Pentagon Asks Supplement For Resupply Of Israelis WASHINGTON The would be requested to keep Defense Departmen~ is drawing up preparedness of United States plans to ask Congress . for a forces .. at steady levels.· · The supplemental appropriation . to United States is supplying Israel replace American arm_s being from its operational inventory of rushed to Israel, according to a weapons systems and munitions. New York Times article by Leslie The sources said that while H. Gelb. planning had begun. the total of Officials in the Pentagon supplemental amounts could only estimate that at least $2-billion be guessed at. The final amount will be needed to replenish will have to await a Presidential American stocks. decision on the extent of the At a news briefing Jerry W. resupply program to Israel. This Friedheim, the department's decision. Administration officials spokesman, said that the Pentagon have said. will depend on the was considering the possibility of developing military and diplomatic asking Congress to make some of situation. the supplies outright gifts to the .. No o ne knows ... Mr . Israelis. In the past Israel has Freidheim said at the new! received United States credits and briefing . .. whether and how much paid in cash. the Israeli s will be able to pay ... As these plans became known. These cost problems seemed Pentagon officials also said that United States arms shipments lo inevitable as Pentagon offi cials Is r ael n o w equaled S ov iet reported that the United States was sendin g some 20 cargo fli g hts shipments 10 the Arabs. Preliminar y Co ngressi o na l a day. delivering 700 to 800 tons reaction was strongly favorable lo the equi va lent of what the the supply efforts. the suggested Pentagon regards as the daily Soviet rcsuppty. arms gifts and to the planned request for supplemental funds. Pentagon officials said that until Mr. t'riedhcim said in response Thursday. American-delivered tonnage to Israel was a third of to a question th at "we may have to go in for a supplemental. "" He the 5.500 tons of equipment believed to have been deli ve red by did not cite a ny figure . the Soviet Uni on in 350 fli ghts Pentagon sources. however. sa id over eight days. it was "alm os t ce rtain" that additional spending authority (Continued on page 15) Rabbi Bohnen Of Temple Emanu-EI Pastore Bill Sister Ann Gillen To Speak Retires As Spiritual leader Is Approved At Ecumenical"Workshop At JC( WASH I NG TON The By CELIA ZUCKERBERG honor will be held on Friday. Oc­ Senate. by, a voice vote. has Sister Ann Gillen. c.ecutivc di­ tober 28 at 8: 10 p.m .. the first late Rabbi Eli A. Bohnen of Temple approved an amendment to lhe rector of the Na ti onal Inter­ Friday service of the year. Special ~· Defense Procurement Act to give religious Task t'orcc on Soviet Emanu-EI has decided to retire - speaker will be Rabbi Edward T. a loss to· his congregation. How­ the President con ti nu i ng and Jewry will be the keynote speaker Sandrow. past president of both unlimited authority to provide for an afternoon con ference on ever. he says he is retiring the Rabbinica l Assembly and tht voluntarily because he feels that Israel with military credits it needs .. Ru ssian Jews An Ecu menical New York Board of Rabbis. after 26 years it is time that some­ to maintain its defense. The Workshop."· The conference will Rabbi Bohnen. who came origi­ am endment. co-sponsored by be held on Sunday. October 28. at one new, someone youngers. take nally from Toronto. Canada. was over the spiritual leadership of the Democratic Senators Henry M. the Jewish Community Center of invited to come to Temple Em­ congregation which he has served Jackson Washington. Sam Nunn Rhode Isla nd . anu-EI when Rabbi Israel Gold­ for so long. Georgia. and John Pastore Rhode In announcing the workshop. man. its first rabbi. left. In 1974. He cites the cases of college Island . extends to Dec. 3 1. 1975. Vernon Lisbon. executive director Temple Emanu-EI will celebrate presidents who have stepped aside the authority granted the of the National Conference of its 50th anniversary. well before retirement age, saying President to transfer to Israel Christians and Jews. said that .. in Rabbi Bohnen had been an as­ that youngt,r men can, perhaps. do military equipment including the past. our conferences on So­ sistant rabbi in Philadelphia. a better job. A new leader will of­ Phantom jets. The two-year viet Jewry have attracted a largely Pennsylvania. and then a rabbi in ten inspire a spurt of enthusiasm. extension of the authority first Jewish audience. This year we are Buffalo. New York. for ten years, His own plans include devoting enacted in 1970 serves as making a n extra effort to reach before he came to his post in insurance should the Foreign the Christian communities in the more time to study. He particular­ Providence. ly wants to .. try his hand .. at Tal­ Assistance Act founder. Israel has belief that when our brothers are He says he has been .. extremely been authorized credits totaling oopressed. we are oppressed. mudic and Midrashic studies. Rab­ happy here.. and he and Mrs. bi Bohnen and his wife, Eleanor, $300 million annually for the past Following the keynote speech. Bohnen intend to continue living two years .under that legislation. the participants will have their are hoping. a lso, to leave for Is­ in Providence. SISTER ANN GILLEN rael on November I I where they Asked about the changes which choice of workshops to attend will spend six months. he has seen during his 26 years in New Form Of Energy Linked where a moderator and a re sou rce Their o~iginal plans included his congregation, Rabbi Bohnen p_erson will explore the iss ues in spending' the first ten weeks or so remarked that a great many of the To Israeli Fate By Asimov more detail. in an Ulpan. For one who has changes are similar to those in the been using Hebrew for many country in general. He has no­ By PAULA TURANO Sister Gillen. a member of the years, this plan seemed rather as­ ticed, of course, a phenomenal in­ Society of the Holy C hild. is also tonishing, although we thought it .. If Israel can last 25 more crease in the number of broken years. the Arabs will lose. .. This executive director of the National might be due to a difference be­ fami lies and divorces. He feels Coalition of American Nuns. She tween the Hebrew used in the an­ was the prediction of Dr. Isaac that at one time, people would not is presently a Ph.D .•andidate in cient writings and in modern Is­ Asimov at a well attended lecture proceed wi th divorce hastily. but comparative religion from Dropsie rael. However, Rabbi Bohnen ex­ at Temple Sinai last Sunday night. would seek the advice of the rabbi The well known science fiction University in Philadelphia, Penn­ plained, \hat although he and Mrs. before doing anything. Now they sy lvania. Sister Gi ll en has studied Bohnen both speak Hebrew well, writer also linked the Middle East d o not consult the rabbi as much, war to the search for new energy in Israel, Greece and Mexico; they are not as fluent as they. although, he added, they may, per­ served as a journalist at the Synod would like to be. sources and called on the unlikely· haps, be seeing professional coun­ process of fu sion to end the Arab of the Bishops in Rome and repre­ Following the time at the Ulpan selors or psychiatrists .. sents the National Coalition of they had planned to stay in Je­ attacks. Also, of . course, there is the Fusion, he said, requires a Nuns with the Citizens Inquiry rusalem where they would audit great increase in the number of in­ Group to North Ireland. a recon­ some courses at Hebrew Univer- "non:geographic energy source, termarriages, which several years namely hydrogen from water, and ciliation venture. sity. ago were not so numerous as to be However, under the present cir­ can supply the energy needs of The conference is cosponsored considered of any danger to modern man for millions of cumstances, due to the war in the Judaism. He is certain that by the Jewish Community Center. Mid East, if they are allowed to years." With an energy source the National Conference of Chris­ Judaism will not disappear, as that does not favor any area of the travel to Israel (and according to many seem to fear, but he does tians and Jews and the Student the rabbi, if El -Al goes, they will earth, he said, because man has to Struggle for Soviet Jewry. feel that it may become a "water­ have water to live, so where there go) they will make themselves ed-do;.,n Judaism." available for volunteer work of is m4n there ls water, the Arabs would be possible by the year 2000 The workshop is open to all in­ The coming into existence of would lose their hold on the world· and suggested that the Jews of the terested people. Further informa­ any sort. This he feels takes prior­ t~e Stale of Israel, he says, solidi- ity at this time. because their oil would be _obso­ United States form lobbies to get tion may be obtained by calling A Sabbath Eve service in his (Continued on page 15) lete.