Meir Warns 9 'Wai* Possible f
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Premier Golda Meir warned this week that a new war with Egypt was a possibility and predicted that it would end the same way as the last one—with the enemy's defeat. Similar predictions were made by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Chief of Staff of Israel's Armed Forces Gen. Haim Bar Lev. Mrs. Meir, addressing Labor Zionist delegates gathered here Serving Council Bluffs, for the Jewish Agency Assembly, chided Israeli peace activists. '• She said'their slogan, "Peace for Territories," was "superficial Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha i end simplistic," adding "I only wish it were that simple." Mrs. 1 Meir asserted that "We do not wapt war, but the possibility OMAHA, NEB., Fill., JUNK 35, 1971 exists that the Egyptians will launch one." • Dayan, In an interview in Maariv, warned that unless some i progress was made toward an interim settlement, there was a : danger hostilities would be resumed. He stated that a partial ' agreement to reopen the Suez Canal was still possible and ob! served that new Soviet shipments to Egypt were dangerous bo1 cause they bolstered Egypt's confidence in its military prowess. ; Dayan cautioned against confrontation with the Soviets noting • that "it seems that they also are not jumping into a confrontation New York (JTA)-The Anti- welcomed i\:e Siv'et exhibit chairman of the JDL, told a with us." Defamation League of B'nai but that the ADL "!s coming Ji'A reporisr that his group had Bar Lev, speaking to Israeli troops on the Golan Heightsv told B'rith said this week that it too late with .too little," exthem to be "well prepared" for a possible renewal of fighting. was "postponing, not cancell- plaining that the plight of Sov-. no intention of participating in, "This is ing" an exhibit on Soviet Jew- iet Jewry has not been a "top the demonstration. : ry that was scheduled to open priority" undertaking by the strictly a JLP demonstration M o n d a y at its headquarters ADL. and we have to!:! our members^ here. An ADL s p o k e s m a n The JLP s p o k e sman said to stay away," Rabbi Kahana claimed the postponement un- that the group's scheduled said. til next week was necessitated demonstration was to focus on because certain groups had an- three elements: the role of the The ADL spokesman stated: nounced they would disrupt the ADL in Philadelphia in identi- "We question the nature of any exhibit. The groups n a m e d fying leaders of the JDL to, the group which seeks to disrupt a bona fide exhibit on Soviet K I A M E S H A LAKE, N.Y. operates North American Van were the Jewish Liberation FBI; the "smearing" of grass- Jewry. We have fought extrem(JTA)—The 2.C0O delegates to Lines, Wilson Sporting Goods Project, a Socialist-Zionist roots m e d i c a l organizations ists for too long to be Intimiyoung adult organization, and calling for community control the 119th annual convention of and Fritoi-Lay products. „ dated by e x t r e m i s t groups the .Jewish Defense League. B'nai B'rith District 3—repreOmahan R o b e r t Feinberg, The spokesman stated further of hospitals and thus allegedly now." . senting P e n n s y l v a n i a , New chairman of the board of Pepinciting anti-Semitism; and the Jersey, Delaware and West si-Cola Bottlers in Omaha, ex- that the ADL postponed the ex- "show case" nature of the "toVirginia has called for an im- pressed regret at the news of hibit in order not to.subject ken" Soviet exhibit. visitors to "disruption and viomediate Investigation by the the boycott charge. The JLP spokesman said the lence," and that the exhibit organization of an alleged boyADL's "informing" on the JDL Mr. Feinberg said he was next week will be by invitation cott by Pepsico maker 6f Pepconstituted "spying on Jews si-Cola, against the State of among the first Jews to hold a only. for the FBI," adding: "AlPepsi-Cola bottling franchise, Israel. A spokesman for the JLP though we are opposed to the, Tel Aviv (JTA)-Max Fisher,. and that his association with The group adopted a resolusaid it had not threatened JDL's right-wing politics, what President's advisor on Jewish tion calling for a "forceful di- Pepsico goes back to 1936. He either to disrupt or to indulge is at issue here is the action affairs and chairman of the said that there are now about rective to be obtained from in any violence. "Our demon- _of a Jewish establishment or- United Jewish A p p e a 1, said' Pepsico to provide a clear and 20 to 30 Jewish bottlers in the stration was called to conduct ganization as an active collabj here that there has been no country.. concise d e c l a r a t i o n as to .orator with those who seek to change in the basic principles "During my 25 years associ- peaceful picketing outside, not suppress dissent." whether or not it is in fact enof Nixon's Middle East policy inside, the building," he stated. gaged in an economic boycott ation with Pepsico," said Mr. He told the JTA that the group Rabbi Meir Katiane, national of no imposed settlement and Feinberg. "I have had excelof the State of Israel" maintenance of the balance of Norman Buckner of Philadel- lent relationships with all the power between Israel and her top level executives. I feel cerphia^ District 3 executive diArab foes. rector, said he had had a meet- tain that the parent company Fisher, here to attend the ing and a number of written holds no anti-Jewish or antifirst Assembly of the reconexchanges with executives of Israel feelings." stituted Jewish Agency, had Pepsico. The discussion ocMr. Feinberg has been a his last meeting with Presi- ,. curred after Pepsico "equivo- loader, in the Omaha Jewish Atlanta, Ga. (JTA) — Five "never before in Atlanta's his- dent Nixon two months ago. He cated" on a franchise request Community for many years, Orthodox and C o n s e r v a t i v e tory has a Jewish a g e n c y refused to confirm or deny that for a bottling plant in Israel by and has been an active sup- rabbis have urged the Atlanta opened on Shabbat and never he was carrying a letter from' a major St. Louis beverage porter of the State of Israel. A Jewish Community Center to before has there been such Nixon to Premier Golda Meir. concern. He said that in his past chairman of the Omaha reconsider plans to open one of divisiveness in our commun- He said he found Nixon "more exchanges with Pepsico, it of- Jewish Philanthropies Cam- its facilities, Zabban Park, on ity." Urging "statesman-like sympathetic than anyone could fered as an explanation for its paign and Israel Bond Drive, the Jewish Sabbath. They also expect" toward Israel, adding, failure to have a bottling plant Mr. Feinberg serves as a mem- urged their congregants to boy- action on the part of commun- "I can only wish Israel had ity leadership," the rabbis dein Israel the fact that its mar- ber of the national boards of cott the Jewish center proclared that "little has been some more friends like Nixon." keting research in that country the United Jewish A p p e a l , gram. Asked by newsmen if the was incomplete. American Friends of Hebrew In their appeal, which ap- gained by the center action" White House was. acting on'beand that "much has been lost. University and American Ispeared as a full-page adverP e p s i c o franchises Pepsihalf of. Soviet Jews,: Fisher, _jCola._beverages and owns and rael Public Affairs Committee. tisement in the Southern Is- Shabbat and Shalom go to- who campaigned for Nixon in raelite, the local English-Jew- gether. We call on the center 1968 replied, "things are be- • ish weekly, the rabbis declared to restore both Shabbat and ing done but I cannot speak that the fact that a majority of Shalom. It Is still not too late." about them." ; members of the board of tho Jewish center supported tho Sabbath opening was "irrelevant. In Jewish life," as in a democracy, certain rights are inalienable. Shabbat and the religious feelings of f e l l o w Jews are not subject to votes." The statement asserted that
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Israel Boycott Charge Lodged Against Pepsi
Fisher Defends ' Nixon's Policies
Shabbat Programs'at JCC
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EMollisIer Urges Aid for Soviet Jews
David Alcorn, executive vice-president of the J. T. Baker Chemical Company in the United. States, which will produce new cancer-detection test developed at Ifadassah in Israel, joins Hadassah president Faye L. Scheuk lit press conference. Dr. Kalinau J. Mann, HMO Director-General, is seated in foreground. "It Is a tribute to our confidence In the quality of Hadassah research that we arc prepared to Invest the money and time'rc'qulred for the further testing and development of tho test," Mr. Alcorn said. "Obviously we feel Uiqt it ia a slgaificoat breakthrough ta canter defctajfofc?^''".!].'' ' ' i ; i ; , ; ;
Washington, D.C.—Congressman John Y. McCollister was a m o n g 38 other Republican Congressmen who signed a letter to tiie Soviet Ambassador to the United States, expressing "grave concern over the plight of the three million Jews in the ; Soviet Union." In tho four-point letter sent to Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the Congressmen urged the Soviet government to allow •' religious freedom for their citi: zens of Jewish faith and to ceasa persecution of the Jews.
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The current trials of nine Jews in Kishinev for expressing Jewish national identification recalls the infamous Czarist pogrom* of 1903 in that same city. Eight of the nine defendants are pictured here. Top row,- left to right: Arkady Vologhin, David Rabinovlch, Harry Klrslner, Hllel Shur. Bottom row, left to right: Anatoly Goldfeld, David Chernoglas, Alexander Galperin, SemiotuLevlt. •.•-•• v'