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NEW' YORK—(WNS)—The American Jewish Commit-
The conference was attended agreed that the responsibility for
by 500 members of the American
allaying existing tensions and in-
Jewish Committee, representing
augurating long-range programs
Jewish leadership in some 50 to improve intergroup relations
cities throughout the country.
rests upon all groups in the corn-
President Truman, in a letter Munity, including police, educa-
addressed to Jacob Blaustein, na- tion and welfare departments.
tional president of the American
ACTION PROGRAM
Jewish Committee, praised the
"In tension areas, where viol-
organization for having 'fought
the good fight" against bigotry ence has broken out, the police
and prejudice for 43 years. The must play a vital role in prevent-
President's message, . part. said: ing disorder and in dealing with
the incidents themselves," said
TRUMAN'S MESSAGE
' During the first half of the Dr. R. B. Loewy, of Peekskill, a
20th century we have seen despite member of the Committee's New
momentary setbacks, great over- York Chapter.
all progress made in eradicating • In the foreign affairs area, the
prejudice and hatred among the delegates were advised that a sur-
races and religions of our citizens. vey of West and Central Euro-
This progress has been attribut- pean Jewish communities reveal-
able In an awakening conscious- ed that Jewish communal life is
ness of and awareness by the beginning to show signs of sta-
American people of the great bilization.
principles of the prophets of old Dr. John Slawson, executive
and the fundamental tenets of vice-president, declared that the
our Constitution. The American objectives of the American Jew-
Jewish Committee and other ish Committee program in Eu-
great organizations have contrib- rope are to help the Jewish com-
uted materially to this progress. munities there to re-establish
I wish for your organization many their social and religious insti-
more years of constructive tutions, to strengthen their civil
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`Overcoming Racial and Reli- the life of the nations in which
gious Tensions•" the delegates they live.
Gnashing Teeth, Nazi Town
Returns Synagogue to Jews
FRANKFURT— (WNS) — The Jewish physicians to local hos-
German town of Markdreiwitzd pitals, lost another round to the
which gained notoriety some Jews.
months ago when its Nazi Burg-I
Through a miracle the town's
!twister barred the admission of
synagogue was spared in the No-
vember, 1938, wave of pogroms,
when hundreds of synagogues
throughout Germany were de-
stroyed, burned and pillaged. In-
stead, the synagogue was trans-
formed into a city hotel.
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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Hour will honor the Cantors and
Ministers Association of Detroit
on the program at 10:45 p.m.,
Sunday over station WKMH,
1310 on the dial.
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When the war ended, the few
returning Jews demanded the
synagogue. The Germans laughed
at what they called Jewish "im-
pudence," and declared it was
"a shame that these Jews re-
turned."
For years negotiations had
Among the guests to be inter- been going on with the town
viewed will be Cantor A. A. authorities for the return' of the
synagogue, but without progress.
Rosenfeld.
In fact, some of the negotiators
A program of Jewish liturg- dared to threaten that "what
ical music will be featured. In Hitler failed to accomplish, the
addition, Israeli music and folk extinction of the Jews, we will
songs will be sung by members accomplish."
of the Cantor's Association.
Finally American m i I i .l a r y
The news of the world and the authorities stepped in. And that
Calender of Local Events will is how the synagogue was turned
round out the program.
over to the Jews.
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Camp Schools
Create Rift in
Israeli Cabinet
JERUSALEM—(WNS)—Premier David Ben Gurion,
taking note of the controversy which has been raging in this
country over charges by religious elements that children in
immigration camps were being compelled to attend nron-reli-
gious schools, said he would leave the cabinet if the charges
are proven to be true.
held its 43rci anntial meeting with a series of workshop
seminars, where the major issues facing American Jewry in
1950 were considered. •
Chronicle Hour
Will Feature
Sacred Music
Reich Restitution
Set at 600 Million
FAIGE RATER, 18-month-old
DP, objects to being deposited
on the doorstep of America in
a basket, while her folks go
through the customs. Faige
was born in a DP camp and
was brought over by the Ileb-
rew Immigrant Aid society.
JERUSALEM—(Special)—It is
estimated here that West Germ-
any might pay about $600,000,000
in goods for what had been ex-
torted from Jews by Hitler.
About a third of this compen-
sation might be transferred to
Israel in the form of pre-fabri-
cated houses, irrigation pipes,
machinery and other goods.
Approximately 350,000 claims
are listed.
German authorities, it was ex-
plained, recognized the principle
of these claims.
Jewish Communities Seek
Action on Civil Rights Plan
Detroit Jewish organizations
took an active part in a nation-
wide mobilization for Civil Rights
in Washington on Jan. 15-17.
Meyer Silverman, president of
the East Side Merchants Asso-
ciation; B. M. Joffe, executive di-
rector of the Jewish Community
Council, and M. Leavitt, the
Workmen's Circle, joined hun-
dreds of other delegates from or-
ganizations throughout the coun-
try.
Recent incidents in Peekskill,
and Chicago, seem to indicate a
pattern. Th:w started as anti-
Negro demonstrations, then de-
veloped into anti-Semitic out-
bursts.
ington expressed the opinion that
the Civil Rights Mobilization was
the most impressive and most or-
derly mass visitation ever wit-
nessed in Washington.
Both Michigan senators, Homer
Ferguson and Arthur H. Vanden-
berg authorized the publication
of their decision to help bring the
FEPC Bill to the voting stage
and to try to break the filibuster,
even if it takes six to eight weeks.
made across the borders, the
size of the peacetime Army must
be enlarged.
"It's not over yet," he warned.
The present two-year military
service act enables many officers
and men who started army serv-
ice in 1948 to obtain their re-
lease in 1950. Volunteers for the
regular army are numerous—
many more proportionally than,
in other countries. But old-
timers, especially those whose
service in defense organizations
dates back many year, want to
make a new start in civilian jobs
TIBERIAS—(WNS) — home-
It is the feeling of all Jewish diate revival of the Sanhedrin,
community relations organiza- traditional Jewish tribunal vest-
tions that Jews have a direct ed with authority to promulgate
stake in President Truman's civil and interpret religious law, was
rights proposals.
urged here by Rabbi Judah Mai-
CONGRESSMEN POLLED
mon, Israel's minister of religion.
Congressmen and senators went
Speaking at a gathering dedi-
on record either in favor of the cated to the revival of the San-
President's program or in favor hedrin, Rabbi Maimon counseled
of bringing the pending bills the immediate convocation of a
on the floor of the house and the national conference of rabbis to
senate.
act on re-establishing the ancient
The organizers of the Civil law body.
Rights Mobilization, led by the
He delivered the address at the
National Association for the Ad- grave of Rabbi Yochanan ben
vancement of Colored People and Zakai, who was president of the
the Jewish community relations Sanhedrin at the time of the
agencies, barred all representa- destruction of the second Temple
tion from totalitarian groups.
by the Romans in 70 C.E.
A credentials committee dis-
Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevi Her-
qualified credentials of some 600 zog is reported veering to the
alleged "delegates" whose cre- view that it is premature to talk
dentials were found to be not in of estabiishing a Sanhedrin. He
order.
is said to feel that the issue is
IMPRESSIVE MEETING
too complicated for action now
Experienced observers in Wash- and that before proceeding it
and their places must be filled
by conscripts, Yadin declared.
"The army should be pioneer-
ing in spirit, modern in out-
look, democratic and technical-
ly efficient," he stated.
Yadin proposed that women
be called up for a two-year per-
iod of service because 10 to 20
per cent of army jobs could be
performed by them.
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DRAFT CHANGES
PROPOSED
JERUSALEM— (ISI) —Three
basic changes in the Israel con-
The Israeli Premier made the
declaration in a letter to Rabbi
J. L. Maimon. minister of reli-
gion, in which he stated that the
religious groups would have to
bear the consequences in the
event the charges are not sub-
stantiated.
In the meantime a cabinet com-
mittee of five has been appoint-
ed to investigate the complaints
of the religious groups.
Although the eyes of the new
state are being focused on Ge-
neva, where the UN Trusteeship
Council was slated to discuss
measures aimed at implementing
the General Assembly's Jerusa-
lem internationalization decision,
little doubt remained that there
was nothing to stop Israel from
its plans regarding the Holy City.
At the same time
Israeli
Premier moved in the direction
of broadening his cabinet by in-
viting the General Zionists and
Mapam to join his coalition gov-
ernment.
On the economic front much at-
tention was centered on the con-
templated action by Knesset to
make special concessions to
foreign investors. Meir Gross-
man, Jewish Agency executive
member, reported after a tour of
Europe that financial circles
aboard were favorably impressed
by the proposed move to encour-
age private capital investors.
Rabbis Divided on Revival
of Sanhedrin in Israel Now
Threat of a 'Second Round' No Propaganda Scare — Yadin
TEL AVIV — (ISI) —Prepara-
tions for the "second round" by
Arab countries are real, not a
propaganda scare, and as a re-
sult, the size of Israel's peace-
time Army will soon be suffi-
cient, Ray Alouf Yigal Yadin,
chief of staff, told the press.
In giving the background for
proposed changes in the present
defense law, he said that Israel's
army is as prepared as ever to
repulse any attack and fight the
enemy on his soil, but in order to
cope with preparations being
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would be wise to hold a series
of conferences with prominent
rabbis in Israel and abroad.
A number of rabbis in the
United States are said to have
opposed the idea on the ground
that the Sanhedrin institution
cannot be revived before the
coming of the Messiah.
Britain Eases
Pressure for
Oil from Iraq
BAGDAD — (Special) — Ac-
cording to a report of the New
York Times' correspondent in
Iraq, Britain and the Iraq Pe-
troleum Co., which is owned by
British, U. S., French and Dutch
interests, are weakening in their
determination to persuade the
Iraqui government to reopen the•
oil pipeline from Iraq to Haifa.
Britain exerted pressure on
Iraq by opposing an international
loan and withholding financial as-
sideration bill were presented to sistance.
the Kneset by Prime Minister Ben
A recent grant of a three-mil-
Gurion.
He proposed that men of 18 lion pound British loan for Iroqui
years accepted for service in railroads is the first evidence of
technical units or duties requir- a growing willingness to give way
ing longer periods of training on the pipeline issue.
be exempt from agricultural
In Iraq, the issue has become
training.
a symbol of national honor. It
He also suggested that recruits is the answer to charges of tire
over 20 years called up before Egyptian press that Iraq did not
October, 1951. be exempt from do enough in the Palestine war.
agricultural service, and that
Keeping the pipeline closed has
women be called up for two become a symbol of Iraq's claim
years instead of one, as at pres- to the respect of other Arab
ent.
states.