Hebrew-Tongued Israel
Stronghold for Yiddish
•
Zionist Congress Tumult
Anticipated in Jerusalem
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Dr. Marcus'
Story of Jew
Who Refused
Seat on the
Supreme Court
Page 48
TEL AVIV—While Arab guerrillas are fighting a war via the mails from Yugoslavia and
Austria, in a campaign of terrorism to kill Jews they don't like; or to strive for an exterminate-Israel
program by placing bombs in garbage cans, Jews in Israel are concerned about the cultural-spiritual
aspects of a nation - set upon retaining the heritage that calls for intellectual advancement.
That's the echo at sessions of the World Confederation of Jewish Journalists which started in
Jerusalem on Wednesday, with Israel's leading personalities making known their interest in the commu-
nications spheres, and now continuing for another four days in Tel Aviv.
Dangers that lurk everywhere—even the occasional war threats—are given less consideration
than the status of Diaspora Jewry in the responsible areas of uninterrupted creativity in literature and
in assuring the existence of a good press. Therefore the death of a great Yiddish daily in New York—Tog-
(Continued on Page 8)
THE JEWISH NEWS
Michigan Weekly
2:KE
Review of Jewish News
Israel's Role
in Seeking
High Standards
for Its
Arab Citizens
Commentary
Page 2
Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
VOL. LX, No. 18
17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c January 14, 1972
Hadassah, Slate Partners
Cod#ure 66 Congress Seats
NEW YORK (JTA)—The United Non-party
Zionist slate, comprised of Hadassah, Bnai Zion
and the American Jewish League for Israel, swept
the field in the elections for delegates to the
World Zionist Congress.
The slate received 55,867 votes in the postal
balloting and will have 66 delegates out of 152
American delegates to the congress, which opens
in Jerusalem Jan. 18. The Labor Zionist slate,
including Poale Zion, Farband and Pioneer
Women, came in second with 26,377 votes and 28
delegates.
The Zionist Organization of America follow-
ed, with 23,355 votes and 26 delegates.
The other Zionist slates in the election, in
order of votes and delegates, were: Religious
Zionist movement, comprised of Mizrachi, Mizrachi
Women and Hapoel Hamizrachi Women, received
22,648 votes .and 25 delegates; the United Social-
ist Zionist slate, including Americans for Progres-
sive Israel-Hashomer Hatzair and the Radical
Zionist Alliance, polled 3,402 votes and will have
four delegates; the Independent Student Zionists
received 1,128 votes and will have three delegates.
Rabbi Israel Miller, president of the American
Zionist Federation, who announced the results of
the first Zionist election in the United States in
25 years, said the election was unprecedented in
American Jewish life in that individual members
in 50 states chose their representatives by direct
secret. ballot.
Of the 700,000 registered Zionists who were
eligible to vote, same 135,000 returned their postal
ballots. About 2,000 ballots were invalidated for
lack of identification or because of duplication.
The election was held under the auspices of the
AZF and administered by the American Arbitra-
tion Association. In the elections, the various
Zionist organizations were vying for 55 per cent of
the places in the 152-member American delega-
tion. The remaining 45 per cent of the delegation
seats were allocated on the basis of the current
membership strength of the different Zionist
groups.
Goldmann Challenges Pincus' Authority
to Speak for 3 Million Soviet Jews
LONDON (JTA)—Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
president of the World Jewish Congress, replied
sharply to recent remarks by World Zionist Or-
ganization Executive Chairman Louis Pincus
justifying the WZO Executive's withdrawal of its
invitation to Dr. Goldmann to address a festive
session of the forthcoming World Zionist Congress
in Jerusalem.
Dr. Goldmann said that Pincus' references
to his remarks on Soviet Jewry in a speech to the
Board of Deputies of British Jews here Dec. 19
"distorted the facts."
He denied vigorously that he had "belittled"
aliya (immigration) of Soviet Jews, as Pincus
charged or had given it a lower priority than the
' of the Free: Atty. Gen. John N.
Lan
Mitchell meets with the first family of Soviet Jews to enter the
United States under his parole authority. Shown are (from left)
Charles Miller, Bronx, New York, uncle of the head of the family;
Mrs. Semen Mordkovich Feldman; Dina Feldman, 10; Mitchell;
Igor. Feldman, 7; Feldman; and Max Fisher, president of the
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. The Feldmans,
who plan to live in the Bronx, cannot speak English, but conveyed
their appreciation to the attorney general through Miller. Fisher
played a key role in advising the departments of State and Justice
as to the need to use the attorney general's legal authority to allow
Soviet Jews to enter this country. (Detailed story, Page 5)
struggle for the rights of Jews who remain behind
in the Soviet Union. He challenged Pincus' au-
thority to speak for 3,000,000 Soviet Jews and
his right to proclaim a Zionist policy without the
authority of a Zionist Congress.
Asserting that he had "no desire to enter into
any polemics with Mr. Louis A. Pincus," Dr. Gold-
mann said "I cannot leave unanswered the state-
ments made by him both on the personal level .. .
and much more important on the level of princi-
ples in regard to policies on Soviet Jewry." Dr.
Goldmann declared: "In his references to my ad-
dress to the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Mr.
Pincus distorted the facts. I never belittled the
emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel and I never
said that only a small number would leave."
Continuing, Dr. Goldmann stated: "I said that
the majority would remain. I do not assume that
Mr. Pincus expects the majority of 3,000,000
Jews to come to Israel in the foreseeable future.
Nor did I try to diminish the centrality of the de-
mand for emigration. I stressed again and again
that I hoped that aliya would increase, and that
we must fight for it. But taking these demands
for granted and accepted by all Jewish organiza-
tions without exception, I criticized the position
of those extremists, to whom it seems Mr. Pincus
now belongs, who think that we have to stress
only emigration and forget the fight for the rights
of Jews who will remain in the Soviet Union."
(Continued on Page 6)
'Blackmail on Installment Plan':
Trickle of Jets May Be Hinged
to Softening of Israel's Position
GENEVA (JTA)—Highly reliable American sources said here that Israel would get Phantom
jet aircraft but only in small deliveries of two or three at a time while the U. S. continued to
pressure Israel to soften its position in talks with Egypt.
The sources said American officials referred cynically to this scheme as "blackmail on the
installment plan."
They said that as the Phantoms are rationed out, the State Department expects Israel to par-
ticipate in so-called "hotel talks," meaning indirect negotiations with Egypt at the same venue with
the Americans acting as go-betweens.
State Department officials assume that Israel can be made to bend a little from its position
that an interim Suez agreement must not be linked to an Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai as part
of an over-all settlement, the sources said.
The sources stated that the State Department was anxious to get the talks moving because
they believe that time is running out for President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, who must produce either
a diplomatic victory or war if his regime is to survive.
The sources said that the renewal of talks under United Nations mediator Gunnar V. Jarring
was no obstacle to the "hotel talks."
U. S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers said that the United States was trying to get
negotiations going between Israel and Egypt and that it did not matter whether they were negotia-
tions for an over-all settlement under the auspices of Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring or for an in-
terim Suez agreement with the U. S. acting as mediator.
"We are working in both ways," Rogers told ABC newsmen Howard K. Smith and Ted Kop-
pel during a television interview. "We have had no fighting there (the Middle East) for about 18
months so that in itself is an encouraging fact. Now we hope that we will be able to get negotiations
(Continued on Page 6)
started," Rogers said.
11111106..,
'14"