MR, YT Israel Welcomes CriticiSm, Must Control Reins, -Sharett Tells CJFWF THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 15, 1950 - 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 - 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. emen t oui re in {or excit choosing your rev./ Fur horn` Nkr. Samuel pear's Ready coWion-of 1951 creations. For made - s desIgnee those who preier exciusive 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. 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