Friday, January 26, 1945

Bulgarian Jewish Groups
Renounce Hebrew, Zionism

R e p or fs From Jerusalem Charge Minority Engineered
Adoption of Resolution to Severe Ties With World
Jewry Despite Sentiment of Vast Majority

JERUSALEM, (Palcor)—ThesJewish Communities of Bulgaria
and the Jewish section of the Fatherland Front, at their first joint
meeting in Sofia, passed resolutions declaring that Bulgarian Jewry
does not consider itself part of the Jewish people and that Jews
of Bulgaria are Bulgarians of the Jewish faith. and • have nothing in
common with the Jewish communities in Palestine, the United
States and other countries.
The Consistoire, JeWish Community Council, will maintain con-
tact, however, with the Jewish Anti-Fascist CommKtee of Moscow,
the resolutions declared. The Zionist movement was described as
"chauvinistic and bourgeois," and a demand was voiced for the ban-
ning of Hebrew studies.
The meeting at which these resolutions were passed was stormy,
with several delegates rising to voice their opposition. They were
prevented from speaking.
Passed by Pressure of Small Minority
Reports from Sofia state that these resolutions were passed
through the pressure of a small minority which has obtained con-
trol over Jewish life there by a disregard of domestic procedure and
of the Zionist sentiment and strong nationalism of the vast ma-
jority of Bulgaria's Jews.
This group, Sofia reports charge, disregards economic-political
conditions which rule out the reconstruction of. Jewish economic
life there. In the opinion of most Jewish overseas relief organiza-
tions that have surveyed the situation, the only possible solution is
the immediate transfer of the bulk of Bulgarian Jewry to Palestine.
David ben Guriori, chairman' of the Jewish Agency Executive,
declared, following a recent visit to Bulgaria, that while a coalition
of all democratic parties governed the country as a whole, control
of Jewish public affairs has been "usurped by Jewish communists
who showed themselves assimilationists and alien to their Jewish-
ness, although Bulgarian Jewry is almost entirely Zionist."
Agency, JDC Send Clothes, Medicines to Bulgaria
The Jewish Agency for Palestine and the American •Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee have received permission from the
Palestine Government to dispatch clothes and m.edicaments 'to the
Jewries of the Balkan countries. The JDC will send 30,000 shoes
to Jews in the Balkans, and the Jewish Agency will send 5,000
shoes to Bulgaria. Clothing and medicaments for distribution
among Bulgaria's Jews may also be sent shortly.
The Bulgarian Government has agreed to permit the deliveries
to enter the country duty-free. The consignment will be addressed
to the Jewish Rescue Committee, representing all Jewish parties
in Bulgaria, and responsible to the Jewish. Agency and the JDC for
its fair and equitable distribution among the needy.
• Jewish Palestine welcomed 625 Jewish refugees who left Ro-
mania for Palestine in the middle of November but had been de-
tained, first by Soviet authorities in Bulgaria, and then by Turkish
authorities in Ankara. The group arrived from Turkey by train
and was transferred immediately, to the clearance camp at Atlith.
Soviet authorities in Bulgaria detained the group for one month
under suspicion that some may be regarded as Soviet citizens. The
latter are not permitted to leave the country. When the group,
permitted to proceed arrived in Turkey, it was again detained be-
cause the Turkish authorities contended that the monthly quota
of 1,500 Jews, admitted to Palestine under the remainder of White
Paper immigration certificates, had been exceeded. They left Pal-
estine when . the Jewish Agency cleared up the misunderstanding.

Agency Emigration Experts Barred By Bulgaria, Romania
TEL AVIV, (Palcor)—Jewish Agency emissaries seeking to
enter Romania and Bulgaria for the purpose of organizing Jewish
emigration for Palestine are "encountering difficulties,' Moshe
Shertok, chief of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, revealed here. On the other hand, he said, there appears
to exist a possibility for emigration from Poland to Palestine.

150,000 Jews Face Starvation Death in Hungary
BUCHAREST, (Palcor)—Doubly tried, by hunger and the rig-
ors of winter, 150,000 Jews in Romania face death because of the
lack of the barest necessities unless immediate aid is extended to
them in larger quantities than hitherto extended by the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Ezra and other
overseas private relief organizations.
American correspondents who, after a flying visit to the lib-
erated areas, reported that Romania's Jews had managed to re-
tain their means by bribing officials, did a disservice to Romanian
Jewry by confusing the fortunate few with the miserable average.
The 150,000 Jews in Romania in need of emergency aid include
13,000 Jews who fled across the border from Hungary.

Zionist Emergincy Council
Urges Petitions to FDR

Christian Palestine Committee Asks Roosevelt to Press For
Jewish Commonwealth at Meeting of Big 3; Syna-
gogue Council Calls for Prayers

NEW YORK (JPS)—Petitions to be addressed to him by
communities, organizations and individuals, Jews and Christians;
throughout the • country, will urge President Roosevelt to place
the pressing needs of the Jewish people on the agenda of his
forthcoming meeting with Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister
Churchill, it was announced here by the American Zionist
Emergency Council which is launching this campaign.
Wishing him success in his deliberations, the petitioners will
draw the attention of the President to the imperative need for the
immediate rescue of the surviving Jews of Europe, the opening of
the doors of Palestine to Jewish refugees, and the reconstitution
of Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth.
The American Palestine Committee, headed by Senator Robert
F. Wagner of N. Y., and the Christian Council on Palestine, under
the leadership of Dr. Henry A. Atkinson, secretary of the Church
Peace Union, are co-operating in this endeavor.
Prayers for President
The Synagogue Council of America, through its president,
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, has issued a call to rabbis to offer
special prayers during the Sabbath service on Saturday, Jan. 27,
"for the health of President Roosevelt, for a wise administration in
his new term of office and for the success of his forthcoming con-
ference with Mr. Churchill and Mr. Stalin."
The call of the Synagogue Council of America which repre-
sents the orthodox, conservative and reform Jewish congregations
on their rabbis, was addressed to the 2,000 rabbis and congrega-
tions affiliated with the Council, to observe Jan. 27 "as a day of
prayer on behalf of the President and to give expression to the
fervent hope that • this conference will assure the liberation of all
enslaved peoples, the rescue of the persecuted remnants of 'Israel
in war-ravaged Europe, and bring about justice for the Jew in the
Holy Land, Palestine."

Council for Judaism Seeking $250,000
PHILADELPHIA (JPS)—A budget of $250,000 for membership
expansion and "increased educational activities on a nation-wide
basis" was adopted by the first annual conference here of the
American Council for Judaism, on Jan. 13 and 14. Lessing J.
Rosenwald was re-elected president. The press was..-barred from

the sessions.

Page Three

THE JEWISH NEWS

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Following revocation of the charter of the
anti-Semitic Chicago Gentile Co-Operative As-
sociation, "Bishop" D. Scott Swain, one of the
League's supporters, announced the launch-
ing, by' the end of January, of a new group,
The American Christian Civil Liberties Insti-
tute. Swain, who identifies himself as a
"bishop" of the "American Episcopal Church,"
was revealed by the Chicago Sun to have been
an inmate of the Stateville and. Menard peni-
tentiaries where he served a total of four
years. He claims that he was ordained four
years ago by the "American Episcopal Church,"
which should not be confused with the estab-
lished Protestant Episcopal Church.
Former U. S. Senator Robert R. Reynolds of
North Carolina, alien-baiter, associated with
G. L. K. Smith (founder of the America First

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Party) and star-billed in John Roy Carlson's
native fascist expose "Under Cover," an-
nounced the formation of a new Nationalist
Party here.

PALESTINE

The Palestine rabbinate will proclaim • a
world-wide fast day and a week's mourning to
commemorate European Jewry's martydom,
according to 'a decision adopted at a meeting in
Jerusalem of the Chief Rabbinical Council,
under the chairmanship of Chief Rabbi Isaac
Herzog. The .date has not yet been set. The
rabbinates of the free countries have been re-
quested to endorse this call, and urge that
monies be provided for the relief of Europe's
surviving Jews and for the transfer to Jewish
custody of children sheltered in non-Jewish
institutions and homes.
(See Also Page 22)

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