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...want the Farbstein organization to brand me an Arab because my father was born an Egyptian...
Such Talk Can Ruin. All this would seem to make Bill Haddad a likely Democratic reform candidate in the June 2 primary against Congressman Leonard Farbstein, 61, a Tammany type who is seeking a fifth term in Manhattan's meandering 19th Congressional District. But, of all things, Haddad did not count on getting hurt by the district's Jewish vote...
Last week he complained that Farbstein, who likes to remind his constituency that he is the only Jew on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is an ardent supporter of Israel, was spreading rumors all over the district that Haddad is an Arab. Not only that; people were sending around anonymous notes about him ("Can you trust an ARAB to fight for the interests of Jews and for Israel?"). Even worse, said Haddad, Farbstein was going about telling folks that Haddad was born an Egyptian, that he got married in the Protestant Episcopal Church and thus was a meshumad...
...having been born in Cairo to Egyptian Jews. He protested to the Fair Campaign Practices Committee, issued statements, got Jimmy Roosevelt to make a public statement on his behalf, and met with Yiddish-language newspaper editors in an attempt to convince them that he is just as Jewish as Farbstein...
...catch anti-HUAC speakers unprepared, the House leadership rushed a $300,000 authorization for the investigating group to the floor just one hour after it had been approved by the Committee on House Administration. The measure passed, but not until Representatves Burton (D-Calif.), Ryan (D-N.Y.), and Farbstein (D-N.Y.) had chided it liberally...