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T-I4E JEWISH NEWS

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Gold-Star Mother from Palestine Myron Keys Wins
Home Reelection;
Visits Jewish Graves in Europe Board Honors 3

Friday, July 25, 1947

UNSCOP Minority Losing Fig
To ,Place . Humanity A Bove Law

JERUSALIM, (JTA)—Rarely coming to the surface b
Rabbi from Liege Recites Traditional Prayers; Mrs. Lewin-
Myron A. Keys was -re-elected constantly boiling beneath the activities of the Unitealstatio
Epstein Brings Back Names of American Jews Buried There president of the Jewish Home Special Committee on Palestine is a persistent batile wi '
Aged Tuesday evening, July the Committee over the general issue of-peopIe versus law
A Jewigh gold-star mother, an American citizen, although a 15.
and behind this the more basic issuesof Great Britain. Bri --
resident of Jerusalem, Palestine, for the last 29 years, Mrs. Samuel
other officers re-elected in- laws in Palestine are becoming a greater and greater stumb
Lewin-Epstein is spending a few,months in the Unit ed States visiting

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clude Sidney J. Allen, first vice-
with relatives. ,
In Detroit she is the guest of-her husband's brother-in-law and
sister, Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Hershmah of 2722 Calvert.
En route to this country from 1-
Palestine, she visited three Euro- marked with the Mogen Dovid,
pean cemeteries maintained by the star of David.
Mrs. Lewin-Epstein took with
the United States government —
Mastridge in Holland, Henri Cha- her, that day, the Rabbi from
pelle, and Neuville Enn Condrez Leige who at each grave recited
the traditional prayers. She men-
in Belgium.
tioned the names of foliar who
She remarked about the beauty were recently. buried in this cem-
of these cemeteries and how well etery'. They inlude:
cared for were the graves. She
Copt—David L. Satz — No.
spoke of the people of Holland 0724832-552 AAF. BU.
and Belgium who adopt graves of
Pfc. Paul A. Fingerhut — No.
unknown soldiers, visit and look 6980932-109 Inf. Reg.
after them tenderly. She told
Pvt. Bernard D. Defren•— No.
about groups of school .children 33454128-333 Inf.atteg:
who are taken by their teachers
Pfc. Marvin Kirstein — No.
to visit and decorate the graves, 16127409-109 Inf. Reg.
and are taught what Americans
have done for their country.
Jewish DPs Publishing
On May 30, Memorial Day, this ,Four Papers, 13 Magazines
FRANKFURT (JTA)—The U.
gold-star mother visited the
grave -of her son, Capt. Noah S. Army reports that residents of
Levin-Epstein, a former student Jewish displaced persons camps
in the Engineering School at the were publishing four weekly
University of Michigan, who is newspapers and 13 magazines for
MYRON A. KEYS
buried in Neuville Enn Condrez. general circulation. Most of the president; Gus D. Newman, sec-
She decorated not only his grave, newspapers contain about six ond vice - president; William
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but also all those which were pages.
Sandler, secretary; and Max J.
Kogan, treasurer.
Dr .Harry Bennett, Joseph
Bernstein, Mrs. Rose D. Ferar,
Arthur Fleischman, Henry Levitt,
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
David Levine and ' Leonard N.
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Simons, with the officers, are
. motors of Second Class Citizenship
Arabs—C
Before the UN at Flushing and wherever - they present their case, members •of the Executive Com-
the Arabs make it a point to emphasize that if Jews will relinquish mittee of the Home.
claims to statehood in Palestine, they will be granted "minority"
In accordance with an amend-
rights in all Arabic countries. Some of their spokesmen, it is tile, ment of the By-Laws, voted in
speak of "equal rights. But even the latter concession smacks of at the Annual Meeting June 24,
devilish intent which becomes apparent the moment we examine
which directs the Board of Di-
historical facts.
In a memorandum to UNSCOP outlining the position of Sews in rectors to elevate to honorary
Arab countries, the Jewish Agency shows how, from the very be- Board membership citizens of the
ginning of Jewish residence among Moslems, in accordance with the community who have given
Koran, their lives, property and freedom of worship were at best many years of service as Direc-
guaranteed only if they consented to status of second class citizenship. tors of the Home, Eli Sachse,
Jewish youths today, in Moslem countries, according ip this Mrs. D. W. Simons and Moses
memorandum, have only two alternatives—flight to Palestine by
-perilous and devious routes or affiliation with the illegal Communist Weiswasser were designated hon-
orary Board members.
party.
In Damascus, the memorandum shows, the Je-wish population
has dwindled in the last 20 years from 20,000 to 2,500. In all of Syria,
the number of Jews has declined to about -10,000, Christians as well For Aged Scholacs
as Jews are fleeing to the slightly better conditions in Lebanon. Jews
are prosecuted on suspicion that their children are leaving for Pales-
tine, and they are compelled to participate in anti-Jewish demonstra-
tions on Balfour Day. A Syrian Jewish delegation was forced to
appear before the UN Inquiry Conimittee last 'year to give anti-
Zionist testimony in which they were coached under threat
In Iraq, where, after World. War I, Jews held high positions and
To giire residents of the Home .
helped in commercializing the country, the liberal trend was re-
versed after acquisition of independence. Now, teaching of Hebrew for Aged an opportunity for group
study and discussion of the Tal-
is forbidden even for religious purposes, Iraqi Jews dare not cor:-
respond with relatives in Palestine. non-Iraqi Jews are denied - ad- mud, the Talmudic Study Group
mittance to the country, anti-Zionist leagues are being formed under of the Home will -hold regular
compulsion, and the climax of persecution came when, in June 1941, meetings at 3 p. m. every Satur-
after the escape of Rashid All al Gailani, 120 Jews were killed in a
day.
pogrom. •
Abraham Prioslow, who is also
A third of Yemenite Jewry lives in Palestine, but the remaining
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40,000 live under horrible conditions, are prohibited from riding in charge of the Home's Syna-
horseback or carrying firearms, Jewish orphans are forcibly removed goue, will act as leader of the
to Moslem orphanages for conversion. Jews are forced into the Study Group until Aug. 2, when
position of "scrapers"—street- and latrine-cleaners—and are con- Rabbi M. M. Honigsber will as-
stantly subjected to humiliations.
The Jewish Agency charges that Jews fared well in the former sume leadership of the sessions.
Italian colony of Lybia until the British imported from Egypt rabid All elderly persons in the com-
nationalist preachers and business men who spread the type of munity are invited to attend
fanaticism that resulted in the November, 1945, pogrom, when 100 meetings of this group, as well as
other activities maintained at the
Jews were killed in Tripoli.
This is the tolerance of the Arabs which is offered as a substitute Home.
for statehood. And the British share in the guilt for the misery im-
Other highlights of the Home's
posed tipon Jews in Arabic countries.
program include services led by
The picture is not an altogether black one, however. The
Cantor Hyman J. Adler of Cong.
Jewish Agency, in a report to UN on "Zionism and the Arab
World," indicates that Jews are not without support among Arabs, Bnai David, and a continuation of
that Christians in Lebanon have expressed the conviction that a the monthly birthday celebra-
tions, under the sponsorship of
Jewish Palestine will be a safer neighbor than a Moslem state,-and
call attention to the fact that the Kurds in Turkey and-Iraq have
the Ladies' Auxiliary. The .next
submitted a memorandum to UN expressing sympathy with Jewish
celebration will be in honor of
aspirations for independence in Palestine.
July births, on Tuesday, July 29,
Thus, the issue is far from being one-sided, and if the UNSCOP
refrains from being influenced by Great Britain we still have a in the form of an outing at Belle
Isle.
fighting chance in Eretz Israel. •
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Purely Commentary

Home Inaugurates
Talmudic Sessions

This Year's Anniversaries of Note

Aug. 29 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the convening of
the First World Zionist Congress, in Basle, by Dr.. Theodor Herat.
It is one of the most important anniversaries on our calendar and it
should signalize celebrations for the purpose of arousing revived
interest in the cause of Jewish national redemption as it was visual-
ized by the founder of political Zionism.
This celebration becomes eminently more important by virtue
of several other anniversaries occurring at this time. The most im-
portant of them is the 25th anniversary of the redemption of the
Emek Jezreel (Valley of Israel) by the Jewish National Fund, also
occurring next month.
The fact that it is the 65th anniversary of the arrival in Palestine
of the BILU (Beth Israel Lechu ve-Neicho—House of Israel, let us go
forth to Zion) adds significance to Zionist occasions.
July 24 marked the 25th anniversary of the ratification of the
Palestine Mandate by the League of Nations.
Rishon LeZion, the first Jewish colony in Palestine, was founded
65 years ago—July 26, 1882. Nahalan. one of the modern cooperatives,
wasrounded
Aug. 24, 1921. Nes Ziona. Zichron Yaakov andltosh Pina
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cele rated their 65th anniversaries last month.
he 25th anniversary of the death of Aaron David Gordon, the
"Apdstle of Labor" in Jewish Palestine, is now being observed.
These are important occasions to remember—as symbols of the
Return and Reconstruction—as we prepare to observe Tisha b'Ab--
the aniversary of Destruction—on July 27.

House Bill Gives Att.-Gen.
Power to Stay Deportation

ing block.

We are not a society for the p
Led by Guatemala, Uruguay vention of cruelty 'to h

and either Czechoslovakia or Yu-
goslavia on one .side, with the
Anglo-Saxon group acid .lawyers
on the other, and Iran on the side-
lines, this struggle has been go-
ing c in virtually secret meet-
ings. The tiny bloc is aware that
it is losing but insists on fighting.
'ft fought for an UNSCOP hear-
ing for a 12-year-old girl whose

father • is in Kenya, and for a
physician whose sobs have also
been deported to Kenya. It lost.
It was this bloc which fought for
UNSCOP intervention in the Ir-
gun Zvai Leumi death ,sentences,
for hearings for prisoners, and for
visiting the Cyprus detention
camps. The hot Cyprus debate
exemplified this struggle.
Guatemala insisted the
.UNSCOP terms of reference must
not be contracted, that- the com-
mittee has the right 'to look into
the laws of the mandatory to see
whether they are right or wrong.
The Anglo-Saxon bloc and the
lawyers insisted this was exclud-
ed from the terms of reference. -
When the situation hinges sole-
ly on the terms of reference, Yu-
goslavia usually goes to the aid of
Latin-Americans. But the Anglo-
Saxon members feel they have no
right to question laws, whether
"emergency" or not, of Palestine.
The Guatemalan, himself a law-
yer, asserted that. "we are fighting

sympathy or considerations '
sympathy havenothing to do wi
the task before us."

The Guatemalan insisted _on

sub-committee visiting Cyp
adding that he • would volun --
as a member. "We know thro
booki what is -happening," •
said. "Nevertheless we went abo
Palestine to see in detail.
all, we know the suffering of
people in Cyprus."
Justice L C. Rand " of Can- •
wanted to .know what kind •

suffering. The Guatemalan :
"Haven't you read about them

the Jewish papers?" Justice , ' •
said, "I read the telegram the

sent us. They are objecting
being detained."

Reveal Palestine Ban
Of ZOA Publication

NEW YORK.—"The New Pa
estine-News. Reporter," offici.
publication of the Zionist Org- •
ization of America, has been ba.
ned from Palestine for the • - .
four months, the organization'
'headquarters announced here.
According to word from Je
salem, this ban was imposed •
cause of the "displeasure cause ,
in Palestine government circl-
lay the publication's outspoke
articles and cartoons on th

for people's rights, we are sup- Palestine situation."
porting warm facts against cold , "The New Palestine-News '
porter" has a circulation of so a ,
law."
The Indiait delegate declared, 200,000 in the U. S.

Between You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1947, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc-)

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Washington Notes:
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abandoned
for passage this year of the b
}Tope has not been
which provide for the admission of a larger number of displa •
persons to the United States . . . Some Washington circles are ce

thin that Congress will have to be reconvened in October, in vie
of developments of major importance which will take place wi
the next. few months . . . The DP bills will then have a chance, it •
believed.
In the meantime, a project is now being broached in W. - .* .
by Maine senators, who want to -bring several thousand DPs in .•
their state for several months' training in a number of local ind
tries which private industrialists are willing to develop for
purpose . . . These industries, when set up, would greatly help cer
thin localities in Maine to become centers of small industry . .
After a training period of six months, the DPs would be sent fo

permanent settlement to several Latin-American countries whi.•
are willing to accept them, providing they are trained to opera •
American machinery . . . Other DPs would then come in tO fill th
places, also for a six-month period of training, and for later emigre
tion to Latin America . . . The project is to operate for two ye-
after which no more DPs will be brought in, but the factories •
remain, operated by local workers who will receive their trainin
side by side with the DPs during the first two years.
Certain Latin American governments have already express- •
their willingness to grant immigration visas to such DPs . . . Th -
U. S. Government, too, is willing to grant them temporary six
month visas in order to enable them to train in this country . . . •
course, bonds will have to be put up guaranteeing that the D'
will leave the U. S. for their final destination at the expiration o
the training period . . . The project has the approval of the highes.
circles in Washington and is attracting Jewish attention, since
'majority of the DPs would be Jews.

Communal Affairs:
I have been asked for details concerning the 'Training Burea
for Jewish Communal Service, which opened this week in Ne ••
York . . . It is an outgrowth of inter-agency studies and plannin_-:
covering a period of the past six years ... About 1,000 profession
workers from 234 agencies in 83 cities were involved in the pr•

of a comprehensive survey conducted in 1942-43, as the first ste.
in exploring the possibilities of a new training program for Je •
social work . . . It was established, through the survey, that ex • ,•
non-sectarian schools of social work, supplemented by intrainin
programs within the Jewish field itself, were providing preparatio.
for practitioners in case work, group work and other tradition

social services.

On the other hand, a definite gap was found in training oppor-
tunities for administrative work in functional agencies and for newt •

developing fields of Jewish communal work . . . It was on the basis

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The of these findings that national Jewish organizations met and .a: - - •
House passed by voice vote a on the necessity of establishing the Training Bureau for Jewish
measure which would -allow the Communal Service . . . The Bureau is governed by an interim com-
Attorney General to stay the mittee in which eight major Jewish national agencies are repre-
of this
deportation of certain aliens now sented . . . A permanent board will be organized at the end

in the United States.
The bill, introduced by Rep.
Frank Fellows of Maine, will
give. the Attorney General power
to stay the deportation of aliens
"of good moral character" whose
temporary visas have run out,
providing they have resided -in
the country for five or more
years. The bill makes no distinc-
tion as to race. Action of the
Attorney General in staying de-
portation proceedings will be
subject to Congressional veto.

year . . . The Bureau will not grant degrees, but expects that ar-
rangements will be made for transfer of credit to Jewish theological
seminaries, teachers' institutions and professional schools.
The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds assumed
the responsibility for planning and initiating the Bureau . . It has
also helped to work out a division of financial responsibility among
various agencies arid local communities for the carrying out of the
Bureau's program . . . The program provides for a course of 14

months of full-time work for each student . . . These are to include
3 months of classroom and seminar work in New York City for

orientation purposes; 8 months of supervised field work in Jewish
local and national agencies; and 3 months of classroom and seminar
work representing an integration of the orientation and field work
experiences . . . Eleven national organizations and a number of
local communities have been, negotiating on the possibility of of-

fering field Work opportunities.

