Dayan Under Fire from Cabinet '
Jerusalem, (JTA)—Defense Foreign Minister Abba Eban Minister Mosho Dayan came was especially incensed. He reunder fire from his colleagues portedly said tiw publicity at a Cabinet meeting and prom- . given the Defense Minister's ised to abstain from giving proposal to return to the Jarpublic expression to his views ring talks without "rectificaon the Jarring peace talks and tion" of Egyptian truce violathe c e a s e - f i r e if they ran tions made him "look foolish" counter to government policy. at a time when.he was negotiGen. Dayan has been widely ating with the United States. quoted in recent weeks as adAccording to reports "p"ubvocating Israel's return to the lished abroad, UN envoy JarJarring talks without special ring Indicated in New York c o n d i f i o n s and proposing a last week that he holds Israel m.u t u a 1 disengagement of responsible for the breakdown Israeli and Egyptian forces in of the Jarring talks and had the'Suez Canal zone. Gen. Day- appealed to the Israeli leaders an's views 'were not criticized "more than once" to resume on their merits but because the discussions. Dr. Jarring rethey were voiced publicly. turned to his ambassadorial
post in Moscow last week with the understanding that he would be available on short notice at UN headquarters in New York "if conditions warranted." .Official sources reported that Defense Minister Dayan dissociated himself with recently published accounts of his views on the Jarring talks and the cease-fire. Gen. Dayan indicated that his proposed disengagement in the Suez zone was misunderstood. He was not advocating an Israeli" withdrawal without a peace settlement but merely a reduction of the heavy military concen-
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700 at Des Moines Outdoor Service; Community Sends Wire to Dobrynin Des Moines—A crowd of 700 men, women and children gathered on the front lawn of Tifereth I s r a e l Synagogue last Sunday to dramatize the plight of 31 Jews,-victims of proposed Soviet Show Trials. The 31 minute "Service of Concern" was sponsored by the Des Moines Jewish Welfare Federation. A l o n g with the members of the Des Moines Rabbinate, participants in the
service included Governor Robert .Ray, Mayor Tom Urban,1,B i s h o p Dingman, Rev. A.) Lealherman and Jude Luther1 Glanton. Telegram Sent In addition to the service, a Anyone with pictures or tape r e c o r d i n g s of the "Service of Concern" is asked to contact Sandor Sherman at 244-3144.
Reform Rabbi Faces' Criminal Cnyrf Trial New York (JTA)-Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, rabbinical advisor to the Radical Jewish Union at Columbia University, and two RJU members will g<y on trial in criminal court here on Jan. 12 on charges of disrupting a religious service. The, charges grew out of a number of attempts by the RJU to present a- series of demands to the congregation of Temple Emanu-EI, the. world's largest Refrom congregation, last May. The demands involved support for the RJU opposition to the Viet Nam war. and related causes. Victor Levin, a graduate student, was arrested on the charges after services at the Reform synagogue on May 15. Rabbi Goldman was arrested along with Anne Rosen, a Barnard College graduate, on,May 29 when lie and Miss Rosen . sought to protest; the arrest Of Mr. Levin, ,;• " V Gerald Lefcourt, serving as attorney for: the three, Jewish^ defendants, had' filed a motion with Criminal Couit i Judge Mitchell Sherwin, either to dis-' miss the .charges, or <o replace New York County District Attorney Frank S. Hogan,
telegram, measuring 30 feet and bearing the names of. the 3,000 Jews in the city, was sent to Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the U n i t e d States. Copies of the wire were also-sent to President Nixon, Secretary of State Rogers and Iowa representatives in Congress. The telegram e x p r e s s e d alarm*with "the trends and developments within Russia which portend the cultural death of Soviet Jewry." It urged "responsible Russian leadership" to release the 31 Jews, to honor Premier Alexsei Kosygin's 1966 commitment that Soviet Jews who wish to leave to be reunited with their families abroad be permitted to do so, to permit Soviet Jews to maintain formal bonds with world Jewry, and to allow them to maintain Jewish education and their cultural and communal institutions. The telegram ended with the exhortation: "Either let our people live or let our people go."
frations on both sides of the canal. This, would strengthen the cease-fire and allow Egyptian civilians to return to the canal'zone and could Ultimately lead to the re-opening of the waterway, sources said. Gen. Dayan suggested that the demilitarized strips could
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be policed by light patrols on both sides. He reportedly believes that chances for achieving a real peace with Egypt are minimal at this time and that Israel should consider an interim arrangement w h i c h would prevent a renewal of fighting,
Trial
-ooviet authorities have postponed until Dec. -i ot 12 persons, most of them Jews, charged with the attempted hijacking of a Soviet airliner at Leningrad airport last June. The trial was supposed to have begun last Friday. The postponement was not officially announced but was reported from Jewish sources. The sources said it would be one of four trials involving 31 people, all but two of them Jews. The 19 others were arrested in secret police crackdowns in four Russian Cities after the alleged hijacking attempt. They are reportedly charged with anti-Soviet activities. Jewish sources said all 31 were being prosecuted for their desire to emigrate to Israel and to strengthen Jewish culture in the USSR. A Russian Jew arrested on the U.S. Embassy steps in Moscow two weeks ago was freed last Wednesday after'spending seven days in jail. Leonid G. Rigelman, 30, was prevented by police from entering the Embassy where he had filed a claim for American citizenship. He was charged .with resisting an officer. Rigelman, who is Russian borif, claims U.S. citizenship on grounds that his mother was born in the U.S. and his father is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Pilgrimage Program to Be Explained at Dec. 6 Meeting Omaha—Details of the new Preference will be given to Omaha "Israel Pilgrimage for students completing the 10th Youth" program will be ex- or 11th grades this summer, plained at a special meeting although applications ffom. Sunday, December 6, 1970 at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Israel All seniors will also be considered. "Complete details of the high school students (10th through 12th grades) interest- program will be explained at ed in applying for 7 week pil- the meeting which also will ingrimage in 1971 are urged to clude reports f r o m students attend this special meeting who have participated in similar pilgrimage programs," Mr. with their parents. Stanley Slosburg, chairman Slosburg said. "We urge all inr' of the Israel Pilgrimage Com- terested students and parents" mittee, has announced that'ap- to attend." plications are now available at In addition to Mr. Slosburg, all synagogue offices and at members of the Pilgrimage the Jewish Community Cen- Committee include: Mrs. Sam, ter. Applications must be sub- Katzman, Mrs. Stanford Lipmitted by December 20. sey, Rabbi Morris Amster, The recently adopted Pil- Barton Greenberg, Keve Kirgrimage program p r o v i d e s shenbaum, Don Rice, Raymon grants of $250 for each stu- Somberg, Jack Molad and Mordent accepted for the program. ris Hoffman.
Jack Benny Visits Hadassah; Pays Tribute to Henrietta Szold
the prosecuting attorney, on charges of alleged conflict of interest. The motion charged that the alleged conflict of interest stemmed from the fact that Mr. Hogan is a member of the board of trustees bf Columbia University where the Jewish Advisory board declined on July 1, 1969 to renew Rabbi Goldman's contract as rabbinical, advisor to Jewish students at the University. R a b b i Charles. Sheer was named advisor and Rabbi Goldman, was Omaha—The Omaha Board retained on a private basis by of Rabbis has chosen the datethe RJU as its rabbinate ad- of Friday, December 11, as visor. "Soviet Jewry Sabbath." Judge" Sherwin refused to • At the Sabbath Services in disqualify Mr. Hogan, and all Omaha congregations that name a "disinterested party" to evening, the prayers and seract as prosecutor. The charges mons will be devoted to the carry a one-year prison term plight of Soviet Jewry. for conviction on each charge. In making the announcement There are two charges against: of the special5 Sabbath, Rabbi Rabbi Goldman. -. ., j •, Isaac Nadoff of Beth Israel Sy- : Rabbi Goldman said that the nagogue said, "It is hoped that, defense is recruiting a,number the entire community, through of Jewish scholars to testify at the synagogues, will.be made the -trial on the Jewish' relig- aware of the seriousness of the Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, stands before her beloved ious aspects of the charge. Ho situation lacing the Jews of < < nprecs and appears (o bo addressing her eloquent remarks directly Id Jack Betmjvia (bit unusual photograph taken ol (he American,, „*t reported i also that a legal do~< , Russia -and Mn< respond! to the , ferise fund Is being organized appeals! Mto" lend their, [moral : performer fa Us recent rblr to the Hnda?sah-Heb(^w tiniTersitjf^ftJ, to -naiso ;the $5,000, needed -by to tl the defense for the>trial.- ••,.(
Soviet Jewry Sabbath Planned in Omaha