Omahans Return from Special UJA Mission Omaha—Mor t i m e r Greenberg, Leonard Goldstein, E. -Robert Newman and Morley Zi pur s k y were among 235 American Jewish leaders participating in a UJA mission lo Israel last week, at the invita. tlon of the Prime Minister. En route to Israel for the 3 day mission, the group stopped an immigrant-reception center in Austria where they visited for several hours with a group of Russiajv-Jews emigrating to Israel. Thirty-one of the Russians then travelled with the mission members from Austria to Israel. The Omalians agreed that the contact with the Russian immigrants was among the most moving parts of the trip. "One could not help but identify with these pepple," said Grcenbcrg. "They were not just statistics; they were real people, fellow Jews who could have been members of our own families." In Israel the group met with
Rabin Protests U.S. Arms Delay Tel Aviv (JTA)—Ambassa. dor Yitzhak Rabin accused the United States of delaying supplies of arms, especially Phantom jets, to Israel for political reasons. He said the delay must be regarded as constituting political p r e s s u r e and warned t h a t the Americans were making a serious mistake and jeopardizing chances for a final or "even partial settlement in the Middle East.'The Israeli envoy to Washington addressed reporters at Lydda Airport as he returned Tor a short private v/sit. rln reply to questions, Rabin said the U. S. continued to sapply arms' to Jordan within the framework of a campaign'to win more friends in the Middle East. Rabin said that chances for a final or partial settlement In .the region would become realistic only when the Arabs and the Soviets reajize that Israel c a n n o t be overpowered militarily.
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Louis Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency, General Yariv, head of Military Intelligence; Pinhas Sapir, Fiiftmce Minis-, terj Abba Eban, G e n e r a l Moshe Dayan and Golda Meir. Mr. Goldstein noted, "that's a pretty Jmpresslve list of people to meet in the short space Serving Council Bluffs, of two days. It's Impossible to describe it, except to say that Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha I was tremendously Impressed with the complete dedication, Vol. X—No. 51 , OMAHA, NEB., FBI., SEPT. 10, 1971 strength and wisdom of all the Israeli leaders. They arotdeternilncd to handle the multiple problems they face while they struggle to get secure boundries for their country." " The meetings with the Israeli leaders w e r e conducted in question and answer sessions rather than in formal speeches. N e w m a n noted t h a t "straight answers to probing questions highlighted the se- Tel Aviv (JTA)—An interna-. declded to go to Israel. Shortly suitcase was found to contain vere internal problems in Is- tional .investigation countinues before their departure, how- explosives. rael. into terrorist attempts to blow ever, the man said he couldn't The Peruvian girl told a simThe .key. problem is finan- up two El Al airliners in mid- make the same plane'but would ilar story of how she was befollow her on the next. He asked friended by a dark h a i r e d cial,"- said Newman. "The tre- air over Europe last week. her to take one suitcase for young man who managed to mendous burden of military deAlthough most of the details him so that he could avoid pay- switch suitcases with her on fense which this year will take are still lacking, it was learned 31 per cent, of their' Gross Naing overweight charges, The the way to the airport. That tional Product leaves little re- that disaster was averted only girl boarded the plane without suitcase was also filled with sources for their war against becauseihe activating devices disclosing that she was carry- explosives and had a defective poverty which can no longer be in two suitcases filled with ex- ing luggage/ of unknown con- activating device. Authorities plosives failed to function. It tent. But she told the story to here are convinced* that both ignored." More than 250,000 Israelis was also learned that the suit- a young Israeli passenger and girls are innocent inasmuch as. are living below the poverty cases were brought aboard the at his suggestion they deliv- they,would not knowingly have level of $24 a month per per- planes by two young girls, one ered the mysterious suitcase to taken such deadly d e v i c e s son. Another 11 per cent of the from ..Holland and one from security authorities when they aboard a plane in which they , population are just above the Peru, who w e r~e apparently landed at Lydda. There' the werejtassengers. poverty line, creating urgent duped into doing it by unidentisocial problems. Pincus told fied young men they had rethe group that 300,000 .Israelis cently met. (Continued on Page 2) Airports all o v e r Europe • have been alerted against possible new. sabotage attempts. International intelligence -agenSPECIAL DEADLINES cies have already warned govThe special New Year ediernments and aviation authorition will replace, the regular •.„,. . • • . "• • „, . September 17 issue of the, ties 'of the possibility of re-,. He m a d e no reference to Jewish Press. Due to an newed sabotage a c t i v i t y by Pittsburgh (JTA)-rThe ZionArab terrorists who, no longer—ist Organization of America be- Prof. Mikhail Zand, the Soviet' early 'printing schedule, iio regular news copy will be able to strike at Israel from came the first major Jewish ' Jewish emigre scholar who apaccepted for that issue. Jordan or* Lebanon,-may make organization to give a platform peared at the ZOA convention targets of El Alor other planes. to Rabbi Meir Kahane, nation- as guest of honor at an earlier The next regular edition At.the same time, El Al an- al chairman of the Jewish De- session and blasted the "violent of the Press is scheduled for tactics" of the JDL which he nounced that it would institute iense"Lea'gue. September 24. The Rosh -•--,said were alienating Russian new.strict security measures Hashana > holidays necessiRabbi Kahane,..who turned intellectuals sympathetic to Soand Israel's' Cabinet discussed tate that all copy for that the airline's security measures. up here uninvited and unex- viet Jewry's struggle for emiissue be In the Jewish Press pected, addressed 1,000 dele- :gration rights. office by noon'Friday, SepAccording to information dis- gates at a plenary session of tember 17. • • _. . closed this week, the explosives the ZOA's, annual convention . The main point of Rabbi Kawere placed aboard El Al jets for 20 minutes: ZOA president ,hane's speech was that Amerlast week in London and Rome. Herman Welsman told the con-" ican Jews must emigrate to IsIn one instance a Dutch girl un- vention, "It is essential'to the rael because of an alleged rise knowingly carried an explosive- Democratic process to give a of anti-Semitism' in the United States; According to him, the filled suitcase aboard an Israel-, bound El Al jet at the request fair opportunity to be heard to future of American Jews is of.a young man described as a those* with, w h o m we don't "bleak." He contended t h a t Christiansen, Lou Willi a m s, "hippie" type whom she had'- figree." Rabbi Kahane, who "In prosperity, those who dishad requested the r i g h t to like us are just quiet haters, Sandor Sherman, Robert Mann- m e t a t ;a travel agency, speak, discussed aliya—immi- but when life' becomes hard— heimer, Gary Rubin, Mrs. Marriage Proposal gration to Israel—and his audi- as it is today—they become acSheldon Rabinowitz, Ron DanAccording to the girl's story ence was attentive and courte- tive haters." iels, and Randy Kardon. he proposed marriage and both ous". He warned that American Jewry faced the prospect of another holocaust. ' Requesting the floor in rebuttal, Weisman ur,ged that those Jews who want to go to Israel do so, but ho a d d e d , "Wo strongly r e j e c t the premise , that the conditions and status of Jews in America are jeopar• dized. Jews, or any o t h e r group, have no legitimate basis for apprehension" because"the right to be different is too well entrenched in the national and constitutional life of the
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Soviet Jewry Demonstration To Be Held in Des Moines
, Des Moines—A communityvide demonstration on-behalf of Soviet Jewry is being planned for Sunday; Oct. 10. Dr. Sol Davidson is president Of a-committee on Soviet Jewry which has been formed to coordinate the event. Sub-committees have been appointed on youth participation, publicity, program, sponsorship, and action. „ Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, will be asked to prepare proclamations and resolutions. Individuals and groups will.be asked to participate by Issuing statements, signing petitions, sending cables and telegrams. A demonstration will be held on the steps of the State Capitol. State and local officials will be invited to participate in tiie program. ' ' Many communities throughout the nation are planning simOmaha—The Board of Direcilar events,;in connection with tors", the Overseers ancL'the;' . Simchat Torah observances on ,Faculty of ,the, Je»ish[Theolog-' • Oct. 10. All demonstrations are ' jcal Seminary of America'con-' being c e n t r a l l y coordinated ferred the honorary Degree of through the American Jewish Jerusalem—Seveirhundred and fifty children were taken during'July and August to three Ha- Doctor of Divinity upon Rabbi /Conference on Soviet-Jewry. dassah summer camps beside the Mediterranean Spa. Among them were the children ofjoor famiMyer S. Kripke, Sunday, Aug. . 'inlMfembe^bf'thq D.es D.ds typihp,, M'inMembe^bfithQ. Mpihp,s,,;Iles Jerusalem,whose of "29, 29, 19Vl.' lies in Jerusalem, whose problems have been dramatized'in recent'months by .the emergence of Jtfl.1 1 committee in' fhffc Israeli TSrflCli "I *'JT] lack lOCk Panthers. PclIltllCrS ^*'.Ilicsc /MlAe« children *tlill/1i*nn come AtimA from f*>/vm very,large, irAm> invtfA. and n n d needy M A A J M families'living fnnrvlllAO Ilvrlntf In I n . iRabbi committee^ in • addition" addition" \6 to Dr. Dr.'• the and , .Rabbi and Mrs. Kripke have t ){ Davidson1 are'iMose.jWalding- the slums of . icrnsalem. The Hadassan camps gave them(an opportunity'toi get down^oithe seaii/t.; recently >retu .returned^frbnt asvisit >
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