Prayer by Rabbi Siegel
at Inaugural Saturday
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WASHINGTON — President Nixon's inaugural on Saturday will include a prayer by Rabbi Seymour Siegel,
president of the Jewish Rights Council and a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, who was one of the
President's leading supporters during the election campaign.
Provisions were made for kosher food to be served him at his motel, within walking distance of the Capitol.
His friends and stuCents who study Talmud with him in New York every Saturday afternoon will be with him
for Sabbath morning services, after which Rabbi Siegel will walk to the inaugural site.
It has also been announced that Rabbi Edgar Magnin of Los Angeles will participate in religious services at
the White House on Sunday.
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January 19, 1973
Israelis at Odds Over 'Historic
Merits' of Pope-Meir Audience;
Denigration Is Condemned
Swastika-Printed WSU
Paper's Articles Spur
Rising Campus Protest
A swastika drawn into a Star of David, super-
imposed upon the text of a viciously anti - Israel series
of articles by a Detroit clergyman in the Wayne
State University daily paper, gave evidence last
week of a renewed anti-Semitic trend among students
responsible for the publication of that paper.
While the propaganda against Israel which often
assumes an anti-Semitic trend had already been pub-
lished in the South End last November, including a
series of articles on Russian Jewry that was tinged
with anti-Jewish prejudices, there were assurances
that the WSU publication would alter its attitude in
view of factual data that had been presented to the
edtorial staff.
But the new series, by Rev. John Nicholls Booth,
a Unitarian minister, shocked Christians and Jews
on the WSU campus, and protests were lodged with
the university president, Dr. George Gillen, and his
associates.
Dr. Gullen expressed shock at the type of propa-
ganda published in the South End and told a group
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—A serious debate developed Wednesday over whether the positive aspects
of Premier Golda Meir's meeting with Pope Paul VI in the Vatican Monday were not negated by the Vati-
can's own press spokesman, Frederico Allessandrini, whose verbal statement immediately after the meet-
ing denigrated its importance. Official sources here termed Mrs. Meir's audience with the Pope a notable
success.
The sources cited two statements by the pontiff to Mrs. Meir which they said were of "cardi-
nal importance." The Pope called their meeting a "historic occasion" and expressed thanks to the
Israel government for its protection of religious
rights and the Holy Places in Jerusalem. The
sources dismissed Allessandrini's negative state-
ment is an effort to ease the extreme anxiety felt
by the Arab states over Premier Meir's audience
with the Pope. They said it was far less significant
In line with a report that the situation of Iraq's tiny
than the official communique issued jointly by the
Jewish community is deteriorating still further, a campaign
Vatican Secretariat of State and Israeli officials
is on to win the release of 13 Jews being held prisoner and
which constituted the "authoritative" position of
the restoration of their human rights.
the Vatican.
Public Outcry Sought
for Jews in Iraq Jails
It was urged that telegrams or letters be sent to Abdul
Karim Al-Shaikhly, ambassador extraordinary and plenipo-
tentiary, permanent representative to the United Nations,
14 E. 79th St., New York 10021; and to President Ahmed
Hassan al-Bakr, at the Presidential Palace, Baghdad, Iraq.
The Committee of Concern, under the chairmanship of
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, has appealed to the United Nations
to intercede with the government of Iraq on behalf of the
13, who were arrested in September, November and
December.
But two prominent Israeli journalists, writing
for rival afternoon dailies, described the aftermath
of Mrs. Meir's audience at the Vatican as a "ringing
slap in Israel's face."
Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff, charged in an
Interview Tuesday that the Vatican had committed
a "grave discourtesy" by allowing its spokesman to
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Historic Tasks and Goals to Assure Freedom and Dignity
For Jews Everywhere Inspire Campaigners' Generosity
New High Set in $7,275,000 Gifts From 400 Pacesetters' Contributions
New standards in generosity were recorded Tuesday evening at the Allied Jewish Campaign
Pacesetters' meeting held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Honigman in Birmingham. Supple-
menting the notable initial campaign meeting held Nov. 29 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Handle-
man, at which the sum of 55,700.000 was reported subscribed as of that date, the 150 men at the
Honigman home registered additional generosity, enabling the campaign chairman, Samuel Frankel,
to announce the Jan. 16 total of $7,273,000.
Frankel, co-chairman of the drive with Paul Handleman, said the new achievement, again an
all-time record-breaking sum, was secured from 400 contributors and that it represented an increase
of $320.000 over the gifts by these donors a year ago.
"At this rate," Frankel said, "we are assured a banner campaign."
Added inspiration was given the campaigners in the address of the -guest speaker, Louis Pincus,
chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and head of the executive of the World Zionist Organization.
Pincus gave an outline of Israel's needs and difficulties as well as the attainments of the last 25
years. He related the historic occurrences resulting from Russian Jewry's re-emergence as a loyal
element in Jewish ranks, and he declared that "if we stand firm, we in Israel together with world
Jewry, we shall see the triumph of Russian Jewry's defiance of oppression and complete return to our
fold."
"And we will see a Jew living everywhere in freedom and dignity," he added, with an appeal:
"Don't let history pass you by."
Pincus was introduced by Max M. Fisher, world chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive.
Fisher paid honor to the guest speaker as a man who "brought back unity in Jewish life, as the leader
who has made vast contributions in the tasks of education, immigration and absorption of newcomers
in Israel."
Fisher introduced Mrs. Pincus who accompanied her husband on his Detroit visit. Another
guest at the meeting was Melvin Dubinsky, national chairman of the United Israel Appeal, the post to
which he was named as Max Fisher's successor two years ago.
Assisting Frankel in enrolling contributors at Tuesday's meeting were Richard Sloan, William
Davidson and Irving Seligman.
The meeting was opened formally by Daniel Honigman who, in his own and his wife Suzy's
behalf, welcomed the guests with an assurance of support for the campaign.
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At Tuesday's Allied Jewish Campaign gathering are (from
left/ Max M. Fisher, Louis Pincus, Samuel Frankel and Mandell
Berman, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation.