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tempt" for the decision of the
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A re- lone are the crowning achieve- genera 11 y
nients of the late Rabbi Solo- struction in religious subjects
LONDON — The reorganiia-1 world conference held last year
po rt on the Yeshivah, school
is
not
allowed
below
the
age
for Orthodox rabbis, recently ; mon Schliffer. Both were ac- of 18.) When I talked to the tion of the World Confedera-1 in Jerusalem, which' was in-
opened in Moscow at the Great complished shortly before-- his students about their home tion of General Zionists under ' tended to unite General Zion-
the leadership of Mrs. Rose ' ists throughout the world.
Synagogue there, appears in death.
"The rabbi who had been town, I found that statistics Halprin and Dr. Israel Gold-
the current issue of Jewish
The statement said the sign-
were not precise.
stein was denounced. Tuesday
Life, published by the Union selected to lead the Yeshivah,
"I was somewhat handi- as "illegal," in statement is- ers condemned "these subver-
of Orthodox Congregations of Rabbi Leib Levin from Dnepro- •
capped because the eight young
sive efforts and reaffirm our
America. The report, by Gott- pretoysk, has now succeeded men from `Gruzie' (Georgia) sued here, signed by a group loyalty to the World Confed-
fried. Neuburger, who has visit- Rabbi Schliffer as . chief rabbi did not understand Yiddish. of European Zionist leaders.
The statement criticized_ the eration," adding a pledge to
ed the Soviet Union on several of Moscow but remains also as There was Zodek Dorrman
resolution
adopted Sunday by "cooperate with all the Zion-
head
of
the
school,
which
is
occasions on business, supplied
from Tashkent in Uzbekistan
the first account by an Ameri- now seven months old. He has (Central Asia) who told me the executive of the European ists of the world who are ready
can of the development of the a most impressive staff of in- that there were four syna- Confederation of General Zion- to fight with us against the
Yeshivah and the composition structors to assist him in this gogues there. Zodek is only 19 ists to adhere to the reorgan- split."
The signatories added that
and personality of its students. task. Rav Shimon Trebnik, a but he related proudly that he ized confederation, charging it
"Moscow's Great Synagogue," pupil of the Chofetz Chayim had been the chess champion was created solely to split the the European bureau of. the
he reported, "has a brand new during World War I when the of Tashkent. Also from Uzbeki- General Zionists and to ex- World Confederation in Paris
coat of paint. But something latter lived in Snovsk in White stan, from the very_ ancient elude the Israeli General Zion- was "authorized to take the
much more important has been Russia, is well known to Amer- Jewish community of Bokharia, ist Party from the world move-1 necessary organization meas-
added.. The former Sukkah in ican rabbinical leaders.
ment. ures without delay."
"A complete schedule is post- comes Yakov Chaimov, 20
The signers included Dr.
the courtyard 'now houses the
years old. Three students ar-
new Yeshivah Kol YaEov. ed in the Yeshivah listing the rived from the Ukrainian cities Hans Klee, of Zurich, Marc
Anisfeld, of Antwerp, five lead-
And a new little building, half exact hours and subjects for
of Charkov and Lutzk, and
brick and half wood, has been each student. The students are Riga (Latvia) is represented ing French Zionists, four mem-
erected where the kitchen and divided into three groups of by two students. Only four bers of the General Zionist
Organizing Committee in Brit-
dining room are located. For three, five ghd nine, respec-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Forty
ain 'and a number of Swiss
anyone who has visited Mos- tively. Others learn individual- students are Muscovites.
"Perhaps the most colorful and Danish Zionists, including thousand Christians, -affiliated
ly.
The
hours
of
instruction
are
cow before, it is a most won-
group are the `Gruzim.' Sev- J. Weisswoll, president of the with over 20 religious denom-
derful surprise to see the from 10-2 and from 3-7. At the
inations, reside in Israel. They
eral of them sport the mous- Zurich' Zionist Organization.
Bachurim (students) learn dur- moment the Yeshivah has a
of the
tache that is the landmark of
The statement also said that comprise two percent
ing all hours of the day; to total of 19 students, who come the true Georgian. Shalom and
the adoption of the resolution population.
hear them sing Zemiroth on from all parts of the Soviet
Yitzchak come . from Kutais
Friday evening or during Seu- - Union. The youngest of them where, they reported, are 8,000
are
19
years
old.
(A
Christian
dan Shelishith is an unforget-
table experience. The establish- monastery training school in Jewish families. Yitzchak is a
Boris Snrkolar's
language expert; the only Eng-
ment of the Yeshivah and the the Soviet Union is accepting
lish word that he knows is
printing of the `Siddur Hasho- pupils from the age of 12, but,
onion.' Aron's home is Poti
(300 Jewish families), and I
really was delighted at the
way he learned a 'Blatt Ge-
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moro'; 'there is Yitzchak from
Panza and Joseph from. Achal-
(Copyright, 3957,
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
tyche.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
"The students include bache-
Only One SUrviving First World Zionist Congress Delegate
lors and married men. All
Only one of the 204 delegates to the First World Zionist stages of learning are repre- Washington Echoes:
Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland, starting Aug. 29, 1897, is sented. Most of them are quite
Has the Eisenhower Doctrine succeeded in its major objective
still alive. He is Prof. Joseph Klausner, of the Hebrew University advanced and several undoubt- of checking Communism in the Middle East? . This question is
in Jerusalem, author of works on Jesus and Paul, -one of Jewry's edly are outstanding Talmidey being asked in Washington in view of Moscow's penetration of
most distinguished scholars.
Syria and the continued pro-Soviet stand of the Nasser Govern-
Dr. Klausner was one of the students Of Prof. Hermann Chachomim (scholars). On the ment in Egypt . . .. It is also being asked whether the United
other hand, one of the boys
Schapira, the founder of the Jewish National Fund, at Heidel- told me that circumstances had States will come to the aid of Israel, under the Eisenhower Doc-
berg University, who accompanied their great and inspiring not permitted him to learn trine, if Israel is attacked by Communist Syria with Soviet
teacher to the Congress.
previously and so he started weapons ... The major purpose of the Eisenhower Doctrine was
In an analysis of the great significance of the First World to . 1 e a r n Aleph-Beth three to assure nations in the Middle East that the U.S. was ready to
Zionist Congress, Prof. Klausner pointed out that while the months ago."
assist them to maintain their independence against the threat
Jewish people seemed to have everything even before the Con-
of Communist aggression . . . However, it is noted in Congres-
gress, "in fact there was nothing; there was no united and or-
sional circles in Washington that Israel received nothing from
ganized people and--there was no great watchword, which should
the $118,700,000 distributed by AmbasSador James Richards who
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stimulate a national-popular movement worthy of the name."
was sent by President Eisenhower to Middle Eastern countries -
Dr. Klausner explained that the Biluites had already come 1V
to stimulate interest in the Eisenhower Doctrine • . . More then
to Palestine before Theodor Herzl convened the Congress; that
$50,000,000 of this sum were given in military aid—tanks, elec-
the Zionist idea already was evolved in the writings of .Pinsker
tronic equipment, ammunition and military construction—and
and Lilienblum; that the idea of nationhood as well as religiosity
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Nei- this was allocated to the Arab - countries only, as was the
for Jewry had already been propagated by Smolenskiri; that the ther the Israel government nor economic aid . .. This revelation, made in President Eisenhower's
revival of the Hebrew language had already begtur with Eliezer the Jewish Agency will engage report to Congress before the latter's adjournment, has provoked
Ben Yehudah. -
in the organization of counter- a good deal of puzzlement . . . Ambassador Richards, in remarks
Dr. Herzl's watchword gave the great impetus that inspired boycotts to fight Arab eco- to inquisitive members of Congress, expressed the opinion that
the foundation for the Jewish. State, Dr. Klausner indicates. The nomic boycott of Israel and Israel was not badly disappointed at not getting any of this
logic . of his contention is clear.. At the First World Zionist Con- foreign firms dealing with the money" . In his view Israel was interested in housing and not
gress, Dr. Herzl said: "Today I have founded the Jewish State. Jewish State.
in the kind of project that "would back up or show up" the
Today many would laugh at these words, but in five more years
This information b e c a m e Eisenhower Doctrine . However, Israel squeezed between two
—or at most in fifty years—no one will laugh at them." And Dr. known on the eve of the first pro-Soviet countries—Syria and Egypt—has every right to expect
Klausner, 60 years after the First Congress, with the Jewish meeting of an 'Israeli commit- American military aid under the Eisenhower Doctrine, no less _
State already in existence for nearly a decade, asserts: "The tee charged with planning a than the Arab countries which received it ... An Israel applica-
words of the Seer have come true; the independent State of program to counteract the dam-, tion for military aid has been pending in Washington for more
Israel has arisen; and many of Israel's enemies may be gnashing aging Arab boycott. Repre- than two years, and some circles in Washington are anxious to
their teeth, but no one laughs at it."
sented on the Israeli commit- see whether action will be taken now on this application in the
It is prophetic that the only survivor of the First Congress tee are delegates from Israeli light of the danger facing Israel from Syria and Egypt.
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trade, industry and agricul-
ture, the Jewish Agency and UN Season:
Israel and Capital Punishment
An interesting story comes from Jerusalem. ;three fedayeen the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
The United Nations. General Assembly opens in quite a
It is understood that Jewish
caught infiltrating into Israel, were sentenced to death for the
different
mood than a year ago, as: far as the Arab-Israel issue
massacre of a group of children and their teacher in a border organizations in each country is concerned . .. You speak to top UN leaders and they point with
will
have
a
free
hand
in
tak-
settlement school. More than a year has passed since that tragic.
pride to the achievements of the year iai easing the tension
incident. But the Arab fedayeen are still alive. Israel can not ing whatever steps , they desire between Israel and the Arab countries . . They emphasize
in relation to the Arab boycott
find a perSon who will act as an executioner.
whereas a year ago there was a great deal of violence along
Which is another indication of Israel's adherence to the or companies which bow to it. that
the Arab-Israel frontiers, today there is none • .. Nor is there
The
Israeli
committee
will
tradition of avoiding capital punishment.
any smuggling of fedayeen into Israel to create terror within
In his masterful appeal against the death penalty, in _ his only provide factual material Israeli
territory . . . And what is even more important—Israeli
book "Reflections on Hanging, "published by Macmillan, Arthur about the Arab blockade to shipping is no longer interferred with at the Gulf of Akaba and
- Koestler incorporated this reference to the Jewish traditional any interested individuals or neither Egypt nor Saudi Arabia have reimposed their blockade
-organizations.
attitude on the subject:
on ships going to and from the Israeli, port of Biagi.. • . All this,
The committee , will stress
"'Blood for blood,. life for life' was the law of Israel dur-
top UN leaders tell you, is clue to the fact that a United Nations
of
an
guise
that
under
the
ing the Bronze Age, appropriate to the conditions of the time,
Emergency Force was stationed like a wall between Egypt and
"anti-Israel"
boycott
the
Arabs
and is still the law of the primitive nomads of the desert. It
are organizing anti-Jewish ac- Israel following the Sinai operation . • . They also take credit
was repudiated in the Sermon on the Mount, and it was repu-
tion which has reached such for the fact that quiet prevails not only along the Israel-Egyptian
diated by Israel itself, which abolished capital punishment
front, but also along Israeli's armistice lines with Jordan,
when it regained sovereign statehood. Orthodox talion justice proportions that the Arab Lebanon and even Syria • . In their opinion, the -mere presence
survives in our time only in the vendetta codes of. Sicilian states are even prohibiting the of UN forces on the'Israel-Egyptian border has had a beneficial
importation of phonograph rec-
bandits and organized gangsters.
effect on the other Arab-Israel borders . . . The Israelis agree
ords featuring - Jewish musi-
"In ancient Mosaic law, the death-penalty was statutory
with them that the atmosphere is more peaceful at present than
not only for murder, but for sabbath-breaking, slave-trading, cians.
Reports received here lately at any time in the nine years of Israel's existence ... However,
blasphemy, the cursing of parents, adultery, and a number of
state that the British Embassy there is fear that Egypt can at any time order the UN forces out
other offenses. But already the Babylonian Talmud reveals a
its territory under . the existing arrangement with the _United
ttimpletely changed attitude. 'A Sanhedrin that effects an exe- is quite perturbed by the pos- of
Nations- ... There is, of course, the fear of a possible explosion
.
sibility
of
a
boycott
of
Shell
cution once in seven years is branded a destructive tribunal;
products by American Jews on the Syrian-Israel front now that Syria is receiving arms and
Rabbi Eliezer ben Azariah says: Once in seventy years. Rabbi
military technicians from Soviet Russia . . . Highly qualified
Tarfon and Rabbi Akiba say: Were we members of a Sanhed- irate over Shell's ;decision to military experts are of the opinion that Israel's naval power
withdraw -from its Israeli oper-
rin, no person would ever be put to deatk.' ,,
has deteriorated with the qualitative and quantitative growth
. In view of established traditions, it is doubtful whether ations.
of Egyptian-Syrian naval power which has been strengthened
It
was
the
Shell
action,
cap-
Israel will ever introduce the death penalty for crimes. Yet,
by Soviet submarines Israel has good ground to be concerned
ping
a
long
series
-of
similar
we still continue to hear and read rebukes to Jews with refer-
its air power because of the heavy flow of the most modern
ence to the crucifixion of Jesus. Established facts are that the withdrawals by other firms, over
Soviet jets and bombers to Syria and Egypt . At the same time,
crucifixion was a Roman practice,- that it was contrary to Jewish which caused Israel to plan they consider Israel superior to the Arab countries in armored
law. Perhaps the humanitarianism of the State of Israel eventu- counter-measures to the Arab
strength and In the quality of soldiers and commanders-
boycott.
ally will help put an end to that libel.

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