Israeli Air Attache Murdered
Washington, (JTA) - The to find him lying on the ground Israeli air attache in Washing- wounded. Bushed to the hoston, Col. Joseph Allon, was pital ho was pronounced dead shot to d e a t h early Sunday at 1:30 a.m. Col. and Mrs. Almorning outside Us home at lon had been attending an IsChevy C h a s e , Montgomery rael Embassy party. County, Maryland. President Nixon ordered a The shooting occurred as CoH special U.S. Air Force plane Allon was walking to his front put at the disposal of the Israel door at 12:30 Sunday morning Embassy to fly Col. Alton's after having parked his car in body to Israel for burial. the garage. His wife, who was Col. Allon was born in Beth w a i t i n g for him under the Alfa in Palestine but Ids family porch, heard 6hots and rushed r e t u r n e d to Czechoslovakia
NCJW Pays Pledge To JCC Building Fund
when ho was two. He lived Israel Air Force and was subthere until World War II whe:. sequently appointed to the comhe managed to escape to Nor- mand of an air base. He wa3 way. He returned to Palestine posted to the Israel Embassy Immediately after the war and in Wasliington about 18 months joined the air arm of Haganah ago as deputy military attache which in 1948 became, the Is- and air attache. rael Air Force. Terrorist Involvement Col. Allon was one of the first Defense M i n i s t e r Moshe pilots trained in Israel and re- Dayan told the Cabinet th</. ceived his wings from Premier there was no definite proof as David Ben Gurioh. He com- yet that Arab terrorists were manded the first squadron of involved in tho murder of Col. French-built Mirage jets in the Allon. Dayan broke the news
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of the tragedy, at the start of the Cabinet meeting. Later in the session Foreign Minister Abba Eban read out a message of condolence he received from U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers. Rogers expressed shock and grief in i.he name of tiie administration and assured Eban that U.S. authorities were making every effort to track down the perpetrators of the crime.
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Board of Rabbis Bars Membership to Rabbis Performing Mixed Marriages
Mrs. David Meyers, past president of Omaha Section of National Council of Jewish Women, presents a check in the amount of $10,000 to Daniel Katzman, chairman of the New Jewish. Community Center project. The check represents full payment of the NCJW pledge to the new JCC Building Fund. Thanking Nt-w York, (JTA) — The New Last February, a similar res- strongly disapproved of such" Mrs. Meyers for the payment, Mr. Katzman noted that early York Board of Rabbis, repre- olution was narrowly defeated officiating by members. But an pledge payments will reduce the amount to be borrowed for senting Conservative, Orthodox but the rabbis approved a res- amendment also was approved short term financing in order .to meet contract costs. ' and Reform rabbis, approval olution w h i c h "condemned" upholding tho CCAR's standing, a resolution barring member- rabbis who do perform such position that each member had ship to, rabbis who perform marriages. One of the reasons . tho right to act in such matters mixedjnarrjages. , — , for opposition -to- the ban at in accordance"wilhlilsTnterpreThe resolution, adopted by a that NYBR jmeeting was the tation of Jewish tradition. Failtwo-thirds majority1 of 166 rab- argument that the issue was ure of the Reform convention bis attending, declared t h a t to be considered at the 84th an- to vote a flat p r o h i b i t i o n NVBR membership was open nual convention in June of the brought the NYRB ban: Rabbi J o s e p h B. Glaser, only to "rabbis who neither of- Central Conference of AmeriNew York, (JTA) - New a record 900,000 voters, nearly ficiate at mixed marriages nor can Rabbis, the organization of CCAR executive vice-president, York, the city with the largest 38 per cent of the city's 2.4 make referrals to rabbis who the Reform rabbinate, many of who voted against the ban, saioj Jewish population in the world, million registered Democrats. officiate at mixed marriages." whose members wanted tho he would contest its legality. CCAR to Ban such officiating, He said 36 votes were cast beappeared likely on Juno 27 to With all but a few of the city's R a b b i William Berkowitz, get the first Jewish mayor 4,569 election districts reporting NYBR president, who presided, and that an NYBR ban might fore the end of the two-hour de» in its history next November. Beame had 549,189 votes to called the decision "historic." prejudice CCAR convention ac- b a t e by rabbis who had to tion. That was the concensus of po- 354,563 for his Puerto-Ricanleave the meeting. Ho said that Loss of membership does not litical experts in the aftermath born rival — a victory margin Tho CCAR convention voted the ban would "tear asunder of Comptroller Abraham D. of 3-2. Beame's margin on Juno affect the rabbi's post as spirit- on tho issue on June 19 and a the whole fabric of Jewish reBcamo's stunning run-off vic- 26 was considerably larger than ual leader of his congregation majority of the Reform rabbis ligious cooperation as we have , tory against Rep. Herman Bar in the June 4 primaries when or other duties" he may perform adopted a resolution w h i c h known it." dillo for the Democratic May- ho polled 34 per cent of the as a rabbi. oral nomination. vote to Badillo's 29 per cent, Beamc, 66, who is Jewish, mandating the city's first runwon four of the five boroughs off contest. including Badlllo's home-borAccording to political exough of the Bronx, in the Juno perts, Beamc is the odds-on 26 balloting which brought out favorite to win the mayoralty race in Nov." unless there are sizeable defections among Democratic voters. Registered Democrats have always outnumbered Republicans in this city. In the fall contest, Beame - New York (JTA)-A Universal Pictures spokesman said will face S l a t e Sen. John that Ids company is satisfied March!, the Republican nomiwith its controversial film nee and the two Democrats ho "Jesus Christ Superstar" and bested in the June 4 primaries does not intend to make any -rRep. Mario Biaggi who is running on tho Conservative changes In it. The spokesman, Dick Del- Party ticket and State Assemson, who described himself as blyman Albert H. Blumenthal "a Jew," said that neither he candidate of the Liberal Party. nor Universal "felt concerned" over charges that the film is anti-Semitic. Universal Films issued a statement responding to the Tel Aviv (ZINS)—The maconcern expressed by the jority of Israelis is unwavering American J e ^ h Committee in its support of President that the film, due to be re-Richard M, Nixon, believing leased is "insidious" and that that he has no cause to resign it, "dramatized old falsehoods oyer the Watergate scandal,about the J^vs." The state- according to an extensive Galment said the film was con- lup poll taken recently in all ceived and recorded as "rock parts of the country, -phots by student SlruooH <w Soviet Jewry | opera" and was never intended 55 per cent of those interas a "religious tract." It did viewed asserted that President nit reply! to'' specific* > charges Nixon should remain- at 'his. made by tho AJ Committee in-a » post/ Only Sight per cerit'said, aathirltl^mafkNovlkdv,'at *itrerne right, wear*, wad confiscated by study, prepared <by< its (institute. •. 'that the' President ought tore- mentarioos v of Human Relations.' • •• * sign, • • . • . <> a "ehal medallion.
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