A Salute to

HE JEWIS NEWS

North End Clinic On

25th Anniversary:

History of Our

A Weekly Review

Health Agency

I. I. Katz's Outline

History of

Shaarey Zedek:

of Jewish Events

Honoring

90th Anniversary

Page 2

Page 20

Michigan's Only English - Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOLUME 20—No. 11

708 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, November

23, 1951

.4FAi•1

$4.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c

Selective System Marks Drastic
Chan• e in Migration to Israel

Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Jewish Agency adopted the principle of selective irn-
igration into Israel, except for "emergency immigration" when entire communities are
endangered and must be evacuated.
In the future, it was decided; wherever it is possible to select immigrants for Israel,
at least 80 percent of the migrants shall be under 35 years of age. In addition, the immi-
grants must have in their possession certifi cates of health issued by selection boards su-
pervised by Israeli doctors.
•
Finally, the immigrantsexcept for professionals, skilled workers and those in
possession of capital—must agree to remain in agricultureal settlements for at least two
years. Up to 20 per cent of the total number of immigrants may enter without going
to live in agricultural settlements but they must have relatives living in Israel who are
able and willing to help them adjust to the Israel economy.
The Agency executive announced the appointment of Dr. Emanuel Neumann, Arnett,
can Zionist leader, as head of the Econnomic Department of the Agency's Israel
office. Mrs: Samuel Halprin will hold the same post in the New York headquarters. It
was also decided that the shekel sold by the Zionist movement shall carry the text of
both the Basle Program of the first World Zionist Congress and the text of the resolu-
tion on the tasks of the Zionist movement which was adopted at the recent 23rd World
Zionist Congress in Jerusalem.

.

—American Jewish Press Photo

Riley and Ben-Gurions:

Gen. Wil-

liam E. Riley,
N. Chief of Staff in the Middle East, tells
two interested and amused listeners a humorous tale. His au-
dience, at a celebration of U. N. Day in Israel, are Mr. and
Mrs. David Ben-Gurion.

Appointments Confirmed

NEW

YORK—The work of the Jerusalem and New York offices of the economic
department of the Jewish Agency has been placed under the joint responsibility of Dr.
Emmanuel Neumann and Mrs. Rose Halprin, it was an-
`Build Israel Day'
nounced Tuesday by Agency executive.
In Detroit Sunday
Under the new arrangement Mrs. Halprin, who has
been responsible for the work of the department in New
Detroit's leading organi-
York, and Dr. Neumann; who recently joined the execu-
zations will observe Sun-
tive, will jointly plan the operations of the integrated de-
day as - "Build 'Israel Day"
partment not only in Israel and the United States , but
a
wem-
in other centers of Jewish life.
ers in behalf of the State
of Israel Bond drive.
Dr. Neumann will leave for Israel shortly in con-
nection with the reorganization of the department there.
-Details on Page 5

.

Soviet Charged With Jailing
Jews in Labor Camps; Allow
Spread of Anti-Semitic Wave

Aids Bond Drive:

Chief Rabbi Isar Jehuda
Unterman of Tel Aviv, now in this country to participate in .
the $500,000,000 State of Israel Bond drive, is shown in-
specting the Shimshun Cement factory at Hartuv before his
departure for the United States. This factory is being ex-
panded and homes for workers are being built with funds
invested through Israel's IndepenOence Bond Issue.

Thousands of the estimated 2',000,000 Jews
still alive in the Soviet Union are prisoners.
in soviet slave labor and internment camps,
it was charged by the American JeWish Com-
mittee .in a report on the condition of Jews in
the Soviet Union. The full text of the report
will appear in the 53rd annual edition of the
"American Jewish Year ,Book" scheduled for
,publication jointly by the American Jewish
Committee and the Jewish Publication Society
on Jan. 1. The report was based on the study
of Soviet sauces, on reports of foreign diplo-
mats and journalists, on testimonies of refu-
gees, and on international investigations of
Soviet slave labor, as well as on reports from
observers in Europe, collated in New York by
Joseph Gordon, a member of the research staff
of the Committee's Library of Jewish -Infor-
mation.
The report named some of the forced labor
camps where Jews were imprisoned according
to reports of eye-witnesses:

A camp for women in the Donets basin

containing only Catholic nuns and Jewish

women; a Camp for Romanian refugee Jews
in Karaganda; a camp for Jewish slave la-
borers in Kazakstan; internment camp No.
99/2 in Karaganda where there were many
Jewish families; a big concentration camp
in A'ktiubinsk with many thousands of Jew-
ish prisoners. , . —
Facts 'garnered by the American Jewish

Committee indicated that the principal
charges employed against Jews imprisoned in
Soviet slave camps were "unreliability" be-
cause of their Western or bourgeois origin,"
"cosmopolitanism," "Zionism," "Jewish na-
tionalism," "bourgeois objectivism," "abstract
scholasticism," 'and "reactionary ideology."
The Year Book report also disclosed that
there were repeated deportations of Jews
from Soviet Westerp territories after the war,
although it was impossible to obtain exact
numbers of the departees. Similar deporta-
tions were being conducted in some Russian
satellite countries, especially in Hungary and
Romania.
According to Soviet sources, Moscow, a city
with an estimated 300,000' Jews, had three.

,

lifistadrnt Schools:

Vocational train-
ing for teen-agers in Histadrut's network of Amal schools
helps Israel develop its industry. Skilled workers and special-
ists are urgently needed. MORDECAI NAMI. • . (right), gen-
eral secretary of Histadrut, and ISRAEL MEROM, director of
its Vocational Training Department, inspect an airplane en-
, gine in the laboratory for aviation mechanics. A thousand
youngsters attend Amal schools in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa,
Peach, Tikva, Ramleh, Tiberias and Hadera. , •

,

synagogues.

.

"There was no way of ascertaining the ex-
act membership of the congregations" the
report added, "but it is known that a small
part of the estimated membership attended
services; that the synagogues were financed
by voluntary contributions, mostly deposited
anonymously in collection boxes; and that the -
activities of religious communities did not go
beyond holding services, there being no edu-
cational, cultural, or welfare activities of any
kind."
As evidence of the official attitude of the
Soviet government against Jews, the report
stated: "Rabbis are no longer seen at official
Soviet functions, although' it was a regular
practice to invite representatives of all ethnic
groups and to encourage the clergy, both
Christian and Moslem, to attend in clerical
garb."

The American Jewish Committee report
asserted that anti-Semitism was increasing
in the Soviet Union, citing anti-Semitic out-
breaks in a number of small Ukrainian
towns.
"There were assaults on individual Jews

even in Moscow and Odessa," the report added.
There was also evidence in Soviet publica-
tions - of material "that evoked anti-Semitic
stereotypes and prejudices," the researchers
reported, adding that Jews were being elimi-
nated from the cultural life and from the
government.
"There were virtually no Jews. remainingn -
the higher echelons of .party and state of -
cialdom," the report continuued. "Only in t` e
Soviet Republics of Central Asia were tht.:e
still Jews among the secretaries of regional
,
and local party committees."
With only a few individual exceptions, Jews
were not allowed to leave Soviet Russia al-
though the State of Israel has repeatedly
urged the Soviet government to unlock the
doors and allow the second largest Jewish
population in the world to emigrate .to Israel.
• In, the meantime,' the Soviet experiment .
With Jewish -colonization in Eastern -Siberia
ended in dismal failure. Not quite two percent
of the Soviet Jewish population lived in the
so-called Jewish AutOnornous Province of Bir.;. -
obidzhan, where they formed. only a minority '

at the population.

