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Control Reins, -Sharett Tells CJFWF

THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 15, 1950

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8 Happy Day for Bevin:

Signs of the Times

. WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Israel year the task of the welfare
'Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, funds must be "seeing the whole
-addressing the closing session of picture" and maintaining a bal-
the General Assembly of the anced approach to national and
Council of • Jewish Federations overseas Jewish needs. ' "It is
and Welfare Funds here, empha- our task as communities to in-
sized that he welcomes construc- sist on • machinery within our ci-
tive criticism of Israel affairs by ties and in relation to national
American Jewry and that such agencies that will insure fair
criticism is considered by the Is- dealing all around," he insisted.
rael ,government an indication "Allocation of funds by 'blitz'
of the great interest which Jews must be, resisted."
in the United States take in the
Jerome N. Curtis, of Cleve-
Jewish state.
land, speaking on domestic : Jew-
He made it clear that control ish needs and directions, em-
of policies must remain "in the ph,asized the importance of cen-
hands of those directly respon- tral planning to meet local Jew-
sible" — the Israel government. ish needs and charted the devel-
He said that withholding of cri- opment of this trend during' the
ticisms would do Israel- a disser- first half of this century. Cen-
Vice. Things are bound to go tral community organizations,
Wrong in any new pioneering Mr. Curtis said, area increasingly
State, he declared.
broadening their scope, both in
Asks Maximum Aid .
financing. and planning of local
Sharett appealed to American services.
Jewry to • giVe maximum aid to
Israel by concentrating on the
implementation of the f our-
,point program' adopted at the
recent' conference of Jewish
leaders in Washington. He was
Exposing the myth which the
especially emphatic in his call
to American Jewish capitalists Communist propaganda appara-
tus has developed over a period
to invest in Israel.
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, Euro- of years about Jewish life. in the
pean director of the Joint Dis- Soviet Union, and divulging
tribution Committee, said that facts which his studies had re-
`if Hitler and the Nazis, with all vealed, Dr. Nathan Reich, pro-
the resources at their command, fessor of economics at Hunter
could devote themselves to 10 College, New York, addressed
---and more—years of destroying two Detroit audiences.
On Sunday, he spoke in Yid-
Jewish .life, surely we can ded-
icate ourselves to an equivalent dish at a meeting of Jewish
period of restoring and rebuild- Community Council representa-
ing." He predicted the effort tives presided over by Benjamin
"presently expressed by the M. Laikin, chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal will repre- Council's Yiddish culture com-
sent the dominant note in mittee. On Monday he addressed
American Jewish affairs for at a meeting of the Detroit Chap-
least another five years."
ter of American Jewish Commit-
Dr. Schwartz said the a i d tee. Isidore Levin, Chapter
American Jews extended over- president, was chairman.
seas in the last five years
"Russian Jewry, which histor-
'through the UJA has benefited ically has made the most vital
between "a million-and-a-half and constructive contribution to
and two million Jews" and that Jewish life, is today without a
`;it has literally saved hundreds single Yiddish publication," Dr.
of thousands of them." He re- Reich stated. "Immigration to
ported that in Europe and Mos- Israel from the USSR is forbid-
lem areas the JDC, with UJA den, Zionism is outlawed and
,funds, aided more than a mil- the teaching of Yiddish and He-
lion persons. The JDC, he said, brew are not permitted."
transported 450,000 of the half-
The most convincing testi-
million persons who entered Is- monial to the conditions of Jews'
rael since its establishment.
behind the Iron Curtain, accord-
He estimated that "fully 400,- ing to Dr. Reich, is the 'fact that
000 Jews in European and. Mos- it is estimated that since 1945,
lem lands must have the sort 40 per cent of the Jews in the
of relief and constructive help countries behind the Iron Cur-
which the JDC has provided tain have left their homelands
until now and that there are for either the west or Israel.
certainly 600,000 Jews in these
While the official position of
areas who need to be brought the USSR toward Israel has os-
to Israel in the next three tensibly remained unchanged,
years."
the government is responsible
Stanley C. Myers asserted that for a series of attacks against
the best hope for success in 1951 the leadership of the Jewish
is the cooperation and unity of state, he stated. Along with
all forces in Jewish life.
leaders of the anti-Communist
Sobeloff Is Optimist
nations, Ben-Gurion is pilloried
Isidore Scibeloff,- executive di- day after day.
rector of the Detroit Jewish
During the last fiscal year
Welfare Federation, speaking on
how Jewish welfare funds can more t h an 12,400 Red Cross
raise maximum funds in • 1951, workers served at 1,306 'military
drew an optimistic picture, but installations and 111 military
emphasized that for the coming hospitals around the world.

Signs First Hebrew Document

LONDON, (JTA)—An Israel-
British civil aeronautical agree-
ment was signed in the office
of Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin. The pact was signed by
Secretary Bevin for Britain and
Minister Eliahu Elath for. the
Jewish state. After signing the

Denmark S-end., Dr. Hoffmyer
As First Israel Minister

Iceland Gives Israel
De Jure Recognition

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Dr. H. P.
Hoffmyer, Denmark's first Min-
ister to Israel, was welcomed by
Foreign Ministry officials here.
Dr. Hoffmyer is also his coun-
try's diplomatic representative
in Turkey.

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Full de
jure recognition of Israel was
extended Sunday by Iceland,
it was officially announced
here by the Israel Foreign
Office.

Soviet Anti-Jewish
Attitude Exposed

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Comedian Meets the King .

pact, Bevin, who is noted for
his opposition to the release of
Israel from mandatory status,
declared that this had been a
"very happy day" for him. This
was the first time that Bevin
had signed a document written
in Hebrew.

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Reflecting the intense activity
of religious groups in Israel for
observance of dietary laws, an
Israeli carries this sign which
lists non-kosher dining places.
Note the crossed-out names.
They represent eateries which
reverted to a policy of serving
only kosher foods, thus clearing
themselves of the "boycott" list.

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Isotope Research at
Weizmann Institute

The\ first shipment of radio-
active isotopes of thallium and
cobalt produced in Great Bri-
tain has been sent to Israel.
The materials will be used for
chemical research at the Weiz-
man Institute of Science at Re-
hovoth.

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outstretched hand of congratulations to the American funny-
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