THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
American Jewish Leader Seeks a Consensus
press it in dealing with the
By YITZHAK RABI
But Mann observed that
Administrations in Wash- differences of opinion be-
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Theodore R. Mann, the re- ington and Jerusalem.
tween American Jewry —
cently elected chairman of
or at least segments of
"This
consensus,"
the
Conference
of
explained in an American Jewry — and the
Presidents of Major Ameri-
Presidents
government
of Israel is
interview with
the
can Jewish Organizations,
Jewish
Telegraphic possible "but it seems un-
assumed office at a delicate
Agency, "should ho p
pe-
e- likely. There is one Jewish
— perhaps historically cru-
fully
y be as close as possi- heart beating together all
— time when efforts to
ble to the consensus in Is- over the world and the unity
achieve peace in the Middle
rael in order to create the of the Jewish people was
East are at a turning point
unity that is re quired
q uired formed through thousands
and the involvement of
when and if there is a of years of history."
Washington is more inten-
pressure from Washing-
Reminded that only a few
sive and extensive than
ton."
months ago there were some
previously.
dissenting voices among
Mann, a native of
American Jews, critical
itilf
o
This situation gives a
Czechoslovakia who came
unique role to the American to the United States with what they saw as hard-line
by
Jewish leadership and its his parents in 1929, defined policies
Premier
Menahem Begin of Israel,
political influence on the
the principal function of his
Mann said: "We are not
Carter Administration.
post and the organization he
hearing them today, loud
Mann, a 50-year-old chairs as "to maintain unity
voices of dissent, screaming
lawyer from Philadelphia, among American and world
who succeeded Rabbi Ale- Jewry, to refrain from about inflexibility.
xander M. Schindler on July engaging in the same public
"This
is due to
1, believes that his major criticism of Israel that we
President Sadat's recent
role as chairman of the (Jews) complain about
actions, his disdain of
Presidents Conference at when President Carter does
any sustained negotia-
this juncture is to find a con- it, and to do whatever we
tions and his repetitious
sensus among American can to bring about direct demands for Israeli con-
Jews, to a degree that there negotiations between Israel
cessions without modify-
is a consensus, and to ex- and its neighbors."
ing his demands. Sadat
U.S.
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broke negotiations with
Israel twice with no ap-
parent reason — in
January, when he sud-
denly recalled the Egyp-
tian military delegation
from Jerusalem, and
after the summit meeting
last month between
Ministers
Foreign
(Moshe) Dayan and
(Mohammed) Kaamel, in
Leeds (England)."
Continuing, Mann said:
"There is a consensus today
among American Jews that
after the break-up of
negotiations following the
Leeds summit, it must not
be expected that Israel will
change its position in order
to resume negotiations.
Pausing for a moment,
Mann said: "It is not clear
what will happen after the
Camp David summit
(scheduled for Sept. 5 be-
tween Begin, President
Anwar Sadat of Egypt and
President Carter) but I hope
the consensus among
American Jews will con-
tinue."
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Black-Jewish Relations Covered i n n New Bibliography
NEW YORK — The
American Jewish Commit-
tee has announced the pub-
lication of "Black-Jewish
Relations in the U.S.," a
selected, annotated bibliog-
raphy of books, pamphlets
and articles covering the
major writings of black and
Jewish leaders on this sub-
ject.
In an introduction to the
32-page bibliography,
Harry Fleischman, director
of labor and race relations
for the American Jewish
Coymmittee, points out that
Jews were among the foun-
ders of the National Associ-
ation for the Advancement
of Colored People in 1909,
and that the late Louis Mar-
shall, then president of the
American Jewish Commit-
tee, represented the
NAACP in five of its ear-
liest and most important
civil rights cases before the
U.S. Supreme Court.
"During the 1940s and
1950s," Fleischman states,
"Jewish organizations
played a vital role in the
legal struggle that nullified
mandatory segregation in
education, housing, and
public accommodations,
and established fair
employment practice stan-
dards in state and federal
employment. Large num-
bers of young Jews risked
their lives — and, in some
cases, lost them, — in the
Radio Programs
Schedule Revised
JERUSALEM — The Is-
rael Broadcasting
Authority has published a
revised schedule of short-
wave radio programs broad-
cast by Israel.
Programs in more than a
dozen languages are broad-
cast, and special programs
for the holidays are fea-
tured.
For copies of the schedule,
or to send in reception re-
ports, write External Serv-
ice, IBA, PO Box 1082,
Jerusalem, Israel.
sit-ins, freedom rides and
voter-registration drives of
the 1960s."
At the same time, Mr.
Fleischman says, black
leaders have spoken out
against anti-Semitism in
the United States and
around the world. pres-
sed for immigration law
changes to admit Jewish
refugees to the U.S., and
even formed a special or-
ganization, Black Ameri-
cans to Support Israel
Committee (BASIC), to
help promote Israel's
cause.
Nevertheless,
Fleis-
chman stresses, points of
tension have always existed
between blacks and Jews.
The bibliography presents
From Death to Life'
in Russian Prisons
A dramatic story of survi-
val after 29 years in Rus-
sian prisons, of struggles for
life during intermittent
periods of torture, were re-
lated here last week by
Semion Removsky.
He had come here from Is-
rael, after his departure
from Russia three years
ago, to introduce his book,
"From Death to Life." Be-
fore coming to Detroit he
had met with representa-
tives of a film coMpany to
plan a movie based on his
book and his life under the
Soviets.
Now 67, Semion Re-
movsky was born in Paris.
His parents, circus perfor-
mers, took him back to their
native land, to Russia,
where his father was ac-
cused of being an enemy of
the state. The father was
shot, his mother was sent to
Siberia and died there and
then began Removsky's 29
years in many prisons and
work at hard labor.
As a result he developed
muscles of iron. He is still a
power health-wise and he
displays it with pride in his
ability to survive.
He had many experiences
of torture, was compelled to
kill guards who tortured
Jews, kept being con-
demned to prisons until his
rehabilitation in 1956. He
became a film director in
Kazan, amassed a small for-
tune which enabled him to
get out of Russia on a visa
an overview of the major
problems as leaders of each
group and others perceive
them.
There is a charge for the
bibliography. For informa-
tion, write the American
Jewish Committee, 165
East 56th St., New York,
10022.
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three years ago and his
home now is in Haifa.
He became an animal
trainer and now his main
work is to write and his
"From Death to Life" is a
major work which he
brought here for distribu-
tion during his brief Detroit
visit.
The Kollel and the Ber-
ditchev Hasidim enabled
him to meet people here to
whom he brought his mes-
sage.
This man of iron had his
right leg and part of the left
amputated during his years
of torture and he walks on
artificial limbs. Yet, he says
that instead of transporta-
tion he can walk for miles to
reach the people he makes
contact with. Here, a friend,
an adherent of Kollel, pro-
vided him with limited
transportation.
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