Aid for the
Retarded: A Major
U.S. Responsibility
A Tribute to Wayne
County Training
School and to
Dr. R. H. Haskell
Commentary, Page 2
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EWISH NE
Weekly Review
Rebuke to Bigots:
Effective Action
By Mich. Catholic
Challenge to
Politicians to Act
Against Arming
Arab States
of Jewish Events
Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
VOLUME 26—No. 10 akc7
17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, November 12, 1954
Editorials, Page 4
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Romania's U ESCO Membership
Opposed; Persecutions Protested
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
Israers Jewish Settlers Criticized
By Bennike for Border Conflicts
COPENHAGEN, (JTA) — Sharply criticizing the manner in
which leaders of Israel collective settlements organized their de-
fense against border infiltrators, Maj. Gen. Vagn Bennike, former
Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organ-
ization in Palestine, told a Danish newspaper that it was his
opinion that the Palestine trouble seemed "more organized" by
Israelis than by Arabs.
He added that he did not believe that the Israel govern-
ment inspired the trouble but went on to say, "the leaders of
the collective farms along the border are organized for what
they call self-defense. Naturally.; it is not very pleasant for the
Jews to have armed Arabs roaming around on Israeli soil at
night."
Gen. Bennike described it as natural that most incidents
took place on Israel territory, saying, "after all, the Arabs are
- the ones to suffer from the fact that the line has been drawn
across their lands."
Aid Cattle Industry:
This young Israeli
rancher examines the ear of a calf grazing on a fertile field
in the Northern Negev area. Supported with funds derived
from the State of Israel Development Bond Issue, currently
being sold in the United States, Canada, Latin America and
Western Europe, Israel's cattle industry has expanded sub-
stantially during the past three years. Leading Israel econo-
mists predict that, with continued aid of investment capital
from the sale of Israel Development Bonds, Israel's cattle in-
dustry will be able to raise enough beef to take care of a large
proportion of its own needs by 1962.
GENEVA—The World Jewish Congress is expected to oppose Romania's member-
ship in the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization at the an-
nual UNESCO conference which opens Friday in Montevideo, it was learned here Tues-
day.
The WJC is expected to charge the Romanian government with violating the aims
and principles of the organization by its persecution of Zionist and Jewish communal
leaders. The Congress, it is understood, will submit that the policy and actions of
the Communist government of Romania in condemning Jews for engaging in Zionist
activities and for maintaining contact with Jewish groups abroad are incompatible with
the "unrestricted pursuit of objective truth" and with the "free exchange of ideas and
knowledge" — tenets of UNESCO.
Klutznick Hails U. S. Move on Jerusalem;
'Corrosive Elements' Condemned by Warren
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —The decision of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to
have the new American Ambassador to Israel present his credentials to the Israel gov-
ernment in Jerusalem, was hailed here by Philip Klutznick, president of Bnai Brith, at
a meeting of the organization's board of governors, last week end.
Mr. Klutznick suggested that this development might serve as a "bellwether" for
the United Nations to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. -
He told the board of governors that this step may stimulate the United Nations to
recognize that an Israel without Jerusalem is almost as unthinkable as an Israel without
the _friendship of America and the Western Powers. He expressed his "personal con-
viction" that Mr. Dulles would find a way to establish security in the Near East. He
terrned • 111-1.e - Jerusalem episode a "harbinger" that marked the "beginning of a series of
events which will surely improve the relationship between America and Israel and will
ultimately bring peace . . . with security and status for Israel."
The board of governors adopted resolutions asking that the shipment of U.S. arms
to the Arab states be suspended until those states give assurances of their willingness
to enter into negotiations for peace with Israel and to join in the common defense of
the area against aggression.
Other resolutions condemned the arrest without trial of Jews in Egypt and pro-
tested the denial by the Soviet Union of the rights of religious groups to worship in
whatever manner they please.
Henry E. Schultz, chairman of the Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League, made a re-
port which pointed out the failure of the out-going Congress to pass any civil rights
legislation, and the "lack of self-restraint on the part of some of its investigating corn-
mitees." He called for adoption of rules of fair conduct "so that the essential process
of detecting subversives does not lead to the enduring injury of innocent people."
Chief Justice Warren Praises Defenders of Liberties
Speaking at the Bnai Brith dinner here Sunday evening, Chief Justice Earl War-
ren said that American freedoms must be protected from "corrosive elements" that
seek to substitute conformity for loyalty. •
"If a man is free only to be what his neighbor wishes, he is not truly free," Mr.
Warren said. "American patriotism requires political allegiance but not uniformity in
faith, in culture or in sentiment. Unity does not involve uniformity."
The Chief Justice praised those "who have had the courage to defend our liberties
against the onslaught from abroad as well as at home," adding: "We need men and
women whose minds are free, men and women who can write and speak boldly the
words that set forth the truth."
Tercentenary Sabbath
A Call to the Jews of Detroit
A Thrill for New Citizens:
The
Department of Michigan and Ladies Auxiliary, Jewish War
Veterans of the United States of America, in accordance with
their Americanism program, presented parchment copies of
the Bill of Rights to over 2500 new citizens on Thursday,
when they assumed their oath of allegiance and were sworn
in as citizens of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Opatowski are shown receiving their copies of the Bill of
Rights from Commander Henny Littman ( right) and Depart-
ment Americanism Officer Ralph Epstein. Mr. and Mrs. Opa-
towski have been in this country for a few days over the mini-
mum requirement , of five years when they can apply for
Citizensh ip.
In common with the spiritual leaders of American Jewry, the Rabbinical Committed
of the Detroit Tercentenary Committee proclaim the Sabbath of November 27, 1954,
(Shabbos Parshas Toledot) as "Tercentenary Sabbath". On this historic occasion we, the
Jews of Detroit, should unite with our brethren throughout the land and assemble in our
Synagogues and Temples, to lift high our voices in prayer and thanksgiving and to rear.
firm our faith in the truth of Judaism.
On this Tercentenary Sabbath we shall give praise to the Almighty Who has guided
the feet of our ancestors to these blessed shores and has not withdrawn the mantle of
His loving protection from us during the three eventful centuries we have dwelt here. He
has dowered this land and its inhabitants with many gifts of grace and has made Ameri-
ca, the great torch-bearer of freedom to all the world. He has enabled us, the Jews of
America, to play a significant and honorable part in the history which brought our coun-
try to its present eminence and influence.
We call upon every Jew in our community to attend services at his house of worship
on Friday evening, Nov. 26, and on Sabbath morning, Nov. 27. Let us together pray for
America's welfare and for the well-being of all of its people: Let us earnestly petition
for peace in the world and for freedom and security for mankind. Let us, through the
noble accents of our sacred liturgy, give exp re ssion to the gratitude in our hearts for
all the good God has wrought for us, and humbly to pray that He may continue to guard
us.
Rabbi Morris Adler
Rabbi Richard C. Hertz
Rabbi Max J. Wohigelernter