Iiajor Jewish Organizations Call on HEW to 'Prevent
or Eliminate Preferential Treatment' in Universities
NEW YORK—Six national Jewish organizations concerned with "reverse dis-
crimination" in college admissions and hiring practices. have sent 19 new examples
to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare "of such gravity as to
command immediate attention."
The groups, which had previously submitted 33 examples to HEW, urged the
federal agency to carry out its legal obligation to "prevent or eliminate preferential
treatment." The new cases were sent to J. Stanley Pottinger. director of HEW's Office
for Civil Rights, by Agudath Israel of America, American Jewish Committee. American
Jewish Congress, Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, Jewish Labor Committee
and Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.
A covering letter, signed by officials of the six organizations, declared that
"virtually all the additional instances . . . reflect college and university policy and
can be considered as indicative of patterns of institutional discrimination:'
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Urgent Need
for Commission
to Study and
Establish
Israeli
Realities
Commentary
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Appeals to
Genocide
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Amendment
Ideals
Editorial
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January 26, 1973
Vietnam Peace, U. S. Oil Needs
Seen Leading to New M.E. Talks
Editorial Tribute
to Great President
Lyndon B. Johnson: Civil Rights
President, Israel's Noble Friend
Lyndon B. Johnson's name will be listed side by side with
the greatest of American Presidents and among Israel's most
notable friends. -
He was the Civil Rights President. More than any other man,
in all the ranks of the fighters for just rights for the black man,
he was the leader and the guide toward a just solution of one of
our nation's most depressing problems.
Because he achieved that task, to emerge as the Civil Rights
President, a title no one can ever take from him, as a Southerner
who had grown up amidst prejudice, he is even greater than the
record shows.
He was a friend of Israel, and
the Jewish state owes him an indel-
ible notation in- her history.
There was the opportunity to
show courage during the Six-Day
War and thereafter, at sessions with
the Russians. He possessed the
strength of will to overcome Russian
pressures and Arab attacks, and un-
like the errors of a predecessor dur-
ing the Sinai Campaign a decade
earlier his acts helped Israel survive
in the midst of a serious crisis.
It was not the only instance of
his friendship. During the Sinai Cam-
paign there were threats of punish-
ments. President .Dwight D. Eisen-
hower planned to go on a national
television program to threaten
sanctions against Israel. That's when
Senator Johnson, as the Democratic
minority leader of the Senate, and
414.1Pwalglia:
Senator William Knowland, the Re-
tilodon Johnson
publican majority Senate leader at
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By Jewish News Political Analyst
Renewed diplomatic moves in the direction of peace in the Middle East are
awaited as a natural sequence to the end of hostilities in Vietnam.
Worldwide rejoicing over President Nixon's announcement of the approaching
cease fire to commence this Saturday evening, and the initialing of the preliminary
agreement by Dr. Henry Kissinger, were accompanied by predictions of expected pres-
sures from both the White House and the State Department for more serious efforts
at an accord that will lead to the reopening of the Suez Canal.
A speech delivered by Secretary of State William P. Rogers, in New York,
Jan. 17, at a farewell dinner in honor of Israel's retiring ambassador to the United
States, Itzhak Rabin, has triggered speculation as to the policies to be pursued by
the U.S. State Department now that the Vietnam crisis is being resolved and the
presidential election is in the past.
In his speech, Rogers appealed to Israelis and Arabs to enter into some sort of
"genuine, meaningful negotiating process." His view was that the U.S. regarded
negotiations for an interim Suez agreement to be "the most realistic approach" to an
over-all settlement. He declared that a final settlement must take into consideration
the rights of Israel, the Arab states and the Palestinians. He added that an interim
Suez Canal agreement would be "a decisive first step of facilitating negotiations to
carry out the Security Council Resolution 242 in its entirety."
The controversy that emerged from this speech resulted in speculative discus-
sions and the interpretation of Israel Foreign Minister Abba Eban, in Jerusalem,
immediately after Rogers' speech was made known, was that "there was not a single
phrase or expression in Rogers' statement that was not made in a similar or identical
way during the last year."
But on Sunday, in an address to a gathering of 200 at an aliya conference at the
Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Ambassador Rabin interpreted
Rogers' speech in his honor the previous
Wednesday as indicating that the Nixon ad-
ministration is more committed than ever to
maintaining a "determined posture" in the
Middle East, As Rabin viewed the matter,
Rogers placed "more stress than in the past
in pointing to the responsibilities of the par-
NEW YORK (JTA) — Observers here
said Wednesday that the Soviet Union
ties involved to take the initiative themselves
apparently has no intention of rescind-
in putting an end to the difficulties."
ing the education head tax levied on
The JTA report on the Washington aliya
emigrants with academic degrees.
conference states:
`Education Tax'
Stays in Effect,
Soviets Rule
They said this was indicated by the
first official publication in Moscow this
week of the Diploma Tax Law adopted
last Aug. 3 and the regulations governing
the scale of payments which have been
in effect since Dec. 26.
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Rabin characterized Rogers' address as a
"very real and true restatement of the policy
of the United States," adding, "all fears that
there would be a change in American policy
have not proved to be true" In view of Rogers'
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Hyman Safran Named Chairman of Institute for Jewish Life
A major post in American Jewish communal activities this week was assigned to a prominent Detroiter.
1 ,en named chairman of the Institute for Jewish
Hyman Safran, former president of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
Life, the planning, resarch and consultative body formed by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
Safran's appointment was announced by Irving Blum of Baltimore, who was elected last November as president of the Council
of Federations to succeed Max M. Fisher. The chairmanship of the Institute for Jewish Life until now was held by Blum.
The 73 members of the board of the Institute for Jewish Life were chosen last year from 400 nominees to conduct the sur-
veys of existing needs for the advancement of American Jewish activities educationally, especially among youth, and to assist in ad-
vancing the campus and other activities in this country. Israel's role in Jewish life is among the factors motivating Institute for
Jewish Life programs.
Detroiters who serve as members of the board of Institute for Jewish Life are Mandell Berman, Irwin Shaw, Philip Slomo-
vitz and George Zeltzer. Dr. Leon Jick is the director of the institute.
Safran, for 20 years among the top leaders in the Detroit Federation, is a former president of Shaarey Zedek. A graduate
of the United Hebrew Schools, he has been actively interested in education and In Zionist affairs. An organizer and head of Safran
Printing Co., one of the largest in the country, he has pioneered in Introducing and advancing the photo offset processes in printing.
Hyman Safran