Survey of Job-Seekers Establishes
Effectiveness of FEP Legislation
150 Israeli Firms
at Turkish Fare
to Boost Trade
$300,000 Renovation of Touro Synagogue
.
Loeb, William Levitt, Senator
John 0. Pastore of Rhode Is-
land, Abraham Ziskind, George
Alpert, S. H. Thal, Rabbi Nor-
man Gerstenfeld and Philip
Klutznick. Dr. Bernard Fried-
man, of this city, was re-elected
president, as were all other offi-
cers and directors of the group.
NEWPORT, R. I., (JTA)—The
sum of $55,000 toward a goal
of $300,000 has been contributed
for the restoration of Touro
about
their
religion,
as
com-
NEW YORK, (JTA)—For the
Synagogue here, the oldest Jew-
/2
per
cent
IZMIR, (JTA) — More than ish house of worship in this
second successive year, a survey pared with about 8 1
of Jewish job-seekers has shown in FEP cities. The percentages 150 Israeli firms are repre- country and a national shrine.
that fair employment practice are almost identical with those sented with exhibits at the an- Announce m e n t of the sum
laws apparently have reduced found in a similar survey in nual Izmir International Fair raised toward the final goal—
.
here. This is the fifth year Is- which is to be achieved by 1958
discriminatory questioning of March, 1955.
When I was happy I thought
Contrary to the common as- rael has participated in this —was made at a meeting of the
applicants about their religion
Society of Friends of Tauro I knew men, but it was fated
by both employers and commer- sumption that minorities tend commercial event.
In one of the most attrac- Synagogue by William Zecken- that I should know them in mis-
cial employment agencies. Such to be overly sensitive and to
questioning is still widespread, suspect discrimination where it tive pavilions on the fair dorf, chairman of the Restora- fortune only.—Napoleon.
does not exist, the survey sug- grounds, Israel is displaying tion Committee.
however.
Mr. Zeckendorf outlined a
The survey covered the ex- Bests that many applicants cement, tires, chemical prod-
HIRSCHFIELD CO., Agency
perience of 2,319 applicants neither recognize nor complain ucts, construction materials, three-stage plan for the renova-
issues tickets on SS Israel and
registering at Jewish vocational of discrimination even when drugs, irrigation and agricul- tion of the synagogue and the
SS Zion to Haifa and on other
ships to Europe and to all parts
service agencies in 15 cities in they encounter it. Less than one tural machinery and electrical creation of an adjoining park
of the world.
out
of
five
of
those
who
were
appliances.
site.
The
meeting
also
included
the United States and Canada
asked about their religion by
A special greeting to Israel ceremonies observing the 166th NASSAU -7-day cruises....$145 up
during March, 1956.
BERMUDA, 6 days, sail
commercial employment agen-
anniversary of the famed
The report reveals that in cies felt that they were dis- exhibitors was issued by Dji- George Washington letter ad-
Sept. 1
hat Iren, secretary-general of
WORLD CRUISE, 97 days, sail
U. S. cities not covered by state
criminated - against "in any the Union of Turkish Cham- dressed to the congregation of
Jan. 9-108 days, sail Jan. 19, 1957.
or local fair employment laws,
bers of Commerce, who pointed the Touro Synagogue proclaim-
West Indies, Sc. America cruise,
45 per cent of those who had way."
SS Mauretania, sail Dec. 22, $750
out that the present volume of ing religious tolerance.
The
authors
of
the
report
be-
up, .29 days, 10 ports, 11,250 miles.
also registered with private
New
directors
of
the
Society
exchange between Turkey and
Carinthia, West Indies, So. Amer-
lieve
that
discrimination
actual-
employment agencies had been
ica, sail Dec. 24, 14 days, $350 up.
Israel amounts to $12,000,000 named at the meeting include
asked their religion. In cities ly is more widespread than the
19est Indies, Havan a. 14
am
ec,.W
yssdp
11alaaa
Governors
Abraham
Ribicoff
of
a
year.
protected by Fair Employment figures would seem to indicate.
Connecticut
and
Dennis
J.
Rob-
In 1950, when trade first
$31 5 70u9 13
Practices laws, only 4.4 per cent They point out that much effort
600 Woodward Ave., Suite
erts of Rhode Island, Carl M.
had been asked such questions has been expended in recent started, Iren added, Turkish
years to induce employers to imports from Israel were val-
at private agencies.
eliminate questions about re- ued at only $67,500.
Similar, but less striking dif- ligion from application forms
Another official, Shevket Fili-
-v-vri17-n-riri-
ferences were found in the case and oral interviews and that beli, director of the Izmir
of those who had applied di- such questions are expressly Chamber of Commerce, con-
rectly to employers. In cities prohibited by FEP laws.
gratulated Israel on its ex-
without FEP, 17 per cent re-
hibits. Moshe Alon, Israel
They
believe
that
the
6.6
per
ported they had been asked
cent of applicants surveyed who Charge d'Affaires here, an-
reported that they had been nounced that, since the 1950 Is-
asked such questions reflect rael-Turkey commercial agree-
Both Parties Oppose
ment was signed, the total
only a part of the problem,
Thus prophesied
trade between the two coun-
Zephaniah:
bigotry in Election
The survey was part of a tries exceeded $22,000,040.
"THERE WILL COME
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A tri- long-range cooperative program
A DAY WHEN I WILL'
faith statement against resort to undertaken jointly by Jewish
UPLIFT THEE AND
Rabbi Says Anti-Semitism
GATHER THEE IN:'
bigotry in the 1956 Presidential vocational agencies and Jewish
election campaign was endorsed community relations agencies. Still Alive in Germany
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Nazism
by the chairmen of the Dem- The program is under the direc-
ocratic and Republican national tion of a joint committee on in Germany "is not altogether
committees. Jewish co-sponsors employment discrimination of dead," and in the Soviet Union
of the statement were Irving M. the Jewish Occupational Coun- Judaism is treated as "a culture
Engel, president of the Amer- cil and the National Communi- of antiquity" and a "museum
ican Jewish Committee, and ty Relations Advisory Council. piece," Rabbi George B. Leiber-
'n111:1'5 nrrp Tip
Jewisk ltationaiguna t"T
man, of the Central Synagogue
Rabbi Abraham Feldman, pres-
Questionnaires were filled out of Nassau County, who has just
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ident of the Synagogue Council
vs:W
\Nas's
of A m e r i c a. The statement by applicants at Jewish voca- returned from visits to the
`s4gi.
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tional agencies in Baltimore, USSR, Germany and Israel, de-
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reads:
Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cin- clared.
"iWth the free world looking cinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Los
"During a visit to a German
to American democracy f o r Angeles, Louisville, Minneapo-
leadership and inspiration in the lis, New York, Philadelphia, university near Munich," Rabbi
Lieberman stated, "I found most
struggle against totalitarianism,
Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Mont- disconcerting the attitude of
all eyes are focussed on our
mockery and brazenness toward
election campaigns. Nothing is real.
The replies from Montreal me as an obvious Jew. Students
healthier for self - government
than out-spoken political dis- showed that the percentage of questioned me about American
cussion, but nothing is more applicants questioned about Jews in a spirit of mockery."
The Jewish National Fund is Proud to
In the Soviet Union, the rabbi
harmful to a self-governing peo- their religion by employers
Announce a New Type of
ple than confusion of the issues (15.8 per cent), while down stated, he found scholars doing
by base appeals to racial and from 20.5 per cent in 1955, was research work in the history of
substantially higher than the Jewish culture at libraries in
religious bigotry.
"I nthe light of the pre-em- average for all reporting cities Leningrad and Moscow, and he
inent roel which the United in the U. S. (6.6 per cent) and came across one non - Jewish
($1.50 per Tree-Tax Deductible)
States is playing, it is incum- somewhat higher than in the scholar delving into the works
Specially Designed as a
bent upon us to prove that in non-FEP cities in the U. S. (15.2 of the greatest Hebrew poet of
the Middle Ages, Judah Halevi.
our democracy, men of all races, per cent).
Canada has a federal fair em- But as for practical religious
creeds, and national origins par-
ticipate in our government to ployment statute, but there is practice, he asserted, he found
take all necessary measures to no provincial or municipal Russia "entirely without relig-
Through This Certificate You Fill
ious schools for any religious
prevent any expression of racial statute covering Montreal.
The joint JOC-NCRAC Com- groups."
or religious bias by their adher-
a
Personal
Need and Help a Great Cause
ents an dto condemn •publicly mittee announced that the sur-
and emphatically every occur- vey would continue to be re- New Heletz Oil Strike
peated at periodic intervals. In Expected To Be Richest
rence thereof.
"We urge all citizens to re- this way, the committee be-
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Oil was
ject political arguments based lieves, it will be able to study brought in from a new drilling,
on racial or religious prejudices trends in discriminatory prac- Heletz 12, in the Heletz area
and to rebuke those who make tices by employers and employ- where other wells are now in
such appeals. We suggest that ment agencies, to discover regular production. The new
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tee undertake to keep a watch- try-wide or confined to particu-
ful eye on campaign activities lar plants or offices, and to de-
ENROLL NOW !
and call to the attention of po- velop various findings that de-
ENROLL NOW !
litical leaders any instances of pend on cumulative statistics.
appeals based on religious or
racial prejudice. Let us make 400 Jewish GIs Hold Retreat
certain that our election cam-
paigns are in every sense free in Goering's Hunting Lodge
BERCHTESGADEN, G e r -
and worthy of a nation founded
on the principles of brotherhood many, (JTA) — About 400
of man and the Fatherhood of American Jewish soldiers and
officers are now spending a five-
God."
Mr. Engel, prescient of the day religious retreat in the
American Jewish Committee, hunting lodge which formerly
has expressed appreciation to belonged to Hermann Goering,
the chairmen of the Democratic top Nazi leader. The lodge is at
Ages 7 to 14
Ages 3 1/2 to 5
and Republican national com- the disposal of military chap-
learning.
Easy method of
mittees for their endorsements lains of all denominations as a
The nursery is licensed
Hebrew, Bible, Jewish Holidays, History, Yiddish
of the statement. In letters to "religious retreat house" for
by
the
State.
Paul M. Butler, national chair- servicemen of the U. S. armed
Reading & Writing, Songs, Amercan Jewish Life.
man of the Democratic Party, forces.
A planned program.
BAR MITZVAH PREPARATION
and Leonard W. Hall, national
Study sessions, devoted to
A well qualified staff.
chairman of the Republican fundamentals of Judaism, are
Party, Mr. Engel de c l a r e d: being conducted at the retreat
"Your assurance that your Par- by Lt. Col. Meir Engel of Heid-
ty will continue to oppose big- elberg. The American Jewish
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