Brandeis High
on List of Top
U.S. Colleges
WALTHAM, Mass.—The Ameri-
can Council on Education (ACE)
and "The Insider's Guide to the
Colleges" have respectively ranked
Brandeis University in the top
1.2 per cent of the nation's col-
leges and universities and la-
beled the school as "richly intel-
lectual."
The ACE rating system, devised
by Alexander W. Astin, ACE's
director of research, is based on
mean aptitude test scores of in-
coming freshmen and has placed
Brandeis among the 27 most se-
lective colleges and universities
in the United States—or in the
top 1.2 per cent. Other schools
in the group include Harvard,
Yale, M.I.T., Stanford, the Univer-
ity of Chicago, Rice, Princeton and
Dartmouth.
Coincidentally, the 1971 edition
of "The Insider's Guide to the
Colleges," compiled and edited by
the staff of the Yale Daily News
for high school students seeking
information on colleges and univer-
sities, has listed Brandeis in com-
pany with the nation's most pres-
tigious schools of higher learning.
Group Organized
to 'Protect Rabbis
from Abuses'
NEW YORK (JTA)—A 36-year-
old New York Orthodox rabbi said
the fledgling Independent Rab-
binate of America, of whch he is
director, was created to function as
a professional organization in seek-
ing to prevent abuses of rabbis by
congregations, rather than as a
labor union.
Rabbi L. Martin Kaplan, who
now holds a pulpit here and who
has served congregations in Al-
bany, New Jersey and Tennessee,
told the JTA that the immediate
stress of the organization's effort
is on membership building. Cur-
rently. he said, the organization .
has about 100 members, most of
them Orthodox rabbis serving Con-
. 4,.. servative congregations. He said
the three-month-old organization
' would maintain a confidential file
on complaints registered by rabbis
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against congregations and that this
information would be made avail-
:able to any rabbi seeking a posi-
tion, regardless of his affiliation.
Rabbi Kaplan stated that the
organization was particularly con-
cerned with congregations which
,,:fire their rabbis for any reason and
would investigate all such incidents
reported to it. He said another
vmajor concern was unfair harass-
' 'ment of rabbis and attempts to
"usurp" the rabbi's classical au-
thority.
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A Visit to Black Panthers in Israel
By JACK SIEGEL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
one child. Why? "Cigarettes bring
Cancer, children bring poverty."
Against the motion that his Black
Panthers are a criminal element,
he says membership is denied
anybody unless he foregoes all
criminal activity. This includes
smoking hash or pot or taking
drugs. Nor is membership limited
to "Oriental" Jews. Anybody can
join and, in fact, Abergil pointed
out, they have support from Ash-
kenazi (white) student's.
Abergil talked on, about dis-
crimination in housing, in educa-
tion, how "black" kids cannot go
to certain schools and that their
ghettos are slums. To work against
this, he has a program for his
"party" each of whose members
pays dues of 40 pounds per year:
1. Summer camps for children.
2.. Doing away with poor neigh-
borhoods and ghettos built in
certain areas for the same
kind of people (mostly his).
3. Provision for kindergartens.
4. Free education through the
university.
5. Special allocations for fami-
lies with four or more chil-
dren.
6. Aid for the 615,000 people
below the poverty level, 80
per cent of whom are Orien-
, tal Jews.
7. Reform institutions to be
turned into schoolS.
How would he implement this
program? Abergil said: "The gov-
ernment has the sociologists and
college graduates. Let them figure
it out."
But there have been meetings
with govenment officials on these
questions, one with the prime min-
ister. The problems Abergil out-
lined will take time to solve, he
was told. There can be no answer
now, otherwise the present situa-
tion will be handled as was Wadi
Salib 10 years earlier. When asked
the meaning of this, Abergil told
of a situation in the Haifa area
which, he claims was solved by
buying off the leaders and/or ar-
resting others.
The interview over, we were
shown a family across the street
where 10 children lived with their
parents in what appeared to be
two rooms. We didn't stay long;
the message was instant.
There are 70,000 needy in Is-
rael and 120,000 below the poverty
level of whom a good part are
Oriental Jews. Jobs could be the
answer. Housing, too, and the
complaint of the Black Panthers is
that the Olim Hadashim (new im-
migrants) receive the best of all
possible deals whereas they, older
immigrants, here since the '40s
and '50s, do not benefit from lib-
eral considerations applied to the
newcomer.
Talk with the average Israeli
produces a mixed bag of reactions
to the Black Panther cause, from
sympathy to indifference to hos-
tility; to charges that they are
lazy and will not work or even
accept the discipline of the army
they say they are eager to serve.
Lay American leadership to
whom this problem was presented
also have mixed views but almost
all agree that it is a matter for the
Israelis to solve; that Americans
can raise funds for Israel through
the UJA and perhaps make sug-
gestions but in the final analysis
it is an internal problem.
You ride down the streets from
the King David Hotel to the Mus-
rara quarter in Jerusalem, you
come to a series of hot-looking
brown-brick structures and if it
weren't for the famous biblical sky
line, you might think you were in
either New or Old Mexico..A lone
dog wanders in the lots of the
neighborhood and then you see the
sign over the adobe type hut:
BLACK PANTHERS HEAD-
QUARTERS.
At the open doorway stand a
couple of chicano-looking types,
dark and sombre, staring at the
station wagon. One of our four is
a lady, Mrs. Raymond Epstein of
Chicago, whose husband is presi-
dent of the Chicago Welfare Fund.
Of the other two men, one is a
chauffeur and the other does pub-
lic relations for a major fund
raising organization and who has
made the appointment with Reu-
ven Abergil, head of the Black
Panthers.
We go into the house with dark
young men who look at us perhaps
hostilely. There is a young woman
who is on the lighter side and a
child about two years old. Posters
in Hebrew are nailed to the wall.
We are introduced to Reuven
Abergil, the fiery, wiry leader of
the Israeli Black Panthers. Chairs
are set up around the large, un-
made bed on which he sits and
then another, older man enters the
but and slides on the edge of the
bed nearest the door. The address
we are told is 53-20 Ayin Het or
78, named after the Israeli doctors
and nurses who were ambushed in
route to Mt. Scopus in 1948. Aber-
gil is 28 and came as an infant
from Morocco. He has one child.
"Why should I have more?" There
are enough families, he says, with
10 children and all live in one or
two rooms.
He says his group has no poli-
tical aims and he himsef has no
political ambitions. He speaks at
a rapid clip in Hebrew and it is
translated by both the PR man
and the chauffeur, a Greek from
old Jerusalem.
But _Abergil admits that his ac-
tivity as chairman_ of the Black
Panthers brings him into contact
with political leaders and this he
likes. He says his group has mem-
bers who represent all shades of
opinion from Rakah (Communist)
to Matzpen (Marxist) to Schisch
(New Left), but that overall his
members (he claims 9,000 in
Jerusalem and 48,000 nationwide)
are patriotic and would defend the
country. However, his complaints
against the government is that he
cannot serve in the army, and in
Israel this is a kind of mark of
Cain. He has two police records,
one for stealing tomatoes. Many of
his "party" people face the same
problem and the resultant shame
of having been rejected for serv-
ice by the army.
One of 14 children, he went as
far as the third grade. Yet, as a
result of meeting with a well
known Israeli official following
a demonstration, he was told
that if he is an example of a
third grader, then the univer-
sities should be closed down.
Abergil is bright and claims his
profession is "social worker."
When asked where he got his
training, he says: "In the
streets."
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was the Nazi movement in Ger-
many. The French weekly added
that anti-Semitic General Moczar
has been named to the honorary
post of Chairman of the General
Comptroller's Commission_
"One might say that the post
given to this pogroms-organizer
won't, probably, put an end to the
Moczarian anti-Semitism," t h e
weekly writes. "As a matter of
fact, it is possible to say that as
far as this point is concerned,
nothing has changed in Poland."
Boleslaw Pia-
PARIS (JTA)
secki, newly named as a member
of the Council of State in Poland,
was one of the leaders of the
Fascist and anti-Semitic "Phal-
anga" organization, the French
weekly Nouvel Observateur re-
vealed. The Council of State is
the highest ruling body of Poland.
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Poland in the years 1934-1939. It
split away from the "Nationalist
Right" and organized several po-
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