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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Nixon told Congress
in his annual foreign policy
report that no other world
crisis "has greater impor-
tance or higher priority" for
the United States than the
Middle East.
His 232-page document,
however, gave no indication
of specific prograss or fresh
initiatives toward settlement
of the Arab-Israeli conflict
during the past year, either
rdnpnasizect m llixon tieport
toward an interim agree-
ment, initiated by the U.S.
or an over-all settlement as
sought by the United Nations
in its virtually moribund
mandate to Ambassador Gun-
nar V. Jarring.
competition, religious and
ethnic divisions are indigen-
ous sources of turmoil which
exacerbate—and are exacer-
bated by — these other ten-
sions. Stability therefore de-
pends also on strengthening
regional forces for coopera-
Responding to questions on tion and collaboration."
the 12-page section on the
Middle East, Dr. Henry Kis-
singer, in a White House
news conference, reiterated
that the U.S. is "in favor of
both the comprehensive and
the so-called interim agree-
Reconstructionist ment" and that "we support
the Jarring mission and
College Holds Its others" that would "clear
the Suez Canal and bring
First Graduation
about withdrawal from some
PHILADELPHIA — First areas."
graduation exercises of the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College will be held 2:30 p.m.
Sunday at Ritter Hall, Tem-
ple University, where the col-
lege was established five
years ago.
The college is the first new
training school for rabbis to
be formed in America in the
last 50 years. It was founded
under the sponsorship of the
Jewish Reconstructionist
Foundation.
The current student body
consists of 43 students, in-
cluding three females.
The philosophy of the Col-
lege is based upon a civili-
zational approach studying
Judaism historically.
Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan
will be celebrating his 92nd
birthday on the occasion of
the first graduation of the
school he founded. Rabbi Ira
Eisenstein is president and
chief executive officer of the
college and Rabbi Fredric
Kazan is its acting dean.
The first graduate, Michael
Luckens, son of Rabbi and
Mrs. Ruben Luckens of Far
Rockaway, N.Y., holds a mas-
ter's degree from New York
University and is a doctoral
candidate at Temple Univer-
sity. The title of Rabbi will
be conferred upon him May
13, and upon completion Of
this doctoral thesis, the col-
lege will award him its Doc-
tor of Hebrew Letters De-
gree.
Goren Wants Liberal
Jewish Movements to
Stay Out of Israel
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the
Ashkenazi chief rabbi, hit out
at Liberal Judaism in an ad-
dress to the annual national
conference in Natanya of
Hitakhdut Olei Britannia, the
organization of British set-
tlers in Israel.
Every Liberal Jew immi-
grating into Israel would be
welcomed with love and with-
out questions about his ante-
cedents, Rabbi Goren said,
but Israel had no need for
"spiritual imports from the
United States or anywhere
else." Liberal rabbis coming
to Israel "to establish a spir-
itual movement or a new
religion we don't need."
Rabbi Goren agreed that
"t here is discrimination
against movements which in-
tend to change and destroy
the Jewish religion."
In America, 200 Liberal
rabbis were performing
mixed marriages without the
slightest element of conver-
sion of the non-Jewish part-
ners, Rabbi Goren declared,
asking, "This is Judaism?"
The first telephone book
published in Los Angeles, in
1882, contained the names
of seven Jewish families, the
first in that city.
"Stability in the Middle
East does not depend only on
an Arab-Israeli peace and
stable relationships with and
among the great powers," the
report observed. "Personal
rivalries, ideological conflict,
territorial disputes, econom-
ic competition, religious and
ethnic disputes, economic
Regarding his future agen-
da for the Middle East, Mr.
Nixon said the U.S. will ad-
dress itself to three specific
tasks. The first of these, he
said, is the settlement of the
Arab-Israeli conflict through
a process of negotiation in
which "there must be real-
ism about what is achiev-
able."
Secondly, "the principles
of restraint, peaceful settle-
ment, and avoidance of con-
frontation that are set forth
in the basic principles of U.S.-
Soviet relations must become
enduring realities."
Thirdly, the report said,
"the United States will seek
to strengthen its ties with all
its traditional friends in the
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Middle East and restore bi- 16 500 Ohm
Seen Since January '73
lateral relations where they
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —In however, not more than 1
have been severed."
the first four months of 1973, per cent of Russian Jews
President Nixon's foreign 16,500 newcomers arrived in decided to forsake Israel.
policy report pledged con- Israel, reported Uzzi Narkiss,
Poetry readings in Hebrew
tinuing U.S. efforts against director of the aliya depart-
"acts of politically inspired ment of the Jewish Agency. and in English were held in
terrorism," that "threatens He said 55,000 olim are ex- Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and
not only the safety and well- pected in 1973; 32,000 will be Haifa this past summer. Six
being of individuals around coming from the USSR; some Hebrew and four British
the globe but even the stabil- 5-6,000 from the U.S. and poets participated.
Canada; 6,000 from South
ity of some societies."
America; and an additional
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aircraft of nations "repre-
senting the full range of the
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affected, including Soviet,
Israeli, G e r ma n, Belgian,
British, Mexican and Ameri-
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mention of the Libyan com-
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