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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and
NEW YORK— A record high Others News Gathering Media.
in pre-campaign contributions
to the United Jewish Appeal
was registered last Saturday
night when $9,522,000 was con-
tributed to the newly-launched
U J A $100,000,000 Emergency
Rescue Fund
and an addi-
tional $11,489,-
000 to the reg-
ular 1957 cam-
paign.
Over 500
Jewish c o m -
munal leaders
throughout the
country attend-
Holtzman
ed the dinner
meeting at the Waldorf Asto-
ria Hotel, held in honor of
Samuel D. Leidesdorf, Philan-
thropist, community leader and
treasurer of the New York UTA.
The dinner, which according
to UJA general chairman Wil-
liam Rosenwald initiated the
first phase of the nationwide
drive, brought in gifts over and
above the regular campaign.
Detroiter Jose ph Holtzman
was among the campaign lead-
ers who were accorded special
honors. The national UJA chair-
man received an ancient cruze
unearthed in Israel which bore
a special inscription "for distin-
guished leadership."
Rabbi Hebert A. Friendman,
executive vice-chairman., t o 1 d
the dinner guests that the next
two months will present the
"most challenging crisis since
1948."
.
Dr. Joseph Named
Agency Treasurer
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United States
MIAMI BEACH—The Eisenhower Doctrine was endorsed
by the AFL-CIO convention, whose resolutoin asked for guar-
antees of a stable peace in the Middle East.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Francis Walter, of Pennsylvania, co-
author of the MoCarran-Walter Immigration Act, said he will
oppose enactment of President Eisenhower's request for the
admission of more Southern European and Mediterranean im-
migrants and refugees "who have fled or in the future flee"
Communist persecution . . . The State Department reports that
it has directed the American Embassy in Cairo to investigate
Bnai Brith's charges that former Nazi officers are leading Egypt's
anti-Jewish persecutions.
NEW YORK—Sectarian religious instruction was declared
an "invasion" of the principle of separation of church and state
by the New York Board of Rabbis: The Board sent an appeal
to President Eisenhower to call .a meeting between Israelis and
Arabs to settle their differences and to set up a force to police
their borders until peace is established . . . United Hias Service
will be. a beneficiary of the 1957 UJA of Greater New York.
ALBANY—The posting of so-called "Public School Ten
Commandments" in public schools was deplored by Leo Pfeffer,
American Jewish Congress and New York Board of Rabbis' at-
torney, at a hearing conducted here, as "Bad theology, bad
pedagogy and bad law." Pfeffer said the practice violates the
American Constitution.
Israel
TEL AVIV—Three Revisionist Zionists, Razcko, Drazin and
Perleh, who were given two to four year prison terms in Poland,
will be "rehabi,litated," according to their_ attorney who arrived
here as a tourist .. . Scheduled visits in Israel by delegations
from the World Jewish Congress, Agudas Israel, Mizrachi and
an American rabbinical group, on invitation from Moscow Chief
Rabbi Solomon Schleifer, has been cancelled by Soviet authori-
ties, according to reports received here. The report denied that
the Soviets have adopted a "liberalized" attitude toward the Jew-
ish religion . . . A party of 54 Jewish refugee children, 11 to 15,
was flown from a French Youth Aliyah camp to institutions in
Israel . .. The last of the 5,800 Egyptian prisoners of war who
were repatriated Jan. 31, in exchange for four Israelis included
Gen. Digwi, who was captured at Khan Yunis . . . An Israeli
soldier was seriously wounded when landmines were set off by
fedayeen who crosses UN Emergency Force lines in Sinai.
JERUSALEM—Four Israeli agricultural experts left for
Burma to advise on test sowings of experimental tracts within
a 1,000,000 acre area of Central Burma being developed jointly
by Israel and Burma . . . Premier David Ben-Gurion, who re-
covered from a case of pneumonia, remained in bed for a few
days on doctors' orders . . . Israel has allocated $250,000 to be
matched by private shipping lines, for the training of native
seamen ... Foreign investments:which fell during the Egyptian-
Czechoslovak arms deals, have risen again, Minister for Trade
and Industry Pichas Sapir reported to Parliament ... An Israel
Natural Resources Advisory Council was formed here and
production of copper, 'potash and bromides is expected to reach
an annual total of $40,000,000 by 1958, Minister of Development
Mordecai Bentov told Parliament . . . President Itzhak Ben-Zvi
attended the Habimah Theater premier of "The Diary of Anne
Frank." Two wreaths were flown from Israel to Amsterdam to
be laid at the foot of the monument honoring the memory of
Netherlands workers Milled bythe Nazis . . . Israel will shortly
begin production of uranium from phosphate ores which abound
in the Negev. Equipment has been assembled for the work and
scientists and engineers have prepared processes for suitable
extraction of the ores.
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Europe
VIENNA—Warsaw radio reported here that a number of
Poles were sentenced for spreading anti-Semitic propaganda .. .
DR. DOV JOSEPH, former A People's Party bill introduced in Parliament asks for revision
Minister of Development has of or vacating sentences imposed under Austrian laws punishing
been named to succeed Peretz war criminals.
Naphtali as treasurer of the
LONDON—Two German experts on compensation and in-
Jewish Agency. Naphtali re- demnification problems have been assigned to the German
signed the post, giving illness Embassy to process complaints, mostly of Jews, who have not
as his reason. The Mapai yet received satisfaction of claims against the West German
Party designates the treasurer Government. Joachim Lipschitz, West German Minister of In-
of the Agency.
terior, a half-Jew, told 1,000 former German nationals, mostly
Jews, that 50 Jewish famiies a month are returning to Berlin
PHILIP E. KATZ, 32, of Kew and are "very welcome." . . . The London Jewish Quarterly
Gardens, L. I., has been ap- confirmed the murder of 100 British Jews at the Auschwitz
pointed director of Bnai Brith's concentration camp by S. S. troops. These Nazi atrocity reports
Committee for Israel.
were received by the Polish Government-in-Exile but were never
published . . . The Anglo-Jewish Association has endorsed
Israel's insistence on holding military positions in the Gaza
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Strip and the Tiran Straits . . . Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
stated in the House of Commons that Britain favors a UN ad-
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ministration for the Gaza Strip.
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GOETTINGEN—The City Council dropped a Social Demo-
cratic motion to name two local streets after Prof. Albert Ein- -
stein and Thomas Mann after the neo-Nazi Councilman Adolf von
Thadden threatened to make a political issue of the move.
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Members of 15 Midwestern
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Wayne State University at the
annual bi-regional conference,
to be held here March 22 to 24,
at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel.
Highlighting the weekend of
business sessions and social
events will be a dinner-dance
March 23, in the hotel's Grand
Ballroom. The conclave, cele-
brating the Wayne chapter's
28th anniversary, will be at-
tended by actives and alumni.
Planning the program, which
is expected to attract over 150
fraternity brothers, are Nate
Greene and Gene Driker, co-
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