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AJConunittee Proposes 4Laborntory'
to Resolve Forst Hills Controversy
NEW YORK (JTA) — Warning
that the Forest Hills housing con-
troversy may foreshadow "mass
conflict" in New York City, the
New York chapter of the American
Jewish Committee has offered to
sponsor a "laboratory for crises
resolution" between the principals
in the dispute to help settle the
issue.
In a letter to Mayor John V,
Lindsay, the AJConsmittee Chapter.
urged his endorsement for the pro-
posal to meet the "overriding prob
lem" of the intergroup health of
the city.
The laboratory would involve
gathering the opinion leaders of
all factions in one room for airing
their views on the grievances and
arriving at a consensus for their
solution. The proposal for the use
Zuckerman Joins of professional specialists' help in
resolving the issue has beeii en-
Talks on Exodus
dorsed by the New York Inter-
racial Colloquy. _
The Colloquy' is sponsored by
of Soviet Jewry
the AJCommittee, the NAACP,
Special to The Jewish News
the National Conference of Chris-
JERUSALEM—Paul Zuckerman, tians and Jews, and the National
national chairman of the United Urban League.
Jewish Appeal, last week repre-
In the letter to•Linchtsix,Edward-
sented the major American Jewish D. Moldover,....president 'of the'AJ-
philanthropic cause in conferences Comniiftee Chapter, and HAskell L.
on problems affecting the increas- Lazere, its director, proposed that
ing migration of Jews from the the techniques employed be used
Soviet Union.
to settle racial dissputes in Cam-
Participating in the discussions den, N.J., Asbury Park, N.J. Grand
was Irving Bernstein, executive Rapids, Mich. and elsewhere.
vice president of UJA, who accom-
He pointed out that the AJCom-
panied Zuckerman on the Israel rnittee had not taken a position on
mission.
the housing project and cautioned
Fact-finding sessions were held that harmonious relations could
here, in Tel Aviv, and at absorp- not be restored within New York
tion centers in Israeli resettlement until the issues were removed from
areas.
the streets.
Prime Minister Golda Meir; Louis
Meanwhile about 75 Jews demon-
Pincus, chairman of the Jewish strated outside of Maimonides Hos-
Agency; Pinhas Sapir, Israel fi- pital in the Boro Park section of
nance Minister; and other govern- Brooklyn to protest alleged "block-
ment leaders joined in the discus- busting" on the part of the hospital
sions.
which they claim will alter the pre-
dominently Jewish character of the
neighborhood.
2 Rabbis Assail Nixon
According to Jay Kaplan, a
for Renewed Bombings
spokesman for a group calling
NEW YORK—The heads of the itself Citizens for a Better Bore
congregational and rabbinic arms Park, MaImunIdee, has been
cf Reform Judaism assailed the using "block busting" tactics to
Nixon administration for the re- get homeowners to sell their
newed bombings in North Vietnam property.
The hospital wants the property
and stated that such action en-
dangers the peace aims of the to house Black and Puerto Rican
President's forthcoming trips to members of its staff, Kaplan said.
He said the citizens group was
China and the USSR.
Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, demanding that Maimonides desist
president of the Union of American from the alleged practice and that
Hebrew Congregations, and Rabbi it give priority to hiring Jews from
David Polish, president of the the neighborhood to fill openings
Central Conference of American for nurses, ambulence drivers and
Rabbis, called upon the administra- other positions.
Daniel L. Dube, president of the
tion to "set a date for total with-
drawal of all American forces from Community League for Maimonides
Hospital
said that the hospital was
all of Indochina".
making an effort to fill its staff
vacancies with local neighborhood
people but conceded that in the
Vernco ELECTRONIC. past it may have hired a dispro-
portionate number of outsiders.
OPENER
Dube denied emphatically that
GARAGE DOOR
the hospital was engaging in
"block-busting" tactics.
He said the hospital has placed
want ads in the Jewish Press, a
local Jewish weekly, and in IL
-Progresso, , an Italian language
newspaper. Dube said ' the - pototRa-
tion of Boro Park was a mixture
Call Eveietwas Until 9
of Jewish and Italian with Blacks
and Puerto Ricans living in some
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sections.
Frank Fund Gets German Donation
AMSTERDAM (JTA)—A gift of
almost $3,500 from West German
President Gustav Heinemann to
the Anne Frank Foundation was
presented to the foundation's ex-
ecutive committee , by West Ger-
AMbalsader -_ Dr. Hans Ar-
nOid.
The $tftivilt be used toward re-
ducing the deficit of the foundation
which maintains the Anne Frank
House here. The building has fallen
into disrepair for lack of lands..
The building where the - 1$-y.
old Anne Frank and her fay lily
hid from the Nazis during -World,
War II until they were finally
discovered by the Nazis has been
a tourist shrine since the diary of
Anne Frank was published after
the war.
The foundation says its aim is
to fight racial and all other forms
of discriminatien.
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