Friday, December 31, 13:743

THE JEWISH NEWS

U.S. Ready to Give 4 Million
To Aid Jews in Nazi Europe

Unnamed Jewish Agency to Put Up 2 Million With Britain
Underwriting Balance of $10,000,000 Project; Senate
Foreign Relations Group 0. K's Rescue Plan

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Members of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee last week revealed that the U. S. govern-
ment would be ready to contribute $4,000,000 towards a
$10,000,000 project for the purchase of food to be sent to the
remnants of the Jewish population in parts of Poland and
Czechoslovakia through the International Red Cross in
Switzerland.

The balance, it was stated, would be covered by the British
government underwriting $4,000,000 and by an unnamed American
Jewish organization which is willing to put up $2,000,000 with the
permission of the Treasury Department. The statement was made
on the basis of testimony given by Assistant Secretary of State
Long, testifying before the Committee concerning the Baldwin-
Rogers resolution which provides for the creation of a commission
to facilitate the rescue of the Jews of Europe.

Food Relief Will Reach Jews in Transnistria Soon
NEW YORK (JTA)—Food supplies will reach thousands of Jews
in Transnistria, the Rumanian occupied part of the Ukraine early
in 1944, it was announced this week by the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee. This is the first project to be put into effect
by any major American agency for feeding Jews in occupied Europe.
The first deliveries out of 250 tons of foodstuffs purchased in
Istanbul last October by Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, European chairman
of the JDC, will begin to move from Turkey toward the Balkans
within a week. Representatives of the International Red Cross will
supervise the distribution of the supplies, in cooperation with Jewish
leaders in the communities receiving assistance.

Senate Foreign Committee 0. K.'s Rescue Resolution
WASHINGTON (JPS)--Senate Foreign Relations Committee
has approved a resolution introduced by Senator Guy M. Gillette
and 11 other senators calling upon the President to set up a com-
mission of diplomatic, economic and military experts to devise ways
to "save the surviving Jewish people of Europe from extinction at
the hands of Nazi Germany."
A similar resolution is believed to have been killed in the House
Foreign Affairs Committee under the chairmanship of Rep. Sol
Bloom, after testimony by Assistant Secretary of State Long, who
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Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish`Press Service)

AMERICA

Employment discrimination against
Jews is on the rise, reports Malcom Ross,
chairman of the New York Fair Employ-
ment Practices Committee. The Jewish
War Veterans of the United States have
started a campaign, recently reported by
the Independent Jewish Press, to combat
discrimination against Jews.
Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes has accepted the honorary chairman-
ship of the recently organized Washington
Emeraency Committee to Save the Jewish
People of Europe.
A resolution proposing that the Boston
school system adopt the "Springfield plan"
to teach "the distressing result of racial
discrimination" has been rejected by the
Boston City Council because "it implies
the existence of racial discrimination in
Boston." The School Committee has a simi-
lar proposal under consideration.
A Canadian Christian Council for Pal-
estine has been launched at a meeting of
Montreal clergy under the chairmanship
of Rev. Dr. W. A. Ferguson, principal of
the Anglican College of Montreal. Similar
meetings have been called in Toronto,
Winnipeg and other large cities.

PALESTINE

A group of 411 Jewish refugees from
Poland, who had spent 16 months in
Teheran, arrived at the Atlit clearance
camp where they will remain temporarily
until the formalities for their release are
completed.
The possibilities for absorption of refu-
gee children into Palestine are "enormous,
almost limitless," declared Miss Henrietta

Szold, speaking in Jerusalem at a rally
held in her honor on her 83rd birthday.
The rally, called by the Youth Aliyah
reau and the Child and Youth Institute,
was attended by a large audience including
representatives of the national Jewish in-
stitutions.

OVERSEAS

The Rumanian Supreme Court has
ruled that workers who have been dis-
missed from government and municipal
posts because they are Jews by birth are
entitled to compensation, but that they
should be paid from money confiscated
from the Jews.
Youths who have escaped from the
Ghettos of Grodno and Byalistok have
formed strong guerilla bands, composed
entirely of Jews, which are operating in
that section in joint action with mixed
bands of Jews, Poles and Russians. Gueril-
la bands are also operating in the vicinity
cf Pinsk, Baranovich and Augostovo, it is
reported.
According to the Nazis, General Tito,
leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, is a Jew.
This "sensational discovery" is being
broadcast by the Nazi radio in an attempt
to discredit the Partisans as a "Jewish
movement." The Nazis claim that Tito's
real name is Joseph Braunn and that his
father was a Croatian Jew.
Jewish soldiers from Palestine have
done their part in restituting Jewish com-
munal activity in Naples. The Kehilla in
that city is functioning in normal fashion,
with religious and educaticinal activity
resumed.

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Texas Group Told
To Review Policy on
Kashruth, Zionism

R e f o r m Organ Cautions
Against Acts That Would
Divide Liberal Ranks

NEW YORK (JPS)—Congrega-
tion Beth Israel of Houston,
Texas, which has barred observ-
ers of kashruth and Zionists from
voting membership was called
upon to "review and abandon
this unwise policy" by Liberal
Judaism, the monthly magazine
of the Union of American He-
brew Congregations, the- central
body of the Reform synagogues.
"If our congregations will thus
begin to divide themselves into
separate credal groups," an edi-
torial in the December issue cau-
tions, "the unity of Reform Juda-
ism in America will be broken
and perhaps permanently‘." In re-
action to the decision of the
Texas synagogue, the magazine
warns that "Zionist - officers of
some other congregation may be
prompted to declare officially
-that no one is eligible for mem-
bership in their congregation un-
less he subscribes to the Balfour
Declaration."
"The action of the Houston con-
gregation," the editorial says,
"runs counter to the tradition and
practice of Liberal Judaism,
which must rest upon a decent
regard for divergent opinions
within its own fold."
The editorial points out that
"the credal test set by Congrega-
tion Beth Israel goes far beyond
any action of national Reform
bodies, from the time of their in-
ception by Isaac M. Wise." Never
before has any Reform Jewish
body attempted "to degrade them
(Zionists) to second-class mem-•
bership," it is pointed out.

16 Rabbis Volunteer
For UAHC, HUC

CINCINNATI, Ohio — Sixteen
rabbis from widely scattered
areas have volunteered their
services to the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations and the
Hebrew Union College in connec-
tion with the $550,000 joint cam-
paign for the two institutions,
after meeting with Rabbi Mau-
rice N. Eisendrath, director of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, in a series of confer-
ences in which the needs of the
Union and the College and their
expanded program were out-
lined, Jerome L. Levy, national
finance director for the drive,
announced.

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