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Mrs. Bernstien Heads Israel Bonds in Lincoln
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1909
Tight Security For Ben-Gurion Visit to London
The Lincoln Committee for observer to the 20th World ZionState of Israel Bonds has an- ist Congress in Jerusalem. She nounced the appointment of has served on Hadassah's NaMrs, Nathan (Selma) Bernstien tional Service Cdmmittee, Haas chairman of the 1969 cam- dassah's National A d v i s o r y paign for State of Israel Bonds. Committee of Youth AlyJah and The committee noted the im- H a d a s s a h ' s National Task portance of the 1969 I s r a e l Force. She also served as PresBond' Campaign as "the major ofident of Mountain-Plains Resource of investment funds to gion of Hadassah and of the maintain the pace of Israel's Lincoln Chapter. In 1968 Mrs. development and to strengthen Bernstien was appointed to the its .economy at a time when an National Hadassah Organizaunprecedented proportion of the tion Committee. ' counrty's fiscal resources must Mrs. Bernstien was Chairman be allocated to defense. of the Women's Division of the 'Mrs. Bernstien has visited Is- /Lincoln Jewish Welfare Fede. rael five times and currently ration three times and in 1964 serves on the National Board of received the honor award for Hadassah, She was a Hadassah Distinguished Leadership and delegate to the 27th World Zion- Community Service from the ist Congress, and a lladassah Lincoln Jewish Welfare Federation. She is a past President of the Sisterhood of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, and has served on the Board of Education of the synagogue. In 1964 she was a p p o i n t e d to the Nebraska Jerusalem (JTA) — A re- Commission on the Status of uest for the body of Sirhan B. Women and was reappomtcd Irhan, condemned to death for by Governor Norbert Tiemann ' the murder of Sen, Robert F. in 1968. Kennedy, was termed "preIn accepting the chairmanmature" by an official of the ship Mrs. Bernstien noted that American Embassy, The re- Israel Bonds have been the key quest was made by the assas- channel through which private sin's father, Bishara Sirhan of individuals invest in the econoTaylbeh Village. my of Israel. • The elder Sirhan asked-the , The proceeds from the sale of consulate to arrange for the Israel - Bonds are used to ~ fitransfer of his son's remains nance industry,, agriculture, for burial if he is executed. A roads, harbors, railways, comconsulate official told him that munications, housing and the legal proceedings might go on exploitation of m i n e r a l re1 for months. The younger Sirhan. sources, said Mrs; Bernstien. ~ ~ l B ~ h r a"death -row-«H-«HSan- —"In spitcrof abnormal-pressures / Quenton Prison.' Sirhart also and tensions, Israel has been handed the consulate a letter able to achieve remarkable in be forwarded to Sen. Ed- gains In economic growth. Our ward M.Kennedy, expressing Bond campaign this year will deep appreciation- for his - ef- play an Important role in proforts-to save Sirhan's life. moting that growth," she said. -
Sirhan's Father Asks For Remains of Son
London (JTA)—Strict security measures are planned here for former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion's June visit in light of an alleged Arab terrorist plot uncovered in Copenhagen to assassinate him in Rio de Janeiro. Exact dates of his arrival, his timetable and his hotel are not being revealed. Mr. Ben Gurion will address a Joint Palestine Appeal group and attend a reception in his honor to. be given by Michael Sacher, chairman' of the Appeal.
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Dim yb Lifting Hopes
'- Paris, (JTA)~The sweeping victory of the'Gaullist Presidentlal candidate Georges Pompidou has further diminished chances of an early lifting of1 the embargo on aircraft, mllitary equipment and spare parts imposed against. Israel by former P r e s i d e n t Charles de Gaulle, diplomatic observers said. Although M. Pompidou faces a run-off election with Acting President Alain Poher, political circles, give the latter small chance, of upsetting the Gaullist. - .
Situation of Iraqi Jem r Reported to Be %rave
M. Pompidou, a former Premier, is expected to continue Gen. de Gaulle's Mideast policies for the time being if he wins the presidencey. This would greatly dim Israel's prospects of receiving 50 Mirage V jet fighters, bought and paid for over a year ago, but still under embargo* in a French hanger. M. Pompidou has only coma out in favor of "Mideast peace" and has hinted that a general embargo on all arms to the area should be enacted. M. Poher, during the early part of his campaign, promised to "re-examine" the de Gaulle embargo which he called "unjust and unacceptable.",Circles friendly to Israel believed that a. Poher victory would at least lead to a reconsideration of the embargo and presage changes in France's openly proArab policies. Now, political circles say, the only chance of a Poher victory in the run-off elections two weeks hence is by. Communist Party s u p p o r t . However, a "price" would have to be paid for this and it is believed .that one concession M. Poher would have to make to the Communists would concern the Middle East on which the French Communist Party firmly backs the Moscow line.-•• : '
J E R U S A L E M (JTA)---The affairs of Jewish families who citisituation of Iraqi Jews contin- hadbeen deprived of Iraqi 1 ues to be grave despite the an- zenship would be attendee to by the State. There are only some nouncement that specific anti- 2,000 to 3,000 Jews left in Iraq. Jewish legislation has b e e n Many left for Israel after the abolished, observers said here. State was created in 1948 and They could not account for the they were deprived of their citialso affected by the thinking behind" the Baghdad zenship; Government's action were relaGovernment's reported decision tives or direct members of famto cancel two laws promulgated ilies who chose to stay in Iraq. Baghdad Radio said the Cabiafter the Six-Day War. net had decided to abolish the An announcement on official laws "to preserve the interests Baghdad Radio heard here said of the Jewish community." It the Cabinet decided to abrogate accused the previous regime of Jaws- which provided that the exploiting Jews. property of all Jews stripped of" their Iraqi nationality were to be placed under control of a public custodian. - . ". The broadcast said the laws •were being cancelled "to put an end to the exploitation suffered LONDON, (JTA)—The Jewish summer camps for children by these Jews at the hands of the previous regime." The for- which have been a Jeature of Polish Jewish life for more th,an a mer regime of President Abdel decade, will not function this year, according to Information re• Rahman Arif was overthrown ceived here from Warsaw. The information confirmed previous reports tfifat the Polish in July, 1968, The new regime, , wliich last January hanged nine regime had decided not to permit the Jewish social and cultural^ Jews as spies for Israel—and organizations to conduct the camps this year. It was at these displayed their bodies—is con- camps that Polish Jewish children were given the instruction in trolled by the Socialist Baathist Jewish history and culture of which they were deprived during the school year. •' New York, (JTA)-The ten- mination against numbers of Party. tative agreement at City Col- students whose individual acThe Jewish school children are now scheduled to go to tha The announcement said that lege of New York, which would complishments and p r o m i s e reserve 50 per cent of each qualify them fpr admission." The statement strongly urged freshmen enrollment for students from the city's ghetto rejection of the tentative agreeareas* came under sharp attack ment and demanded that CCNY Left! Elie Wiesel, author of tho pri;e-wirining JEWS OF SI' this week by Jewish organiza- adhere to the resolution backed LENCE, and Rabbi Abraham J. by the Board of Higher Educations. Heschel, world-renowned human1 The Anti-Defamation League tion which must approve the itarian and theologian of the Jewof B'nai B'rith called the pro- agreement to make it effective. ish Theological Seminary, spoke at posal an attempt "to turn back The resolution adopted on May the) outdoor meeting, along with the clock of progress." The 4 opposed racial and ethnic Rabbi Saul I. Tcplitz, (standing Vice-Chairman of the Conference ADL told the Board of Higher quota for admission to/, any of and spiritual leader of the CongreEducation that it had fought the City University Colleges, all • gation Sons of Israel in Wood'.'the pernicious practice of quo- of which have a large populamere, New York. "Because (ho ta systems for college admit- tion of Jewish students. Jews of the Soviet Union are, in tance'' 25 years ago and had truth, the Jews of Silence, victims won the battle. Since then; it of a deliberate campaign of culpointed out, "qualified students tural and religious genocide, our ~wftin=prcviously_-5Vould, w f t i n = r i l 5 u l d have free American youth pray foe them," Rabbi Tcplilz said. been denied admission to colleges and universities on the Unlike the United Stales and basis of racial, religious and several other western counties, ethnic c r i t e r i a have, built a THE PILL can be obtained in clear record of imposing contri- Israel only under doctor's prebutions to their community and scription. This, perhaps, is ono country." of the reasons why the abortion The New York chapter of the •rate in Israel Is one of tho AJCommHtee, in. telegrams to world's hlghestr according to various City University officials Dr. Yitchak Haibrecht, head of said the implementation of the the Gynecology Department of proposal would result In CCNY the Tel Aviv University. Dr. Haibrecht recently urged becoming "an apartheid institution, granting different degrees Israelis to have at least four to blacks and whites" and children. But he felt that ecoJNEW YORK, N . Y . , May 22-Hundred! of high «chool and college would set a "disastrous pattern nomic . encouragement by th« youth from as far as Boston and Eastern Pennsylvania: held a congovernment was not enough to in this country." tinuous all-night teach-in, in honor of Russian Jewish youth at the : Without referring directly to raise the birth rate. It is a matCarnegi* International Endowment Center, across from tho United the possibility that the. agree- ter of attitude and education, Nations. Ths occasion, LtylLlmmud, tb» night of traditional itudy, --• -—.-.•>..;-:ment might cost qualified Jew- he said, since it is known that ushered in the holiday of Shavuot, -th» anniversary of the-, giving of Members of the Columbia TM. ths Ten Commandments, Tho United Synagoguo Youth, in coopers'- venity-Jewish Theological Semlh* ish high school graduates ad- people who are better off ecotion with the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, coordinated ary Atld, recite cantata, Jht Sin mission to CCNY, the AJCom- nomically generally have less both ths massiva qutdoor demonstration, in D i g Hatnmarikjold Plaza, of Silence, at Talmud Torah pray mittee statement noted that the children than the p o o r e r «nHth«UKhin ..,;..;'.:..: . In. " ;•' ' ~~ •;..'.. agreement could mean "discri- classes.
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Polish Regime Cancels Jewish Summer Camps for Children
CCNY Quota Proposal
Synagogue Youth Hold Shavuot Pray-In for Soviet Jews
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