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• ADL’s ANNIVERSARY
The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rit'h now celebrating
its 50th Anniversary had the distinguished honor of being ad-
dressed by the President of the United States January 31. (See
Story-Page 1)
President Kennedy spoke of the great heritage of the A-
merican Way and lauded ADL and B’nai BTith for their remark-
able contributions in helping to secure rights for all citizens,
regardless of their religious or racial background.
The greatest testimony for and to ADL is t<he fact that it is
not resting on its laurels. It is not an “In Name Only” organi-
zation.
I
The Anti-Defamation League is a vital, working force,
pledged to combat injustice, prejudice and falsehoods.
Especially illustrative of this dynamic purpose is the re-
lease of a report on discrimination in college fraternities. ADL
says that discrimination in fraternities is kept going by old
graduates who are “Defenders of the system.”
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IN OUR SEVENTEENTH YEAR
VOLUME XVII NO, 6 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1963 12 PAGES-2 SECTIONS-15c PER COPY
U. N. Body Starts Discussion
On Elimination Of Discrimination
Of course, “the system’
membership.
bar Jews and others from
However, since the end of World War II, there has been
steady improvement in relaxing the barriers of admittance.
Tnis is due to pressures applied to the fraternity’s backers
from undergraduates and college administrators. The situation
though better than decades ago is still a long haul from “demo-
cracy on the campus.”
Another special study released at last week’s meeting was
the report made on Dr. Judah J. Harris’ notable 3-year research
effort on “The Treatment of Religion in Elementary School So-
cial Studies Textbooks.”
The study ^sought to answer the following main ques-
tions:
—Are textbooks for elementary schools sectarian in their
outlook?
—How do textbooks present the role of religion in the past
and in contemporary society?
—How are religious conflicts and persecutions treated?
The conclusion revealed:
1. Textbook authors show anti-Catholic bias. In their treat-
ment of the Reformation, many anti-Protestant measures or per-
secutions are detailed but similar steps taken by Protestants
are not discussed. The Reformation is presented as a battle in
which the forces of good freed themselves from the forces of
evil rather than as a product of the peculiar social and political
conditions of the time. f ,
2. Textbooks as a whole neglect Jewish history and Judaism
after the Bible period—modern Jewish contributions to our society
are largely ignored. In addition, the relationship of Jesus to
the Jews is often portrayed in a manner too superficial to dis-
pel misconceptions underlying anti-Semitism.
3. While the textbooks studied stress the importance of re-\
ligion as a motivating force in past history, they treat contem-
porary religion as being primarily a matter of church-going,
with a limited role in welfare services and character education.
The study said that Judiasm is often treated in textbooks as
“being outdated, having exhausted its contributions in the Bib-
lical period.”
Samuel Dalsimer, chairman of ADL’s program committee,
declared the study found that the treatment of religious persecu- j
tions is “either simplified or ignored to such a degree that young
Americans never have a chance to learn about the need for
improving interreligious attitudes.”
The study showed only five of the eleven texts that dis-
cussed Hitler and Nazism mentioned the subject of persecution
of Jews. Of these five, one offered no indication at all as to!
whether Hitler’s policy was moral or not.
The reseacher round that textbooks present persecution as
“the characteristic element” of Jewish history for the past 2,500
years. However, the persecution of nondewish groups was treated
in an entirely different fashion—as just one factor in the over-
all development of religious groups which were also related to
their culture and contributions.
Treatment of the persecution of groups other than Jews was
also found wanting. The report said that textbook treatment ol
the Crusades usually stressed the misdeeds of Moslems, without
saying anything at all about reciprocal persecution, and that text-
book coverage of the Inquisition and the Reformation generally
pictured Catholics “as the agents of reaction and Protestants as
exclusive advocates of enlightenment.”
ADL said its report was released to “stimulate improve-
ment of the treatment of religion as history” in elementary school
books so that American youth “may have better understanding
of our culture and a better background for the solution of inter-
group tensions.”
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. vored such separation because
(JTA) — The United Nations d expects strong charges against
Subcommission on Prevention oi the Soviet treatment of Jews
Piscifhni a' ion an/: i-rotestion and hopes that the issue of re-;
of Minorities—which last week ligious discrimination would not
adopted a report upholding the reach the Subcommission at its
right of everyone to leave any present session, which was to
country, including his own — crude on February 1. Jewish
Jan. 23 stariect consideration organizations have prepared
of a draft declaration on the data on the suppression of Jew-
e imination of ail forms of ra- ish religion in the Soviet Un-j
cial discrimination. ion and other forms of anti-
Originaliy, the Subcommission Jewish discrimination practiced
v/as to discuss not only racial in the USSR for argumentation
but also religious discrimination, at the Subcommission if the sub-
However, under pressure from ject of religious discrimination
delegations from a number of is taken up.
under-developed countries that Italy, France, Chile and
are primarily interested in eli- Poland Present Joint
mination of racial discriimina- R e commendations
tion, the problem of racial bias The draft declaration on the
was taken up as a separate item, elimination of all forms of rac-
with the problem of religious ial discrimination which, the 12-
dis^rimination to follow. member Subcommission took up
The Soviet delegation also fa- was proposed jointly by repre-
• ISRAELIMLLITARY LEADER DUE IN FORT WORTH—
Fort Worth Women To Kick-Off Federation
Fund Campaign Feb. 13 At Shady Oaks
(entatatives of Italy, France,
Chile and Poland. It is composed
of the following articles:
“1. Any theory of differenta-
tion between races or racial sup-
eriority is scientifically fallse,
moralty reprehensible, socially
unjust and dangerous. Nothing
can justify racial discriminauon,
in theory or in practice.
“2. Racial discrimination, in
whatever form and irrespective
of the individuals or groups
against whom it is directed, is
an offense against human dig-
nity, a flagrant violation of the
charter, of the United Nations
and a denial of the fundamental
human rights proclaimed by the
Universal Declaration.
“3. Racial discrimination is a
negation of the social nature of
man, who can develop his per-
sonality to the full only through
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Colonel Yoseph Nevo, one of state of Israel. After the state
Israel’s outstanding military, of Israel was established Col-
leaders and currently comman-' onel Nevo was called to full-
der of the Jerusalem District, | Lime duty by the High Command
will be guest speaker at the of the Haganah and he fought
Advance Gifts Brunch of the i
Women’s Campaign of the Fort HP*
Worth Jewish Federation. The
affair is scheduled for Febru-
ary 13 at 11 A.M. at Shady Oaks
Country Club.
Born in Chattanooga, Tenn. in
1919, he was brought to pre- lit
state Palestine at the age of '****
three by parents who settled in
that country as pioneers. Like
most of Israel’s present day lead-
ers, he attended the famed Her-
zlia High School and later en-
rolled at the Hebrew University.
A member of the Haganah, Col-
onel Nevo took part in defending
Jewish settlements during the
Arab disturbances of 1936 and
1939. In 1940 he volunteered
for the Jewish Unit which later
became the Jewish Brigade fight-
ing with the British armed for-
ces in Europe and the Middle
East.
COLONEL YOSEPH NEVO
throughout the war of Indepen-
On demobilization in 1948 he dence. He later served as Is-
was accepted as a student at rael’s senior consul in New York
the Institute of Political Science and in Canada from 1949 until
conducted by the Jewish Agen-'1954, at which time he rejoined
cy’s Political Department to the Israel Army of Defense as
train diplomats for the future Chief of Planning. He also serv-
ed as Commander of the South-
ern Area (the Negev) before
taking over his present duties
in the Jerusalem District. ,
Mrs. David Eisenman, Wo-
men’s Division Campaign Chair-
man, explained that the annual
Federation drive supports more
than one hundred health and
welfare agencies on a regional,
national, and international bas^s.
The Advance Gifts committee
is headed by Mrs. Harold Freed
and her co-chairmen are Mrs.
Maurice Cohn and Mrs. Louis
Daiches. Mrs. Harry Teter is in
charge of arrangements and Mrs.
Louis Bockstein will decorate
for the brunc'h.
Mrs. Freed’s committee in-
clude the following women:
Mmes. Morris Antweil, Louis
Barnett, Ella Brachman, Frank
Cohen, Jack Gachman, Arthur
Ginsburg, Louis Ginsburg Mar-
cus Ginsburg, Mickey M. Gold-
mas, I. E. Horwitz, A. Hasten-
baum, Milton Korman, Leo Lip-
shitz, Sam Lipshitz, Morris Lip--
shitz, Henry Mack, Sophie Mil-
ler. Maurice Rabinowitz, George
Rashti, Ben Rosenthal, E. M.
Rosenthal, Ben Rubin, Harry
Rubin, Ike Sandler, Richard U.
Simon, Herbert L. Tuchin, and
Jerome Wolens.
Southwest Council UAHC Meets In Memphis This Weekend
Lay and rabbinic leaders of
the Southwest Council of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations will gather this week
for a three-day Biennial Con-
vention, February 8-10, In Mem-
phis, Tennessee, to formulate
.^/ans tio i^mld the religioi
movement and review problems
of mutual concern.
The Southwest Region repre-
sents 66 Reform temples in Ark-
ansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, and
Western Tennessee. The UAHC
is the congregational body of
645 Reform temples in the Uni-
ted States, Canada, Panama, and
the Dutch West Indies, with
membership over one million.
Headquarters are located at the
UAHC House of Living Judaism,
833 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.
The Southwest Region office
A located at 3939 Inwood Road,
Dallas. Rabbi Solomon
Kahn Kaplan will serve as the
first full-time director of the Re-
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Kennedy Lauds ADL As He Gets ‘Democratic Legacy’ Award
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Pre-
coveted “America’s Democratic bating discrimination, and other
Legacy Award.” The occasion j steps to promote freedom.
burden, but a privilege to have i eluding Vice President Johnson,
a chance in 1963 to share that members of the Supreme Court
marked the President’s first ap- Precident Kennedy commend great concept which they felt and members of the Cabinet—
nearance m nerson on the nlat- rre-iaent ixe meay commend — „n ot+onHoH tr,cro+Kor with B’nai
pearanee in person on the plat-' riKSlueui lve meay cummeiiu- deeply amQng all of our peo- , attended, together with B’nai
form of a Jewish organization ed the Anl:i-De amation League j ple to make this really, as it B’rith and ADL leaders from all
White for tire.ess p i - iil of equality was for them a new world, a over the country.
since he
House.
entered the
of treatment Ur U Americans” new world fo’r us and, indeed, |
sident Kennedy voiced high
praise last week for the Bnai
B’rith’s Anti-Defamation League
for its half-century of devotion
to highest American principles
of equality and freedom of all
dedicated itself for 50 years ! In Presenting the award, Mr. and a lasting and substantial (for those who look t0 us» Tne .event was featured over
to the cause for which all of Sehialtz: cited the President’s j contribution to our democrary. coast-to-coast television with a
America has stood for the last firm stand for separation of. He said the founders of the de- Mr. Kennedy added that that; full-hour broadcast over CBS-
200 years ” church from state, persistent op-1 mocratic legacy of this country was w'hat the ADL “has stood i TV. The program was entitled
position to forces of the ex-! were animated by a sense of for, for 50 years—that is what “Dinner With the President.”
Mr. Kennedy’s praise of ADL tremes of left and right, ex- ' commitment to test the capaci-j this country has stood for 200 Puhtzer Prize-winner Mark Van
took place here at a dinner cele- pansion of equal employment op- ties of men for self-government years, and that is what this Doren wrote the script which
brating ADL’s 50th anniversary, portunities through the federal, and political liberty available country will continue to stand depicted the American effort for
where Henry Edward Schultz, establishment, denunciation of J to all the people. He said this for.” i democracy, freedom and equa-
rational chairman of ADL, pre- outrages perpetrated against i was “a great inheritance.” I Leading personages of all lity through folk songs and bal-
sented to the President ADL’s minorities, executive orders com-1 think,” he stated, “it is not a branches of Government — in- let.
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