Citation from 'Message of Israel'

RABBI BER-
NARD N. COHN,
of Temple Em-
anu-El, Utica,
N.Y. (left), pre-
sents "Message
of Israel" 20th
Anniversary Ci-
tation to RICH-
A R D CLARK,
manager of Sta-
tion WRUN,
Utica. "Message
of Israel" is
sponsored by
the Union of
American H e -
brew Congrega-
tions, parent
body of the na-
tion's Reform
temples.

Israel Asks UN Air Safety Study;
Hear Report on Bu lgarian Disaster

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
'(JTA)—As a result of the recent
shooting down of an Israel pass-
enger plane by Bulgarian- fight-
ers, Israel proposed that the next
session of the UN General As-
sembly, opening Sept. 20, place
a supplementary item on its
agenda, under the heading: The

List Plans for
DSG Stag Day

Question of the Safety of Com-
mercial Aircraft 'Flying in the
Vicinity of, or Inadvertently
Crossing International Frontiers."
Israel submitted a brief memo-
randum, explaining the necessity
for a study of all incidents in
which loss of life has resulted
when aircraft have "inadvertent-
ly" crossed international fron-,
tiers.
The memorandum proposed
that Secretary General Dag
Hammarskj old undertake t h e
study and report back to the
session of the General Assembly,
which will convene in Sept., 1956.
The . memorandum, submitted
on behalf of Israel by Mordecai
R. Kidron, acting head of its dele-
gation here, did not name Bul-
garia, but the move by the Is-
rael government was interpreted
here as an obvious reference to
the recent incident • in the Bul-
garian air space.
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, the
Israel Cabinet heard a report
based on the investigations of the
special commission of inquiry
into the El Al plane .digaster.
The mission recently returned
from its on-the-spot check in
Bulgaria and Greece.
The report, according to the
newspaper, "Maariv," said that
the plane had been pushed 33
miles inside Bulgarian territory
by strong winds.
It also reported that the Bul-
garian fighter planes had not
only hit the Israel airliner in the
air, where it exploded, but that
they had also fired at it after
it was downed—causing its com-
plete destruction.
The inquiry commission, which
was sent for an on-the-spot in-
vestigation immediately after the
downing the Israeli airliner by
Bulgarian fighter planes, was
composed of government and air-
line experts. They were permit-
ted by the Bulgarian authorities
to remain on the site of the
crash for only half an hour.

Invitations for the sixth annual
Detroit Service Group Stag Day
wen
_ t out to all men who worked
in the 1955 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign,
Stag Day will be held Tuesday,
Sept. 13, at Knoliwood Country
Club. Activities including golf,
cards and swimming, from 10
a.m., continuing with dinner and
entertainment at 7 p.m.
Stag Day has become a looked-
forward-to tradition among De-
troit Service Group members and
provides the single opportunity
Of the year for hard working
Allied Jewish Campaigners in
the Mercantile, Services, Me-
chanical Trades, Real Estate and
Building, Food, Professional, and
Arts and Crafts Divisions to get
together for a day of relaxation
and good fellowship.
Trades and professional di-
visions in the 1955 Allied Jewish
Campaign raised over $3,530,000
to help Detroit equal last year's
total of $4,100,000. They account-
ed for over 10,000 individual con-
tributions-100 more than last
year.
Milton K. Mahler, president of
the Detroit Service Group, an-
nounced that the only business
that will be conducted during the
course of the event will be the
biennial election of 33 members-
at-large for a two-year term on
the DSG board of directors. An-
Other 66 members are chosen
by the boards of the seven trade
and professional groupings of the
Detroit Service Group. The
Junior Service Group appoints
A 20-year-old youth who some
One of its members to the board,
giving it a total membership of day hopes to be a rabbi and a
pert, young miss from Pontiac,
100.
Mich. were among the new of-
ficers to be elected by the Na-
Assimilation Reported at tional Federation of Temple
World Student Congress Youth.
An appeal to Jewish students
They are Joel Wittstein, of
throughout the world to "build a Cincinnati, and
living bridge" between Israel and Judith Dick-
the Jewish communities of other stein, elected>
countries was voiced at the inter- president a n d
national Jewish student congress secretary, re-
being held here, by 'Prof. Michael spectively, o f
Evenari, vice-president of the the NFTY, an
Hebrew University. Once the organization
Jewish students have "crossed c o mprising
the bridge," Prof. Evenari said, 20,000 high
"they must use their abilities to school and col-
help the state solve its spiritual, lege students
economic and religious prob- which is affili-Joel and Judith
lems."
ated with the Union of American
George Rosenstein, chairman Hebrew Congregations.
of the World Union of Jewish
The election, announces Rabbi
Students, told the congress that Samuel Cook, NFTY director, was
Jewish youth outside Israel was part of the Camp Union Institute
moving in the direction of as- held this month at Lac La Belle,
similation. One of the Union's Wis.
major goals, he continued, is to
Miss Dickstein, 18, is the
reverse this trend. The confer- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Her-
ence is attended by representa- man Dickstein, of Pontiac. A
tives of Jewish student groups product of the Temple Beth
in 13 countries and by repre- Jacob Religious School, of which
sentatives of eight student groups Rabbi Sanford Saperstein is spir-
in this country. The only non- itual leader, she will enter the
Jewish student attending is Ich- University of Michigan next
rio Ono, a Japanese student who month as a music major.
•
'5-) has the status of observer for
the International Union of Stu- 24—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 26, 1955
dents=a leftist organization.

Name Pontiac Miss
Nat'l NFTY Secretary -

Bulgaria Promises Wayne Names Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz
To Punish Guilty LaMed Professor of Jewish Studies
Wayne University this week
He attended Yale University,
In El-Al Downing announced
the appointment of Dr. ° 1929-32, won Kohut and Uni-

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
State Department made public
the text of a note received from
Bulgaria on the shooting down of
an Israel passenger plane on July
27, in which 58 people, including
12 Americans, perished. The note
makes it clear that she will pun-
ish those guilty of causing the
catastrophe, will assume respon-
sibility for compensation due to
the families of the perished pas-
sengers, and is willing to share in
the compensation for the de-
stroyed El-Al plane.
The note includes the findings
of a special governmental com-
mission responsible for investi-
gating the crash and a summary
which reads as follows:
"1. The aircraft departed from
its route, violated the frontier of
the Bulgarian state and without
any warning penetrated deeply
into the interior of the Bulgarian
air space. Equipped with the
most modern aerial navigating in-
struments, it could not have failed
to be aware of the fact that it
had violated Bulgarian air space.
Even after having been warned,
it did not obey but continued to
fly towards the south in the di-
rection of the Bulgarian-Greek
frontier.
"2. The Bulgarian anti-air-
craft defense units manifested a
certain haste and did not take all
the steps required to force the
aircraft to obey and to land.
"3. The Bulgarian government
likewise considers it necessary to
point' out the fact that over a
period of many years, not re-
specting the sovereignty of the
Peoples' Republic of Bulgaria,
certain elements have allowed
themselves systematically to vio-
late the Bulgarian frontier. Dur-
ing recent years numerous illegal
flights over the Bulgarian frontier
by aircraft of undetermined na-
tionality have been noted in Bul-
garia. During these illegal flights,
diversionists have been para-
chuted into Bulgarian territory
equipped with arms, radios and
other equipment."
The note then went on to say
that the Bulgarian government
had addressed itself on a num-
ber of occasions to the Secretariat
of the United Nations about this
state of affairs. It pointed out
that the "unfortunate accident to
the Israeli plane became pos-
sible" because of the existing
state of tension.
"The Bulgarian government and
people express once again their
profound regret for this great
disaster which has caused the
death of completely innocent
people," the note said. "The Bul-
garian government ardently de-
sires that such incidents should
never happen again. It will cause
to be identified and punished
those guilty of causing the catas-
trophe to the Israeli plane and
will take all the necessary steps
to insure that such catastrophes
are not repeated on Bulgarian
territory.
"The Bulgarian government
sympathizes deeply with the
relatives of the victims and is
prepared to assume responsibility
for compensation due to their
families, as well as its share of
compensation for material dam-
age incurred," the note con-
cluded.

Isaac Rabinowitz as Associate
Professor and Director of Jewish
Studies, thereby filling the La-
Med Professorship of Jewish
Studies, effective this September.
The announcement reveals that
Dr. Rabinowitz will offer two

Dr. Rabinowitz taught in St.
Louis, was counselor to Jewish
students at Yale, was director of
the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation
at the University of Michigan,
1938-40, and has just resigned his
post as executive director of. the
East New York YM and YWHA
and as Visiting Lecturer in Ara-
maic at Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion.

Author of many papers and re-
views, Dr. Rabinowitz had work-
ed at the University of Califor-
nia on a projected concordance
to the Syro-Hexaplaric version of
the Old Testament and at the
same time pursued advanced
Arabic studies. Semitic and Classi-
cal studies have been his con-
stant avocation since 1932,

DR. ISAAC RABINOWITZ

Since 1948, when portions of .
the newly-discovered Qumran
(Dead Sea) Scrolls began to be-
come available, lie devoted
himself to the study of these
materials and has written a
number of papers on these
texts.

courses—The History of the Jews
and Jewish Philosophy.
Registration for both courses
Rabbi Rabinowitz is considered
will commence early in Septem-
highly qualified to teach candi-
ber.
Announcement of Dr. Rabi- dates for the Ph.D. degree in the
nowitz's appointment was made field of Semitic Philology (He-
by Acting Dean J. Russell brew, Arabic, Syriac and all Ara-
Bright of the Wayne University maic dialects), and in the Bibli-
cal Apocryphal, Judaeo-Hellenis-
College of Liberal Arts.
Born July 3, 1909, in Brooklyn, tic and related literary and philo-
N. Y., Dr. Rabinowitz received logical studies.
The LaMed Professorship of
his elementary and secondary
schooling in Kansas City. He Jewish Studies was established
by Mr. and Mrs. Louis LaMed
attended the University of Illi-
and the LaMed Literary Foun-
nois, 1926-27, and the University
dation, and is financed by the
of California, 1927-29, where he
liberal gifts of the LaMed Foun-
received his A.B. degree in Greek,
graduating cum laude, receiving dation. Last semester visiting
honors as Hellman Scholar and lecturers supplemented a course
given under the LaMed grant
winning election to Phi Beta
by Dr. Norman Drachler.
Kappa.

Jewish Community in Germany Signs
Agreement on Division of Property

NUREMBERG (JTA)—The re-
established Kehillah of Fuerth,
last holdout among the Jewish
communities in Germany, has
signed an agreement on the dis-
tribution of the property of the
pre-Hitler Fuerth community be-
tween the new Kehillah on the
one hand and, on the other, the
Jewish world organizations as
custodian of heirless Jewish prop-
erty in the American Zone of
Germany.
*Under the spiritual leadership
of Rav Spiro, formerly of War-
saw, Fuerth is today relatively
one of the most vigorous com-
munities in Germany. For its size,
it has the best-organized religious
life and the largest proportion of
children. But of the 275 Jews now
living in Fuerth, the large ma-
jority are former DPs. Only about
30 were part of the old Fuerth
community, which, 20 years ago,
had a membership of some 3,000.
The pre-Hitler community, a
wealthy and pious one, was dis-
tinguished by many endowments
and institutions set up in the
course of centuries. A small por-
tion of the assets once owned by
these endowments and institu-

Jewish Press, Writers Protest Against
New York Post Advertising Methods

NEW YORK (JTA) — Sharp
protests were voiced by the Jew-
ish daily newspapers here and by
the organization of Jewish jour-
nalists against the New York
Post for permitting its advertis-
ing department "to undermine
the good name of the Yiddish
press" in this country. The pro-
tests were directed primarily
against a circular sent out by the
Post's advertising department to
prospective advertisers, seeking
to gain advertising at the expense
of the Jewish press.
The Jewish Writers Union, in
its resolution of protest which
was sent to Mrs. Dorothy Schiff,
publisher of the New York Post,
termed the circular as "unethi-
cal" and as a "misrepresentation."
The resolution said that "the Post
is hiding the truth" by failing to
mention that only a certain per

versity Fellowships and receiv-
ed his Ph.D. in Semitic lan-
guages and literatures — one
of the youngest men to receive.
a doctorate.

cent of its circulation reaches
Jewish readers, while the Jewish
press is read entirely by Jews. A
copy of the protest resolution was
also sent by the Jewish Writers
Union to all leading Jewish . or-
ganizations, drawing their atten-
tion to the action of the Post.
Alexander Kahn, general man-
ager of the Jewish Daily For-
ward, in a letter of protest to the
administration of the New York
Post, said that the Post circular
was "misleading" and that the
methods used by its advertising
department were on "a much
lower plane than the methods
used in ordinary business prac-
tices." The Jewish Day-Morning
Journal, in an editorial sharply
attacking the Methods of the
Post, pointed out that the Yiddish
press helps to build up Jewish-
ness in this country, and claimed

that the Post is undermining it.

tions have survived. How to di-
vide them between the re-estab-
lished Kehillah, only a handful
of whose members were connect-
ed with the old community, and
the JRSO which utilizes the funds
accruing to it for relief and re-
settlement purposs throughout
the world, has been a vexing
question for many years.
Now that Fuerth has signed,
the JRSO has succeeded in con-
cluding voluntary agreements
with all the communities con-
cerned and with the four German
states of the U.S. zone. It must
still await ratification of the ten-
tative "global settlement" reached
sometime ago with the West Ber-
lin city government, which is
stalling and trying to reduce still
further the relatively trifling
amount it is willing to pay in
exchange for all heirless property
claims in Berlin.

will Reinstate Jews
As Career Officers
In New German Army

BONN (JTA)—If there are any
Jews who were professional Ger-
man soldiers prior to Hitler who
want to serve in the cadre of the
new German army, the Bundestag
has made it possible for them to
be considered.
The original government draft
of t h e "Volunteers Law" pre-
scribed that • officers or NCO's
accepted by the incipient Ger-
man army would be taken over
at the "last rank" held by them,
which in practice means the last
rank awarded by the Nazi regime,
No provision Was made for those
who, on racial or political
grounds, were dismissed from
the service or reduced in rank
during the Hitler era.
When this deficiency was
pointed out, the West German
Parliament added a clause to the
law that permits Nazi victims to
volunteer at the rank they would
have attained "in the normal
course of events." They must be
physically fit, as well as other-
wise "satisfactory" to the recruit-
ing officers.

