Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1967 — Page 5

Friday, October 27, 1967

Kosher Food Not Available

Students Are Hungry

ALBANY, N.Y. — There are some 9,000 students attending the new campus of the State University of New York at Albany, but some of them haven’t eaten much for dinner recently. The small group, all Jewish and mostly from the New York City area, strictly observe dietary laws, while the university, state-supported and non-sectar-ian, makes no provision for special menus. TO KEEP OBSERVANCES, about 12 students are exempted from paying the meals portion of the room and board contract each student signs with the university. They cannot eat in the campus dining rooms once they have “broken contract.” Another 40 to 50 students, says, a “fasting” junior, Hirsch Cousins, would like to see kosher food served in the dining hall, even if it meant extra cost in its preparation. “We’d like to arrange for an outside caterer to come in and be allowed to serve kosher foods in the dining hall,” he noted, ••but this is illegal; only the campus food service can serve meals there.” He adds, that no one has been able to convince the university administration it should

serve the students specially supplied “kosher TV dinners” in the dining halls, as it did two years ago. COUSINS, AN officer of Hillel met with dean of students Dr. Clifton C. Thorne, to thrash out the problem, but nothing was resolved. He said he thought it would take “community pressure.” Although Thorne could not be reached for comment, the university food service director, Mel Corbiey, remarked: “We’re most sympathetic to students with special health or dietary needs, but you can’t honor all requests possible from some 9,000 students attending here.” “You’d have to have a battery of cooks that would make the Fountainbleau look sick.” A year and a half ago, seven observing Jewish students were served the kosher TV dinners in the dining halls on a trial basis over two semesters. But this was dropped as “too expensive,” Cousins said. Since then, a large number of Jewish students indicated at a recent Hillel meeting, they favor either the catering of kosher foods to their rooms or serv-

Synagogues Are Jammed In Israel and Moscow

In Israel the synagogues this year were reported to have drawn more worshippers on the High Holy Days than ever before. Synagogues everywhere were jammed with worshippers, many of them young people. Religious sources saw in this burgeoning the impact of war and victory on religious attitudes, pointing out that ever since redemption of the Wailing Wall from the hands of the enemy, tens of thousands of people have been trekking to its site, many of them placing traditional petitions in its crevices. There were an estimated 10,000

worshippers at the Wailing Wall when the blowing of the shofar signaled the end of the days of awe. Among the visitors to the sacred wall were many high government and military officials, members of parliament, prominent rabbinic figures and an admixture of students, artists and intellectuals. Some 3,000 worshippers jammed the Central Synagogue in Moscow on Yom Kippur and an overflow of about 2,000 listened to the services from the courtyard and adjacent streets. Many of the worshippers were young people.

ISRAEL GETS PRIZE NEW QUMRAM SCROLL

JERUSALEM -- A court case was imminent over possession of the invaluable new Dead Sea Scroll which has come into Israel’s possession. Announcement by Prof. Yigal Yadin that the 28-foot scroll had been confiscated by the Israel government from an Arab resident of Hebron who had been attempting to sell it for “millions of dollars" created a sensation in scholarly circles. The longest Dead Soa Scroll heretofore is the Isaiah Scroll which is ensconsed in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum here. Israel’s contention is that the scroll would normally have been the property of the Jordan Government, but that now that Hebron was in Israel-occupied territory, the scroll became her property. The former owner has retained an Israeli lawyer to sue the Israel government. The scroll, according to Yadin, was discovered in the place of

the Qumram sect in the Judea Desert, where the other 2,000year- old Dead Sea scrolls were found. The scroll, on very fine parchment, gives details, among other things, of how Israel was to defend itself against foreign invaders.

Films To Be Used To Glorify Hitler BONN — Reports from here indicate that the NPD, West Germany’s notorious Neue Partie Deutschland, plans to glorify Hitler’s SS men in a documentary film. Site of the filming of the new Nazi Party project is believed to be Spam. Purpose of the movie is an attempt to “influence the thoughts of the German people via the performances of the soldiers," it was pointed out.

ing the special dinners in the dining halls, he reported. Several freshmen were told they would have such privileges before they came to the university, he observed, and are disappointed now. MOST JEWISH students now eat in the dining halls and break dietary rules, since “there aren’t any good kosher delicatessens nearby,” a student noted. So — until the problem is resolved, Keri Gross continues to eat every meal in her dormitory room. Her diet consists of fruit, cold salads and “not much else.” And Bill Stenzer also continues to take his meals in his room and gets along on potato chips, canned meat and tuna fish and jars of gefilte fish. He’s a freshman and Keri’s a sophomore, and like others in the small group, they prefer eating away from the dining hall. Stenzler, near-fasting, says he thought other colleges made provisions for the students, or else Hillel groups provided meals. “I’m surviving, but I eat a hot meal only on Friday and Saturdays at people’s homes off the campus. One or two meals a week isn’t actually living, is it?” U.S. Urged To Admit Refugees MOUNT MORRIS, IU. - Urging that a fair proportion of Arab refugees be admitted to United States, the Lutheran Forum asserted it is “downright cruel to use thousands of human lives as pawns in a political game.” The publication emphasized its concern is not political but humane. “The admission of Arab refugees to the United States is not to be interpreted as an endorsement of the status quo in the Middle East,” the Forum said. It added doing something constructive to help Holy Land refugees to a new life “will not in itself settle the political tensions between Israelis and Arabs but will help thousands of cruelly displaced human beings. “Let the Lutheran Federation . . . take the lead in proposing, pursuing and implementing a program of encouraging migration of a number of Palestinian refugees to this country and perhaps other host nations. This would be a contribution to human welfare in full accord with our traditions.”

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Victory Coin Sold Out The Victory Coin, issued by the Bank of Israel to commemo rate the Six Day War, sold out within hours during its first daj

of sale in the United States.

Reprisal Question As Toll On Destroyer Reached 48 TEL AVIV _ While Israel usage by the Egyptian navy ia counted the toll of dead from combat conditions, the first of her naval vessels to Eshkol withheld any direct be lost, speculation here was threat of reprisal, except to say over what if any retaliation could that Israeli blood would not be be expected. shed “wantonly.” The Destroyer Elath was sunk Reporting lo the Israeli cabby Russian-made and perhaos hiet yesterday, navy command-Russian-guided missiles while on er Schlomo Harmel said the Elath normal patrol duty in interna- took three direct hits from three

tional water of the Mediterranean near the Suez Canal. The dead were listed at 12, with another 36 missing and believed also lost. Forty-eight others were wounded, and rushed to hospitals. BEFORE THIS dispatch can be read, a response may already have been made to Egypt’s warton attack. Involved in the question is the feud between Moshe Dayan, Defense Minister and Le-

Komar missiles of the most mod-

em Russian type.

ANOTHER QUESTION that arose as a result of the attack was America’s fulfillment of commitments to supply Israel with arms. Even before the attack Eshkol had expressed the conviction that the United States will live up to its agreement oo providing Israel with weapons. Simultaneously he voiced hop<s

t-i • ... • . , that France will honor its preV! Eshkol, Prime Minister, and war commitmeRt of deliver P ing

the question of who sat on their hands and -vho was responsible for the decision to attack on June 5. The feud broke into the open again last week (P-O, Oc-. 20) with Dayan charging that Eshkol was opposed to acting, and Eshkol responding that it was he who gave the order to mo-

bilize.

Israel accused Egypt of “despicable” sneak attack with four

arms to Israel. Mr. Eshkol aired those views in an interview in the Tel Aviv daily, Yediot Achronot. He did not however specify the nature of the weapons he expected from

the U.S.

At the same time the Premier rejected the idea of a return to the 1949 armistice pacts as a basis for a settlement of ‘he current Arab-Israel crisis, Je-

Soviet-made guided missiles that cIaring that those pacts ha< ^ h(loa sent the Elath to the bottom. vitiated 5y the Arab attack las£

And British defense experts June,

expressed suspicion that Russian Israel, he asserted, is ever willknowhow may have played a part ing to listen to advice on solvin the missile sinking of the de- ing the problems of the Midde stroyer. The experts compare! East, but it will not “listen to the lack of any Egyptian mis- advice from third parties who sile activity during the Arab- do not have the power and the Israeli war last June with the possibility to carry out their adexceptional marksmanship dis- vice.” He was especially bitter played in the sinking of the against the British Government, Elath. whose policy in the Middle East, THEY INSISTED that the sink- he said, was motivated by oil and ing of the destroyer at a con- a desire to get the Suez Canal siderable distance requires great opened to British trade. He likskill and experience, indicating ened the 1967 policy of the Brita suspicion that Soviet missile ish Foreign Office in the Labor technicians directed the firing, Government to that of the lata believed to be the first .rocket Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.

Cigarette Smoking

AKRON,Ohio (P-O) — A rabbi who saw a group of school kids having an early morning cigarette before entering their classes asserted that “somehow it seems criminal for youngsters to be starting . . . this life-con-suming habit.” Writing in his bulletin. Rabbi Robert A. Hammer, of Beth El Congregation said: “I don’t know how old these boys (sometimes girls, too) are, but considering the fact that they are going to Simon Perkins Junior High School,

how old can they be?” IF WE ARE DOING anything at all to discourage smoking among the young, it is being undermined by cigarette advertising which continues to seduce the young into smoking by showing it as a wonderful, clean, refreshing, exhilerating practice, bringing with it wealth, beauty and social success, t fg nothing of the beautiful or handsome man to smoke with you, he wrote. Saying he believed that the

airwaves belonged to the people and were licensed to those who could prove they used them in the public interest, he asked, “I* there no public pressure to equal the advertising pressure?” HE SAID WE HAVE trivialized the airwaves and feel free to use them to corrupt the young, and cigarette smoking is only one e*» ample of this corruption. “But never mind,” he said. “We may be dirty and diseased, but we are making money!”