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Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Local Area One Year MOO Three Years $12 00 Out of Town Upon Request T%a Jeih novidlan *1r# n-ir rus-invc ttv Kahruia or toe merchandise advertised In Its column* Friday, May 20, 1966 1 Sivan 5726 Volume 39 Number 20 Moscow Shoe Fits Its Own Foot Best Aleksei Kosygin's 11-day visit as c guest cf Egyptian President Nasser speaks for itself. The difficulties it will create toward the achievement cf peace in the area can not be measured at this time. Suffice it to say that Soviet charges against any other nation, rcrticularly our own, of meddling in the affairs of "emerging peoples" ere patently as spurious as Mos- cow's view of its political purity. If the U.S., as th Communists bee it. are "interfering" in Viet Nam. -.he painful truth is that the Com- munists in turn have intruded them- selves on the Middle East scene in en invisible campaign dedicated to unreel for the entire area. How can Moscow expkrn the Xosygin trip? Na=ser. for example. ha* been at war over the past three vears in Yemen, where the native copulation is fiercely determined to oar his intervention. Apart from this. he has made repeatedly threatening moves toward Syria, once a part of he fictional United Arab Republic, an r.ot to mention his ether subverting activity in die Middle East. The cause of Israel apart, Gamcl Abdel Nasser represents cne of the most disquieting influences in this part of the world. Indeed, cur own government, one of Nasser's major sup- porters and apologists for his internet.onal be- havior, is for the first time seriously considering eliminating food credit programs for Egypt next .-ear based on the unrelenting Nasser war- scare mentality. The Kosygin trip to Egypt merely serves to raise Nasser higher in his own regard, and to make his disrupting and subverting efforts ihat much more dedicated and acceptable in the eyes of the Arab masses. Like former Premier Khrushchev's visit in 1964. it shows Moscow to be precisely the kind o' political opportunist it charges everyone else to be. Jordan. Shavuoth and the Word Shavuoth is also known as the Feast of the Weeks, for it occurs exectly seven weeks after the celebrction of Passover V/hen Jews in Greater Miami Join Other com- munities throughout the world in marking the Shavuc -''. starting nexl Tuesday even- ing May 24 they .'.'. be observing one cf ;he most important c::. endar the a Ten Zoa : ia idmenti frcm the H< In -: life from time immemorial. Out of sprun icom- passing aspects of the Torah cr well as the philosophic :.....-3 of all our .-ei.gious literature. So broad is the influence of the _e-. Com- mandments, that they have served as the inspiration cf other religious faiths, as well. Shavuoth, also a symbol of the spring sea- son and fertility, thus establishes c framework for one of the truly hepoy and meaningful celebrations in Jewish history. The Jews, wandering in the desert after the exc m Egypt there became chosen" best sense of the won: F JJ lor I ! u A Total Communal View The Tc-mple Israel of Greater Miami adult education seres scheduled to begin in the fall would be exciting under any circumstances, particularly since it promises the appearance here cf such renowned contemporary thinkers as Leslie Fiedler and Max Dimont. But synagogues throughout our area have, for a long time now, both in their adult and forum series, vied in the personalities they could gather as attractions featuring the glitter of nationally-known columnists, economists, spiritual leaders, and even historic military strategists. What makes the Temple Israel series so full of promise is less the constellation of top American rabbis and educators it has sched- uled than that, for the first time, a series here will be offerina a wide array of personalities representing all three branches of the nation's Judaism: Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. Temple Israel, a Reform congregation, is to be congratulated for its eclectic reiprjnsibil- ity, for its striving toward the presentation of a total view of the American Jewish community without regard to narrower sectarian affiliation. Those who attend the series will be the ben- eficicries of such a progressive educational design. Cornerstone of Democracy end es iiv M 7 Nevei are . -.- cf offices : vemo: to con table. we have c of homework to do. Voting is a ri iht we enioy as American -.s. There are communities, nations and peoples across the world still denied it. Long accustomed to ibis riaht, sometimes we heve come to record it as en onerous dutv or responsihiltiy. But voting is the cornerstone of American racy. Shun it. and both our freedom and the : : guarantees us become increasingly elusi '' : h I - (lining the week ... as i see it by LEO MINDLIN THE STORY been painful and in a km thing unkind ir tell ,. once again But more point than course, referring I -. Guild dec'sion no hold functions of anj k'r.d ^ a discriminator] ? 'r'itl 1 had been trying to here, among other tl that too many Jews have themselves been responsibh :< hot summer of Guild recalcitrance. The obsequious, would-r ,(, socialites." those who repeatedly sell their souls for an occasional dinner at such a facility as the guest of a Gentile communit] minded white-hat. were more often than not the detractor- in tl They diluted and diminished our earliest effort - of a profound Jewish fear to offend his Christian neifhb r And what, presumably, was the potential offense? It was the! .;,... ,. , group might seem too "pushy." After all. they did not kill ,.- ;-. .. |n pogroms. It was* simply that they wanted nothing to do with us socially. Didn't they have the right to choose their pn\a'< But once, they put Chinese boot restrictions on our chil ambitions for a seat in a medical school Once, they denied ,nd still deny us. rooms in hotels supposedly open to the p\ I they wrote, and still write, restrictive covenants Into deeds possible purchase by Jews of choice homes and land The degree of exercise m these practices has be i lower as a consequence of what the would-be Jewish socii is "pushiness." (Only where it is tasteful to them do tht> acci "community relations"! In these and other campaigns the> ... fearful. Neither was it always the conditioning of the _ Just as often, it was concern for economic retribution. a PMDlltCTION BfCOMfS ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE THERE WAS LITTLE if an> change in them in the bat! the Opera Guild It will be interesting to see when tl in the emerging effort to stamp out what the America) mittee today calls "executive suite discrimination For hi most economically potent kind of anti-Semitic prejudice A f inner chairman of the board of one of America's largest and most corporations sometime ago confessed to me that he fina";. n signed because he had gone as far as he could in his post. Nol onlv mid he no longer be able to advance himself, but he could lire the amount of disservice he was performing to his cor] by staying on. The fact is. he confessed, that the really big dea!~ an in board rooms or as a consequence of flying one's privat or Beechcraft in the morning to a meeting a thou^ann scheduled that afternoon, despite the aircraft advertise: slick business magazines. He could then, and still can. buy and fleet of these machines if this were hi* fancy The big one- I made in the private club, on the golf course, at dinner. Hence, it becomes clear, the argument that "the> ei have the ri^.ht to choose their company constitutes mon ' predilection: it suggests significant economic dissdvi indeed, is what "executive suite" discrimination is all about fact that potential young lewish executives are barred pi tioi in banking, insura thei such goli wb i I do not here argu< in behalf of thi il counts Personally, I cou about "in" gi II ,-e This, howevi to detract from I of "ex suit i evil on its and beyond tb.es* il has particular value for e Jew l-h socialite this JHi WORDfOB-WOflD CAPITULATION 1UST AS HIS fear- to offi stem from the concern ** retribution, so may his support in the campai. live suite" discrimination be counted upon now. case, social snobbism and bigotry equal another forrr disadvantage Here, his fears somehow are at an end. All of which is by way of saving that the Anti-Defama! of B'nai B'rith. so centrally involved in obtaining the a< Opera Guild, in the end muffed the achievement in ' mannered recognition of the Guild's decision If the AD1 fearful during the fray, why did it suddenly become kittenish iien the fray was ended and won" The issue is not an abstract >-i It lessens, in significant measure, the total achievement: in the effectiveness of the achievement open to question. Alter more than a decade of intermittent but an.-r- the Opera Guild's policy, here is the Guild's capitulation - for word: "At the Executive Board meeting of May S. n.-tructed to inform you that henceforth the opera Gu :. Miami will not hold any meetings, including committee -" and functions, at any private club that discriminsti - pie." The letter is not signed bj the president of " - artistic director It is signed by the secretary, i . ance. ' argesse. I - . - t< ral - r.r; nth th co? Ana thi up yu AT t DC in what one i .. -a? ih s is a it should t hanges have really ge one for which the - has had to straggle it; years and mine [I thai the Guild polk) is one of flitj ::!iaos a thousand >uch offenses to us in fifty or . ibly a thousand other places in Miami. A - won. but the war rages on. Contrarily, what of the ADL letter in response n lk sentei a capitulation? This is a florid thing that talks "educational experience for all concerned. It declare tie as you have you have n eti distasti tul to the total con ihi- serves Continued on Page 6-A