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B-G Out. of Hospital;
itleets Gen. Gruenther
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JERUSALEM — Premier David Ben-Gurion left Hadassah
Hospital Tuesday, two weeks after he entered it suffering from
several minor wounds inflicted when a madman threw a hand
grenade into the Knesset.
Without any public announcement, the Premier limped
out of the hospital entrance and into a* waiting car which took
him to his home.
At home he received Gen. Alfred Gruenther, president of
the American Red Cross, who was in Israel for only one day
on his way home from the recent International Red Cross con-
ference in New Delhi, India.
(See Editorial, Page 9)
The Premier's departure leaves only one of the five
wounded ministers still in the hospital. He is Moshe Shapira,
Minister for Religious Affairs who was the most severely
injured.
However, Foreign Minister Golda Meir is returning this
week to Hadassah Hospital and will submit to another operation.
The leg wound Mrs. Meir suffered is not responding to treat-
ment. - .
(Meanwhile, Moshe Douek, the bomb hurler, was being
tried in a Jerusalem court on a charge of attempted murder.
See detailed story of trial and other Israeli news on Page 3.)
PITTSBURGH, (JTA)—The 17th biennial convention of the National Federation
of Temple Brotherhoods, the layman's arm of the Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, concluded here with a resolution calling for a campaign to remove from
the 1960 U.S. census a question on religious affiliation. Another resolution urged Re-
form Jewry's continued support for Israel. A thousand delegates representing 360
Brotherhoods, . attended the convention.
The delegates also adopted a resolution suggesting that efforts be made to seek
greater harmony between Reform Jewry and other Jewish religious groups on a com-
munity and national level. The convention decided to launch a drive to win to
Brotherhood ranks the 2,500,000 unaffiliated Jews in the United States and Canada.
Other resolutions urge:
1. Addition, within two years, of 100 new men's clubs to the existing 360:
2. Full participation in social action committees within the synagogue to "trans-
late the ethical principles of Judaism into active concern and action on American
social problems."
3. Organize extensive campaigns to in crease attendance at Sabbath services.
4. Initiate with the aid of its parent body, the Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, an adult education program, through films and television kinescopes.
5. Raising of capital funds to build a network of youth camps for the education
and spiritual nurturing of thousands of teen-agers in Reform Judaism.
6. Extend throughout the world the interfaith programs of its special educational
project, the Jewish Chautauqua Society, by sending lecturers, pamphlets, books,
motion pictures and special study courses to the far corners of the earth.
The next convention of the National F ederation of Temple Brotherhoods will be
held in Houston, Tex., in 1960.
Charles Goldstein, past president of Temple Israel,
its Men's Club and a vice-president of the Detroit Jew-
ish Community Council, was elected to membership on
the Brotherhood's executive committee.
Racial Disturbances Compromise
U.S. Abroad, Klutznick Warns
BOSTON, (JTA)—Bnai Brith president Philip M.
Klutznick, a U. S. delegate to the United Nations, said
that Americans must approach the issue of earth satel-
lites with "less panic, less scapegoating and more sober
reflection that American ingenuity and technical advan-
cement are not disintegrating" because the Soviet
Union's crash program succeeded.
•Klutznick told a dinner meeting of the Joint De-
fense Appeal, fund-raising arm of the American Jewish
Committee and Bnai Brith's Anti-Defamation League,
that his personal experiences in the UN General Assem-
bly clearly indicated American leadership. among the
free nations "rests as much with our moral behavior
as with our economic strength and technological prog-
ress."
Warning that racial disturbances were "damaging
compromises" to the nation's moral posture and "per-
haps as great an issue in international politics as they
are a dilemma in our domestic life," the Bnai Brith
leader added: "We lose a bigger propaganda battle
among the neutralist and noncommitted nations from
such incidents as Little Rock than the Russians gain
with their Sputniks."
Kasle Heads Detroit's Israel
Tenth Ann iversary Committee
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JDC Aids Handicapped Iii Israel:
The 1958 aid
program to be mapped out at the Joint Distribution Committee's 43rd annual meeting,
Dec. 12, at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, will include the agency's loan program for
handicapped immigrants in Israel. Shown here are a few of the 5,864 persons who have
been enabled to open small businesses with JDC loans. A 73-year-old (upper left)
competently runs a dry goods business; a concentration camp survivor (upper right)
arranges his stock despite the loss of all his fingers; one of many community markets
(center left) built partially with JDC funds which provide store space for handicapped
newcomers; a legless victim of the war (lower left) checks his grocery stock, and a
former physician (lower right) , blinded by Nazi doctors in a medical experiment, does
a thriving business in his confectionery store. Funds for Malben, JDC's health and wel-
fare program in Israel, are contributed through the United Jewish Appeal.
Abe - Kasle has accepted the chairmanship of the Detroit
Committee for Israel's Tenth Anniversary Celebration, as part
of the nation-wide observance next spring of the establishment
of the State of Israel.
In a letter to Judge Theodore Levin, president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit, Herbert H. Lehman, general
chairman of the American Committee for Israel's Tenth Anni-
versary Celebration, extended an invitation to the Detroit com-
munity to cooperate in the plans being developed with nation-
al and local communities in observance of the occasion.
By arrangement with the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, an informal discussion is taking place this
week-end in New Orleans, where the annual General Assembly
of the Council of Jewish Federations is being held, with Julius
C. C. Edelstein, executive assistant of the American Committee,
who will outline tentative proposals for the celebration.
Judge Levin described Abe Kasle as especially qualified to
lead Detroit in coordinating local forces in the celebration.
Kasle is president of the United Hebrew Schools, chairman of
the Israeli Bond Organization, chairman of the Balfour Ball of
the Zionist Organization of Detroit, former chairman of the
Allied Jewish Campaign and a member of the national cabinet
of the United Jewish Appeal.