Israel, Soviet Jewry Figure Prominently in GOP Plank
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providing Israel "with support
essential for her security" and
maintenance
of
"our tactical
forces in Europe and the Medi-
terranean area at adequate
strength." But the plank makes
no reference to proposals by wit-
nesses that the U.S. recognize
Jerusalem as Israel's capital and
transfer the U.S. Embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerualem, as the
Democratic Party convention did
in June.
Declaring that "all persons" have
the "right" to emigrate from any
country, the platform declares "we
are fully aware of and share the
concern for the plight of Soviet
Jews with regard to their free-
doms and emigration."
association did not testify at the
hearings on resolutions but a state-
ment was submitted by S. Elly
Rosen, association executive direc-
tor.
Rosen said he had testified to a
House subcommittee in June 1971
concerning "the existence of more
than 800.000 poor Jews in the
United States and to the discrimi-
nation they faced in dealing with
existing Office of Economic Op-
portunity community action (po-
verty I programs." Ile said two
government reports subsequently
confirmed "the lack of participa-
tion by the Jewish poor in their
programs." But one year later,
he said in the statement, "nothing
has been done to remedy this in-
justice."
the Arab-Israeli conflict on an in-
terim or final basis."
Secretary of Defense Melvin
Laird recommended United States
-nzintenance of a military balance
en-
- n the Middle East until "an
-luring settlement" was reached
in the area Testifying before the
full Republican resolutions com-
mittee. Laird, like Secretary of
.ate William Rogers in his testi-
mony, did not mention the Soviet
reduction of its military presence
in Egypt.
Strong endorsements to the
Nixon administration policy in the
Middle East, with emphasis on
continued U.S. support for Israel
and for freedom of Soviet Jews
to emigrate marked the statements
presented to the Renublican reso-
lutions committee by Sen. Jacob
Javits, New York senior senator,
md Mark Tullis, a Boston Uni-
e-ity law student.
In other issues of concern- to
Previously, Dr. Henry Kissinger,
J ewish communities, the platform
the President's adviser on national
reaffirms the party's support for
security affairs, had said only that
"voluntary prayer" in "public 71 Jewish Delegates, Alternates
the subject was "mentioned." Sec-
retary of State William P. Rogers places," strongly opposed by many
at Republican Convention
, tewish organizations. "Scatter-
only last Monday confirmed that
Jewish delegates and alternates
s ■ te" housing such as proposed in
at the Republican Party's conven-
the subject "was discussed" at the
the
Forest
Hills,
Queens,
N.Y.,
tion aggregated 71 or less than 3
Moscow summit meeting. The Mid-
sections is denounced. In apparent
per cent of the 2,696 representa-
dle East and Soviet Jewry ele-
-eference to "scatter-site housing," tives from all parts of the United
ments, along with a pledge to help
it is declared that "we strongly op- States.
"multilateral organizations focus"
•are the use of housing or commun-
This percentage is almost in pre-
on aircraft hijacking and interna-
ity development programs to im-
cise proportion to the Jews—an
tional crime, were contained in the
itme arbitrary housing patterns on estimated 6,00e,000—in the coun-
platform's foreign policy section
if- twilling communities. Neither do try's total population of 210,000,000.
released by the platform commit-
e favor dispersing large numbers
Jewish representatives at the
tee on Aug. 18.
o f people away from their homes
Democratic Party's convention here
Rep. John Rhodes of Arizona,
I
neighborhoods against their in June totaled "300-plus," accord-
platform committee chairman,
oil We do believe in providing ; ing to that party's national corn-
held a news conference Friday
communities, with their full con- I millet., of the 3,018 delegates and
at which he made public the
sent. L,i.nilanee and cooperation,
alternates, or about 10 per cent.
foreign policy planks. He was
with the means and incentives to
The Republican statistic was de-
asked by Jewish Telegraphic
iincrease the quantity and quality
rived from a delegate and alter-
Sgency correspondent Joseph
leiusin• in conjunction with pro- nate list prepared by the party's
Pnlakoff why the
committee
viding increased access to jobs for
"Jewish Vote Division" and made
platform did not recommend
'heir low income citizens."
available to the JTA by Mrs.
transfer of the U.S. Embassy to
Esther Weinrott, the sculptor and
In on appeal to the platform
Jerusalem, a proposal made by
wife of Judge Leo Weinrott of
',mom, last week, Richard
the Republican House Minority
Philadelphia.
' ■ toos. •Mermen of the National
leader, Rep. Gerald Ford of
Mrs. Weinrott. co-chairman with
,r1 Nov It't .Jewry. said
Michigan, by ,the Republican as-
Mrs. John Eisenhower of the
•h.1 , pt,te than 80.000 applications
sistant leader in the Senate,
"Pledges to the President" organi-
.olt Ittission .less are on file with
Robert Griffin of Michigan and
zation in Pennsylvania, and Mrs.
the Soviet visa agency pleading for
also by the Federation of Young
Roslyn levit, also of Philadelphia,
es
It permits Nlaass said in 1956
Republicans. Rep. Rhodes re
and a leader in the Pennsylvania
were 450 synagogues in the
plied that the platform commit.
committee tb re-elect the Presi-
I y11t and that number was r•-
tee "did not document it" and
dent, were ho sTdesses at a cocktail
duced too in 1963 and 60 at pres-
that "the amendment was not of-
party given for the Jewish repre-
ent
fered on the floor and not acted
sentatives at the Fontainebleau
on." The JTA reporter also ask-
NI 1' Mehili of New York, sec-
Hotel by Max Fisher of Detroit,
ed Rep. Rhodes whether Sen.
retary general of the Action Com-
friend of President Nixon.
(•riffin and Rep. Ford had ap-
mittee on American-Arab relations,
Almost exactly
half of the
proved the draft in the commit
told a platform subcommittee that
states — 24 — have Jews among
tee's platform and he replied
President Nixon should invite
their delegations. New York State
that - not evervhody approved
Egyptian President Sadat and Pal-
with 20 out of 176 delegates and
it and some part:- leaders "may
estinian Arab guerrilla leader Vas-
alternates has the highest num-
not approve it.•'
sir Arafat to the White House for
ber. Pennsylvania with eight out
On busing. the platform reemm
a meeting "to develop better ties
of 120 is second. Arizona, Con-
mends commiting the party
with the Arab people " That pro-
necticut and New Jersey have
"tit
guaranteeing equality of educa•
posal was not in Nicht- it's prepared
four each, Massachusetts,
Illi-
bona, opportunity- and to complet-
statement which said that the
nois and Texas have three each;
ing the process of ending de jure
Arabs "are an independent people
Michigan. Missouri
and Okla-
school segregation - but adds that
who refuse being occupied by Zion-
homa two each; and Alaska, Ar-
ist .1e,
Dosing for racial balance "fails its
or British or French co-
kansas, California, Delaware,
'fated objective—improved learn-
iir sosiet mfitience.•'
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
opportionties—whii e it acinev-
Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada,
Sen. John Tower of Texas,
. results no one wants - division
New Mexico, Ohio, West Virginia
chairman of the Republican na-
✓ onimunities and hostility
each have one.
tional resolutions subcommittee
between el:I.:ses and races. We
Nlany
Jewish
Republicans are
assigned to shape the foreign
out
Mom the neighborhood school con-
in state and local poli-
policy elements in the party's
cept Both the American Jewish
tics The three Massachusetts Jew-
platform, who earlier reported-
Committee and the National Coun-
ish members are Frank Freedman,
ly represented a pro-Arab group,
cil of Jewish Women strongly fa-
mayor of Springfield; Mrs. Rosa-
later forecast planks favorable to
sired busing as one tool to achieve
lind Brooker, a lawyer who is the
Israel and to Soviet Jewry.
racial integration in the nation's
Herman I. W•eisman. president
public schools.
-
of thy Zionist Organization - •
.,.urption of Bukharan
Spokesmen for A.;iiilath Israel
•Ame•
of America and Torah l • mesorah
.....
the Nixon ad- Jews Similar to Georgians
• lib -
the National Society '-
on for a "policy of real-
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The ministry
as Hebrew
Day Sohn ,-'
istic military deterence" that he of absorption has announced that
had advocated sup
said was a major factor in the •x-
it has made necessary arrange-
port for non-public educational
pulsion of Soviet forces from
ments for the absorption of large
facilities, one proposal calling for
Egypt.
mailt. four proposals fur numbers of Bukharan Jews now
pax credits (or parents of chil-
' reaching agreement on a just and
arriving in Israel, using patterns
dren in non-public schools. The
durable peace in the Middle East."
of settlement similar to those used
platform suggests "the granting of
lie called for direct negotiations
in settling Georgian Jews.
income tax credits" as one way to
between the parties; recognition
Natan Peled, minister of absorp-
provide such aid.
that a durable peace cannot be at-' tion, made this statement while
An appeal from the Association
tamed by ' - nations not directly in-
visiting the Lachish area and the
of Jewish Anti-Poverty. Workers to volved"; opposition to a "no-war,
Shderot township, where new im-
the Republican Party to adopt "a no-peace" situation; and a declara- migrants are currently being set-
program designed to include the
tion that the U.S. will not "itself tled.
alienated masses of white poor"
or in conjunction with anybody
The Bukharan Jews will be sent
Americans, including many Jews,
else , directly or indirectly, seek I to regions where they can form
was considered by the party's reso-
favor or endorse the imposition of their own communities, very much
lutions committee in drafting its
any terms or prior conditions for like the communal centers set up
platform, the JTA was told. The
the negotiation and settlement of ' for the Georgian Jews.
only woman member of New Bed-
ford's City Council and a state
committeewoman, and Mrs. Aileen
H. Belford, of Fall River, also a
lawyer and a state committee-
woman, who was for seven years
assistant attorney general of Mas-
sachusetts.
The Missouri delegation's chair-
man is Lawrence K. Roos, chief
executive of St. Louis County. Al-
fred J. Fleischer, St. Louis, is the
state party's finance chairman.
The vice chairman of the Minneso-
ta delegation is Rudy Boschwitz of
Minneapolis, a national GOP com-
mitteeman.
Among Connecticut's representa-
tives is Mayor Julius M. Wilensky
of Stamford. Arizona's group in-
cludes Republican state chairman
Harry Rosenzweig and state fi-
nance chairman Burton Kruglick.
A Kentucky delegate is Theodore
H. Lavit, a lawyer from Lebanon
who is a county chairman.
Michigan sent Alfred A. May,
head of Michigan's 1st Congres-
sional District, and David Laro,
Flint, a county chairman.
Mrs. Sari Reingold of Henrietta,
Okla., near Tulsa, leads Okla-
homa's 2nd Congressional district.
Perhaps the leading Jewish fig-
ure in the Republican convention
organization is Mrs. Ellie Selig of
Seguin, Texas, chairman of the all-
important credentials committee.
She is deputy state chairman of
Texas, where she has been living
for 27 years. Mrs. Selig, a native
of Spring Valley, N.Y., is the wife
of Marvin Selig.
Martin Feldman, New' Orleans'
lawyer, is secretary of the Louisi-
ana delegation.
Some Jews holding state or
municipal offices who are repre-
senting their states at the conven-
tion include: Philadelphia Dis-
trict Attorney Arlen Specter, New'
York State Senator Roy B. Good-
man, Pennsylvania State Senator
Robert Rosner, Phillip D. Kalten-
bacher, of the New Jersey Legis-
lature and Robert F. Silverstein,
of the Charleston, W.Va. city
council who is president of that
city's Jewish
la Federation.
California's sole Jewish repre-
sentative is Albert Spiegel, a Bev-
erly Hills lawyer. Ohio's only Jew-
ish delegate is Saul G. Stillman, a
state committeeman and chairman
of the county board of electors
which embraces Cleveland. Alas-
ka's delegation includes Moe Ka-
dish, who left Los Angeles four
years a-go to establish a ladies'
retail clothing store in Anchorage
and is now the party's state finance
chairman. Alaska has only
190
Jewish souls, Kadish told JTA.
From Nebraska is Dr. R. N.
Greenberg, a physician who was
formerly a member of the Board
of Regents of the University of
Nebraska at Lincoln.
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