Several Distinguished Americans

Condemn UNESCO's Anti-Israel

Resolutions as `Cultural Genocide'

Speculative
Obstructions
in Middle East
Media Actions . . .
Faith as Inevitable
Jewish Defensive

THE JEWISH NEWS

Commentary Page 2
Editorials Page 4

VOL. LXVII, No. 14

UNESCO's anti-Israel position has been branded by a group of distinguished
American writers and entertainers as a "cultural holocaust." In a letter published
in the New York Times on Sunday, James A. Michener, Beverly Sills, Julie Harris,
Arthur Miller and Elie Wiesel said, "Along with many others in the world's intellec-
tual and art community whose revulsion is justifiably intense, we firmly declare our
intention to refuse any form of cooperation with UNESCO until the blatant political
tendentiousness of its resolutions is signifcantly altered."

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ADL. Files Legal Charges
Against 4 American Firms

CBS Re-Broadcast
on Syrian Jews Hit

NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish Congress
declared that the CBS re-broadcast last Sunday of its Feb.
16 television portrayal of the condition of Syrian Jewry and
on the destruction of Kuneitra on the Golan Heights, in-
cluded reference to complaints about the original program,
but that the network reply was "inadequate, self-serving
and grudging at best." (See related story on Page 2.)
The AJCongress, which filed a complaint on June 3
with the National News Council, a non-profit agency which
investigates complaints about the media, also said, in a let-
ter to the news council Wednesday that its complaint about
the original "60 Minutes" program "stands, and we look for-
ward to a finding in support of our charges by the National
News Council."
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, AJCongress president, de-
clared that CBS had "failed to respond to the major thrusts
of our criticism" and had failed to "set the record straight
and to deepen understanding of complex issues."

Rabbi Hertzberg said that Mike Wallace, who con-
ducted the original program and the re-broadcast, had
failed in the re-broadcast to report facts about the Nus-
seri family he interviewed in Damascus which the
(Continued on Page 18)

By YITZHAK RABI

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith has filed legal charges against four
American corporations charging them with anti-Jewish discrimination in their hiring policies and violating
the civil rights of American citizens.
Charges were filed June 4 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Ar-
amco Service Co. of Texas; Bendix-Siyanco of Maryland; Hospital Corp. of America of Tennessee; and
International Schools Services, Princeton, N.J. The four companies are accused of accepting and complying
with anti-Jewish job practices of Saudi Arabia and Abu-Dubai.
According to Arnold Forster, ADL's general counsel, those firms are "screening out Jews from employ-
ment in the Arab world on the basis of religion." He cited Aramco, the world's largest oil combine, for
demanding baptismal certificates from candidates seeking employment overseas to prove that they are not
Jewish.
Forster said that the charges of discrimination made to the EEOC will be "a preliminary step to
Federal court" if the ADL's application for an immediate "right to sue" is granted by the EEOC.
Forster added that ADL filed the charges in order to compel the four firms "to cease and desist their
collusive discrimination with the Arab countries," to nullify those clauses in the U.S.-Saudi agree-
ment which encourage them to do so and to obtain a ruling that will "serve as a binding precedent
upon American firms doing business with the Arabs."
The U.S. trade agreement with Saudi Arabia was
signed June 1974 and stated that the U.S. agrees to be
"sensitive to the social, cultural, political and reli-
gious contexts of Saudi Arabia."
Seymour Graubard, national chairman of ADL,
said that the League "deliberately selected" four big
and powerful corporations in order to reach "a clear
and unequivocal" rule against the illegal discrimina-
See story on Page 24.

Ford Re-Affirms
`No Stalemate'
in Middle East

(Continued on Page 13)

Adat Shalom Continuity Affirmed by Its President

Gerald Rosenbloom, president of Adat Shalom Synagogue, in a statement issued
Jionday, expressed his own, his fellow officers' and members' confidence that the syn-
agogue's activities will continue unabated and that new strength is already confirming
the faith in the solvency of the congregation.
Acting promptly after the announcement that. Chapter XI had been invoked to give
the congregation the opportunity to meet all obligations, Rosenbloom issued a statement,
which appears as a paid advertisement on Page 27 in this issue, outlining Adat Shalom's
status and its of
contributions. Based upon these achievements, and setting to
rest a variety of rumors, Rosenbloom declared: "We are here to stay. We are solvent, we'll
meet all our obligations and our status as a leading congregation in the land will not be
affected by temporary financial handicaps."
In his statement, Rosenbloom declared:

cantors and educators. Its aid to the state of Israel is already legend as the forerunner in
the United States of the sale of Israel Bonds.
"We have proudly served this community and shall continue to do so in the future.
– We ask only that the community recognize that the dream
of Israel has been nurtured in the synagogue for thousands
of years and that the loss of a single synagogue is a loss to
all of our people and the state of Israel.
"We are here to stay and our membership walks
proudly in full support of their synagogue. We invite all
families to join with us."

The action invoking Chapter XI was explained in
an accompanying statement by the synagogue's attor-
ney, Irving August, who pointed out the following in re-
lation to Adat Shalom's current conditions:

"The unprecedented action taken recently by the board of trustees of Adat
Shalom Synagogue in obtaining the protection of the Federal Courts while it contin-
ues its program to cure the existing fiscal crisis, was necessitated by the refusal of
one creditor to agree to our program of paying all creditors in full with no discounts
or settlements of any nature whatsoever being asked of them. This will continue to
be our position.

"This synagogue is determined to carry on as one of the outstanding Conservative
congregations on the American scene today. The problems caused by the need to relocate
are not uncommon to congregations. We are not alone in these circumstances. In its brief
history as a Conservative congregation, Adat Shalom has produced 16 rabbis as well as

"With great reluctance the board of directors of Adat
Shalom Synagogue authorized the filing of a Chapter XI
proceeding in the United States District. Court for the syn-
agogue on June 5, 1975. Judge George Brody, the judge to
whom the case was assigned, signed an order permitting a
debtor-in-possession and did not appoint a receiver.
"The judge also has entered an order authorizing Adat

GERALD ROSENBLOOM

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