8 October 17, 1975
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Firm Stops Urging Non-Jewish Passports
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NEW YORK (JTA) — An
American brokerage firm,
Advest Co., that has been
arranging businessmen's
trips to the Middle East, has
agreed to desist from advis-
ing its clients to obtain cer-
tification from a clergyman
that they are not Jewish as
a condition of admission to
certain Arab states such as
Saudi Arabia.
Responding to a protest
over the practice from the
American Jewish Commit-
tee, an Advest Co. partner,
Randolph Guggenheimer.
Jr., said in a letter to
AJCommittee executive vice
president Bertram H. Gold
that "We sincerely regret
that we circulated a letter
with the requirement that
each participant on the trip
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produce a statement that he
is a Christian."
That requirement was
also imposed on Jewish par-
ticipants who were advised
by Advest to secure a state-
ment from a clergyman that
would enable them to "pass"
as Christians.
Guggenheimer said in
his letter that "Advest
never intended to discrimi-
nate against any partici-
pant and would never
knowingly do so. We will
continue to make trips
open to all participants
and will make no attempt
to have people participate
under false colors."
The AJCommittee made
its protest in a Sept. 29 tele-
gram to Paul S. Campion,
an Advest official in charge
of the tours. At the same
time, the AJCommittee
wrote to Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger noting
that the Advest delegation
"will be briefed by the
United States Ambassador
and other senior embassy
officials."
The letter said, "We are
shocked that the United
States government would
actively assist a business
venture that blatantly dis-
criminates against Ameri-
can citizens on the basis of
religion."
The AJCommittee urged
Kissinger "to take imme-
diate steps" to convince
Saudian authorities in par-
ticular to end their
discriminatory practices
against American citizens
and, if unable to do so,
"refuse official cooperation
with any trips or business
ventures established on a
discriminatory basis."
Meanwhile, the Anti-
Defamation League of
Bnai Brith urged the de-
feat of the House of Repre-
sentatives "illegal alien".
bill (H.R. 8713) because it
is "a restrictive proposal
which is out of step with
American tradition."
In a resolution passed by
ADL's national law commit-
tee, the human relations
agency said that passage of
the bill could cause deporta-
tions of many aliens with
American citizen children.
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sanctions on employers who
knowingly hire illegal al-
iens, including criminal
penalties for persons found
guilty of hiring or referring
illegal aliens for employ-
ment.
According to Larry Lay-
insky, chairman of ADL's
law committee, "the bill
thus improperly places the
burden of enforcement on
employers rather than on
the government where it
belongs. This would un-
doubtedly foster employ-
ment discrimination
against individuals who
may speak with a foreign
accent and who an em
ployer might not hire be-
cause of fear of violating
the ciminal penalties in
the bill."
The bill, which amends
the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act, has already
been approved by the House
Judiciary Committee and is
now awaiting a vote by the
full House.
In Jerusalem, at last
week's meeting here of the
15-member Executive of the
World Jewish Congress, a
decision was taken to inten-
sify the WJC's efforts to
combat the Arab boycott by
examining the relevance of
international trade and eco-
nomic agreements with a
view to possible recourse to
international agencies. The
Institute of Jewish Affairs
in London and the legal
staff of the World Jewish
Congress in Geneva have
already begun research in
this connection.
The WJC Committee on
the Boycott, whose chair-
man is Edgar M. Bronfman
of New York, will collect
and make available to its af-
filiated communities and
other interested bodies ma-
terial regarding the impact
of the boycott in various
countries and national legis-
lative and administrative
measures against it.
It will offer advice, exper-
tise and other assistance to
communities which require
this in their national efforts
against the boycott. The
WJC will concern itself par-
ticularly with countries
which have small Jewish
communties.
Social Tensions Seen Following
Current Sinai Interim Accord
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
An expert on Israel's social
problems predicted that if
the new interim accord in
Sinai heralds a period of
quiet on Israel's borders,
simmering social tensions in
Israel will erupt, possibly
with violence, within the
next two years.
That warning was given
by Dr. Eliezer Jaffe of the
Hebrew University to mem-
bers of the United Jewish
Appeal Study Mission who
met with him after a tour of
Jerusalem slums and were
visibly shocked by the di-
mensions of Israel's social
gap as expressed in statis-
tics recited by Dr. Jaffe.
Jaffe, a former American
who headed the Jerusalem
Welfare Department until
recently, stated, "I predict
that two years after. the
(Sinai) agreement we will
have a social explosion."
Tensions, he said, were
boiling among the lower
and lower middle-class
were
who
families
"hurting badly" as a re-
sult of the government's
new economic austerity
measures and the falling
value of the Israel Pound.
He said that violent social
disturbances in the past
have always occurred dur-
ing interims of relative mili-
tary quiet about two years
after a war.
Ingratitude
Cast not a stone into the
well whose water did your
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—The Talmud