Scroll Is Traced to
Jew Who Committed -
Suicide 70 Years Ago
Agron Forces Favorable Vote
On Reform Israel Synagogue;
Crisis Develops in Coalition
.
LONDON, (JTA) — A Jeru-
salem Jew who committed sui-
cide more than 70- years ago
because he was accused of forg-
ing an ancient manuscript akin
to the famed Dead Sea Scrolls,
may have had an authentic
scroll, it was stated here by
Prof. Menahem Mansoor, chair-
man of the Department of He-
brew and Semitic Studies at the
University of Wisconsin. -
Prof. Mansoor, who has been
touring Europe recording opin-
ions about the Dead Sea Scrolls,
revealed that M. W. Shapira,
a Jerusalem antique dealer of
Polish Jewish ancestry, obtained
embalmed leather strips on
which was written what Mr.
Shapira believed to be a "short
unorthodoxical book of the last
speech of Moses in the Plains
of Moab."
The fragment was offered for
sale to the British Museum, but
scholars who inspected it
thought it a forgery. Mr. Sha-
pira's appeals to the British
Museum to have other scholars
study it were rejected and
shortly thereafter he killed him-
self.
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Jerusalem municipal council is
facing a crisis following an an-
nouncement by the religious
parties participating in the co-
alition municipal administration
of the city that they were
breaking away from the coali-
tion.
The announcement came after
the municipal council approved
a building permit for the Amer-
ican School of Archeology in
Jerusalem, in which students
will hold Reform services. The
services will be held in the li-
brary of the institution, which
will be sponsored by the He-
brew Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion, the Ameri-
can Reform seminary.
The Orthodox members of the
municipal council opposed the
project for weeks on the ground
that it introduces the Reform
movement in Jerusalem. A vote
was finally forced by Mayor
Gershon Agron, a Mapai leader
who was elected mayor with
the support of the Orthodox
councillors.
In the vote, six Mapai coun-
cillors were joined by two Pro-
gressives, one Achdut Avodah
and one representative of the
WIZO to approve the applica-
tion for the building. Opposing
were four members of the Miz-
rachi, Hapoel Hamizrachi and
Agudah. Four abstained, includ-
ing three Herut members and
one General Zionist.
Mayor Agron opened debate
on the building application by
asking the councillors to restrict
themselves to the issues in-
volved and not to bring in ex-
traneous matters. He stressed
that the Reform services would
be held exclusively for students
of the school in the library, and
noted that except for some mi-
nor differences in the services,
all other traditional practices
would - be observed, incruding
reading the prayers in Hebrew,
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praying with covered heads and
not having an organ in the
room.
The Mayor noted that there
were differences in religious
services conducted by Jews
from various countries, in-
cluding those from Yemen
and Aden and from the West-
ern , countries. Finally, he
charged that the religious
block members found finan-
cial contributions from Re-
form sources "kosher" but
Reform Jews themselves "not
kosher," although they had
become Zionist adherents.
Religious councillors attacked
the Reform movement as a form
of assimilation and insisted that
a "temple" in Jerusalem would
divide the people of Israel. Cit-
ing the religious character of
the city's student population,
they said the councillors must
look beyond the technical prob-
lems and see the possibility of
disturbances of the peace cre-
ated by the presence of Reform
adherents. They insisted that
Premier David Ben Gurion's
dictum that American Jews
might contribute to Israel but
must not interfere in its inter-
nal politics, held true for reli-
gious matters, too.
Orthodox Adamant
Earlier, an effort to have
Prime Minister David Ben-Gur-
ion intervene in the issue was
made by a noted Orthodox
leader, Rabbi Yekutiel Halber-
stem, the Klausenberger Rebbe.
The rabbi was received by the
Premier, after which they con-
ferred privately.
Rabbi Halberstam repot`tedly
told Ben-Gurion that Orthodox
Jews here will go all-out to
prevent the • introduction of Re-
form services into Jerusalem—
even to the point of "open war."
The rabbi told the Prime Min-
ister that he plans to bring his
own Yeshiva to Israel, and re-
portedly asked him to weigh
the question of whether the dis-
ciples of his Yeshiva would not
be a greater benefit than a Re-
form synagogue.
He is said to have argued that
the Reform synagogue would
bring no benefit to the State,
but only harm, and that it would
alienate both observant and non-
observant Jews: who want to see
Israel as a bulwark and fortress
of traditional Judaism.
Later, Rabbi Halberstam con-
ferred here with Mayor Agron
for an hour in an effort to per-
suade him to withhold his ap-
proval of the building permit.
Builders Say Lack of
Credit Cuts Activities
TEL AVIV, (JTA)'L-Despite
the building activity prevalent
in Israel, private builders
meeting here c h d'r g e d that
Government policy of with-
holding credit from them had
cut building by 30 per cent in
the first half of 1956. The
charge of discrimination by the
Ministry of Finance against pri-
vate builders was made at the
7th Conference of the Builders
and Contractors 'A s s o c iatio• ‘
meeting at ZOA House here.
They also charged that despite
extensive activity in the past
eight years— 200,000,000 pounds
was spent in 1955 alone—the
housing situation w a s "d i f-
ficult."
The .private builders and con-
tractors claimed that the Fi-
nance Ministry does not ap-
preciate the importance of the
industry and is opposed to pri-
vate initiative in the fiel d.
Claiming to have built 40 per
cent of all buildings in this
country, they said that govern-
ment policy had made both
cash and credit scarce. The
Government, on the other hand,
says that building aid is based
on a strict priority system and
that three other sectors of eco-
nomy—defense, expanding agri-
culture and increasing exports
—come first.
Social Workers' World
Organization Advocated
MUNICH, (JTA)—A commit-
tee preparatory to the creation
of an international organization
of Jewish social workers was
set up at a reception tendered
by the Central Welfare Agency
of the Jews in Germany for the
Jewish delegates to the Eighth
International Conference for So-
cial Work that is now in prog-
ress here.
The idea was warmly wel-
comed by the Israel delegate to
the conference, Mrs. Charlotte
Karfiol of Israel's Ministry of
Social Welfare. Dr. George W.
Rabinoff, of t he non-sectarian
U. S. National Social Welfare
Assembly, who was instrumen-
tal in making the arrangements
for the American delegation to
the conference; Dr. Henry . Sel-
ver, director of the Paul Baer-
weld School of Jewish Social
Work, which is sponsored in
Paris by the Joint Distribution
Committee; and Dr. Berthold
Simonsohn, head of the. Central
Welfare Agency of the Jews' in
Germany.
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