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NEW YORK (JTA)—Max Fisher, chairman of the Jewish Agency board of governors, announced Tuesday that the meet-
ing of the -board originally planned to take place here on Dec.- 1 and 2, is postponed for a later date and will take place in
Jerusalem. Fisher explained that the Jerusalem members of the Jewish Agency Executive had been in touch with him and with
Pinhas Sapir, chairman of the Executive, who is in the United States at this time for purposes of aliya and the United Jewish
Appeal campaign.
The Jerusalem members urged that, in the light of the stringent economy measures being adopted by all official Israeli
agencies, the board of governors meeting should be postponed and its location moved to Israel. However, in order to discuss
crucial problems facing the agency, it was decided to have a meeting of the Executive of the Jewish Agency in New York at
the end of this month.
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cl a ims Policies Unchanged
'Behan Attack
is Ayafat's Thanks
to United Nations'
Nearly 5,000 demonstrators protested in Paris. a
UNESCO resolution ,against Israel for "altering historical
features of Jerusalem." Story appears on Page 5.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Ambassador Yosef
Tekoah of Israel said Tuesday's massacre of civilians at
Beisan township (Beth Shean) is "Yassir Arafat's repay-
ment to the United Nations" which accorded him the
privilege of addressing the
General Assembly last week.
If any further evidence is
required of "the barbaric,
murderous nature" of the
PLO or any justification of
Israel's determination to not
allow the PLO to gain any
foothold in Palestine, it was
provided by Tuesday's events,
the Israeli envoy said.
The only currency the
PLO uses is the "blood of
innocent Israeli civilians,"
Tekoah said. He noted that
the PLO itself claimed re-
sponsibility for the Beisan
YOSEF TEKOAH
massacre. The Arab govern-
ments who harbor and support the PLO must also be
held responsible for this "bloodshed" and the govern-
ments who supported the invitation to the PLO to partici-
pate in the . UN deliberations cannot evade responsibility
either, Tekoah said.
He said the attack on Beisan dealt "a grevious blow to
the peace-making efforts" in the Middle East. He said
(Continued on Page 5)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Undersecretary of State Joseph J. 'Sisco said Wednesday that he
"categorically denies there is any change in U.S. policy toward the Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion." Sisco's response arose as a result of two interviews by the undersecretary, one taped last
Monday for overseas broadcast by the U.S. Information Agency and the other, Wednesday morn-
ing on the NBC-TV "Today" show.
Sisco said in the USIA interview, "We regard the PLO as the overall umbrella organization
of the Pelestinians." When questioned on that statement by NBC reporter Richard Valeriani Wed-
nesday, the undersecretary replied, "I think that was unfortunate way to put it. Actually, what
I was trying to reflect was That the Arabs consider the PLO as the umbrella organization. Now,
let me make very
clear that our pol-
icy is as stated by
the President and
secretary of state.
We've accorded
PARIS (JTA)—The "Orleans affair of 1969 has broken out
no recognition of
in the French city of Chalon sur Saone where public rumors are
any kind. Our po-
being circulated that local Jews are "kidnapping" teen-age girls
sition remains un-
and "selling them abroad." Jewish sources in Chalon sur Saone
changed."
said that the rumors started about two weeks ago in the local
Sisco told the
high school for girls. ,From there it spread to - the rest of the
Jewish Telgeraph-
city's population. -
JOSEPH SISCO
is Agency "I'm
Soon after the rumors first started, anti-Jewish slogans were
going to be damn sure that the USIA
painted at night on Jewish-owned shops. Rumors, similar to
uses what I said on the Today show."
those which rocked Orleans in the spring of 1969, claim that Jew-
ish shopkeepers drug and kidnap their non-Jewish customers,
He made that assertion several hours
especially young girls, to sell them abroad. At the request of
after State Department officials, asked
the local 200-member Jewish community the local police inves-
by newsmen whether the USIA interview
tigated the rumors and printed a denial in the city's newspaper,
would be amended or corrected in light
"Le Courrier." In spite of - this, the rumors are continuing, local
of Sisco's NBC interview, replied that
Jews say.
they did not believe that would happen.
Two prominent French Jewish organizations expressed their
concern at the Chalon sur Saone situation and the anti-Semitism
Sisco's reference to the PLO as an
growing there. A spokesman for the Representative Council of
"umbrella" organization of the Palestini-
Jews in France (CRIF) declared that the situation in the French
ans, contained in the filmed USIA inter-
town was another sign of a rebirth of anti-Semitism in France.'
view which has not yet been distributed
New French Accusations
of Jewish Slave Trade
The same view was taken by the International League Against
Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICA).
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Akiva Day School
CJFWF General Assembly Deliberations
Strengthen U.S. Jews' Solidarity With Israel
CJFWF Menora
for Federation
on Anniversary
Phillip Stollman and his
er a n d sister-in-law,
and Frieda Stollman,
made numerous dona-
tions to Jewish education in
both the United States and
Israel.
On Dec. 8, the Stollman
family will help dedicate a
kindergarten building they
donated to Akiva Hebrew
Day School in memory of
their brother and sister-in-
law, the late Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Stollman.
Phillip Stollman, business-
man, philanthropist, educa-
tor and concerned Jewish
citizen, is highlighted in an
article which appears on
Page 12.
By Jewish News Special Correspondent
CHICAGO—Awed by echoes of hatred and inhumanities that escaped at the United Nations, with
threats to Israel's very existence, some 2,800 representatives from more than 800 American Jewish com-
munities convened at the 43rd General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds,
affirmed solidarity with the embattled Jewish state. -
The most representative organized body of American Jewry at the same time mobilized forces anew
to continue the Jewish educational and social service responsibilities that are 'basic in communal func-
tioning.
Many of ' Detroit's Jewish leaders played vital roles in the various plenary sessions of the five-day
assembly held at the Palmer House. Paul Zuckerman, Max Fisher and Phillip Stollman lent their in-
fluence in affecting efforts in support of the United Jewish Appeal, United Israel Appeal and related sem-
inars.
George M. Zeltzer played an important role in the deliberations regarding the Institute of Jewish
Life and the large city budgeting conference. Top leadership roles included those of Mandell L. Berman
in education and Dr. Peter Shifrin in health, welfare and problems of the aged.
Addressing one of the sessions, Philip M. Kiutznick, former national president of Bnai Brith, declared
that Jewish federations have to find "a genuine and understanding oneness". He added, "There is a need
for the Jewish people, whether they live in Israel or more than 60 other lands, to find the formula for
this partnership. This depends on Israel's acceptance of a genuine partnership for the Diaspora, and for
the Diaspora to see itself not only as 'a giver, or a source of aid, but as a real participant within the
accepted norms of international behavior, in not only its political economic and social future, but in Is-
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rael's as well."
CHICAGO — A major
award presented to the De-
troit Jewish community at
the 43rd General Assembly
of the Council of Jewish Fed-
erations and Welfare Funds
was in honor of the approach-
ing 75th anniversary of the
Jewish Welfare Federation.
An anniversary menora
was presented by CJFWF
President Raymond Epstein.
Receiving the gift for the
Greater Detroit Jewish com-
munity were William Avru-
nin, executive vice presi-
dent of Federation; and vice
presidents George M. Zeltzer
and Martin Citrin.
The Chicago Jewish Wel-
fare Federation was similar-
ly honored on its current
75th anniversary celebration.
Stollmans Donate
Kindergarten to