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...Israel, at the triennial convention of B'nai B'rith, retiring President Label Katz, a New Orleans real estate investor, berated Judaism's contemporary prophets of doom for their hand-wring ing anxiety. The danger of assimilation "persists and grows," he acknowledged, but "it is also profoundly true that Jew ish peoplehood persists and grows. Jew ish life somehow thrives on its own para doxes." Since Judaism is predicated on man's right to be free, said Katz, "I can not concede - no matter what sets of statistics or failures or problems are set before...
Winds & Clouds. Later in the week the President went to a dinner of the B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League to receive the Legacy Award for his "distinguished contribution to the enrichment of our democratic heritage." Lyndon took that public opportunity to answer critics who complain that his preoccupation with preserving a U.S. consensus tends to preclude bold presidential action...
Fewer than 20 percent of American colleges and universities with social fraternities on campus have "urged or required" elimination of discriminatory fraternity practices, according to the current issue of Rights, published by the Anti-Defamation League of Bn'ai B'rith...
...national and international significance, Powell emphasized that the civil rights struggle is one for all Americans. Nevertheless, he said, it must be led by Negroes. "It is as ridiculous to have a Negro on the Board of Directors of the Polish-American Society or the B'nal B'rith," he stated, "as it is to have the national Negro organizations led by whites...
...that almost 10% of the better U.S. hotels do not admit Jews. In the winter resorts of Florida and Arizona alone, there are 80 hotels that exclude Jewish-or Jewish-looking guests; 22 of them are in one city, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nonetheless, B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League reported at its 51st annual meeting in Manhattan last week that there has been a dramatic retreat from discriminatory practices over the past six years. Some 60% of the U.S. hotels that overtly excluded Jews in 1957 have now dropped such barriers. In New York State...