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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110

Thursday, August 31, 1956

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Jewish Laborite May Inherit Ernest Bevin's Post

BY NATHAN ZIPRIN

T DON'T KNOW whether it is good for Jews or not

A
but there is a strong possibility that a Jew may
inherit Ernest Bevin's post as British Foreign Minister.
He is the 39-year-old deputy Morris Edelman, a
journalist by profession. There is very strong senti-
ment for him in the powerful executive of the Labor
Party.
If Bevin steps down, as rumors have it, Edelman
will have the backing of Premier Atlee, who was quite
impressed by Edelman's performance as British repre-
sentative at the recent conference of the European
Council.
Bartley Crum is out of the picture as our next
ambassador to Israel. Gen. William E. Riley has the
inside track. The appointment will be announced when
he returns frem Israel.
The UN Palestine Conciliation Commission is about
to meet the fate of all flesh. Unable to bring its peace
efforts to fruition the body will ask its own dissolution
at the next session of the General Assembly. Its
report will say that the only road to peace between
Israel and the Arab states is through direct negotiations.
Contrary to Arab expectations the partition resolu-
tion will not be on the agenda of the next Assembly
session. American opposition to the move will prevail.
Vatican circles are disinclined to push the Jerusalem

The Reader
Writes

THE COMMENTATOR LAUDS
COLUMN BY ALFRED SEGAL
To the Editor:
Thanks for publishing Alfred
Segal's reply to the ineffable Mrs.
Gardner . (See last week's issue.
—Ed.)
I ceased to worry about my
soul when, as a boy, I discovered
that neither of my parents had
been baptized, and therefore they
were lost. I decided then
there to go to hell with them.
I thought them better company
than the soul-savers.
Yours for a little religious free-
dom,
W. K. KELSEY,
DETROITS NEWS.

internationalization scheme at this time for diplomatic
reasons. In fact it is safe to say that the UN will seek
to avoid the issue at the next Assembly session.

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S.Z. Speaker

British Chief Rabbi
Warns of Red Bait

LONDON—(WNS)—A warning
that the rabbis under his juris-
diction take precautions against
unwittingly falling into the trap
of Communist and pro-Com-
munist groups penetrating their
propaganda into Jewish circles,
was sounded here by Chief
Rabbi Israel Brodie.
Counselling the rabbis to warn
their congregations against sign-
ing Communist-inspired peace
petitions, Rabbi Brodie stated
that "organizations and societies
have suddenly appeared which
really do not seek peace for its
own sake" and whose backers
"are interested in purposes which
can have only one culmination—
the end of freedom and the
death of peace."

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objections have been raised,
The chief difficulty before. the committee is the
problem of specifying which organization or organiza-
tions should be made trustees of the assets, to be used
for succor and relief abroad.
The chief agencies under consideration are the

JDC, the Jewish Agency and the United Jewish Appeal.
Incidentally such a move by the United States
might serve to influence other countries into similar
action, particularly Switzerland, where huge heirless
Jewish assets are on deposit in private banks or
invested in government bonds.
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A MOVEMENT IS afoot to move the remains of
Naftali Hertz Imber to Israel. Imber is the author of
the Hatikvah, Jewish national hymn.
At a recent session of the Austrian parliament it
was brought out that more than 300 Nazi laws are
still on the books. Among them is the edict against
shechitah, the decree compelling Jewish women to use
the name Sarah and Jewish men to use the surname
Israel.

Northwest Sets School Date

The Northwest Hebrew Con- crafts. In addition, the school
gregation Religious school will re- has junior and senior confirma-
sume its activities on Sunday, tion and post-confirmation classes.
Sept. 10.
A staff of certified and univer-
Two sessions will be held each sity graduate teachers will in-
Sunday: one from 9:15 a.m. to struct the pupils.
11 a.m. and the other from 11:15
The school is under the general
a.m. to 1 p.m.
supervision of Rabbi Jacob E.
The school is organized into Segal, with Allen A. Warsen as
three departments: junior, senior director. Gloria Katcher is the
and arts.
secretary.
The junior dept. consists of
The school committee consists
the kindergarten and grades one of Ira G. Kaufman, president; Dr.
through eight. The senior dept. Samuel G. Epstein, chairman;
is imposed of grades nine Jack Charlip, co-chairman; Mrs.
through 12.
Jacob Levine, representing the
The arts dept. includes dra- sisterhood; and Meyer Littky,
t matics, music, dancing, art, and secretary.

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RELIGIOUS READER
OBJECTS TO SEGAL
To the Editor:
In your August 24 edition there
appeared an article by Alfred Se-
gal which is an insult to every
religious Jew, whether orthodox,
sonservative or reform.
In answer to the woman who
wanted him to become a convert
to Christianity, he in effect
affirmed his belief in the divinity
of Jesus but claimed Jews do not
seek personal salvation, rather
world salvation, an example be-
ing slum clearance.
Can one imagine the manner in
which a Christian would answer
a Jew in a Christian newspaper
under similar circumstances?
Every word of this article is in
contradiction to basic Jewish
thought and philosophy. It is
ironic that many writers of ar-
ticles in our Anglo-Jewish press
should not have the least amount
of knowledge of Judaism and
what it stands for.
CLEVELAND READER.

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UNLESS CERTAIN elements prevail there is a
distinct possibility that the present session of Congress
may approve a bill authorizing the return to Jewish
organizations of approximately three-million dollars
worth of assets that had been confiscated from enemy
aliens during the war.
The money in most part came from Jews who had
the foresight to smuggle their assets from Germany the
moment Hitler rose to power. Since the confiscated
property belonged to people who were enemies of the
nation we were warring, official Washington felt that
there was no reason penalizing them through permanent
seizure of their belonging.
In fact as early as 1946 Congress passed a law
authorizing the return of seized assets to political and
religious victims of Nazism.
Some of the assets have been returned to the
original owners. Most of them, however, remained
untouched because there were no claimants or heirs,
all or most of them haying been slaughtered by Hitler.
As a result it occurred to a number of legislators,
among them Congressman Sabbath, that a bill be
passed permitting transfer of the assets to Jewish
relief and rehabilitation bodies.

The Senate passed such a bill a year ago.
But somehow the House version of the bill gut
tied up in technicalities though it had been approved
by a number of committees. The bill is now in the
hands of the rules committee where a number of

Oldest Synagogue
Found in Israel

JERUSALEM — (WNS) — The
oldest synagogue ever unearthed
has been discovered by Prof.
Eleazar Sukenik, noted archae-
ologist.
The synagogue found in Yaf-
fieh, near Nazareth, is of the
fourth century, C. E.
Although the floor is almost
completely destroyed, a portion
still retains a mosaic which
bears the symbols of Israel's
ancient tribes. Considered by
Prof. Sukenik to be one of his
most "remarkable excavations,"
the synagogue is said to be
"bigger and more beautiful than
any hitherto discovered." I.-

MAX LERNER, author, journ-
alist and lecturer, will be the
guest speaker at the opening

meeting of Shaarey Zeclek
Men's Club, Abraham Satov-
sky, president, announces. Ile

will speak on "The Crisis of

Our Time" at 8:30 p.m., Tues-
day, Sept. 5, in the main audi-
torium of the synagogue.
Chairmen of arrangements are
Samuel J. Berke and Dr. Al-
bert J. Altman.

Arab DPs Denied
Work by Egypt

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ALEXANDRIA — (Special)—
The advisory committee of the
United Nations Refugee Work
and Relief Agency failed to reach
an agreement with the Egyptian
government over the employ-
ment of Arab refugees in the
Gaza area.
A plan submitted by the Egyp-
tian foreign, war and social min-
isters, providing for a joint Egyp-
tian-agency works program in
the Sinai region, has not yet been
approved by the cabinet. The
plan would allowed refugees who
do not wish to return to Israel
to settle in Egypt.
Opponents of the plan point
out that Egypt is overpopulated
and should first provide new re-
sources for its own population.
The UN committee, after a
visit to Saudi-Arabia, will seek
an agreement with Syria. The
Syrian government was reported
showing an interest in using ref-
ugees in development works.

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versity of Detroit law school and
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