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THE, DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Mrs. Meir Accuses Israel Press of Conducting 'Witch Hunt'
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
... and Me'
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1971, JTA Inc.)
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA)
(Copyright, 1971, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
JEWISH UNIVERSITIES: The pros and cons of the free Jewish
universities—currently undergoing a rapid development in colleges
and universities throughout the country—are now being discussed.
They have been analyzed by the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations which
are cooperating with the free universities on the campuses.
Their emergence and growth in the last few years is considered
by Hillel leaders a fruitful development in the area of Jewish life
on the campus. However, some in the Hillel Foundations also see them
harboring potential risks and dangers. The fear exists that many stu-
dents, in their enthusiasm, may set up free universities in which
instructors may not have adequate academic qualifications; that
standards of instruction may be unprofessional and even amateur;
that students attend not with a measure of regularity but as the mood
dictates; and that the constantly emphasized quest for "relevance" may
degenerate into a few bull sessions on current events.
The term "free university" is in most cases a misnomer; implying
a degree of academic completeness, scholarly competence and disci-
plined study. These are attained in just a few of the free universities.
The question, therefore, posed for Hillel directors is whether the free
universities—while their activities are wholly legitimate in themselves
—fulfill the functions and serve the needs for serious study, self-
examination and self-expression for which they had been initially
conceived and established.
On the other hand, there is growing recognition that they merit
full encouragement by the Hillel Foundations and others because they
involve increasing numbers of students and faculty members in serious
study and discussions of issues of significance to themselves as indi-
viduals and to Jewish life as a whole. It is generally agreed that they
constitute a genuine potential for good, and that they function with
great effectiveness, although most of them have come into life only
about three years ago.
Jarring M.E. Meetings Unfruitful
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier
Golda Meir Tuesday night accused
Israel's press, radio and television
of conducting a "witch hunt" in
the style of •the late U. S. Sen. Jo-
seph R. McCarthy and of fanning
a "lynching atmosphere."
In a speech to the Labor align-
ment's Knesset faction here, Mrs.
Meir referred to news media treat-
ment of investigations into alleged
scandals and mismanagement in
the affairs of government-owned
companies. Her criticism was ap-
parently prompted by a new at-
tack on Justice Minister Yaacov
Shimson Shapiro in the newspaper
Haaretz Tuesday. Columnist Natan
Dunevitz accused the minister of
having lied to the Knesset about
his connections with Mordechai
Friedman, a managing director of
the Netivei Neft Oil Co. currently
under investigation.
Mrs. Meir said the press, radio
and televiison acted as if they
were run by the opposition. "All
we need now are people's courts
People
Make News
to decide whom to hang next," resolution was-drafted :by a coali-
tion committee headed by Minis-
she declared.
Demonstrations against cor-
ruption were staged here and in
Tel Aviv. About 500 Hebrew Uni-
v ersity students and Black
Panthers massed outside the
Knesset building to demand the
resignation of Finance Minister
Pinhas Sapir. Inside, the Knes-
set heard Sapir pledge that the
full weight of,-the law would be
applied against anyone found
guilty of misconduct.
The demonstrators accused the
government of laxity in detecting
waste and mismanagement in pub-
lic corporations. Several students
smashed replicas of ancient pot-
tery to dramatize their complaints
that Defense- Minister Moshe
Dayan is engaging in illegal arche-
ological activities. Dayan is an
amateur archeologist.
The Knesset, meanwhile adopted
a resolution expressing its dis-
pleasure with the moral climate
and administrative deficiencies in
Israeli business enterprises, in-
cluding firms owned. wholly or
partly by the government. It call-
ed for intensified supervision over
state-owned
Hadassah presented the ninth
annual Myrtle Wreath Achieve-
ments Awards for distinguished
contributions in their fields to
JOSEPH PAPP, founder and pro-
ducer of the New York Shakespeare
Festival Public Theater; Dr.
CHAIM POTOK, scholar, educator
and editor of the Jewish Publica-
tion Society of AmeriCa; Dr.
MINA REES, president, graduate
division, City University of New
York; and Dr. ALAN F. GUTT-
MACHER, president, Planned
Parenthood-World Population.
a a a
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN, the con-
cert pianist, has been officially
admitted to the French Academy
of Arts to which he was elected
last spring. Rubinstein has lived
in France for many years and
is a member of the Legion of
Honor.
a a a
The Paris offices of the Joint
Distribution Committee and the-
United Hias Service have been
consolidated, and IVOR SVARC,
director of the French office of
United Hias Service, has been ap-
pointed JDC country director for
France, it was announced by
Samuel L. Haber, JDC executive
vice chairman. Svarc will con-
tinue to direct the French office
of the United Hiss Service, which
also covers emigration services
from Morocco and ,Spain, as he
had done since 1957.
* a
The Union of American Hebrew
Congregations announces the re-
election of H. J. BYLAN, of Grand
Rapids, to the executive commit-
tee of its board of trustees, and
the election of MRS. MARSHALL
M. MILLER, of Detroit, to -the
board.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The quest. Jarring also met with Egyp-
State Department indicated that tian Foreign Minister Mahmoud
it does not view Ambassador Gun- Riad.
nar V. Jarring's talks with Israeli
It appeared that the two sides
and Egyptian diplomats .as a re- had not sufficiently resolved their
sumption of the UN mediator's incompatible stands on territorial
'Middle East peace-seeking mis- withdrawal to warrant reactivation
sion. Robert J. McCloskey, State of the Jarring mission. The next
Department spokesman, said at a development will be a renewed at-
news briefing that it cannot be tempt by the United States to ef-
concluded "that this is a literal fect an interim agreement.
and formal resumption" of the
Eban, who was accompanied by
Jarring Mission.
Ambassador Yosef Tekoah, con-
State Department sources told tended, according to an Israeli
the JTA that it was unlikely that statement issued after the meet-
Egypt would ask for a Security ing, "as he had already made clear
Council meeting to affirm the re- in the General Assembly," that
solution adopted by the Assembly Israel was ready for a resumption
Monday night.
of the Jarring mission on the basis
o *
of Resolution 242.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
The United Naticns' Middle East
emissary, Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring, — Bormann -Probably Dead,
called on Israeli Foreign Minister Frankfurt Prober Rules
Abba Eban Dec. 16 "to discuss
BONN (JTA) — A Frankfurt
the resumption of his (Dr. Jar- magistrate conducting an official
ring's) mission 'under Security investigation into the whereabouts
Council Resolution 242." The meet- of Hitler's former deputy, Martin
ing, at the Plaza Hotel, was sched- Hermann, has concluded that he
uled at the Swedish envoy's re- was "most probably" dead.
Judge Horst Von Glasenrapp said
that the only eye-witness testimony,
Pro-Arab Writer Admits as
opposed to theories, indicated
that Bormann died on May 2, 1945
12 Jews in Syrian Jails
in
the
Invalidenstrasse in Berlin
PARIS (JTA) — A leftist pro-
Arab French writer admitted that as the Soviet army fought-its way Classified Ads Get Quick Results
there were 12 Jews under arrest into the German capital.
Von Glasenrapp's probe lasted
in Syria for trying to leave that
a year. lie based his findings on
country.
testimony of Arthur Axman, a
But he contended that they were
caught with large quantities of former Nazi youth leader, who
told the Nuremberg war crimes
foreign currency and would have
tribunal in 1946 that he had per-
been arrested in Israel or France
sonally
seen Bormann's dead
had they tried to leave those coun-
body.
tries illegally.
Legal circles here said that in
Pierre Demeron, who said he
has visited Syria 15 times in the view of the magistrate's findings
last few years, was a speaker at the Bormann case would probably
a meeting of the Franco-Arab Soli- be officially closed.
darity Committee. But some mem-
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bers of his audience disputed his
Louis Nizer, in his syndicated
contention that Syrian Jews lived
under conditions "as good as can column on the Middle East: "We
be expected under circumstances are blessed by the fact that we are
not called upon to send our soldiers
in the Middle East."
In Philadelphia, 40 representa- abroad to counter this crucial
tives of the 17 organizations and move. If we spent one month's
youth movements comprising the Vietnam war cost to arm Israel,
Zionist Federation gathered at the we would receive a thousandfold
Liberty Bell to voice solidarity with return in American objectives and
Syrian Jewry.
the preservation of peace."
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