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A Weekly Review

of Jewish Events

VOLUME 16—No. 22 708-10 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, February 10, 1950

'Don't Abuse
the Messiah' :

. Misrepresentations
Regarding Religious
Issue in Israel

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USS Anti-Jewish Trend Exposed
In Congress By Library Official

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

Economy
Orthodox Group Rebuked for Israel's
Injured by Area's
Meddling in Israel Affairs
Worst Snowstorm

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The American Jewish Relig-
ious Bloc was sharply rebuked by Israel Premier David. Ben

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

Gurion for intervening in the internal affairs of the Jewish
state by taking sides in the conflict with regard to religious
education for children in the immigrant camps in Israel.
The Bloc, which includes the Agudas Israel, the Union
of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, and other
religious groups in the United States, was told by Premier
Ben Gurion in a cable that although nobody in Israel wants
to deprive any Jew in the world of the right to voice an
opinion or criticism with regard to the Jewish state, he was
nevertheless surprised to receive a threatening resolution
from the Jewish Religious Bloc in America with regard to
a "complicated matter, without knowing the facts."
Affirming that Israel is a democratic republic based
upon freedom of conscience and religion, the Premier em-
phasized in his cable to the American Orthodox group that
all matters in the Jewish state are decided by the majority
vote of its citizens. No action is taken under pressure of
threats but everything is decided on the merits of the case,
the cable pointed out "If you want to influence and to
strengthen certain trends, the best way is to come and to
settle here. You are all welcome," the Israel Premier said.

TEL AVIV—Israel's economy suf-
fered a severe blow in the snow storm
which blanketed all parts of the coun-
try with from one to three feet of snow.
Early estimates place the damage to
the ripening citrus crop—Israel's major
export—in the millions of dollars.

(The United Religious Bloc of America., in a cable to Ben-
Gurion from New York, stated that its cable was not meant as
ai threat but as indication of deep concern that there should be
no religions d44K4mination in immigrant centers in Israel.)

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A check for $200, representing
contributions to the United Jewish Appeal by Jewish U. S.
military and civilian personnel of Frankfurt, Germany, during
1949 Yom Kippur service, is presented to CHAPLAIN
(CAPT.) MORRIS M. MATTHEWS, Frankfurt Military Post
(far right) , during the recent Hanukah Festival. Matthews
forwarded the money to the National Jewish Welfare Board
for transmittal to UJA. Presenting check to Chaplain Mat-
thews is LT. COL. HARRY PICKUS, Philadelphia, supply offi-
cer for the Hanau Signal Depot. Soldiers participating in pre-
sentation ceremony are (left to right), PVT. ALVIN KNOPF,
Pv-r. IRVIN BUTANSKI, Col. Pickus, LT. LOUIS POLLACK,
PFC. ABRAHAM JACOBSON, and Chaplain Matthews.

Four persons were killed and many in-
jured Monday night when a wall of a
mess-hall at the Ein Shemer immigrant
camp for Yemenite Jews collapsed under
the weight of snow which fell in Sunday
night's record storm.
As below freezing temperatures continue
in all parts of the country, immigration
camp officials are working day and night
to relieve the misery of immigrants living
in tents. All through the night Jewish
Agency officials - examined tent structures
and evacuated to temporary quarters in
public buildings immigrants whose tents
were damaged.
By Tuesday morning the "snow siege" of
Jerusalem was partially broken as Ameri-
can bulldozers were put to work clearing
the main roads in and around the city.
However, the lowest temperatures in the
memory of the oldest inhabitants of this
country were ( hampering all work here as
well as in Upper Galilee and the Haifa
areas where interurban traffic was virtually
paralyzed. The city of Sated was complete-
ly isolated from the rest of the country
and in Haifa all port operations were at
a standstill.
Telegraphic communications between Je-
rusalem and this city were partially re-
stored Tuesday and one freight train—from
Hartuv—plowed its way through.
At Lydda, the El-Al plane which carried
the remains of Theodor Herzl from Austria
to Israel crashed with 46 aboard. Two were
slightly injured. Abba Eban was one of the
passengers. Delay of his trip to Geneva as
a result of this accident resulted in post-
ponement of the UN Conciliation Commis-
sion's discussion of the Jerusalem issue.

J.
HOLTZ of Boston, national commander of the Jewish War
Veterans of the United States of America, is shown with
PRESIDENT TRUMAN during a recent visit at the White
House. Commander Holtz expressed the JWV's appreciation
to the President for his efforts in behalf of civil rights and
diberalized displaced persons legislation.

Prof. Yakobson traces the development of
anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union since the early
1930s, including the suppression and Russifica-
tion of Jewish cultural life there and liquidation
of Jewish influence in the government. He states
that anti-Jewish excesses developed when Jewish
evacuees returned after the war to their homes
in war-devastated regions of Russia.
"The recent war years, the time of terrible
hardships in Russia, strengthened furthermore
the anti-Semitic sentiments in various. Soviet
quarters," he reported. "They even revived the
old accusation of dodging active military service
in spite of the fact that Soviet Jewry ranked
fourth among the national groups receiving Sov-
iet military decorations."
The Library of Congress official pointed
out that a total of 123,822 Jewish Red Army
fighters and war workers received the Order
of Lenin, Order of :the Red Banner, Medal of
the Patriotic War, and other Soviet honors.
"It may be said that the current attitude of
the Soviet Union toward the Jews has many
of the characteristics of traditional anti-
Semitism which can hardly encourage or ter-
rify the Russian Jews into resigning themselves
to spend the rest of their days in the Soviet
Union under a dictatorship," he said.
The professor, who is considered an author-
ity on Biro-Bidjan, observes that "it is hardly
to be expected that the future settlers of Biro-.
Bidjan will be Jewish. Much' speaks against

Discussing the relations between -the Soviet gov-
ernment and Israel, Prof. Yakobson said: "Although
it has recognized and entered into diplomatic rela-
tions with Israel, the Kremlin is determined not only
to prevent the Jews in the Soviet Union from emi-
grating to the new state, but even from supporting or
manifesting their sympathy with their friends in Tel
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15 Candidates in Race for 9 Places on
Federation Board at Election Wednesday

An interesting contest has developed in the community over the annual election of
members of the board of governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation, to be held next
Wednesday, 8:30 p.m., at the Jewish Center, Woodward and Holbrook. Nine are to be
elected from a list of 15, nine of whom were named by the Federation's nominating
committee and six nominated by petition. The candidates are:

NOMINATED BY COMMITTEE
Rabbi Morris Adler
Irving W. Blumberg
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich
Dr. B. Benedict; Glazer
Mrs. Charles Lakoff
Milton M. Maddin
Samuel H. Rubiner
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka
Mrs. Henry Wineman

.11W1117 Chief at White House: JACKSON

WASHINGTON—An analysis of the
situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union,
published in Tuesday's Congressional Record,
indicates an obvious trend of anti-Jewish and
anti-Zionist sentiment within the USSR. The
analysis was prepared by Prof. Sergius
Yakobson, chief of the foreign affairs section
of the legislative reference service of the
Library of Congress.

NOMINATED BY PETITION
Mrs. Samuel S. Aaron
James I. Ellmann
Mrs. Samuel A. Green
Sidney M. Shevitz
Mrs. Charles D. Solovich
Harry Yudkoff

All current members of the Federation—everyone who contributed to the 1949 Al-
lied Jewish Campaign—are invited to the meeting and entitled to vote in the election.
They also will be asked to approve an amendment to the Federation by-laws providing
for automatic election to the board of governors of all former Federation presidents and
chairmen of the Allied Jewish Campaign.
Stanley C. Meyers of Miami, Fla., president of the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, will address the meeting. Julian H. Krolik, Detroit Federation presi-
dent, will present his annual report.
Simultaneously, meetings of five Federation member agencies will be held, with their
respective presidents submitting their reports for the year. Barney H. Smith will report
on the Fresh Air Society; Dr. Lawrence H. Seltzer for Jewish Social Service Bureau;
Samuel S. Greenberg, Jewish Vocational Service ; David Wilkus, North End Clinic;
Judge Theodore Levin, Resettlement Service.
A proposed amendment, to become subsection C of Section II, Article III, is an ad-
dition to provisions for election to the board of 27 members-at-large, selected by the
general membership; one board member each designated by the institutional members
of the Federation; and not more than 25 members designated by the Detroit Service
Group, the Women's Division and such organizational groups as may be designated
from time to time by the Board.

