The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1969 Page: 1 of 14
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Eban To Visit United States; Will
Confer With Government Officials
1969 UNITED JEWISH CAMPAIGN EXCEEDS LAST
YEAR’S TOTAL; STILL SHY OF GOAL; CHAIRMAN
URGES VOLUNTEERS TO INCREASE EFFORTS
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Eshkol; Funeral Ceremonies Last Friday
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Annual Purim Ball To Attract Large
turbaned Sephardic
rabbis, tourists, laborers in
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twelve year history this Saturday
night,” reports Leon Cooper,
president of the Marcus
Levinson Zionist District,
sponsors of the Purim Ball. He
also said that Pincus Juran and
every member has been working
harder than ever before to
present an entertaining and
exciting evening for all those
attending the Purim Ball.
The Ball, known to be the
outstanding event of the season,
is anxiously awaited all year. It
will take place this Saturday
night, March 8, in the Texas
Room of the elegant Houston
Club. This year will be a first for
those attending the dance. A
gourmet midnight breakfast will
be served, and dancing will be
provided by Bobby Tinterow
and his orchestra.
“There is no better way to
c elebrate Purim than spending
the evening with your friends at
this exciting event,” said Mr.
Cooper. “You can join the
festivities by purchasing your
ticket for $7.50 per person from
any member of Marcus Levinson
LEON COOPER
Zionist District. This one price
includes dancing, the midnight
breakfast, set-ups and no tips. It
is an evening of enjoyment for
ail."
Don’t forget to call Leon
Cooper, 667-6274, or Mrs.
Eugene Brown, 665-2648, for
table reservations. Invite your
friends and make up a table.
See you Saturday night at the
Purim Ball in the Houston Club!
Report Current That Iraq Plans To
Execute Another Group of Prospects
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(JTA)—Reports circulated here
The 1969 United Jewish
Campaign totals have gone above
last- year’s total contributions
according to Adolph O.
Susholtz, general chairman. “We
have topped the 1968 figures,”
chairman Susholtz said, “but we
are still some distance from our
goal of $1,870,000.”
He continued his statement
by saying: “We have really had a
shot in the arm by the fantastic
results obtained by the newly
organized Metropolitan Division
led by Leon Samet and his
co-chairmen, Jack Berger and
Leon Mucasey.”
The 1969 effort is far from
completed. More than $200,000
in un worked cards are still in the
hands of the volunteers. Most of
the Divisions have not been able
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now getting ready to move into
an intense finale.
Chairman Susholtz also
pointed up the work of the
Women’s Division and said: "I
know that when the Women’s
Metropolitan Division gets on
the phone this Sunday, they will
equal the Men’s Divisional effort
and perhaps even surpass that
grand total.”
INGREASES REPORTED BY
WOMEN'S DIVISION
Division heads, in reporting
on the totals achieved to date,
indicate that the response has
been more favorable than last
year. “Donors are aware of the
situation at home and abroad.
UI The mourners included many
leaders but it was mostly the
plain people who came—young
office girls in mini-skirts and old
wmen in '
whispering
dignified
when leaders headed by
President Shazar and delegations
from abroad set out for the
Knesset Plaza shortly after
dawn. They included the
President of the Bundesrat, West
German’s Upper House, Prof.
Herbert Weichmann, and Robert
Finch, the American Secretary
of Health,. Education and
Welfare. Six Major Generals of
Israel, the commanders of the
Navy and Air Force, approached
the coffin. Sixty officer
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Jerusalem, Mar. 2
(JTA)—Foreign Minister Abba
Eban will fly to Washington
sometime after March 9 for an
expected meeting with Secretary
of State William P. Rogers and
possibly with President Richard
M. Nixon, it was disclosed
today—ME Eban’s visit, though-
officially described as involving
speeches to American Jewish
organizations, was viewed here
as having an urgent diplomatic
nature. He intends to place
Israel’s position in the Middle
East conflict clearly before the
top officials of the U.S.
Government at a time when the
Nixon administration is about to
crystallize its views on various
world problems, among them
the Middle East. U.S. officials
said in Paris before President
by Israel’s Foreign Minister
Abba Eban in Jerusalem. Mr.
Eban, citing informed sources,
said three Jews were among
those scheduled for the noose
Tuesday marks the Jewish
festival of Purim, celebrating the
rescue of Persian Jewry from
annihilation.
The reports of impending new
hangings here came from various
diplomatic sources. The
informants, who remained
anonymous, said that, as in the
previous hangings in Iraq, the
victims had been convicted by a
military tribunal of spying on
behalf of “Israel, Zionism and
imperialism.'” On Jan. 27, 14
Iraqis were executed in Baghdad
and Basra, and their bodies were
displayed in public. Nine were
Jews. Eight more persons, non
Jews, were executed on Feb. 20.
The first executions brought
widespread criticism from
Western countries, UN Secretary
General U Thant, Pope Paul VI,
Jewish organizations, and even
admonitions to Iraq from several
Arab governments.
= The summary executions of
the alleged spies and the brutal
display of their corpses created a
wave of revulsion that was
believed in some quarters to
have had political effects on the
Baghdad regime. Several news
reports following the Jan. 27
hangings said that Iraq had
released some Jews held in
prison. These reports were
denied last week by Rabbi
Herschel Schacter, chairman of
the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations. Speaking at a
memorial service for the victims,
he said that “reliable sources
reveal that the tragic status of
Jews in Iraq, Egypt and Syria
remains unchanged.” He claimed
that “hundreds of Jews are still
languishing in prison for no
other crime whatever other than
that they are Jews.”
Knesset Plaza for a full day I
before the interment and nearly * I
300,000 Israelis passed by it in |
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for a minimum giving, but a
really maximum effort. A
number of individuals are
extending themselves to aid in
whatever way they can. This has
been a good campaign.” This
was the observation of a veteran
of many past Campaigns and an
active volunteer for the past
twenty years.
The Youth Division is on the
ball for the coming two weeks
and lending every effort to make
the 1969 Campaign a memorable
one for themselves and for the
community. The Out-of-Town
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yesterday that Iraq will hang
seven more men tomorrow or
Tuesday—at least two or three of
Kallahof Texas Rabbis
To Meet la Galvesion
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The 28th Annual Convention
of the Kallah of Texas Rabbis
will be held in Galveston, March
11 and 12. Rabbi Norman
Lamm of the Jewish Center in
New York City will be the guest
lecturer.
Rabbi Lamm, a renowned and
widely acclaimed leader of
American Orthodox Jewry, is
Professor of Jewish philosophy
at Yeshiva University and the
author of a number of works,
the most recent of which is “A
Hedge of Roses: Jewish Insights
into Marriage and Married Life.”
He was the founder and first
editor of Tradition, a Journal of
Orthodox Jewish Thought.
Dr. Lamm will deliver three
lectures: “The Head and the
Heart: The Relative Roles of
Prayer and Study in Judaism”;
“The Confrontation of Judaism
and Secularism! and “The
Ethics of Protest.”
Dr. Raphael S. Schwartzman,
rabbi of the United Orthodox
Synagogues of Houston and
immediate past president of the
Kallah, will lecture on “Organ
Transplants,” and present the
“President’s Plaque” to outgoing
president, Rabbi Louis Firestcin,
of Austin.
The Kallah of Texas Rabbis
was first convened by the late
Rabbi Abraham I. Schechter on
March 28, 1927, in Houston.
The Kallah has a two-fold
purpose: to encourage Jewish
scholarship among its members,
and to support and enlarge the
Abraham I. Schechter Collection
of Judaica and Hebraica which it
established in 1939, at the
Library of the University of
Texas, in tribute to the memory
of its founder.
to complete their prospect lists They realize that increases in
and several of the Divisions are operating costs have to be met.
They know that emergencies
exist this year that did not exist
last year. The call to them is not
that there would be more
bilateral talks on the Mideast
with Britain, France and the
Soviet Union to set up ground
rules for a Four Power
conference on tensions in the
region. Secretary of Sute Rogers
was expected to meet “very
-soon* with Suski AtHbassagirt
Anatoly Dobrynin in
Washington on the subject.
Reports from Paris said that
President Nixon had agreed with
President Charles de Gaulle of
France on Four Power talks to
be held within a United Nations
framework.
Israel Government sources
noted in connection with
Foreign Minister Eban’s
Washington visit that the late
Premier Levi Eshkol had been
scheduled to go to the U.S.
sometime this spring for a
meeting with President Nixon
and other U.S. officials. Mr.
Eshkol’s visit was originally to
have taken place last fall as a
farewell call on President
Johnson and a meeting with the
then President-elect Nixon. That
visit was called off reportedly
for reasons of health.
overalls, cassocked priests, Arabs
in traditional garb and army
officers in dress uniform. A few
Arabs from East Jerusalem and
the occupied areas also came.
Two of their leaders—Jordan’s
former Defense Minister Anwar
Nuseibeh and Hebron Mayor
Sheikh Mohammed Ali
Jasbari—publicly expressed
sorrow over Mr. Eshkol’s death.
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