$300,000 Prentis Family Gift Provides for Comprehensive School in Israel
A $300,000 gift for the establishment of a compre-
hensive high school in Nesher, near Haifa, was announced
this week by Anna S. (Mrs. Myer L.) Prentis and the
Prentis family.
The Prentis contribution provides for major educa-
tional needs in Israel supervised by the Israel Education
Fund of the United Jewish Appeal.
The Prentis family gift for a high school for grades
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7 through 12, for boys and girls, will be on an area of Marvin Frenkel, when they were members of the prime
minister's mission.
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77,000 square feet, and will be tri-level.
It will have provisions for 2,000 students. The 27 class-
Ground breaking for the Prentis School will take place
rooms will be supplemented with laboratories and with a
on Oct. 16 and will be attended by Mrs. Prentis and mem-
large-sized library.
bers of her family.
Vocational and academic subjects will be in the cur-
Menahem Cohen, prominent Israeli architect, is su-
riculum.
pervising construction arrangements for the Prentis
The Prentis family gift was announced in Israel two
school.
weeks ago by Mrs. Prentis' sons-in-law, Lester Morris and
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September 14, 1973
Jewish Communities Globally Strained
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Chilean Status Critical; Terror
Grips Capitals; Bigotry in D.C.
Allende 's Death May
Create Vital Change
for Country's Jews
Anti-Semites' Attacks on Kissinger
Flood Senate Foreign Relations Body
By MURRAY ZUCKOFF
JTA News Editor
NEW YORK (JTA)—It will be some
time before the dust settles in the wake of
the military coup that ousted Dr. Salvador
Allende Gossens, the first Marxist to have
been democratically elected in the Western
Hemisphere. Dr. Allende is dead and, for
the foreseeable future, so is the edifice he
tried to build—unsuccessfully as it turned
out—of a new economic and political sys-
tem. For the first time in 46 years a mili-
tary junta is ruling the country.
What does this development mean for
the approximately 25,000 Jews, more than
half of whom came to Chile less than 40
years ago or were born in the country and
never knew the meaning of a military re•
gime? What does it mean for the Jews who
were part of the Allende government and
cabinet? What does the new situation mean
in terms of Chile-Israel diplomatic relations?
For the most part it is still too early to
venture any specific answer. But this much
can be assumed: if the junta remains in
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—The increasing amount of hate mail directed against
Secretary of State-designate Henry A. Kissinger drew a warning Tuesday from a
member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to any witnesses who might come
before the committee to express "venomous points of view."
Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott .(R.-Pa.) gave the warning at the confirma-
tion hearings in the Senate caucus room after telling Dr. Kissinger "we have had lots
of hate mail" and assuring him that "we will take care of them."
Commenting on the reports of anti-Jewish hate mail against Kissinger's nomina-
tion, Dore Schary, honorary chairman of the Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League,
warned that "Once again Americans are faced with the type of reprehensible religious
vilification" that attacked the candidacies of such Americans as Alfred E. Smith, John
F. Kennedy and Herbert H. Lehman.
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13 Syrian MIGs Shot _Down by Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli air force jets shot down 13 Syrian_ MIG-21s in a
major air clash Thursday morning, in a battle over the Mediterranean Sea.
A military spokesman announced that one Israeli plane was hit. Its pilot para-
chuted safely and was picked up by a rescue helicopter. One downed Syrian pilot was
reported rescued by the Israelis.
Reports from Beirut said it took place over the Syrian port of Tartous, 150
miles from the Israeli border. Earlier reports from Beirut said that Syrian air space
was closed to all traffic. Aircraft leaving Beirut were told to change course to avoid
Israeli jets flying over the Mediterranean.
Dulzin Activates Effort to Solve Zionist Rift;
Sees Increased UJA Task to Aid USSR Emigres;
Plays Vital Role in Coming Israel Election
NEW YORK (JTA)—Leon Dulzin, chairman of the World Zionist Organization,
met over the weekend with Herman L. Weisman, president of the Zionist Organization
of America, and with Rabbi Israel Miller, president of the American Zionist Federa-
t;n, individually and then together, in an effort to heal the rift between the two
ps.
"I am very hopeful that a definite agreement will be worked out in the near
future tending toward a settlement of the controversy between the ZOA and the
AZF, which led to the withdrawal of the ZOA from the AZF," Dulzin said Tuesday.
On Feb. 20, 1972, the ZOA national executive committee adopted a resolution
terminating the ZOA's association after determining that the AZF is "committed" to
conducting "a wide spectrum of Zionist activities" which "compete with, disrupt and
supplant" important ongoing Zionist activities traditionally conducted by the ZOA.
In its resolution, the ZOA's NEC confirmed its readiness to "cooperate with and
participate in the coordination of Zionist - efforts"—as long as the independence and
individuality of its own programs are not prejudiced. It also expressed the ZOA's
intention to "maintain and strengthen" its ties with other Zionist organizations "for
the continuation of joint Zionist efforts throughout the United States."
Dulzin, who is also acting chairman of the Jewish Agency, reported that he
met Friday with the leadership of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds and told the gathering he was very pleased with the expectancy of• increased
funds for the 1973-74 United Jewish Appeal campaign. The main problem of the
Jewish Agency at present, he told the CJF leaders, is that although the 19'73 cam-
paign is more successful than that conducted in 1967 at the time of the Six-Day War,
there is a shortage of cash payments.
He said the urgency of converting pleadges into cash payments is necessitated
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Terrorism Renewed;
Israel Places Guilt
Upon Arab Nations
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel Monday ac-
cused Egypt, Syria and Iraq—and by impli-
cation, the Soviet Union—of being associates
and accomplices in an unprecedented threat
to civil aviation.
The charge was contained in a letter de-
livered by the Israeli ambassador, Amiel
Najar, to the International Civil Aviation
Organization's (ICAO) assembly meeting in
Rome.
It urged the ICAO to deal with last
week's aborted attempt by Arab terrorists
to shoot down an El Al airliner with Soviet-
made ground-to-air missiles supplied them
by Arab states.
"The supply to Arab terrorists with mis-
siles of military characteristics intended for
use against low-flying enemy aircraft in
time of war by Arab states who know full
well to what use their missiles would be put
in these hands, constitutes an unqualified act
of unlawful interference against civil avia-
tion," the letter said.
It noted that in the Middle East, this type
of missile is in the service only of the
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Detroit's Conservative Rabbis Voice
Differing Views on Women in Ilinyan
Detroit's Conservative rabbis are divided on the subject of admitting women
into the traditional minyan — the congregation of 10 that constitutes a community
for services—which has been adopted as a new regulation by the commission on law
and standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, the official rabbinical organization of
the Conservative movement.
Rabbi Irwin Groner of Cong. Shaarey Zedek expressed "a lack of enthusiasm"
for the latest ruling.
Rabbi Moses Lehrman of Bnai Moshe strongly supports it.
Rabbi Jacob Segal of Adas Shalom, while "subjectively" approving the ruling,
feels that further study is needed in view of the halakhic and non-halakhic aspects
inevitably involved in the issue.
Rabbi David Nelson of Beth Shalom is "delighted" that this action has been
taken by the commission.
Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper of Beth Moses firmly opposes the new regulation.
Rabbi Milton Arm of Beth Achim not only questioned the wisdom of the new
regulation: he viewed it as a danger to Conservative Judaism.
Rabbi Groner's statement on the subject declares:
"The primary institution of Jewish life is the home, which has ever served as
the source for the transmission of the Jewish heritage. Women were relieved of the
religious responsibility of worship so that they could devote themselves to the nurture
of children and the needs of the family. At a time when the Jewish home and family
are under great stress, and exhibit grave weaknesses, this ruling will tend to further
disintegrate the Jewish home. By implying that equality of Jewish men and women
is to be understood as similarity of religious roles and duties, this decision accelerates
the attack on the Jewish home. However, the Conservative movement is not monolithic
and provides freedom for divergent viewpoints. The consequences of this decision will,
therefore, be disclosed with the passage of time by those congregations that choose
to follow it." (Continued on Page 16)