Shevitz Named on Americans Urged to Participate In
FEP Commission Congressional Poll on Religion
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Any
citizen of the United States who
cares to state his opinion of
whether his religious rights,
guaranteed by the Constitution,
are being properly interpreted
and adequately protected, will. be
able to do so in a survey on this
subject now to be undertaken by
Two Jews Slated
For Tunis Cabinet
SIDNEY SHEVITZ, former
president of the Jewish Com-
munity Council, was named a
member of Michigan's first
State Fair Employment Prac-
tices Commissions by Governor
Williams. Five other members
of this bipartisan commission
include two clergymen, an in-
dustrialist, a labor leader and
a housewife. The commission
will employ a staff to adminis-
ter the new law which seeks to
eliminate all employment dis-
crimination.
Kastner Verdict
Appeal is Lodged
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel's
Attorney General, Haim Cohen,
lodged an appeal with the Su-
preme Court against the verdict
of a Jerusalem District Court in
the case of Dr. Israel Kastner.
The "Kastner Case" has evoked
a storm of bitterness on the Is-
raeli scene and precipitated a
Cabinet crisis shortly before the
elections, when General Zionist
members of the Cabinet abstained
from a vote of confidence on the
government's handling of the
case.
The case began with the cir-
culation of public charges by
Malkiel Gruenwald that Dr.
Kastner, now an Israel govern-
ment official, had collaborated
with the Nazis in Hungary and
was, therefore, guilty of com-
plicity in the mass murder of
Hungarian Jews. Specifically,
Gruenwald charged that Kastner
had "bought" the lives of a tiny
"elite" of Hungarian Jews, in-
cluding his own family, at the
expense of lulling the mass of
Hungary's Jews into a sense of
false security.
In the trial which ensued, the
presiding judge, Benjamin
Halevi, found that Gruenwald's
charges were, in the main, true.
He fined Gruenwald only a token
sum for failing to substantiate his
charges on only one minor point.
In today's appeal, the Attorney
General told the high court that
Judge Halevi had erred not only
in his far-reaching conclusions,
but also in what was termed an
"erroneous scale of trust" in the
evaluation of witnesses who ap-
peared before the - court. Mr.
Cohen's appeal asked that the de-
cision be reversed and that
Gruenwald be punished for the
circulation of false charges.
TUNIS, (JTA)—Two members
of the Jewish community in Tu-
nisia will be included in the
Tunisian Cabinet as state secre-
taries when the Franco-Tunisia
convention which provides for
semi-autonomy for the Tunisians
will go into effect next month,
it was authoritatively .reported
here. The two will be named
when the present Cabinet, pre-
sidedover by Tahar Ben Ammar,
will undergo' certain changes.
Most often mentioned as likely
candidates for these two posts
are Andre Barouch, industrialist
and director of, the newspaper,
"Le Petit Matin," and Albert
Bessis, an attorney, former presi-
dent of the Tunisian Keren
Kayemeth and a member of the
Tunisian team which negotiated
the new conventions with the
French Government. The deci-
sion. to name two Jews to posts
in the new Tunisian GoVernrnent
has aroused hostility in Moslem
religious circles which claim
that such appointments would
"violate the Islamic character of
Tunisia."
Meanwhile, the local Aliyah
Commission has decided to sus-
pend further registration of can-
didates for emigration to Israel
until Sept. 15, because of the
large number of Tunisian Jews
already registered. Departures
for Israel will not, however, be
interrupted and twice weekly
many families, most of them
large, will leave Tunis for Haifa,
via Marseilles, as hitherto.
Cornerstone of Gingold
Cultural Center in Israel
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The cor-
nerstone of the Pinhas Gingold
Cultural Center was laid at Ra-
naana in a simple ceremony that
was witnessed by the -widow and
children of the late head of the
Jewish Teachers Seminary in
New York. Mr. Gingold was
also a leader of the American
Labor Zionist movement. Louis
Segal and Isaac Hamlin of the
American Labor Zionist move-
ment spoke at the ceremony and
hailed the work of the late He-
brew and Yiddish educator.
Pearson Urges U. S. Give Constellation to Israel
Drew Pearson, in a recent col- bureaucrats around the country.
umn, proposed that the United (This is in addition to Ike's
States give.a Cons•ellat-ion to Is- plane.) How about selling or
Congress, it was emphasized by
rael. He wrote in his column:
renting one to the struggling Is-
a spokesman of the Senate Sub-
"There are now eight Constel- raeli airline whose only Constel-
committee on Consti•uti-onal
lations in Washington set aside latiori was shot down by the Bul-
Rights which will conduct the
solely for the purpose of carry- -gars. . . The bureaucrats would
survey.
ing Cabinet members and top never miss it."
A questionnaire co ntaining
eight questions will be sent to
anyone who asks for it. No mail-
ing list has been prepared, but
anyone who is interested may re-
on the Beautiful
ceive the questionnaire by writ-
ing to the subcommittee It will
be up to the people themselves
See . . .
to respond. Public hearings will
be held later in Washington. They
will start on Oct. 3.
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Plane Crash Kills
Pilot in Israel,
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to The Jewish News
TEL AVIV — An Israeli plane
crashed near Lydda Airport dur-
ing a test flight, and the test
pilot, Aryeh Ostrov, was killed.
The cause of the crash, accord-
ing to reports here, was engine
failure. Ostrov warned the Lydda
control tower of the engine fail-
ure and said he was going to
bail out of the stricken plane.
A few seconds after his mes-
sage, however, the plane _crossed
the main runway at Lydda at an
altitude of several hundred feet
and finally crashed about two
miles from the airport. Farm
workers who witnessed the crash
said that Ostrov signalled them
just before the plane hit the earth
to run away and take shelter.
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Report 2,000 Jews
Still in Estonia
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—There are
still some 2,000 Jews living in
Soviet Estonia, Yeshoua OkO, 73,
former president of a synagogue
in Tallin, capital city of Estonia,
reported here. He was one of a
party of 22 immigrants from
various Eastern European coun-
tries to arrive in Israel.
Mrs. Riva Zanotzkaya, 65, an-
other of the immigrants, who
came from Kovno, Lithuania,
said tht the Soviet authorities
had promised to continue her
pension payments in Israel. The
pension was awarded her upon
the death in action of her son,
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