Edgar Allan Poe as Bible and Hebrew Student • Hamilton's Jewish Background THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 VOL. LXIX, No. 10 9 • Editorial Page 4 of Jewish Events 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424 8833 - Young Leadership to the Fore: Analysis of Allied Drive $10.00 Per Year ; This Issue 30c May 14, 1976 Ford Re-Affirms Israel Support; olicy Statement Explains Veto M.E. Confrontation Expected by Rabin After U.S. Election JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin has warned the Labor Party Knesset faction that Is- rael faces a decisive confrontation with the United States at the end of this election year no matter who the next American president is. The gloomy prognos- tication was made in the course of the Premier's ex- planation of the Cabinet's decision Sunday regarding the Gush Emunim squatters in Samaria and West Bank settlement policy. The warning of a serious divergence between Je- rusalem and Washington was the second made pub- licly by Rabin in less than a week. In an Independence Day eve television interview, the Premier predicted a clash of views with the U.S. over recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Rabin told his party colleagues that history has shown that Israel and the U.S. are generally in agree- ment over interim settlement proposals but in disa- greement on the nature of an overall Middle East peace settlement. He cited the 1970 cease-fire which ended the War of Attrition with Egypt as an example of an interim step on which Israel and the U.S. were in concert. The "Rogers Plan," enunciated in 1969 by then U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, was an example of American-Israeli disagreement over long term measures, Rabin said. He indicated that the U.S. itself believes that step-by-step diplomacy has run its course and intends to move vigorously toward an overall peace settlement after the presidential-elections are held, one based on the Rogers formula calling for Israel's retreat to its pre-June 1967 borders with only minor boundary modifications. Knowledgeable Israeli observers appear to agree with the Premier's assessment. They believe that if the next "crisis" date is passed — renewal by Syria of the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) which expires May 30 — the U,S. will, in effect, allow the Middle East situa- (Continued on Page 6) . . Special to The Jewish News Explaining his veto of the mutual security assistance bill because "it would un- dermine the PreSident's authority to conduct the decisive foreign policy that Israel along with our other friends and allies rely upon," President Gerald Ford denied that his action was taken because there was too much money designated for Israel. In a statement to Congressman William S. Broomfield, who had questioned the President's veto, the President declared that "nothing could be further from the truth" and that the charge of an anti-Israel action was "incorrect." The President's statement to Broomfield is viewed as a new policy declara- tion on Israel. It re-affirms the President's pledges for uninterrupted American support for Israel, with the added provisos that are an indication that what had been feared as implied cuts in allocations to- Israel are not the President's intentions. The complete Ford statement to Rep. Broomfield follows: GERALD FORD "Thank you for your question on the matter of my veto last week of the Mutual Security Assistance Bill. "As you know, there have been incorrect reports that I used the veto because this bill contained too much money for Israel. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is that I vetoed the bill because it 77ould undermine the President's author- ity to conduct the decisive foreign policy that Israel, along with our other friends and allies. rely upon. "The bill would have imposed unwise and intolerable limits on my ability to conduct foreign policy. In to- day's world, as during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, we can have only one foreign policy — Hyman Safran, chairman of the annual dinner of the that of the President. Council of Orthodox Rabbis, to be held next Wednesday in "Our relations with WILLIAM BROOMFIELD honor of Rabbi Leizer Levin, announced Monday that a con- troversy over Hashgakha has been resolved and the dinner the Afab states will not be pursued in my administra- will be held at the Jewish Community Center, 6600 W. Ma- tion at the expense of our special relationship with ple Rd., West Bloomfield. Israel. Indeed, I regret that my veto has delayed the funds that the Israelis need so urgently. As soon as Because of a dispute over Hashgakha the dinner site the Congress sends me a bill free of unacceptable re- was set at the Dovid Ben Nuchim congregation. Safran said strictions, I will immediately sign it so that Israel that an agreement was -reached for the Vaad Harabonim, the Council of Orthodox Rabbis, to finance Hashgakha, to may receive these vital funds." provide the mashgikhim and thereby to assure the serving The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, acting of kosher meals at the new Jewish Center to members and without dissent, adopted a compromise foreign aid non-members alike. authorization bill Tuesday which goes a long way "The agreement, therefore, enabled us to hold the an- toward meeting the objections voiced by President nual dinner at the Jewish Center, as originally planned," Ford. Orthodox Rabbis Dinner Site Returned to Center After Dispute Resolved Safran said. Synagogue Speech Re-Assuring; Baltimore Agog Over Kissinger (Continued on Page 8) Detroit Boost for Judaic Studies at Harvard Is Slated for Tuesday Special to The Jewish News BALTIMORE, Md. — Wearing a white yarmulke, fully HENRY KISSINGER enjoying-the applause of 1,600 who packed the main sanctuary of Chizuk Amuno Synagogue, and an additional 800 who filled a tent installed on the grounds of one of the oldest congrega- tions in America, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger brought a message of cheer to American Jewry in a stirring address delivered at that synagogue Sunday evening. "We are thoroughly convinced that Israel's survival is inseparable from the future of human dignity,' Kissinger said, "and we shall never forget that Israel's security has a special claim on the conscience of mankind." Announcement a month ago of Kissinger's acceptance of Chizuk Amuno's distinguished leadership award immediately aroused interest and concern and attacks on the synagogue leadership for having invited the Secretary, who was attacked as an enemy of Jewry and Israel. During his visit Sunday for that presentation, Kissinger told officers of the synagogue and others that he was con- cerned about Israel's fate, that his father was murdered by the (Continued on Page 10) Harvard University will host a dinner of Detroit communal leaders Tuesday evening at the Standard Club to spur support for the university's $15 million endow- ment effort for its Center for Jewish Studies. The ambitious Harvard program, which has been receiving national support, would endow six professorships in Judaic studies, endow additional curatorships for the Harvard College Library Judaica collection, the largest in the world, and expand and enrich the school's rigorous academic programs in Judaic studies. Co-chairmen of the Detroit committee are Mandell Berman, Toby Citrin, Max Pincus and Alan Schwartz, and committee members include Judge Victor Baum, Maurice S. Binkow, Donald R. Epstein, Mrs. Leonard J. Grabow, Irwin Green, Prof. Robert N. Grosse, Prof. William Haber, Norman D. Katz, Sander Levin, Jeffrey Miro, David Page and Seymour Podolsky. The proposed $15 million endowment includes six professorships, with an en- dowment of $1 million needed for each one, 24 endowed fellowships at $150,000 each, $2.5 million needed to endow book funds and curatorships at the library and $2.9 million to endow visiting professorships and scholars. The fund drive is de- scribed as a one-time effort to insure "income in perpetuity" for continuing Judaica scholarship. According to a university spokesman, the expansion of Jewish studies at Har- (Continued on Page 6)