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On Filing Suit By Boris flnolar I do not know whether there was ever a ease in American Jewish history when Jewish organizations brou^t charges against a member of the U.S. Cabinet before a federal court. The lawsuit which the AntlOefamatlon League of B'nal B'rith filed against Secretary of Commerce Rogers Morton may be the first Jewish complaint hi court against a branch of the federal gpverament. How President Ford may react to the Jewish charges against his Secretary of Commerce remains to be
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seen. Secretary Morton is charged With vtotating U.S. law and acts of Congress by "promoting, aiding and abetting" Arab boycott operatkms agabist Jews in this country. PresMent Ford. It will be remembered, has termed the Arab boycott as "repugnant" and said that the U.S. government opposes It. Ultinata naponalbllity lor ine poncy o( any bvanch of government Ilea with watch how hit puMIe sraiimsni agawiii Ann or isrta to in|Miae the ant^tawUi
btjroott upon ,^^Mrieaol la biniig ig^MMif Dy hie awn Secretary of Coaunane. He cannot remain Indifferent to the Jewish charge that the Department of Connmerce is violating this country's antl-boycott policy and the Export Administration Act as well as the laws against racial and religious discrimination. What nnakes the suit of the AOL against the Secretary of Commerce even more important Is the fact that the Department of Commerce is not the only branch of government which is (Continued on Page2)
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Abraham's Tomb Center of Dispute HEBIUm - Jews pray outside the walls of tlie Ibrahimi Moique In Hel>nNi In IsraeUHtceupied Joixlan. Hie momfM, a riirine (or Jews, Mushm* Md OiristlaM. lias t)0C0Bia Hmoivad ID an intomaWoBsl aioyute lnvalvli« JordH, Ural tHd tut IMtod Natiem. Dilute over aoetos to tiK Hdsroii slvliie has siininefsd for a taog tint. Oaring U» Britisti mandate over tlie Palestine, Jews were allowed
only to the flnt seven steps leading to the caves, and under Jordanian nde, Jews were not permitted on the site ataU. Since the 1W7 Arathlsradl war, Jews and MuiUins have sbaitd access to the lacred tonlM on a complicated UmcUble but aomctimee the two fmups confraoted each other and Bcuflles ensued. In early August, Israel propoeed a plan under which Muslims would be restricted
Serious Proi3lems Confront S. American Jewish Population NEW YORK. JTA - 01 the 750,000 Jews In South America, it is esthnated that there are 475,000 In Arflfentina, KMNO fai Chile and 50,000 In UfUfttVy, the three countries tai'wUch Jewish communittea are facing a breakdown In communal services unless financial help is sent in from the outside. Jade D Weiler, cHairaaan of the Joint Distribution Committee, reported. Weiler and Samuel Hat>er, JDC executive vice president, visited these coontries last April. "0( the three countries, the Jews in Annttaa, are in the moat desperate situatloiv" Weiler sakL Arientina "U in the throee of runaway bv tlalion and poUtical chaos. Then has been an upsurge of antMtonltimi, fueled by the Arabs and fbianoed by vast SHOia el petrodollars. The Jewish community is (|n the vergeof bankruptcy." In Chile the political situaitkm has sUbalized but Inflation is almost a* widespread as in Argentina. There were about 31,000 Jews In Chile when 8alva4ore Allende was elected Pnsldsnt
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to dH •Anti-Semitism is not a problem in Chile. 11w new government seat official greetings to the Jewish oomnuBilty on Yom Klppur in 1974. ReUtkms with Israel, which took a turn IM- the worse undar Allende, have Unproved sbwe the military Junta aasitaieif power," he added. In Uruguay taiflatkn and unemployment are rampant. Jevrish poverty Is a serious problem; many of the Jewish poor subaist on bworoes of $5 to no a week. TbekKSl Jewish welfare organiiatlon helps the moat needy with "pensioos" of about '».90 to 16 a week. However there Is s siibstanOal middle class and they are able to cope PMre «Mlly with the eoanomlc situation. "The Arabs have made aerlous inroads in Uruguay, once pro-Israel and friendly to the Jews," Weiler obaerved "The press, radio ahd TV are now mokUy anti-Israei and anti-Jewish. However, the Jewish oonununily has thus far been able to blunt the major thrust of Arab Propaganda."
to use one of the caves conlafaiing the tombs of Isaac and Rebecca, while Jews will use OUNCIL BLUFFS. UNCOLU, OMAHA SERVING DES MOINES, the cave wliere Abraham and Sarah and Jacob and Leah are Vol.IJVNo.4S Omaha, Nob.. Frf.. Soptambor 28, ItTB buried. This ^Vjglit complaints froffi Molnhs nd tcMglous Jewy MB VHI thi^ Jvitlaattn Prime MMller,' who cabled U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waidheim about "serious Israeli measures taken OMAHA - A reorgantaatkm of the Jewish community." against the sanctity and She sakl that, nationally and •IkttUy." aha eanitoood. physicai^ integrity" o( the of Onuha B'nal B'rith Women to revttallie the organization regionally, the serviee ao(h« that todagr, oiw 10 moeqiie. was announced this week. orianizatkn Is realizing that of BBW Ismel r^loeicd as "comBuk»Uy, the plan is to "B'nal B'rith Women Is not pletely baseieai" the Jorunite the approximately 300 the little toMi of » years iOOarpMlthBe. danian charges alleging memt>en of the two existing ago...Tzedakah as our She said B'nal B'rith violation of Muslim religious Women's Chapters. Henry grandmas knew it was a little Women recognizes that other rights and saki that Jordan's Monsky and Comhusker, into blue box in the pantry fbr woacn's groups have imjecord of forbidding Jewish one group, according to Mrs. coins. Today's wonuui needs jpMant functions, but that access lo the shrine and other George B. (Roz) Silverman, to put a piece of herself back BBW must continue to play its Holy Places (or 19 years executive director of B'nal bito the community - it's not role, which she said "is "su^ly denles'the Jordanian B'rllb Women District 6. enough to put in a dollar, she dedicated to improving the government any moral Mrs. SilviErman, of Chicago, must do something bnportant. quality of life" within the standing In such issues." atid Irma Gertler of "But also, a volunteer today community,,as well as supMilwaukee, immediate past doesn't give 24^ houre a day. porting the work of the Antipresident of B'nal B'rith She can give only a piece of Defamation League and the Toronto in 7B Women (BBWl District S, herself and we must use it B'nal B'rith Youth HOUSTON-B'nal B'rilh's visited with Omaha B'nal well." Organization. board of governors. In an B'rith women Monday and "Wt'n not fptag to make Among the betterment "appreciative response" to Tuesday of this week to volunteer Ufa a bomndom (Continuedon Page 2) the Canadian gwernment's discuss the plan, which will recent cancellation of a United servo as a pilot prolect for the Nations oonfennce in Toronto District. >«• AndA BlfgR§f/"fo& that would have included IfttlaneoiaMtaOn^ For You, Comrado representatives of the the raofpabaUen' wO be termriat Palestine Uberatkm anylflyen aliawMre in IM OMAHA - Some Soviet officials muy be seeing red these OrganizatkM, voted to con- DIstilet - partapi on Iba days, thanksto a "first" by Nebraskan Shirley Goldstein. vene Its own 1978 kitematlonal South sue of CUo^ and to According to various leaders'in the struggle on behalf of convention In that city. . Wtaatpegp Canada, lald Mn. Soviet Jews and others seeking ttie right to emigrate from In 1973. chargtoig Great SIhwnnan. Russia, photographs by Mrs. Goldstein showing Russian police Britain with a "pro-Arab tilt" "A vote of confidence" was herding Jews onto the smqll sidewalk outside the Moscow by Its embargo of arms to given District PresMent Mrs. synagogue are the first ever to be brought out of that country. Israel during the Yom KIppur Nathan Freldson of Min- They give much weight Xn charges of iMrassment o^ people War, B'nal B'rith shifted iU neapolis, to create the pilot seeking to emigrate, say American sources. 1974 convention from London project, said Mrs. Silverman One of the photographs appeared in last week's issue of the to Jeiuaalem and Tel Aviv. "There will be one single Jewish Press. , B'nal B'rith Women of Omaha Mrs. (^Idslein, co^hairman with Mirihm Simon of the created, with Its officers Omaha> Committee for Soviet Jewry, returned eariier this JCC Closings brought forth from existing month from her third visit to Russia. OMAHA - HM jMflah leadership. In a related matter, It was pointed out that members of the CommuaMy Caoisr wlO ba "The move,. will help us CoRunittee for Soviet Jewry, and not the Jewish Family Service dsaad 00 the ioOowinc daiaa: redesign the DBW of Omaha ai reported last week, provided furnishings (or the apartments fatwday, Sept. S7, (or Into a viable organiutlon that of Omaha's recent Russian arrivals, the LItvlnkskys and the flMOintAtientanlfliiBdDr, would meet the needs of the Portugeises. The JFS helped the families organize arid i^lua^ta Smt.a.ior8iiBc)iBlTwdL community at large u weli.as their new lives.
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