Lieberman. Heads
Zionist Council
Morris - Lieberman; Lab or
Zionist leader, was elected pres-
ident of the Zionist Council of
Detroit, at a meeting of the
MORRIS LIEBERMAN
body that includes representa-
tives of all Zionist organizations,
at the Labor Zionist Institute,
Monday evening.
Rabbi Max Kapustin, Mrs.
Max Frank and Mrs. Bessie
Berris were elected vice-presi-
dents; Leon Kay, general sec-
retary; Mrs. Julia Tobias, rec-
ording secretary, and Lawrence
W. Crohn, treasurer.
Irving W. Schlussel, who re-
tired as president, reported on
the past year's activities and
told of support the Council had
enlisted. for Israel, in coopera-
tion with . the Jewish Commu-
nity Council.
An outline of projects spon-
sored by the Joint Committee of
the Zionist Council and the
Jewish Community Council was
presented by Boris Joffe.
M r. Lieberman announced
that an educational program, to
educate the community in mat-
ters involving Israel and Arab-
Jewish relations, will be in-
troduced in the Fall, through a
series of seminars and other
programs.
Dublin's Jewish Mayor
Gets U.S. Invitations •
NEW YORK, (JTA) — New
York City's Mayor Robert F.
Wagner has invited Robert Bris-
coe, newly-elected Lord Mayor
of Dublin, to attend the city's
St. Patrick's Day parade and
celebration next March 17. Bris-
coe is the first Jew in history
to hold the Dublin post.
The invitation will be deliver-
ed by Michael Mann, a native
of Dublin and president of the
Irish Jewish Club of the Mid-
west, whose members are all
natives of Ireland of the Jewish
faith, and which raises fundS
for interfaith charities.
Following his election, Bris-
coe, who lived in the United
States for some years, received
numerous invitations to visit
here again.
One such invitation was ex-
tended by the Jewish mayor of
Tupper Lake, a resort town in
the New York Adirondack
Mountains, which claims to be
90 percent Catholic. Mayor Brist
coe's Dublin is 95 percent Cath-
olic.
Future of Russian Jewry Holds No Promise 9 Leaders Say
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A nected with this unpleasant re- army for anti-Semitism and is than Stalin."
gloomy picture of the- future of currence of racial prejudice.
held responsible for dismissing
He revealed that in May, fiVe
Soviet Jewry was presented at
"VV h e n Khrushchev was several hundred Jewish officers. Jews were • killed during riots
the annual meeting of the exe- prime minister of the Ukraine Ochab is a table-thumping mili- in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.
cutive Committee of the Na- after World War II he issued tant and Khrushchev nominee. A few days later the synagogue
tional Councii of Jewish Wo- regulations barring Jews •from One of his first moves after in Lodz, Poland, was desecrated.
men by Mrs.Moise S. Kahn, important local positions. He gaining power was to fire Jakub
From London, it is reported
president of `the organization, was the first Premier of a Berman, detested party theorist that more than 1,000 Russian
who returned fiarn a visit to Soviet republic to prohibit ac- and a Jew.
Jews turned out to greet an
the Soviet Union.
tivity of Jew i s h theaters,
• The Times correspondent American rabbincial delegation
"Despite Communist pro- schools and publishing houses. ' quotes Jewish refugees from when it arrived in Leningrad.
paganda to the effect that at- He forbade writing and act-
P o l an d reporting: "Anti-
The American r a bb i s con-
tendance at churches and syna- ing in the Yiddish language
Semitism always existed ducted services, preached ser-
gogues has increased sin c e and tolerated an anti-Semitic
among the masses. Now it mons, and spoke to the Russian
Stalin's death, most. of -the wor- outbreak in Kiev so serious
comes from above. It is an Jews in Yiddish, Hebrew and
shippers are old. people," Mrs. that Stalin sent Malenkov to
echo of what is happening in Russian. The Leningrad Jews
Kahn reported.
investigate.
Russia. It is said that Khrush- were warmly demonstrative in
"The young have been weaned
"Khrushchev and Suslov are chev is more prejudiced even their welcome to the rabbis.
away by indoctrination, and
reputed
to be the leaders of an
when occasionally they are seen
anti-Semitic group within the
at religious services, they are
drawn only by curiosity. Viru- present Moscow Presidium. Last
lent . and untruthful propaganda March, when Soviet leaders at-
against all things religious con- tended a state funeral in War-
saw for the late President of
tinues at strength.
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"This continuous indoctrina- P 0 1 a n d, Beirut, Khrushchev
fion threatens t h e Jewish made several indiscreet observa-
tions that tended to confirm
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destruction, since the youth
"He was heard to remark:
JOHN LEBOW
grow up with no Jewish con- `Even a second-rate Kowalski is
sciousness at all. Unlike the more useful than a first-rate
Representing
Jewish youth of Yugoslavia, Rosenblum.
who maintain a strong sense
Pointing out that the two
EAST JEFFERSON BRANCH
of Jewish identify despite
principal Warsaw bosses now
their irreligiousness, the Jew- are Marshal Rokossovsky and
ish generation now growing Ochab, who succeeded Bierut.
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at all.
"S o vi et Premier Bulganin
has stated privately that it is
planned to permit kosher food
in Russia again, and that the
Yiddish theater will be revived.
4 rabbinical seminary in Mos-
cow is being planned. These ges-
tures, however, come too late.
The only thing which possibly
could save the Jewish commu-
nity of Russia would be the re-
vival of Jewish education of
the young, of which there is
none at present."
Also in New York, Nikita
Khrushchev, head of the Com-
munist Party in the S o v i e t
Union, was charged with being
"personally connected" with re-
vived anti-Semitism now de-
veloping in countries behind
the Iron Curtain.
The charge was made in an
article in the New York Times
by C. L. Sulzberger, who cables
from London:
"Ugly intimations of anti-
Semitism, tolerated if not en-
couraged by the. Communist
regimes in power, are again ap-
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LONDON, (JTA)—An Indo-
nesian Foreign Ministry spokes-
man said in Jakarta that Indo-
nesia was free to refuse visas
to Israelis and had no obligation
to give clarification on why a
visa was refused. •
He commented on press re-
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Congress had criticized Indo-
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People Make News
Rabbi -ALEXANDER LINCH-
NER, for 12 years director of
Camp Mesifta in Ferndale, N.Y.,
is utilizing his American camp-
ing experience to direct Boys
Town, Jerusalem's summer
camp, this year.
* * *
SPRING LAKE, N.J. (JTA)-
Chief Justice HORACE STERN
of the Pennsylvania S tat e
Supreme Court has been award-
ed the Pennsylvania Bar Asso-
ciation's first distinguished ser-
vice award. Presentation of the
award was made at the associa-
tion's summer meeting here.
* * *
•
member of the National Jewish
Welfare Board Commission on
Jewish Chaplaincy, completed
in Hawaii the first of a series
of Torah Convocations for Jew-
ish military personnel in the
Far East and headed west to
conduct similar convocations in
Japan, K o r e a, Formosa, the
Philippines and Guam.
* * *
ALBERT E. LERNER, of Oak
Park, will attend meetings of
the State Farm Insurance Com-
pany during the week of Aug.
5, at the .Statler Hotel, New
York. Lerner, among the top 25
percent of the firm's sales force,
earned the trip for his work
Rabbi HARRY HALPERN, during the past year.
ON ..GRAND TRAVERSE BAY
22 MILES NORTH OF TRAVERSE CITY
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