish studies and
values.
Dr. Lander asserted that Touro
College was formed as a reaction
to two conditions prevalent on
American campuses: on the in-
tellectual level, most students
never achieve proper guidance in
a maze of formal, impersonal in-
struction currently found in the
multi-segmented university; on
the social cultural level, students
from Hebrew high school and
yeshiva backgrounds find the
widespread exposure to drug
abuse, permissive sex practices
and violence alien to their herit-
age and character.
In addition to its liberal arts cur-
riculum, studies in Hebrew lan-
guage and literature, Talmud, Jew-
ish history, philosophy and culture
will be available at various levels
of student achievement and are in-
cluded in the core program for all
students. Advanced Talmud study
also is available.
U.S. Secretary of Health, Educa-
'ition and Welfare Elliot Richard
son made possible the deeding to
- the college of its first facility, a
12-story building at 30 W. 44 St.
During 1971-72 it will have a li-
brary of over 20,000 volumes and
gradually build up to a collection
of -100,000 volumes over the next
few years.
dent at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in
Brooklyn and the others attend
high school in the Bronx.
Rabbi Jacob Breuer, principal
of the Raphael Hirsch Yeshiva,
which has a student body of 800,
told the JTA that incidents of van-
dalism occurred on Sunday night,
May 16 and again on May 23.
He estimated the damage at
$2,500. He said the yeshiva pre-
mises were broken into, rooms
were flooded, typewriters, black-
boards and bulletin boards
smashed and telephones pulled
from the walls. He said the walls
were smeared with swastikas,
obscenities and slogans which
he said were characteristic of
the JDL such as "an eye-for-an-
eye," "let my people go" and
"six million, not one more."
Rabbi Breuer said one of the
youngsters arrested last Sunday
was wearing a JDL uniform and
insignia and that all of them
claimed to be members of the
militant organization. But there
was no other evidence linking the
youths with the JDL. The JTA
found no one available for com-
ment at JDL headquarters.
Rabbi Breuer said the police
were not called after the first in-
cident of vandalism. He said he
contacted the JDL, which denied
any knowledge of the act and did
not seem very interested.
Questioned by the JTA as to a
possible motive, he said that the
school had consistently refused to
approve of JDL tactics or to par-
ticipate in its demonstrations.
Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, nation-
al director of Torah Umesorah,
the National Society of Hebrew
Day Schools of which the Raphael
Hirsch Yeshiva is a member, ex-
pressed __amazement and disbelief
when questioned by the JTA.
He said he knew of the vandal-
ism but found it difficult to believe
that the JDL, which he said was
committed to Jewish identity,
would engage in such acts.
He said he could think of noth-
ing that would have motivated
Jewish youths to desecrate a Jew-
ish religious school.
Dr. Kaminetsky said he planned
an investigation but had not decid-
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ed how to carry it out. He said
the schools of the Torah Umesorah
concentrated on education, were
not politically active and eschewed
violence as a form of protest.
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NEW YORK—The president of
the Brown and Williamson To-
bacco Corp. told members and
guests of the American Jewish
Committee that "corporate respon-
sibility is no longer merely some-
thing nice to talk about," but has
become "as important as profit
and loss" to a company's exist-
ence.
Edwin P. Finch made his re-
marks on accepting the National
Civic Leadership Award of the
American Jewish Committee at. a
testimonial dinner at the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel.
The dinner was held on behalf
of the Appeal for Human Rela-
tions, the AJC's fund-raising arm,
which has a 1971 nationwide goal
of $8,475,000.
Robert J. Jacobson, chairman
of the New York Appeal, made the
presentation. He cited Finch for
his "deep interest in the quality of
our nation's educational commit-
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