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-· 11 No l0<al Financial lmP.act , Jewish Edu~ators Disagree. \ I With Court's Salary Aid Ban I J ewlsh educ atton won't suffer financially from the federal court ruling barring state-funded salary supplements to secular teachers In lI parochial schools. · THE ON! Y E"-iG LI SH- JE .V/S,H WEEKLY IN R I AND SOUTHEAST MASS . • 1, "It would mean, really, pennies," Dr. Aaron Sovlv, bead of the Bureau of Jewish Education says. · VOL. LIV NO. 16 FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1970 1~ PER COPY 16 PAG~S I But he and Rabbi Nachman Cohen, bead of the Providence Hebrew Day School, both feel personally that the 1969 Rhode· Jaland law that authorized the state to pay part of the salarlis of parochla1 school l teachers was constitutional. G_olda Meir Rejects Idea . It was found unconstitutional last week by the Federal District Court In Providence, and will be appealed to the u.s. supreme Court. { "Five or six" teachers at the Providence Hebrew Day School Of Temporary Cease-Fire qualified for the salary supplement last year, Rabbi Cohen says. There are a total of 30 fllll and part time teachers at the school which JERUSALEM Premier recently sucgested there could be She said, ''We re not prepared l provides secular education along Providence School Department Golda Meir rejected this week the a temporary cease-fire If Israel to accept somP.thlng which Is not guidelines, along wllh religious education. recent Egyptian suggestion for a would return to her 1967 borders. a cease-fire as a cease-fire." A { "The board took no position" on the bill calling for state ftmds temporary cease-fire In the She was apparently referring to resumption of lhe 1967 cease-fire when It was Introduced, Rabbi Cohen says, but once law, the Hebrew -Middle East and warned that U remarks made by Ahmed Anis, should be wllhout time limit and Day School board, although divided, applied for and received aid. R us s I an pilots new combat the government's official without conditions, she added. Temple schools and a community high school, the only other Jewish missions near the SUez Canal, spokesman, at a news conference Wlthout directly mentlonlng educational facilities In lhe state, would not ha~e qualUled for state aid Israel would have "no In Cairo last week at which he the expected United States peace under lhe law, and Dr. Sovlv didn't look Into It, explaining, "For us, alternative" but to fight them. Indicated the United Arab Initiative, Mrs. Meir Indicated It's a very small segment. Ninety per cent of our students attend In a teoglhy, extemporaneous Republic would be receptive to her contlrrulng opposition to a and emottooaJ speech before new United States peace settlement "dictated" by the about 500 delegates - most of lnjtlatlves. great powers. them Americans - of lhe World Council of Synagogues, Mrs. Meir also repeated Israel's Insistence Jewish Defense League Members on direct negotiations wllh ber Arab neighbors. She _said that new borders "cannot be Identical" Attack NY Offices Of Amtorg with the ' borders that existed NEW YORK - At least 27 Union raided 50 Jewish homes before lhe six-day ~ar of June, youthful members of the Jewish and arrested 21 Jews. Most of 1967. - Defense League brought routine these people were people who Her remarks drew attention Import-export business to a have applied for exit permits as here because the United States Is sudden stop this week when tbey far back as five years ago." expected to outline a new Middle stormed through offices of the Mr. JCahane said Amtorg' s East peace Initiative soon that Amtorg Trading CoI1>0ratlon In offices on the 19th and 20th_ floors may again urge Israel to make retaliation for recent arrests of were chosen for a demonstration concessions. Jews In the Soviet Union. because: · The tone of Mrs. Meir's 1loe police removed 20 men "We've already hit the speech seemed to Indicate her and seven women demonstrators (Soviet) U.N. Mission, Aerofiot, Govermn ent would strenuously who. after being Identified by lntourlst. Now they have cops resist making concessions. employes d Amtorg - the there. This r.1ace didn't. The Premier, wbo spoke tor Soviet Union's International "We don t fight the police." more than an hour without notes, trading organization - were · During and after ,, this said, "We refuse to be dictated to arrested and charged with conversation, men passing -by ,, criminal trespass. approached the rabbi and .shook ~ Dr. -5"1¥ by the. loser as to things we must accept without necotlatlons and "TIiey -re dragging me," his hand. One said: public schools and come to us (temple schools) for supplementary said Vias Nlchkov, president of "I Just want to thank you for a educatl!>.Q,.. without peace.'' Mrs. Meir said Jarael had Amtorg, In his offices at 355 good Job." -The court decision barring lhe · funds was hailed by the American Lexington Avenue. "Dragging my 'I Jewish Congress as a "landmark decision." been asked "over and over 1loe police said that they fotmd again" - wbat would happen U leg, my arm. What can I do with The ruling was the first handed down by any Federal court which two pipes In the offices after my bare hands?" league members were taken out. applied lhe test of constitutionality set forth by the SUpreme Court Soviet pilots now stationed In the u.s. United Arab Republic "come And one patrolman displayed a In the Walz case. In !hat decision, Issued May 4, the high court warned After the league members who closer to the canal zone." were arrested had been taken to Yeshiva University class ring against "an excessive government entanglement with religion." (class of ' 71). which he said was "In lhe Rhode Island case just decided lhe Federal District Court She said, "we can't run," the 51st Street station by the fotmd on the scene. held that subsidizing parochial schools constitutes such an when asked U Jarael meant to police, seven others picketed In unconstitutional entanglement," commented Leo Pfeffer, special defend her troops along the canal, front of the Lexington Avenue 1loe league, fotmded by Rabbi added JCahane nearly two years ago, counsel ·for the American Jewish Congress. and that "anybody wbo will building. •iu one reads the statements of the founding fathers," Rabbi Cohen stand In lhe way of our self "Let Israel live,., some says It has 7,000 members wtth says, "many Implicitly and explicitly take Into consideration lhe defense, we won't nm away from chanted, "Israel must live." chapters In Boston, Philadelphia, existence of a deity." Religious education should be fllrthered by lhe him - no matter wbo he Is." Rabb I Meir Kahane, Montreal and Los Angeles. Mr. I: government, be says. Sb e added, "There Is no spokesman for the Kahane says anti-Semitism Is I demonstrators, In explaining the I, C autloolng that his statements are his· own, and not !hose. of lhe alternative." Increasing and traditional Jewish The Premier noted that lhe league's actions said on the organizations have not proteeted I ' (Continued on page 13) Un It e d Arab Republic bad sidewalk: "Last week the Soviet American Jews: Dr. Smith: '~og 'In Health Center ~hEf!~tWELL On Prairie Avenue, amid boarded up stores, broken glass. an aura of a neighborhood that's given up, are two well- used, comfortable buildings, staffed with dedicated people. 1bey're there to combat the frtghtful statistics which show the Model Cities Area has a higher disease and death rate than the rest of Providence, the state and the nation. 1be Infant mortality rate Is 56 per 1000 In the area, the tuberculosis and diabetes rates are three times higher, venereal disease Is ten times more prevalent and emphysema and heart disease are higher than for the state as a whole;· according to health department statistics. · _ 1loe death rate In the Inner ctty, of which Model Cities Is a part, Is 17 per thousand, compared with a state rate of 14 and a national rate of 10 per 1000. · Yet the two Prairie Avenue health centers, along with the seven others In the Inner ctty all operated by Progress for Providence. Inc., exist precariously short of money and a fiscal crisis earlier Iii the year threatened to close them all. 11,e Office of Economic Opporttmity Is now reviewing a request for a $;!00,000 grant· inade by a newly formed health coI1>0ratlon made up of representatives of Progress for Providence, the poor, social services agencies and the medical profession for the centers. A decision by OEO Is expected "Tuesday. "Every single month we' re warned w..e may not be able to go on," Dr. Clara Lolanan Smith, predlatrlctan at the ~r South Providence Clinic says. 1loe position of that clinic, the Allen Berry Center at 230 Prairie Avenue, Is better, though, than some of the others, she thinks, for It falls within the'Model Cities area. · 1loe budget In the Model Cities area was Increased In November by $240,000' and the caseload at the Berry Clinic and the Roger WIIUams Clinic!, further up the same street, Increased from 110 patients a month to 410, (The total caseload of all the clinics bas Increased from 3,000 three years ago to an estimated 35,000 this year,) Doctors' hours at the two clinics more than doubled at the same time. Por the reeldeots of the area, used to asking for medical help only (Cantlnllld on page 13) .., ·_) 3 THE RHODE ISLAND HERALD1 FRIDAY1 JUNE 261 1970 .