By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
JTA Washington
Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Arab-Israeli peace talks will
begin within the next few
weeks, presumably in mid-
December, in Geneva — but
what the U.S. role will be
and how far it will go toward
insuring security arrange-
ments for nations in the area
remain fluid.
These conclusions were in-
dicated Tuesday by Secre-
tary of State Henry Kissin-
ger after he met for nearly
three hours with the Senate
Foreign Relations Commit-
tee behind closed doors at
the Capitol.
"We do not have a specific
plan but a number of prin-
ciples," Kissinger said to
newsmen while standing be-
side J, W. Fulbright (D.,
Ark.), committee chairman.
However, he refused to dis-
cuss the principles.
Besides noting that the dis-
cussion with the senators in-
cluded the cease fire and
"where we hope to go in the
peace negotiation," and
"where we could go," Kissin_
ger for the Most part de-
ferred on "newsmen's ques-
tions to Fulbright.
However, Dr. Kissinger
said he would discuss the
Middle East situation in
greater detail at a news con-
ference "soon." He had ten-
tatively scheduled to meet
the media Tuesday afternoon
at the State Department re-
garding his recent 12-day
trip that took him to 10 coun-
tries, including five Arab
nations, China and Japan.
The results of this trip and
the Nixon administration's
foreign policy position were
the reason for his meeting
with the Senate committee.
Fulbright and other For-
eign Relations Committee
members at Tuesday's ses-
sion indicated that the dis-
cussions were general in
nature and that the first U.S.
objective is to tighten the
cease fire and then help
bring about Arab-Israeli
peace talks.
"Oil, of course, was dis-
cussed," Fulbright said but
neither he nor others would
go into detail about the Arab
boycott. Sen. Fulbright said
Rabbis Refuse
to Officiate at
Nonkosher Rite
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"To follow the ceremony
of Kiddushin with a nonko-
sher dinner is a sad violation
of both kashrut and the spir-
itual meaning of the marri-
age service. It is to avoid this
needless public violation, and
to preserve the sanctity or
Jewish life for our children
that we have taken this step.
We, trust it will receive your
understanding and support."
The synagogues associat-
ing themselves with this de-
cision, their rabbis and pres-
idents are:
Congregation Adat Shalom, Ja-
cob Segal, Rabbi; Seymour Rosen-
bloom, Assistant Rabbi; Rudolph
Leitman, .President, Congregation
Beth Achim, Milton Arm, Rabbi;
Benjamin Gorrelicx. Ra
ritus; Steven L. Victor, President.
Congregation Betn 1,ayin
Nelson, Rabbi; Julius Harwood,
President. Congregation Beth
Moses, Irving Schnipper, Rabbi;
Harry Shiovitz, 'President. Congre-
gation Bnai Moshe, Moses Le..,r-
man, Rabbi; Charles Ruben, Pres-
ident. Downtown Synagogue, No-
ah Gamze, Rabbi. Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, Irwin Groner,
Rabbi; Howard Lifshitz, Assistant
Rabbi; Robert A. Steinberg, Pres-
ident. Rabbi Chaim Rozwaski and
Rabbi Max Weine.
"The prospects are better
now for settlement than in
the last 30 years," but that a
settlement "will take time."
He indicated that the thrust
of Kissinger's presentation
was that UN Resolution 242
was the basis for a settle-
ment but that it was not
necessarily the final position
for the United States.
Fulbright observed that Is-
rael agreed to the 1967 UN
resolution. "The security of
Israel is the main objective,"
he said, but "the United
States does not guarantee its
expansion." A United States
security guarantee for Israel
"is one ingredient of a settle-
ment," Fulbright said.
The senator emphasized
that Soviet-American detente
was "fundamental" to the
Conference Assesses Survival
of Rural Jewish Communities
COLLEGE PARK, Md. —
A representative sampling
of a minority within a
dwindling minority — the 5
ner cent of American Jews
who live in small towns —
client three days here at a
Bnai Brith-sponsored confer-
ence assessing the chances
for Jewish survival in iso-
lated rural communities.
The strong desire among
small-town Jews to retain a
Jewish life-style was the
focus of the conference
which included some 150
participants from 50 small
corn munities.
Their positive sentiments
were expressed against a
background of their own con-
cerns over population losses
— particularly the steady
emigration of their youth to
the big cities — and thei-
lack of Jewish communal in-
stitutions and resources.
About 60 per cent of the
conferees listed their com-
munities as having 100 or
fewer Jewish families, some
as few as 25. All but three
came from a town with un-
der 250 Jewish families.
Interdating has become
"an inevitable and accepted"
social practice, and the
present high rate of inter-
marriage in the Jewish com-
munity soars even higher in
small towns, the conferees
reported. But some saw inter-
marriage as a "two-way"
issue, since a majority of the
non - Jewish spouses em-
braces Judaism, either by
formal conversion or in at-
titude and family practice.
One-third of the partici-
pants described the Jews in
their towns as "very active"
in Jewish affairs. The others
summed up their Jewish
townfolk as "somewhat ac-
tive."
In workshop sessions, many
told of innovative efforts in
their towns — circuit-riding
Hebrew teachers, shared-
time use of a synagogue for
liberal and traditional serv-
ices, busing Sunday school
ices,
children to a nearby town
with better facilities, cooper-
ative kosher food buying
from a distant city—as ways
they have generated to re-
tain "a Jewish atmosphere"
for themselves.
Systematized forms of re-
gional cooperation among
small-town Jewish communi-
ties, with organized pooling
of their religious, educa-
tional, cultural and social
resources, was proposed by
Dr. Lindenthal.
Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn,
Bnai Brith's executive vice
president, reacting to speci-
fic conference proposals, said
that Bnai Brith would ex-
plore way% of bringing its
Jewish family life institutes,
adult education seminars and
similar regional programs in
closer proximity to small
towns.
JNF Restoring Damaged Land
Abram Salomon, executive
vice-president, announced
that in the last fiscal year
ending Sept. 30, $6,299,566
was raised, as compared to
$5,019,503 for the preceding
fiscal year. He emphasized
that the administrative ex-
He received a report from penses of the JNF in the past
Jerusalem sent by Shimon two years had decreased.
Benshemesh, Keren Kaye-
m e t lelsrael director-gen-
eral, which reveals that "the Golan Road Blazing
infrastructure built in recent Costs JNF $500,000
years by the JNF along the
JERUSALEM—In the blaz-
post-1967 borders — settle- ing of a road to the Crusad-
ments, roads, forests and ers' fortress at Qal'at Nam-
groves—played an important rud on the Golan Heights,
role in strengthening the se- the Jewish National Fund
-urity of the rear in time of spent some IL 2,000,000,
war. So did our heavy equip- ($500,000).
ment which had been placed
The new road, passes some
at the disposal of the army. of Israel's most beautiful
"We are now waiting in mountain scenery and pro-
order to heal the wounds in- vides an approach to one of
flicted by the war upon some the country's remarkable his-
of the settlements and roads torical sites.
and to resume the operations
which were under way till Blacks Back Home
the very eve of Yom Kip-
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
pur."
major black weekly news-
Benshemesh reported : paper, the Amsterdam News,
"We are going to employ said that the election of Ab-
some 500, or maybe even raham Beame as mayor of
more, young volunteers from New York could pave the
abroad both in the planting way for a black mayor the
of new forests and in the re- next time. "In some circles,"
habilitation of the forests de- Simon Anekwe wrote, "the
stroyed by enemy action."
Beame victory, heavily back-
At the biennial meeting of ed by blacks, was seen as
the JNF here, Pesin was re- ultimately paving the way for
elected national president for a black man to become
the next two years.
mayor of New York."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, Nov. 23, 1973
Talks in Mid-December: Kissinger
peace of the area. The com-
mittee, he said, took no "col-
lective action" on "an equit-
able settlement" on where
the Israel-Arab border s
should be. "The basic objec-
tive," he said is that "armed
forces should not be relied
on and that peace would
have to be agreed upon."
Questioned by the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Ful-
bright said that the current
situation "is intolerable" for
Israel because "its principal
objective is physical and
political existence." He said
that Libya and Iraq "still
have reservations" about Is-
rael's existence, but "I un-
derstand Egypt and Jordan
— and I think it is true of
Syria and Saudi Arabia —
agree that Israel is not to be
destroyed."
He spoke favorably of a
return by the United States
"in general terms" to the
plan of former Secretary of
State William P. Rogers that
incorporated the 1967 UN
Resolution 242 with "insub-
stantial alteration" of Is-
rael's borders.
Fulbright stressed that U.S.
guarantees for security in
the Middle East would hi-
elude both Israel and its
Arab neighbors. In this con-
nection, he said a UN peace-
keeping force would have an
important role there for the
next 10 years.
Hinting at possible dis-
agreement with Kissinger,
Fulbright told JTA that in
his own view — and specifi-
cally excluding Kissinger
from that view — the Secur-
ity Council should determine
the future of Jerusalem.
"The members are well in-
terested in Jerusalem," he
said. But, he added, "per-
haps it is too emotional for
them."
Israel Pound Falls in Unofficial Market
equals IL 1.95; 1 Swiss franc,
IL 1.60; 1 French franc, IL
1.06; 1 English pound, IL
11.50. Gold is quoted at IL
16,000 per kilogram.
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—In the
past few weeks the so-called
unofficial currency exchange
in Lilienblum St. has regis-
tered a decline in the value
of the Israel pound vis-a-vis
the U.S. dollar.
The low point was reached
when the U.S. dollar was
at $1 equals IL 4.95, in con-
trast to the official rate
which is $1 equals IL 4.20.
Later the pound rallied and
was quoted at U.S. $1 equals
IL 4.85.
The improvement in the
quoted rate is attributed to
the intervention of govern-
ment circles who fed dollars
into the "black market" in
order to stabilize the value
of the pound. Following are
the quotations for other cur-
rencies : 1 Deutschemark
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