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Threatened Legal Action Sparks
NBC's Hiring of Orthodox Jew
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
National Broadcasting Com-
pany has agreed to hire an
Orthodox Jew after the Na-
tional Jewish Commission on
Law and Public Affairs
(COLPA) said it would take
legal action in support of the
Jew's complaint he had been
refused a job by NBC be-
cause he would not work on
the Sabbath.
The announcement of the
NBC agreement to hire the
complainant was made by
Howard Rhine, COLPA pres-
ident.
He said the complainant
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Radio Liberty Fight
WASHINGTON —Sen.
Charles H. Percy (R. Ill.)
said there is resistance in
Congress to continued fund-
ing for Radio Free Europe
and Radio Liberty, but he is
determined to achieve pas-
sage of the legislation which
will assure the survival of
the radio stations.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Six
Jewish-sponsored child care
agencies in New York City
are among 77 cited in a suit
filed in federal court here
against New York City which
was charged with operating a
program of child welfare
services which allegedly dis-
criminates against children
on the basis of religion and
race.
The six agencies are the
Hebrew Children's Home in
the Bronx; Ohel Children's
Home Fund of Brooklyn; the
Maimonides Residential Cen-
ter of Far Rockaway in
Queens; and the Jewish
Board of Guardians, the Jew-
ish Child Care Association
and the Louise Wise Services,
all of New York City and
beneficiary agencies of the
Federation of Jewish Philan-
thropies.
The suit was filed by the
New York Civil Liberties
U n i o n, which provided the
names of the six Jewish
agencies, and the Legal Aid
Society.
The suit charged that "un-
constitutional discrimination"
existed in the aid program
and that the alleged victims
were 10,000 black children,
most of them Protestants.
The suit charged that the
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NEW YORK — Following
extensive renovations, the
JDC/Malben Home for the
Aged in Jerusalem will
henceforth be available to all
of Jerusalem's elderly citi-
zens, instead of being limit-
ed to new immigrants, an-
nounced Edward Ginsberg,
chairman of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee.
Ginsberg reported that
other JDC/Malben homes
from now on will be open to
residents and newcomers.
"The Jerusalem Home had
to be rebuilt at a cost of IL
650,000 ($155,000) in order to
provide care for those in
greatest need, the infirm and
nursing cases who require
round-the-clock care," Gins-
berg said. He noted that the
home is able to accommo-
date 66 infirm and nursing
cases.
Additional plans to help
the aged in Jerusalem in-
clude construction of a new
home and the expansion of
existing homes. For those
aged who can remain at
home a number of existing
community services will be
expanded to include counsel-
ing, physiotherapy and chiro-
pody.
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had filed a statement with
the New York State Division
of Human Rights in which
he charged that when he
applied for a post as a studio
technician, he was told he
would be on call seven days
a week, 24 hours a day and
that he would have to work
on Friday evenings and Sat-
urdays on a rotating basis
with other employes.
The complainant asserted
that when he said he could
not work on those weekend
periods, he was refused the
job.
Rhine said that conversa-
tions with the NBC personnel
department confirmed that
Sabbath observance "was
the reason for the refusal
to hire."
He said that under state
law, an employer must ac-
commodate to the religious
needs of Sabbath observers
unless to do so would cause
"undue economic hardship."
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and relies upon voluntary
agencies organized according
to religion to fulfill its legal
responsibility to provide
services for children in need
of care."
The suit asked convening of
a three-judge court to ban
the statutes and practices for
use and funding of the 77
agencies and to ban place-
ment of children by race and
religion and the placement of
children in injurious and in-
appropriate institutions such
as the New York State Train-
ing Schools.
The suit also asked the
court to order defendant city
and state officials to submit
a plan for child-care services
prohibiting racial and reli-
gious discrimination in ad-
mission and dis charge
policies and practices.
Board of Deputies
Backs Shloimovitz
on Dictionary Suit
The
LONDON (JTA)
Board of Deputies of British
Jews charged that the edi-
tors of the Oxford English
Dictionary do "not go far
enough" in qualifying the
derogatory definitions of the
word "Jew" that appear in
the OED.
Victor Mishcon, vice presi-
dent of the board and chair-
man of its Jewish defense
committee, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that
"even if the OED insists on
what the editors call objec-
tive scholarship, they should
put in brackets a rider that
the secondary description is
offensive and archaic.
"Instead," Mishcon said,
"the editors offer a long ex-
planation, as a kind of schol-
arly footnote, which may be
suitable for an essay on the
development of the term but
will make no impact on the
ordinary user of the diction-
ary."
M a r'e u s Shloimovitz, a
member of the board who has
filed legal action against
Clarendon 'Press, publishers
of the OED, said there will
be another hearing July 5.
—
Cleveland School
Enrollment Down
CLEVELAND (JTA)—The
Cleveland Bureau of Jewish
Education has reported that,
with the exception of all-day
schools, enrollment in area
Jewish schools is in a period
of : decline which is expected
to continue for the next few
years.
The report said the peak in
such enrollment was 12,650 in
1960 and that enrollment
tumbled to 8,000 this year.
According to the report,
declining school enrollment
exists in the general commu-
nity also, because of a
shrinking number of school-
age children generally. How-
ever, the report added, popu-
lation experts are predicting
a reversal of the situation by
the end of the decade.
Meanwhile, the declining,
enrollment is causing re-
trenchment in most of the
Jewish schools, and increas-
ing competition among teach-
ers seeking appointments.
The report indicated that
congregational schools had
suffered the biggest enroll-
ment drop during the past
ten years.
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humanism is democracy. —
H. M. Kallen.