Human Rights Commission · Looks Into CORE Complaints NEW YORK - Brownsville System
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.\\. Human Rights Commission · Looks Into CORE Complaints NEW YORK - Brownsville _system. and Bedford-Stuyvesant school 'The Anti-Defamation League prlnclpal s have asked to be charged that a Brooklyn CORE transferred to other schools after representative said last May at a THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEW/SH WEEKLY IN R. /. AND SOUTHEAST MASS . being subjected to anti-Semitic meeting with school officials: epithets and harassment by mem "We've got to get these Jews out bers of tbe · Congress of Racial of Bedford-Stuyvesant. It's the VOL, LI, NO, 24 FRIDAY, AOOUST 11, 1967 15~ PER COPY IZ PAGE!! Equality. Jews who are to blame." The Human Rights Commis Another statement dealt with a sion last week began Investigating demonstration outside P; S. 40 by the comptaJnts of such outbursts members of the Queens COR E. It Jewish Community Center's JACs Visit In four schools In largely Negro was said that when white teachers sections. 'The remarks were sup entered the school, the demon posedly made during a dispute strators shouted: ''Why don't you R.I. Family Court, Stage Mock Trial over the quality of education at white Jews go back to Great the schools. Neck?" By LOIS ATWOOD The Anti-Defamation League Robert Carson, community Nineteen JACs went to Famlly of B'naJ B'rith asked the com relations director of the Brooklyn Court on Monday, the final field mission to look Into the charges, CORE, said his group "wel trip day of their six-week traJn which It asserted were made by comed" an official Inquiry." lng session. There the Junior per s ons connected with the 0 We are sure,0 he said, "the Aide Corps members learned Brooklyn and Queens chapters of commission will conclude that something of the background and CORE. those principals and certain procedures of the court, staged a 1n announcing the commis teachers have conspired to mis mock trial with their own mem sion's decision to Investigate the educate the black and Puerto RI bers playing all the roles , attend charges, William H, Booth, Its can children and are hurling ed a session of Domestic Court chaJrman, saJd he hoped to charges of anti-Semitism to try and were addressed by Associate "bring the parties together In an to hide this fact." Justice Michael DeClantls. atmosphere of understanding and 1n Brooklyn, the dispute was He spoke to them In chambers frank discussion.'' touched off when CORE, the rather than fn the courtroom, He named Mrs. Dorothy Hart Brownsv!Jle Community Council where, he told them, his "black Hlrshon and Frank C. Montero of and Parents Associations of the robe symbolizes that I must do the comm I sslon to handle the In schools charged that principals Justice between men" without vestigation. He said they will al so and teachers lacked "sincere in fear or favor, but • •ln th! s room I I ook Into complaints filed by Ne terest" in teaching students and am plain Mr. DeClantls and In gro parents and teachers charging that some teachers had orally and this room I have no Justice to dlscrtmlnation In the public school physically abused the children. dispense." Leo Max, chaJrman of Juvenile A BLACK KITTEN - As the six-week summer session neared Protection for the Rhode Island Its end, the JACs presented Larry Goldenberg, assistant leader, United States To Sell Israel !;'TA Congress and an Investigator with a black kitten with saucy white accents. They named It Jae for Famlly Court, arranged for Sam Goldenberg. A rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, the JACs' visit and served as he will take Jae back to school with him this fall . Agricultural Commodities mentor. He outlined for them a WASHINGTON - 'The United !Ion Imposed an Informal freeze brief history of how domestic State s""wlll provide Israel with on economic and military aid to matters and Juvenile offenders the State House make the public and Counselors-In-Training at proceedings of Dome stlc Court the Center, where Mrs. Leq about $27.5-mllllon In agricul the area. came to be dealt with In a separate tural commodities, to be supplied The Administration has also court and· remarked that In 18"5 trials virtually Inaudible to those. Bornstein worked as a leader of · sitting In the generaJ section of the group for 10 years, until Ill mder the Food for Peace pro resumed economic aid to some of children nat yet 12 years old gram. Consisting mostly of feed the Arab states that did not bre,.k were sentenced to hang for stealing the courtroom, though the once health prevented her complete dingy halls and classrooms ha11e participation. She still Is one of graJns, they will be sold partly off diplomatic relations with the a paJr of shoes. The JACs learned for dollars and partly for Israeli United States. that the first probation officer been brightened almost beyond the resom-ce persons. however, recognition. Juvenile Court hear and leads the session on making pounds. The principal beneficiary Is was appointed In the 1890s, and 'The agreement was signed by Jordan, which was heavily de the first Juvenile court In Rhode ings are always private. heads for the JACs' p-..,pets. The JACs program was set up Last year the Center decided Lucius D. Battle, Assistant Sec pendent upon United States aid. Island was set up In July of 1944, retary of State for Near Eastern While there has been no formal With Francis J. McCabe as Its at the Jewish Community Center to split the program Into two nearly 11 years ago. More than years of traJnlng, so that It would and South Asian AffaJrs, and Eph ann01mcement, the lmtted States first Judge. He Is now Chief Justice raim Evron, Minister of the Is has resumed aid to Jordan on of Famlly Court, which wu es 300 teenagers have been trained be more fun and more self-de1/el as counselors and Inquiries ha11e oplng. Mrs. Goldenberg noted the raeli Embassy, In a closed cere what State Department officials tablished In 1961. lnl965thecourt mony at the State Department. describe as a "selective basis." held 5,769 hearl112:s. come from all over the country, difference In maturity evidenced, Mr. Max, who has known many saJd Charlotte I. Goldenberg, di for example, by the kinds of Negotiations for the agree Last month, the United States al the /ACs "since they were rector of the senior high depart questions asked after the Famlly ment began before the Arab-Is allotted about $2-mllllon In babies,' told them that Famlly ment at the center, who worked Court visit by the JACs and by rael war but what wouldotberwlse "budgetary support" for Jordan Court attempts to do what a wise ll!rectly with the JACs this sum the errs. The younger gr...., was be a routine agreement has now and Is nearing a decision on a parent would do, and acts In the mer. "Nobody else seems io get more Interested In procedures acquired a special significance. quarterly allotment of about $7.5- absence of a parent. He explained the 14-year-olds as we do,'' she and the older teenagers In the 1n recent years, the United mllllon. the procedures foJJowed, and saJd. kind of problems which are States has provided about $30- Administration officials have helped the 14-to-15-year-olds set The JACs are first-year brought to the court. "The second mllllon a year to Israel In Food been laying the groundwork for a members of what has become a year they do err material In for Peace assistance. As the old resumption of military aJd to the up a mock trial. agreement neared expiration last two-year traJnlng program. Its depth," said Mrs. Goldenberg, Middle East. There were In The JACs later agreed that fall, Israel requested more and ultimate aJm Is to develop a who was a lay leader at the Cen dications that action was being they would like to visit Family the Administration agreed In sense of responsibility In Its ter for about five years before delayed until the Congressional Court agaJn and spend more time principle. In the court session, despite the members and the ability to take she became senior high director controversy over sales of Ameri poor acoustics, as It was one of care of and understand children. six years ago. With the outbreak of the war In can weapons to developing coun the Ir most meaningful ex Mrs. Goldenberg pointed out that Not all who enroll In the JACs Jl,e Middle East, the Adm!nlstra- tries could be eased. periences. Their own feeling of 17 and 18-year-olds with native become Co\Dlsel ors: • 'not every participation In the simulated ability and a love for children child Is meant for this, but this Is trial was also valuable ex may make good counselors, but a way of finding out. We say, 'We Gen. Yigal Allon Advocates perience, and they "thought Mr. that they wlJI be far more effec don't expect you to like every Max was lust wonderful to give so tive If to this are added the train thing, but we expect you to try Israeli Arms Manufacture much of his time. He was Just Ing and skllls to handle children every~~.g offered In the pro JERUSALEM-Brigadier Gen. u~i;ated ln,pte war. great." and deal efficiently with the var gram, and ~any JACs have Ylgal Alton, tbe Israel Minister Israel, he stated. "must 1be poor courtroom aClous led situations which arise. Arthur gone on to related fields such as of Labor, saJd that Israel had to also Invest money In reorganizing tlcs In the old Rhode Island Col Eisenstein Initiated and she de teaching or nursing or social create new basic Industries to Its army to face new tech lege building down the hlJJ from veloped the program for JACs work.