Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1972 — Page 13

Friday, JuTy 14, 1972

THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION

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Prominent Leaders Named

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Jewish Committee For Nixon Talked

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PROTESTERS KEEP BUSY

In Miami Beach for the political conventions, a group of young Jews, who were joined later by senior citizens, picketed the La Gorce Country Club, which is judenrein.

As A Side Issue

Protesters Take On Club Barring Jews

By REVY WIKLER MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (P-O) — A group of young protesters did wfyat the Jewish population of Miami Beach has been thinking about doing for the past 30 years — they picketed the restricted La Gorce Country Club. “This is a racist outfit which practices discrimination against Jews and blacks,” Stewart Alpert, youthful demonstrator, said. “Can you imagine in the 20th century that you can find a place like this in the heart of Miami Beach?” ALPERT DESCRIBED himself as “a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn,” who believes that the restricted club “which hides itself from its Jewish

neighbors by high hedges and walls, so it isn’t contaminated by Jews, should be closed down and opened as a park for everyone.” The Anti-Defamation League sent out a letter to all members of the Democratic and Republican Convention Planning Committees that the club was restricted and advised that no affairs during the political conventions should be held there. THE YOUNG people were joined by a group of senior citizens who recalled the pogroms of Russia and Poland. They carried the Israeli flag and chanted, “Never Again.” “Would You Believe It AntiSemitism on Miami Beach — Yeah.”

Sex Rife, Not Rife ■■ Take Your Choice

JERUSALEM — The two headlines in The Jerusalem Post coverage of the first international symposium on sex education seem to contradict each other. One stated that: “Israeli Youth Talk Big About Sex, Do Little.” The other read: “Moms Nag Daughters to Early Sexual Relations.” DR. MOSHE LANCET was the subject of the first headline. He told the participants in the symposium that less than onefifth of Israeli boys had had sexual intercourse by their late teens, and slightly less than 13 per cent of Israeli girls. As for the second headline, it concerned Dr. Ruth Navon

of the Tel Aviv Municipality’s School Health Service, and her assertion that Israeli mothers have a strong tendency to “nag their 16-year-old daughters into having sexual relations.” The mothers, she explained, feared that their daughters would be old maids, and consequently pushed them to go out with boys. DR. LANCET, who is head of the Department of Obstetrics at Kaplan Hospital, said that most young Israelis get hardly any formal sex education. He stated that at a lecture before a group of 86 girl soldiers whose ages averaged 19, only two had had any of the subjects normally in sex education courses.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The fight for the Jewish vote in the Presidential election took o added weight as it was learned that the Nixon campaign organization is expected to announce the formation of a committee of prominent Jewish leaders to campaign for his re-election. The New York Times in a dispatch from Terence Smith, here, said the co-chairmen will be Dr. William A. Wexler, former president of B’nai B’rith, and Samuel Rothberg, of Peoria, 111., the principal factotum in the Israel Bond Organization and chairman of the board of governors of the Hebrew University. SMITH QUOTED a Nixon aide to the effect that the names on the projected Jewish committee will “ring a bell in the American Jewish community.” Besides the importance of the Jewish vote in cities like New York and Los Angeles, where a shift could throw these states into the Nixon camp with votes to spare, there is the question of contributions to campaign coffers. Max Fisher, chairman of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, was not unwilling to be quoted to the effect that “substantial amounts” of Jewish money that previously went to Democratic candidates are flowing into Mr. Nixon’s campaign fund. While refusing to give Smith actual figures, he did state that he had already raised “three times as much” money from Jewish contributors so far this year as he did in all of 1968. Smith did not ask him if this was due to the extensive planning for fund-raising that led to the full-time employment of Larry Goldberg, as staff director on Jewish affairs for the Committee to Re-Elect the President. IN HIS COLUMN in Newsweek Stewart Alsop answered the question, “Why Is Israel for Nixon?” by describing the joint action between Israel and the United States at the time that Syrian tanks crossed the Jordan border during the tense situation when Hussein was seeking to drive out the terrorists. Alsop said Wat Israel was prepared to destroy the Syrian torce as long as the U.S. was able to immobilize any Soviet counteraction. As it was, the Syrian tanks withdrew when their Soviet backers, warned by the reinforcement of the Sixth U.S. Sixth Fleet and the alerting of U.S. troops in Germany to be prepared to move into the Middle East, called off the action.

WEXLER ROTHBERG Kivie Kaplan, president of the NAACP, was quoted on Jewish crossover to Nixon in The

Detroit Jewish News.

HE SAID the Jews are under the impression that Nixon is the moshiakh (messiah) for Israel. But he is doing for Israel only what is in America’s best interests. Any President would do

the same.

It is on domestic issues that Mr. Nixon has Kaplan — and

the NAACP — worried. “You think he’s a friend?” Kaplan asked rhetorically. “How many Jews did he name to the \ Supreme Court? How many did

he name to the Cabinet?” At the reminder that

President Nixon’s closest adviser, Henry Kissinger, is a Jew, Kaplan suggested that Kissinger’s Jewishness is an accident of birth. The two men shared the same beach on Martha’s Vineyard, where the ./ Kaplans spend their summers, “and for the longest time, I was unaware that Kissinger was a

Jew.”

KAPLAN INSISTS the Nixon administration has demonstrated — in its treatment of school desegregation, employment policies in govern* ment, housing and other issues

— a lack minorities.

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And In Cincinnati

By MAURICE SCHAPIRO CINCINNATI — Jews of Cincinnati interviewed by Ben L. Kaufman, Enquirer religious reporter, don’t seem to believe that if Senator George McGovern is nominated for President necessarily means the switching of Jews to Nixon in November. Marvin Warner, former president of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati and building and financial tycoon, recalled that Democratic candidates for President have been backed by the Jewish voters since Harry S Truman in 1958 because Harry backed Israel and Warner doesn’t believe this will be changed. SIDNEY WEIL, Hamilton County Democratic cochairman, said the nomination of McGovern would not cost the Democrats the Jewish vote. He thmks McGovern’s record is good on Israel. Rabbi David Indich of Golf Manor Synagogue, said he inierred from what he has heard that there may be a shift to Nixon if there is such a thing as a Jewish vote. He said President Nixon had been fair to Israel and has lived up to his promises. Mrs. Sidney Kaufman, treasurer of the Hamilton County Citizens for McGovern, said she found a great deal of support for McGovern and his values among Jews. She expects McGovern to clarify his stand on Israel at the Democratic

National Convention. She sari : he would not lose significant Jewish support in the voting ia ' Miami Beach. COUNCILMAN WILUS D. Gradison Jr., a Republican, believes a McGovern nomination would help Nixon. He claimed McGovern’s stand on Israel had been equivocal and the South Dakotan has stressed weakening our national defense which would weaken US. support for Israel. On the other hand, Senator Humphrey has a beautiful position on Israel according to Gradison. Councilman Jerry Springer, a Democrat, blames fear of McGovern by Jews on Humphrey’s campaign tactics. He said McGovern is not so simplistic that he cannot tell the difference between Israel’s needs and claims of South Vietnam. He admits there may be some Jewish votes shifting to Nixon because of increasing conservatism among Jews, no longer strangers in a strange land. RABBI STANLEY BRAV, Temple Sholom claims it won’t make any difference in American concern for Israel who is elected. He said the rumors of the McGovern-Israel issue is good Republican propaganda. He said Israel serves America’s needs and America wants peace. “There will be none if Israel is not secure.” He feels McGovern’s concern for human beings is basic.

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