April 25, 1975
The Jewish Floridian and Shofar of Hollywood
Page 9
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tfg Hard to Tell Who's Attacking What
|Markowitz personally, but to
eneral editorial position re-
led in his paper as a whole.
WARE IT, for example,
reporting of the Watergate
as early as June, 1972, when
rgate might easily have been
ented to the South Florida
ic's mind as a critical presi-
campaign issue,
course, it was not.
Lnd so to the sanctimonious-
in the Bronstein case to
ch I took bitter exception, I
led two subsidiary issues:
A lapse resulting in reserv-
| editorial judgment to main-
the image of Nixon political
Bncy long after his impotency
become an international
mial as compared with the
resulting in prolix sensa-
lism to maintain the fiction
[a guardian press serving a
il-informed community;
i The enormous disparity in
[quality of justice meted out
linals.
 ~ AN w luilliuer the point
home, I made reference to
"Bronstein ... a Miami Jew who
dared rather incompetently (to
be a thief on a grand scale) and
so must be punished."
For me, this illustrated the dis-
parity in justice well enough for
anyone to see it, but apparently
not well enough for the Herald
to see it, or Mr. Markowitz, who
dutifully opined in the best Na-
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews once-a-year Brother-
hood Week spirit that "I don't
know what Sandy Bronstein's
ethnic heritage has to do with
it. and I don't think you know
either."
Deus dixit.
BR. RICHARD Ellis, of Ft.
Lauderdale, saw it at least well
enough to equate the Feb. 14
column with syndicated colum-
nist Max Lerner's on the very
same issue: the FBI's literally
hounding of secretary Bobbie
Arnstein to a drug-crazed death,
while her employer, Hugh Hef-
tonnee Taft Dedicates New Wing
>f Hebrew University Law School
Mrs. Bunnee Taft of Hollywood
Westport, Conn., returned to
United States last week after
MRS. BUNNEE TAFT
bating a new student lounge
[cafeteria in the Faculty of
of the Hebrew University,
historic Mount Scopus
pus.
M striking new facilities were
ted in memorv of her late
id and son, New York at-
ys Allen Robert Taft and
Gordon Taft and are lo-
on the site where the He-
University was founded ex-
50 years ago.
kiversity President Avraham
Harman chaired the ceremony at-
tended by members of the Taft
family and top level representa-
tives of the University. President
Harman spoke of the legal tra-
dition in the Taft family which
made it appropriate that their
loved ones be perpetuated in a
school of law.
Citing the Tafts' devotion to
humanistic concerns. Harman re-
called that the late Allen Robert
Taft had been an original found-
er of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews and of the
America-Israel Cultural Founda-
tion. James Gordon Taft had
been a prominent theatrical
lawyer. Both had been devoted
to Israel, the Jewish people and
education, Harmon pointed out.
Upon returning to her South
Florida home, Mrs. Taft reflected
on the Hebrew University's cur-
rent predicament of attempting to
maintain its status as one of the
world's leading universities while
having to adjust to the austere
realities of a wartime society
where money is scarce and stu-
dents liable to be called up for
military service at any time.
"Although the Jubilee Anni-
versary is an occasion for joy
and celebration," said Mrs. Taft,
"it is a sober reminder that even
after 50 years of dedicated serv-
ice to both the Jewish people and
the world, Hebrew University is
still engaged in a desperate strug-
gle to survive." ^^^^^^^
ner, the perennial ponio*iumed
post-pubescent, walks around un-
molested.
Lerner's lesson? The high are
the mighty.
The real of Dr. Ellis' letter
doesn't quite hit home to me:
"If we would be honest, we would
all recognize that we're all im-
moral inside."
I'M NOT quite sure whether
I'm to take this as support, criti-
cism or simple proselytizing 
although in another part of his
letter, he declares:
"Instead of getting at the
cause of the problem in these two
situations (Bronstein-Watergate,
Hefner-Arnstein), which is sin
and immoralityit's nice to 'cop
out' and put the cause on what-
ever you want."
It is this sort of absolute am-
biguity in purpose which marks
the point of view of still another
writer, Miami clothier Austin
Burke, who at the outset de-
clares:
"There is something undigni-
fied in Leo Mindlin's casting as-
persions an our government for
having different scales of jus-
tice."
MR. BURKE sees something
"insulting in this to your readers
and a discredit to his own moral
stature."
Furthermore: "Mr. Mindlin
knows this (the scales of
American justice are sick), as
do most of your readers, and the
Watergate affair is one of the
cancerous things our decadent
democracy has tragically develop-
ed."
Adds Mr. Burke: "But it is not
one of personal enrichment or of
Semitic prejudice compounded
by Mr. Mindlin into an article of
moral bankruptcy."
He then proceeds to heap more
scorn on our society then ever I
would have dared under the cir-
cumstances.
TO SAY that our scales of jus-
tice are sick, as Mr. Burke does,
indeed that "they are completely
out of balance"; to call our na-
tion a "decadent democracy" 
these are hardly the words to be
used in defense of the proposi-
tion that America is not a victim
of moral bankruptcy.
The interesting thing is that
they are Mr. Burke's words, not |
mine. And. wonder of wonders,
he adds: 'The President's 'men'
were taking over our govern-
ment. It can happen again .
We could go down the drain in
today's moral bankruptcy."
And so Mr. Burke makes judg i
ments all his own Wat he at |
tributes to me and that he called
"undignified" and a "discredit."
I DO not point this out to of [
fend Mr. Burke, but merely to |
make a point that is common to j
Lorida Branch Spring Conference
[ginning Monday In Miami Beach
15th annual Spring Con-
ce of the Florida Branch
Women's League for Con-
tive Judaism will be held
ay through Wednesday at
Eden Roc Hotel, Miami
I according Mrs. Allan Ni-
rg, conference chairman,
rida Branch, one of 28
ties throughout the world,
|ts of 32 Conservative Sis-
in Florida and Puerto
| representing almost 7,000
In.
affiliated Sisterhoods at-
ng in observer status are
ple-in-the-Pines, Pembroke
and Beth Shalom, Clear-
r. Mrs. Morton S. Levin of
*'ood serves as president of
branch.
Conference will be high-
ed Monday evening by a
)te address by Mrs. Mendel
ewitz of Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Maskewitz, a Consultant
er to the Conference, is a
national vice president of
Women's League and a past
president of Southern Branch.
She is a nuclear scientist with
the Oak Ridge project.
A "Milestone Luncheon" hon-
oring Sisterhoods celebrating
milestone years of affiliation
with Women's League will take
place Tuesday noon under the
chairmanship of past Branch
president Mrs. Jack Wolfstein.
Mrs. Nirenberg and her vice
chairman, Mrs. Herbert Cohen,
head a committee that has spent
the last ten months in confer-
ence planning. Activity sessions
on many aspects of Sisterhood
life will be included in the day's
programming.
Members of the conference
committee include Mrs. Chester
Leiter, Mrs. Albert Winston,
Mrs. Albeit Solo, Mrs. Ewald
Ziffer, Mrs. Herman Schutzer,
Mrs. Lawrence Scherr. Mrs. Nor-
man Sholk, Mrs. Abe Meyer and
Mrs. Nat Siesser.
all these letters which, m fact,
praises them. And that is that
they are angry in the same way
that my Feb. 14 coiumn was
angry.
Put simply, Americans are
angry because they do not like
to read the opinions of others
that assail their country.
Also put simply, Americans
are angry because these opinions
are unassailableso unassailable,
that in the process of attempting
to refute these opinions, they can
only confirm them.
OUR LEADERS have betrayed
us. They continue to betray us,
and in the process they subvert
the principles of our republic.
We are angry about Southeast
Asia. We are angry about the
Middle East
We are angry that record
profits are being made at the
same time that we live in record
levels of inflation and are crushed
by record levels of costs of liv-
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We are angry that Ike Eisen-
hower warned us to beware of
the military-industrial complex,
and that we failed to beware. We
are angry that ae voted men^ito
office who' coddled the military-
industrial complex into a cancer
that already has us by the throat
and on our knees.
AS FOR myself. I was angry
that Sanford Bronstein rots in
jail. Now. I'm doubly angry.
For two Sundays in a row, H. R.
Haldemann, for more money
than I will ever see at one time
in my life, sat sleekly at Mike
Wallace's side telling us nothing
over CBS we did not know about
Nixon or Watergate, and all I
could think was: Why isn't Halde-
mann in jail, too?
Haldemann on CBS simply
bears out what I said in the Feb.
14 column. It explains the am-
biguity of all those angry letters
to me, letters that attack me for
attacking the Establishment, and
then attack the Esablishment
themselves.
Of course, it does not explain
Mr. Markowitz. He will have to
do that for himself. Someday
Delegates Report on NCJW
Convention In San Francisco
Mrs. Lucille Alexander and
Mrs. Charles Robinson have re-
turned from San Francisco
where they were delegates to
the 31st National Convention of
the National Council of Jewish
Women, which was attended by
nearly 700 representatives of
Sections throughout the United
States.
Among the important resolu-
tions adopted by the Convention
they reported, were:
 A call on Congress to reject
further military aid to Cam-
bodia;
 Outrage at the acts of bar-
barism now suffered by the rem-
nants of Syrian Jewry;
0 Its concern about the na-
tional scandal involving care of
the aged in nursing homes;
 A call on the President to
use every effort to undo the ac-
tion of the United Nations which
gave status to the PLO;
 Commendation of Secretary
Kissinger's efforts to establish
a durable peace in the Middle
East;
 A protest against the exist-
ence of an Arab economic boy-
cott of companies doing business
with Israel.
The Hollywood Section of Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women
endorses all these Resolutions,
as well as the NCJW stand on
Justice for Children, and be-
lieves that with its 100.000 mem-
bership in the United States and
With local community involve-
ment, progress can be made, the
delegates said.
Awards were made to the
Hollywood Section for establish-
ing two new units (Hollywood
Hills and Pembroke Pines); for
100 percent paid up quota; and
for reaching the membership
goal.
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