Jewish Butcher's Libel Action
Against London Paper Fails

By MAX SIMON

An American Jewish Press Feature

After a five-year libel battle
in the courts of England, in
which a Jewish butcher sued
members of the Beth Din and
"The Jewish Chronicle" of Lon-
don, the case was decided in
favor of the newspaper after a
hearing lasting eight days.
T h e shopkeeper, Benjamin
Saunderson, claimed damages,
and asked an injunction re-
straining the paper from repeat-
ing the statement that he was
not licensed by. the Beth Din to
sell kosher meat.
The announcement, published
in "The Jewish Chronicle" on
December 3, 1948, read: "The
Jewish public are hereby in-
formed that the shop of Mr. B.
Saunderson at 3, Rose Hill
Court, Morden, Surrey, is not
licensed by the Beth Din of the
Chief Rabbi for the sale of
kosher meat."
Admitting the announcement
was true, Saunderson claimed
that, though true, the statement
could haVe meanings which
went beyond the literal inter-
pretation of the words. It was
his contention that the an-
nouncement defamed and libeled
him in his business as a kosher
butcher.
After the Beth Din notice had-
appeared in "The Jewish Chron-
icle," Saunderson testified, on
December 7, 1948, he sought to
fight it by inserting a counter-
notice, pointing out that he was
properly licensed to sell kosher
meat by the British Ministry of
Food. The paper, he charged,
had adopted a "stalling tech-
nique" and he was unable to get
a counter-notice.

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As a result of the announce-
ment, Saunderson said his ..busi-
ness began to decline. His trade
had been "killed," he stated, and
he was compelled to assign the
lease and get out of the busi-
ness. (Today Saunderson has
left the kosher butcher trade
and accepted a post as a man-
ager in the non-kosher trade.)
In summing up to the jury,
the judge in charge of the hear-
ing ruled, that as a matter of
law, the announcement was
made on -a privileged occasion.
The Beth Din, he held, had a
duty to inform the public con-
cerning the action they had
taken with regard to Saunder-
son.
The judge stated that the
Ministry of Food was right, on
the law as it stood, to say that
a man should not be refused a
kosher license from the Minis-
try because the Beth Din could
not grant him their license. The
Beth Din had no right, any more
than any other body, to ask the
secular arm to enforce their re-
ligious law.
The judge added: "It is not
suggested that there was any
personal but it is sug-
gested that the attitude of these
defendants was, 'I do not care
what I say about the plaintiff,
as long as it helps to defeat the
Ministry of Food'."
Mere carelessness on the de-
fendant's part was not bad
enough, the judge said. The jury
had to be satisfied that there
was bad faith.
But the jury held that there
was no malice involved, and that
the publication was privileged.
The jury found the paper and
members of the Beth Din "not
guilty" of libel.

Beth El Memorial Service
To Honor Late Dr. Glazer

Temple Beth El will dedicate
a memorial plaque at the grave
of the late Rabbi B. Benedict
Glazer at the temple's annual
memorial service, - to be com-
memorated at 11 a.m., Sunday,
at Beth El Memorial Park. Rab-
bis Richard C. Hertz, Minard
Klein, Leon Frain and Frank F.
Rosenthal will participate.

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LONDON, (JTA)—The Jewish
Chronicle reports that the
Egyptian Government has ex-
pelled Jacques Maleh, its Cairo
correspondent, after holding him
six days in prison. The corre-
spondent was informed that his
presence was undesirable "be-
cause he was a British subject
and because he was the corre-
spondent of a foreign Jewish
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`Israel Is Born' Is
Documentary Record
Of Historic Events

Caedmon Publishers announces
the release of "Israel Is Born,"
a long-playing documentary
record of the historic events in
Israel's impassioned
struggle
for statehood. •
Written and narrated by Ar-
thur Holzman, who was on the
spot at the time as a radio
news correspon-
dent, this living
'history of the
world's newest
nation is the
f i r s t recorded
'document of a
state's creation.
In the record
are the first Dec-
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recorded, as
Holtzman pronounced by
Israel's Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion on May 14, 1948;
the actual debate and vote on
Palestine partition in the United
Nations; and the. tumultuous
public rejoicing in Tel Aviv's
Mograbi Square when the par-
tition vote was announced to the
Jewish people.
Historic speeches of the late
President Chaim Weizmann,
leader of the return to the
homeland, and UN representa-
tives Count Folke Bernadotte
and Dr. Ralph Bunche; actual
sounds of warfare with the
Arabs, including the first air
raid on Tel Aviv and songs of
the volunteers from America
who fought in Israel's War of
Independence, are other high
spots of the record.

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Facts from Michigan
Jewish History

By IRVING I. KATZ

David 3. Workum, president of
Detroit's Temple Beth El from
1866 to 1868, served in the Con-
federate Army during the Civil
War,
The first centralized Jewish
philanthropic organization in
Michigan was Detroit's Gentle-
men's Hebrew Relief Society,
founded in 1869 and sponsored
by Temple Beth El and Congre-
gation Shaarey Zedek.
The first Jewish banker in
Michigan was Detroit's Edward
Kanter. He began banking in
1868 and founded the German-
American Bank in 1871.
Miss Hattie Silverman, daugh-
ter of Jacob Silberman, first
president of Detroit's 103-year-
old Temple Beth El, is still a
member of the Temple.
The first book of Jewish in-
terest published in Michigan
was "Confirmant's Guide to the
Mosaic Religion" by Rabbi Elias
Eppstein. of Detroit's Beth El. It
appeared in 1868.
Ezekiel Solomons, Michigan's
first Jew, was a member of a
committee which organized at
Mackinac in 1784 the first Board
of Trade in Michigan.
Dr. Isaac M. Wise, founder of
American Reform Judaism, ded-
icated the Rivard Street Syna-
gogue and the Washington Boul-
evard Temple of Detroit's Tem-
ple Beth El.
The Central Conference of
American Rabbis, the national
organization of Reform Rabbis
in this country, was founded in
Detroit's Temple Beth El in
1889.
A memorial service for Presi-
dent Abraham Lincoln was con-
ducted by Rabbi Isidor Kalish
of Detroit's Temple Beth El, at
the Rivard Street Synagogue, on
April 19, 1865.
David W. Simons was a mem-
ber of Detroit's first nine-man
City Council.

Call Memorial Meeting

For Late Anna Glickman

A memorial meeting in honor
of the late Anna Glickman will
be held at 8 p.m., Wednesday, at
Sholem Aleichem Institute, 18495
Wyoming. All members of Fed-
eration of Lithuanian Jews,
David-Horodoker Society, Euro-
pean Women's Welfare Organi-
zation and Los Angeles Sani-
torium, organizations in which
Mrs. Glickman was active, are
urged to attend.

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Niitshel!ed Views, News, Comments

<An American Jewish Press Feature)

Nearly 20,000 minute correc-
tions have been made in "The
Jerusalem Bible," which h a a
been edited by Prof, Umberto
Cassia°. It is the first revision
of the Old Testament Hebrew
text to be published in Jeru-'
salem by the Hebrew Univer-
sity's Magnes Press.
*

Anne O'Hare McCormick, the
New York Times foreion cor-
respondent, made an impor-
tant point, which summarizes
the claims and aspirations for
peace in the Middle East, when
she stated, in comment upon
the Dulles-Stassen Middle East
tour: "If the Arabs and the IS-
raelis could - be reconciled to
`coexist', as eventually they
must, other problems in the
Near East, including the Suez
dispute, could be more easily
. solved."

Commentary create anxiety
over his selection. His pro-Am-
erican Jewish Committee-ADL
and anti-NCRAC stand is es-
pecially creating doubts as to
the positiveness of the attitude
he will adopt in writing the
planned history. In many
quarters there is opposition . to
the setting up of another rned-
'ill/91 for Jewish history-pub-
lishing outside the existing
J ewish Publication Society
medium.
* *

A concert in Nazareth by the
Haifa Symphony Orchestra of-

fers new proof that Arabs and
Jews can, as many of them do,
live happily together and that
old taboos can be obliviated. It
was believed that Arabs would
boycott the concert, but Nazar-
eth citizens—almost 100 per cent
Arabs—flocked to the event,
overcrowded the 500 available
seats and gave an . ovation to
the American Jacques Singer

*
*
Symbolizing the recognition of who conducted the concert.
the mounting importance of Is-
* * *
rael as a factor in world affairs
A
Leaoue
for the Protection
is the return to Israel of Homer
Bitart as correspondent for the of Bachelors' Rights is June-
timing in Israel. Its leaders
New York Herald Tribune. Mr.
Bigart, who was considered the claim that the women are "ex-
ablest American foreign corres- ploiting them and they are
pondent during the last war and
demanding "equal rights." It
in the years that were marked is said that there is a surplus
by strife in Palestine, has • an-
of 49,000 bachelors in Israel,—
alyzed Israel's conditions in• a therefore the "male suffrage"
series of articles. In one of them
he spoke of the serious lag of movement."
irrigation, pointing out that only
150,000 Israeli acres are irrigated 6--DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
today, although the country's
Friday, May n, 1953
plan calls for 750,000 acres. He
expressed the view that "the
retarding of the irrigation pro-
gram may wreck Israel's hope of
growing enough food by 1955 to
support the population in every-
thing except wheat and meat,"

* * *

It was revealed this week
that Prof. Oscar Handlin, win-
ner of the Pulitzer Prize in
history for his work on immi-
gration, will write the Ter-
centenary's "History of teh e
Jews in America." The view-
points of Prof, Handlin ex-
pressed in recent articles in

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