Ford-Rabin Summit Marks
Continuity in Israel-U.S.
Middle East Deliberations
Stage Set for Urgent Talks
on Mideast Confrontations
After Ford-Sadat Meetings
Israel's Prime Minister and the U.S. Presi-
dent will meet next week in Washington.
Photo shows Prime Minister Rabin and Presi-
dent Ford at their 1974 meeting in Washington.
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June 6, 1975
Peace Outlook Brightens;
Salzburg Summit Positive
Campaign Close to Goal
With 1,500 Added Pledges
The 1975 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund solici 7
tors have acquired additional commitments of more than $500,000 since
the April 30 final Campaign meeting.
Campaign chairmen Richard Sloan and Arthur Howard announced
a new Campaign total of $17,127,201 at a Campaign officers' meeting
Tuesday morning at the United Hebrew Schools.
"It's' phenomenal," said Sloan, "that our clean-up of outstand-
ing gifts is going so well. This 'after-season' work brings our total
much closer to our projected $17,650,000 minimum achievement."
Howard noted that 1,500 gifts were secured during May, with an-
other 1,500 pledges outstanding. All Campaign Divisions have evaluated
their 1975 results in informal meetings and have reassigned the out-
standing pledges to key workers.
Sloan noted that there is a desperate need for cash to finance the
UJA-supported programs in Israel. "Because of this urgency, we have
joined the rest of the country in a total mobilization program aimed at
bringing in the maximum amounts of cash payments possible. Louis
_Berry, our cash mobilization chairman, launched this move at a special
meeting last week. His committee has pledged itself to collect
$3,000,000 locally by the end of June."
The collection review committee, chaired by I. William Sherr, will
meet Thursday, according to Sloan and Howard, to join the total mobili-
zation efforts.
Division leadership and workers will work on a cash telethon June
16-17, calling people who have not yet paid their 1975 pledges. They will
ask for an immediate cash gift which is as large as possible.
(See related story on Page 56)
Tourist Council
Retains Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Iraqi attempt
to oust Israel last week from the World
Tourist Organization was disclosed bY Rabbi
Shmuel Nata, adviser on foreign affairs to
the Israeli Ministry of Tourism.
Rabbi Nata, who attended the WTO con-
vention in Madrid, reported that all of the
Arab countries showed relatively moderate
attitudes toward Israel, with the exception
of Iraq.
The ouster move was defeated largely by
the delegates of the U.S. and France who
argued that tourism should be kept free
from politics and the WTO must retain its
universal .nature.
SALZBURG (JTA) — President Ford and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt concluded their
two-day meeting Monday with the decision to speed up the diplomatic momentum in the Middle
East and to start negotiations in one form or another. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said
at a press conference that the two Presidents had discussed all possible approaches and that "no
avenue was excluded."
Ford and Sadat met on five separate occasions in less than 30 hours and reportedly consid-
ered the two main options for the resumption of peace talks: renewal of Kissinger's step-by-step
approach or a search for an overall settlement. Diplomatic sources here believe the odds are
weighted heavily in favor of a rapid renewal of Kissinger's "shuttle diplomacy" in the Middle
East.
President Ford made it clear that all alternatives are still being considered and that the
period of reassessment of American Middle East policy is not yet concluded. American
sources said Ford will inform Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin of his conversations with
Sadat and will present the Israeli leader with the two options when they meet in Washing-
ton next week. The sources believe Rabin will probably opt for a renewal of Kissinger's
mission suspended in March.
Whatever the final result of the American reassessment, Ford made it clear that the U.S.
will not tolerate a stalemate in negotiations or a freezing of the status quo. Kissinger said there
was no question that the Geneva peace conference will have to be reconvened at some point. "We
have always said this and we have not changed our minds," he said.
He said, "The U.S. will not commit itself until the meeting with the Israelis," and that the
Egyptian side did not preclude any approach. He indicated that no Egyptian proposal would be
put before Israel when Ford meets with Rabin.
Kissinger also said that there was "no question" that the Geneva conference will have to be
reinstated, but "we- have to reserve judgment until we've had other discussions."
He indicated that the reassessment process will come to an end after the Ford-Rabin talks
June 11-12 but he did not expect President Ford to make specific recommendations then but
rather the President will state his general point of view. He termed Israel's decision to thin out
its forces east of the Suez Canal a positive move but added that he did not expect an Egyptian
response because the Israeli move came in response to Egypt's decision to reopen the canal.
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JPS Bible Commentary Set
PHILADELPHIA — At its 87th annual meeting Sunday, the Jewish Publica-
tion Society of America announced plans for a new English-language commentary
on the Hebrew Bible. It will be the first new Jewish Bible commentary on the entire
Hebrew Scriptures to be prepared in more than 30 years.
Jerome J. Shestack, president of the JPS and general chairman of the commen-
tary project, said "Each major period of Jewish history took to itself the commen-
taries of the past—and then created its own commentaries for its own time and
its own needs. The Jewish Publication Society Bible commentary will be the con-
temporary link in the chain of Jewish Bible commentary tradition that began more
than a millennium ago."
• The work is to be undertaken by Jewish scholars in America and Israel.
• The commentary will be based on the traditional Hebrew text as ren-
dered in the new JPS English translation of the Bible.
• The contributors will be guided by the basic rabbinic principle of the
multiple sense of Scripture.
• An essential element of the commentary will be the elucidation of crucial
texts in light of later rabbinic exegesis and the evolution of Jewish law.
•
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ADL Charges U.S.
`Soft' on Boycott
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defa-
mation League of Bnai B.rith charged here
last weekend that key Ford Administration
agencies have approached the problem of the
Arab boycott "in an uncoordinated manner
resulting in contradictory policies, buck-
passing and confusion." The ADL said at its
three-day national executive committee
meeting that the agencies had "an overall
soft philosophy" on the problem.
Seymour Graubard, ADL chairman,
charged that "a parade of high administra-
tion officials" had testified before Congress
against proposals for anti-boycott and regu-
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