54 Friday, May 9, 1975
Germans Urge
liUNESCO Chief
to Admit Israel,
BONN (JTA) — UNESCO
Secretary General Amadou
M'Bow conferred here with
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
and also met Foreign Minis-
ter Hans-Dietrich
Genscher.. Both Schmidt
and Genscher left M'Bow in
no doubt that the West Ger-
man government and public
want full Israeli participa-
tion in UNESCO.
Genscher said Bonn was
concerned about the
UNESCO resolutions last
November affecting Israel.
He advocated that Israel
remain in the European re-
gional group.
Last month, nearly 500
West German university
professors signed a resolu-
tion protesting against
UNESCO's action.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
CJF Is Accepting Award Nominees
NEW YORK — Nomina,
tions for the 1975 William J.
Shroder +Awards, the high-
est service honor bestowed
by the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare
Funds upon Jewish com-
munal agencies, are now
being accepted.
The Shroder, Awards, es-
tablished in 1953 by the CJF
as a continuing tribute to
William J. Shroder, its
founder and first president,
are given annually in recog-
nition of outstanding contri-
butions by Jewish voluntary
,
HIAS to Help
Settle Cambodians
communal health and wel-
fare organizations in the
United States and Canada
to local, regional, national
or international progress.
The Shroder Awards may
be presented to project and
service entries in several
categdries: communities
with a Jewish population of
40,000 or more; those with a
population of 5-40,000; com-
munities under 5,000; as
well as to international, na-
tional or regional organiza-
tions. All suggestions and
entries for the awards call
for summaries of 1,500
words or -less, and must be
received by the committee
by May 31. For information,
write CJF, 315 Park Ave. S.,
New York, N.Y. 10010.
NEW YORK — Jewish
communities throughout
the United States will parti-
cipate in the resettlement of Dutch Stamp
123 of the 1,000 Cambodian
refugees arriving in this Stirs Protests
country.
AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
HIAS, the worldwide ,Controversy has arisen in,
JWB Is Seeking
Jewish migration agency, Holland concerning the is-
along with Catholic, Protes- 'suing of a stamp commemo-
Camp Safety Act
tant and nonsectarian vol- rating the tercentenary of
NEW YORK — Express- untary agencies, is taking the Sephardi Synagbgue in
ing concern that only seven part in the resettlement of Amsterdam. The stamp
states have comprehensive Cambodians at the request shows the synagogue on a
youth camp safety laws, Na- of the U. S. State Depart- miniature map of the sur-
tional Jewish Welfare ment. As the worldwide rounding area.
Board, the Association of Jewish migration agency,
A Catholic church facing
Jewish Community Centers HIAS will seek the coopera- the synagogue on the stamp
and Camps, has called for tion of local Jewish commu- is marked by a small cross.
the passage of a Federal nities in accepting families A Sephardi executive ap-
Youth Camp Safety Act.
for resettlement.
proved the design, without
Approximately 25,000
noticing the cross, and one
children attend the 70
million 'stamps and ten
Unemployment
Nil
camps directly affiliated
thousand first day covers
with and served by JWB. Among Israelis
were printed. Protests have
JWB and most of its resi-
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — been mounted here and in
dent and day camps are \ac-
A
labor ministry spokesman Israel.
credited members of the
declared
that there is no un-
American Camping Asso-
employment
in Israel today
ciation.
The JWB resolution calls despite the difficult.eco-
NEW YORK — Kivie
t for legislation which would nomic situation. He ex-
establish "Federal safety plained that if unemploy- Kaplan, vice chairman of
Standards and aid for indi- ment occurs in some the union of American He-
vidual states to pass similar industry the workers are brew Congregations and
legislation with equal or immediately employed else- president since 1966 of the
higher standards, and that where within • the economy National Association for the
the states would establish at where there is a labor short- Advancement of Colored
least once-a-year inspec- age.
People, died Monday at age
tions."
71.
A native of Boston, 'Mr.
Jew to Substitute
Kaplan had been working
Opposition Backs
for Chile Air Chief for the last few months for
Rabin's Positions
a better understanding be-
SANTIAGO (JTA) — tween some sections of the
LONDON (ZINS) — The Gen. Jose Berdichewsky, a black and Jewish communi-
chairman of the Israeli Lib- Chilean Jew, will serve as ties.
eral Party and co-chairman acting commander in chief
of the Likud Opposition of the Chilean Air Force and
Bloc, Dr. Elimelech Rimalt, member of the ruling mili-
during a London visit, said tary junta during the ab-
that the Likud was in full sence abroad of Air Force
support of the positions Commander Gen. Gustavo
taken by Prime Minister Leigh, it was announced
Rabin on the Kissinger mis- here.
Berdichewsky is the sec-
sion.
He urged that Britain and ond in command of the air
bother European states be force. He was recently hon-
patient in permitting Israel ored at a dinner held by
time to move toward peace leaders of the Jewish com-
by appropriate stages with- munity.
out risking her security, in-
dependence and possible
Israel Gets Boat
existence.
Kivie Kaplan
from German Zoo
`Britain
Rejected
German Jews
, MUNICH (ZINS) — In
the memoirs of Lieutenant
General Gerhart Engel, Hit-
ler's principal aide in the
years 1938 through 1943, is
an account of how (in 1937)
Adolph Hitler proposed to
the British government that
it transfer half a mill-ion
German Jews to Palestine,
and how the English turned
down that proposition.
BONN — The Frankfurt
Zoo donated a motor-boat to
Israel nature conservation
authorities for the purpose
of guarding the flora and
fauna on the coral banks of
the Red Sea against tour-
ists.
The boat came from an
endowment "Wild Life in
Danger" of the "Frankfurt
Zooligical Society of 1858."
Curses are the devil's lan-
guage.
KIVIE KAPLAN
With his wife, he -contrib-
uted $100,000 in 1959 for the
purchase of a building in
Washington to house the
Center for Religious Action
of the UAHC. Other major
philanthropies include
buildings at Jewish Memo-
rial Hospital in Boston, at
Brandeis College and the
Boston branch building of
the NAACP.
Dr. Shlomo Levin
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr.
Shlomo Levin, consul in
charge of religious affairs at
the Israeli Consulate Gen-
eral in New York, died May
3 at age 45. He had served in
his post here since Septem-
ber, 1973. Dr. Levin's body
was flown to Israel for bur-
ial.
Dr. Levin was born in Je-
rusalem and received a BA
degree from the Hebrew
University in economics and
geography after fighting in
Israel's War for Independ-
ence in 1948. He continued
hiS education at the Univer-
sity of South Africa where
he earned MA and PhD de-
grees in Hebrew literature.
Beginning in 1952 he was
engaged in various educa-
tional missions outside of
Israel and from 1969-73 was
director of the seminars sec-
tion of the department of
education of the World
Zionist Organization in Je-
rusalem. His appointment
to. the Consulate General in
New York in 1973 was his
first diplomatic post.
Envoy Kenneth Keating
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Kenneth B. Keating, the
U.S. Ambassador to Israel
since 1973, died Monday at
age 74, it was announced by
the State Department. He
had entered Columbia Pres-
byterian Hospital in New
York after suffering a heart
attack April 17. At the time,
a spokesman for the Israel
Desk at the State Depart-
ment said he could neither
confirm nor deny the report
that Mr. Keating had suf-
fered a heart attack nor that
he was in the hospital.
Since assuming his am-
bassadorial post in Israel
in 1973 he was closely in-
volved in U.S. Middle East
policy and American aid
for Israel.
James Sheldon
NEW YORK (ZINS) —
Dr. James Sheldon, long
time friend of Israel and the
Zionist movement, was
stricken by a fatal heart at-
tack in the midst of a heated
debate before the United
Nations Association meet-
ing at the Hilton Hotel in
New York, April 16.
Dr. Sheldon, a Protestant
theologian and a noted anti-
Nazi fighter in the 1930's,
was chairman of the Council
of United Churches in New
York and of the UN Associa-
tion, New York chapter.
At the UN Association
meeting, influenced by Dr.
Sheldon and Jewish organi-
zations, the Association
voted 90-71 to rebuke
UNESCO for its recent anti-
Israel resolutions.
David Berris
Buried in Israel
After funeral services at
the Hebrew Memorial
Chapel here, May 1, the
body of David Berris was
sent to Israel.
His remains were buried
at Beth Shemesh Sunday
afternc.in.
LATE DAVID BERRIS
A native of Hudson,
Mich., Mr. Berris was active
in Jewish affairs in Detroit
from his boyhood, when he
was a leader in the old Phi-
lomathic Debating Society.
He was an outstanding
figure in all Orthodox ,cir-
cles and was primarily de-
voted to Akiva Hebrew Day
School, Bar-Ilan University
and Mizrachi.
National leaders in the re-
ligious Zionist movement
joined with local heads of
the movement in paying
tribute to his memory.
saying that the ambassador
was expected to recover and
return to Israel in about two
weeks.
Ambassador Keating, a
New York Republican,
served for 12 years in the
House of Representatives
and was elected to the Sen-
ate in 1958. He was defeated
for re-election in 1965 and a
year later was appointed an
associate justice in the New
York State Court of Ap-
peals. In 1968 he was name
Ambassador to India
President Nixon.
KENNETH KEATING
Subsequently, Mr. Keat-
ing's wife was reported as
According to the New
York Times, Mf. Keating
was a jovial man who fre-
quently entertained and ran
a lively embassy in Israel.
However, he never estab-
lished a great rapport with
the Israeli government or
people, and Israeli govern-
ment officials were said to
be skeptical of his reporting
to Washington.
Israeli Ambassador Sim-
ha Dinitz, expressing his
country's sorrow in a tele-
gram to Mrs. Keating, re-
ferred to the Ambassador as
a distinguished servant of
his country.
Keating Successor Nominated
WASHINGTON — Israel the chief U.S. representative
is considering President at the Geneva Middle East
Ford's nominee to replace peace talks.
A colleague described
U.S. Ambassador to Israel
Kenneth Keating, who died ,Toon as "outspoken and
strong-willed," and one who
Monday.
Ford nominated career. "always puts America's in-
diplomat Malcolm Toon, terests first." The source
who has served in Moscow, said that even though Toon
Yugoslavia and Czechoslova- is not a Middle East expert,
kia, and who was slated to "you need a professional in
replace Ellsworth Bunker as Israel today."
Rabbi Aryeh. Lev, Director,
Jewish Chaplaincy of JWB
NEW YORK — Rabbi
Aryeh Lev, director of the
Commission on Jewish
Chaplaincy of the National
Jewish Welfare Board
(JWB) since 1945, died last
Friday at age 62.
In 1972, Rabbi Lev re-
ceived the Legion of Merit
— the nation's second high-
est award for non-combat
service — for his "out-
standing service" while serv-
ing "as the key military reli-
gious consultant to the
chiefs of chaplains on all
Jewish denominational
matters."
Born in Jerusalem, on
June 6, 1912, Rabbi Lev ar-
rived in the U.S. in 1917. He
received his BS degree from
Columbia University and
was ordained by Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Insti-
tute of Religion in 1937.
He was national chap-
lain of the Jewish War
Veterans from 1948 to 1950
and president of the New
York Chapter, Military
Chaplains Association
from 1950 to 1952. Presi-
dent Eisenhower ap-
pointed Rabbi Lev to serve
on the President's Council
on Youth Fitness in 1957:
Rabbi Lev, at his. death,
RABBI ARYEH LEV
was on the Advisory Board
of the Chief of Chaplains of
the Air Force and of the
Veterans Administration.
He was chairman of the
Rabbinical Pension Board, a
board member of the Jewish
Family Service, a member
of the Joint Advisory Com-
mittee of the National Jew-
ish Community Relations
Advisory Council, and a
member of the U.S. Corn-
mittee for UNICEF.
, He is survived by his wife,
Hazel; a son, Martin; two
daughters, Deborah Fried-
man and Barbara Laeger;
and four grandchildren.