Sulzberger's Report on Russia Says
Jews 'Not as Free as Other Citizens'

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jews
do not feel as free in the Soviet
Union as other citizens, accord-
ing to C. L. Sulzberger, chief
correspondent of the New York
Times, w h o recently visited
recently visited, various parts
of the USSR.
Presenting his impressions of
the status of religion and re-
ligious groups in the USSR,
Sulzberger writes:
"No Hebrew Bible has been
published since 1917. The few
remaining rabbis use pre-revo-
lutionary prayer books which
even include a benediction for
the Czar. Hebrew type fonts
have been destroyed. A new
liturgy is to be published but
it will be an electrolytic repro-
duction of the old version
minus prayers for the Roman-
offs.
The position of Jews • dif-
fers from that of other be-
lieVers because of political
implications. Bolshevism is
anti-Zionist as well as anti-
religious. Stalin's principles
of nationality, enunciated in
1930, did not acknowledge
the Jews as a minority. The
law against religious propa-
ganda restricts the teaching
of Hebrew for prayer or sec-
ular purposes.
"Although officially discour-

aged, anti-Semitism revived in
the USSR after 1941. German
propaganda spread the disease
in occupied areas. The delib-
erate encouragement Of Rus-
sian nationalism by the govern-
ment brought back some of the
traditional prejudices of Czarist
days. Fewer than 3,000,000 Jews
remain in the USSR today, in-
cluding survivors of Nazi ovens
in parts of Poland, Czecholo-
vakia and Romania annexed by
Moscow.
"Everything in the Soviet
never-never land is different—
even anti-Semitism. It is form-
ally discountenanced, but Jews
do not feel as free as other
citizens. Many of the older
Yiddish-speaking generation in
the Ukraine and' White Russia
are afraid to use that language
in public. There are no Jewish
schools, books or newspapers.
"Even in Birobidjan, an
autonomous region set aside
for Jewish colonization, the
Jews remain a minority
group.
"Israel itself is regarded with
increasing hostility as Moscow
promotes its cause among the
Arabs. The current Soviet En-
cyclopedic Dictionary calls it
a bourgeois republic governed
by a dictatorship of capitalists
appointed by Washington and
London."

People Make News

CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE
STERN of the Pennsylvania
State Supreme Court has been
selected by the Pennsylvania
Bar Association as the recipient
of its distinguished service
award. Chief Justice Stern will
receive the medal emblematic
of the award' at the association's
summer meeting, to be held at
Spring Lake, N. J. next June.
The 77-year-old jurist was
named Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court in 1952. He has
announced his retirement from
the judicial post effective later
this year.
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The Student Zionist Organi-
zation, sponsored by the Amer-
ican Zionist Council, announces
the arrival in this country of
•DAVID RON as "shaliach" from
Israel to the student group.
* * *
Rabbi MORRIS N. KERTZER,
director of the American Jew-
ish Committee's interreligious
activities division, has been
named national chaplain of
AMVETS (American Veterans
of World War II).
* * *
LOUIS UNTERMEYER, poet,
critic and anthologist, received
the Gold Medal for Service to
Poetry at the 46th annual din-
ner of the Poetry Society of
America. The award consists of
the Alexander Droutzkoy Me-
morial Award and $100.
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On the occasion of his 70th
birthday anniversary, BENJA-
MIN I. MORRIS, vice-president
of Supreme Lodge, Bnai Brith,
Nand past grand president of
District No. 6, was honored with
a testimonial dinner at t h e
Shoreland Hotel, Chicago, Ill.
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Dr. Julius Mark of New
York's Temple Emanu-El, and
member of the Commission on
Jewish Chaplaincy of the Na-
tional JeWish Welfare Board,
has been designated by the De-
partment of Defense to conduct
Torah Convocation's for. Jewish
military personnel in Japan,
Johnston Island, Guam and
Hawaii. Dr. Mark left for the
Far East today on a three-week
mission.
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Col. HARRY D. HENSHEL,
chairman of the armed services
committee of the National Jew-
ish Welfare Board, is in Europe
for an on-the-spot study of
JWB morale and welfare oper-
ations for Jewish military per-

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sonnel on duty" with the U. S.
Armed Forces.
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GERALD S. LEVIN has been
appointed a judge of the San
Francisco Municipal Court by
Governor Goodwin J. Knight.
He is a former president of the
San Francisco Bar Association.
a a a
Dr. J. EDWARD BERK, di-
rector of medicine at Sinai Hos-
pital, was a guest lecturer at
the recent postgraduate medical
course of the University of
Kansas, Kansas City, Kan. Dr.
Berk, who .also is associate
professor of clinical medicine
at the Wayne University Medi-
cal School, spoke on various
observations in the field of
gastroenterology.

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List Social Security
Facts for Self-Employed

Harry Baltuck, manager of
the Detroit Northwest Social
Security office, this week re-
minded self-employed' persons
that the Social Secuirty tax
must be filed along with reg-
ular income tax returns.
He listed several points for
self-employed persons:
'1. A three percent tax on
net earnings up to $4,200 must
be paid by April 15, along
with income tax returns.
2. The report is made on
Schedule C, available in the
office of the Director of In-
ternal Revenue.
3. Self - employed architects,
accountants, funeral directors
and engineers had to be cov-
ered through Social Security
for the first time in 1955. They
must have a Social Security
card.
4. Some occupations are still
not covered by Social Security
law. Rabbis may secure Social.
Security coverage by filing a
2031 Form with the Internal
Revenue Department.
All Social Security prob-
lems in the Plymouth, North-
ville, Livonia and R e d f o r d
Township area are handled
through the Northwest office,
14600 Grand River.

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UIA to Press for
Lachish Settlement

NEW YORK — The number
one target region in Israel for
intensified development, La-
chish, a one-quarter million
acre desert area in the north-
eastern Negev, has been settled
during the past year by 18 vill-
ages and some 7,000 recent im-
migrants at a cost of more than
$11,000,000, Dewey D. Stone of
Brockton, Mass., national chair-
man of the United Israel Ap-
peal, disclosed in a report to
the board of directors.
The United Israel Appeal is
the principal beneficiary of the
United Jewish Appeal.
Plans for the current year
envisage the establishment of
an additional 11 settlements
with some NO farming units ac-
commodating 4,800 people. , The
cost, per unit, during the pre-
liminary stages in the first year,
varies from $3,000 to $5,000, de-
pending on the type of farming
and the nature of the terrain.

Mencken Hailed Zionist Colonies

NEW YORK (JTA) — Henry
L. Mencken, author, critic and
journalist, who died recently,
was an "impressed" witness of
Zionist aspirations in Palestine
more than twenty years ago —
and a severe critic what he
termed . British attempts. to "use
the Jews as suckers" in that
country.
The files of the Jewish Daily
Bulletin reveal that Mencken
on his return to the U. S. in
1934 from a trip abroad which
included a tour of the Middle
East, told an interviewer that
"I was tremendously impressed
with the Jewish colonies in
Palestine. Jewish achievements
in that land of primitive agri-
culture is really remarkable."
He went on to say that Arab
fears were based "not on na-
tionalism, but the conviction
that they cannot compete with
the modern scientific methods
of the Jewish colonists."
Mencken went on to note that,
in his opinion, "The British are
playing their usual politics.
They have separated the Trans-
jordan, which really belongs
with Palestine, and hope by
setting up these petty little
Arab states to retain the power.
With their usual quackery the
British hope to use the Jews as
suckers."
Later, in a series of articles
on Palestine for the Baltimore
Sun, he spoke highly of Jewish
efforts to reclaim the land in a
country w h i c h, in typical
Menckenian ' prose, 'seats his-
tory, both sacred and profane."
One of ' his' columns was de-
voted to the colony of Ein

Harod. He described his im-
pressions, which were favor-
able. He thought that such ex-
periments might fade as did
early American' "socialist" ex-
periments like Brook Farm.
However, another prediction he
made was considerably more
correct. He thought the chances
for the survival of Eretz Israel
were "about even," since it was
being "planned inteligently."
But, he noted, "On the other
hand there are the Arabs—and
across the Jordan is a vast
reservoir of them, all hungry,
all full of enlightened self-
interest. Let some catastrophe
in world politics take the Bri-
tish cops away; and the Jews
who now fatten on so many
lovely farms will have to fight.
desparately for their property
and their lives."

Obituaries

SAMUEL STERIN, 3776 Tux-
edo, died Feb. 5. Services at
Hebrew Memorial Chapel. Sur-
vived by his wife, Mary; a son,
Max Stern, and a daughter,
Mrs. Benjamin Sarin, both of
Washington, D.C.; two brothers,
a sister and three grandchil-
dren.
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JACOB NESTROSKEY, 23080
Gardner, Oak Park; died Feb.
3. Services at Ira Kaufman
Chapel. He leaves two sons,
Lawrence and Bernard S. Nes-
tor; and two daughters, Mrs.
William Weisberg and Mrs.
Daniel Silverman.
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SAMUEL *K OV AN, 19805
Montevista, died Feb. 4. Serv-
ices at Ira Kaufman Chapel.
He leaves his brother, Dr. Den-
nis, and four sisters, Mrs: Mor-
ris Baylis, Mrs. Fannie Kauf-
man, Mrs. Myron Salle and
Mrs. Ellis Warren.
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ELY STULMAN, of 18410
Santa Barbara, died Jan. 31.
Services were at Menorah Fu-
neral Chapel on Puritan, on
Feb. 2. He is survived by his
wife, Eliza; two -daughters, Mrs.
Pauline Barak and Mrs. Evelyn
Germansky, a sister, Mrs. Rho-
da Libes of New York, and six
grandchildren.

Ruinshinsky Dies

Joseph M. Rumshinsky, com-
poser of hundreds of scores for
Yiddish theatrical plays and
operettas, died Monday in New
York. He was 74. His name
was among the best known
among Yiddish theater-goers,
and his scores helped to popu-
larize the Yiddish theater. He
came to this country from
Russia in 1904 and the late
Jacob P. Adler was the first
with whom he began to work
in the preparation of songs for
the stage.

Jacob A. Jacobs Dies
'MONTREAL (JTA) — Jacab
A. Jacobs, Jewish communal
leader and pioneer industrialist,
died here this week-end at - the
age of '81. Mr. Jacobs was a
founder of the Montreal Feder-
ation of Jewish Philanthropies,
Mt. Sinai Sanatorium at Ste.
Agathe, Quebec, and the Mon-
treal Hebrew Orphans Home.
He was also a director of the
Hebrew Free Loan Association.

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Isaac Kuhn Dies
Bnai .Brith is mourning the
passing of Isaac Kuhn, Cham-
paign, Ill., businessman, who
was one of the founders in 1923
of the first Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation, at the University
of Illinois.

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In Memoriam

Friday, February 10, 1956

In cherished memory of our
beloved husband and father, Dr.
Phillip R. Appel, who passed
away on Feb. 8; 1949.
Sadly missed, and always re-
membered by. his wife and
children.

CEMETERY MEMORIALS

Dr. Kosher_ Perjury
Trial Opens in Isradl

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
arraignment of Dr. Rudolph
Kastner, .former government
employee, on charges of perjury
opened here before Chief Magis-
trate Moshe Peretz.
The current Aearing will de-
termine whether the state will
prosecute Dr. Kastner, one-time
leader of Hungarian Jewry and
now editor of a Hungarian-lan-
guage paper in Tel Aviv.
Last year, Dr. Kastner was
severly castigated by a Jerusa-
lem district judge, Benjamin
Halevy who, among other things,
said that he had saved IA. Col.
Kurt Becher, a Nazi leader in
Budapest, from punishment as
a war criminal. Judge Halevy's
statements were made at the
conclusion of a libel trail
brought by the government
against Malkiel Greenwald, a
pamphleteer, who had attacked
Dr. Kastner in a privately cir-
culated pamphlet.
At that trial, Dr. Kastner said
he had given a denazification
court in Germany a statement
concerning Becher activities
in Budapest but insisted he had
not testified in the Nazi's behalf
at the Nuremberg War Crimes
Tribunal. The present perjury
charges stem from this testi-
mony.

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Jews Do Not Participate
In Boston's 'Released Time'

BOSTON (JTA) — No Jewish
students in • Boston's public
schools are now taking part in
the released time program for
religious instructions, it was
made known here this week by
the Jewish Community Council
of Greater Boston. The state-
ment, issued by the Council's
executive director, Robert E.
Segal, followed a checkup by
an official of the Boston School
Committee, following indication
by school authorities, through
an error, that some Jewish chil-
dren were participating in the
plan.

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