The Jewish Times

              A Last Ditch
Effort At Defense
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CJFWF Seeks $550M For World Jewry
Bonds Names
Ball & Gala
Chairmen
The appointment of Mr. and
Mrs. Phil David Fine of Waban,
as chairmen of the Israel Bonds
Ball and Gala, to be held at the
Sheraton Boston Hotel Satur-
day, Dec. 18, was announced by
Bernard Garber, general
chairman, State of Israel Bonds.
Guests of honor at the colorful
gathering will be His Excellency
Yitzhak        Rabin,         Israel's
distinguished Ambassador to the
United States, and Mrs. Rabin.
Eligibility to attend the ball is by the
purchase of a minimum of $1,000 in
Israel Bonds during 1971.
Inaugurated in 1958, the ball is the
social event of the season and marks
the end of the campaign year for the
Israel Bond effort. Envoys of Israel
who have been honor guests at the
ball have been Abba Eban, now
Israel's Minister for Foreign Af
fairs; Avraham Harman, now
president of the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, and Ambassador
Rabin, the military strategist, who
is credited with being the chief ar-
chitect of Israel's quick victory in
the Six Day War of 1967.
Expressing their pleasure at being
named chairmen of the ball and
gala, Mr. and Mrs. Fine said: "We
shall do everything we can to
achieve the objectives of this event-
a delightful social gathering and the
maximum in Israel Bond sales to
provide Israel with development
dollars. It is our hope that we shall
not only have a record attendance,
but even more important, that we
shall obtain for Israel a record
amount in Israel Bond funds. While
eligibility to attend this function is
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VOL. XXVII No. 13 Thursday, November 18,1971 Price Ten Cents
Israel Asserts Power
Balance Not Redressed
JERUSALEM, (JTA)-Foreign Ministry officials claimed that
massive Soviet shipments of aircraft to Egypt from March
through May, 1971 upset the Middle East power balance which
has not yet been redressed.
The officials were commenting on
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PITTSBURGH, PA. - Max M. Fisher, Detroit, former Special
Advisor to President Nixon, was re-elected to a third term as
president of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds as the CJF's 40th General Assembly at the Pittsburgh
Hilton Hotel came to an end.
a statement by Secretary of State
William P. Rogers, published in the
Nov. 22 edition of the American
magazine US News and World
Report that "the Soviet Union in the
last four or five months has operated
with some restraint as far as (arms)
shipments (to Egypt) are con-
cerned."
The Israeli officials did not dispute
Rogers' assertion but claimed that
shipments of MIG-21S and Sukhoi-7
bombers to Egypt last spring were
not balanced by American ship-
ments of aircraft to Israel. Israel at
the time was receiving the last of the
Phantoms sold under previous
arrangements with the Nixon ad-
ministration. The officials described
them as "a very small number."
They noted that still later the
Soviets introduced their MIG-23s to
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Egypt, the world's fastest and
highest flying combat plane. Some
sources claimed that the Russians
have also sent Egypt their new
Sukhoi-11 light bombers. The
sources said that if these reports are
correct, the information contained
in Rogers' interview did not include
all the facts.
The Israeli officials also referred
to Rgoers' insistence that the six
points he outlined  in  his  speech
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Closing day action saw the 1500
Jewish leaders attending the five-
day Assembly adopt a series of
resolutions dealing with a broad
image of Jewish communal con-
cerns and priorities, ranging from
Jewish education and campaigning
to Israel and Soviet Jewry.
Mr. Fisher, who served as
chairman of President Nixon's
National Center for Voluntary
Action and has been prominent in
the leadership of major communal,
civic and social service
organizations for more than 30
years, was the unanimous choice of
the communal leaders from the
United States and Canada attending
the Assembly.
Among the highlights of the
assembly were major addresses by
Mr. Fisher and Louis A. Pincus,
chairman of the Executive of the
Jewish Agency, who gave the annual
Herbert R. Abeles Memorial Ad-
dress.
Both the American and Israeli
Jewish leaders called the battle for
Jewish survival and continuity, at
home and overseas, the basic issues
and   responsibility   facing   the
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ZIONIST CONGRESS WILL    EXAMINE PAST RECORD
NEW YORK, (JTA)-The next World Zionist Congress will not
be a resolution-passing Congress, Louis A. Pincus insisted.
Pincus, chairman of the Jewish
Agency Executive and of the World
Zionist Organization Executive,
advised the national board of the
American Zionist Federation that
"we shall be taking a close look at
our past record, at what has hap-
pened to previous resolutions."
He added: "We shall examine our
shortcomings and take steps to
remedy them, as well as boast of our
achievements." The Congress will
be held next January in Jerusalem.
SCIENTIST HONORED
PARIS, (JTA)-The highest
French award for scientific
research has been awarded this year
to Prof. Bernard Halpern, director
general of the laboratory for im-
munology of the Hospital Broussais.
Dr. Halpern is the inventor of
"phenergan" and of an anti-
lymphocitary often used in heart
transplant operations.
RUTH WEDS IN ISRAEL
TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Ruth
Aleksandrovich, released from a
Soviet prison camp a month ago,
was married here to her fiance,
Isaiah Averbuch. The 24-year-old
nurse from Riga served a one year
sentence for alleged anti-Soviet
activities.
JEWISH IDENTIFICATION
KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y., (JTA) -
- In his first public remarks since
being chosen to be chief executive
officer of the Jewish Theological
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Seminary of America, Dr. Gerson D.
Cohen contended that the Jewish
problem in the United States was not
one of "searching for identity," but
one of "identification."
FAMILIES LEAVE USSR
TEL  AVIV   (JTA)--Alexander
Gurvetz, a Kharkov engineer who
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American Jewish community.
Mr. Fisher, noting that the basic
concern in the American Jewish
community is for survival, said,
"not physical survival itself-which
the people of Israel seek to insure-
but survival in terms of our
Jewishness, our heritage, our sense
of mission, and those special values
that make the Jewish approach to
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YOA Includes
Programs For
Soviet Jewry
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
Senator James L. Buckley
(Cons.-R., N.Y.), disclosed that
the Voice of America will begin
broadcasting next month
programs he described would be
of "special interest to Jewish
listeners in the Soviet Union."
The broadcasts will not be in
Yiddish. According to Buckley, the
broadcasts will take place each
Sunday morning at 7:15 a.m.
Moscow time and will be rebroad-
cast each Monday evening at 11:15
p.m. Moscow time beginning Dec.
12. They will include items of
religious, cultural and political
interest to Soviet Jewry.
Buckley observed that while his
goal of Yiddish broadcasts has not
been attained yet, the special
programs in Russian represented an
advance on behalf of Soviet Jewry
and that he would continue to press
for Yiddish programs. He also said
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