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." THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Editorials Page 4 Israel's Great Retiring President El lsberg and Anti-Semites of Jewish Events Commentary Page 2 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper LXIII. No. 11 Our Historians in Isolation 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c 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 (Continued on Page 6) 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. (Continued on Page 8) Dr. Abraham J. Karp (Continued on Page 3) 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 (Continued on Page 18) on Page 16 Israel's 25th Saluted in Grand - 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 (Continued on Page 5)