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6 THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE August 20, 1971 Washington A Between You and Me By Boris Smolar iiu i i i si i 1 Comment By JOSEPH POLAKOFF sisconsin Jewish (Bronicle NATHAN i. GOIXO. Editor 1920-1941 Office and Printing Plant: 340 N. Milwaukee St, Milwaukee, Wis. 53202 271-2992 Member of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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If requested by known writer, name will be omitted in published letters. All anonymous correspondence will be destroyed. Vol. 108 AUGUST 20, 1971 AV 20 No. 3 manitarian needs, and of the importance of meeting the needs of Jewish communities in other overseas lands.

He expects that the UJA campaign will bring close to $300 million in 1972 which is the same sum anticipated in 1971 the largest sum ever raised in any year in the past. Without saying so, the young-looking executive head of the UJA indicates that in his opinion there will be no going back in contributions to the UJA. This is because American Jewry has come to realize that it is now really and truly the "brother's keeper" of needy Jews throughout the world, whether through the Jewish Agency or through the Joint Distribu Critical Time for Partial Settlement in Suez Bernstein a man of their own. Having grown up with many of them in the field of social work, he is looked upon by them as a member of their intimate family of communal workers. This is no small asset to the UJA.

In the fund-raising campaigns of the UJA the personal friendship of the executive director in each community is as important as the good will of "big givers." It is the executive direc Senator Jacob K. Javits believes Personality Profile Meet Irving Bernstein, the able and amiable executive vice-chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. He is now the executive head of the UJA in the United States succeeding Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman who moved to Israel for settlement there. Rabbi Friedman, who currently also carries the title of executive vice-chairman, has long nurtured the dream of settling in Israel.

A man of vision and energetic action, he will conduct, the Israeli end of the UJA operations from new that "an imDortant section of tor that carries the burden of the day-to-day hard work in conducting the campaign in his com munity. Because of his close relationship with many of the executive heads of the communities, Mr. Bernstein, stepping into the new position, made it clear that he intends to open and maintain a new line of communications with the Congress feels this is a critical time for a partial settlement along the Suez Canal to keep the area in a relatively peaceful condition." Many on Capitol Hill "understand the importance" of the United States seeking to achieve an Israeli pullback in the Sinai Peninsula and a continuation of the cease-fire now in its second year, the progressive Republican from New York said. He pointed to the general thaw in East-West relations in Europe and the key place the Middle East beset by rebellions and unrest will again have in the United Nations this fall. "The idea for peace to be worked out is very much in the fore," he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an interview with regard to Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J.

Sisco's visit to Israel. Mr. Sisco returned Washington on August 6 after eight days of discussions in Israel in the State Department's continuing quest for an "interim settlement" along the waterway. port of Bar Gafgafa which Colonel Nasser used as a staging area from which he planned to launch his attack on Israel. "An Unmixed Blessing" Referring to a report that any initial agreement would include a continuation of the cease-fire for two or three years, Senator Javits remarked: "It would not be an unmixed blessing if all were in limbo for two or three years.

People can live with a standstill." Senator Javits, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, felt that the reported Sisco proposals would not be initially acceptable to Israel but he thought the Israeli Cabinet would be willing to discuss them further. The Cabinet, he thought, could "work out something" without jeopardizing Israel's security or its permanent position with regard to a final settlement with Egypt. "There might be a real crunch between the United States and Israel if Israel turned down the Sisco ideas completely," he predicted. But he added "even a turn-down would not be the last word. Its importance would be as an indicator of Israeli reaction to U.S.

proposals and an indication of our arms policy for Israel." tion Committee the two main partners in the UJA. All elements in American Jewry are now united in the UJA, sitting under one roof and aware of their obligations when it comes to aiding Jewish communities abroad. Mr. Bernstein is especially encouraged by the fact that the top leaders of the UJA campaign in New York and Los Angeles two communities that have especially distinguished themselves in the fund-raising drive this year have already indicated their readiness to remain at their leadership positions for 1972. He also lays great hope on Paul Zucker-man, the incoming national UJA chairman.

Mr. Zuckerman, a Detroit and national Jewish leader, is a man of great energy and strong dedication to the UJA ly established headquarters in Jerusalem. From time to time, he will visit the United States to lend a helping hand in the UJA campaign. Mr. Bernstein is different from all the former top executive officers of the UJA in that his predecessors came to their high positions in the UJA from other high posts.

He came from the UJA ranks. He has been with UJA since 1947 and started in field work with the smallest communities in the middle east. Some of these communities had only 2 or 3 Jewish families. He ascended higher and higher in the UJA system. From field representative he was elevated to the post of director of the West Coast Region.

In this position he executive directors in each community. His intention is to share with them in an informal way the problems and issues of various magnitudes that he will face in his daily work and to consult them, so as to have the benefit of their thinking on matters of mutual concern. This new approach will keep the executive heads in the communities closer to the "inner doings" in the UJA. It will give the executive directors the opportunity to express their views and to which he has exhibited for years Three With "Jewish Hearts" It is not for us to gloat that three Jewish men have recently been named to high appointive positions in the administration of important departments in our state. We are proud, of course, that Governor Patrick J.

Lucey has seen fit to select Philip E. Lerman and Burt Zien, both Milwaukeeans, and Robert Levine, a Madisonian, to guide and direct the functions of commissions which closely touch upon the present and future lives of Wisconsin men and women. Mr. Lerman's appointment as chairman of the Wisconsin Industry, Labor and Human Relations Department, was confirmed last week by the Wisconsin Senate. Mr.

Lerman brings to his post a rich background for an acute understanding of the importance of justice for the everyday man in his economic and civil life. His is a position which must muster qualities of the basic ingredients of the milk of human kindness and respect for human beings. Mr. Zien serves on the State Board of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education, a body similar to that of the regents of the State University system. In this position, Mr.

Zien and his colleagues, supervise all of the technical and vocational schools in the state; he represents employers. Education is the root from which sprouts the future of our young people. It is basic in moulding the calibre of our youth. Mr. Zien's contribution to this board will help shape the opportunity for education.

Mr. Levine becomes Wisconsin's Selective Service Director. In a world torn by strife and turmoil, young American men are called to put their lives on the altar of freedom and democracy. Who shall be called and why is a great social issue today and requires all the acumen and fairness it is possible to manifest. It is not an easy job dealing with the selection of those for Selective Service.

It touches the soul of all of us. Knowing these men intimately, we cannot help but praise Governor Lucey's decision to appoint them. They have been good choices, and we congratulate them and wish them Godspeed in their arduous days ahead. If there is such a thing as a "Jewish heart," as our rabbis tell us there is, then these three are well-equipped for their tasks. On behalf of the Jewish community of Wisconsin, we wish them good luck and wisdom in their work.

in most active work locally and nationally. Born in New York 50 years aeo. "Partial or Interim Settlement" Senator Javits spoke of a "partial settlement" as compared with Mr. Bernstein came from a family deeply interested in matters Jew served successfully for 12 years. He was then summoned to New York to become assistant executive vice-chairman which post he held for 8 years.

In 1969, he was named executive vice-chairman. An excellent administrator, he worked hand-in-hand with Rabbi Friedman. Doing a very efficient job, he nevertheless held himself always in the background. His modesty won him many friends among the top professionals in the communities throughout the Problems Executive directors in the Jewish communities consider Irving be au-courant of matters of special interest to them. It will establish a two-way line between him and those engaged in making the local fund-raising drives a success.

The 1972 Outlook Mr. Bernstein is very optimistic about the outlook for the 1972 UJA campaign of which he will be the chief engineer. He expresses his optimistic view in no uncertain terms. His optimism is based on his belief in the quality of the UJA leadership. He also believes strongly that the American Jewish community is now sure of itself, of its identification with Israel's hu ish.

He received his general education in the City College of New York and in Columbia University where he received his degrees. During 1942-45 he served with the U.S. Army and later in the New York City Department of Welfare. In the UJA, he led numerous study missions of American Jewish leaders to Israel, Iran, France and Germany. He also made special trips on behalf of the UJA to countries in Eastern the State Department's language of "interim settlement." Noting that the Egyptians "have set unacceptable conditions" for reopening of the strategic waterway, the 67-year-old New Yorker pointed out "the fact that Egypt is willing to talk about a partial settlement is reason for this (U.S.) activity." According to diplomatic and other sources, the principle of full withdrawal, which Egypt demands as part of an "interim settlement," was not among the Sisco proposals to the Israelis.

One source said Israel's withdrawal from most of Sinai would be in three stages spaced over an indeterminate US Prime Mover "The central theme," the Senator stressed, "is that the U.S. should maintain an arms balance and a diplomatic balance. The U.S. should be the prime mover in the settlement negotiations with the understanding that while we would use our good offices to brine about a settlement we would not press Israel to accept it at the price of running risks unacceptable to her." Referring to the "delicacy of the time" and "the need for the role of the U.S. to be truly that of an honest broker," Senator Javits emphasized that the U.S.

doctrine of arms balance is "the key to Europe, North Africa and Asia. As We Weire Saying By Robert E. Segal period. Another spoke of a two-stage withdrawal over two years. The parties would reiterate adherence of the 1967 Security Council resolution.

Israeli transit of the canal would be "provisionally granted" in principle by Egypt but implementation would be subject to a full settlement. Dare We Neglect Migrants? 14th amendments. Whence cometh help then? In March, President Nixon on a visit to Florida took note of what the freeze had done to the tomatoes and other crops and made a move to get a bit of relief for southern migrants. Recently, Governor William T. Cahill of New Jersey, where migrant conditions are deplorable, signed bills for a $1.50 minimum wage, requiring certification by the state for migrant crew leaders, provision of funds for Spanish-speaking interpreters, and improve me in drinking water and sanitation for the migrants.

Ford Earmarks Money The Ford Foundation has earmarked almost a million dollars to help finance housing and commu The U.S. is understood to favor Israeli transit when the canal is opened. In their approaches to an ini everything for peace." "There must be no question of the United States maintaining the arms balance during the partial settlement," he declared. The Senator said he was "worried" about the U.S. delay or suspension of deliveries of Phantom jets to Israel.

"I'm not pessimistic," he said, "but it is important to know how to proceed." Pointing to the continuous pouring of Soviet war supplies into Egypt including recent deliveries of troop-carrying helicopters and 90 of the latest type jet fighters, the Senator recalled the sinking of the Israeli destroyer in 1968 in the Mediterranean by Russian-made missiles fired from a Russian-made gunboat manned by Egyptians and observed: "No matter how brave the breast, it can't be naked." fits for migrants. How badly needed such legislation is can be seen in the fact that idealistic anti-poverty lawyers today are arrested for trespassing when they try to get near the migrants to examine working conditions. Throughout the sorry history of migratory labor in the United States, powerful farm blocs at both national and state levels have fought proposal after proposal for improving health, housing, sanita tial agreement, Egypt reportedly demanded that Israel's first withdrawal extend 90-130 miles from the canal while Israel supposedly Yuba City's disclosure of the largest multiple murder episode in American history has put the spotlight primarily on a suspect, Juan Corona, 37, farm labor contractor with a history of mental ailments and a predilection for reading the Bible. But the macabre crimes in California, where more than two dozen bodies were dug up, impels the spotlighting of a related scandal the exploitation and maltreatment of hundreds of thousands of migrants and other farm laborers. Why speak of this domestic shame when scores of more pressing issues disturb our sleep and plague our consciences? Because America's failure to deal justly spoke of 10 miles.

It was said that Mr. Sisco had suggested Israel's first withdrawal extend thirty kilometers east of Suez. This would allow Israel to retain Mitla Pass where Egypt suffered its heaviest ground force losses during its 1967 debacle and the air tion, wages, and working conditions of migrants. Medical studies have shown that life expectancy for migrants is 49 years, death through tuberculosis 200 per cent of the naitonal average, infant and maternal mortality 125 per cent of nity center programs for this neglected group. But these items of assistance are embarrassingly small when the magnitude of the scandal registers with us.

What a shame it is that it may take another Yuba City sensation to arouse the public to the necessity of producing a Bill Of Rights for Migrants. Some Economic Notes From Israel In 1952, Egypt's gross national The Arava "A Man-Made Miracle" American Jews familiar with Israel know of the Negev. While we have taken no sampling, it is probably safe to state that for every hundred persons who can identify the southern desert of Israel, not more than one or two could tell you what the Arava is. It is also a desert, stretching along the Jordanian border 115 miles from the Dead Sea south to the Red Sea port of Eilat. Retracting the Biblical route where Moses the Lawgiver is believed to have led the Israelite Exodus from Egypt thousands of years ago, young hardy Israelis are today establishing new farm settlements in the Arava Desert.

Historically, the Arava is glamorous and rich. It was the erstwhile area of Sodom and Gomorrha; the Queen of Sheba traversed it on her way to meet King Solomon; the Romans established fortified stations along the way to protect their trade. From the 7th Century on, however, until it became a part of the State of Israel in 1949, the Arava was desolate and empty except for the few Bedouin caravans which wended their way through the drifting sands to break the silence of the millenia. Thus, for centuries the dried-up river bed (which the Prophet Amos called "the river of the lay fallow until 1949, when the first farming efforts were undertaken. After many failures and disappointments, the Arava began to yield to the hand of the young Jewish settlers.

The warm winters permit growing of fruits, vegetables and flowers. Properly developed for cultivation, which meant control of flood waters, reduction of soil salinity and other agricultural projects, the Arava has become "a man-made miracle." Today there are eight villages in the Arava, and within three years six more are envisaged. The development of the Arava has become the 1971 central project of the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemath Leisrael), the 70th Ann iversary of the JNF. Some 30,400 dunams of land will be reclaimed which will extend old and establish new settlements. The Milwaukee Jewish community will help play a part in the development of the Arava this Wednesday evening, August 25, when a "nachlah" (a "belonging of will be set aside in tribute to Harry E.

Samson at a testimonial dinner at Cong. Beth El Ner Tamid. The "nachlah" is yet another step along the old caravan route which is being turned into a highway of progress. Letters to the Editor and mercifully with the defenseless, malnourished, marginal pickers of berries and diggers of potatoes is such a shameful record that no self respecting citizen dares look into it and continue proud of this bumbling, faulted, affluent society. Small Measure of Success A few weeks ago, Senator Walter F.

Mondale of Minnesota, conscientious chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Migrant Labor, said that two years of tireless effort to record legislative gains for or other foreign currency. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry's "Development plan for Manufacturing in Israel, 1969-75" anticipated that by 1975, total annual output of manufactured goods will reach IL 20,150, about 65 per cent more than in 1970. One of the problems facing Israel is a shortage of manpower. According to Mr. Sapir, Minister of Finance, immigration will be stepped up to 140,000 person a year.

Seven Arts migrant farmworkers have brought the national average. Yet the well-entranched and greedy forces profiting by the sweat of migrants have seen to it that the National Labor Relations Act does not cover them and that child labor laws have the kind of loopholes that enable migrants to take their children into the fields to work. 3-Year Old at Labor A recent study made by the American Friends Service Committee found one instance of a 3-year-old child at migrant labor. Another case history revealed that a number of children had been put on a single social security card. You do not have to go back and read "The Grapes of Wrath" to know the smell of despair and poverty characterizing migrants; the rock rides to work on rickety buses and trucks, the tendency of farm bosses to have migrants jailed on flimsy charges if they dare grumble about their plight.

Serfdom may not be the technically accurate term for the migrant situation; but some masters of these agricultural endeavors put to severe test our great anti-slavery guarantees the 13th, 14th, and Why Active Young People Editor: There is a segment of the Jewish community which is either neglected or sloughed off. It is the people ages 20-30. They are offered only one group for meeting other Jews of comparable age. This group indulges in cocktail parties and an occasional discussion. Isn't service a more fulfilling way of meeting people? I mean, it is important that we help others.

Every other group is becoming active in this field; why not this group of people? The Jewish population of Milwaukee consists of true young adults (20's and 30s) as well as teenagers and senior citizens. Isn't it time someone noticed? Yours sincerely, R. SOLQMON product was two and one-half times that of Israel ($2.6 billion, against $1.04 billion). However, last year the gap narrowed 14 per cent to $6.1 billion against $5.35 billion. On first blush, it would seem odd that Egypt's GNP is higher; the general impression is that it is lower, that the economy there is dragging and sluggish.

The difference in population makes more apparent the startling gap between what the two countries do for their people. In Egypt, the GNP per capita has increased 15 per cent in ten years from $157 in 1961 to $180 per capita. In Israel the increase was more than 50 per cent, from about $1155 in 1960 to nearly $1,750 in 1970. A survey of the Israel economic scene gives the picture of throbbing activity. The U.S.

Agency for International Development has approved a fifty million dollar loan to Israel to finance part of Israel's extensive housing program. In Haifa, a large floating dock, built by Israel Shipyards was recently delivered to its buyers in Greece for $4.4 million. Elsewhere, one firm alone has exported 350 million pencils. Two Holiday Inns will be built in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. This is not part of the hous painfully small measure of success.

One of the most powerless groups in the nation the children, their parents and uncles and cousins who toil for a pittance in an atmosphere of neglect is pitted against one of the most powerful American units, the Big Business Farmers with annual income estimated at more than $4,000,000,000. If Senator Mondale had his way, he would set aside at least 2 per cent of all future migrant farmworker legislative appropriations for lawyers' fees. This might achieve some acceptance of law governing wages and simple bene Why is the tradition of counting the days and weeks between the Passover and Shevuouth Festivals known by the name of The word "Omer" refers to the sheaf of barley which was offered on the first night after the first day of Passover. It was exactly at this time that the count began and the count is always reckoned from the day the barley offering was made in the ancient temple. It is, therefore, referred to as the counting of the "Omer" which really meant to say that it is the count which began when the "Omer" was offered.

Three Special Verses Why are three special verses from the Bible recited by the worshipper before leaving the Learn the great art of being ing program but will accommodate more tourists and bring in dollars I small. Brenner a Jewish Distress, Wherever It Occurs It is difficult to conceive, in the affluent society in which Jews play a large part, that many of their co-religionists are poor. The Association of Jewish Anti-Poverty Workers have reported on a six-week investigation of poverty programs under federal auspices in which it was shown that poor Jews were not getting their "fair share" in such programs. There are two elements in this situation: first, that there had been physical violence against Jews seeking to vote in anti-poverty elections. This, of course, is a government matter; it concerns the Office of Economic Opportunity and the general, legal arms which should see to it that not only should there be a fair share, but fair play.

The head of the Association, formed about a year and a half ago, S. El ly Rosen, has said that "officialdom could not care less" about this situation, but he warned that Jews would "no longer tolerate discrimination and tokenism The second, rather shocking phenomenon is that Jews constitute the third largest poverty group after the blacks and Puerto Ricans. This stands in sharp contrast to the stereotype of the affluent Jew. It is conceivable that, on the legal level, the proper organizations and authorities can correct the situation. As regards poor Jews, it is odd that the Jewish organizations seem more concerned with big issues, like the Middle East, like the Soviet Union, etcetra.

Important as these matters are and they do require immediate attention there is also the old saying about "Charity beginning at home." We should not ignore the one for the other. In conscience and with concern, the deplorable situation attending Jewish poverty and distress needs to be alleviated, wherever it occurs. The Jewish Defense League is as foreign to Jewish ideology and Jewish thinking as any organization motivated by violent action. This organization is as phony as its leader who slyly hoodwinks people to believe that the eye for an eye doctrine is still in vogue. I vehemently deny this man is a rabbi of our Jewish group.

He has linked himself with the sicarii of ancient Israel and is not beyond stabbing his own people in the back with his actions, his desire for publicity, and the consternation he brings to the Jewish citizens. His few misguided followers believe violence is an answer. They should realize that violence brings reaction and recrimination and disaster far beyond the temporary gains of front page items and mugging before the camera. To the wary as well as the misguided a word of caution. The reactionary movements have come into existence for the personal aggrandizements of its leaders; for the financial gains they reap.

We Jews pride ourselves on a culture built on a foundation of idealistic life based upon brotherhood, justice and understanding. Let us continue to pursue that elusive goal which seems far away at this time. Let us not fall into the trap of the demagogue, the man who shouts so loudly we cannot hear what he says. The JDL, like the KKK or the Black Panthers or the syndicalists, has its foothood in the same fear psychosis. We all stand for law and order.

We must have law and order we cannot permit any one group to destroy that concept. DAVE WHITE, Jewish Herald Voice, Houston synagogue? The first of these verses came from the Book of Proverbs and tell the worshipper "not to be afraid of sudden terror" (Proverb The second comes from the Book of Isaiah indicating that the counsel which the enemies of Israel take together will be of no avail (Isaiah The third verse also comes from Isaiah and encourages the worshipper telling him not to be afraid of sudden fright because the Almighty will always be at his side (Isaiah Some commentaries trace these to the experience of Mor-decai who was threatened by the villain Hainan with extinction both for him and his people. On going out in the street he met three children, asking each of them to recite some verse in the Bible. The three children recited the aforementioned three verses. It is quite possible that these three verses are the ones that are recited before leaving the synagogue beacuse the synagogue represented a protected and sheltered environment for the Jew while the outside world was full of threats from anti-Semites.

The rabbis wanted the Jew to carry the confidence of the synagogue and his faith with him in the outside world and thus they ordained that these verses be recited before leaving the synagogue. The Jewish Calendar EDITORIAL EXCHANGE Holidays Jewish Date 5732 Tishri 1-2 Civil Date 1971 September 20-21 Rosh Hashanah We Are An Idealistic People The headline read: "New League Motto: 'Every Jew a The difficulty is in making non-Jews understand that this is neither Jewish nor acceptable to the greatest number of Jews. The holidays listed above always begin at sundown of the day before the date given above. NOTE: Reform congregations observe only the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Succoth, Shimini Atzereth, Passover (and the seventh day), and Shevuoth. 7 The first day a guest; the a burden; the third, a pest..