Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1969 — Page 2

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# . , * V Group To Promote Arab, Israeli Friendship

By JEAN HERSCHAFT NEW YORK — A membership campaign will , be launched shortly for a relatively unknown Jewish organization which seeks to improve relations between Arab and Jew in Israel. The group, known as the American Movement for Arab-Jewish Cooperation (in Israel) is headed by Miss Nina Rosenwald, daughter of William Rosenwald, noted Jewish philanthropist The group was formally incorporated in New York late in 1967. Its parent group in Israel was founded four years previously. RABBI EUGENE Weiner, a member of board, told the POST and OPINION that membership, open to Jews and non-Jews, will be conditioned on affirmation of the survival of Israel. Rabbi Weiner heads the Lehman Institute for Ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A number of prominent Jews are already associated with the organization. They include Rabbis Julius Mark, David de sola Pool, Richard Hirsch, and Prof. Hans Morgenthau, Richard Maass and George Gruen. The latter two are prominent in the affairs of the American Jewish Committee. A leading Lutheran Church official, Rev. Ralph Peterson, of St. Peter’s Church here, is actively involved in the work of the new group. The group has defined its goals as strictly non-political and will operate only in the area of humanitarian projects, it was learned. RABBI WEINER, who said the American group will devote itself primarily tc fund-raising, listed three projects the AMAJC hopes to launch. The first is construction o‘f a communal building in the Netanya area of Israel which will service 16 adjoining Arab villages, and will include a library and gymnasium. Second is a domestic peace corps which will send Israeli Arabs and Jews throughout the

Jews And Arabs Join In Traditional Arab Dance

Arabs and Jews, brought together by the Israeli Movement for Arab-Jewish Cooperation, are shown

dancing the traditional Arab dance, the Debka.

Jewish state in a people to people campaign to explain the organization’s goals. Third is an approach to the campus by sending Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews to colleges abroad to enlist the aid and interest of the student population. This effort will include scholarships for Israeli Arab students. THE PROGRAM of the organization has the full approval of Israel authorities. Among the sponsors in Israel are Dr. Zwi Werblowsky, who heads the department' of humanities at the Hebrew University, and Rabbi Jack Cohen, HUlel director at the University. Mrs. Louis Levinson described to the P-O how the organization got under way in the home of Mrs. Nina de Nur, wife of the noted Holocaust writer, Katzenik. The Arabs who were invited to her heme were en-

couraged to voice their grievances and disappointments, Mrs. Levinson said, even their hostilities and their hopes. By now, with bi - weekly meetings having been held over the past five years, the Arabs have learned to trust the new organization, which has aided them in overcoming their prob1 e m s wherever possible. Assimilation of the Arabs in Israel is not the goal of the group, Mrs. Levinson, explained, but integration is. Rabbi Mark told The P-0 that he became a sponsor of the new organization because he favored “friendship between neighbors under one government.” He said he believed that this goal is the reason that many Americans will be attracted to join the AMAJC. Other members of the group include Rabbis Jacob P. Rudin and David Seligson, and the author, Meyer Levin.

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Almost Unknown Today

1 Reform s First President us - Addresses Group

CINCINNATI — The name ally the real founder of the Moritz Loth is unfamiliar to Union was Wise, who thought American Jewry, yet it was he it expedient to remain diswho was a co-founder of the creetly in the background. A Union of American Hebrew year later Loth and Wise were Congregations and was its first successful in establishing the president. Union of American Hebrew A businessman and speculator Congregations. Though today who lost and regained a fortune, primarily a Reform Jewish Loth moved to Cincinnati in 1858 organization, at the time of its and opened his first store on founding it was meant to inMain Street, where he pros- elude all the synagogues in the pered and took an active part country and all the Jews of in the community as a writer America, and lobbyist for tax concessions Loth, the first president of the beneficial to Cincinnati traders. Union, used his influence, He presided over the early wealth, and skill at propaganda Board of Trade and had a street to make sure that the Union’s named for him. primary task was accomplished. IN HIS RELIGION he was a That task was to establish a devoted follower of Isaac M. Jewish theological school. Wise, the founding father of IN 1875 THE Hebrew Union American Reform Jewish in- College held its first session in stitutions, and became president the basement of a local of Wise’s Plum Street Temple. synagogue. Six years later, Loth is credited with the idea aided by Loth’s money and of forming a union of American fund-raising abilities, the ColJewish congregations, and it lege dedicated its first building, was he who called a conference Loth presided over the Union for this purpose in 1872. Actu- for many years, “declining re-

election after the organization

was firmly established.” Loth was well-known as a

busy writer for the many causes he championed, and he even found time to write some books. It may well be that some of his talent spilled over to the next generation. Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman, the famous author of “Peace of Mind,” was

a member of his family.

Rabbi Eugene Weiner, of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, shown addressing a meeting of the Israeli Movement of Arab - Jewish Cooperation. Seated at left is Mrs. Nina de Nur, wife ef the author Katzenik, president of the Movement, and Uri Zohar, well-known Israeli actor.

Israel Orders Bins For Bombs JERUSALEM (WNS) — The Ministry of Interior has ordered the installation of bomb-disposal bins in all places of public entertainment The bins were described in the Ministry’s order as “re-enforced concrete receptacles for suspicious objects.”

BOOKS RECEIVED “A New Jewish Theology in the Making” by Eugene B. Borowitz. Published by The Westminster Press. $6.50. “Rabbi Fainberg’s Hanoi Diary.” Introduction by Linus Pauling. Published by Longman. $5.25. “If Israel Lost the War” by Richard Z. Chesnoff, Edward Klein and Robert Littell. Published by Coward Mc-

Cann. $5.95.

“Hie Avengers” by Michael Bar-Zohar. Published by Hawthorn Books, Inc. $5.95.

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