NY Council on Jewish Poverty to Help Yiddish-Speaking Poor

NEW YORK (JTA) — A 1 ing abilities to benefit from nated minority groups has
special effort to enable Jews governmental services pro- been started by the Metro-
with limited English-speak- vided to specifically-desig- politan New York Coordinat-
ing Council on Jewish Pov-
Friday, February 8, 1974-13 erty.
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Jerome M. Becker, coor-
dinating council president,
asked Gov. Malcolm Wilson,
in a letter, to contact each
New York state agency pro-
viding programs for minor-
ity groups to assure inclu-
sion within the definition of
minority groups those Jews
whose primary language of
communication is not Eng-
lish.

Becker also said that the
coordinating council would
act to have the Yiddish lan-
guage included within re-
vised federal guidelines of the
Department of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare.

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Harvard Class of '50 Contributes
2 Jewish Intellectuals to Cabinet

confirmation, to the State in charge in January 1973.
Department's Counselor. Si- Then Elliott Richardson, up-
Five years after the Nazi mon is Catholic. His parents on being moved from defense
Holocaust was stilled, two are Catholic and his wife and to attorney general, recom-
Jewish students from New children are Catholic. When mended Schlesinger to suc-
York City were graduated he was growing up in New- teed him. This was last
from Harvard College, one ark, N. J. he was an altar June.
Fortune thought it was
consumed with a thirst for boy.
In reporting "Jim Schles- "wonderfully fitting that
knowledge of history and the
other equally driven in eco- inger, a tough intellectual Schlesinger has the chore of
who's determined to rebuild cutting extravagance and
nomics.
Both won doctorates in our deteriorating military waste" from the Defense De-
their speialties at Harvard machine," Fortune said that partment's budget. In his
and were appointed to its fac- the Yom Kippur War's conse- personal life he practices
ulty. Their brilliant papers quences "suggest our pos- economy that "seems almost
and books on American poli- ture is less secure than many fanatical,'.' it observed. He
cies, acclaimed in intellectu- Americans had considered it buys Robert Hall suits and
al circles, ultimately brought to be." Most NATO members drives a 1964 Ford Falcon.
them to President Nixon's at- are utterly dependent on His main hobby is bird watch-
tention and today they hold Arab oil and with some Arab ing. He plays recordings of
the first and third highest states "in many ways allies" their calls at home.
of the Soviet Union, Fortune "Schlesinger's values are
posts in his cabinet.
said. "It is hard to pretend the product of a code of mor-
"For better or worse," that the Russians have not ality of behavior based on
says December's Fortune gained some rather extraor-
deeply held beliefs," Fortune
Magazine, "the U. S. national dinary leverage over the
reported. "He grew up in a
security is now in the care Western alliance."
Jewish family, but he and
of two intellectuals from the
Schlesinger, however, long his wife Rachel are practic-
class of '50." The historian,
before the Mideast crisis, was ing Lutherans. He attends
of course, is Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger. trying to explain, Fortune church with some regularity
The economist is Secretary of said, that Soviet-American methodically marking each
Defense James R. Schles- detente did not imply less entry on the order of serv-
defense. He now administers ice. During the sermon he
inger.
In another country, in an- a $79,000,000,000 budget for takes notes."
other age, with their intel- this year and a much higher Schlesinger and his older
lects, they might have been one is in prospect for next brother, Eugene, an out-
standing economist himself,
talmudists extending Jewish year.
Washington newsmen cov- were born and raised in Man-
philosophy and scholarship.
As it happens, in their gov- ering the Yom Kippur War hattan. Their emigrant par-
ermental roles, they are in- ran into conflicting versions ents who had come from
extricably linked with the of U. S. support for Israel. widely separate parts of Eur-
political destiny of Israel Some said Kissinger had im- ope as children had met
and its dreams for the Jew- plored the Pentagon to move there. They gave the boys a
quickly to Israel's defense Jewish education and both
ish people.
Until Juan Cameron re- but the Pentagon, influenced were Bar Mitzva, JTA
ported in Fortune why Schle- by oil company interests, de- learned.
Their father, Julius Schles-
singer is what he is as a murred because "this is no
person, America's 12th Sec- time to enflame the Arabs." inger arrived in New York in
retary of Defense was gener- But Schlesinger's associates 1904 from Vienna and their
ally assumed in Washington say this was not at all the mother Rhea Rogen came
from western Russia in 1899.
always to have been the Pro- case.
When Israel asked for The father worked his way
testant that he is now. For-
tune rightly reported his equipment to stop the Soviet- thrcugh New York University
Jewish origin and that he now armed Arab armies, some and later became a partner
American officials thought of in a prospering Manhattan
is a practicing Lutheran.
Then along came "Thun- having Boeing 707 cargo firm of public accountants.
derbolt," organ of "the white planes ferry warplanes and
"My father made a great
man's viewpoint. a non-prof- guns to Israel which would success of his life," Fortune
it corporation" of Marietta, fulfill U. S. commitments to quoted Eugene as saying.
Ga., whose editor is Dr. Ed- Israel. Schlesinger held that "However, Jim felt a lack of
ward R. Fields. "The latest leasing some Boeings was roots that had something to
shocking news," he wrote, is out of the question. Israel do with our being brought up
that "President Nixon has needed "massive help," he in the urban society of the
appointed yet another Zionist was said to have argued and depression years." Both par-
Jew to high government posi- President Nixon's order was ents are now deceased.
tion" — William E. Simon, needed for the Pentagon to
A close associate of Secre-
head of the Federal Energy do the job. When the order tary Schlesinger said that
Administration. "Such power- came, "Schlesinger's instruc- marriage was not the basis
ful appointments always go tions made the Berlin airlift for his formal conversion to
to Jews," Dr. Fields stressed look like a Mattel toy opera- Christianity. In the early
in his attack. "Just look at tion," an associate told JTA. 1950's, JTA was told, Schles-
Gigantic USAF C-5A planes inger received a year's tra-
the unbelievable string of
Jews that Nixon has now ap- "landed every 15 minutes" vel grant from Harvard. This
pointed to high office—more near Tel Aviv through the included three months in the
than any other president in first night of the arlift. Schle- Middle East including Israel.
singer was so pleased with How much his travel experi-
U. S. history."
Fields prefixed "Jew" to the performance that he ences affected him is not yet
.
the names of Kissinger, stopped at the Azores to disclosed,
but when he re-
Schlesinger, Federal Reserve thank the airlift crews.
turned he joined the Presby-
Bank chairman Arthur
Schlesinger reached the terian church. That was be-
Burns. Health. Education and Pentagon pinnacle only after fore he met his wife who was
Welfare Secretary Henry being black-balled there, For- a Methodist. Being of differ-
Weinberg, Council of Eco- tune indicated. In the 1960s ent Protestant denomina-
.
nomic Advisers chairman the professor who had he tions.
they decided, the asso-
.
Herbert Stein, and Undersec- come fascinated with eco- elate
said, to choose a third
retary of Treasury Helmut nomic problems of national and so became Lutherans.
defense, derided in a series
Sonnenfeldt.
Eugene (Dick) Schlesinger
Among the "Thunderbolt's" of papers the "large claims"
factual inaccuracies was that being made for the Penta- also a Harvard alumnus who
Casper Weinberger is Jew- gon's systems analyses. He graduated in 1946, remains
ish. As the Jewish Tele- was proposed in 1969 as as- Jewish. His four children
graphic Agency has pre- sistant secretary of defense, were raised as Jews. He is a
viously reported, he is the but Pentagon systems ana- senior lecturer at the World
son of a Jewish father and a lysts opposed him. He then Bank's Economic Develop-
devout Episcopalian mother became assistant director of ment Institute in Washington.
and was brought up in her the budget bureau and there The brothers and their fami-
faith. Schlesinger, his wife, successfully pointed out how lies, JTA was informed, are
formerly Rachel Mellinger of the Pentagon was wasting on good terms and meet fre-
an Ohio farm family, and $6,000,000,000 annually. Two quently.
their eight children are mem- years later he was chairman
bers of a Lutheran church in of the Atomic Energy Corn-
SHARE IN
Arlington, Va. mission and shook it up to be
FREEDOM
The President did appoint more efficient.
When the President felt a
Sonnenfeldt to the treasury
(_) SaN., Incls Bonds
post but while Senate con- house-cleaning job was need- *
Freedom Snares
firmation was pending he ed at the Central Intelligence
switched him, with Senate Agency, he put Schlesinger

By JOSEPH POLAKOFF

(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)

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