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Support Read By Jewish More Than Agenci~~ 35,000 With Your People Membership THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEW/SH WEEKLY IN R. /. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. . ' VOLUME LX, NUMBER 47 THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978 25¢ PER COPY Egypt's Newspape-,s Deny Begin Says He Will Not Resume Talks Anti-Semitic Charges Until -Egyp_,t' s Press Stops Attacks CAIRO: A political cartoon in the daily showed the Israeli Prime Minister being JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Je~ish state, it would be useless and Al Abram this morning carried a blunt cap throttled by_world public opinion. Another Menahem Begin said here that the Israeli humiliating for .our delegation to go to tion under a caricature of Prime Minister had a woman labeled Israel dragging him military delegation would not return to Cairo to participate in the talks of the Menahcm Begin of Israel. off by the necktie to a treatment center for Cairo for negotiations until the Egyptian military committee." "Don't make excuses," it said. "We are addicts and ,·inquiring: "Can you treat press ceased its "hatred and incitement to "We hope that in the coming_ days the ◄ not anti-Semitic. We are anti-you." someone who is hooked on settlements?" - ◄ hatred against the Jewish people." Egyptian Government will prevent the ◄ That summed up the Egyptian response This was an allusion to the Jewish Citing nine instances of language he repetition of such outrageous statement~, ◄ ◄ to Mr. Begin's charge in the Israeli settlements in occupied Sinai, which Mr. found objectionable in the Egyptian press for which the Egyptian Government 1s Parliament that a "notorious anti-Semitic" 4 Begin insists must remain there even after a in recent days, Mr. Begin said, with emo responsible under the prevailing conditions campaign had been undertaken in the peace settlement. tion and at length: of that country," Mr. Begin said in the Egyptian press. The black eyepatch worn by Foreign "If this kind of obnoxious language is closest thing in his speech to a personal at Mr. Begin said that Israel would not Minister Moshe Dayan has also been used l ◄ continued, we shall not be in a position to tack on Mr. Sadat. ◄ resume peace negotiations until Cairo end as a cartoon device by Mr. Jaheen. A recent send the representatives and spokesmen of The Prime Minister's speech was billed ed its "incitement to hatred against the cartoon showed Peace asking to change the state of Israel to a place in which their yesterday as a detailed response to Mr. ~ Jewish people." places with War at the conference table ◄ people, their country and their Government Sadat's address to his legislature on Satur ◄ In the mood of disappointment that because Peace had been placed on Mr. are so vilified." day on the foundering peace efforts that ◄ followed the stalemate at the last meeting of Dayan's blind side. Begin Is Called 'Shylock' began on Nov. 19 when Mr. Sadat visited ] Mr. Begin and President Anwar el-Sadat, in None of the cartoons have been explicitly Mr. Begin's strong remarks were released Jerusalem. Ismailia on Dec. 25-26, the Israeli leader ..anti-Jewish. to the foreign press in a translation of a Last Wednesday, Mr. Sadat abruptly has been subjected here to increasingly Mr. Amin is an American-educated speech prepared for delivery in the Israeli recalled the Egyptian delegation to the barbed personal criticism. But the Egyptian n·ewspaperman with a reputation for snip · Parliament. Some observers said the tone of political talks that had begun here the day press seems more•rkindly disposed toward ing at authority. The late Gama! Abdel his speech as delivered in Hebrew to the before. The political committee was· headed the average Israelis than it was before Nassser had him arrested in the mid-1960's, Parliament was less strident, but after his by the Foreign Ministers of both countries President Anwar el-Sadat's trip to Israel tortured and jailed for more than eight speech, the Prime Minister's office said he - Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel of Egypt two months ago. years on charges of being in the service of stood by the English-language excerpts and Moshe Dayan of Israel. President 'A Few Unfortunate References' the United States Central Intelligence released to the press here, and Mr. Begin Carter pzrsuaded Mr. Sadat not to cancel a One Western diplomat who has followed Agency. himself used sharp language in remarks to scheduled meeting of a military committee, recent press comment found "a few unfor Mr. Amin responded to Mr. Begin's reporters after his speech. headed by the Egyptian and Israeli Defense tunate references but no campaign" of anti criticism by saying that the accusations had One third of Mr. Begin's prepared text Ministers, which had met earlier in Cairo Semitist'n. made him laugh because he, too, was a was devoted to what he termed anti-Semitic and had been scheduled to resume there Only a few of the nine examples of alleg critic of discdmination, "especially remarks in the Egyptian press, although first on last Thursday and then yesterday. ed anti-Semitism cited by Mr. Begin in the anything of a religious nature." Arabs, too, are Semites. Mr. Begin men But the Israeli Cabinet decided un Egyptian press could be traced today. The tioned an article that referred to him as animously yesterday not to send Defen~e best known was the comparison of Mr. U.S .. Specialists Soy "Shylock the usurer who wanted a pound Mi nister Ezer Weizman to the talks at this Begin to Shylock, the money lender in Newspaper Comments of flesh from his debtor." time when discourse between the two Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," An article in Al Ahram, the semiofficial nations has become increasingly vitrioiic which was made twice by Mustafa Amin, a Not Government's Egyptian daily, said "the Jew will bargain and unproductive. columnist for the newspaper Al Akhbar. even with the Angel of Death," and another In his speech Saturday, Mr. Sadat again Criticizing the outcome of the Ismailia WASHINGTON: United States article, in Akhbar el Yorn, said, "Begin said that in order for fruitful peace meeting, Mr. Amin wrote on Dec. 3 I that Government specialists said that there had should thank God that he was not beaten negotiations to take place, Israel had to the "meetings were not with the delegates of been references in the Egyptian press up by members of the Egyptian delegation agree to a total withdrawal from the Arab the state of Israel but wit? Shylock, the recently that could be interpreted as "anti in Ismailia," the Suez Canal city where Mr. lands it captured in 1967 and to selfdeter Jewish usurer who sought a pound of flesh Jewish" or otherwise prejudicial to Jews but Begin met with President Anwar el-Sadat of mination for the 1.1 million Palestinian from his debtor's body." that there did not seem to be any organized Egypt on Christmas Day. · Arabs living in Israeli-occupied territories, "What Menahem Begin offered was not a campaign as suggested by Prime Minister .,.. "As you can see," Mr. Begin told the even if statehood is what they choose. peace agreement but a bill by Jewish usurer Menahem Begin of Israel. 120-member Parliament, "these are not Mr. Begin again rejected these conditions to a debtor in hardship, which he, the The specialists said they had not seen · only notorious anti-Semitic expressions but in his speech, noting that he had done so usurer, burdened with compound interest, every article published but that Mr. Begin, a repetition of what we used to read in Der earlier when Mr. Sadat stated them prior expenses, fines and profits, Mr. Amin went in a speech in the Israeli Parliament, Sturmer," a Nazi paper. "In such an at to, during and after his visit to Israel. on . appeared to have covered most of the items mosphere of hatred and incitement to Mr. Begin told the Parliament that Mr. Yesterday, Mr. Amin said that the stalled that were possibly anti-Jewish. hatred against the Jewish people and the (Continued on page 16) talks could resume when Mr. Begin stopped The Egyptian press, while influenced using the "language of Shylock." heavily by the Government, is not under of The most common response from Egyp ficial control. There is no precensorship, of Israeli Youth Turning tians is that they cannot be anti-Semitic ficials said, so articles often appear that the because they are Semites themselves. Government may not favor. "At no time can Egypt be accused of this Officials in the party of Secretary of State A way From Their Roots feeling," said Foreign Minister Mohamed Cyrus R. Vance, who returned here from a Ibrahim Kamel last night. "If one stray trip to the Middle East, said that in talks By AARON SITTNER as follows: To the first and second word here or there has happened, it should with them, Mr. Begin had expressed per not be interpreted in this sense at all." Israel's young peopl~ are turning away questions, 100 per cent of the Orthodox or sonal anger repeatedly about an article by a from their Jewish roots, a leading so-called traditional youths opted for The official decision from Cairo has been . prominent Egyptian columnist that c~m researcher in religious trends observed here. Judaism. But among the others, only 62 per in general to ignore the charge by Mr. pa red him to Shylock, the Jewuh Prof. Simon Herman of the Hebrew cent preferred to be born as Jews here in Begin. moneylender in Shakespeare's "The University's Institute of Contemporary Israel. If they were to be born abroad, even A well-placed Egyptian diplonat conced Merchant of Venice." ed privately that some recent writing was Jewry described two studies in addressing a fewer - in fact, only 35 per cent - would The officials said they had raised the seminar on "The Jewish Character of Israel opt for Judaism!" "not careful," but added, "I think that matter with Egyptian officials when the Begin did this deliberately to divert atten Society" at, the President's Residence in These findings, said the professor, were party was in Cairo and that the Egyptians Jerusalem. The studies - one in 1965 and a those of the 1965 poll. "We tried again, tion from the substance to a side issue. It expressed unhappiness with the article but was ridiculous for him to bring up this followup in 1974 - sought to pinpoint the with the same questions, in 1974. We said it had not been instigated by the level of Jewish identity among 16 and 17- sought to learn if the Six Day War and the question." Government. Average Egyptians, who pride themselves year-old Israelis, all born in this country Yorn Kippur War had affected the Israeli's Appearing on Capitol Hill, Mr. Vance after establishment of the State. thinking along religious lines.· We dis on having a society in which racial and appealed to both the Israelis and Egyptians ethnic groups mix freely, seemed offended "We conducted our studies according to covered that not only had their Jewish iden to reduce their polemics. the most commonly accepted criteria of tity failed to deepen, but it had actually by Mr . .Begin's accusation. "He is a liar!" He told reporters that he hoped "the exclaimed an office worker from the Nu social research," Herman said. "We found weakened. More of the secular Israeli boys amount and strength of rhetoric on both that only half of the youths considered and girls wished they had been born as non bian community on the Upper Nile. sides would be reduced," thereby im Several others argued that the Israelis themselves survivors of the Holocaust. Jews." proving the atmosphere for a resumption of This, perhaps, could be understood because As for Jews abroad, Herman believes who came here for vie preliminary peace peace negotiations. conference last month would not have these boys and girls had never lived as a that despite Zionist activity, overseas Jews received such a warm and spontaneous minority among non-Jews, and could are really less tied to Israel and its people reception if there was anti-Jewish sen Ties Are Eyed perhaps not comprehend what they were today than in the beginning of the century. timent. GENEVA (JTA): Several African led to believe was European Jewry's lack of "The common Yiddish language is no The most caustic attacks on Mr. Begin diplomats to the United Nations here have resistance to German persecution." longer around and two generations have recently have probably been in political car been hinting that they are considering the But what did startle some of the grown up since then," he explained. toons, which Egyptians enjoy enormously. resumption of diplomatic relations with investigators were the answers to a pair of "Besides, about half the Israelis are from Al Abram's cartoonist, Sala Jaheen, has Israel. The delegates of Zaire and Liberia questions: If you could be born anew, non-European origin, which also sets them given Mr. Begin a neo-Neanderthal look, hsve published a declaratJon in support of would you choose to be born a Jew?, and if apart from most Jews abroad in feelings of with a bulging skull, ample teeth and a jut the peace talks between President Anwar you could be born anew outside Israel, common identity." ting lower jaw. Sadat of Egypt and Premier Menahcm would you choose to be born a Jew? One of Mr. Jaheen's recent cartoons - Begin of Israel. "The response," Herman disclosed, "was Reprinted from The Juunlem Pott
I ------2-THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978 C • F Eld rt LOOK ING F O R an CHARGE SYRIA ompan,ons or e Y apartment, something used, a TEL AVIV·. Israel has service? Find it in the Herald charged that Syria has moved Obituaries Hour ~Overnighl Classified section. To place a two artillery regiments with Day ~ Vacation Classified advertisement with 130 mm guns into the limited DR. NATHAN CHASET He was a former member of Temple the Herald, call us at 724- forces zone of the Golan Funeral services for Nathan Chaset, Emanu-El and its Men's Club. We Sit letter 421-1213 0200 to ask about rates. Heights. M.D., 66, of 40 Sachem Drive, who died Survivors are two sons, Dr. Hebert Yolin . of Wayland, Massachusetts and Dr. Neal POSTPONED January 18, were held January 22 at Temple Beth-El. Burial was in Lincoln Park Yolin of Wichita Falls, Texas; a daughter, r-~_9.!1,,-_~-~------., JERUSALEM: A bill post Marilyn Epstein of Providence; -a brother, I /~(1 \ - ·," I Cemetery. poning elections for the Chief Jack Yolin of New York; three sisters, Ruth Rabbinate for "up to nine A former president of the Rhode Island • I ~ - ~~ - \ ALFARERIAS I Medical Society and the Providence Perlow, Rema Dillon and Rose Fand, all of months" has been approved New York; and six grandchildren. · I ( - l MEXICAN IMPORTS I by the Knesset. Medical Association, he was the husband of Rosalind (Kimball) Chaset. • • • I -, UNIQUE GIFTS I /' A former chief of the Departments of DAVID WOOLF I j HAND-CRAFTED I Wallcovering Urology at Miriam and Women and In Funeral services for David Woolf, 37, of Priced to P~EASE Specialist fants Hospitals in Providence, he was direc 107 Stella Drive, who died January 15, were I ______I tor of the vasectomy clinic at Women and held January 17 at Sugarman Memorial NEW YEARS SPECIAL Foils • Murals Infants and chief of the Department of Chapel. Burial was in Mt. Sinai Memorial I I Flocks • Grass · Urology at Cranston General Hospital. Park. He also served as attending urologist at The husband of Vivian (Venditti) Woolf, I 15% Off sale with this AD on cash sales. I Weave I Gifts, Pottery, Plants & Accessories I the Veterans Administration Hospital, he was born in Kingston, New York, I in Wood, Bone, Onyx, Malachite, Glass I Vinyls • Textures Davis Park, and as consultant of urology at December II, 1940. He was a son of Beatrice · I Phone 728-291 o I etc. Rhode Island Hospital, Woonsocket (Farber) Woolf of Kingston, and the late 750 East Ave., Pawtucket-Next to Lloyds J 25 Years ol Quality Hospital, Kent County Memorial Hospital, Alexander Woolf. ... Workmanship St. Joseph's Hospital, Roger Williams Mr. Woolf graduated from Kingston General Hospital, Newport Hospital and High School and New York State Univer ------Insured • Free Estimates the Veterans Administration Regional Of- sity College at New Paltz, and received a Dear Sandy, fi~. . law degree from Suffolk University Law Fitz and Floyd didn't do so well. 50% Michael A. Perrotta Besides serving as president of the Rhode School, Boston. He also graduated from the off retail prices on all we have left. Interior Decorators Island Medical Society in 1974, he was Naval Officer Candidate School, Newport. Sorry, no charge or gift wrapping at Phone 272-1964 president and executive committee chair He was a faculty member at Greystone man of the New England Section of the Elementary School, North Providence, un these prices. American Urological Association. til about three months ago. He also prac A co-founder and director of the Rhode ticed law and was a professor of business "Island Renal Institution, he was a past law at Johnson and Wales College, chairman of the state's Medical-Legal Providence. He was a lieutenant in the ~;,,. Committee. Naval Reserve. 1881 Dr. Chaset was a diplomate on the Mr. Woolf was a member of the Rhode National Board of Medical Examiners and Island and Federal Bar Associations, an of • Automatic Fire Alarms the American Board of Urology; a fellow in ficer of the North Providence Boys' Club • Manual Fire Alarms • Complete Sprinkler Supervision the American Medical Association and the and was active in the North Providence 45 SEEKONK ST .• PROV. 331-5304 • Industrial Process Monitoring American College of Surgeons, and a Booster Club. at WAYLAND SQ. BEHIND ALMACS • Complete Electronic Protection member of the American Association of His survivors, besides his wife and • FM Insurance & UL Approved Clinical Urologists, the state Board of mother, are two daughters, Jessica Lauren • Central Station & Proprietary Medical Review and the Providence Senior and Gillian Allyce Woolf, both at home;· a Systems Citizens Task Force. brother, Jerome Woolf of Newburgh, New QOONSET STATE AIRPORT "For Information Coll''. He was an assistant clinical professor at York; and a sister, Marsha Samuels of SALES & SERVICE the Brown University Medical School, and Worcester, Massachusetts. R.I. ELECTRIC had been an instructor at the Boston * * * PROTECTIVE CO. University School of Medicine. He was AUGUSTA SHUSMAN 111 Mathewson Prov. 274-1270 born in Providen~ on May 7, 1911, a son of Graveside services for Augusta Shusman the late Benjamin Chaset and the late Eva of 35 Sackett Street, who died January 17, (Goldstein) Chaset Rosenfeld. A graduate were held the following day at Lincoln Park FLIGHT CENTER. l~C. THE WORLD of Classical High School, Brown University Cemetery. BLDG. t\O. 61 DAVISVlLLE. R.f. 02854 OF and Boston Medical School, he served his The widow of Philip Shusman, she was FI_NE FOODS residency at the Massachusetts Memorial associated with her husband in Philip's CES5NA PILOT CENJ9 (CPC) TED TA VERNIER '~ and Beth Israel Hospitals in Boston. Clothing Store, Bristol, Rhode Island, for • Flight Lessons • Club Membership GOURMET'S GALLERY From 1942 to 1946 he served with the U. 40 years. She was a member of United The French believe that a S. Medical Corps and obtained the rank of Brothers Synagogue, Bristol, and a member • Aircraft Sales & Service • Rentals good soup must be fresh, and a iood soup must taste of the major. He received an official commenda of the Jewish Home for the Aged. things it is made of .. . Most tion from the Government of Iran for his A daughter of the late Julius and Dora French family cooks do not accomplishments in the I_ranian Army (Budgar) Eisenberg, she was born in New •;;/;;;;;;; D;~;J~~;; discard flavorful chicken car Hospitals. York City. She lived in Bristol for six years casses or other good bones and leavings ... Instead they Dr. Chaset was a member of Temple before moving to Providence eight years FLIGHT EDUCATION TEL. (401) 294-4509 simmer them with a few Beth-El. ago. She leaves two sons, Tevis Shusman CE~NA PILOT CENTER (401) 294-4500 herbs, strain the juice and Besides his wife, he is survived by two of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Dr. save it to use for stock ... The sons, Dr. Richard Chaset of Fitchburg, Maynard Shusman of Barrington; a stock is artfully made dignified by some quick Massachusetts and Paul Chaset of Con daughter, Mrs. Barbara Brosofsky of En chopped vegetables tossed in cord, Mass.; a daughter, Ellen Baxter of field, Connecticut; a brother, Dana a little butter, a handful of Los Angeles, California; a brother, Archie Eisenberg, and a sister, Leah Eisenberg, noodles and some fresh Chaset of North Providence; and three both of Providence, and eight parsley added at the last ... Hearty soups like the famous grandchildren. grandchildren. onion soup or leek and • • • • • • -potato soup or split J?Ca have SAMUEL YOUN GUSSIE FEINSTEIN nourished /enerattons of Funeral services for Harry Broomfield, workers an tourists for a Graveside services for Samuel Yolin, 73, long time .. . The French fami formerly of Grcaton Drive, Providence, 89, of 99 Hillside Avenue, who died ly enjoy their soup for supper who died January 20 at the Newton January 19, were held January 22 at Sugar as a meal in itself... (Massachusetts) Convalescent Center after man Memorial Chapel. Burial was in Lin For party gours and wedding coln Park Cemetery. receptions cal us at BOCCE a two-year illness, were held the following CLUB RESTAURANT, 762- day at Lincoln Park Cemetery. She was the widow of Harry Feinstein. 0155: - The husband of the late Edith (Simon) Born in Providence, April 18, 1895, she was We have special package Yolin, he had been president of Simon a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. plans - Plan A entrce Roast Chicken served Family Style, Supply Co. lnc.,of Pawtucket since 1937. He Abraham Orlick, and had been a lifelong Plan B entree Club Sirloin retired two years ago. resident of the city. She was a life member Dinner. To find BOCCE He was born in Kiev, Russia, November of the Jewish Home for the Aged, a Gold CLUB RESTAARANT - 17, 1904, a son of the late Aaron and Minnie Star mother and a former member of Tem From Providence - North ple Beth-David. Rte. 95 to 146 to 295 to 114 to· Y olin. He had lived in Providence for 48 121, from 121 4 miles off years, moving to Newton two years ago. She leaves two daughters, Bertha Wein Diamond Hill Rd . at 226 St. traub of Providence, and Barbara Ollove of Louis Ave. From Mass. - Bangor, Maine; a sister, Minnie Pritz of 495 North take King St. - In Memoriam Franklin-Woonsocket Exit to FANNIE KARP Chicago, and five grandchildren. I st traffic ·light, left on 1977 - 1978 • • • Diamond Hill Rd. to St. Deep in our hearts you are always there, HARRY BROOMFIELD Louis Ave. Hours: Wed .-Sat. Loved, remembttred and sadly mined. Funeral services for Harry Broomfield, 5 p.m.-lO p.m. Sun. and IN LOVING MEMORY Major Hol~days Noon on, HUSBAND, CHILDREN, 89, of 99 Hillside Avenue, who died GRANDCHILDREN AND FAMILY January 19, were held the following day at Sugarman Memorial Chapel. Burial was in Lincoln Park Cemetery. The husband of Rose (Mintz) Broom field, he was the operator of the former SUGARMAN MEMORIAL CHAPELS scrap metal company. He retired about 20 years ago. ~ 331-8094 A son of the late Morris and Bessie HOME OF TRADITIONAL 458 HOPE STREET Broomfield, he was born in March, 1888, in \ Cor . Hope & Doyle Ave . Russia. He came to Providence in 1916 . \ JEWISH SERVICES ( PROVIDENCE Surviors, besides his wife, are two sons, ') FoR OvER S1xi-v YEARS Max and Louis Broomfield, both of Cranston; a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Maisr in 467-7750 Philadelphia; a brother, Max Broomfield of 1924 ELMWOOD AVE . Warwick; three sisters, Gertrude Kaufman WARWICK of Cranston, Bessie Baker of Warwick, and LEWIS J. BOSLER . R.E. IN FLORIDA Ada Davis of Providence, nine (JOS) 861 -9066 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. (Continued on page 3) ·t THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978-3 HANTMAN NAMED NEW YORK: Barry Hant Serving man, professional social ~o -~?f- . · the Finest worker with 12 years' PLAN TOURNAMENT BETH SHOLOM SABBATH experience· in Jewish com in Kos her cuisine Congregation Beth Sholom-Ahavath munal service, has been ap ~aulfs A Kosher Resort Hotel The Greater Boston Council, B'nai B'rith . ~ ... t-40ll Sholom-Sons of Zion will, in addition to its pointed a Community Con Women, will present a rummy gin tour H\C.H'-,l.t-4~1 ,,~t-4:.:.;"4...... --... • 30 guest r11111s to nament on Sunday, February 12, at Temple regular services, conduct an Oneg Shabbat sultant of JWB-the Associa acco11odate Jo ■ I tion of Jewish Community 8' (()\) SIN(l 1'4S Beth Elohim on Beth El Road in Wellesley, on Friday, January 27 at 8:15 p.m. ~-_,.._. er\ool
4-THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978 ~- FROM FRIDAY TO FRIDAY Your Money~s i ! 0 th By Sylvia Porter w ' I By BERYL SEGAL IJ!lll~lll!~lllllllllllllllllll~~lllllllllllllllllllmm1111111111111111111111111immmmm1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111~ A column by Robert Nathan, author and At 80 he becomes venerable. He is now a ARE YOU OVER YOUR HEAD IN Once discharged by the court, your finan- man whose work is all done. He can enjoy DEBT? cial slate will be clean. But your bankruptcy economist, sent me to Pirke Aboth, The Sayings of the Fathers, to reread again what the harvest. Were it not for the end that can Bankruptcy, Pros and Cons record will dog your footsteps for years and come at any moment. That end is a reality. If a mere 3 per cent of all of us who years, no matter what you are told. And the I have studied since childhood. The parallel between Robert Nathan•~ Ages of Man and He may have months, years, but the end borrow and owe money went bankrupt act itself does not guarantee that you won't will come to himself, not to others. But of tomorrow, the cost of using credit would get in debt over your head again. In fact, the passage in Pirke A both on the same sub ject is striking indeed. Robert Nathan course there is 90 . . . soar so high that not one of us ever could the chances are apallingly high that you will Such are the ages of man according to the aft:ord to borrow again. To explain, if your - unless you immediately seek professional experienced the flight of time and wrote a column about it, while Pirke Aboth knew observations of Robert Nathan, we neighbor shops at the same stores as you, advice and rigidly obey it. presume on his own life or the life of one runs up charges and then declares about it two thousand years ago. "The years of a man's life are like waves close to him. bankruptcy, those stores pass on the cost of Credit and the Elderly And now let us see what the Pirke Aboth this default to you and all others who shop When the first of the Christmas bills piled in the sea," says Robert Nathan. They are, he found in his ovn life, .. lifting has to say' on the same subject. Remember there. Bankruptcy may "free" your up by Mary, age 71, and her husband, age the Pirke Aboth were written about two neighbor of his debts, but the rest of us pay 73, came in, Mary took one of those plastic and falling; rolling down into hollows, ris ing, subsiding." thousand years ago, not in 1977. and pay. credit cards they once used only occasional Rabbi Yehuda ben Terna said: Most of us still believe we have a respon ly and applied to the bank for a cash ad He divided the life o( man into crests and valleys in between as measured by "At five years the age is reached for the sibility to repay our debys, so the credit vance. study of Scripture, at ten· for the study of system works. But there is a minority - Without the advance, they could not even birthdays. On the fifth birthday, the baby becomes a the Mishna, at fulfillment of the com 182,210 in fiscal '77 and 211,348 in fiscal '76 have paid their January rent. Although mandments (Bar Mitzva), at fifteen for the - who can't or won't cope with their when George retired eight years ago, they child, an age that comes to an end on the twelfth birthday. From then on till the 16th study of Talmud, at eighteen for marriage, overwhelming debts and choose to file managed easily on their accumulated at twenty for seeking a livelihood, at thirty bankruptcy. And this is the season when savings, Social Security and his modest pen birthday, the child becomes a boy. On the 16th birthday, the boy becomes a for entering into one's full strength, at forty coping becomes definitely tough. sion, they're now over their heads in debt. for understanding, at fifty for counsel, at · What do you lose if you declare Although they live as frugally as possible in young man, and on the 21st birthday, he is an adult. sixty a man attains old age, at seventy the bankruptcy? a tiny apartment in an inexpensive area of grey head, at eighty the gift of special • Easy access to credit. Most reputable Br?oklyn (to be near their three grown Between birth and adulthood, the waves have been rising and· falling regularly. But strength, at ninety he bends beneath the creditors won't lend to bankrupts for years children and seven grandchildren), they weight of years, at a hundred he is as if he - or ever. now need their plastic cards to survive. then the wave subsides into the valley of the twenties. - · · · " were already dead and had passed away • Most assets and even, in some cases, Even worse, they'll never be able to repay Time seems to stand forever at the from the world. your home. Laws governing what you can their increasingly staggering debts, facing spring, and nothing changes . . ." is the With regard to the age of eighty, we keep after bankruptcy in the form of tangi the humiliation of ducking their creditors might add that physicians testify to the ble assets vary from state to state. If you are until the day they die. characteristic of the age until 30. At 30 he sees for the first time his youth behind him "added strength" of octogenarians. When a weighing bankruptcy, first check this out Let's say you're sufficiently informed and person is fortunate enough to reach the age with an informed lawyer. affluent to create a retirement income total and he settles down to the respectable age of a grown-up. of eighty he or she feels better than at seven • Self respect. Going before a judge and ing about the same as your actual earnings ty. Their vital signs are normal. They are in declaring default is a highly emotional now (most unlikely). Even so, what you will When the 45th birthday comes around, the man realizes that middle age lies before better spirits. They acquire a philosophical experience which you overlook-or minimize have at your retirement will be about half outlook on life not found in a person of at your own peri~. It can affect your sense of what other Americans are then earning. him, and the 50s are rushing in. He is still strong and hearty, but his life has a certain seventy or even younger. They worry less. pride and independence as well as your per You 'II be forced by inflation way, way Since they know that the end must come, sonal health. down the living standards scale. weight to it. He is at the peak of his mental and ·physical power. He is energetic, and is they are prepared for it, and are ready for • The friendship of those who have co The retirement dream is in reality an · at the top of his professional career. surprises each morning. Every morning is a signed your loans and who must pay off for economic nightmare. Millions of our elder surprise. you. Bankruptcy almost invariably is the ly today are forced to depend solely on their After the 50th birthday nothing happens. For the next 20 years he feels no change at Some say that by "added strength" is blackest possible mark on your credit rating Social Security benefit checks, not adequate meant a burst of vitality not found in a man and personal record. to provide a clecent standard of living. And all. The sixties come with no noticeable happenings, unless he suffers some crippl of seventy. They compare it to the flame of What do you gain? private pensions, if any, are often either ing si~kness. He still thinks of himself as a a candle coming to life with all its brilliance • Release from your creditors' pressures equally modest or actually a mirage. middle-aged man, no matter what the at the end of a light time. Eighty is after all for repayments - what some call a "clean As a result, one in four of our elderly succession of birthdays says. a time for an end. slate."..But can you get along without credit lives in poverty, and poverty is, in fact, in But then as Robert Nathan writes: after bankruptcy? Many bankrupts return creasing among those over 65 and at a far Then suddenly the most frightening of "There is always 90 . . ." to their creditors and, in order to get new more rapid rate than for those under 65 . birthdays hits him. He is seventy. Overnight • • • money, "reaffirm" (agree to repay) their To be bluntly realistic, if you already are he becomes an old man. He has reached the ( Mr. S ega/'s opi11io11 s are his own a11d not earlier debts. New creditors won't give (Continued on page 6) Biblical age of three score and ten. 11 eces.mrily th ose of this 11 ewspaper.) them a dime. Why do debtors resort to bankruptcy court? A study by the Brookings Institution disclosed the reasons in this ·· order: 31 per :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ~::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::' :.:::.:::::::::::::::::.:.:. :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. cent said too many debts, unwise refinan SUCCESSFUL cing, overspending; 28 per cent, family COMMUNITY health reasons; 20 per cent, layoffs, strikes, CALENDAR loss _of overtime; 13 per cent, hounding by creditor~; 10 per cent, actual legal action; 10 IN~ESTING A SERVICE Of THE JEWISH FEDERATION per cent, marital problems, drunkenness, OF RHODE ISLAND excessive gambling; 7 per cent "to avoid DA~ID R. SARGENT and the paying debts." (The figures add up to more R.I. JEWISH HERALD than 100 because many replies fell in two or For Listing Call 421-4111. more categories.) THREE STOCKS to forecast 10% annual earnings growth But let's say all efforts to help you bail FOR LONG-TERM GROWTH over the next five years. :-:•:•:•: •:• :•:•:•:• :• :::::::::,:-::::::::::::::::::;::::::::::::::,:- :::,:-:-:::-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:::::,:-:-:- out, fail; the only option left seems to be Q: I am ~2 and expect to retire in four years Q: I have 80 shares of RCA Corp. (NYSE) bankruptcy. If so, here are your two final on a police pension. I have $8,000 to invest which I bought at 44. Should I hold or "outs": now and would like your suggesdons. Would transfer to something else? They are the you look over my list of stocks and make shares staying so low when their earnings are THURSDAY , JANUARY 26. 1978 ·• ( 1) Chapter XIII, a method of debt 8:00 p.m. reorganization under which debtor, recommendations on any that should be sold. up? M.T., Nebraska Jewi1h Home for the Aged. Board Meeting E.M., Wisconsin Q: RCA's stock price belies its fundamen SATURDAY, JANUARY 28. 1978 creditors and a referee (all supervised by a Temple Beth El , Fund Rai1er Drive A: Although you hold a few highly tals which are improving steadily. Despite SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1978 federal judge) get together to work out a 10:30 a.m. way for the debtor to repay his debts on an speculative issues, they represent only a increased programming costs at NBC and Friend1 and Parenti, Providence Hebr•w Day School. Boak Fair small portion of your portfolio and should trailing results at the communications MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1978 installment plan. This is known as the 10:30 a .m. be retained for recovery. The balance of group, profits for the nine months ( 1977) Friend, and Par•nt1, Provid•nce H•brew Day School, Boak Fair wage-earner plan, because it protects the 8:00 p.m. wages and essential property of a debtor your holdings are suitable for a person were up 91% year to year, and were just 2¢ T.mple B•th Am Si1terhood. R~ula(.M.. tlng looking toward early retirement. In fact, TUISDAY, JANUARY 31 . 1971 who wants to avoid straight bankruptcy by below I 976 full year earnings. Strength 10:30 a .m. you might use some of your available cash should continue pretty much across the fTiend1 and Parenti, Provid•nce H•br•w Day School. Boak Fair repaying his or her debts from future ear 8:00 p.m. nings. to increase to 50 shares your holdings in board, from color TV sales and Hertz to Templ• Emanu-EI. ln1titute of Jewi1h StudiH Either you, the debtor, get a written Standard Oil of California (NYSE) and solid-state devices and Coronet carpets. extension of your debts, with more time to International Telephone & Telegraph Earnings this year should be in the $4 .00 a pay off in full; or less commonly, you (NYSE). . share region. At 6X projected net and arrange a "composition" in which you pay With the balance of your money I would yielding 5%, the shares are a buy rather only a specified percentage of the amount buy 50 shares of Heinz, H.J. (NYSE), 100 than a sell. you owe each creditor. Your filing of the Sunbeam Corp. (NYSE) and 50 Tenneco, RHODE ••=>--••· Chapter XIII petition must be approved by Inc. (NYSE). Heinz has achieved an 11% WEEDING OUT THE WEAKLINGS ISLAND. annual compound growth rate over the past Q: I'm a 63-year-old widow in desperate one-half your creditors, at which time all ••' • ' f •• ◄ ' \ " • ' ' • • •• • • •, • ,. 1 II ~• .'I decade. An even greater gain of 20% seems interest charges usually stop. In addition to need of your advice on my portfolio. In addi Publl,hod Ivery w.. k ly The possible for the year to end in April. In tion to a review of my current holdings, I'd Jewl1h Pte11 Publl1hlng Company legal fees you must pay to the lawyer who MAIUNG ADORIESS: lo• 6063, PN,vidence. R.I. 01940 files the petition, there are filing fees of recent years Sunbeam has put greater stress like advice on how to Invest a $6,000 Telephone• ( 401 ) 724-0200 on improving productivity, increasing the Pt.ANT : H•rold Way, off Webtte, St .• Powt .• It.I . 02161 about S 15 and a trustee's fee of up to 5 per settlement I'll be receiving. G.E., Michigan OFflCE: 141 Taunt'"' Ave., Ea1t 1',ovidenc., R.I. 02914 mix of higher margined products and A: The overall tone of your portfolio is CELIA ZUCKHIERG ...... Managing Mite< cent of the debts, plus expenses. BARBARA WRONSKI ...... , , , , ...... , , .. . ldlto, (2) Voluntary bankruptcy, the final of all strengthening the balance sheet. New speculative, and none of these stocks brings products, entry into the microwave oven in much in the way of current income. By S..ond Cla11 l'oltoge !'old at PN,vlden.-, Rhod• t,land steps. You must put together a list of all Subtcnption RatH: Twentt-llv• C.nll the copy; lly Mall $7.50 per market and wider profit margins could lift making selected revisions, you could in annum; out1ide New E"I and. $10.00 ,,... annum. lulk rote, ..., your assets and liabilities and pay a S50 fil r.quHt. The Herald a11umft 1ublmptlon1 a .. cantlnuou, unlft1 ing fee . ·The rest is usually routine. 1978 earnings to $3 .25 for the fiscal year en crease your income as well as upgrade the notllled to th• CCH'ltrory In wntt.,., ding in March. Tenneco is a diversified quality of your account. First of all, I Except for clothing, tools, a selected list n,. Herold auu..,.. '"' llno...i.4 re1pomlblllty lo, typographical energy company with additional interests in suggest that you sell your shares of •non In odvertilem•nt,, but will reprint that part of the adver of household goods and other items, depen tl.. .,,.nt In which the tyP91rophlcal em>< °"""· Advert!..,. wlll ding on the exemption laws of your state, manufacturing, chemicals and sh ipbuilding. Cavanagh Communities, even though its pt.., .. notify the management Immediately of any - which may •«vt. all your assets will be collected by the court Rising energy demand, expanding current OTC price is only about Sl.00. and liquidated - and the proceeds will then manufacturing activities and additional THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978 be distributed among your creditors. acquisitfons have prompted a management (Continued on page 6)
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THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978-7 Sadat Bareheaded At Holocaust Memorial BRIDGE JERUSALEM: When President Sadat visited Yad Vashem during his stay in By Robert E. Starr Israel, Israeli Premier Menahem Begin gave him a black skull cap, explaining that because the shrine had religious significance, men should have their heads The art of finessing is just that, an art. 10 and 9, but it would be very costly to find covered. Even though, under normal circumstances, that -you were wrong. Again, even then the · President Sadat appeared to don the skull a finesse has a 50-50 chance of working, Heart Ace could have been with East and cap, but at .that moment, security men sometimes its failure can cost much more that threatening Heart switch would only prevented reporters and photographers than success might gain. Furthermore, by result in an extra trick with the King. But from entering the shrine. However, Israeli losing it might mean the wrong or that old adage, "It's better to ·be safe than TV cameras were already inside, and some dangerous opponent will gain the lead. A sorry," is a good one to follow when play reports say that the blurred pictures finesse might be considered a last resort ing bridge. transmitted from the shrine showed type of thing unless it can lose nothing to What then could be done? What did President Sacfat bareheaded. try should it fail. Today's hand shows what happen is that East covered the Jack at trick can happen when a finesse loses to the one and before nine tricks could be scored, Population Profile wrong hand and how it could have been East had to be put on lead. His Heart JERUSALEM (JTA): Israel's population avoided. switch through Declarer's King set the was 3,650,000 at the end of 1977, according hand. How about this, instead of rushing to the Central Bureau of Statistics. The ♦ North up with Dummy's Club Jack. Let West hold Jewish population is 3,076,000 and the non • A 8 4 that first trick. Even if he had the Queen he Jewish is 574,000. The rate of growth has 8 5 might have had four Clubs and will still decreased in both sectors. : K Q 6 3 have the Queen. If he continues Clubs, now The statistics showed that the number of A J 6 4 the Jack is absolutely safe for if East has the Jews increased by 56,000 in 1977, an in Queen, as he does, it means the suit will ELECTED: Burton Robert Levenson of Cranston was elected Illustrious Potentate crease of 1.8 percent compared to 2.1 ♦ West East break evenly and Declarer can win the percent in 1976. The non-Jewish population J 7 3 .Q1096 of Palestine Shrine Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., other three tricks in it. His own King wins increased by 19,000, a 3.5 percent hike com • A Q 7 6 : J 10 9 3 2 trick two and Dummy's Ace will drop the at its annual meeting held on January 23 at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Cranston. pared to 3.9 percent in 1976. Of the 56,000 : 10852 9 other Clubs. With normally good defense, Jews, 52,000 were born in Israel, the 10 8 9 3 Mr. and Mn. Levenson and their two sons ♦ Q meaning that neither opponent discards the remainder were immigrants. Some 17,000 wrong cards, the hand cannot be made if live at 200 Hoffman Avenue in Cranston. He was graduated from English High School Israelis left the country permanently, accor ♦ South the Club Jack is played at trick one. It can ding to the bureau. not be set if Declarer ducks the first trick. in Boston, Massachusetts; Brown & Nichols 9 K 5 2 Preparatory School and Boston University. A • K 4 This is not that difficu1t to see if only Declarers ·would take those very few extra distributor for Paymaster Checlcwriter Cor A J 7 4 ' poration, he has served as a warrant officer Top Billing K seconds to study their combined hands and ♦ 7 5 2 in the U.S. Army. He is a former director of . envision what might be in store for them if NEW YORK (JT A): Egyptian President Mayflower Savings and Loan; a trustee of North was Dealer, both sides vulnerable they fail to allow -for it. Ten seconds is a Anwar Sadat's electrifying visit to Plantations Lodge, B'nai B'rith; a member of with this bidding; long time in this case, most other times in Jerusalem in November and the beginning the Governor's Council for hiring of the han life it is nothing at all. of Egyptian-Israeli talks in search of Mid N E s w dicapped, and an associate member of the dle East peace was rated the top headline ID p 2NT p Moral: Try to see which opponent holds R.I. Police Chief's Association. story of 1977 by American editors, accor 3NT End the Danger hand and then see what steps Mr. Levenson is also a member of Major ding to the magazine, Editor and Publisher, must be taken to prevent his ever leading. General Henry Knox Lodge, AF&AM, the news media's trade magazine. Another The bidding shouldn't and didn't create Finally, take those steps. Boston; Overseas Lodge; Aleppo Shrine top story was the Hanafi Moslem sect's oc , any problem, every pair ending in the same Temple, Boston; Rhode Island Consistory; cupation of three Washington buildings last contract. The problem was to make it if National Sojourners; former director March. West did not lead a Heart. Some Wests did MAY LEA VE POST Marhaba Shrine Club. which gave Declarer his ninth trick with his JERUSALEM (JTA): Chaim Herzog Mulcaad Shrine Club; Rubba Shrine Club; CAIRO MAIL ARRIVES Heart King. I watched the hand several may leave his post as Israel's ambassador to past vice president Rhodes-on-the times but only remained if West led the the United Nations this summer, it is learn TEL A VIV: The cards and letters Israelis Pawtuxet; past Grand Monarch's aide, mailed home when they were in Egypt two Club 10. Had North not bid Diamonds a ed here. The envoy, now in Israel on a brief Moslem Grotto; past' ainbauador and low Diamond would have been a private visit, refused to talk to reporters weeks ago are now beginning to arrive, trustee Moslem Grotto; member joint ad though Egyptian authorities said at the time reasonable lead but no one led that suit. · about his future plans until after he has seen visory board of Rhode Island Hospital, This article revolves on the lead of the Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. One man they could not promise a postal connection Hodges-Lawton Unit, and Imperial Shrine with Israel. Letters sent through the Mean Club 10. Almost every South, most ofthose ., tipped within Foreign Ministry circles as his representative. without even giving it any thought, called possible successor is the ambassador to House reception desk arrived with no Egyp for the Jack. They felt they were being Bonn, Yohanan Meraz, a former private tian cancellation on the stamps, but those presented with a free finesse. 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By ZVI ARENSTEIN Western influence in their design. But "there ing o,f a new branch post office, a high the car It's very possible that the people of aren't many amenities of that kind in school for future teenagers. one w2 Yamit have been misunderstood. News Yamit. For two years, people have been Ze'ev Ofer, a general in the reserves, was "Wa co\.erage tends to be incomplete, reflecting watching their Saturday night movie seated too busy learning his duties as the Housing the res only the top layer of public opinion. In on a cold stone floor - in the open air. And Ministry's new representative in Yamit t? Can't, Yam it _t his week, that top layer has been mothers having to take their children for think about the possibility that Yam1t Wha repeating over and over, to anyone who medical tests stand at the entrance to the might be returned to Egypt. "It's ridiculous outsid( would listen, "Israeli sovereignty in the town to hitch a ride to Beersheba Hospital. even to discuss it," he said. existen Rafiah Approaches. We will not be. All this time there has been no shortage Perhaps he was right. According to "I' rr moved." · of official reassurance. Begin's plan, Yamit itself is not to be given said ar For six years, Yamit has been called "Yamit must be absorbed into the back. The entire area will, certainly, revert fairl y "Dayan's brainchild." _In 1972, the then borders of the State of Israel in order to en to Egyptian sovereignty, but the Israeli should defence minister unveiled his dream of a sure defensible boundaries," Prime settlements will remain under Israeli con place.' city of a quarter of a million inhabitants Minister Rabin told the residents in trol, with Israeli services and defence forces. Wh( and began arranging trips for impressible November .1976. "Israel wants and is ready The prime minister has been trying for has no people to see the location. for all negotiations for peace. This must go the past two weeks to convince the people that it They were incredulous. "You're going to together with secure borders, because the of Y amit that they have nothing to worry in ord build a city on these sanddunes?" they assurance of security is the assurance of about. "We want you to be part of Israel," Sorr exclaimed. "Impossible!" There was no one peace." he keeps saying. But they've heard that line demor there to answer them but some scattered They believed the headline in The Post before, and this time it is more difficult to "Pu Beduin families. · when Prime Minister Begin visited the area believe it. Shafla In 1973, Jewish National Fund only three months ago: "Yamit gets go When Begin announced his plan, the peo local t bulldozers started flattening the dunes. At ahead for massive growth." Planning was ple of Yamit started envisaging their town Ag the same time, a group of Russian im begun for a city of 100,000 inhabitants. as a Jewish ghetto surrounded by hundreds rather migrants were told by an official of the So far, some IL300m. have been invested of thousands of Egyptians. shadei Jewish Agency's Settlement Department in Yamit, and a similar amount, for in "We didn't come to live in Egypt," speec that if they really wanted Yamit to be built frastructrc alone, in the surrounding was the general feeling. And after a series of bulleti quickly, the best thing they could do would settlements. One moshav, Ncot Sinai, has long town meetings, it was agreed that In , be to go and live as close as possible to the had IL25m. of this sum, which means ap Yamit must remain under Israeli sovereign what site. Ten families accordingly moved into proximately IL1.5m. per family. ty. That too much had been invested here to writes "temporary" quarters at moshav Sadot. Today, the inhabitants of Yamit arc in a just get up and go. "Tt In March 1974, on the day construction state of psychological shock: they simply They decided to begin their campaign agreer started, Yisraeli Kuzenitz, a leader of the cannot believe their cars. After years of with demonstrations, and phone calls to the outsid group, was in Philadelphia, addressing a reassurances and promises, of being lulled news media at all hours of the day and day c, gathering of 20 families from all over the into believing that giving the area back to night. that , United States who had shown an interest in Egypt was absolutely out of the question, Their strident voices have ·been heard, settler living in Yamit. In October of that year, they are facing a new reality. but very little has been forthcoming in the by its after four months at the Beersheba absorp This week, Moshe Dayan came back to way of concrete counter-proposals. They oblige tion centre, 12 of those families were hand Yamit as foreign minister. have not been very successful, as yet, in Begin ed the keys to their flats in Yamit. "If you stand in the way of peace," he convincing the Israeli people of the autho The town developed slowly - too slowly warned now, "the country is not going to rightness of their cause. Yar for the people living in it. The first winter back you." A visit to Jerusalem last Sunday after roads brought only 30 families; with the end ·of His listeners could not understand what noon - while 3,000 inhabitants of The the school year, the number went up to 200. he was saying to them. Did he mean that development towns from Ophira to Katzrin movi1 Another year brought another 150 families. Yamit didn't want peace? were gathered at moshav Sadot to hear two becau · It wasn't long before a commercial centre Reaction to the prospect of peace had ministers telling them that if Yamit timist was built, complete with supermarket, been slow here. Only three weeks ago, the foundered, it would be because its Begin brightly-lit hardware store, trendy clothes town was more concerned about electing a inhabitants had abandoned it, not the gover store and coffee shop, all showing a strong new council, the bad bus service, the open- government - was instructive. People in him 1
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tal were remarkably unconcerned, By ABBA EDAN engagement agreements of 1974 and the of regional harmony that would reassure or the other. The man who wrote that "a straight line Sinai intermim agreement of 1975. Israel about the acceptability of their full eup," said one friend. "No one in is the shortest distance between two points" Any serious historian will have to rule independence in a Palestinian-Jordanian of the country cares about Yamit. knew a great deal about geometry and that these painful compromises, individual state. ,u understand that?" nothing about diplomacy. ly and in aggregate, contributed more to the In that event, the notion of a territorial he meant was that very few people Since Anwar Sadat's voyage, the tactics break-through of November 1977, than the agreement, on which the Israeli government Ya mit had been persuaded that its in Cairo and Jerusalem have been cir change of Israeli leadership on May 17 of pours such scorn today, will be seen to be that year. ! was of any importance. cuitous and obscure. Each government is the natural and inevitable formula. The .villing to give up Yamit for peace," caught up in the tension between its inter History works more in paradox than in central truth about Eretz Yisrael is this: the ,ther, voicing what seemed to be a national aims and its domestic emotions. logic, and those who tried to stop us from two parties have a prospect of reaching ~neral opinion. "I don't think it The tension will now have to be resolved. bu_ilding the foundations of the peace struc agreement on the next phase, while they have been built there in the first Pres ident Sadat cannot reach an ture may now have the chance to build the have no chance of agreeing on the ultimate agreement both with Israel and with the Arab roof. Let us hope that this is so. destination. : Yamit has failed so far is that it rejectionists. And Prime Minister Begin can But even in that case, it does not become There is equal need for lucid thinking on found a way of showing the nation not have peace both with Egypt and with the Likud to pose as the sole or primary the Rafiah salient. not necessary to "sacrifice" Yamit Gush Emunim. Each of them should now architect. Its prospect of success in the near The formula to which Mr. Begin and I to achieve peace. show his courage within his own family - future depends on its failure to have its way gave our agreement in 1967 - "a peace of the residents do not hold with and his flex ibility outside it. in the past. A contrite or placatory expres treaty on the basis of the former inter :rations. And they should be philosophically sion by the Likud towards the political national boundary and Israel's security : demagoguery," says Yitzhak resigned to the impossibility of satisfying all judgment of the Labour movement would needs with a special agreement for Sharm e who with his wife Yehudit edits the the people all the time. Benjamin Franklin not only give our political arena a salutary Sheikh" - is better than that employed in -weekly paper. understood this many generations ago: whiff of grace and veracity. It would also the latest Israeli plan. The phrase "on the nee at last week's edition might be "There was never a peace made, however help to develop the consensual climate that basis of' was meant to leave some limited 1ore instructive about the different advantageous, that was not condemned as · will be essential during our next ordeals. room for mutual adjustment. ,f opinion here than five minutes of weakness and its makers censured as The kind of hard decisions that will be For years we have all been saying that :s in the radio and TV news injudicious or corrupt." , required irf the coming weeks cannot be Rafiah is the funnel through which in ful.filled without support by the two major vasions of Israel from the south have been i. The clouds are gathering, and there is article entitled, "What to say and danger lest the gains of private diplomacy elements in our public and parliamentary life planned ( 1967) or carried out ( 1948). (The , do," for example, one resident be eroded by public argument. - the Likud and ihe Labour opposition. The fact is that an Egyptian army did approach Mr. Sadat cannot be completely serious support given by Labour to Mr. Begin's ef Ashdod.) re is a possibility of a peace when he describes the Israeli recogn!tion of forts deserve a reciprocal gesture of If there is any merit in the Israeli security ,nt with Egypt that will leave Yamit Egyptian sovereignty in Sinai as a mere solidarity. doctrine held for 30 years, there is a strong full Israeli sovereignty. When that "side-issue." The restoration of his coun The key to success for Mr. Begin's case for negotiating the exchange of a 1es, it is the size of our settlement try's territorial integrity - recklessly com autonomy plan lies in the frank recognition triangle containing the main Rafiah 1 determine our position. A small promised by his predecessor - must surely of its interim character. The inherently settlements for a symbolic patch in the transitional nature of the plan emerges nt will disintegrate and disappear be accounted his greatest achievement. Israeli north-western Negev which would ·. A large, stubborn settlement will He would lose nothing by appraising this from the fact that the major issue of imply no vulnerability for Israel. The no Israel, without going counter to accomplishment at its true and full value. territorial sovereignty is left in suspense. tion of Egyptian sovereignty in Siani may proposals, to retain practical Mr. Begin's opportunities of chivalry lie The explicit provision for review after a exclude unilateral cession, but it does not y over the area." -in the domestic field. The hard fact is that few years is another sign of provisionality. rule out exchange. We should make the best of this condition. t seems to have two alternative his party vehemently opposed every The one thing that should be abandoned 1ead of it. agreement, compromise and accommoda The Arab world can accept many things on is illusion. ,essimists foresee people gradually tion by which the Labour governments kept the assumption of provisionality that they There is sharp intellectual discomfort in a way, factories closing down the hope of Arab-Israeli compromise alive have no chance of accepting on the assump Dr. Ra'anan Weitz' assertion that the im of lack of investments. The op through darker years. tion of finality and permanence. Autonomy mediate construction of 2,000 new vould prefer to take Prime Minister The list of Herut-Gahal-Likud rejections is probably one of them. dwelling-units in the Rafiah area is logically t his word when he says that the extends from the armistice agreements of On the Israeli side, we should not rule out consistent with the government's political 1ent is behind Y amit. But they want 1949, through Resolution 242 in 1967, the the prospect that the West Bank and Gaza line. My own embarrassment was only underwrite his word with action. cease-fires in 1970 and in 1973, the Geneva Arabs, after a few years of autonomy, may heightened by my admiration of the peace conference in 1973, the dis- emerge from PLO concepts towards a view author's talent and pioneering zeal.
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THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978-11 CJC STRIKES AGAIN who was a member of the Rumania, was allowed to Council of Churches Slams MONTREAL: The Cana fascist Iron Guard in wartime enter Canada. dien Jewish Congress renew New Israeli Missionary Law ed its complaint ~o the Cana die n government that FEDERAL AUTO JERUSALEM (JTA): The Council of Knesset in 1975. It was passed only late last Archbishop Valerian Trifia, BODY WORKS INC. Christian Churches in Israel has protested year in accordance with promises made by _ 400 FOUNTAIN ST., PROVIDENCE vigorously against a recently en.acted law the Likud government to its Aguda Israel COLLISION WORK IS imposing prison terms and fines for certain coalition partners. The Aguda has been CHASE types of missionary activity. A delegation inveighing against missionary activity for AUTO BODY WORKS OUR SPECIALTY! representing the churches met with Yisrael years, claiming it was conducted on a large Lippe!, director general of the Ministry of scale. But the church delegation noted that WRECKS REBUILT Religious Affairs, to protest that the law the conversion rate of Jews to Christianity AUTO PAINTING was written without consulting the Chris is less than 10 a year compared to as many RADIATORS tian community. They also charged that its as 2000 Christians who convert to Judaism CALL MR~ ALLEN aim was to create "a feeling of hate and each year. Open Saturdays suspicion against the Christian church." til Noon Observers here said the law was not The law provides penalties of five years in 318 W. Fountain St. prison or an IL 50,000 fine for anyone necessary because in the few cases where missionary activity was successful, the attempting to persuade another person to 274-3684 or if no answer 944-0847 convert to his religion in return for material converted families soon left the country. benefit. A person who converts for material benefit is subject to three years im prisonment or an IL 30,000 fine. The law itself docs not mention missionaries nor does it contain the word "Christian." QUALITY-BEAUTY-DURABILITY
But the explanatory paragraphs attached -~. ···:-: ·.~- :,-- to the bill when it was presented in the Knesset warn against the allegedly growing influence of missionary elements in Israel who take advantage of financial difficulties of Jews to convert them to Christianity. It was the explanation which aroused the anger of the Council of Churches. The church representatives told Lippel they were determined to fight to have the law abolished. Lippcl said they should un 38 MADE derstand Israe.l's sensitivity to missionary activity, especially after the Holocaust. He MILES IN conceded, however, that the Christian com munity should have been consulted before PER AMERICA the law was adopted. The bill was originally submitted to the GAL. BY DODGE Slain PLO Official Met THE NAME IS OMNI With Eliachar In London
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Court Revokes Bail NEW YORK: The European affairs department of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith reported it had learned that a German court last week revoked bail for Hermine Braunsteiner-Raynan, the former Queens housewife who is on trial in Dusseldorf, West Germany, and placed her ► ► in jail. Mrs. Ryan and 13 others are charged ► ► with murdering inmates of the Maidenek ► concentration camp during the Nazi years. ► ~ Last week, following the testimony of ► two Polish witnesses, she interrupted the proceedings by calling them "pigs" and shouting other phrases of abuse. Her bail was cancelled because of the outburst. 36 West Bank Arabs Arrested TEL AVIV: Security sources disclosed the recent arrests of 36 West Bank Arabs suspected of membership in six terrorist cells, most of them linked to El Falah. Three cells were uncovered in Ramallah, two in Hebron and one in Nablus. The suspects are believed responsible for APPOINTED TO BONDS REGIONAL POST: Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman of Temple Emanu-EI was selected to serve as New England Region cochair various bombings or attempted bombings man of the National Rabbinic Cabinet of State of Israel Bonds at a luncheon meeting for Rhode Island rabbis, congregation presidents and over the past two years including the plan Israel Bond chairmen held at the Jewish Community Center recently. Shown above, left to right, are Rabbi Zaiman, Arthur S. Robbins, ting of explosives in buses in Jerusalem and general chairman of the Rhode Island State of Israel Bonds Committee; Rabbi Jerome S. Gurland, president of the Rhode Island Board of elsewhere. Rabbis who called the meeting, and guest speaker, Rabbi Richard M. Yellin of Mishkan Tfila, Chestnut Hills, Massachusetts, New England Region chairman of the National Rabbinic Cabinet. Participation by the Rhode Island synagogues in the 30th anniversary of the State of Israel was discussed. Germans Of Today ► ► The position of delegation spokesman, Innocent: Schmidt ► ► Israel Reducing Its U.N. Mis-sion; now held by Tuvia Saar, a former Israeli ► broadcaster, is to be eliminated. Press ac BONN: West German Chancellor Move Seen As Snub To World Body tivities will be shifted to the Israeli con Helmut Schmidt, who laid a wreath at the sulate, which also is being reshuffled and Auschwitz Memorial during a visit to the former concentration camp, said that UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.: The Israeli general of the Foreign Ministry, visited reduced in manpower. ! nothing could undo the Nazi tyranny of the Government has decided on a major recently. The reductions have become common past, but the Germans of today are not guil shakeup of its United Nations mission. Suuesdon of Cool Attitude knowledge in Jerusalem. The changes also ty of the crimes committed at Auschwitz. The changes will cut the size of the · Other delegations, which gauge the size are being talked about by American Jewish He added: "No young German need feel delegation and curtail some activities that and caliber of missions as a reflection . of groups, which customarily seek Israeli inhibited when he meets a young Pole. But have given the mission high visibility, both government attitudes, are likely to see the diplomats as guest speakers. he must know what has been committed in at the United Nations and in the New York cutbacks as a demonstration by Prime the name of Germany." community. Minister Menahem Begin's Government of Mr. Herzog, who will be returning to its poor regard for the United Nations as a private law practice in Israel, told an inter The Chancellor, who is on a five-day visit Nine of the ten members of the mission forum for foreign policy. viewer recently that it might have been a to Poland, appealed for further reconcilia will be leaving by summer and the intention The Israelis have long argued that they wiser course to "double the establishment" tion between Poles and Germans. is to reduce the number of diplomatic posts cannot get a fair hearing in the United rather than reduce it. He also remarked that in the future to five. Nations because of the overwhelming op it was inexplicable that Israeli information Takes Home Seeds Reduction is partly a budgetary con position of the Arab and Communist blocs, services were being scaled back at a time JERUSALEM: During his recent tour of sideration but there also appears to have pointing to the many anti-Israeli when the United Nations was establishing a the Golan Heights, Britain's former Prime been a suggestion that the embassy in resolutions approved at each General new information facility to promote the Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, insisted on Washington should take on more of the ac Assembly sessions. cause of the Palestinians. making a detour to plant a tree personally tivities variously characterized as "lob The Israelis have countered by pursuing No successor to Mr. Herzog has been in the Galilee forest which is being planted bying" or "information services." an aggressive strategy with frequent · named and some consideration is being in his name by the JNF in Britain. While speeches attacking their opponents in the given to the appointment of a career foreign Chaim Herzog, Israel's chief delegate, doing so, he scooped up a few seeds in the public debates and by vigorous lobbying, service officer to the United Nations posi hope that he will be able to produce some had been expected to return home when he particularly among uncommited third tion, which would reflect a change of completed his three years this summer. His offshoots from the forest in his own garden world countries. policy. Mr. Herzog was the director of at home. three deputies, who hold the rank of am The delegation members are active in military intelligence in Israel and later a bassador, also expected to be reassigned. maintaining contacts with private groups in political commentator and writer. HERALD ADS bring to your doorstep a But it now appears that some of the the United States, Jewish and non-Jewish, Israel's Anbassador in Washington, wide variety of services and merchandise. positions will be eliminated. and trying to win support for Israel's posi Simcha Dinitz, also is leaving his post and Take advantage of the Herald before you These and other changes were decided tion. Mr. Herzog made 100 speeches last Mr. Evron is said to be under consideration go out on your next shopping trip. You will upon when Ephriam Even, the director year to such groups. to replace him. be pleasantly surprised.
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THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978-13 Two New Rabbis Gambling Casino With A Blessing For The King Of Spain JERUSALEM: Jerusalem which has In Brooklyn Shu/ long been without any chief rabbis now has two again. Rabbi Shalom Mashash, the ~aided By Police By JUDY SIEGEL medal in return. The chief rabbi also former chief rabbi of Morocco who im The lack of diplomatic relations between transmitted greetings from the president migrated to Israel only two weeks earlier, NEW YORK: Police raided a gambling Madrid and Jerusalem did not prevent the and prime minister of Israel. casino in a Brooklyn synagogue building ◄ has been elected chief Sephardic rabbi and ◄ Spanish authorities from treating Sephardi Queen Sophia, who travels to the univer- - Rabbi Bezalel Zotti, a member of the here and arrested 37 people, including a ◄ Chief Rabbi Ovadia Y osef like a visiting sity in Madrid each week to hear a lecture rabbi associated with a rabbinical college. ◄ Supreme Rabbinical Court of Appeals, is ◄ hca'd of state during his historic visit to their ◄ by the city's chief rabbi on Jewish history, Ashkenazic chief rabbi. The police had received a complaint' country a few weeks ago. confided to Rabbi Y osef that one of her about the casino from the wife of a man ◄ There has been no Ashkenazic chief rabbi 'q ◄ The 15,000 Jews of Spain regard Rabbi "weaknesses" is her love of music and song. who had lost money there. They had heard in the capital for 17 years and none for the ' ◄ Y osers visit as the most important event to "I said that our Tora looks favourably on of such an operation earlier, but could not ◄ Sephardic community for seven years. ◄ touch their community since the expulsion music because it brings joy and means that pinpoint its location. The casino had been ◄ from Spain in 1492. Photographs of the a person is satisfied with his lot." open for three weeks in Temple Ahavat ◄ ◄ chief rabbi were prominent on the front When Rabbi Y osef suggested that the Sholom in the Flatbush section and had ◄ pages of Spanish newspapers and shown on To Drop Interests expanded its operation from three to five ◄ time was ripe for the establishment of ◄ Spanish TV. One paper editorialized that diplomatic relations between the two coun JERUSALEM (JCNS): All Israeli nights a week. It closed on Friday night for ◄ the chief rabbi obviously has "Spanish Shabbat and on Wednesday night for a tries, the king said he hoped that "following government ministers and deputy ministers blood in his veins," and claimed him as one synagogue-sponsored bingo game. further developments" in the Middle East, will have to dispose of business and of their own. he would be able to recommend such a step. The police raided at a time when 300 peo l economic interests which may conflict with · Spanish Jews watched with pride when ple were busy gambling. The police ◄ After blessing the king's two young their official positions, within .two months. seized ◄ Rabbi Y osef and his party preceded $4,500 in cash, 3 crap, 12 blackjack and 1.2 were daughters at the monarch's request, Rabbi This directive is in line with recommen by an honour guard of motorcycle Y osef was led to his car by the royal couple dations of the Asher Commission drawn up poker tables. policemen who, at the chief rabbi's request, A synagogue official, said that "the syn - a rare gesture in the palace. to ensure that no conflicts of interest exist. parked their vehicles on Shabbat and ac agogue is not associated" with the gambling Their strong faith was the common link The ministers concerned must either sell, companied him on his walk to the syn between the chief rabbi and Spain's Car operation, but had rented space for it to be l lease or place in trusteeship their economic agogue. dinal Rimado Gonzales, who invited him to held. J interests. ◄ "Even though they were Catholics and a private talk in Toledo. "We agreed that ◄ don't have to observe the Sabbath," the religion must be strengthened in order to Carter Nominates chief rabbi told The Jerusalem Post in an preserve morality in a difficult world," the interview this week, "I didn't want them to rabbi said later. · Chagall At Louvre Gandal For Post ride because of me." The chief rabbi found the Jewish com PARIS (JTA): President Valery Giscard WASHINGTON (JTA): President Officially, the chief rabbi was there to munity living in religious freedom and d'Estaing inaugurated a special Chagall Carter has nominated Alvin Gandal, a attend the opening of the first Jewish school enjoying a decent standard of living. Only a exhibition at the Louvre national art postal official since 1969, to a five-year term in Spain since the expulsion. Located in a handful trace their roots back to the museum. This is the second time in French as chairman of the Postal Rate Commis luxury residential quarter of Madrid, the Spanish Jews of the 15th century. Nearly all art history that a living painter has his sion. The nomination is awaiting -Senate school was built with contributions from arrived some 20 or 30 years ago - either works on display at the Louvre- for a "one confirmation: The five-member commis the local Jewish community and from Swiss Sephardim who escaped the Arab countries man show." sion reviews rate revisions proposed by the philanthropist Nessim Gaon. It is attended or Ashkenazim , who fled the Holocaust. Chagall's recent works now on display Postal Service. by 150 elementary-school-age boys and The Jewish Agency has an aliya emissary continue to describe Jewish life and Jewish Gandal, 45, who holds a law degree from girls. there, and 40 Jews have come on aliya in the themes. The Russian-born painter, whose Case-Western Reserve University, served as The chief rabbi was constantly asked, past few months, but they are not strong works decorate Israel's Knesset building, is legal advisor in the Postal Service General before and during the trip, whether his visit Zionists. "In their heart," said the chief due to leave for Israel next month for a · Counsel's Office, was director of the Office cancels the ban on contact with Spain that rabbi, "they are not against Israel. But they week of celebrations marking his 90th of Arbitration Procedures and is currently some sages have established. Rabbi Yosef are afraid of Arabs." birthday and 75 years of work as the director of the Office of Contract Analysis. replied that there never was such a prohibi However, Spain's Jews are in desperate world's most outstanding living Jewish G andal, who is the father of two sons, is the tion, and based his ruling on the extensive need • of spiritual leadership and Jewish painter. , research he has conducted. education facilities, said Rabbi Yosef. On nephew of Mrs. Philip Slomovitz of Rabbi Yosef s acceptance of a surprise his .return to Israel he called the World Southfield, Mich. She is the wife of Philip invitation from King Juan Carlos to visit Zionist Organization and asked that they Golda Meir On Emotion Slomovitz, editor of the Jewish News of him at the royal palace was preceded by a send religious teachers there to train the "It's stupid to describe me as hard. I'm Detroit and a vice-president of the Jewish considerable debate - in the Foreign younger generation. The chief rabbi himself the most sensitive creature you'll ever meet. Telegraphic Agency. Ministry in Jerusalem - about whether he gave dozens of sermons and lectures to It's no accident. Many accuse me of con POPULATION RISES should meet with the King if asked. packed audiences wherever he went in ducting public affairs with my heart instead JERUSALEM (JTA): Israel's population Some argued that' an official meeting Spain. of my head. Well, what if I do? I see no was 3,650,000 at the end of 1977, according would serve only the interests of the Reprinted from The Jerusalem Posl harm in it, on the contrary. I've always felt to the Central Bureau of Statistics. The Spanish, who have so far refused to es sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sen Jewish population is 3,076,000 and the non tablish diplomatic relations with Israel. A timentality, of emotion, who conceal what Jewish is 574,000. The rate of ·growth has display of warmth and cordiality to a they feel and are unable to weep with their HERALD ADS bring to your doorstep a decreased in both sectors. The statistics visiting Israeli, they continue9, was aimed whole heart. Because those who do not wide variety of services and merchandise. showed that the number of Jews increased at winning American - and especially know how to weep with their whole heart Take advantage of the Herald before you by 56,000 in 1977, an increase of 1.8 per American Jewish - approval. But in the don't know how to laugh, either." go out on your next shopping trip. You will cent compared to 2.1 per cent in 1976. The end the chief rabbi's acceptance was ap - GOLDA MEIR be pleasantly surprised. non-Jewish population increased by 19,000, proved by Israeli authorities. From an i111t•rvie 11· h'ith Oriana Fa/loci. M .t. Magazine. A'Prif a 3.5 per cent hike compared to 3.9 per cent Rabbi Yosef used the opportunity - his /V l J. in 1976. 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14-THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978 .. Austrian Chancellor Israeli Rabbi Arabs Who Oppose Sadat Deride Says Jews Not Nation Visits Spain JERUSALEM: King Juan Carlos is hop Halt In Talks ·As .Mere Maneuver VIENNA (JTI\): Jews do not constitute a ing to be able to recommend soon that the BEIRUT, Lebanon: Egypt's decision to Sadat Arabs may still be reluctant to nation, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky Spanish government should establish full suspend political discussions with Israel in resume cooperation with the Egyptian said in an interview for a supplement on the diplomatic relations with Israel. This was Jerusalem was derided as a mere maneuver leader. Arab world in the newspaper, Die Presse. reported by Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, Israel's by Syrians, Iraqis and other Arabs who op Rallies Recall Egyptian Riots "For me, the different Jewish groups are Sephardi Chief Rabbi, on his return from a pose the peace initiatives of president Leftists and Nasserites here held a rally communities of fate," he sated. "Jews live nine-day visit to Spain. Anwar el-Sadat. / to show what they called "solidarity with everywhere in the world. They have much The Chief Rabbi, who was warmly ap But conservative Arabs such as the the Egyptian people" on the anniversary of more in common, both in appearance and preciative of his hour-long interview, said Saudis welcomed the Egyptian decision as the price riots that erupted in Cairo, lifestyle, with their host people than they that King Juan Carlos had indicated that an opportunity for reconciliation in the Alexandria and other Egyptian cities a year have with each other." There are, he added, further favorable political developments in Arab world, which was split by President ago. Similar rallies were held m Syria. The Black Jews, Indian Jews and Mongolian the Middle East would play its part in Sadat's dramatic visit to Israel in press in Damascus called it the \'first an Jews, which "proves" that there is no influencing such a move. November. niversary of the Egyptian uprising against Jewish nation. The King praised Israel for her Government-control led Syrian Sadat." Kreisky also said he advocates the return achievements in desert reclamation and he newspapers continued to urge the Egyptian Mr. Sadat had blamed Communists and of "west Jordan territories" to the Arabs. praised the "wisdom of the Jews" in people to overthrow Mr. Sadat. The leftists for the riots. The rallies are part of These territories, although they had once general, Rabbi Yossef said. ► constituted Jewish provinces, should belong The high point of Rabbi Yosser s visit ► Damascus newspaper Al Thawra termed the campaign that anti-Sadat Arabs have ► the suspension of the Egyptian-Israeli talks been carrying out since the Egyptian to those who have lived there for the last was the opening in Madrid of the first full an attempt by Mr. Sadat to fool "Arab President started his peace initiative. several centuries. The only solution to the time Jewish day school in Spain since the public opinion so as to later justify a Arab diplomatic sources have quoted Middle East conflict, he said, would be the Expulsion of 1492. Madrid's first formal separate deal" with the Israelis. Syrian officials as saying that President recognition of the existence of the State of synagogue since the Expulsion was Similarly, a high-ranking_official of the Sadat's resignation is a precondition for Israel, but at the same time the existence of consecrated in 1968 . The minister is Rabbi Palestine Liberation Organization said here resumption of cooperation with Egypt. a Palestinian nation must also be recogniz B. Garzon. that he was confident President Sadat The press here carried speculation to the ed. I would be back at the negotiating table with effect that Mr. Sadat may offer his resigna The Chancellor, who is a .member of the the Israelis soon. Yasir Abed Rabbouh, tion in the speech he is expected to deliver Socialist (Second) International and has Israeli .Spirit On ~ headed several fact-finding missions of the ► who heads P.L.0.'s inform-ati.on before a special session of the Egyptian ► department, told reporters: "Let the Arabs Parliament on Saturday. organization, said he has recommended ► Rise, Says Dulzin ► have no illusion. Sadat is completely com The !.,ebanese daily As Safir, which sup round-table talks of the members of the t mitted to the American-Zionist designs." ports Libya, warned in an editorial against International on ways to solve the conflict. BUENOS AIRES: Leon Dulzin treasurer t Begin 'Made a Fool of Sadat' what is described as "resumption of the old In the second phase of such talks, he said, of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist An Iraqi newspaper, the newly published concept of Arab solidarity just because Socialist representatives of Arab countries Organization executives, said here that daily Al Iraq, said in an editorial as quoted Sadat has interrupted his talks with the should be invited to take part. there has been a noticeable uplift in the by two Baghdad radio that Prime Minister Israelis." The only way for the Arabs to act spirit and hope of Israelis since the ► Menahem Begin of Israel "has made a fool is to adopt as hard a line as that of Mr. TOP STORY government of Premier Menahem Begin ► of Sadat." 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"We are not Jewish community of this north German northern Sinai and on the West Bank that Union, did not appear to be reassured. trying to push Jordan out, but.she does not city feels it has come under organized at Premier Menahem Begin's peace plan Dayan's remarks were interrupted more want to come in," Dayan said. _ tack and harrassment by neo-Nazis in the would not compromise their security, than once and he was heckled. "I did not At Migdal Oz, Burg was confronted with last six months in a way that its leaders say <' . <. although it would require them to adjust to leave the U.S. to live under the Egyptian a promise he had made after the elections has not happened in West Germany since ' <. certain new conditions. They stressed that flag," one sun-tanned y_oung farmer that the NRP would do everything it could the end of World War II. ' . this was in the interest of peace, that most shouted. Another, from Russia, declared, to have Israeli law imposed in Judaea and Culminating last month in neo-Nazi of the nation firmly supported the "We did not come from one exile to live in Samaria. "We have come today to demand liemonstrations, a beating and a threat to a <' ◄. government's peace momentum and there another." A young sabra cried out, "You that this undertaking be fulfilled," the Jewish shopowner, the period produced in- was no turning back. cannot solve the problem of Arab refugees settlers said. Burg defended the peace plan, 6idents leading to 25 official complaints to Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and by creating Jewish refugees." however. the police. They involved anonymous Minister of Agriculture Ariel Sharon It was learned later that Dayan's speech He said there were dou_bts on one side telephone threats and insults, a cemetery brought that message to 3,000 settlers from at Sadot had been cleared in advance by the and fears on the other, but at least a start desecration, the distribution of anti-Jewish the Rafah salient and Y amit assembled at Cabinet at its weekly meeting. Earlier, in a has been made. "I want to repeat, the time pamphlets, the daubing of anti-Semitic Sadot in northern Sinai, a region that television interview, Dayan insisted that offestivals is over and the struggle for peace slogans and reports from high schools and would be returned to Egypt under Begin's Israeli settlements in Sinai will never be has started," he said. Hammer also sup elementary schools of racist comments and p!an. Minister of Interior Y osef Burg and abandoned and Israeli forces would always ported the Begin plan. "We had to take jokes. Education Minister Zevulun Hammer of be responsible for their security although risks for peace,'-' he told the settlers. The authorities have essentially told us to the National Religious Party (NRP) spoke the army would, in the future, hold lines "in Meanwhile, the Histadrut executive be quiet and not to do anything to to settlers at Migdal Oz in the Etzion bloc front of them, not behind them." He said stood opposed to deserting any settlements dramatize the situation so as not to make it south of Jerusalem who oppose Begin's the government planned to take ap in the administered territories. A statement worse," said Bruno Grunfeld, a member of plan to extend "self-rule" to the Arabs in propriate measures to guarantee "not only adopted said that the settlements were the Jewish Community Council. .. But it is the Judaea and Samaria regions. the existence of those settlements but also intended as a security belt for Israel and dramatic - because nothing has happened Sharon tried to persuade the settlers to their security and their link with Israel." their position must remain secure regardless like this in 30 years. It is vicious." ' ,~ontinue their work and increase produc of any peace settlement to come. Although two arrests have been made, tion. He promised that Israeli forces would Dayan denied any differences between The Gush Emunim secretariate said it the community described the police as protect them, not only during the five-yeaf himself and Begin but admitted that he did expected the government to yield further appearing "less than enthusiastic" in their transition period envisaged by Begin, but not share Begin's "optimism" over the out concessions. It demanded that three Gush investigations. Chief Inspector Karl Heinz ~!ways. He said nothing was more impor come of his Dec. 25-26, summit meeting settlement groups, presently contained Seim of the Hanover police asserted, tnnt from the security aspect and the with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. With within older settlements, be allowed to es however, that all possible efforts were being Zionist concept than that they remain in the respect to Begin's plans for the West Bank, tablish their own outposts on the West made and that seven youths from 16 to 21 area and cultivate it. Dayan said the Israeli army would remain Bank without delay. Gush leader Hanan years old were under surveillance. Dayan sounded a more somber note. He in that territory to make sure that the Arab Porat took that demand to Begin who was · lmpector Points to Statistics said he understood why the settlers were residents did not abuse their "autonomy" confined to his home with the flu . "But I wonder," he said in an interview, worried but told them in effect to·"bite the by attempting to set up a Palestinian state. Some of the changes that would affect "if too much isn't being made out of this. bullet" and prepare to live under different He said the army would intervene if the Israeli settlers in northern Sinai were in You must thin_k so if you look at the conditions than existed hitherto. He stress Palestine Liberation Organization tried to dicated by informed sources here. They statistics." ed that Begin's plan was overwhelmingly settle hundreds of thousands of Palestinian woµld probably have to pay taxes to the The official statistics, from the Federal endorsed by the Knesset and warned that refugees on the West Bank. Egyptian government and would be subject Office for the Protection of the Constitu "shouting will not help anything." The Israeli forces will remain in the area to the Egyptian criminal code although civil tion, reported in the beginning of last year He promised that if peace is achieved, "not to interfere in the lives of the Arabs - disputes would be heard before Israeli that there were 142 extreme right-wing " even if the Israeli flag is no longer hoisted ·we want to stop this, to abolish the military courts, the sources said, Egypt would also organizations in West Germany with 18,300 here or at Ophira (Sharm el-Sheikh), the administration - but to protect Israel's have the right to insist that its flag be flown members. There were 533 suspected right practieal means of life, of Israeli ad populace," Dayan said. "If no attempt is over Israeli settlements in Sinai. In any wing extremists holding positions in ministration and Israeli security are made to violate the agreement in a way that event, there would be no Israeli flag. But federal, state and municipal organizations, assured. If you still say no to peace," he would be detrimental to us, the Arabs can the sources said that Egypt would be asked the figures showed. In 1976, the last year for warned, "the nation will not be with you." live in these areas without ever coming into to waive certain sovereign rights thereby which complete statistics are available, 33 giving the Israelis a degree of extra territorial status. (Continued on page 16) I I I 15 Leading U.S. Jews HADASSAH WARNS 1 NEW YORK: The head of Having. A Party ? ARIE Hadassah, the 350,000- l Plan Talks In Egypt member Zionist bloc, yester CALL RENT-A-CAR day scored "Jewish per I, will be encouraged to draw on their respec NEW YORK: Fifteen leading American sonalities who have taken it tive religious traditions to help heal the Rabbis and Jewish laymen are due to travel upon themselves to publicly RENl ALLS, I wounds caused by 30 years of political to Cairo next week at the invitation of the criticize certain policies of Egyptian Government to initiate a historic conflict." · INC. ':'s5·· = Israel at this critical junc phase of interfaith relations. The American delegation hopes to reach ...... ture." an agreement with Egyptian authorities ·Tables Chain Dishes Ashraf A. Ghorbal, the Egyptian Am Calling attention to Israel's bassador to the United States, confirmed that would allow for the identification and precarious position in the Champagne Fountains that the invitation had been extended to the cataloguing of rare Jewish documents Middle East in the absence of Synagogue Council of America, an um stored in various locations. Permanent peace, Rose D. 725~3779 brella organization for Reform, Conser Egypt was once the center of a vibrant Matzkin, president of the vative and Orthodox Jews. Jewish culture. Among the most notable Zionist group, charged that ! A council spokesman said that the abrupt contributors were the philosopher · Philo, the statements of Jewish who provided a bridge between Hellenistic ◄ break in the Egyptian-Israeli talks in leaders were "being picked STONE'S KOSHER MARKET ◄ Jerusalem had no effect on the invitation and Jewish thought in the first century up and exploited by organiz -,iif Hope Street• 421-0271 • Previdence . · ◄ before Christ, and Maimonides, the great ◄ and that the Americans still intended to ed dissidents within the - OPEN EVERY MONDAY ◄ make the trip. 11th-century figure. For the last eight cen Jewish community. " OPEN THIS SUNDAY MORNING The week-long trip to several points in turies, however, Jewish culture has fallen In addition, she said that l Egypt is to center on the first highlevel talks into decline and contact between Jews and these statements would be Boneless involving Jews, Moslema and Egyptian Moslems has faded. used by members of Congress Undercut Roast s1 .49. •. Christians in modern times. While intcr Until the establishment of the state of and the Administration "who f aith dialogue between Christians and Jews Israel in 1948, Egypt had tens of thousands would like to decrease Pullets Grade . A - No Seconds 99( has flourished recently, largely because of of Jews. The number has since dwindled to :various types of aid to •• the attacks made on anti-Semitism by the a few hundred with one synagogue. Israel." lone In 97c ~nd Vatican Council ( 1962-65), contacts The American delegation plans to visit The Zionist leader's Rib Chuck lb. between those two faiths and Islam have the synagogue and to meet with represen remarks were made at a news been virtually nonexistent for centuries. tatives of the Coptic Christian community, conference at the formal Whol.Rib of Beef lone In Sl .23·•. Jewish spokesmen described the agenda which has often complained of harsh opening of an eight-story as entirely religious in nature and predicted treatment in the Moslem-dominated socie headquarters at 5_0 West 58th that the talks could become the basis of a ty. Street. Whole Shoulders _Sl .49 •. continuing dialogue. In addition to Rabbi Siegman, the Though most Jewish leaders embrace this delegation includes: Rabbi Saul II Teplitz, WZO DRIV~ aim, uneasiness has been growing among president of the Synagogue Council; Rabbi JERUSALEM: The World some that such a trip at this time could - Walter Wurzburger, president of the Zionist Organization (WZO) further upset political tensions by lapsing Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America; in a spiritual "awakening into what one leader called "amateur Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz, president of the drive" has sent a group of diplomacy." Conservative Rabbinical Assembly; Rabbi rabbis abroad for two years The invitation resulted largely from the Ely E. Pilchik, president -of the Reform of service with overseas com close personal ties between Rabbi Her.ry Central Conference of American Rabbis, munities. r------CUP & MAIL ------7 I 111 1,rnd Siegman, executive director of the and Rabbis Arthur J. Lelyveld, vice They will go to Venice, I on:r, . president of the Synagogue Council of I Tp••o.r••vsaALT•· b~: ... e airmail 52 ti •• , 1 •• ' •· ·-· t•' Synagogue Council, and Ambassador Nice, Vienna, Stockholm, Issues ot TIie Jent. , ' ···; · .1·' ' '.. ' America. . ..._ ito■ t '"'- I \ •' ' .. Ghorbal. Rabbi Sit.gman held his first Marseilles and several Latin I l ■naiaft@iL aban§il I Monal Edition. 1 lull . meeting with the Ambassador four years Also, Rabbi Irving Lehrman, past 110 HIT HTH ITRHT year . My $30.00 . I Th e Jerusalem American communities. NIW YORK, NIW YORK 10021 check is ancloted . I Posl "• ago to discuss the idea and they have con president of the Synagogue Council; Nor The WZO will supply 0 Ona-halt year. 29 I ma Levitt, recording secretary of the Issues. S 17 00 11 tinued to explore the possibiLity . ritual articles and tens of enclosed. I ', 'i' "'.1 Please be9in gilt The recent peace initiatives by Egypt's Synagogue Council; Irwin B. Blank, past thousands of Jewish calen 0 !- . • I,'. • ,.1,, • aub1crip1lon(a} as I .,·.1: per list a1t1ched . President Anwar el-Sadat, provided the two president of the Synagogue Council; Rabbi dars in several languages. I '.1' '. ; ' ·, ' -~ 0 Please send me • I men with what they considered a favorable Wolfe Kelman, executive vice president of aample l11ue. I ' .'\ • the Rabbinical Assembly; Mrs. Ruth Perry, BALLOTS OUT ' . ' • ' ,\ 1 ~ • •· ' set of conditions. N_1_m_e ______I ,, , · , ··.1•· The first step took place when Am president of the Women's League of NEW YORK: Ballots were bassador Ghorbal addressed the Synagogue Conservative Judaism; Jeff Shor, treasurer m a iled to th e 900,000 , •·• 1' r· ~------I ' •• 1 ·· •• ·'· '., Council on December 7. of the Synagogue Council; Rabbi Seymour registered Zionists in the c;,1 I '' -· ·· ,· ,. ' J. Cohen, past president of the Synagogue United States to allow them i, -, .•. , C . , 'Help Hui the Woands' s,.,. Zip I \,. ', "' to -vote fo r the 152 American Rabbi Siegman, noting that the purpose Council; Herbert Berman, vice president of Gift lut»ecrtplloM: l11t names and 1ddr111ae1 on I of the trip was to "open a Jewish-Moslem the Synagogue Council, and Herbert Berns delegates to the 29th World I separ11e ahnl and enclose payment. We"ll send our I \ own arti stic, l ra me ■ b l e gill caNI ,n your na,,,. and I dia16gue," expressed the hope that "as a tein, a board member of the Synagogue Zi oni s t C ongr e s s i n \ be9in lheh WHkly paper. 194 • ,', ,,I ,• iesult of our visit, both faith communities Council. Jerusalem Feb. 20. ------~ _j 16-THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978 city's newspaper, Han noversche fears," he said, "but I don't think the Begin Says Jews Te.II 01 · Allgemeine Zitung, as reminiscent of "early amount of rightists has increased - just days of the Hitler storm .troopers." their activity, perhaps because they want to (Continued from page I) Moviegoers have found leaflets reading balance out all the left-wing unrest. I don't Harrassment "Don't buy from Jews" on their seats, and see anything to get upset about in the jokes; Sadat had promised him that a settlement covering Israel's withdrawal from Sinai (Continued from page 15) shop windows have been smeared with such they're just kids." words as "Jew" or "Jews out." But Dr. Feiler, who is president of the would include an agreement that the Egyp ► people were said to have been found guilty Among the targets of anonymous community, met last week with the interior tian Army would not cross the line of the ► Gidi and Mitla Passes. But, he said, there ► by courts for extreme right-wing activities. telephone calls have been non-Jewish minister of the Lower Saxony state ► was a large disparity between what the ► But a national television news special teenagers with Jewish friends. "They told a government to express concern. Even ► stated ~learly last week what became ap-, girl I know that if you kiss a Jew you'll get before the latest incidents, Heinz Galinski, Egyptians offered in the military talks and ~ parent m the second half of last year - that his poison and have a Jewish baby," said the spokesman_for the entire Jewish com the demilitarized zone that Mr. Sadat had ► promised. ► there is a growing fascination in West Ger Andreas Pavelcek,_17 years old. munity in West Germany, had sought to ~ many with the Nazi era. It did not say there Young men dressed in black jackets, draw the Federal Government's attention "No rhetoric can change the indisputable was _any great new sympathy for Nazism, trousers and jackboots, with deaths~head to what he said -was a marked increase in fact that the Sinai desert served as a staging but 1t offered a public opinion survey that insignia on their lapels, have openly handed neo-Nazi activity. ground to attack Israel," Mr. Begin said, f ?und that about a quarter of the popula out neo-Nazi literature on the Kropcke, the "I was given reassurances," Dr. Feiler "and to threaten Israel with destruction five tion would again like "a strong leadership city's main shopping square. Others, said, "that the guilty parties will be punish times in 30 years. This can never be again." personality" and that about one-third gathering in a beer hall, set up a picture of ed and that will be the end of that. My feel Any peace treaty, he said, had to be would favor a single strong party. Hitler and greeted guests with cries of "Heil ing is otherwise. I don't think we're at a predicated on "the complete demilitariza Pain and Shock in Hanover Hitler!" until they were ejected by the climax yet. I'm sorry to say so." tion of the Sinai Peninsula from the Gidi Reporting on the apparently large sums owner. . and Mitla Passes to the international boun of money being made on books, magazines Young Pavelcek said that neo-Nazis dary." and phonograph. records concerning the seemed to have organized groups at his high Last Cairo Story !"azi er_a, and their effect on young people school. "I was threatened a hundred • As the dismaying forensics continued m particular, Otto Wilfert, the program's times," he said. "They'd say 'Do you think Was July 2, 1948 between the two nations, the United States producer, said he found the trend in you'll emigrate on your own, or will we continued its attempts to heal the breach so creasingly dangerous. His investigation have to assist you in getting to hook-nosed talks could be resumed. changed his original notion that the land?'" NEW YORK (JT A): The dispatches "Hitlerwave," as it is called here, was But the incident that upset the communi from Cairo by Jewish Telegraphic Agency Assistant Secretary of State Alfred L. nothing more than a grotesque fad, he said. ty the most was the beating last month in correspondents David Landau and Maurice Atherton Jr., who has been deployed here In Hanover, a city of 550,000, the which young Pavelcek, the non-Jewish son Samuelson were the first Cairo date-lined by Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, met development has caused pain and shock to of the caretaker of the Jewish comumunity stories to appear in the JTA's Daily News today with Mr. Dayan and Mr. Weizman. the Jewish community of 400, largely small center, and a Jewish friend were set upon by Bulletin in 29 years and five months. The He reportedly was seeking to break the businessmen and some professional people, 15 youths in neo-Nazi dress in a dis last was dated July 2, 1948. It was headli deadlock between the Egyptians and reflecting the overall makeup of the West cotheque. ned: "Arab States Reject Bernadotte's Israelis on a declaration of principles that German Jewish community of 26,000. Threat to a Mother Reported Peace Proposals; Refuse to Recognize would permit the negotiations to proceed in Jewish State." "We never had a bit of trouble before Shortly afterward, a youth wearing the an organized manner. herr" said Dr. Leon Feiler, a physician deaths-head emblem was said to- have Suspect Arson ~ who has practiced in Hanover since his entered the store of the mother of the Valentine Suggestions • release 32 years ago from the Bergen-Belsen Jewish teen-ager involved in the dis In Forest Fires concentration canp 40 miles to the east. cotheque incident and told her: "We want From !f "We thought that with time, the old Nazis to get a look at you to see who we'll get TEL A VIV: A wave of would just disappear - biologically just die next, you or your son." forest fires of a suspicious ■ SWEET J