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Boycott Action Passes House
jess jaivin
MITVZAH CORPS
$ Texas Jewish Post $
Reform Jewish Teenagers are doing more than talking about
improving the world they Jive in, they’re actually doing some-
thing about it — with good deeds of action.
The Mitzvah Corps, the well known group of Jewish teen-
agers affiliated with the Union of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions will operate for the first time in Mexico and Israel this
summer.
In Mexico, they will help Mexican-Indian Jews in the vil-
lage of Venta Prieta, which includes a group of Indian-Jews a-
Jnong its 400 inhabitants.
In the village 20 Mitzvah Corps members will freshen and
embellish the interior of the 54-seat synagogue and landscape the
surrounding area; build an addition and reinforce the synagogue’s
unfinished social hall; teach English and Hebrew to Imdiari-Jew-
ish children; serve as assistant teachers in the village school;
train children to sing from the prayer book.
Tn the Holy Land, 20 Mitzvah Corps members will live for
seven and one-half weeks with Israeli families. They will work
in preparing the site for the new Leo Baeck School, a liberally'
oriented educational institution, in Tirat Ha’Carmel, a village
near Haifa. They will also teach English to immigrant children,
study Hebrew and tour the land of Israel.
Simultaneously, 15 members of the Second Annual NFTY
Torah Corps will spend the summer studying Bible, Hebrew,
participate in an archeological expedition and touring the coun-
try. They too, will live with Israeli families.
Members of the Mitzvah Corps will work and live with Puerto
Rican villagers erecting hurricane-proof houses, teaching English
and serving the community. This is the third year of work in
Puerto Rico. Sixteen youths will participate.
The U. S. will have five domestic Mitzvah Corps; in New
York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Youngsters will work as extra
hands for a full eight hour day, five days a week, with various
community settlement houses.
.Establishing a precedent. 12 young men and women will work
on the1 lower East Side with the Educational Alliance. For the
second year, 15 Mitzvah Corps Men and Women will aid the
numerous programs of the Goddard-Riverside Community Cen-
ter on the West Side, working among underprivileged Negroes
and Puerto Ricans.
Also a first, a Mitzvah Corps of 12 youngsters will further
the work of the Chicago Housing Authority. They will live and
study at a fraternity house at the University of Chicago under
the faculty supervision of Rabbi and Mrs. Mark Shapiro. Rabbi
Shapiro is the spiritual leader of B’nai Jehoshua, Chicago.
The NFTY summer camp in Warwick," N. Y., was recently es-
tablished, and at a camp in Oconomowac, Wisconsin, 70 young-
sters will spend six weeks as part of the “Torah Corps” _ an
intensive program of Jewish learning, guided by rabbinic scho-
lars.
In addition to this Warwick camp, and Camp Saratoga, Cali-
fornia, NFTY will conduct a‘“Hagigah”-— an arts festival. Tal-
ented youngsters will translate thfe cultural and religious heri-
tage of Judaism into drama, music, dance, art and literature.
Overseas, two NFTY groups will tour Europe, Israel, visit-'
ing Jewish communities in England, Italy, France, the Nether-
lands and Israel.tThey will study the historic past of Rome, Greece
and the land of the Bible,
Mitzvah Corps is a project of the National Federation of
Temple Youth.
These fine young men and women are to be commended for
their compassion for their fellowmen. They also deserve a word
of praise for having the initiative and industry to get up and do
something to relieve the plight of the poverty and illiteracy.
We take note of their fine achievements and wish them God-
speed and Mazle (luck) on the journeys they have charted.
We’re optimistic that they will reach their destinations and
achieve tncir i.niqatprv goals
«Al--f<ven Aria Featuica
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Dedicated to T-u;H, Liberty and Justice
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IN OUR NINETEENTH YEAR
VOjLUME XIX NO. 24
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1965 16 PAGES—15c PER COPY
BipartisanCriticsChargeConcession
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The House of Representatives
has adopted a compromise amendment to the Export
Control Act to oppose the Arab boycott, after hours of
bitter debate. Republicans and some Democrats maintained
during the debate that the compromise was a concession
to the State Department that
would allow the Executive De-
£artment to evade implementa-
tion of the
measure.
The adopted
measure, known
as the Multer-
Halpem Amend-
ment, was work-
ed out by the
White House
.. „ , with the chair-
Mr.IIalpern man of the
House Committee on Banking and
Currency, the chairman of the
Subcommittee which held hear-
ings on the bill, and by Rep.
Abraham Multer, New York
Democrat, and Rep. Seymour
Halpern, New York Republican.
On the floor of Congress, how-
ever, an unexpected event oc-
curred when the Committee’s
ranking Republican, Rep. William
Widnall of New Jersey, said that
the Republicans were not bound
by any compromise and indicated
Rep. Halpern had acted in his
own behalf.
Rep. Widnall took the posi-
tion that the compromise took
the teeth out of the original
anti-boycott measure and made
implementation dubious. He
proposed a stronger substitute,
reverting to the original mea-
sure advocated by many Sub-
committee members, but the
substitute was voted down by
a vote of 96 to 64.
The need for a measure strong-
er than the substitute was
stressed in addresses by Repub-
licans John Lindsay and Ogden
Reid of New York, the latter be-
ing the former U.S. Ambassador
to Israel.
Mr. Reid said that Congress
should not be "faint-hearted,” be-
cause the Arab boycott is repug-
nant and should use strong and
definitive language in opposing
it.
The policy voiced in the Act
would "oppose restrictive trade
practices or boycotts fostered
or imposed by foreign countries
against other countries friendly
to the United States, and to en-
courage and request domestic
sources engaged in the exports
of articles, materials or supplies .
or technical data, to refuse to
take any action, including the
furnishing of information or the
signing of agreements which
have the effect of furthering or
supporting the restrictive trade
practices or boycotts fostered
or imposed by any foreign coun-
try against another country
friendly to to the United States.”
The Republican substitute mea-
sure offered by Rep. Widnall call-
ed for the mandatory prohibition
of the furnishing by American
firms of boycott information, to
the Arabs.
• IN WORLD STRUGGLE
Sen. McGee Cites Israel-Schepps Example For Peace
Gold Medallion Honoree Julius Schepfls (J) and Sen. Gale McGee
Sen. Gale McGee (D-Wyo.)
Tuesday night deplored those
who become miffed when United
Staes foreign policy is criticized
and who think we must present
excuses for our actions.
Speaking at B’nai Brith’s Dis-
trict 7 convention at the Dallas
Sheraton Hotel, which saw the
elevation of Milton T. Smith of
Austin to the district presidency,
the Wyoming Senator empha-
sized that the U.S. “can afford
to be sophisticated in its foreign
polioy not to need the threat of
Communism or armed conflict
as a reason for taking action a-
broad. The only reason the U-
nited States needs for justify-
ing any step it takes abroad is
that its right.”
Using Israel as an example,
McGee told the 300 delegates at
the. banquet that was the scene
for the presentation of the Gold
Medallion BB Award to Julius
Schepps, that Israel v,on its in-
dependence “by the sword” but
it uses no political, social or ec-
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Dr. Willis Tate To Address
ANNUAL MEETING SET FOR JUNE 23
The Annual Meeting of the Dal-
as Jewish Welfare Federation will
je held this year on Wednesday,
lune 23 at 6:30 P.M. at the
Columbian Club of Dallas accord-
ing to the Chairman of the Plan-
ling Committee, Sol Levine and
lis Co-Chairmen, 1964 Young
Leadership award winners, Mrs.
Fred Ablon, Mrs. A1 Leviton, Mor-
ton Rachofsky and Ronald Weiss.
At the meeting, the election of
lew Board members to succeed
those members whose terms expire
this year will take place. The
entire Federation membership is
eligible to vote upon the Board
DR. WILLIS M. TATE
candidates for JWF and its affili-
ates, Jewish Family Service and
the Julius Schepps Community
Center.
Featured speaker for the even-
ing will be Dr. Willis M. Tate,
President of Southern Methodist
University. Though Dr. Tate was
bom in Colorado, he spent prac-
tically his entire life in Texas.
He is an alumnus of SMU, taking
his Bachelor of Arts degree in
1932 and his Master of Arts in
sociology in 1935.
Dr. Tate has done additional
graduate work at The University
! of Texas and at the University of
SOL LEVINE
Chicago. He holds honorary de-
grees from Texas Wesleyan Col-
lege, Centenary College, The Uni-
versity of Denver, Oklahoma City
University and The University of
Tulsa.
Dr. Tate joined the SMU staff as
assistant dean of students in 1945.
Three years later he was appointed
dean of students and in 1950 he
was made vice president in charge
of development and public rela-
tions. In 1954, Dr. Tate was
unanimously elected president to
succeed Dr. Umphrey Lee.
Dr. Tate has long been active
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