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A Weekly Review
VOLUME 18—No. 26
of Jewish Events
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.'s Cabinet Again Defeated;
Orthodox Repudiate Rabbinate
On Military Service for Women
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
• JERUSALEM—The Israel Cabinet again was defeated Tuesday when
Parliament, by a vote of 47 to 44, rejected the government's "Transition
Bill" which amends the procedure to be followed in a partial reshuffle
of the cabinet, redistribution of portfolios, or the resignation of the Pre-
mier—which is considered the Cabinet's resignation.
Members of the Religious Bloc voted with the opposition to return
the bill to the government. Voting for the bill were the Mapai party, the
Progressive party and the Sephardic deputies.
Opening the session, Speaker Joseph Sprinzak read a letter from President
Weizmann stating that after consultations with representatives of various politi-
cal parties and after a second approach by him to Premier David Ben-G-urion to
form a "caretaker cabinet," which failed, it is his "careful opinion" that the
present Cabinet should remain in office "until new elections and the formation
of a new Cabinet under a workable majority."
The parliamentary legal committee reported that it has not as yet concluded
Ite deliberations on the election law and will not be able to present its recom-
mendations to parliament before the next week's session. This means that
national elections cannot take place before the middle of June since a minimum
of three months must elapse between passage of the law and the holding of
elections.
The Israeli police have taken precautions to prevent demonstrations in front
ou Parliament by religious groups opposing mobilization of young women for
service in agricultural settlements if they claim exemption from military service
on.- religious grounds.
A proposal to amend the military service law to enable the government
to mobilize orthodox girls who have hitherto been exempt from any kind of
compulsory service in Israel was presented Monday night to Parliament by
Premier Ben-Gurion.
Presenting his bill to a tense and crowded house, the Premier declared that
Israel, suffering from an acute manpower shortage, cannot rely on its Army alone
for defense. "The entire nation, not just a part of it, must be mobilized," he said.
in addition, he asserted, the move is necessary to weld homogeneous groups of
the various parts of the Jewish nation. • He charged that the Religious Bloc is
opposing the move for political not religious reasons, concluding that he would
not permit a "political underground" to subvert "a vital national issue."
Religious Jews in collective Israel settlements Monday published a procla-
mation repudiating the stand taken by the Chief Rabbinate in opposing the
mobilization of women of military age for service in agricultural colonies.
The proclamation also supported Premier Ben-Gurion's proposal for such
mobilization on condition that conscripted women be assigned to service in
religious settlements or religious immigrant camps.
The proclamation, which was issued by the Hakibutz Hadati central body of
the religious collective settlements, points out that "the religious women in
Israel underwent training in pioneering agricultural work and participated in
the defense of religious settlements in the war of liberation as full members and
equal partners in the struggle of the religious worker for the country's spiritual
structure."
The Rabbinate's ban on compulsory service of religious women, "under the
present circumstances," is contrary to the aspirations of religious Jewry "as a
public partner in Israel's upbuilding and in the consolidation of the structure of
the Jewish state," the document asserts. It expresses adherence to the resolution
approved recently at the conference of the orthodox Mizrachi laborites which
condoned the drafting of young women into the Nahal—a semi-military youth
organization.
Israel Asks Powers to Act
On Claims Against Germany
English-Jewish Newspaper Publishers
Pledge Support to Israel Bond Drive,
UfA; Launch News and Feature Service
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
LONDON—The Israel government has asked that its note
on Jewish claims against Germany addressed to the four occu-.
pation powers two months ago be placed before the Conference
of Deputies of Foreign Ministers of Britain, France, the United
States and . the Soviet Union, which opened Monday in Paris.
The reports say that the Israel government is contemplating
further diplomatic action to safeguard Jewish claims against
Germany.
NEW YORK, (AJP)—America's leading English - Jewish editors and publishers,
members of the American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Sunday evening
concluded a four-day session here at Hotel Statler by unanimously voting to launch the
American Jewish Press (AJP)) a new national Jewish news-gathering and feature serv-
ice to supplement the existing services used by the English-Jewish newspapers in this
country and Canada.
As part- of this service, the ninth annual convention of the publishers' association also voted
to introduce a series of cartoons and comic strips dealing with Jewish life and history.
The publishers and editors, who gathered here to chart expansive steps in the ever-widening
English-Jewish newspaper field re-elected Philip Slomovitz, editor and publisher of The Detroit
Jewish News. as president for an eighth term and also named him president of the American
Jewish Press.
Leo H. Frisch, editor and publisher of the Minneapolis-St. Paul American Jewish World, was
re-elected treasurer. of the Association and was named treasurer of AJP. Joe Harrison Fried
was named editor of AJP. Joseph Weisberg, editor of the Boston Jewish Advocate, was re-elect-
ed a vice-president of the Association and was named chairman of the AJP editorial com-
mittee.
Dr. Joseph Brin of the Boston Jewish Advocate, who was the first president of the Associa-
tion, was elected honorary vice-president. David Gaiter, editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Ex-
ponent, and Elias Rex Jacobs, editor and publisher of the Buffalo Jewish Review, were re-elected
vice president and secretary, respectively.
The following, in addition to the officers, comprise the Association's newly-elected executive
committee: Albert W. Golomb, American Jewish Outlook, Pittsburgh; Robert Gamzey, Inter-
mountain Jewish News, Denver; Benjamin Bartzoff, Boston Jewish Advocate; Jules Miller,
Philadelphia Jewish Exponent; Fred K. Shochet, Jewish Floridian, Miami Beach; Abe Slabot,
Jewish Ledger, New Orleans; Sam Neusner, Jewish Ledger, Hartford; Morris Janoff, Jewish
Standard; Jersey City; Jacques Back, The Observer, Nashville; Ben Z. Neudtadt, Ohio Jewish
Chronicle, Columbus; Irving G. Rhodes, Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, Milwaukee.
- Reaffirming the importance of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to world Jewry, the convention
unanimously voted to address an appeal to the American Jewish communities to continue to
support JTA in order that the gathering of news throughout the world should not be inter-
rupted.
The convention pledged the support of all its member newspapers to the forthcoming
Israel bond drive and renewed the Association's pledge of unlimited support to the United
Jewish Appeal.
Henry Montor, executive vice-president of the American Financial and Development Cor-
poration for Israel, which will direct the Israel bond drive, outlined the objectives of the
floating of the $500,000,000 bond issue and was assured of the wholehearted cooperation of all
the publishers.
Raphael Levy, director of public relations of the 1951 UJA, and other directors of informa-
tion of national organizations, conferred with the editors and publishers during the sessions.
Mr. Levy addressed the Saturday night session.
The convention unanimously voted the heartfelt greetings of the English-Jewish press
to the New York Times on its 100th anniversary.
Jules Cohen of the National Community Relations Advisory Council conferred with the
delegates regarding the elimination of unethical advertising solicitations by r, group of sol-
icitors who are abusing accepted principles of honest salesmanship.
A revolutionary step was taken by the convention to enforce a code of advertising ethics—
In addition to the editorial principles already in force. A committee consisting of Jules Miller,
Ben Bartzoff and Morris Jamoff has been authorized to prepare a set of rules intended to up-
root practices by irresponsible solicitors which are proving harmful to Jewry. The 36 member
newspapers of the Association will be, asked to a ct on their proposals during the coming six
Weeks.
It was reported at the convention that Dr Moshe Davis of the Jewish Theological Sem-
inary, Dr. Abraham Neumann of Dropsie College and Dr. Nelson Glueck of Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion are assisting the Association in arriving at a uniform
method of translating Hebrew and Yiddish terms into English.
'The history of the English-Jewish press an d the aims of the Association were outlined in a
15-minute radio broadcast over Station WLIB, New York. Abe Lyman interviewed the Associa,-
tion's president during this broadcast.
Ben-Gurion Will Visit U. S.
To Launch Bond Campaign
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion will
visit the United States early in May to launch the $500,000,000
Israel. bond drive in this country, it was reported by the New York
Herald Tribune.
The report said that the Premier of the Jewish state will
remain here for about two weeks and will address a large meeting
at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 10. He will also
address meetings in Los Angeles and other cities. During his
visit he will discuss American grants-in-aid to Israel, the report
stated.
(During his visit in Detroit last Sunday, when he addressed
a large meeting here under auspices of the Men's Club of Temple
Beth El, Senator Paul DOuglas of Illinois told a Jewish News rep-
resentative that he, together with Senator Robert Taft of Ohio,
and with the co-sponsorship of 210 other Senators, are planning
to introduce a bill in the U. S. Senate to provide Israel grant-in-
aid in the amount of $150,000,000).
(Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan last month assured
a group of Detroit Jewish leaders that he is sympathetic to
efforts to assist Israel. He is believed to be studying the Douglas-
Taft plan and may become one of its co-sponsors).
Justice Butzel, Judge Levin Named
Campaign's Honorary Vice-Chairmen
JUSTICE HENRY M. BUTZEL
JUDGE THEODORE LEVIN
Detailed Allied Jewish Campaign Stories on Page 16