Food Stamp Program in Yiddish to Aid Jewish Poor
NEW YORK (JTA) — Thousands of poor Jews who have not understood how- to
qualify and apply for food stamps can now read about the food stamp program in
Yiddish, due to the combined efforts of the American Jewish Committee, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and Columbia University's Committee for the Implementa-
tion of the Standardized Yiddish Orthography.
The Department of Agriculture is about to issue a leaflet in Yiddish explaining
who is eligible for food stamps and :how to obtain them. This publication, the first
ever printed in Yiddish by the U.S. government, will be available free from Food
Stamp Division, Food and Nutrition Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington,
D.C. 20250.
Social Cancers,
Disengagements,
Our Youth and
Their Elders
At a later date, it will be available in synagogues, community renters and other
places where Jewish poor congregate. The AJCommittee if):Jrkeri the- Ara for the
publication, provided consultative service to the government ;1;;,enr:,y ;ilidcht r.);:ri the
-help of the Yiddish Orthography Committee to ensure that the langii:):),c; ;Ind ;.)-r:ntird,
were correct in all details.
Ann G. Wolfe, the AJCommittee's social welfare consultant, who
revealed that thousands of Jewish families had incomes below what the gowtcoment
described as the "poverty level," described the Yiddish leaflet as "a significant
perhaps a small one, that recognizes the presence and the problems of poor Jews. It
serves to shatter the myth that all Jews are affluent and that poverty does not exist
in the Jewish community."
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Anti-Semites
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LXIII. No. 11
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May 25, 1973
Energy Crisis Sparks Senate
Middle East Debate; Jackson
Challenges Fulbright's Role
Israel Sees Religious
Clash Over 'Haller
Marking Statehood
BY MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special Israel
Correspondent
TEL AVIV — After 25 years of Is-
rael's statehood, even the Arabs have
accepted Israel as a fact, but the Neturei
Karta has not yet recognized the ex-
istence of Israel.
On the day when millions of Jews
throughout the world celebrated the 25th
anniversary of Israel, the leader of
Neturei Karta, Rabbi Amram Blau,
kept a fast and went through the Jeru-
salen streets and those of Bnai Brak
clad in a sackcloth, with ashes spread
over him, symbolizing mourning for the
existence of Israel.
Amram Blau and his partisans are a
small minority in Israel, but it is sur-
prising that some Orthodox Jews as well
fail to understand the significance of the
establishment of Israel. For example,
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has
spoken in public against the reciting of
"Hallel" with a blessing on Independence
Day, refuting the miracle of the rebirth
of statehood or that it was such an im-
portant event. He compared the pro-
clamation of the state of Israel with
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—Sen. J. William Fulbright (D., Ark.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Corn-
mittee, and Sen. Henry M. Jackson, a fellow Democrat from Washington, clashed on the Senate floor Monday
over U.S. policy toward the Middle East and ways to meet the energy crisis. The two lawmakers took dia-
metrically opposing views in speeches on American policies toward the Arab-Israeli conflict and the need for
the U.S. to continue its imports of oil from the Middle East producing areas.
Fulbright proposed that the U.S. work toward a "United Nations-imposed solution" of the Middle East
conflict to "serve all our interests" in the area. He enumerated as American interests a political settlement of
the Arab-Israeli dispute, the continued flow of oil, our strong "emotional" interest in Israel and the strategic
interest to avoid a confrontation with the Soviet Union. Sen. Fulbright described as "extravagant" in terms of
cost a U.S. program to find alternative energy sources on a "crash basis."
Jackson challenged Fulbright's position. He declared that "Sen. Fulbright's conclusion that we must,
in order to ensure an adequate supply of energy, deliver the future _stability of the Middle East into the hands
of the Security Council of the UN, is based on a dangerously oversimplified appreciation of both the nature
of our energy deficiency and of the politics of the Middle East conflict. To say nothing
of a most fanciful view of the powers of the UN." Jackson has advocated a $10- to
$20,000,000,000 program by the U.S. government to develop energy sources that would Watergate
avoid U.S. reliance on, fuels from abroad.
Fulbright, in his speech, urged "variations" of the proposals by Secretary of
Leaves Its
State William P. Rogers of December 1969—the Rogers Plan—which would have Israel
withdraw from virtually all of the Arab territories it seized in the 1967 Six-Day War.
He also announced that his committee will hold hearings May 30-31 "on the implica- Israel Mark
tions of the energy problem" for U.S. foreign relations.
Were Israeli embassy
Fulbright declared that neither a voluntary nor an imposed solution is likely phones in Washington tapped
in the Middle East "in the foreseeable future." He blamed the situation "primarily on by FBI? James McCord's
the refusal of the U.S. administration, backed by a heavy congressional majority, to testimony reveals wiretap-
modify its commitment to the present policy of Israel."
ping, and Golda Meir says,
Sen. Fulbright described Israel as "already a garrison state" that faces the pros- in Jerusalem, that only a fool
pect of mounting terrorism "which no amount of counter terrorism is likely to sup- doesn't know that long dis-
tance calls are listened to
press." He warned that the industrial countries, especially the U.$., "may expect
that sensible people do
mounting threats" to their oil requirements by "radicalized Arab regimes." He said that and
not talk secrets on long-
"the question is whether it is not our own policies which are driving America's Arab
distance telephone.
friends toward radicalization and revolution." The Arkansas senator predicted "a
Detailed reports
Historians Plan Bicentennial
Roles; Prof. Karp Re-Elected
American Jewry's participation in the nation's Bicen-
tennial celebration will be spearheaded by experts who are
. g mobilized by the American Jewish Historical Society,
s having been formalized at the three-day convention which
concluded here Sunday afternoon.
It was the society's 81st annual
meeting.
Dr. Abraham J. Karp, pro-
fessor of Jewish studies at the
University of Rochester, N.Y..
who was re-elected president of
the society, announced that the
AJHS executive council is in-
cluding plans for the Bicentennial
celebrations to be observed in
1975 in Boston, where the national
observance is to be held a year
earlier than the over-all national
celebration, and in Philadelphia
in 1976. The AJHS conventions
those two years will be held in
the central areas for the pro-
grams. The 1974 convention will
be held in Atlanta.
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Dr. Abraham J. Karp
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Mrs. Tanya Levich
Appeals to Nixon
for Son's Release
NEW YORK (JTA) — Mrs. Tanya
Levich, the mother of Evgeny Levich
who was abducted on a Moscow street
last Wednesday and sent to a Siberian
military camp, has appealed to Presi-
dent Nixon to intervene with Soviet au-
thorities on behalf of her son, the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported.
Mrs. Levich's letter to Nixon from
Russia said that her son was drafted
into military service as a private with-
out any proper medical examination.
"Meanwhile," her letter stated in
part, "his diseases are such that fully
exclude him from being legally drafted
into the army. It is sufficient to point
out that he was undergoing medical ex-
amination by the Moscow Cancer Dis-
pensary and was receiving X-ray treat-
ment for a tumor. It is obvious that
being drafted under such circumstances
could turn out to be menacing for
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Israel's 25th Saluted in Grand
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Style at Community Parade
With the bagpipes of the 42nd Highlanders playing a tribute
to the state of Israel, the Jewish community's 25th anniversary
parade wound through Oak Park Sunday, drawing onlookers
all along the flag-marked 11/2-mile route. Attendance estimates
have ranged anywhere from 3- to 5,000, including alomst 1,500
parade participants.
It took some two hours for the parade, with its floats,
marching bands, decorated cars, clowns and marchers, to•com-
plete the circuit, from 10 Mile and Church St., to Coolidge and
Oak Park Blvd. and into the Oak Park Municipal Park at Church
and Northfield Sts.
Sunny skies and mild temperatures encouraged family
groups to spend the day with their children, who had been
excused from Sunday school to attend the parade. Many of them
were in the line of march under the banners of their respective
schools and youth movements.
Hashomer Hatzair, whose authentic kibutz barnyard float
was pulled by a tractor, won first prize in the float division.
A goat, lamb, duck and chickens were enclosed in the small
mobile yard, whose driver was kibutznik Avram Shur, shaliakh
to Has•homer. There were 14 floats in all.
The Hashomer float drew so much attention along the route
that Shur had to stop the tractor several times for children to
pet the animals. The latter were kept content with a bale of
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