USIA Advisory Group Urged
to Recommend Yiddish on VOA
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a
stepped up campaign to convince
the United S t a t e s Information
Agency to beam Yiddish broad-
casts over the Voice of America
to Russian Jews, three community
leaders met with the USIA Ad-
visory Commission on Informa-
tion.
The three, Daniel Greer, first
deputy commissioner of ports and
terminals in New York City; Jack
C. Bendheim, a businessman ac-
tive in the Center for Russian
Jewry; and Dr. Harvey Leiber, a
political s c i e n c e professor in
Washington, met with the group
at the invitation of Dr. Frank
Stanton, president of CBS, chair-
man of the commission.
LETTER BOX
Hebrew Inaccuracies
in Tale Are Pointed Out
Editor, The Jewish News:
I wish to call attention to two
Hebrew inaccuracies in Eric Lind's
delightful tale of how a Hebrew
word "Saved .(a) German Jew's
Life." (July 9, 1971)
1. At the outset, referring to the
Hebrew idiom "sheker w' gasab,"
the second word should have been
spelled "v'khazav," which was like-
ly a misprint. The term "kazav"
is synonymous with "sheker" When
the two words are combined, they
form the emphasis of the double-
barreled expression denoting that
the lie is an outright one.
2. At the conclusion of the story
there is a grammatical error, ap-
parently an oversight by the
author. The word "sh'kores" used
by him for plural of the word "lie"
is inaccurate grammatically. In
Hebrew, the plural for "sheker" is
"sh'karim," as "sheker" is. of
masculine gender. The Hebrew
word ending with the suffix "es" or
"os" in the Ashkenazic ("ot" in
the Sephardic dialect) points to the
feminine gender.
JOSHUA JOY RIC H
20455 Cheyenne
200 Russians Among
Immigrants to Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—More than
- 320 new immigrants, most of them
7-3,7. from Russia and Latin America,
arrived in Israel in a two-day
span.
A group of over 200, the
majority Russian, were quickly
cleared by absorption ministry
officials at Lydda. Aiiport and
sent to absorption "center s
throughout the country. ,
Others in the group came from
Latin America, India, Iran, the
U.S. and Canada. Some 120 Latin
American immigrants, mostly from
Argentina and Brazil, also arrived
on an El Al flight from Rome.
They had traveled to Italy by
ship, but could not get a connec-
tion to Thrael and had to be picked
up by planes arranged for by the
absorption ministry.
1 2 000-Plus Foreigners
Take Hebrew U. Courses
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Spain,
Finland, Malta and the Philippines
are some of the countries that for
the first time have sent students to
the Hebrew University's summer
course in Jerusalem. Students also
are attending from Italy, Sweden,
England, France, West Germany
and other European countries. A
majority of the record 1,000-plus
majority of the record 1000-plus
arrivals are from the United
States.
The total represents a 25 per
cent increase over last year. The
summer course is taught on the
regular university level.
Stanton did not attend the ses-
sion, which was part of the com-
mission's regular day-long month-
ly meeting. But the other four
members — William F. Buckley,
Jr., editor of the conservative Na-
tional Review; Hobart Lewis, edi-
tor of Readers' Digest; James
Michner, author; and John Sha-
heen, industrial, attended and
listened cordially, according to
informed sources.
Greer spoke for 15 minutes
and then the three answered
questions for another 15 min-
utes. Greer emphasized four
points in his presentation to the
Commission: the morale factor;
the practical aspects; the use
of Yiddish in Russia and the
opportunity of the U.S. gov-
ernment to help "save" Russian
Jews from "cultural genocide."
Meanwhile, a resolution urging
the Voice of America to beam the
Yiddish broadcasts to the Soviet
Union was introduced on the Sen-
ate floor and referred to the
Foreign Relations Committee. But
its fate seems in doubt.
The resolution was sponsored
by Sens. John V. Tunney, Calif-
ornia De m o c r a t, and Clifford
Case, Republican of New Jersey,
with 22 co-sponsors.
Senate vote counters do not ex-
pect it to be reported out of com-
mittee "because it does not have
the force of law" and Committee
Chairman J. William Fulbright
"does not like resolutions for that
reason." It is also opposed by the
administration.
A spokesman for Sen. Case said,
however, that the resolution which
simply expresses the sense of the
Senate, would have "the desired
effect" even if it is not passed
because of the large number of
senators who co-sponsored it.
The State Department said that
it recognized Soviet Jews as a
national group within the Soviet
Union but nevertheless would not
institute broadcasts to them in
Yiddish or Hebrew over the Voice
of America "at this time."
The statement was contained in
a letter to Rabbi Arthur J. Lely-
veld, president of the AJCongress,
from Samuel De Palma, assistant
secretary of state for international
organization affairs.
Capter Gash
•
i Is 10 Israelis
TEL AVIV • (JTA) — Separate
funeral , services were held in
various parts of Israel Sunday for
10 air-borne soldiers killed when
their helicopter crashed into the
sea off northern Sinai near El
Arish. Thursday. The bodies were
discovered and identified after a
two-day search by combined army,
air force and navy teams. The
names of the crash victims were
not disclosed.
An air force inquiry commis-
sion headed by a Lt. Col. has been
set up to investigate the causes
of the accident. Debris from the
helicopter was still being fished
out of the sea.
A military spokesman said the
possibility of sabotage was vir-
tually ruled out by a preliminary
investigation. He said it was most
probable that human error was
responsible for the tragedy.
The helicopter was reported
missing T h u r s day afternoon.
Shortly afterwards a Bedouin
tribesman reported that he had
seen a low flying helicopter crash
into the sea after being struck by
waves. Post mortems disclosed
that the occupants of the heli-
copter died as a result of the im-
pact when the aircraft struck
the sea.
Raps Censorship
America-Israel Dialogue THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 16, 1971-19
Set by AJCongress Aug. 1
NEW YORK—Leading Ameri-
can and Israeli intellectuals, pub-
lic officials and communal leaders
will explore "Contemporary Jewry
as a Minority in America and
Majority in Israel" at the ninth
annual American-Israel Dialogue,
sponsored by the American Jew-
ish Congress, Aug. 1-4 at the Weiz-
mann Institute in Rehovot.
In formal papers and free-
wheeling debate, the dialogue par-
ticipants will discuss such prob-
lems as Arab and Sephardic Jew-
ish integration in Israel; the new
ethnic consciousness of American
Jews as a minority group within
a pluralistic society; and the re-
sponsibilities of the Israeli govern-
ment in the occupied territories.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, t h e
famous Russian poet whose "Babi
Yar" severely condemned anti-
Semitism, criticized Soviet cen-
sorship, Stalinism and the gen-
eration gap resulting from undue
government pressures. The 38-
year-old Soviet writer favors a
free-flowing of Soviet letters to
eliminate censorship.
Nazis Blame Jews
for Pentagon Papers
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
latest dial-a-hate message, re-
corded by the National Socialist
White Peoples Party, inveighs
against what it calls "The bunch
of kikes controlling and dominating
the news media" for not consider-
ing national security and publish-
ing the Pentagon Papers.
A spokesman for the telephone
company told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that as long as the
party gives the point of origin and
uses the recording and connecting
equipment legally, the company
has no authority over what the
message can or cannot say.
The latest in the series of hate
mongering phone messages men-
tions several Jewish-sounding
names connected with the New
York Times, the newspaper that
first published the secret Penta-
gon documents on the origin of
American involvement in Viet-
nam. It alleges that they "lie,
distort and censor the news
regularly."
The message further character-
izes the press as a "kosher mon-
opoly."
The new hate message, and lit-
erature of the American Nazis
delivered to the JTA's Washington
office coincides with an upsurge of
Nazi activity in this area.
On June 19, several Nazis were
arrested after scuffling with mem-
bers of the Jewish Defense League.
The party held two rallies over
the Fourth of July week-end, one
of them in front of the White
House, on the theme, "wash the
Jews out of Washington."
A few fistfights broke out be-
tween the Nazis and several non-
Jewish onlookers.
Appeal Met in Minutes
A middle-aged woman patient at
the Hadassah-Hebrew University
Medical Center urgently required
a very rare blood type, Type B
Rh-. The hospital issued an appeal
over the radio for donors with
this type of blood.
Within minutes, calls came from
all parts of Israel. Within 30 min-
utes, adequate supplies of the rare
type of blood had been received
from two Hadassah hospital work-
ers, four Jerusalem residents, a
member of a kibutz somewhere
near Jerusalem, and a girl soldier.
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