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NEGRO INTELLECTUAL LEADS FIGHT AGAINST ANTI-JEWISH DISCRIMINATION. - Dr. Daniel G. Hill, heod of Onfarlo'i Human Rights Commission.
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By M. J. Nurenberger
EIVCORE: BOrRGVIBA
For the first time in the history of Arab-Israeli relations, one of the great Arab statesmen has defied the boycott and dared recognize the reality of Israel. For Tunisia's President Bourgniba knows well that his message to former President Truman, apologizing for not attending the opening of the Truman Peace Center in Jerusalem, is a complete breach of the established policy of Arab statesmen to ignore the Jewish state— if not to attack it at every opportunity.
Several years ago, I pointed out the difference between Bourgidba and the other AraD leaders.
First, one must remember that Bourgidba is the father of his country. He fought French colonialism prior to the liberation of his native land. He did not have it so easy as some Arab rulers who inherit thrones or organize a coup d'etat. He battled, conquered and, remarkably, did not become permeated with the chauvinistic malady of some who fought colonialism. Liberated Tunisia tmder Bourguiba has become one of the few tridy liberal countries in the Arab' world, a country without perpetual nationalistic and anti-French agitation.
Second, Bourguiba remembers tK ole of some Jews who had helped the legitimate struggle of Arabs in French North Africa towards emancipation. He also is aware of the centuries-old affinity between Arab and Hebrew ctdtiire and the good friendship among the Semitic cousins. Thus he openly and candidly told the Arabs, once and for all, to sit down at the negotiating table with the Israelis to discuss peace and coexistence. For Bourguiba understands that the ostrich-like attitude of some of his colleagues who re-fused to see Israel will not change the situatilpn geographically. Jews and Arabs will exist side by side in the Middle East. What remains to be seen is how this existence will develop. Will new wars darken the relationship between two peoples united by blood ties and culture, or will a peaceful rapport develop^
Apparently Bourguiba is disappointed not only by the misunderstanding in Arab lands but also by the obvious lack of enthusiastic support from some Israeli circles. Still he marches on fearlessly- Only recently he repeated his suggestion of direct Arab-Israeli nego-c tuitions. Now, in the message to Truman, Bourguiba' candidly regrets he could not go to Jerusalem. •
The meaning of this message cannot be-swept away even by the provocateurs tn Syria who are'making every, effort to start a war. And the sooner the world hearkens to men like Bourgutba, the better we shall understand that the present, armistice-situation in iht Middle East cannot last. An armistice which has endured for dmost nineteen years can lead to a flare-up.
Again in the Near East it is time towage peace. ■
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APPEAL TO JEWS HERE TO AID FIGHT
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TORONTO, FRIDAY, JULY 22nd, 1966
by Ruth Goldsmith, The Canadian Jewish News Reporter
A prominent Negro, Dr. Daniel G. Hill, is leading the way. in the struggle for human rights in Ontario. As Director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Dr. Hill must await a - firm recommendation from Judge L, A. Deziel before taking action in the case of discrimination against two Wil-lowdale famiUes by Mrs. W. A. Fletcher of Gravenhurst who refused to rent her summer cottages to them because they were Jewish "As soon as we have the Jud ge's recommendation, we will act", Dr. Hill assured The Canadian Jewish News Judge Deziel was appointed to enquire into this case under the regulations of the Ontario Human Rights Code After hearing evidence presented during court proceed ings at Bracebridge, Judge Deziel said that he could not conceive of a more flagrant defiance of the law. It therefore appears likely that he will recommend further action by the Ontario Human Rights Commission and by the Honourable Leslie Rown-tree, Ontario's Minister of Labour. Judge Deziel ex-)ects to have completed his nvestigations by the end of August.
During the hearing held last week, Mrs. Fletcher's lawyer argued that the cottages at Brydon's Bay offered for rent by his client were not customarily open to the public. However, a licence issued by the Department of Tourism presented as evidence proved Mrs. Fletcher to be officially registered with the Department. In addition, the cottages had been advertised for rent in a Toronto newspiper. The Jewish couples, Mr. & Mrs. Donald Organ and Mr. & Mrs. Leon Berstein, had each paid a $100 deposit to secure the accommodation. Mrs. Fletcher had then indicated to her prospective tenants that another cabin nearby was occupied by a Jewish family — "in case they objected". Mrs. Organ testified that she then informed Mrs. Fletcher that she and her husband, as well as the Berstein's, were Jewish. The next day, she received a telephone call from Mrs. Fletcher's son to cancel both reservations on the pretext that he had previously rented the cottages. The deposits were refunded.
Two non-Jewish representatives of the Toronto and District Labour Committee for Human Rights were sub. sequently able to secure the accommodation — and this led to a full enquiry.
The Toronto "Telegram" reported that Judge Deziel "will recommend court acton against a Lake Muskoka cottage community operator (Mrs, Fletcher) for alleged discrimination against two Jevnsh families". Mrs. Fletcher IS liable to pay a fme of up to $500 should the Mm-ister of Labour prosecute.
One of the more positive aspects of the case, according to Dr. Hill, was the presence at the hearing of about '5 teen-agers from nearby Jewish camps Tamarack and Ogama. "I had an opportunity to meet with some of the kids at:the. camp and to thank them personally. for showing interest m this mat' ter and for/coming to the hearing. It was. educational and instructive Tor them — and a source of encouragement to the complainants. I think this indicated a great deal of insight on the part of their camp directors arid enabled them to hear how
their Government handles problems of alleged discrimination."
Dr. Hill wishes Jews would be less reticent in lodging complaints about acts of discrimination. "It is impor. tant that people face problems of discrimination", he thinks. "Since we have government legislation, we hope that people will report acts of discrimination to enable us to help thep. Our problem has been that complainants do not fulfil their obligation as citizens to make use X>f the machinery available to them — free of charge."
J. Alan Borovoy, Director of the Toronto and District Labour Committee for Human Rights, would liice more citizens to come forward to register cases of discrimination. His organization is sponsored by the Ontario Federation of Labour and handles ca^es of discrimina-
FORMER AMBASSADOR TO CANADA IN NEW POST - Dr. YoQcov Herzog has been promoted to Director-General of the Israeli Prime Minister's office. He will also continue to advise Mr. Eshkol on foreign of-foirs.
tion against all ethnic, racial or religious groups. Mr. Borovoy is optimistic concerning the battle for human rights in Ontario. "I think the rate of anti-semitism is declining" he told this reporter. "But there are still pockets of problems that need to be dealt with".
Asked why the Fletcher case is different from other cases. Mr. Borovoy replied that in this instance the com. plainants had been more than usually cooperative. "We find that middle-class people of whatever ethnic origin, tend to be more reluctant to expose themselves to publicity in these matters than are working-class people or students".
Mr. Borovoy emphasized that his organization would never act on a case without the specific approval of the person involved. "By coming to us they don't take any chances"!
CALLS FOR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL. - Syrio's dictotor president Atasi, is becked by communists.
SYRIA WANTS WAR
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria declared her determination to carry on with her policy for the "liberation" of Palestine unhindered by "Israeli aggression."
Syrian state-run newspapers and radio said Israeli "aggression" was evidence that "our policy is right and therefore we are determined to go ahead with it,"
Israeli planes, in what was described as a reprisal raid, attacked an anti-aircraft position and earth-moving equipment eight miles inside Syria last Thursday.
SPEAK fROM BAPTIST PULPIT IH SOVIET CAPITAL
RABBIS CALL FOR INTERFAITH
ONITY IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW — Two American rabbis Spoke Sunday from the pulpit of a Russian Baptist Church. They called for understanding by all reUgious people in this land of official atheism.
Fifteen of the 22 representatives of the American Rabbis Conference (Reform) who are on a two-week study of Jewish communities in four Soviet cities, went to the Baptist Union Church tmder an arrangement made through Soviet authorities.
Rabbi Hyman J. Schachtel of Temple Beth Israel, Houston, Tex., speaking in Enghsh, told the overflow crowd:
"The U.S.S.R. is dedicated to the triumph of science and atheism. We Jews and Christians alike, as well as other believers, are dedicated to the love of God and faith m Him."
Then Rabbi George B. Lieberman of the Central Synagogue, Rockville Centre, L. I., who spoke hi Russian, said the American rabbis "came to salute your courage, your piety, your aspirations for the future."
"The thne has come for aU of us together to build not walls but bridges, not Uttle paths but highways from heart to heart, from nation to nation," he added.
World Couttiil Supports Day Sthook
TARNOPOL KILLERS CET LIFE
BONN — A West German court sentenced two former >SS officers to life imprisonment last Friday for murder and complicity in the extermination of Polish Jews during the Hitler era (West Germany has no death penalty).
The court in Stuttgart sen fenced five other former SS (Elite Guard) functionaries to lesser prison terms for their roles in the slaughter of thousands of Jews in Tar-nopol, eastern Galicia.
Three of the defendants were acquitted, one because the court found he had abetted the murders on orders and the others for lack of evidence.
Receiving life sentences were. Hermann Muller, a 57-year-old former SS major, and Paul Rable, 60, a former captain.
,iiENEVA, ..(JCNS) - The Praesidiu'm of the World coutidl on Jewish Education last Friday endorsed the Jewish Day School as the most intenslv. form of education for Jewish youth and agreed' that the Council, when fully constituted next year, would give special emphasis to advancins this tj-pe of education in Jewish communities ihroughoiit the world.
The day school issue provoked lengthy debate In the preparation of statement of objectives that is being evolved for the Council at a conference here of praesi-dium members and leading Jewish educationists from twelve countries.
The statement, as adopted by the conference, with three Americans dissenting, said that th? Council "will give Its support to every form of Jewish educational practice. It will seek to promote especially the Jewish day school as a more intensive type of Jewish education, and it will encourage the establishment of such day schools and other Insti-tution committed to maximum Jewish education wherever po;--sible".
There was unanimity among the conference participants tha* the day school approach Is an effective form of Jewish education, but American r^jpresen-tatives were sharply divided on the proposal that the Council single out it for preferential consideration.
One of the dissentors, Mr. Isaac Toubin, of New York, executive director of the Ameri can Association for Jewish Edu cation, said that it was "unwise for an international body devoted to the advancement of Jewish education to express a preference for an international body devoted process, denigrate the role of all other forms of Jewish edu cation".
But another American, Rabbi Israel Miller, former president of the Rabbinical Council of America, which coihprises the Orthodox rabbinate, denied that the day school programme removes Jewish youngsters "from the mainstream of democratic life". Instead, he said. It tends to "reinforce a cultural pluralism which strengthens the oemocra'
tic community",
Itiibbt Mliln- iaid it was vital for the Council, if it is to serve its purpose, to establish standards of education and that the day school'has proved Its worth-He noted a "ferraent!^" in tho
United States within Conservative .and Liberal Judaism>-anJ among Yiddlshists, for the dtab-lishment of day schools aiid that the Council's endonement could encourage such action. Representatives from Britain,
Australia, South Africa, Europe and Israel spoke ..suongly jn favour of the statement and its special endbrsemeht of the day school programme.
The statement was adopted by an overwhelming majority.
iSRMI ARABS UUNCH MOVEMENT FOR PEACE
HAIFA, (JCNS) - An "Arab Action Committee for Israel* has been formed in Haifa by a group of influential Arab intcl lectuals and civil servants. Tlie Committee also represents Druse.
SpokesmeiP^Joint out that most of the non-Jewish population identified itself with the State, and Mr. Rustuni Bastouni, a
a former Mapam Knesset member, said that the Israeli Arabs are opposed to all attsmps at armed action against Israel'.
He emphasised that the pur pose of the Committee, which was not a political body, was to demonstrate this, to the Jewish population of Israel and to people abroad.
Mr. Selim Joubran, the secretary of Mapai's Arab department, said that liie Jewish population needed to be convinced thJ problems of Israel's 250,000 Arabs should not be confused with the difficulties of, the State's relations with her neighbours.
"We regard ourselves free citizens of Israel and expect equal rights," he added.
Dr. SmobovitsTo LonHon
LONDON, (JCNS) - Rabbi Dr. week of July. Immanuel Jakobovits, minister It is understood that he hopes
Cet Prison for JHIurderbg Student
ROSARIO, Argentina, (JCNS) — Five Argentme students were, found guilty by Judge Dr.. Martin Soto, president of the' local tribunal, of murdenng Raul Al-terman, a 20.year-old Jewish stu dent at the university here. In february..l964, and were sentenced to pnson^terms of between 14 years-and three years. (
The court was told that Alter-man was called to the door:of his flat: to receive a telegram. -This was^an- excuse and he was shot when he. opened the door. ..The five • students sentenced are: Wenceslao Benitez Aranjo,
aged 20,14 years' imprisionraent; Luis Angel Barbieri, 29, eleven years, Alberto Miguel Mansilla 18, nine years: Juan Jos6 Gonzales, 24, six years; and Fernando Vlcano, 23, three years. -Earher, the Buenos Aires criminal court provisionally dropped legal proceedings- againsi two leaders of the outlaw^ed neo-Nazi Tacuara organisation, suspected: of beingv.involvedm Alterman's Inu^de^i^ oil the grounds of insufficient evldenop. The two men freed were Enrique Gustavo Grassi Susini and EmI-ho Berra Aleman.
of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, New Vork, to whom a "call" has been issued to allow his name to go foavard for selection, as Britain's Chief Rabbi, intends to visit this countrj' in the last
to'have talks in London wito various coinmunal leaders before deciding finally whether or not to accept the post.
Dr. JakoIJovits is reported to have told a "Sunday Times" cor-
ABIRA STARTS SBtVICE
HAIFA, (JCNS) - The 2i0-ton dicsel tug, the Abira, which was built in Germany for work m Haifa port but has been ; idle since her arrival last December because of a dispute over the size of her crew, was put into
FORMQI TIHOimHI HONOitED Hi
Dr. Alfred Auerback, prominent psychiatrist in San Francisco and son of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Auerback, 400 Walmer Road, recently was elected vice president of the American Psychiatnc As-sociaUon at its annualv meeting in Atlantic City.
Dr. Auerback is a recipient of the Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Medico-Psychological Association (Great Bntain), the Aus-tiralian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the American^College of Psychiatrists. r ■ ' I I II
For The Record
Thi Canadian Jawiih Ntwt it Hi* only Jowish newtpoptr odlN iA, puUUicd ond printed In Toronto rtgalprly«^52 wttkt a year. It It abo the only Jtwiib ntwtpapar pabliiiked rtgulariy in>the enHre provinu of Ontario. \
operation todaiy.
A temporary agreement was reached ilast week whereby the tug will be manned by a crew of seven, during the day and six at'night. Tne employees claimed an eighth man was needed, and agreed to arbitration. j
The Abira replaces the 30 >'ear-old steam tug "Tsuriya" inherited from the British. Although the new tug's diesel engines rc-guire less work, the men claimed she was -more complicated to operate and refused to work, her with fewer than eight men on board.
respondent in New Yij^'k: "I cannot imagine that anybody who knows me well or. knows my writings would call me either unyielding or a fundamentalist.
■'Broadly speaking, I should call myself a supporter pf enlightened UrtlioJoxy. One ro-quirfs a certain tioxibility esps-ci>illy in rcii""(!'S m;i:tfi-s v;hc\t succ-cl: lies in pi:.sin?;o;i. 0;ic cannot persuade bv rigidity."
iS BACK FROM S. AFMCAW
Prof. Dr. Nachum : Rablno-vitch, spiritual leader of Clanton Park.synagogue, returned last week from a lecture tour in South Africa and Rhodesia. Dr. Rabmovitch has noticed a tremendous iiiterest in Jewish identification in those countries-
The' Canadian Jewish News wil!)soon publish a special report on his Uip by the eminent rabbi and scholar.
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FIRST TORONTO RABBI TO SETTLE IN ISRAEL - Horav -Moshe Rom, former heod of Ye-shlva - Yesodoy Hotorah. -fSee editorial page 4).
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