…New Year and New Hopes JEWISH NEWS * 'Responsive Militancy' versus. Hate Codes A Editorial Page 4 1=:• -r c) -r Weekly Review L of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. LIV, No. 15 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit—VE 8-9364—December 27, 1968 Expose of Anti-Semitic Trends in Race Relations .. Distorted Study of Role of Small Merchants Commentary Page 2 $7.00 Per Ye...…
…'Museum to Hitler' Stymied Israel Boycotted During Holidays (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM—Israeli authorities reported a heavy volume of applications from West Bank Arabs for permission to cross into Jordan for the coming Moslem and Christian holidays but very few from Arabs wishing to enter Israeli-held territory. Moslems are preparing to celebrate El Fitr, which marks the close of the holy month of Ramadan, while...…
…No End to Challenges to Jewish Courage This Hanuka Editorial Page 4 Commentary Page 2 Vol LIV, No. 13 THE JEWISH NEWS DE TROI T A Weekly Review MICHIGAN of Jewish Events Hanuka Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle ° 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit—VE 8-9364—December 13, 1968 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Wolicicty cre e t in g s 729 …
…Still a Mediator Jarring Resumes Post as Swedish USSR Envoy; Retains Role as Mediator in Middle East Crisis (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) Gunnar V. Jarring UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—Gunnar V. Jarring, the special Middle East representative of Secretary General U Thant, is resuming his duties as Sweden's ambassador to the Soviet Union, but is not resigning his UN mediating post. A UN announcement Tuesday said that Dr. Jarring wil...…
…New York's Temple Emanu-El Returns to - UAHC Ranks Academicians' Crisis: Jewish Teachers' Role in U.S. Threatened In Racial Issue • Temple Emanu-E1 of New York, considered the largest Reform congregation in the country, is back in the fold of its parent organization, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Differing especially with the president of UAHC, Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, over the dove policies on Vietnam, Temple Emanu-El resign...…
…Refugee Problems Created by Six-Day War On Agenda at JDC Annual Meeting Dec. II Emergency expenditures resulting from the Six-Day War have strained the financial resources of the Joint Distribution Committee and have even forced cutbacks in some areas. In photo on left an aged Jewish woman sits outside• her room at an old age home in Morocco supported by JDC with United Jewish Appeal funds. Many old people were left homeless and destitute whe...…
…:A rabs Reject Peace, (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) - LONDON — A Palestinian guerrilla leader said on a BBC television interview Monday that Israel would be destroyed and that the Arab people would never accept a peace agreement with Israel signed by any Arab coun- try. Yechia Homouda, of the Palestine Liberation Organ- Assassinations and Court Shortcomings O U.S. and Middle East and USSR's Nefarious Role Editorials Page...…
…Editorial: Our President-Elect--Our Prayer for His Welfare Vox poptai, vox Del—the voice of the people (is) the voice of God— is the verdict of Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1968, now being accepted by the entire American nation. And with this acceptable ancient Latin rule for political conduct, we now settle down to the business of reuniting the American People, of resolving to bring peace to our cities and to the world, of striving for an end to hatr...…
…Tuesday, _November Jilt: The Day of Judgment For All Americans Jewish News Endorses Hubert H. Humphrey THE JEWISH NE 1=3 (=> – r A Weekly Review Editorial Page 4 Be sure to vote on Tuesday .. . and base your judgment on the nation's crises, on the urgency of assuring a liberal government, on the challenge to the great American constituency not to sacrifice the just for the op- portunist. Reject fears, and join in retaining the libert...…
…Dr. Nirenberg Shares Nobel Medicine-Physiology Prize NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Marshall W. Nirenberg, 41, a native New Yorker, was named as one of three winners of the 1969 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. He is a staff member of the National Heart Institute at Bethesda, Md., and is credited with two major discoveries that decipher the biochemical code by which genes determine hereditary characteristics. Dr. Nirenberg will share the $70,000 ...…
…Cassin to Use Nobel Fund for Humane Causes Judge Rene Samuel Cassin, who has been awarded the 1968 Nobel Peace_ Prize, has announced in Paris that he will use the $6'7,500 fund for peace and humanitarian purposes and for aid to children. The eminent French Jewish jurist is the third Jew to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1911, Tobias Michael Carel Asser, a Dutch Jew, and Alfred H. Fried, a German Jew, were cited for their efforts in behalf ...…
…Democratic Ideals Abused in Senate's Filibuster Tactics An analysis in Purely Commentary, Page 2 HE JEWISH NEWS Posthumous Honor for Martyred Hero . . . Support for Torch Drive . . . The Masada Exhibit . . . Honors for Two Detroit Women Editorials Page 4 A sad chapter has ended in American politics when the U. S. Senate resorted to a filibuster to defeat a Presidential nomination . . . Mr. Justice Fortas' case calls for serious considerat...…
…LBJ, HHH Hail National Newspaper Week NEWSPAPERS.. THE INDEPENDENT MEDIUM LITAIMEN't: R WEER Facing the Issue Involving Youth Revolt • A Witch Hunt in Our Nation's Capitol Commentary Page 2 Vol. LIV, No. 3 "Public-spirited men and wo- men everywhere depend on their newspapers for a chance to parti- cipate more fully in fashioning the world around them. And everywhere is heard the hope that our papers will reflect the trust of their reader...…
…May Mankind Be Inscribed For a Year of Prosperity and Peace in 5729 Vol. UV., No. 2 THE JEWISH NEWS OE "TR C:::) I '7' A Weekly Review 1 MICHIGAN 71335 r1=1tZ lnnnrn of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle '9027 September 27, 1968-17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235—VE 8-9364 ,t/A _ VI) .8", ;/ " ./ $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c •e• t 1, 6-7-.7.1t'14.4.:, 7 ) -...…
…JEWISH NEWS NSW/ Pliit - itarzn r• MICHIGAN • A Weekly Review E of Jewish Events A Happy New Year • to Detroit, Michigan, _ Border Cities and World Jewish Communities Michigan's Only Er\glish-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol, "LIV, No. 1 4 • ,,,,, • • • , • • z4 17~ 00 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235—VE 8-9364—September 20, 1968 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c Rosh. Ilashana 5729 …
…X19.000,000 Gift Finances Medical Center at Brandeis WALTHAM, Mass.—The largest single gift in the 20-year history of Brandeis University, $19,000,000 in cash and securities, was announced this week in a joint statement by Lewis S. Rosenstiel, retiring chairman of the board of Schenley Industries, New York, and Dr. Abram L. Sachar, retiring president of Brandeis. The grant is to be used for a new medical sciences research center, to be staffe...…
…All Detroit Jewish Schools Start Their Normal Activities The Die Is Cast: Political Campaign Normal ities Amicable agreements reached with the teachers by functioning administrations assured the reopening of all Jewish schools in Detroit this week. Salary scales were ad- justed this week by the United Hebrew Schools, Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Cong. Bnai David and Akiva Day School. Hillel Day School completed its arrangements with the teachers bef...…
…Dignity for Education, Educators An editorial appeal for unified efforts between teaching staffs and administrations . . to assure elevation of cultural standards in all our schools, adherence to our traditions and assur- ance of dignity and respectability for the Jewish teachers. (Editorial, Page 4) TIQi y_vvISH NE Gang-Up by Haters: Hijacking and Resort to Venom History-Making Literary Task: Uriel Weinreich's I by Arabs and MI t...…
…Americans Praying for President Eisenhower's Speedy Recovery All eyes are on the hospital where former President Dwight David Eisenhower is battling for his life . . . The entire nation, citizens of all faiths, pray for his speedy recovery, that he may regain strength to overcome his serious illness . . . As the Liberator of Buchenwald, General Eisenhower's name is written indelibly in the history of our time . . . May he be blessed with the ...…
…PRAGUE (JTA)—President Tito of Yugoslavia declared here Sunday at a press conference broadcast on Czech Radio that there was no longer any danger that Israel would be destroyed by its Arab neighbors. He said Israel should therefore take "a more realistic attitude" and withdraw to the armistice lines of the pre-June 1967 period "in return for guarantees of the status quo," and declared "I have told Arab leaders that the existence of Israel must...…
…Brazil Offers Asylum to Jews Persecuted in Four Countries (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) SAO PAULO, Brazil—The Brazilian government indicated that it was prepared to admit Jewish refugees from Poland and the Arab countries. Jose De Magalhaes, chancellor of the Brazilian Foreign Office, promised in a note to the Brazilian Jewish Confederation, that all facilities within the framework of Brazilian immigration legisla- Israel's ...…
…;4747F}7.7) ,;16-RTF4 Israeli. Colonel, Captain Killed in El Fatah Battle TEL AVIV (JTA)—Two high-ranking Israeli officers, a colonel and a captain, Who were killed in a running battle with a group of El Fatah saboteurs over the weekend were buried Sunday. Seven of the eight terrorists were killed and the eighth was wounded and captured. Four Israelis were wounded in the battle north of Jericho. Col. Aryeh Regev, 35, commander of a brigade i...…
…I President Kennedy's 'Sixth Fleet Pledge' Exposed as Legend (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Levi Eshkol set the record straight Monday on one important aspect of United States-Israel relations about which a new historical legend had grown. Responding to a question in the Knesset, the Prime Minister stated categorically that the late President HE JEWISH NEWS Israel Pressured While Arabs Are Threateni...…
…f Dead Sea Scrolls, Zealots, Sicarii, Masada Is the story of Masada "an inglorious chapter in the annals of Jewish history? Is "a pseudo-historical chapter on the Zealots, the Sicarii and Masada" being "foisted upon us"? Latest expose by Prof. Solomon Zeitlin, the world's leading authority on the Second Jewish Commonwealth, is analyzed in Purely Commentary, Page 2. HE Zionist Pioneer's JNF Achievements : Harzfeld's Life Told in . 'Villag...…
…I , °Ida -Mew Quits Israel Labor Party Post •. Members of the Israel Labor Party secretariat are meeting this week-end to act on the resignation of Golda Meir as secretary gen- eral of the party. Premier Levi Eshkoi, who heads the party, received Mrs. Meir's resignation on Monday. Reasons for her resignation were not specified. Mrs. Meir, 70, former foreign minister of Israel and her country's first ambassador to Soviet Russia, was consider...…
…Newsmen Force Arabs to Retract Anti-Israel Lie ROME (JTA) — Two former Jordanian officials were forced by sharp question- ing at a sparsely-attended news conference here to retract a charge that Israeli occupation authorities were imposing death sentences on Arabs in the West Bank area. The charge was one of a number of similar allegations made by Rouhi el- Khatib, former mayor of East Jerusalem, and Rimahoui Kassem, former vice-president of ...…
…UNESCO Orders Examination of Textbooks Thai Teach Hatreds PARIS (JTA) — The executive board of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ- ization) authorized an examination by experts of textbooks used in schools in the Middle East run by UNESCO and UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees). The board named Rene Maheu, director- general of the agency, to - set up a commission for the task....…
…Czechoslovakian Jewry's Millenium The Revolt Against Ignorance Editorials Page 4 VOL. H, No. 14 CD ELVISH EWS C)I A Weekly Review Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper (6 - - 2 7 of Jewish Events The Legend of the Refugees: Misrepresentations by UNRWA Exposed Commentary Page 2 Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle June 21, 1968-17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235—VE 8-9364 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Structure of Wo...…
…UFK's Assassination Distresses Americans in Israel; Nation That Faces Terror is Horrified by Acts of Terror By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ TEL AVIV — There is no limit to the state of shock was occasioned here by the news first of the re- ported attack on Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and 24 hours thereafter by the news of his passing. At every kiosk, at all news stands, wherever people Poured or stopped for a refreshing drink, the news was passed on with a s...…
…Robert Kennedy Victim of Hatred That Inflames Mid-East Detroit Jewry joined fellow Americans today in expressing shock and grief over the death of New York's Senator Robert Kennedy, the victim of an assassin's bullet in Los Angeles. Upon the news of his death Thursday, President Johnson declared Sunday a national day of mourning for the 42-year-old Presidential candidate, Silo was cut down soon after making a victory speech in the California ...…
…We Salute Our Confrmands, Consecrants and Graduates Jewish Center's Role in Education Public Relations vis-a-vis Israel and the U. S. The Jewish News dedicates this issue to our youth who have consecrated themselves to Jewish studies, with the hope that they will rededicate themselves to uninterrupted links with Jewish learning. List of 1968 "Confirmands, Consecrants and Graduates on Pages 24 and 25 THE JEWISH NEWS EDE 7' F;a• 0 1 "T- A...…
…SIX.. DAYS IN JUNE THE DETROIT VISH NEWS A Time to Remember .. . A Time for Action . . . . . Detailed Detroit Israel Bond Stories, Page 19 and 21 Is Jewish Education Atrophied? Jewish Congress Marks 50th Anniversary Editorials Page 4 MICHI GAN A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME LIII—No. 10 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 48235, May 24, 1...…
…I State Legislature Salutes Israel Resolution Sponsored by Rep. Albert A. Kramer Detailed Story on Page 3 T MICHIGAN WEEK jr_ r i_ NVISH NE Success of Dedicated Campaigners r— r MICHIGAN A Weekly Review MAY 19-25 Editorial Page 4 U.S. Kinship With Israel of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle 2 7 VOL. LIIL No. 9 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit—VE 8-9364—May 17, 196...…
…Record- reaking I etroit Drive Sets Pace for Entire Country Avrunin, Campaign Leaders Confident $9,607,000 Mark Obtainable in Final Returns THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Continuing a long-established tradition for generosity, now additionally fortified by noteworthy responses to the appeals for the 1968 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emerg- --sy Fund, the current Detroit drive came to a close Wednes- plight, at the victory dinner held at ...…
…Five Days Remain To Assure Allied Campaign's Success TELETHON Community-' Vide Appeal . 1Jr Great Campaign The closing event of the current Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund—the Victory Dinner to be held next Wednesday at the Jewish Community Center—must emerge a truly victori- ous occasion. It will be a victory if all prospective contributors an- nounce their gifts before May 8. This is an emergency campaign, and its success depe...…
…A Salute to 20-Year-Old Israel In s2 1 w it HE JEWISH NEWS An Anniversary and Its Manifold Obstacles Arnoni Probes Polish Horrors Commentary Page 2 VOL Lill, No. 6 Israel remains embattled. Animosity threatens the Jewish State on its borders, on the international arena, in lands behind the Iron Curtain. Yet, defying threats, Israel carries on the struggle for existence with dignity, honorably, advancing its culture, building a society ...…
…18 Days to Go . 10,000 to Be Solicited.. Human Needs to Be Satisfied Israel's Understandable Resort to Self-Defense Editorial Page 4 -1 0LUME Li l l—No. 5 A great challenge faces Detroit Jewry whose past accom- plishments have elevated our community to the highest rungs of humanitarian considerations for the less fortunate . . . Israel's serious needs, vital causes to be cared for, local agencies to be supported . . . These again are o...…
…I Libertarians Under Challenge in Many THE JEWISH NEWS World Spheres -- Editorials Page 4 r- r= C) I — r- A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 IN.4 1-1 I ,4e. of Jewish. Events A Happy PASSOVER To Jewish Communities Everywhere Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME Lill—No. 4 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit - 48235, April 12, 1968 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c ...…
…1- KIAMESHA LAKE (JTA)—The Rabbinical Assembly, organization of Conservative rabbis, called on the United States government to recognize "selective conscientious objection"—objection to a particular war—as a valid reason for exemption from military duty. The resolution, adopted at the 68th annual convention of the Assembly, noted that the United States "has been a pioneer in absolving religious pacifists from war duty." But it pointed out tha...…
…now Allied Jewish Campaign Dollar Will Be Allocated Detailed Analysis on Page 9 Poland's Anti-Zionist Campaign: Renewal of Anti-Semitism and Mah Yohfis Humiliation Editorial Page 4 - VOL. LI I I, No. 2 Analysis of Tragic Arab Trends HEIKWISH E A Weekly Review Perpetuating 'the Lie' and Asocial Tactics of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detr...…
…Detrost =Jeuaish Community Leads National Philanthropic Efforts With Record Gifts . THE JEWISH NEWS Opening Campaign Meeting Marks the Highest Standards With a Total of $7 , 040 ,000 Setting the highest standard on record in fund raising in this community, with a total of $7,040,000 computed in pledges reported at the opening dinner of the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund, held at the Jewish Cen- ter Wednesday evening, the Detro...…
…Separate Not Yourself From Your Community —Ethics of the Fathers The great challenge is at hand in the preparations for the major philan- thropic tasks, the open- ing next Wednesday at the rally at the Jewish Center, of the .. . Allied Jewish Campaign and The Israel Emergency Fund Detailed Campaign Planning Stories, Page 5 Dr. Haber's Vital Gifts to Jewry and U. S. .. . Dilettantish Harry.. . . Ford and U. S. Stamp Issue To assure our un...…
…NEW YORK (JTA)—Two national agencies involved in the civil rights struggle, the American Jewish Commit- tee and the American Jewish Congress, went on record in full support of the report of the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and called for its immediate implementation. Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland, president of the American Jewish Congress, said that all Americans "must accept the necessity of making the s...…
…Abram Named President of Brandeis Unis;ersity Morris B. Abram WALTHAM, Mass. — Morris Berthold Abram, senior adviser to the United States Mission at the United Nations, has been named the second president of Brandeis University. A former Rhodes Scholar who has also served as president of the American Jewish Committee since 1963, he will succeed Dr. Abram Leon Sachar, president of Brandeis since its founding in 1948, who will become chancello...…
…Proposing: Posthumous Honor for Raoul Wallenberg Detailed story of Christian hero-martyr of World War II who led in rescue of Jews under Nazism, in Commentary, Page 2 Seriousness of Two-Faceted Campaign • JEWISH NEWS 1=) A Weekly Review Brotherhood Week • Feb. 18 25 - VOL. LI I, No. 23 Panic Over the Emerging Crises f■/1 1 1—it GA■ -T"Rc..=)t -r of Jewish Events Editorials Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorpo...…
…Egyptian Jet's 'Buzzing' of U.S. Naval Spy Ship Reported The Georgetown was buzzed by a Soviet-made IL-28 "Beagle" bomber. The ship is in the same class as the U.S.S. Liberty, accidentally attacked by Israel during the Six-Day War. It is much larger than the USS Pueblo. The incident came at a time when the Egyptian press and radio continued to gloat over the North Korean capture of the Pueblo. The incident took place in international waters a...…
…11968-ISRAEL'S 20th ANNIVERSARY YEAR Special Israel Travel Section Pages 23 to 27 JEWISH NEWS Ludicrous Hussein Role: Obstacles to Unhindered r=1-1-mc..)u-r A Weekly Review Freeways Editorial Page 4 f■./1I 1--IIGA. f■ .I of Jewish Events 'The Sun Stood Still'— Impressive Volume on June Six-Day War Commentary Page 2 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. LI I, No. 21 27 17100...…
…'To Brooklyn With Love'—Green's Masterful Novel Nostalgically Recalling Brownsville Depression Era Gerald Green, already famed his difficulties with the other for "The Last Angry Man" which) boys, his father's miserable prat- depicts the idealism of a dedicated I tice, the status of a Jewish gen- physician in the slum area of New , eration that commences to inter- York, provides us with another ! mingle, eventually to transfer major sociologi...…
…Detroit, Flint Communities Mobilize for WA Drive Detailed Stories on Page 3 and 8 Jordanian Obstacles to Peaceful Road: Hussein's Ludicrous Activities Editorial Page 4 Vol. LII, No. 20 THE JEWISH NEWS 1=)"T" RC:)1 -1"- A Weekly Review I MICHIGAN 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit —VE 8-9364—February 2, 1968 New American College in Jerusalem A New Glubb Apparition of Jewish Events Commentary Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — I...…
…Flint Mobilizes Forces For Annual UJA. Drive Three Detroit Art Festivals Army Intelligence Chief Of Israel Due on Feb. 7 The Flint Jewish community began formation of a eampaign organization for the 1968 drive for the United Jewish Appeal . .. Gilbert J. Rubenstein was chosen gen- eral chairman of the campaign . . . Michael A. Pelavin has been named associate chairman. The Jewish Community Center, Sholem Aleichem Institute and Cong. Shaare...…
