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VOLUME XX I X—No. 15
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Morocco Orders Dissolution of
Migration to Israel Movement
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Synagogues Chant Prayers
For Eisenhower's Recovery
Prayers were chanted in all Detroit synagogues last
Friday night and Saturday morning for President Eisen-
hower's speedy recovery from his illness.
A number of local rabbis composed special prayers
expressing the hopes of the congregants
for the President's well-being.
National r abbinic al organizations
issued calls for prayer in all American
synagogues.
Dr. Isidore S. Ravdin, 61-year-old
Philadelphia surgeon, was one of the four
doctors who operated on President Eisen-
hower successfully on Saturday morning.
Dr. Burrill B. Crohn, brother of .
Lawrence W. Crohn, Detroit Zionist
leader, who, in the 1930s, discovered the
disease ileitis from which the President
suffered, predicted complete recovery for Mr. Eisen-
hower and said the President would be able to assume
light duties after two weeks in bed. Dr. Crohn, a promin-
ent gastroenterologist, discovered the disease at Mount
Sinai Hospital in New York, where he has been a staff
member for 49 years. Dr. Crohn, who is 72, commended
the four surgeons who operated on the President as "very
capable and experienced." Ileitis is generally referred to
as "Crohn'i Disease."
Dr. Ravdin, who was born in Evansville, Ind., has
been highly honored by the medical profession. A 1918
graduate of the • University of Pennsylvania medical
school, he was elected, 18 months ago, as chairman of the
board of the American College of Surgeons, a post
described as "the most powerful in American surgery."
He is John Rhea Barton Professor of Surgery in the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania's School of. Medicine and director
of the university's Harrison Department of Surgical Re-
search. He served in World War I, was dispatched after
Pearl Harbor on an official mission to observe casualties
suffered in World War II and is a major general retired.
CASABLANCA — The Moroccan government on Monday ordered an end of the
organization for the emigration of Moroccan Jews and decreed the dissolution of the
Kadmiah Jewish Communal Institution which handled immigration to Israel.
Police authorities informed Kadmiah of the ban. Leaders of the group reportedly
were told to halt all immigration activities, to dissolve the institution and to place its
offices and transit camp which it maintains at the disposal of Jewish welfare organ-
. izations. Police authorities asserted that emigration of Jews had depopulated the
country to an extent harmful to Morocco's economy. The Jewish community, which
currently numbers about 250,0 . 00, was perturbed over this development. The ban on
Kadmiah appears to mean an end to organized emigration. Presumably, all immigrants
will have to apply individually for visas, a process which may take many months.
Ban Called 'Highly Disturbing' by Jewish Agency Spokesman
LONDON — The Moroccan government's ban on activities of the Kadmiah or-
ganization were termed "highly disturbing," Tuesday, by Dr. S. S. Levenburg, Jewish
Agency representative here who appealed to Moroccan leaders to make good on their
pledges to permit Jews to leave for Israel if they choose.
"Reports that the Moro,ccan government has taken active steps to put obstacles
in the way of Jewish emigration to Israel are highly disturbing," Dr. Levenburg said.
"They are in clear contradiction to various pledges made by leaders of the new state.
The Zionist movement is of the opinion that the right of immigration to -Israel is a
natural right of every Jew wherever he is, and it has requested on many occasions,
all states within whose boundaries Jews dwell, to recognize this right and enable
Jews who wish to emigrate to Israel and to do so without hindrance,"
"It is for the Jews of Morocco to decide," he continued, "whether they wish to
remain in the country or avail themselves of. the possibility of settling in the National
Homeland of the Jewish people. All friends of Morocco hope that obstacles in the way
of Jewish emigration will be removed without delay."
Anti-Jewish Terror in Algeria; Synagogue Bombed, Jew Killed
PARIS (JTA)—Anti-Jewish terror continued in Algeria. A bomb was thrown
into the entrance of a 'synagogue in the Algerian city of Bone just as the Jews
emerged from the Sabbath morning prayer session. One of the Jews, Edmond Levi,
was killed when the bomb . exploded, There were additional Jewish victims, according
to a report received here Sunday.
The Federation of Algerian Jewish Communities and the Algerian Jewish Com-
_ s to be "wary"
mittee of Social Studies issued a joint statement calling on Algerian Jew
of provocation in the current situation in the country.
The two organizations • averred their attachment to the "ideal of brotherhood
of all ethnic groups living together in this country." They noted that they would not
intervene in political matters, because these should be left to individual conscience,
but suggested that all Jews "be wary at all times of any provocation no matter from
where it comes."
Net Proceeds of $2,750,000 Detroit Loan
UJA
Make $1,550,000 More Available
Detroit Jewry, through the combined resources of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, the Allied Jewish Campaign and the United Jewish
Charities, has made available to the United Jewish Appeal the net pro-
ceeds of a $2,750,000 loan, the largest amount of credit for communal
purpose in this community's history.
A statement issued Tuesday explains that the Federation and its
allied organizations arranged for a $2,000,000 loan in 1954. As of this
year, it was paid down to $1,200,000. The new refunding operation pays
off this obligation and releases $1,550,000 more at this time in extra ad-
vance funds to the United Jewish Appeal to meet emergency needs in
North Africa and Israel.
Federation officers pointed out that the new loan is repayable over a
three-year period and that the action taken is in recognition of the urgency
of the present situation. Judge Theodore Levin, Federation president, and his
associate officers .stated that "maximum benefit to UJA will accrue if at the
same time there is an acceleration of payments of individual pledges to the
1956 Allied Jewish Campaign." "This year," they stated, "beyond the $2,000,000
plus allocated to UJA by Detroit in 1955, more than $1,000,000 additional was
pledged to the Special UJA Survival Fund."
Pledges to the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign are nearing the $5,300,000
total. * * *
UJA Passes $40,000,000 Cash Mark
NEW YORK—The United Jewish Appeal last Sunday reached a mid-year
standing of $40,350,000 in cash as funds totalling $15,000,000 were brought for-
ward by representatives of community campaigns in answer to an urgent call
from UJA General Chairman William Rosenwald.
More than 750 campaign leaders and volunteers participated in this
outpouring of dollars at the final session of the UJA's two-day National Action
Conference. With this and other actions in Hotel Roosevelt, the delegates
inaugurated the second half of the UJA's 1956 nationwide drive. The closing
session was presided over by UJA President Edward M. M. Warburg.
The mid-year total of cash gave the UJA $32,250,000 for its regular
campaign in behalf of the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee
and New York Association for New Americans, and $8,100,000 for its Special
Survival Fund to make possible this year's resettlement in Israel of the tens of
thousands of Jews streaming into it from troubled North Africa.
The delegates endorsed an extraordinary project for securing a second
$40,000,000 amount, to be borrowed from the country's principal cities.
Saturday evening, at the opening session, the delegates heard a charge
that the United Nations cease-fire has made "little or no difference" to Israel's
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incidents, and who have forced Israel "to utmost vigilance against attack." This
charge was made by Col. Chaim Herzog, commander of the Jerusalem Military
District in Israel's Defense Forces, who told the community campaign leaders
that "while Israel has observed the cease-fire religiously on all borders, we
have lost eight killed and have had 10 wounded as a result of Arab cease-fire
violations. Six have been killed • on the Jordan border alone. This hardly
indicates Arab compliance with the United Nations."
These ominous developments were underscored for the delegates in a
cable from Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stating his belief that the
"atmosphere of peril will prevail this summer with greater intensity than before.
"We have given our solemn word to abide by the wish of the United
Nations for a cease-fire," Mr. Ben-Gurion declared. "But we have made it clear
that if we are attacked, we will strike back with all our might and every fiber
of our being. We hope that this attack will never come, but we are faced by
a grave crisis now that the Arab States have acquired considerable quantities
of modern arms from Czechoslovakia, which they intend to use against us.
The shadow of aggressive war still hangs over Israel. Until there is real peace,
there will be real danger. As long as this condition prevails, we in Israel will
neither relax our vigilance nor our strength."
Mr. Ben-Gurion called for a continuation through the UJA of their "superb
efforts in behalf of our fellow-Jews in North Africa, and in support of the
many thousands of immigrants who have come to us in the past and for whom
our gates must remain open. Your faith in us," he declared, "is one of our
greatest strengths."
Endorsement of the UJA loan project came after a report on the Jewish
position in North Africa which told of Jews being kidnapped for ransom, the
looting of Jewish shops and the sharp worsening of the Jewish economic lot.
Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution
Committee who returned several days ago from visits to Morocco and Tunisia,
told the delegates that "while many of the Moslem leaders have expressed a
concern for the rights of the Jewish minority, the Jews of North Africa are
filled with anxiety and apprehension as a result of the statements made by
extreme and irresponsible elements."
"As a result," Mr. Leavitt emphasized, "the urge to emigrate has become
much more widespread than previously."
The opening session was marked by a special dramatic presentation of
life in one of Israel's border settlements, featuring the 21-year-old farmer-
guardsman, Uri Marinov, whose home is the settlement of Nahal Oz, 500 yards
opposite the Egyptian-held Gaza strip.
John Forsythe, star of "Teahouse of the August Moon," acted as narrator
for a script, "The Price of Freedom," by Alvin Boretz, starring Broadway and
Hollywood players Susan Douglas, William Redfield, James Lipton, Mason
Adams and Raymond Duke. under the direction of Human Brown.