ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE SOVIET UNION

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ?SENATE 18673
Someday, I hope, we shall return to
the maxim that it is best to deal with
tyrants at arm's length and to shun of-
ficial invitations and the conviviality of
social functions because, whether we
will it or not, these inevitably imply ac-
ceptance of approbation of their regimes.
I am under no illusions. I do not ex-
pect any immediate change in policy
in response to the statement I have made
today. However, conscience compels me
to speak out publicly. I do so in the
knowledge that there are millions of
Americans who think as I do, and in the
conviction that ultimately the validity of
the position I have here outlined will be
accepted by those in charge of our for-
eign policy.
r--A1717-SEMITISM INTIQITT
UNION
Mr. COOPER. l'Vfr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that I may yield 5
minutes to the distinguished junior Sen-
ator from New York, without losing my
right to the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. With-
out objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. KEATING. Mr. President, Soviet
persecution of the Jewish people has
reached new levels of prejudice and in-
humanity. The continued arrests of
Jewish citizens for alleged economic of-
fenses, the prohibition of the sale of
matzohs for the celebration of religious
holidays, the closing of seminaries and
synagogues, the desecration of holy burial
grounds, and finally, the sentencing of a
rabbi to death, reveal to the world an
ugly picture of anti-Semitism and reli-
gious intolerance.
Soviet pretensions of equal rights for
all nationalities in the Soviet Union are
a farce indeed when minority groups
such as members of the Jewish faith
are placed under an intolerable burden
of suspicion, restriction, and persecution.
Mr. President, this matter has been
raised on the floor of the Senate in a
number of different forms, and I, among
others, have joined in a variety of dif-
ferent overtures to press this matter to
the attention of the Soviet Government
and to urge upon our own Government
a more vigorous defense of human rights
where they are so tragically jeopardized.
The results, I am reluctant to admit,
are altogether negligible. In fact, there
is evidence that Soviet anti-Semitism is
very definitely on the increase. The
reasons are not entirely clear. Partly,
no doubt, the Soviet Union wishes to
find a scapegoat for its own economic
failures which have most recently culmi-
nated in the Soviet need to import huge
Quantities of Western foods. Partly,
also, the Soviet Government may wish to
demonstrate to the Red Chinese and
other Communist parties that it remains
an ardent supporter of the most string-
ent Communist economic policies and an
opponent of nationalism in any form.
But whatever the reasons that lie behind
the resurgence of Soviet religious perse-
cution, there is increasing dissatisfaction
with the passive attitude that has been
taken by the U.S. Government on this
issue. State Department officials who
discuss the agenda of the General As-
sembly dwell at,- length on human rights
25 YEAR RE-REVIEW
in general. There will be a draft decla-
ration on the elimination of racial dis-
crimination and no doubt a lot of talk
about anticolonialism. But unless our
Government takes the initiative of
bringing the matter of Soviet anti-
Semitism to the floor, I see no indication
that this important matter will even be
considered by the U.N. this year.
Mr. President, I am very much dis-
appointed that the Department of State
Is not willing to take the initiative in
bringing this problem more forcibly to
world attention. In recent correspond-
ence to me, Under Secretary of State
Averell Harriman refers to the pressure
that the Soviet Union is putting on all
religious groups, but particularly those
of the Jewish faith. Unfortunately,
there is no indication of any initiatives
that the United States is prepared to
take.
Mr. President, there is one initiative
that we could very easily take at this
Juncture?an initiative well within our
power and one which would dramatical-
ly show to the world our concern for
religious toleration in every corner of
the globe. We could formally propose
as one of the conditions for the sale of
U.S. grain to the Soviet Union that the
wheat from the United States be avail-
able for religious celebrations without
reference to faith or denomination
throughout the Soviet Union. Whether
the Soviets would agree to such a con-
dition and abide by it in good faith re-
mains to be seen. But such a public
appeal by the United States could not
fail to make an impact on world opinion.
It would point up more effectively than
anything else we could do at this point
the hypocrisy of Soviet plans and the
discrimination and restrictions that the
Communists place upon manifestations
of religious feeling.
Mr. President, such a move on the
part of the United States would, I sin-
cerely believe, go far to mitigate the
present Soviet wave of persecution
against the Jewish people, and I am urg-
ing the Secretary of State to give this
Proposal urgent consideration.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield, if he has a minute?
Mr. KEATING. I yield.
Mr. JAVITS. The Senator is specifi-
cally referring to the baking of matzoth,
which is prohibited in the Soviet Union.
The Senator's statement is absolutely
correct. I, too, have communicated with
the Secretary of State, and I wish to en-
dorse and support the Senator's recom-
mendation. It may be that the action
proposed cannot be taken; but at least
the United States ought to raise the
Question as showing its interest in this j
subject. I congratulatemy colleague for
raising the question.
EMPLOYMENT AT THE BROOKLYN
NAVY YARD
Mr. KEATING. Mr. President, I am
concerned over the long-terni outlook for
employment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
There is, let me make clear, no im-
mediate crisis. Employment, in fact,
has remained relatively stable over the
last 12 months. But the long-term trend
is unfortunately down. In 1953, Navy
yards did 93 percent of repair, alteration,
and Conversion work plus 45 percent of
new construction. The trend since that
time has been steadily downward. In
1958, the Navy yards got 88 percent of
repair, alteration, and conversion work,
with 20 percent of new construction.
T,ast year, however, Navy yards received
only 64.6 percent of repair work and 13
percent of new construction. This year,
fiscal 1964, Navy yards are scheduled to
get about 62.5 percent of repair work
and 18 percent of new construction.
What does this mean specifically for
New York? Again, I repeat, the im-
mediate outlook is good, but for the
long term there are serious problems. I
am assured by Secretary of the Navy
Korth that the New York Navy Shipyard
has a great deal of work at the moment
and, in fact, that additional ship con-
struction work at this time "would create
a serious overload there." Also, over
the last year, since the third quarter
of fiscal 1963, there have been no sub-
stantial reductions in employment at
the Navy yard.
A bookkeeping shift, upgrading the
U.S. Naval Applied Science Laboratory,
technically transferred 800 employees
from the Navy yard payroll to a separate
payroll. The shift of 800 employees,
which was not a reduction, accounts for
the difference in figures between the
third quarter of 1963 when the employ-
ment range was set between 11,800 and
12,300, and the figures just provided to
me by the Bureau of Ships, indicating an
employment range of 11,000 to 11,500 for
the second quarter of fiscal 1964, that is,
October through December of 1963. For
the moment, then, there is no reason for
alarm.
However, in reviewing the proposed
further assignments for fiscal 1964, the
Navy shipbuilding program does not as
yet allot a significant amount of work to
the New York Naval Shipyard. Brooklyn
will get two destroyer conversions and no
new construction. This compares with
four destroyer conversions for the Bos-
ton Navy Yard, three destroy conversions
that will go both to the Philadelphia and
Norfolk Navy Yards; two destroyer con-
versions plus a nuclear-powered sub-
marine that will go to the Mare Island
Shipyard; and one destroyer conversion
plus the construction of a new destroyer
tender that will go to Puget Sound Naval
Shipyard. Unfortunately, the Brooklyn
Navy Yard will not have an opportunity
to work on any of the three new am-
phibious transport docks?LPD's?which
they have worked on in the past, but the
Navy Department does assure me that
the Navy does not intend to allocate all
its new ship construction jobs to private
yards, as had been feared in some quar-
ters. Therefore the New York Naval
Shipyard may in the future have an op-
portunity for more such work.
Mr. President, although Secretary of
the Navy Korth's letter is encouraging
for the moment, there is obviously con-
tinuing need for the interest and sup-
port of the Members of Congress from
New York in the possible long-term
dangers for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I
very definitely intend to follow further
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developments closely and do everything
In my power to insure that a fair and
adequate workload is assigned to the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, which has made
itself known throughout the naval and
shipbuilding world as the can-do yard.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
sent to have printed in the RECORD fol-
lowing my remarks letters from Admiral
Brockett, Chief of the Bureau of Ships;
Hon. Paul Fay, Jr., Under Secretary of
the Navy; and Hon. Fred Korth, Secre-
tary of the Navy, as well as the Projected
Navy yard work allocations for this year.
There being no objection, the letters
and statement were ordered to be print-
ed in the RECORD, as follows:
DEPARTMENT OP THE NAVY,
Bryan? or Sures.
Washington, D.C., September 30, 1963.
Hon. KENNETH B. Knell:No,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
MY DEAR SENATOR KEATING: I EMI writing
to apprise you of employment prospects at
the New York Naval Shipyard for the sec-
ond quarter of fiscal 1964.
As of August 31, 1983, employment totaled
11,426. An employment range of 11,000 to
11,500 has been established for operations
at this shipyard for the next quarter. This
is the same employment range previously
forecast for the first quarter of fiscal 1984.
Sincerely yours,
W. A. Baocsaw,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy,
Chief of Bureau.
OcrosEa 11, 1963.
Hon. KENNETH B. KEATING,
.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
Mr DEAR SENATOR; Your letter of Septem-
ber 27, 1963, mentioned reports that "the
Navy is planning to allocate all new ship con-
struction jobs to private yards, leaving only
,repair and conversion work to the Navy
yards," and asked whether any decision has
been reached on this matter.
The above-mentioned reports are incorrect.
The Navy has no plans for allocating all new
ship construction jobs to private yards.
However, as you know, it has been the Navy's
long-standing practice to award the bulk of
nese/ construction projects to private yards,
and the major portion of ship repair and
Conversion work to naval shipyards. This
Is in keeping with the capabilities and plan-
ned wartime missions of these yards.
Sincerely yours,
PAUL B. FAY, Jr.,
Under Secretary of the Navy.
?
Ocromm 12, 1983.
Hon, KENNETH B. KEATING,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
MY DEAR SENATOR: This LS in reply to your
telegram of September 30, 1963, in which you
asked why none of the three amphibious
transport docks (LPD) in the Navy's fiscal
1984 shipbuilding program had been assigned
to the New York Naval Shipyard for con-
struction.
Four LPDs from previous years programs
are now being constructed at New York.
Additional work being performed at this
shipyard includes conversion of the Gilbert
Island (AKV-39) to a major communications
relay ship (AGMR), and conversions of Rich
(DD-820), Charles P. Cecil (DD-835) and
George R. Mackenzie (DD-836) under the
fleet rehabilitation and modernization pro-
gram (Pram). Overhauls of the guided
Missile cruiser Springfield (01,0-7), attack
aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (OVA-
42), and the Military Sea Transportation
Service Ship Michelson (TAGS-32), also are
underway at New York. In addition, as you
know, two Pram destroyer conversions in the
Navy's 1964 program have been assigned to
New York.
I am advised that assignment of an addi-
tional ship construction project to the New
York Naval Shipyard at this time would
create a serious overload there, unless com-
pletion schedules were significantly adjusted.
As the Chief. Bureau of Ships, indicated in
a recent letter to you, a fairly stable employ-
ment level is forecast for New York for the
second quarter of fiscal 1964. I assure you
that this shipyard will continue to be given
thorough consideration in the assignment of
naval ship work.
Sincerely yours,
FRED KORTH.
NAVY ANNOUNCES 1964 Sur:estrumNo
PROGRAM
Further assignments of construction and
conversion of ships in the Navy's fiscal year
1964 shipbuilding program were announced
today by the Navy. Naval shipyard assign-
ments follow:
NEW CONSTRUCTION
Mare Island Naval Shipyard: One nuclear-
powered attack submarine (SSN).
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard; One nuclear-
powered attack submarine (SSM.
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard: One destroy-
er tender (AD).
CONVERSIONS
Boston Naval Shipyard: Pour destroyers
(D1)).
New York Naval Shipyard: Two destroy-
ers (DD.).
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard: Three de-
stroyers (DD).
Norfolk Naval Shipyard: Three destroyers
(D13).
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard: One destroy-
er (DD).
Mare Island Naval Shipyard: Two destroy-
ers (DD)
San Francisco Naval Shipyard: One de-
stroyer (DD).
Long Beach Naval Shipyard: One destroy-
er (DD).
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard; Two destroy-
ers (D13).
ADDRESS BY B. BARRET GRIFFITH,
OF COLORADO SPRINGS, BEFORE
INVESTMENT FORUM IN MAN-
CHESTER, VT.
Mr. COOPER. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that I may yield 5
minutes to the distinguished senior
Senator from Colorado, without losing
MY right to the floor.
The PRESIDING 010FICE1-t. With-
out objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. ALLOT'''. I thank the distin-
guished Senator from Kentucky.
Mr. President, on October 4, Mr. B.
Barret Griffith, of Colorado Springs,
made an address before an investment
forum in Manchester, Vt. His percep-
tive analysis of the investment picture is
a good Indicator of the status of the
Nation's economy. Many of his remarks
have application not only to the inves-
tor but also to the Government's fiscal
policy. I commend the address to the
consideration of Senators, especially in
view of the pending tax legislation. I
ask unanimous consent that the text
of Mr. Griffith's speech be printed at
this point in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the speech
was ordered to be printed in the REC-
ORD. as follows:
October 16
ADDRESS BY B. BARRET Gar.y.pflu
Many of us are indebted to Humphrey
Neill and to his contrary opinion viewpoint.
He has made Us realize that there is no sub-
stitute for thinking. For years almost every
one of us in our speculating and investing
experiences has spent considerable time and
effort in trying to manufacture an index,
a tool, or a gimmick of some sort upon which
we could rely to forecast security prices.
We have been motivated In this effort by our
own individual laziness. We have been seek-
ing a substitute for the hard job of think-
ing. There is none.
Like maps and compasses, charts and in-
dexes may be useful. However, as in the
case of maps and compasses, unless an in-
dividual knows continuously exactly where
he is, maps, compasses, charts and indexes
are equally useless. For example, the
thoughtfulness of knowing when one is lost
In the mountains that he should walk down
hill is more valuable than a pocketful of
maps, and the latest model compass. Simi-
larly, the thoughtfulness to recognize the
status of majority opinion after security
prices have been in an uptrend, or in a
downtrend for some time may be of more
value than all the day-to-day price charts,
moving averages and bellwether indexes that
all of us together have manufactured, in my
humble opinion.
Applying this thoughtfulness to the pres-
ent, we find that stock prices have been mov-
ing up from an extreme low in June 1962.
Generally speaking, stocks are not the bar-
gains they were a year ago. High level busi-
ness activity seems to be headed higher; the
availability of credit appears to be ample;
our Government apparently looks toward
better economic growth, and more votes from
higher spending and lower taxes; raw mate-
rial prices have been down for years although
consumer prices are up and wholesale prices
are fiat. Considerable opinion seems still to
hold to two views; (1) That the very long-
term trend of stock prices remains upward
after the 1961-62 stock market break and (2)
profit from common stocks grows in propor-
tion to the length of time that common
stocks are held. Apparently, most specula-
tors and investors do not believe that shorter
term ups and downs in stock market prices
have replaced both standard bull markets
and standard bear markets since the late
1960's. Considerable opinion seems to hold
to the common stock cult, which seems to
have been born from the purposeful mone-
tary inflation which we have seen during the
last 30 years. Many people hold the opinion
that common stocks are the best things to
hold during inflation, and that inflation is
with us, and will be with us for some time.
In consequence, it may have been worth-
while to try to think through purposeful
monetary inflation and what it means to us
individual speculators and so-called in-
vestors.
First, neither inflation nor anything else
can forever have happy and pleasing effects.
It just doesn't make sense for us to assume
that it does. Whisky leads to hangovers,
and a forever-winning gambler runs out of
friends and customers. It is just too easy
to believe that continuous Inflation guaran-
tees continuously higher stock prices. May-
be inflation's happy jolt is coming to the
point of lasting only while we are enjoying
Government expenditures of the credit
money it has manufactured, and be-
fore the expenditure tab has to be, paid.
With the public becoming wiser and more
knowledgeable each clay about monetary in-
flation, the happy honeymoons from the pur-
poseful monetary inflation seem to be get-
ting shorter and shorter. Federal Govern-
ment finances itself by three means: by taxes,
by selling bonds, and by printing spendable
credit money through bond sales to banks
to create Government checking accounts. Is
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114 sor, the late A. Whitney Griswold, an im- "Of course. Nobody could possibly take
groOrning of hlscifsiingtn predeees- as tysistrata' a coineclY?" Jewish community?has published the
full text of a pamphlet analyzing the

program and platform of the American
Council for Judaism. The analysis, pre-
pared by the New York Board of Rabbis,
appeared in the Examiner from July 13,
1963 to September 5, 1963. I believe that
it constitutes a valuable point-by-Point
refutation of this organization's sup-
posed representations on behalf of
Americans of the Jewish faith.
So that no one will be further misled
by this group I commend the rabbis' con-
demnation of this organization to the ,
attention of our colleagues, preceded by
the statement of Dr. Israel Mowshowitz,
president of the New York Board of
Rabbis:
[From the American Examiner, July 18, 1983]
STATEMENT BY DR. ISRAEL MOWSHOWITZ, PRES-
IDENT OF THE NEW YORK BOARD OF RABBIS,
ON THE OCCASION OF THE RELEASE OF THE
FACTUAL STUDY OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL
FOR JUDAISM BY THE BOARD
The New York Board of Rabbis, the largest
representative rabbinic body in the world,
with a membership of 800 Orthodox, Con-
servative, and Reform Rabbis, reaffirms the
position of the three major national rab-
binical bodies in America that the American
Council for Judaism does not represent any
valid interpretation of Judaism. ?We re-
pudiate its ideology and tactics as inimical
and alien to the true spirit of Judaism.
WInlewe do not deny the right of that body
to speak, we would fail in Our elemental duty
to truth and to our responsible position as
the united voice of religious Jewry if we
did not make it clear that the Council for
Judaism does not speak in the name of our
religious traditions, and that it does not
speak for the religious Jewish community.
-- The American Council for Judaism has
consistently misrepresented the Jewish peo-
ple before the bar of public opinion. It has
welcomed every opportunity to malign and
impugn the integrity of Jewish institutions,
organizations, and causes; and it has con-
sistently distorted and caricatured the pre-
cepts of Judaism which is purports to teach.
Worst of all, in the most tragiq era of Jewish
history, it sought to deny to Jews fleeing
Hitler's Europe a haven in Palestine, and
undermined and obstructed the life-giving
work of rescue and rehabilitation carried
on by the Jewish community.
Our factual study released today offers
clear proof that the group calling itself the
American Council for Judaism is neither
American nor Jewish in spirit or in concept.
It is revealed to be a political organization
consisting, by its own claim, of less than
one-half of 1 percent of American Jews
which was organized in the first instance
for the express purpose of denying the right
of refugees fleeing occupied Europe to enter
Palestine, at the very moment the Nazis were
implementing the final solution.
During the 20 years of its existence the
activities of the council have consisted of an
assault against the United Jewish Appeal,
the major lifesaving instrumentality of the
American Jewish community. They have at-
tempted to impugn the patriotism of Ameri-
can Jews who have, together with other
Americans, shown concern for the welfare
OF of the people of Israel. They have had as
their principal aim the incitement of prej-
udice against the State of Israel, thus con-
tributing to tension and unrest in the Middle
East, a policy we believe to be contrary to
the best interest of both America and Israel.
Judaism, we believe, has sufficient breadth
and depth to embrace varied points of view,
but we solemnly declare that there is no room
In Jewish life for Jews whose words and deeds
would result in the destruction of the State
of Israel, in the weakening of Jewish religious
pressive set of persona/ qualifications. He
has left no doubt in, anyone's mind that
he considers the facility the heart of the
university. In Order to affilre that ability,
rather than rnefesertiority, is to be the yard-
stick, he has -Urisentimeritally cut through
protocol VS prothote young and promising
- Refusing to 'Be dka-Wli into a partisan
position in the futile argument between
the two cultures of science and the humani-
ties, he "hag, by supporting excellence in
both, confirmed that a modern university
cannot withdraw either from scientific pro-
ductivity or frOin the- traditional ways of
seriously the Idea of women joining together
in a boycott of love to compel men to sign
a peace treaty. Females obviously don't
have that kind of willpower."
"The whole idea was only a, joke?"
"Not entirely. I was serious about the un-
derlying viewpoint, a viewpoint I expressed
in play after play."
"What was that viewpoint?"
"That civilization was heading for need-
less destruction because two superpowers,
my nation's alliance and the Spartan bloc,
were each being jostled into conflict by fire-
eating generals and profiteering politicians."
"What was your solution?"
scholarship. - "Coexistence, with the first step being
,Spme academic coriserVatives may have
bga doubts about ,lt13_r_ewster because he
Si?
c nalli ilbrited saced channels.a
They
a it har-a to adFust to his more per-
sonMal:i fin
o eh to e college presidency.
Americanp
'-' approach
the
leadership has gone
through' inaq-Fplifts--es-, _from the predomi-
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a
tit1j ministeriaT one, which also played a
large part Yale's history, through the
ei
rmanship by quiet scholars and, after
World W'ar It, thetiriliaPpyreliance on busi-
ctitives and-military-figures.
116E4 executives
of,re yster-refFeaffits a near generation
nte1411ectualh-nteersfire-rea-ders who know
that tomorrow'aniv
stuersity, while still de-
pending on its rong individual character,
must be deeply conscious of national duties.
that each side withdraw from positions that
threaten the integrity of the other's power."
"Say, have you been talking with Adlai
Stevenson?"
"You mean that fellow whose bias for
peaceful negotiation was exposed by the
'Saturday evening papyrus?' No, I had the
idea first. Ask anyone at the Acropolis."
"You'll probably want to take the fifth
on this, but would you tell us if your writ-
ings ever got you into trouble with the
authorities?"
-"Take the fifth? Oh, yes, I mustn't forget
your quaint American idiom. Thanks, but
I feel no need for a drink at this time."
"Mr. Aristophanes, will you answer my
question?"
^ 'Qertainly. Aside from a small fine for
16_6Z:oiling One "demagog a little too vig-
roUsly, all r ever suffered was some name-
tilling."
"For instance?"
J',Appealer," traitor, enemy agent. I also
as suspected Of being that Most terrifying
f ail creatures, a pacifist."
- sound -like sorne -kind of leftist.
Would you rather be Bed than dead?"
ny,e, Greeks have a word for such que ,
s-
_ _ p ,,,tions.' sOphiatry."
IN T117110:CISE Ot4.;:t1515tBSPITTATIVES- - "DO' you any- that, in one of your plays,
?6 ber id '1-you have a group of women seize control of
on gy, c_o , tle government and install a system of corn-
r. pea,ker, munisin'?" -
cannot reSisf %lie attention of "Sir. I happen to have been a wealthy
my colleagues tlie f011owing article which landowner, a conservative who thoroughly
aPpea,reel in a recent issue of the Beverly identified with aristocracy. The play to
which you refer is actually a satire of the
Rills; ComrOunist propostds of visionaries, like
The ar4c,le,f011OWs., - "
HON. JANIE51t00 VEL
Mr. Roostiftilt.
'
Tua UNFRIENDLY ' ,c ?
4 __ ITNESS Where can We find him?"
7:: (By'-'64rin'tf.- tia'sk&Witi/?'". -"Go t,o Hellas."
Qnce viii612.' e,'-`rfne; -1-1c.w dare you."
"What the Zeus is the matter with you?"
vestigetOr "decrded-tO-doridifet a hearing into H
Peace. "ow would you like to be held in con-
Aniovertient-e-alled-Woinen-Strike for
The Motrentent ooselyntyariTzed and had tempt?"
no definite "kfO'ners aigre '-'"plane, but it had "That wouldn't be a new experience for
--aroused sUsiqloii-hy title in me. Besides, I can't spare the time right
now. The Muses are calling and I must
Which_ three ont Of Taiir -Words were contra-
= , hie., off homeward. I leave you with the
verstel'the &Kis *ill -protect your nation
,ftelits-affigerit--feSeareli, Tinco."vv- _ from the real enemies."
ao. 01:4, f-60-t-Tarthel,a6i_or ...,witiitatri,s The witness vanished.
The congressional investigator, Un-
Plato. origfnated With i5lay" Called
Plato.
ect elikpena for the playwright.
daunted, began preparing a subpena for
",`I.ysistrata."' So the-c,Onselentious Congress-
You ?ilgbt7p.saiiiii-e-tliat-the-- playwright,
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NSION OF REMARKS
ABRAHAM J. MULTER
Li.F NEW YORK_
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, October 1,6, 1963
"I'll have to ". admonish the -Witness not
to play the 'coinic With "UP. ' ' - Mr. MULTER. Mr. Speaker, the
' "I am not playing. f am what I am, a- American Examiner?an independent
Writer of dramatic comedy. Some say I am newspaper published in New York that
the greatest." ' reports the activities of the American
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commitment, and in incalculable harm to the
Jewish people" everywhere.
We view with contempt the council's tac-
tics of reviving anti-Semitic slanders of dual
loyalties. American Jews who have served
their country in peace and in war need not
defend themselves against such baseless
vicious charges. As Americans concerned
with the survival of democratic Values every-
where, we pray for the strengthening and
snrvival of the State of Israel as a stronghold
of demOsracy in the Middle East. It is thus
hi keeping with the best traditions of
America to support Israel, or indeed, any
other nation which strengthens the demo-
cratic and moral climate of our troubled
world.
As religious leaders we are dismayed that
the council's philosophy is one of complete
negation: it would deny the existence of a
Jewish people, it rejects traditional Jewish
c4remon1als, and scoffs at the bade Amer-
loan concept of the right of every citizen
to help other peoples struggling for freedom.
The council is an organization which claims
to. be "religious," yet it has no religious com-
mitment. It claims to be "American," yet
It misinterprets America as a monolithic
structure where all cultural and spiritual
variations must be obliterated. It purports
to speak for Judaism, yet it is against every
best interest of the Jewish community. It
has no positive program of its own, but is
founded on a platform of negation and hate.
The New York Board of Rabbis Is confident
that the American people will reject with
contempt the political machinations of this
small band of misguided individuals who
stiffer from insecurity and tragic self-hatred.
Our love of God, our love of America, our
religious commitment and the ties of our
religious fellowship with Jews throughout
the world?enjoin us to continue our efforts
to save oppressed Jews everywhere, and to
extend the arm of brotherhood to the people
of Israel who are bound to the people of
America in a common commitment to the
democratic ideals which stem from our
Judeo-Christian tradition, upon which both
America and Israel are founded.
[Prom the American Rxarniner, July 16,
19831
THE RABBIS' CONDEMNATION OF THE AMERICAN
COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM?AN ANALYSIS AND
EVALUATION OF THE PLATFORM AND PROGRAM
OF THE AMERICAN COUNCTL FOR JUDAISM?
PART I
HISTORY AND NATURE or TEE COUNCIL
The American Jewish community Is a het-
erogeneous community. Within it there are
many diverse voluntary associations devoted
to religious, educational, cultural, social, and
philanthropic purposes.
Yet despite their differences, virtually all
responsible American Jewish groups, both
secular, and religious, have united in de-
nouncing one organization, namely, the
American Council for Judaism, in unmis-
takable terms. These groups include all of
the Jewish community relations agencies;
denunciations having come from the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee, the American Jewish
Congress, the Anti-Defamation League of
B'nal B'rith, the Jewish War Veterans, and
from many organizations, national, and
local, that comprise the National Conunu-
nity Relations Advisory Council. (The
NCHAC is the coordinating body for six na-
tional agencies and 64 local Jewish Commu-
nity Relations Councils throughout the
country. Its national organization constit-
uents: American Jewish Congress, Jewish
Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans,
Union of American Hebrew Congregations,
United Synagogue of America, and Union
of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of Amer-
ica.) Many other groups, both Zionist and
non-Zionist likewise have spoken in the
same vein.
It is most noteworthy, however, that the
Amezican Council for Judaism (which car-
ries the word 'Judaism' in its title and there-
fore presumably is an organization with a
religious orientation) has been strongly re-
pudiated by each of the three national rab-
binic bodies which speak for the Orthodox.
Reform and Conservative Rabbinate in the
United States.
The Rabbinical Council of America. on be-
half of the Orthodox Rabbinate in thls coun-
try, has gone on record as follows:
"Whereas the shocking conduct of the
American Council for Judaism and all its
members, seeking to question the loyalty of
the vast majority of American Jews who sup-
port Israel, have brought disgrace and dis-
tress to our people.
"Be it resolved that the Rabbinical Council
of America go on record denouncing the ac-
tivities of the American Council for Judaism
and dissociating them from the religious
community of Israel. The American Council
for Judaism is in no wise to be considered a
religious Jewish group."
The Rabbinical Assembly of America, rep-
resenting the Conservative Rabbinate in the
United States:
?The Rabbinical Assembly of America re-
pudiates the attempt of a small group of
Jews, represented in the American Council
for Judaism, to confuse the American pub-
lic and Government as to the sympathies
of the overwhelming majority of Jews in
this country towards Israel . . We feel it
our duty to caution the American public
against taking seriously those who claim to
represent what they do not represent.
"It is regrettable that this small group.
which calls itself 'Jews by religion only' as-
sumes the right to misinterpret the Jewish
religion so as to be completely at odds with
the authoritative views expressed today by
the three major groups in Jewish religious
belief."
The Central Conference of American Rab-
bis on behalf of the Reform Rabbis in the
United States:
"The Central Conference of American Rab-
bis reafflrms its repudiation of the Ameri-
can Council for Judaism and declares that
the latter does not represent liberal, Reform
Judaism or. any other valid interpretation
of Judaism." The Council for Judaism
"has sought to influence the United States
Department of State in a policy contrary to
the best interests of both the United States
and the State of Israel; and It has distorted
and misrepresented the nature and meaning
of Judaism."
These statements by the rabbinic bodies
representing all the religious groupings of
Jews in America are directed at an organiza-
tion founded late in 1943 for the seemingly
innocent purpose of "affirming the exclu-
sively religious nature of Judaism." Any
student of Jewish history and tradition can
refute this point of view as an excessively
narrow definition of Jewish reality without
theological foundation. But why has the
American Council for Judaism been repudi-
ated so strongly by every respectable element
in Judaism? Why has the activity of this
infinitesimal fringe group, representing less
than one half of one percent of American
Jews. according to their own account.
aroused such a tempest of indignation?
To understand the strong sentiment
against the American Council for Judaism,
it is necessary to know something about its
history and activities from the time of its
inception. At that time Hitler's plans for
the extermination of the Jews of Europe had
moved forward apace. Jews, fleeing for their
lives, were pounding at the gates of the
world and only a fortunate few found sanc-
tuary. The Evian Conference of 32 nations,
convened by President Roosevelt in 1938. to
consider resettlement opportunities for those
whose lives were in peril was a complete
fiasco in terms of persuading countries to
relax their immigration laws. And, for all
practical purposes, the spirit of that confer-
ence persisted through the war.
Leaky refugee ships moved from port to
port, without haven. Jews were being herded
together in extermination Camps. Every
Jew who remained in Europe was marked for
death. The one refuge to which the Jews
could lay claim on historical grounds, on the
basis of the Balfour Declaration and the
stipulation contained in the League of Na-
tions Mandate, was Palestine.
From the American Examiner, July 25,
19631
THE NEW YORE BOARD'S EVALUATION OF THE
AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM'S PROGRAM,
PLATFORM?PART 2
OPPOSIT/ON TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL
It as at that point in time, December 1942,
that the American Council for Judaism was
founded. /n a declaration of principle is-
sued in 1943 it proclaimed its primary po-
litical program: "We oppose the effort to
establish a National Jewish State in Pales-
tine or anywhere else as a philosophy of
defeatism and one which does not offer a -
practical solution of the Jewish problem.
We dissent from all those related doctrines
that stress the racialism, the nationalism
and the theoretical homelessness of Jews.
We oppose such doctrines as inimical to the
welfare of Jews in Palestine, in America, or
wherever Jews may dwell."
In this way, a privileged handful of Jews,
dwelling securely in America, sought to de-
stroy the one hope of their brothers dwelling
In the valley of the shadow of death.
By 1944, the whole world was becoming
aware of the position of the Jewish rem-
nant in Europe. The House and Senate re-
affirmed a resolution passed in 1922 calling
for the establishment in Palestine of a
refuge and home for harassed Jews. In
April 1946, the Anglo-American Commission
of Inquiry recommended the immediate ad-
mission to Palestine of 100,000 Jews and, as
the mandatory power procrastinated, sur-
vivors sought to make their way independ-
ently to Palestine.
OPPOSITION TO JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO
PALESTINE
The American Council for Judaism di-
rected a letter to President Truman on May
14, 1946, stating: "We declare and affirm that
any immigrant Jew who enters Palestine
contrary to its law is an illegal immigrant."
At that point, Dr. Louis Wolsey of Phila-
delphia, first provisional president of the
American Council for Judaism, withdrew
from the organization, stating in the Phila-
delphia Jewish Exponent: "I very definitely
believe in freedom of immigration and the
unqualified right of the Jew to migrate to
Palestine if he wishes, and to make it pos-
sible for him to settle there. Because of this
I find it intellectually dishonest for me to
retain the position of vice president of the
American Council for Judaism any longer."
While Rabbi Wolsey opposed Jewish na-
tionalism because he yearned for the ultimate
disappearance of all nationalism, it became
clear to him that the efforts of the American
Council for Judaism were directed only
against the attempts of the pathetic survivors
of Hitler to find a home in Palestine.
In February 1947, the United Nations was
informed by the British Government that
it would relinquish the mandate the follow-
ing year. A special U.N. session was called
and an 11-nation U.N. Special Committee on
Palestine was appointed to review the situa-
tion and recommend a solution. It handed
down a majority report calling for parition of
the country into separate Arab and Jewish
States. On November 29. 1947, this recom-
mendation was accepted by a two-thirds
vote of the U.N. General Assembly. The U.N.
partition decision was sharply criticized by
the Council for Judaism for creating what
Mr. Leasing Rosenwald, its president, termed
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l'anOther self-Imposed ghetto." Writing in
the March 13, 1948, issue of Collier's, Rosen-
Wald declared that a homeland "is the last
thing that the J4w5 themselves want."
From this bilelJastory we can begin to
Understand the,reyUISIOn OX American Jews
and of the responsible Jewish leadership to
the program and Jactica_of the American
Council X(11',..?Al,d414111, ideological in-
novation could baYe aroused such a power-
ful and united reactInla Of ?opposition. This
Universal reactinn Caine because American
Jewry realized that the action of the Council
for JUdaiSM StrItet At the life of the Jewish
people itself, At .the Moment of greatest
tragedy, in a hisIory that goes back 4,000
yearg, the AMerlean Council for Judaism
did its utmost to prevent the United Nations,
the American 9qverinnent, the Jews of Amer-
ica and. the .9,89,913S1 Jews. in Palestine, from
eStabliabing a refuge and a home in Palestine
for the rernnant,-Ileelng the Nazi holocaust.
? It is not 1.1.11fair _to assume that had the
0-rica.4 CoP1101-191_ Judaism succeeded,
ulo,r4' of the, Je,Ws_. POW alive and free in
Israel, might have perished. Life is the most
precious Of ,TeWisht_Values. lie who saves a
sin le life, sus the tradition, is as though
,be bad preserved?tir_o-gre Fool.
POSITIO1c, 4F7'44 E47,414$1.1?=?11z. or ISRAEL
Since the,e,Stabliannent of the State of
Israel, the AmeriCan Council for Judaism has
been engaged primarily, as from the begin-
ning, in an intensive program of political and
propaganda activities whose purpose is to cut
off American JeWiSli support for Israel and
to influence the U.S,Ooyernment in a policy
contrary to the best interests of Israel, and
believe? of the United States and world
The program has aspects whose validity
arid practical implications we will examine:
1. Propagating an exclusively religious def-
inition of Judaiern which distorts and mis-
'reprebenfs its litstoric character.
Charging the overwhelming majority of
'American Jews?with dual loyalty because they
!Show concern. for ?their surviving brothers in
Israel. In the opinion of all Jewish commu-
nity relations _organizations, the American
Council for Judaism utterances project an
Unfavorable image of Jews, which lend them-
selves to exploitation by hate groups and
Arab propagandists.
8. ObstruCting the lifesaving work of the
United Jewish_ Appeal, which has rescued
Per a Jews in the past 25
years, and helped twice that number to re-
build,their
, 4, Continuing a program of political ac-
tion, Under the cloak of religious ideology, in
an effort to inlinerice negatively U.S. policy
'toward Israel.axid block Jewish immigration
to Israel, the one country willing to accept
Jews fleeing Arab and Iron Curtain countries
in large numbers.
? Only $18,525 out of its total budget of
$406,500 was allocated to religious education
In the published budget for 1962, the rest to
anti-Zionist and anti-Jsr4e1. propaganda.
,
. ,
Zionist -aa. 4PPlOcininn
No one would question the right of the
American Connell for Judaism, to propagate
;its erroneons interpretation, of Judaism,
though it does not speak for the religious
community. What is deeply resented, how-
ever, are its past efforts to block the estab-
lishment of Israel, immigration of Jews to
Israel, and its continuing campaign against
the raising of funds for the settlement of
immigrants in Israel through the United
Jewish Appeal. What is most unconscionable
art the aspersions cast upon the patriotism
of American Zionists and friends of Israel,
constituting virtually all of American Jewry.
Jews have ?felt at home in America as in no
other country during their 2,000 years of
dispersion. American Jews give their Gov-
ernInent their unqualified loyalty, in peace
and in war. It is not .only that America
secured their lives and their rights. The
cherished ideals of America are those to
which the Jew can answer a fervent amen.
Americanism like Judaism is based on Biblical
foundations. America has never asked Jews
to deny their background or their faith nor
to dam up the springs of love and compas-
sion for their fellow Jews in lands of dark-
ness and persecution or in the new land of
Israel.
ACCUSES U.S. JEWS OF DUAL LOYALTIES
American Jews were accused of "dual
loyalty" by Rabbi Elmer Berger, executive
vice president of the American Council for
'Judaism, in a pamphlet entitled "Four Arti-
cles on the Law of Return."
"The thesis of the American Council for
Judaism," wrote Rabbi Berger, "is that the
Zionist-Israel axis imposes upon Jews out-
side of Israel, Americans of Jewish faith in-
cluded, a status of double nationality."
WHAT IS THE LAW OF RETURN?
In truth, the law of return is an un-
precedented humanitarian law enacted by
the State of Israel offering automatic citizen-
ship to any Jew who needs or wishes to settle
there. Under this law, Israel has taken in
over a million Jews?including the lame, the
sick, and the aged?discharging its historic
responsibility and fulfilling the expectations
of the United Nations which voted for its
establishment.
Lessing Rosenwald went even further, ac-
cusing the U.S. State Department of con-
firming this status of double nationality for
American Jews. At the 10th annual con-
ference of the American Council for Judaism
which met in San Francisco in May 1953, Mr.
Rosenwald asserted:
"Our Department of State has placed its
American Jewish citizens in a category of
Americans subject to 'dual nationality' and
made them subject to 'dual nationality'
regulations in connection with visits to
Israel."
The most recent development of this argu-
ment? introduces a new twist. Prof. W.
T. Mallison addressed the 1962 convention of
the American Council for Judaism in Chicago
where a chapter of the brief he helped to
prepare for submission to the State ,Depart-
ment was distributed. Manison states that
it _is the legal obligation of the American
Government to prevent Israel from granting
automatic citizenship to Jews who wish to
settle in Israel in order to protect the citizen-
ship status of American Jews.
- NO BASIS FOR ACJ CHARGES
One need not be a jurist to recognize that
It is impossible for Israel, unilaterally, to
change the status of American Jews whose
rights are defined and protected by the laws
and courts of the United States. Judge H.
G. Hershenson of Chicago promptly made
this point saying:
"There is no basis in law for statements
Issued by spokesmen for the American Coun-
cil for Judaism here in Chicago that alleged
actions by Zionists and Israelis jeopardize the
status and rights of American citizens of the
Jewish faith which are secured by the Con-
stitution and the laws of our country.
"American Jews give their exclusive loyalty
to America as Israelis give theirs to Israel.
The relationship between Jews in America
and Jews in Israel is a voluntary one; it is
rooted in love and faith and historic tradi-
tion and motivated by a shared compassion
for Jews who need Israel as a haven and a
home."
The Decalogue Society of Lawyers, an asso-
ciation of 1,600 Jewish lawyers in Chicago,
said "The loyalty of American Jews to the
United States has been repeatedly demon-
strated. Jews who have aided Israel have
done so from a humanitarian point of view to
aid a struggling democracy, just as other
Americans throughout our history aided
freedom in other parts of the world. Such
help, is in keeping with the time-honored
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American ideals."
JUSTICE BRANDEIS ON DUAL LOYALTY
The clearest rejoinder to the accusation of
"dual loyalties" was made 40 years ago by
the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D.
Brandeis, in an address to the Eastern Coun-
cil of Reform Rabbis:
"Let no American imagine that Zionism
Is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple
loyalties are objectionable only if they are
Inconsistent. A man is a better citizen of
the United States for being also a loyal citi-
zen of his State, and of his city; for being
loyal to his family and to his profession or
trade; for being loyal to his college or his
lodge. Every Irish-American who contrib-
uted toward advancing home rule was a
better man and a better American for the
sacrifice he made. Every American Jew who
aids in advancing the Jewish settlements in
Palestine, though he feels that neither he
nor his descendents will ever live there, will
likewise be a better American for doing so."
Justices Brandeis, Cardozo, Frankfurter,
and Goldberg?each of the four Jews ap-
pointed to the Supreme Court?have been
warm friends, if not leaders, of Zionism.
[From the American Examiner, Aug. 1, 19631
THE RABBIS' CONDEMNATION OF THE AMERICAN
COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM: IN PURSUIT OF ITS
GOALS, THE COUNCIL MAINTAINS A CLOSE
LIA/SON WITH ISRAEL'S FOE?ITS STATE-
MENTS ARE QUOTED WITH APPROVAL BY
ANTI-SEMITIC FORCES?PART 3
THE CHRISTIAN REPLY TO THE AMERICAN
COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM
The council also approaches Christian per-
sonalities in the United States with the view
of dissuading them from helping Israel or
Zionism, on the grounds that "a number of
Jewish people do not endorse the idea of al-
legiance to Israel which is part of the Zion-
ist creed." The council had written in this
vein to the then Governor McReldin of Mary-
land who had urged Americans to purchase
Israel bonds.
The Governor replied: "Your reaction ex-
cites In me nothing short of amazement.
Suffice to say that Zionism as universally un-
derstood does not call for political allegiance
from American citizens to the Government of
Israel. I have never heard it suggested that
Americans who purchased British or Argen-
tine or Peruvian bonds created any problems
of allegiance. The concern you express over
the danger of a split allegiance is excessive
and unwholesome, and misconstrues the re-
quirements of true allegiance to the United
States and its ideals."
Among others who rejected the American
Council for Judaism line of reasoning were
Dr. Coert Rylaarsdarn of the Federated Theo-
logical Faculty of the University of Chicago,
who wrote: "I am a Christian who has been
an outspoken friend and supporter of the
Zionist movement. I do not believe that the
American loyalty of a Jew is compromised by
the existence of the State of Israel, nor do
I believe that It destroys the universality of
the faith he professes. I am not persuaded
that your council is rendering either Judaism
or America a positive service. I rather feel
that you are an embarrassment to Judaism
and fail to appreciate the great civilizing and
critical function which is the historic mis-
sion and heritage of Israel."
The Reverend Dr. John Haynes Holmes re-
plied in this fashion: "I would adjure the
Council for Judaism, and frightened souls
generally, not to be alarmed. Zion has added
a new chapter to the history of human free-
dom. It is to the greater glory of America,
that, through her Jewish citizens, she has
been allowed to make a contribution to the
triumph of Zion's cause, just as it was
glorious that, through her Irish citizens in
former days, she was privileged to play a part
in the heroic drama of Ireland's deliverance."
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Over the years, thousands of Christian
leaders throughout the Nation, including
leaders In. government and public affairs,
have voiced similar sentiments and have
seen only the fullest consonance between
Zionism and America's interests. President
Kennedy, in a message to the 1962 conven-
tion of the Zionist Organization of America,
said: "This Nation, from the time of Presi-
dent Wilson, has established arid continued
a tradition of friendship with Israel because
We are committed to all free societies that
seek a path to peace, honor, and individual
right. ? ? * In the prophetic spirit of
Zionism all freemen today look to a better
World and in the experience of Zionism we
know that it takes courage and perseverance
and dedication to achieve it. Toward this
large'r and greater adventure for all man-
kind, your energies are now summoned."
CULTURAL PLURALISM
The lichness and variety of American cul-
ture results from the fact that it is made up
of the contributions of many diverse cul-
tural and ethnic groups. America does not
ask us to give up our heritage, for this would
be a disservice, but rather to contribute its
Value to America, thereby enriching the
fabric of American life. Modern anthropolo-
gists reject the idea of the melting pot and
prefer to think of American culture as a
Symphony in which diverse tones blend in
glorious harmony.
JEWISH MILITARY CHAPLAINS SPEAK OUT
? The Jewish military chaplains in World
War II, in whose ranks Rabbi Elmer Berger
Of the American Council for Judaism failed
to serve, stated: "In view of the defamatory
Statements and innuendoes made repeatedly
by responsible representatives of the Ameri-
6an Council for Judaism. impugning the
patriotism of American Zionists, we the un-
Orsigned rabbis, serving as chaplains in the
firmed Forces of our Nation, register our deep
resentment and disapproval of such reckless
and un-American allegations.
; "Of the 305 surviving chaplains of the
Jewish faith who responded unhesitatingly
to the call of our country in its hour of need,
.226 have already identified themselves with
Zionism, with replies expected from many
Still overseas. For anytme to insinuate that
Zionism tends to diminish the full measure
of devotion of these 228 rabbis to America
is the height of impudence.
"Such an accusation comes with partic-
Ularly bad grace from an organization which
,numbers amongst its leadership men who did
,not respond to the call of the responsible
Jewish commission to serve in the chap-
laincy."
The council's political program and its
Consequences
The council carries on an intensive polit-
ical and public relations program designed
to weaken the State of Israel: (1) by fright-
ening American Jews into the belief that
' their support of Israel will be suspect, hoping
thus to reduce contributions for the absorp-
tion of Jewish refugees, and investment
finds for the upbuilding of the country:
(2) by attempting to drive a wedge between
American Jewry and Israel so as to limit both
moral support for Israel as well as cut off
any spiritual and cultural kinship: and (3)
by efforts to discredit American Jewry in the
eyes of the non-Jewish community.
; While a portion of the council's cam-
paign is geared to sonie in the higher income
brackets in the Jewish community, its major
effort Is directed to public officials, the com-
munications media. Christian clergymen, and
the academic community. In the pursuit of
its goals, the council carries on a close hat-
eon with the enemies of Israel, and its pro-
: nouncements and utterances are frequently
quoted, with approval, in the anti-Semitic
press. Posing as a religious organization, it
Is able to carry on these activities under a
tax-exempt status.
COMMUNITY RELATIONS GROUPS EVALUATE
ACJ PROGRAM
The major community relations agencies
of the U.S. Jewish community, all of them
non-Zionist, have all been highly critical of
the council's program and activities. The
American Jewish committee, after subjecting
the activities of the council to sober, scien-
tiflc analysis, came to the conclusion that
"it is determined to discourage and oppose
those approaches and procedures, that, far
from accomplishing what is intended, pro-
ject an image of the American Jew as one
possessing frail and tenuous ties to his
America. ? ? ? The methods of the Coun-
cil for Judaism do not serve the best inter-
ests of American Jews."
"The council publicity is replete with sym-
bols that may well serve to crystallize certain
sterotypes of the Jew," says the committee.
Council literature contains frequent refer-
ences to the "International Zionist conspir-
acy." "Zionist control of press and communi-
cations." "Zionist financial power." etc.
These phrases, reminiscent of those to be
found in the Protocal of the Elders olf Zion
and other hate propaganda. spill over to the
entire Jewish population in the United States
and tend to confirm anti-Semitic stereotypes.
They are applied not only to Zionist affili-
ates but to philanthropic supporters of the
United Jewish Appeal, and most American
Jews who feel positively toward Israel. The
anti-Semites are quick to exploit such state-
ments which corroborate their point of view
because they emanate from a Jewish source.
"regarded as all the more trustworthy."
Thus, says the committee. "the image of
communism blends with that of Zionism,
sharpening the picture that anti-Semites
have been painting for years by using 'Zion-
ism* as a euphemism for Jew and Judaism.
and also working in the red streak of com-
munism ? ? ? The council provides fodder
for anti-Semites. Their characterizations of
the Zionists are seized upon to authenticate,
ratify, and justify already existing hostile
attitudes toward Jews in general."
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai
Writh and the American Jewish Congress
have reached the same conclusion, as have
all the constitutent organizations of the
National Community Relations Advisory
Council.
Kays the NCRAC: "Such organizations as
the Council for Judaism appear to have ac-
cepted and integrated into their own prop-
aganda some of the most extreme and dan-
gerous falsehoods and distortions put forth
by the Arab propaganda apparatus." (The
ADL has already documented the fact that
Arab propagandists in this country, acting
on orders from their home ministries, are
helping to foster a new growth of anti-
Semitism.)
[From the American Examiner, Aug. 8. 19631
THE RABBIS' CONDEMNATION Or THE AMERICAN
COIINCI7., FOR JUDAISM?THE POPULARITY OF
THE COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM WITH AMERICA'S
LUNATIC FRINGE IS No ACCIDENT. SINCE IT
ZEALOUSLY PUSHES THE RATE GROUT'S'
PROPAGANDA?PART 4
"JEWS CONTROL THE PRESS," SAYS AMERICAN
COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM
Rabbi Elmer Berger and the executive di-
rector of the council. Leonard Sussman, have
recently reiterated the myth of Jewish con-
trol of the press in trade magazines such as
"Editor and Publisher" (Oct. 20. 1982) and
before gatherings of public relations people
and journalists.
In an address titled "Ten Commandments
for the MR813 Media," carried by the wire serv-
ices, Rabbi Berger renewed the allegation of
Jewish domination of masa communication
which is also given wide currency by Arab
spokesmen. Parenthetically, despite the
council's complaints about Zionist domina-
tion of the press, the Council for Judaism
has managed to receive press notices out of
all proportion to its small membership.
BLAMES JEWISH PERSECUTION ON ZIONIST
CONSPIRACY
On numerous occasions, the council
spokesmen have attributed Jewish insecurity
and suffering in many parts of the world?
such as the Soviet Union, north Africa, and
parts of Latin America?not to any indige-
nous factors, but rather to an ubiquitous and
powerful Zionist conspiracy which, they
Insinuate, either brings on or fabricates
the situation. Castroism, neonazism. and
threatening revolutionary rumbling in vari-
ous parts of the world which menace Jewish
security are never blamed on Communists,
Fascist, or indigenous poverty or other fac-
tors; they are always attributed to the
Zionist conspiracy.
One is at a loss to understand why the
American Council for Judaism is so anxious
to exonerate Communists, Arab nationalist
extremists, and Fascist hooligans in order to
blame Jews, an allegation that defies credi-
bility while it reinforces the myth of inter-
national power.
One would have expected that the leaders
of the Council for Judaism, as Jews, would
have spoken up in defense of the right of
Soviet Jews to practice their religion. Our
State Department recently expressed strong
disapproval over continuing Soviet restric-
tions on religious freedom, and said:
"In the case of Jews, these pressures are
such as to prevent the normal maintenance
and development of Jewish religious and
cultural life." Firm voices of protest on
this issue have also been raised by promi-
nent Americans of all faiths. But the Coun-
cil for Judaism remains silent on this
subject.
Who more than an organization "for Juda-
ism," claiming to believe in the universality
of Judaism's teachings, should be concerned
with the free practice of Judaism by Jews
throughout the world? Yet, as recently as
April 19, 1983. the council's executive direc-
tor, Leonard Sussman, declared: "The council
has never taken a position on the status of
the Jews in the Soviet Union."
THE COUNCIL AND THE HATE GROUPS
It is. quite evident that Arab propagandists
with the aid of their anti-Jewish supporters
are attempting to isolate the Jews of Amer-
ica from their fellow citizens, and in this
effort the Council for Judaism becomes
alined, regardless of motivation. Indeed,
the anti-Semites applaud the council. The
following citations serve as illustrations:
GERALD L. K. SMITH: "TAKE BERGER'S ADVICE"
Gerald L. K. Smith, probably the most
vicious anti-Semitic demagog in the coun-
try, said: "If the Jews of America are wise,
they will take the advice of Rabbi Elmer
Berger, who some months ago said: 'It is time
for the American Jew to realize that he must
be an American first and a Jew second.'"
Smith, who in the report of the American-
ism Commission of the American Legion (De-
partment of Illinois) as quoted in the CON-
GRESSIONAL RECORD of July 30, 1951, has been
described as "a threat to American unity,"
also singled out Berger for commendation in
an article entitled "The Super-Ghetto,"
which appeared in the February 1952 issue
of the Cross and the Flag: "The super-
ghetto of all time is now being built," he
asserted. "It is the Jew-Palestine state be-
ing built by and for Jews exclusively. Rabbi
Berger. who is an anti-Zionist Jew, insists
that the racketeers among Jews are deliber-
ately inspiring anti-Semitism in order that
Jews be scared into this superghetto which
they erroneously call Israel."
Picking up the dual loyalties issue?a key
theme in the council's propaganda arsenal?
Jack B. Tenney, collaborator of Smith, in a
pamphlet entitled "Zionist Network: A Ten-
ney Report," writes: "Among the hundreds of
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the United States today, only one stands
out clearly as basically American."
3-IART: "OUR ATTITUDE IS PRACTICALLY IDEN-
TICAL"
A hatemonger whose views coincided with
-those of the Council for Judaism was the
late Merwin K. Hart, editor of the "Economic?
-Council Letter," a man who, the American
legion (see above) has stated, "injects anti-
Semitism into his newsletters * * * by ham-
mering against a so-called Zionist menace
and a plot to destroy the Christian reIi-
Won * * *." How closely Hart's outlook
paralleled that of the American Council for
Judaism is evident from a statement in the
:February 18, 1950, issue of his Letter:
"As a matter of fact, our, attitude toward
Zionists is practically identical with that
-qf the American Council for Judaism under
the leadership of Mr. Lessing Rosenwald."
MERGER AND ROSENWALDS: "LOYAL AMERICANS"
- The late Conde McGinley, editor of "Com-
mon Sense," probably the most widely cir-
etilated anti-Semitic sheet in the United
States, was also impressed with the work of
the American Council for Judaism. In the
February 15, 1951, issue of his publication,
-McGinley printed two lists of nanies. One list
he entitled "Dupes for Zionists." It contains
rambng others, the names of Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Harry S. Trurnan, John Foster
Dulles, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Robert
PattersOn, Gen. George Marshall, Thc-nas E.
Dewey, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles E.
Wilson, and other American leaders. Di-
rectly beneath it is a list entitled "Loyal
Americans." This list includes- the names
of Lessing Rosenwald and Elmer Berger.
The popularity of the American Council
for Judaism' with the lunatic fringe is not
an accident. The judgment of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, the ADL, and others,
is correct. The statements of the Council
for Judaism reinforce false stereotypes of
-the Jew and project an image of the Jew
as disloyal to America. By so doing, the
council furthers the propaganda line of the
hate groups.
THE couNcri, AND THE ARAB PROPAGANDISTS
We shall not dwell here on the political
-issnes which divide Israel and the Arab
states. Conceivably, fairmindecl Americans
Could well take positions on different sides
of the fence with regard to some of the is-
sues involved. But is it not of special sig-
nificance that the Council for Judaism has
in every instance supported the Arab posi-
tion against Israel, even on those issues
where there is overwhelming American.syrn-
pathy for Israel's case?
The council approves the Arab effort to
cut off American financial support for Is-
rael, and it justifies the Arab boycott of
American firms who deal with Israel or who
employ Jews. It has even failed to speak
up against the closing of the Suez Canal to
ships bound for Israel, despite a U.N. resolu-
tion calling for such action.
Over the years, Berger has expressed views
strikingly similar to those voiced by Arab
representatives to the United States and
the U.N.
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Aug. 15, 19631
THE RABBIS' CONDEMNATION OF THE AMERICAN
COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM--THE COUNCIL HAS
NOT ONLY DISASSOCIATED ITSELF PROM UJA's
HuivaagrrAraAN, COMPASSIONATE WORK OF
RESCUE, REHABILITATION BUT SEEKS TO
WEAKEN AND DISCREDTT IT?PART 5
The council maintains a continuing liai-
son with Arab officials in this country to
whom they taught the efficacy of the use of
the dual loyalties argument. This liaison
has reached the point where the Council's
speakers are frequently recommended by the
Arab Office of Information to .address various
groups and a Council for Judaism speaker
has been used as a substitute for an Arab
speaker when the Arabs, for one reason or
another, were unable to fill the engagement.
It is also a matter of demonstrable knowl-
'edge that a letter from the American Council
for Judaism, addressed to official representa-
tives of Arab goVernments, makes it possible
for an American Jew who would otherwise be
barred from an Arab country, to enter that
country.
The Arabs themselves, and for very good
reason, consider the American Council for
Judaism an ally. The May 1956 issue of the
"Middle East Forum," an anti-Israel publica-
tion of the alumni of the American Univer-
sity of Beirut, carries an article entitled
"Who Speaks for Arabs?" Among those
listed are the Arab Information Center, the
American Friends of the Middle East, the Na-
tional Association of Federation of Syrian-
Lebanese-American Clubs, and?the Ameri-
can Councji for Judaism. The article is il-
lustrated by a cartoon of these four groups
attempting to alert sleeping Uncle Sam to
the dangers of ZioniSm.
AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM AND AMERICAN
.,FRIENDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Rabbi Elmer Berger is a member of the
board of directors and a prime mover in the
American Friends of the Middle East (AFME) ,
an organization openly identified with the
Arab point of view. Representatives of Arab
governments speak frequently on AFME
platforms, and AFME maintains offices in all
Arab Middle East countries, but not in
Israel..
? *
As Garland Evans Hopkins, former execu-
tive vice president of AFME has stated: "No
American .can 'wage peace' in the Middle
East as long as our policy is largely influ-
enced by a small minority whose primary
concern is-the best interest of a foreign gov-
ernment." AFME supports the Arab point of
view 160 Percent in all areas of controversy
between Israel and the Arab States.
BERGER BRIEFS ARAB STUDENTS ON HOW TO
COMBAT ZIONISM
On January 15, 1963, Rabbi Berger ad-
dressed the Organization of Arab Students at
Earl Hall, Columbia University, saying, "Zion-
ism is now a sovereign state claiming sov-
ereignty over a disputed territory." Fifteen
years after the U.N. decision and the estab-
lishment of the Jewish state by world com-
munity, Rabbi Berger refuses to recognize its
right to exist, thus concurring with the Arab
States who plan to destroy it.
AAILERICAN couNon., FOR JUDAISM FOUNDER RE-
PUDIATES AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISRAEL
Rabbi Irving Reichert, a founder of the
council, in resigning from that organization,
was quoted in the New York Times of July 22,
1956: "(The council should halt) its obstruc-
tionist campaign against the welfare and le-
gitimate aspirations of Israel and its people."
THE COUNCIL AND THE UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
The full horror of Germany's final solu-
tion to the Jewish problem was documented
at the historic Eichmann trial. It will long
be debated whether the free world, during
those terrible days, did all that was humanly
possible to save as many Jews as might have
been saved. But this much is certain: the
American Jewish community can point
proudly to the magnificent work of the
United Jewish Appeal as proof that it was
willing to give heroically so that others might
live.
One tiny but affluent segment of the Amer-
ican JewiSh population has not only disas-
sociated itself from this work of rescue and
rehabilitation but has sought to weaken and
discredit it. That group is the American
Council for Judaism.
Is it because it still refuses to recognize
the validity and necessity for a State of
Israel, hoping to weaken it for the day of
the anticipated Arab Onslaught? Or is it
because the council's leaders wish to disas-
sociate themselves, on racial grounds, from
their less fortunate brethren who have set-
tled in Israel? Mr. Monroe Deutsch, an hon-
orary vice' president of the council, speaking
of Israel at the organization's 10th annual
conference (1953), said: "We would not feel
at home in a community made up in large
part of orientals and of those who are di-
rectly from Slavic lands."
ACJ AND ITS PHILANTHROPIC FUND
Sensitive to criticism on grounds of their
lack of charity, the wealthy members of the
Council for Judaism have, in recent years,
founded a Philanthropic Fund which has
disbursed relatively small amounts. Its sup-
porters have figuratively given pennies where
UJA supporters of similar economic status
have given thousands.
In a fundraising letter dated February 28,
1963, circulated to its membership, the ACJ
stated that it hoped to raise close to $100,000
for the relief of North African Jewish refugees
in France. The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, which is supported by the UJA, ex-
pects to allocate a total of $5 million in 1963
for the same purpose. The total fundraising
goal of the ACJ Philanthropic Fund for 1963
was set at $250,000, as against a goal of $96
million set by the United Jewish Appeal.
While the amount of money raised by the
Philanthropic Fund is relatively insignifi-
cant, its campaign has served as the occa-
sion for renewed attacks upon the United
Jewish Appeal and energetic efforts to dis-
suade American Jews from giving to the
UJA.
THE ATTACK ON THE ILIA
The main thrust of the ACJ attack upon
UJA is twofold. It maintains that UJA
money is used for political rather than for
philanthropic purposes and that UJA dis-
criminates against Jews who elect to go to
countries other than Israel.
The United Jewish Appeal, whose leaders
and supporters include such outstanding
American Jews as Senator Herbert Lehman,
Justice Arthur Goldberg, Senator Jacob
Javits, Mr. William Rosenwald, Mr. Edward
Warburg, and Gov. Abraham Ribicoff,
has stated unequivocally that its funds go
only for philanthropic purposes. Yet the
ACJ continues blithely to repeat the charges,
Every U.S. President has publicly endorsed
the work of the UJA: Most recently, Presi-
dent Kennedy sent his congratulations to
the ILIA on its 25th anniversary, saying:
"In the continuing effort to fulfill its
primary aims of rescue, relief, and re-
habilitation, the UJA is adhering to the
finest humanitarian traditions of our coun-
try. I undersfand that during the UJA's
quarter century of operations its funds have
been utilized to rescue more than one and
a half million persons and provide direct re-
lief and rehabilitation for more than twice
that number. This is an impressive record."
The beneficiaries of the UJA funds are:
(a) The American Jewish Joint Distribu-
tion Committee which has a program of re-
lief and rehabilitation in 27 countries
other than Israel and which conducts
the Malben program in behalf of the sick,
the handicapped and the aged refugees in
Israel.
The JDC, with its nearly 50 years' dis-
tinguished record of humanitarian service,
receives one-third of the proceeds of the
United Jewish Appeal.
ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation
through Training) receives one-third of its
global budget for support of its network of
vocational schools from the JDC. These
schools are located in many countries.
(b) The United Israel Appeal/Jewish
Agency for Israel, Inc., which finances an ex-
tensive program of immigrant absorption
and rehabilitation in Israel, including hous-
ing, agricultural settlement, social services,
youth care and training, etc. The Jewish
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poration on whose board serve some of the
Olitetanding leaders in Jewish con:jinni:titles
vound. the country.
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PART 8
The, third beneficiary.. of United Jewish
Appeal (MA) funds is the New 'York Associa-
tion or New Americans, Which gives vital as-
sistance to indigent Jewish refugees who
settle In the , New York nie?tropolitin area.
The entire budget of this organization Is
covered by the 'WA.
In addition to the foregoing. the USA sup-
plements the regular budget of the 'United
BIAS Service for the resettlement of re-
fu,gies in countries other than Israel.
The funds of the 17,YA__are available
(through JDC, NYASA, and URIAS) to needy
Jews who choose to go to countries other
than Israel, no less than they are to Jews
Who migrate to Israel. Indeed, the 'respon-
sible leadership of American Awry, the same
leadership which has given unstinting sup-
port to the USA, has been prominent in the
struggle for the liberalization of U.S.
United !HAS, a 17/A-supported
eigency, has worked consistently toopen up
iMmigratiOn opportunities in other Countries.
The 37,34. spends more money on Jews -set-
tling in Israel than it does for Jews settling
in other countries, simply because immigra-
tion restrictions in Western countrjes are
KWh that Israel is the only country to which
Jews, in search of a haven, can go regardless
Of ouanbers, 'health or the financial capacity
'47. support themselves.
More money is needed to provide a home
and a, job for a settler in the new country
eX Israel because it is frequently necessary
tp build the home and Create the job. More-
over, a new Immigrant in the 'United States,
for example, is frequently 'aided by the wel-
fare agencies of the local community.
Since 1948, UJA funds have been used to
Itsett.le approximately 1,106,000 Jews in Israel
anclapproximetely 400,000in Other countries.
? OTHER ASSAULTS ON TEE USA
In its desperate and, on the whole, un-
atteceSaftil attempt to discourage giving to
the UJ, the Council for Judaism has addi-
tionally sought to give the impression (1)
that the ILIA has stood in danger of toeing
its tax exempt status; (2) hat helping Jews
to settle in Israel promotes tension in the
Middle East and is detrimental to American
intere&ta there; and (3) that Israel's policy
of the "blethering Of exiles," which the
IIJA furthers by helping to finance the mi-
gration of Jewish refugees to Israel, leopard-
lieS the position of the Jews of the United
States, and of the Jews in all the countries
Where they live.
There is not a scintilla of truth in any of
these charges.
KONEDT MUM lin AC:.
. ,
Many Americans are becoming increasingly
concerned over the harmful effects of the
AGJ program. On the eve of the 20th an-
=al conference of the Council for Judaism
held in May, 1963, ACJ leaders had solicited
? ineMage of greeting from President Ken-
nedy. But the White House, taking Into con-
idderatIon recent extremist activities Of that
organitation, viewed as harmful to American-
Israel relations?and noting charges by the
jewish War Veterans of the United States
that the Council had sought to "whitewash"
Soviet anti-Semitism?decided to abstain
Vora Sending the customary greetings to the
'ACJ conference.
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY SPEAFS--A SPECIAL
WORD TO THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
While the objectives and minute following
n; the Council or 4usta1sm. ate wen known
in most Jewlah circles, it is entirely possible
that OUT Chriatian friends csand easily be
'misled as to the authenticity.of that body
as a Jewish "religious" group and that Chris-
tians could else be misled into 'thinking that
the Council represents a significant segment
of American Jews. Such. Impressions could
understandably be reached as a result of
the Council's aggressive publicity campaign
and its attractively produced Informational
materials which are given the widest circu-
lation, particularly in Christian circles.
The New York Board of Rabbis, therefore,
considers It useful to enlighten those who
may be laboring under any such misconcep-
tion. We consider it our duty, therefore, to
inform the reader on these matters so that
the uninformed will conic to know that the
total organized Jewish community in the
United States has rejected the Council for
Judaism and all that it stands for.
In previous sections of this study we
quoted the findings and reactions of many
Jewish organizations. We cite here some
additional pertinent statements relevant to
this subject, some of which have been made
as recently as the past few months.
THE AMERICAN JEWISH CONFERENCE
Soon after the formation of the council
and its announcbd objectives, the American
Jewish Conference, the most representative
organ of Jews ever to be established in the
United States, combining both Zionist and
non-Zionist bodies, denounced the Council
for Judaism as a disruptive force and "re-
pudiated the council's attempt to sabotage
the collective Jewish will." The conference
represented 85 national Jewish organisations
as well as scores of local Jewish communities
who sent delegates who were democratically
elected to serve. Among the 65 national
organizations were the following:
American Association for Jewish Educa-
tion, American Jewish Committee, American
Jewish Congress, B'nal Errith, Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis, Free Sons of
Israel. Hadasaah, Jewish Labor Committee,
Jewish National Workers Alliance, Jewish
War Veterans. National Council for Jewish
Zducation. National Council of Young Israel,
Rabbirdcsi Amenably of America, Rabbinical
Council of America, Union of Arnerican He;
brew Congregations. 'Onion of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations. United Synagogue of
America, Zionist Organization of America.
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INSIDIOUS PEOFAGAHDA7-"SUTTEIE DOGS ARE
STILL SARKING"?PART 7
In previous sections of this study we
quoted the findings of many Jewish organi-
sations. We cite here some additional per-
tinent statements relevant to. this subject:
Prof. Albert Einstein: "The American
Council for Judaism is a fairly exact copy
Or the Zentralverelli teutacher. Staatsburg
juedischen Glaubens (central Association
of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) of un-
happy memory, which in the days Of our
crucial need showed !tacit utterly impotent,
and coroded the Jewish group by under-
tinning that inner certitude by which our
people could have overcome the trials of this
difficult age."
Dr. Stephen S. /Mee: "The American
Council for Judaism has made an attempt
to divide Jews between faith and people.
Faith and people are not two different and
separable factors. Vi,e are not going to ac-
cept a new Torah from a group of men who
come to us with the readiness to destroy the
democratic character and
people of Israel."
Dr. Abbe Hillel Silver: "These (ACJ)
Jews did everything in their power to prevent
the establishment of the State of Israel.
They put every conceivable stumbling block
In the way. They joined forces with the
enemies of Israel not of our faith. They
knocked on every door to inform against
their own people. Though they were them-
selves religiously indifferent, they suddenly
discovered, as a shrewd part of their strategy,
a vast devotion to abstract Judaism, under
that cloak, as a council for Judaism, they
proceeded to spread their insidious political
propaganda. They lost out. The caravan of
the builders moved on but the dogs are still
barking."
Rabbi Robert Gordis, of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary, prominent leader in con-
servative Judaism: "The American Council
for Judaism is not American, for It contra-
venes the basic principles of American de-
mocracy. Nor is the council dedicated to
the cause of Judaism, for it betrays those
instincts, those ideals and aspirations which
have been flesh of our flesh and bone of .
our bone for 3,000 years."
Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstetn, prominent
leader in orthodox Judaism: "By divorcing
ourselves from this group, by denouncing
its statements, by administering a forceful
and effective rebuke that will be understood
by Jews and non-Jews, we affirm that these
men, by their statements, have placed them-
selves outside the pale and camp of Israel."
The Reverend Dr. Joachim Prinz, presi-
dent of the American Jewish Congress. said
recently: "The American Council for Juda-
ism speaks for only a small band of people
whose aims are destructive, whose methods
are deplorable. It would seek to deprive
hundreds of thousands of American Jews
of their basic right to espouse a cause which
Is consonant with our American democratic
way of life. Its target is the negation of
support for Israel on the part of Americans
who feel a spiritual and cultural affinity
with Israel.
"The American Council for Judaism, with
its inadequate grasp both of Americanism
and Judaism distorts the meaning of Zion-
ism and the nature of Zionist devotion. It
seeks to cast suspicion on fellow Jews, and
even, despite pious protestations of human-
itarianism, seeks to undermine the United
Jewish Appeal, source of blessing and life
for millions of hapless Jews throughout the
world. As president of the American Jewish
Congress, an organization which defends the
Tights of all Americana whose civil liberties
are threatened, I condemn and repudiate
everything for which the American Council
for Judaism stands."
Mr. Label Katz, president of the B'nal
Writh Organization, in a recent statement:
"The American Council for Judaism, repre-
senting an infinitesimal segment of Jews?
more political than religious in their con-
cerns?has, through its activities and pro-
nouncements, wrought considerable harm in
the area of community relations by project-
ing an inaccurate stereotype of the Jew as
disloyal to America, merely because Jews
have demonstrated a legitimate, humanita-
rian and spiritual concern for the State of
Israel and its inhabitants.
"While we would not deny this group its
right to speak, it should be known that it
does not speak for any sizable segment of
the Jewish community, and what it says
manifests not only a distortion of the Jew-
ish tradition, but exhibits a lack of under-
standing of the pluralistic, democratic na-
ture of our American soclity."
Mr. Lewis H. Weinstein, chairman of the
National Community Relations Advisory
Council, in a 1963 statement, reaffirmed the
position of the NCRAC taken originally in
1950 which "condemned the council for
Judaism for its unfounded charges and in-
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rineridoes on the loyalty of Anierican Jews.
Such charges are shared only by the profes-
sional anti-Semites, w?lie seize upon any pre-
text for fulmtnating against Jews. The base-
less slurs of .the council violate every prin-
ciple of truth and decency." He further
stated:
views eX-Presse'CI in -1950, as those of
the overwhelming majority of American Jews,
have been frequentlyyeaffirmed during the
past 13 years, and are more strongly held
today than ever before."
VISE aX,71.$1-1 wsa -YETEXA ,NS 'SPEAKS
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,"The Jewish ,3Var Veterans conclebtria the.
actions a the American Counciljor Judaism_
in supporting, aiding and abetting the Soviet-
Arab ambitions, an points out that the
council is acting as the instrument of ;the,
Arab bloc, and that it );_,0 _revealed as a
threat to, grie, speurny and defense of the
'Crated State.S.:,,W_e_,Invite____alLioyal Ameri-
cans of the Aewish.,fer?th, to_ ald_in negating
the dangerous practices of the ,couricil and,
' to join us in eliminating this hazard to our
natiOnal,aafetY." ,
Mr...IVIOrten,LOndon, president of the JWV,
,
in April 1.963, noted that the statements of.
the council _Were 3).0u used by the Soviet
Embassy in Washington and by Communist
periodicals "to minimize and , obscure the
plight of Russian Jews." He further_
, said: is, ,particularly ironic that an orga-
nization Whichhae the?WOrit',Ingla,ism' in ,its
title, eon, ,funetien, ed?eynically as a cover
for Russian
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, ,
The love Of ,gprt is a. constantly reiterated
theme in tha.elassia_literature, 01 the Jewish.
faith,
faith The drew pX,,theZi
WaSlievCr'relitiquislied during the centuries
of, dispersion and martyrdom. Jeremiah ad-
vised the exiles fQ pray for the peace of the
land in v,ittia_h_ they lived. The Talmud
taught that the law of the land in which.
Jew's live is hinding upon them. In this
Spirit, Jews are loyal to the lands in which ,
they dwell. While, they continued to serve
God encl. ;m u oer, the world, Jews prayed
for tie restoration, of,Zion.
_ Judiimh toRelkeP. that the, whole earth is
.3alled with the glory_ of God and that He
Is to be Praised from the rising of the sun
to the going ,.down. thereof, Yet, the same
religion which first proclaimed the concern
of the universal pod for all children of men,
Was, not incop_sietently, concerned with the
fate of the people of Israel and_the land of
Thrael: '
, And the Lord ,eppeared unto Abram, and
? ?
sald, "Unto thy seed will ?I give this land."?
Genesis 12: 7.. _ , ?
Prom the dawn of Jewish history, from
one end of the, Bhle tr/ the _Other, the des-
tiny of the people of Israel is linked with
the land of Israel, It was promised to Abra-
44n1,3s44c,ai,Jaeo hztel.their..ehildrell 1 or. -
ever.. Moses tiled?ori?Mo_Unt_Nelio, longing to
enter it. There the prophets preached their
Imperishable message of justice and peace
for Israel and.allmanXbad; there the Psalm-
ist sang of his 4/ye fer?God.aud_ God's love
for man. When the _prophet threatened
punishment, it was An_ternaS of exile from
the land; when he spoke words of comfort
and consolation, it was. in terms of return
to the land; and when, he dreamed of the
messianic age, it was an age which would
Witness the return to Zion as a prelude to
an era of peace and justice for all the chil--
dren of men.
Who can forget Jeremiah's poignant pic-
ture of Rachel weeping for her exiled chil-
dren and God's promise that they shall re-
turn from the land of the enemy. Every-
one who has thrilled to the rhapsody of Zion
redeemed, will remember the latter chapters
of Isaiah, beginning with "Comfort ye, com-
fort ye my people, saith your God. Speak
to the heart of Jerusalem." The conclud-
ing words of Amos seem to speak to us of
our time: "And I will bring again the cap-
tivity of my people of Israel and they shall
build the waste cities and dwell in them,
and they shall plant vineyards, and drink
the wine thereof * * * and I will plant them
on their land and they shall no more be
uprooted from their land which I have given
them, saith .the Lord thy God."
The centrality of Zion in Scripture is so
clear that it is remarkable that any have
sought to deny it.
7 [From the American Examiner, Sept. 5,
1953]
RABBIS' CONDEMNATION OF THE AD4S5ICAN
COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM--"WHAT IS INCOM-
PREHENSIBLE IN THE COUNCIL'S POSITION,"
SAY THE RABBIS, "IS THE FALSE CLAIM OF A
CONTRADICTION BETWEEN LOVE FOR ISRAEL
AND UNIVERSAL JUDAISM"?CONCLUSION
More than the Bible and the Talmud,
the Siddur or prayerbook was the constant
companion of the Jew through the centuries
of oppression and through it he voiced his
sorrow and his joy, his longings and his
dreams. Three times a day, wherever he was
he prayed to the God of the universe, but he
turned his face toward Jerusalem. Three
times a day, in the principal prayer of the
liturgy, the Amidah, he asked God to sound
the great shofar for his freedom and to
gather up the exiled ones from the ends of
the earth. In spite of the rack, the stake and
tke.e...rernatOry, he continued to believe in the
redemption of Zion.
In the grace recited when his infant child
was brought into the covenant of Abraham,
the Jew_ prayed: "Build Jerusalem, thy
holy cfty, speedily in our days." The 13-
year-old Bar Mitzvah boy in the concluding
blessings chanted, "Have mercy on Zion,
for it is the house of our life." Under the
wedding canopy the cantor sang, "Soon may
there be heard in the cities of Judah and
the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy
and gladness, the voice of groom and bride."
And when the bereaved family entered the
synagogue after the week of mourning they
were greeted with "May God comfort you
among the other mourners of Zion and Jeru-
salem."
The Reform Prayer book contains Psalm
12, with its prayer for the peace of Jerusalem,
and Micah 4, which proclaims, "Out of Zion
shall come for the Law and the word of God
from Jerusalem." A new prayer on page 88
Fiera ged to uphold "the hands of our broth-
ers who toil to rebuild Zinn," and speaks of
the eternal hope for the restoration of Zion,
as a living witness to the truth of God's word
which shall lead the nations to the reign of
phace. '
UNIVERSALISM AND PARTICULAR/SM IN JUDAISM
It was the prophets of Israel who first em-
phasized the concern of the universal God
for all the children of men; yet these same
prophets were passionately concerned with
the fate of their people, Israel, and prophe-
sied both their dispersion because of their
sins and their ultimate ingathering to Israel
and redemption. Love of Israel was not in-
consistent with love of mankind either in the
mind of the prophet or in the mind of God.
The universal God is not a discovery of the
American Council for Judaism; it is the cen-
tral principle of Judaism. Generations of
believing Jews read the prophets with love,
and wept over the destruction of Jerusalem
and rejoiced at the promise of its restora-
tion. Only arrogance and ignorance can de-
scribe these faithful generations of martyrs
as deficient in their understanding of the
universal God.
What is incomprehensible in the approach
of the Council for Judaism is the baseless
claim that there is a contradiction between
love for Israel and universal Judaism. Nei-
ther the prophets nor their descendants felt
any such conflict; they "loved God, Israel and
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all mankind with all their heart, all their
soul, and all their might."
Some 19th century Jewish thinkers, con-
cerned for the future of a war-ravaged world
whose situation they regarded as the result
of nationalism, dreamed of a world made
one under God in which nations, as such,
would disappear. And there has always been
a small band of Jews, with less exalted mo-
tives, who felt that the Zionist element
in Jewish tradition might not constitute
good public relations in the countries where
they had so recently acquired citizenship.
Others who were captivated by Isaiah's vision
of a world without war, failed to grasp its
full meaning. A close reading reveals that
Isaiah, who was an intense patriot, saw
a continuing role for the people of Israel
in the land of Israel, even in the end of
days.
"The word that Isaiah the son of, Amos
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.' 'And
it shall come to pass in the end of days,
that the mountain of the Lord's house shall
be established as the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills';
"And all nations shall flow unto it. -
"And many peoples shall go and say:
"'Come ye, and let us go up to the moun-
tain of the Lord.
"To the house of God of Jacob;
"And He will teach us 'of His ways,
"And we will walk in His paths.'
"For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
"And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
"And He shalt judge between the nations,
"And shall decide for many peoples;
"And they shall beat their swords into
plowshares,
"And their spears into pruning hooks;
"Nation shall not lift up sword against na-
tion,
"Neither shall they learn war anymore"?
Isaiah 2:1-4.
Many noted scholars call our attention to
the profundity of the prophet's thought.
Which does not regard the disappearence of
particular peoples as a prerequisite to a
peaceful world. Nationalism is not negated,
but nations are required to submit to God's
law of justice. "And many peoples shall go
and say: 'Come let us go up to the mountain
of the Lord * * * For out of Zion shall go
forth the law, and the word of the Lord from
Jerusalem.'" Again, "And He shall judge
between the nations, and shall decide for
many peoples," and finally, "Nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war anymore."
The destruction of individual nations, the
super-personalities, that walk the world
stage, Would be an act of cultural and spir-
itual vandalism, reducing God's variegated
world to drab homogeniety. Conflicting na-
tional interests must be resolved without
violence, as conflicting individual interests
are, by submission to the law of God. This
is the Jewish vision of the end of days.
Some 19th century theologians seized upon
one-half of the prophetic message and mis-
construed the implications of prophetic uni-
versalism. These men were opposed to all
nationalism. The American Council for Ju-
daism, however, is neither so consistent, nor
so benevolently misguided. It affirms its
American nationalism and sympathizes with
Arab nationalism. The only people whose
national aspirations it assails?is Israel; it
thus dishonors and distorts the universalism
of the prophets.
The children of Israel were bound to God
at Sinai as a "kingdom of priests and a holy
people." The individual Jew serves God
wherever he lives, but in a Jewish society he
has the opportunity to implement more fully
the social morality of his faith.
, To Martin Buber, Israel represents an op-
portunity to recreate the holy community in
an authentic relationship to God. To social
Idealists such as Einstein, Brandeis, and Ben-
Gurion, it offered the means to make real the
prophetic dream of a just society. Tradi-
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tionalists like Rabbi Meir Berlin, Rabbi
Alkalai, and Rabbi Kalischer, and modern
American religious leaders like Dr. Stephen
Wise, Dr. Judah Magma, and Dr. Abbe Billet
8Uyer were drawn to Zionism by a deep
relgloua impulse.
modern J'ew sees in israel not merely
a refuge for his hapless brethren, though
this is justification enough, but a cultural
center and a spiritual opportunity. He gives
thshkR that the prayers of generations have
been answered in his time because be has
been privileged to see the beginning of the
retleMption, of brad, which his tradition
toilettes Is the prelude' to the redemption of
all, mankind and the establishment of a just
eniipeacefid world.
illfter the holocaust of Nazi Europe and the
death of 6 million Jews, we today are
privileged to witness the tint flowering of the
re4emption. This prophetic fulillitnent
attends as a symbol and a sign that men can.
Under God. achieve the ancient holy dream
of, a world in which nation shall not lift
Lu: sword against` nation, one in which they
thrill not learn war anymore.
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Medicare Today
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
_
HON. STEVEN' B. DEROUNIAN
or NEW YORK
IN THE HOIll3E OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wecfnesthry , October 16, 1963
Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, the
vigektr newspapers are an important
part of the backbone of our Republic.
I am pleased to Insert herewith a very
frpe editorial of the Mineola American,
Ich appeared in its October 8 edition,
- rf,garding the problems of medical care
icrr the aging, This editorial makes a
neat deal of sense.
. Stasuenat TODAY
Cele may be justified In asking "What has
hanpened to caeclicarerthe hill for pro-
dding Medical benefits of various kinds to
*Is eryone drawing social security payments.
'When this measure was introduced, it will
he remember, all of the administration guns
are brought up in its support. No other
tic measure was pushed so hard, and
tration. leaders apparently scented
The result, to use the vernacular,
;eei D.o dice." Congress, in the face of all
pressure. just Said no, and no again.
lifielicare la back?aid bilis like oTd soldiers,
ten after repeated failure, never seem to
e. Bilt the big guns are silent. Token
support Comes from fts sponsors, but little
More.
Why? The answer is that congressional
(Maness is the direct result of several di-
'terse but important factors.
I. The past-65 population group Is no-
ere near as bad, off financially as the
care crew have asserted. By and large.
taking
all elements into consideration, they
roeM to be better off, on the average, than
unger groups.
2. Medicare would give the benefits, on a
blanket baste, to great numbers of social
Security beneficiaries who neither want nor
Fd it... At the same time, it would have
lusted. millions of elderly people not with-
the social security framework.
8. The coat, according to independent ex-
perts, would reach unsupportable heights.
Many billions a year.
4. The existing Kerr-Mills bill?for provid-
ing Federal medical financial aid to the
elderly in need, under a system of State
atinsinistration?is working well and is being
extended.
5. The voluntary medical insurance plans,
offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield and
commercial insurance companies, are doing
a superb job of providing protection to all
who want It at moderate cost.
6. There Is a very distinct feeling In this
country that we've already gone too far In
welfare statism, and that medicare would
take us a long step farther along the road of
government domination of everything and
everybody.
And that seems to be the status of medi-
care today.
Goldwater Right on TV Debates
IMTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. DANIEL D. ROSTENKOWSKI
or mireinta
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, October 16, 1963
, Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker,
Mx, Milburn P. Akers, a feature writer
for the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote a Most
trite=ting article on presidential TV
dPhats.4 which appears in' today's issue of
tile Sum-Times. I would like to bring
Mr. Aker's views W the attention of My
colleagues, therefore, under permission
granted, I would like to have this article
printed, with my remarks in the Appendix
of the REGoae:
GOLDWATER MONT ON TV DEBATES
(By Milburn P. Akers) "
Senator BARRY GOLDWATER has wisely de..
dined Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's challenge to
a joint discussion or debate of issues con-
fronting the two Republican aspirants for
the presidential nomination. Likewise,
President Kennedy, who owes a considerable
measure of his 1080 political success to his
debates with Richard m. Nixon, would do
well to refuse to participate in a series of
iroa TV spectaculars.
Such debates settle little other than which
candidate is the more photogenic. The
Nixon-Kennedy debates, which demonstrated
little, if anything, as to which man would
make the better President of the 'United
States, undoubtedly had a sizable, perhaps
determinative. effect upon the outcome of
that election.
They were interesting productions as TV
extravaganzas go. But they afforded little
Insight Into the character and qualifications
of either man; in fact, they afforded little
knowledge of what either man actually be-
lieved. or what he represented. But they
produced effects,
A TV debate, limited in time and in
scope, doesn't give a candidate ample time
in which to develop a theme. They become
exercises in semantics. Skill in debate and
quickness in recall aren't necessarily quali-
fications for the Presidency. Wisdom and
leadership?qualities which don't necessarily
project in such encounters?are more im-
portant.
To liken the Nixon-Kennedy debates of
1960 to the Lincnin-pouglas debates of 1858
is to show a woeful lack of knowledge of
the encounters between the two aspirants
for the Illinois senatorship of more than a
century ago. One Lincoln-Douglas debate
afforded the two forensic antagonists more
time to develop their themes and state their
convictions than either Mr. Kennedy or Vice
President Nixon had put together in their
entire set of such appearances.
As President, arr. Kennedy should not be
subjected to such debates. One slip could
create an International incident. Mr. Ken-
nedy is an experienced debater. He might
not make that slip. But the chance
shouldn't be taken.
Whoever wins the Republican presiden-
tial nomination should realize that fact and
not press for such an encounter. There is
a vast difference in a debate in which nei-
ther speaker is President of the United
States, as was the case in the Nixon-Ken-
nedy series.
GOLDWATER rejected Rockefeller's challenge
to debate with the suggestion that Repub-
licans should be seeking to build up the
party; not tear down one another. Precon-
vention debates between members of the
same party would very likely have the ef-
fect the Senator envisions. One of the
two--Gotawarze or Rockefeller?would pro-
ject the better TV Image, would, undoubted-
ly, be more glib than the other and would,
consequently, have much the better of the
series.
Neither the Presidency of the United
States, nor a nomination by a major party
for that office, should be made even partly
dependent upon a TV show. If that is the
proper way to decide the Presidency the
Republicans might well nominate Jack
Benny and the Democrats Jerry Lewis.
Solo TV appearances by presidential
aspirants can contribute to the public's
knowledge of a candidate's qualities. On.
them, minor contrasts which loom so large
in a joint appearance mean far less. The
fact that one man is tall and the other man
short, that one man is made up well and
the other is made up poorly, that one man is
glib and the other a bit ponderous or that
one has almost intitantaneous recall and the
other one doesn't mean little when the time
comes to make decision of war or peace. Yet
such trivialities create great reactions by a
not inconsiderable portion of a TV audience.
TV stars_ may properly be judged by their
abilities to capture the affections of TV
audiences. But a successful appearance in a
TV extravaganza, or an unsuccessful one,
doesn't necessarily indicate that a candidate
is or isn't qualified for the Presidency.
Politically, GOLDWATER made the right de-
cision in rejecting Rockefeller's challenge.
GOLDWATER is far ahead in his contest with
the New York Governor for nomination.
Why should he risk his position? Nixon,
in a somewhat similar position in 1960, made
that mistake.
Politics aside, however: Mr. Kennedy, who
will be the 1964 Democratic nominee, doesn't
need the exposure as he did in 1960. But
more important is the fact that a President
of the United States, no matter who he may
be, or what the circumstances are, should
not risk the chance inherent in all ad-lib
exchanges of making a slip which could
reverberate in all the chancelleries of the
world. Whoever the ultimate Republican
nominee may be alao-uldn't expect him to do
SO.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund
Act of 1963
MITENSION OF REMARKS
HON. CHARLES L. WELTNER
OF GEORGIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, October 16, 1963
Mr. WELTNER. Mr. Speaker, I have
just received a copy of H.R. 3846, as
amended, reported by the Committee on
Interior and Insular Affairs on October
11, 1963. This bill, the Land and Water
Conservation Fund Act of 1963, would
serve a laudable purpose?the develop-
ment of natural resources of our Nation.
However, one amendment seeks to im-
pose admission fees, including annual
fees of as much as $7 for the use of
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