In toil shall you eat . . . all the days of your life. —Genesis 3:17 When you eat the labor of your hands, happy shall you be. —Psalms 128:2 As others toil for me, I must toil for others. —Ecclesiastes 2:20 Blackmail Exposed as Weapon Against Israel by Third World, Arab • and Oil Interests Working Together for a Better America The true right to a country — as to anything else — springs not from polit- ical or court authority, but from work. David Ben-Gurion, 1915 Hebrew has but one word — avoda — for work and worship. —Hugo Bergmann, 1919 Under the sign of labor we go into the promised Land. —Theodor Herzl. Room for Distortions in Any Area of Human Relations HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 Editorial, Page 4 of Jewish Eveitts VOL. LXXV, No. 26 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c , Aug. 31, 1979 Legitimizing PLO Is Assai-led, Moratorium, Asked by NAACP Klutznick Rejects Goldmann PLO Fraternization Intent NEW YORK (JTA) — Philip Klutznick, president of the World Jewish Congress, has dissociated himself from the possi- bility that his WJC predecessor, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, may have a meeting with Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasir Arafat. regretted he had to take the step. Klutznick said Klutznick noted that Goldmann had said that one of the reasons he resigned as WJC president was to be a free man and able to meet with whom I want." Klutznick said that, as WJC president, he did not feel inhibited from meeting anyone he wanted to meet, but that at this time when there is excessive heat, ex- citement and confusion over the PLO, Palestinians, and the pending issues in the KLUTZNICK Security Council, it is a highly questionable judg- ment for the former president of the World Zionist Organization as well as the World Jewish Congress to hold such meet- ings." Klutznick added that "any encouragement of the PLO program as enunciated by Arafat is in direct contravention of resolutions adopted by the plenary of the World (Continued on Pdge 5) GOLDMANN - Injection of the PLO issue into interracial relations in this country and the creation of a black-Jewish issue was resented in Jewish ranks, whose spokesmen defined the background as well as continuity of Jewish affiliation with - the defenders of all civil rights tasks in this country. The NAACP locally proposed a "moratorium" on the dispute. Horace Sheffield, president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, in a letter to the NAACP, called "for a moratorium by blacks and Jews on any further debate or posturing in respect to any aspect of Ambassador Andrew Young's resignation until a complete and honest disclosure of all the circumstances and facts involved can be made." Jewish leaders expressed resentment over the legitimizing of the murderous PLO and the injury thus inflicted upon the traditional U.S.-Israel friendship. Concern was shown over demonstrations such as Monday's protest outside the Israeli Consulate and the Israel Mission to the United Nations in New York, in which about 150 blacks, American Arabs and their sympathizers chanted slurs against Jews and the state of Israel. Such demonstra- tions, it is contended, exacerbate- rather than heal wounds via a "moratorium." (Detailed accounts of the week's developments on Page 56.) UJA Leadership Mission to Egypt Diverted by Cairo JERUSALEM (JTA) — The first United Jewish Appeal premier's mission to fly di- rectly from Israel to Egypt did not take off Tuesday. Instead, the mission flew to Ophira (Sharm El-Sheikh), the Israeli town built on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, to be handed over to the Egyptians at the end of the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. The earlier plan for an Egypt visit was cancelled Monday night by the Egyptians. They said that at this stage of the peace process no Israeli planes should fly directly to Egypt. The UJA leaders were scheduled to go to Egypt aboard an Israel Air Force plane, (Continued on Page 5) Analysis of Thorny Issue (Editor's Note: The following is an open letter to Thelma Thomas Davis, president of the predo- minantly black sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, from Murray Zuckoff, editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in response to her statement before a con- vention of her organization.) By MURRAY ZUCKOFF JTA Editor NEW YORK (JTA) — As one who participated in numerous civil rights demonstrations and marches I read with sorrow and with pain your statement to some 6,000 delegates and visitors at the annual convention of the Delta Sigma Theta in New Orleans a few days after Andrew Young resigned as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In your address as president of that predominantly black sorority organization you said, in part: "We have been patient and forbearing in their (Jews) masquerad- 4118,000 Falashas: A Tragic Jewish Remnant By DVORA WAYSMAN World Zionist Press Service JERUSALEM — In Ethiopia,.there is a small tribe.called the Falashas, which means in Ge'ez language, "stranger" or "exile." They call themselves "Beta Esroel" (House of Israel). They are the remnant — only 28,000 remain — of an ethnic group that once was estimated at a million. According to their tradition, they originated from the notables of Jerusalem who accompanied Menelik, son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, when he returned to his country. A secular theory is that they are of Hamitic (Cushitic) origin belonging to the Agau family of tribes which already formed a part of the Ethiopian population prior to the settlement of Semitic tribes from southern Arabia. This theory maintains that Judaism reached them through Egypt, or. from Jews living in Ethiopia who assimilated into the local population. Israel's chief Ashkenazic rabbi, Shlomo Goren, and chief Sephardic rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, have re-affirmed the Jewishness of this black tribe. Even in the 16th Century, the Radbaz (Rabbi David ibn Zimra of Cairo) declared that the Falashas are "of the seed of Israel, the Tribes of Dan." When Rabbi Goren met last winter with a new group who had arrived in Israel, he said, "You are our brothers; you are our blood and our flesh. You are true Jews. Rabbi Kook said so. You have returned to your homeland." The Falashas have been separated froth mainstream Judaism since the destruction of the First Temple and had no knowledge of later developments — the Talmud, Midrashim, Purim, Hanuka, etc. They base their religion on 24 books of the Bible, some Apocrypha books, Enoch and Jubilees. Some traditions corresponding (Continued on Page 6) Amor-- (Continued on Page 56) .