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elap.sc.';. v/e find a dwindling rlc-fji'c-c ol interi:: t on the part of the recalcitrant ones in responding to the urgency of tliis hour (jf need. Our problem is Iliat there is just no "nii-c way" of telling a man lie is wrong when lie says: •'There is mi KiiH.-rgenc.y." For, we arc not dealing in opiiiiinis. We arc dealing in facts, 'J'lic year is 1IK18, not I!),'!!), The voice U Nasser's: not Hitler's. Kill the lnrs!,a,",c is (lie .s.ililc: Destroy the Jews. The hi;; dilfereiice this time is the existence of a determined i'h'A))JLE and .State of J;;rael dedicated to the prevention of their own destruction. And those of w, who 'believe" can help bv supplying; the funds for the completion of the sociological costs of 21} years ol immigration while I.sra,*-! i'-;ii*d:5 !n-i.s(;If !o resi:,i the threat ot being "driven inlo the sea." All Omahans can he gratified by the response oi llic younger generation of men and women to the call it;r workers ai::l tun:!:; We lune do/.ens of younj! people in their 20V,. liO's and 'Id's who f;ave more money thai! ever before, and very quickly brought their allotted .share of fund rai.s-
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Washington M'I'A)- A (jroup of young Jewish inlellectuals. calling themselves "Jews for Urban Ju.sfiee," alarmed by the rise they ice! is; occurrinf; in antiSemitism amonft Nt'fjroos. charged this week thiit- "unscrupulous Jewish businessmen and land lord;; are the root cause of this anti-Semitism." A!le,;;in;; that Jew;; are "part of the power structure ''that f.;yp and rob" Negroes in the f;hetto, the fjroup demanded that "rabbis, social fiction groups, and leaders of the Jewish Community Council -•"focus primary attention on the actions of their own constituency." A .study made by Jew:; for Urban Justice, released to the press, was bused on interviews with rabbis, chairmen and presidents of Hi District of Columbia area Jewish organizations and synagogues. It war, alleged by Jews for Urban Justice that groups pass resolutions on
ing to a succttisliil point ol completion. Our i'iV lure. Campaign:; will wisely be delegated to their direction. Hut it i.1; to tho.se m'-n ami women in their late -lO'.s. IJU'.s. (ii)'s and 70:s I respectfully point out the fact thai it is the family oi matnn; years who has accumulated tin; fund:.; upon which all oi our philanthropic needs niiist be based. My appeal for pledger, in (he twilight weeks ol our campaign goes both to those from v/lium we have not heard at all, and to those who have as yet not joined in thi: opportunity ol contributing to the Emergency Fund. I reinforce my words with those ol a leading Israeli citizen we visited in April ol this year. He said: "In June of Iiili7 we won the war by ourselves, without help. Jiul. if there i.s a next iiine. or if we are to avoid the ne?:t time, we need vour help now." No one should consider his mind free for the pursuit ol summertime activities until In; has completed hi;, pN-d;;i' lo the I (hill Philanthropies ami Israel Emergency Fund Campaign. Daniel Kai/inan. <Vueral (hairiiian J!!(;i! Jewish Philanthropies Campaign
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equality but no action follows on the grassroots level. Among the charges was one that a ".slumlord" pro.secui.ed by the authorities was honored during the High Holy Days when his synagogue permitted him to carry the Torah. "We found few, if any, rabbis or social action committees that were seriously addressing the issue of dishonest and discriminatory practices among member.-, of their own congregations. "We noted the complete absence of social action committee:; or activities in Orthodox synagogues and the 'opposition to such activities by Orthodox rabbis," the group said. Tlie group demanded "more emphasis on the relevance of the Judaic ethic to contemporary problems of our society." Rebuttal Jewish communal sources attacked the report as allegedly slanted and unscientific because
MM. Jerusalem UTA)—Israel reacted with bitterness and disappointnient this week to a Security Council resolution which called on Israel to rescind the unification of Jerusalem. The 13 to nothing vote ended almost a month Of desultory sessions of the Council called initially in April at the request of Jordan to seek to bar the annual Israeli military parade last May 2 in Jerusalem. Foreign Minister Abba Eban — — told a press conference that Is- previous government of JeruV/ASHINCTOH—Five-year-old Michal, daughter of Yoscf Ben-Aharon, First Secretary at rael would continue its policy 11:8 Israel Era&assy here, is v/Wc-eyed before a six-foot-lifeli model of Hiu Scroll of of maintaining a unified Jeru- salem has ever made." Fire, a mcmcrisl lo the Six Million which B'nai B'rilli is erecting hi Its Martyrs' Forest Dark Chapter salem and would stand by its 8t lisa entrance to Jerusalem, Tlie mot!:!—about one-fourth tl;s actual size of the monuHe called the Council resolupledge to give each religious ment—v/as unvciledf hero' tftfs weefc by its desijner, sculptor Nathan Rspopcrt. It will group free access to places in tion "a dark chapter in the morbj en display in tits Kltilznick Exhibit Hall of the B'nai D'ritfi Builtlinj ihroiiEli 19B8. Jerusalem it considers holy. He al history" of the United Nasaid this was "a promise no tions. He said the Council had n e v e r criticized "aggression against the population of the city, against tlie cultural and religious institutions in it aiid against the savage tearing away of Jews from the place they consider holiest—the Western Wall." He stressed that Israel's policy remained unchanged in support of the peace mission of Jerusalem <JTA) — Defense Minister Moshe ern war were reported by the Guardian of LonUN special envoy Gunnar JarDayan said in a radio interview here that Israel don in n dispatch from its Beirut correspondent, ring, established by a Security could, if necessary, bear the triple burden of David Hirst. He also reported that any settleCouncil November 22 resoluv/aging a new war with the Arabs while combatment with Israel could bring President Nasser tion, and that Israel would conting terrorist activities and administering tho of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan in collision tinue to support Mr. Jarring's occupied territories for years to come. But, ho with the Arab terrorists whose growing psychoefforts to end the Middle East warned, under such circumstances, Israelis conflict, . logical impact on the Arab masses, he said, is would have to sacrifice their expanding economy more important than their military impact on The United States and Canada and be satisfied with less in order to meet the Israel, abstained from voting on the demands upon manpower and national resources Mr. Hirst wrote that Muhammed II. Heykal, resolution, which was sponsored necessary for survival. by Pakistan and Senegal, Brieditor of the semi-official Cairo newspaper, Al Gen. Dayaii said the Arabs are preparing to tain, France, and Denmark Ahram, and n confidant of Nasser, for the first renew their war on Israel but would not do so joined with the Soviet Union in time forecast a new war with Israel, he said, unless they were assured of Soviet backing. Ho would bo "much bigger and more dangerous" voting for it, Tlie resolution caid that a new war, if it came, would not break asked Secretary General U than the last one. Heykal's warning, Mr. Hirst out in a matter ot months. Thant to report on its implenoted, was delivered against the background of ARAB VIEW mentation. reportedly conciliatory gestures by Egypt. Warnings of a new and bloodier Middle East-
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of generalizations. They said that, in recent months "Black Power" elements have refused Jewish cooperation in solution ol local problems. It was reported that a considerable sum of money and food was contributed through the Jewish community to the Poor Peoples March and tho aims of the demonstration were endorsed by the Jewish Community Council. Jewish volunteers have worked in various capacities to assist the demonstrators. A main point made in rebuttal was that Ihe Jewish community could no more take responsibility for every unethical merchant who might be Jewish than Protestant or Catholic groups could be blamed for unscrupulous persons of those faiths.
Oakland Jews Aid Housing Program Oakland, Calif. (JTA) — Ilia Jewish Welfare Federation hera has joined with a city and a Federal agency in a pioneer project to provide decent housing for poor families. The Federation will acquiro and rehabilitate between five and eight single family houses in slum areas in Oakland and then re-sell them to low incomo families. The program will be directed and insured by the Federal Housing Administration as a phase of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency's plans for rehabilitation of slum dwellings.
To Boyceit of Israel London (JTA)—Egypt has announced that a five-year Arab boycott of the American Studebakcr automobile firm has beer, ended following the company's pledge to terminate all licensing and distribution arrangements with Kniser-Frazer of Israel, Ltd. A report from Cairo said that Studebaker's "capitulation" to the Arabs had been disclosed by Brig. Mustafa Halim, Egyptian regional boycott director. Ho said the U.S. company had submitted documents proving that agreements involving the Stato of Israel had been liquidated. Israeli sources disclosed that the Kaiser-Frazer operation in Israel in which Studebaker Larks were built there under Studebaker license was suspended two years ago when the Israeli-American firm discontinued building tlie Studebaker vehicle.