Friday, December 27, 1957—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-8

Photographer of 'This Is Russia' 'This Is Russia'
Now at the Telenews
Gloomy Over USSR Jewry's Future

Sid Feder, widely acclaimed that day. Because of this, he was
photographer whose latest film, able to get most of his footage
"This Is Russia," is creating a back to the U.S.
It took him five trips behind
sensation, is not too hopeful
about the future of Russian the Iron Curtain over a period
of seven months to get his com-
Jewry.
Here for the opening of his plete picture. He traveled some
film at the Telenews Theater, 20,000 miles by camel-back,
Woodward at Grand Circus jeep, plane, train, ship, truck
Park, Feder, describing his ex- and droshky, getting into
periences in Russia, said that places no other Westerner has
young Jews there appear to be even seen, such as cities down
denying or hiding their origin. the border of Red China, the
Only the elder Jews at times great industrial cities of Si-
beria, into the heart of Russia's
assert their background.
Feder said he felt there was "Hush-Hush" land, where ev-
fear among Jews to declare their erything has been kept a closely-
Jewishness. He said he had met guarded secret for years.
In his world travels before
a Jewish couple on a train, and
the man told him he was Jew- this adventure, Feder had made
ish; whereupon his wife told eight trips to the Far East and
a similar number to Africa, the
him to be silent.
"The 'Street of the Jews' is no South Seas and Latin America.
more in Bukhara," Feder said. He has crossed the Atlantic 34
"There are Jews in Tashkent, times. On all of his travels he
but there is no evidence of Jew- has always taken pictures for
ish activity and the synagogue his own amusement and to show
is shut tight. A Jewish doctor to members of New York's
in Kiev told me there are less famed Exprorers' Club, of which
than 30,000 Jews remaining he is a member.
there now. There are syna-
Feder was born in New York
gogues in Moscow but the activi- of an old theatrical family. He
ties there are exaggerated."
started out as a youngster in
"What I fear most," he said, vaudeville, doing a minstrel
"is that if anything should go show with his two. brothers,
wrong in Russia, it will be Robert Arthur, now a U-I pro-
blamed on the Jews. The Jew ducer, and Jack Raymond, who
remains the eternal scapegoat died several years ago.
in that country."
Feder is currently complet-
Feder explained that no one ing a book on his adventures
can be a member of the Com- behind the Iron Curtain, "Walk-
munist party if he is affiliated ing on a Red Carpet."
with a church or a synagogue,
and he concluded, therefore, New York Mayor
that it would be suicidal for
anyone in Russia to declare him- May Revisit Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) — Mayor
self openly as being a deeply
interested religious Jew, just as Robert Wagner of New York
it would be dangerous to em- announced that he may revisit
phasize any other religious Israel. He spoke at the Macca-
bean festival dinner of the Jew-
affiliation.
Feder's remarkable film, ish National Fund. He told the
"This Is Russia," released by 750 persons at the celebration
Universal International, will that on an earlier visit to Israel
remain at the Telenews he was "greatly impressed" by
the many settlements "created
through the coming week;
Feder was not trusted while in the Negev Desert" by the
in Russia. He was "tailed" day JNF.
Rabbi Shlomo Goren, chief
and night and was arrested
seven times and jailed twice, chaplain of Israel, told the din-
once being held in a cold cell ner guests that Israel's army "is
for 17 hours. His exposed film in now prepared to repel any at-
these cases was confiscated, but tack from Israel's Arab neigh-
the Russian police never seemed bors. We want peace but bitter
to realize this one roll of ex- experience has taught us that to
posed film in his camera was exist, we must be prepared for.
but one of a dozen he had used war."

Detroiter David Idzal in Lounge
of Newest Theater in Tel Aviv

Town's Mayor for 28 Years,
Oved Ben-Ami Is Ousted
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Moshe
Shaked was elected Mayor of
Nathanya replacina Oved Ben-
Ami, a founder of 6 the city and
for 28 years its mayor.
The replacement of Ben-Ami
came after a lengthy political
battle which reached its climax
when Interior Minister Yitzhak
Bar Yehuda ruled that a town
council meeting which ousted
Ben-Ami was legal.
On Dec. 10, the town council
of Nathanya met in special ses-
sion to oust Ben-Ami. He closed
the meeting, but the councillors
remained and passed legislation
ousting him and electing
Shaked, long acting mayor in
Ben-Ami's absences.

Shaarey Zedek Sends
Torah for Use in Israel

"Ladies Day" in a Soviet
brickyard is every day as ob-
served and photographed by
Sid Feder, Hollywood prod-
ucer-photographer who trav-
eled across Red Russia to film
Universal-International's fea-
ture length color production,
"This Is Russia." This remark-
able picture of life behind
the Iron Curtain from the
Baltic to the mysterious re-
gions on the borders of China
is now showing at the Tele-
news Theater, Woodward and
Grand Circus Park. It will re-
main at Telenews through
Jan. 1.

A torah owned and used
by Cong. Shaarey Zedek here
has been sent by the congrega-
tion for use in Israel, it was
disclosed this week.
The congregation acted in
coordination with a national
movement to assist the Jewish
State in educational and re-
ligious facilities.
U.S. synagogues presently
are showing fellowship and en-
couragement to Israel by such
actions.

Montreal Bond Sales
Reach $1,650,000

MONTREAL, (JTA)—A total
of $1,650,000 worth of Israel
bonds was sold in this city dur-
ing 1957, it was announced at a
bond dinner where $400,000
worth of bonds was purchased.
Abba Eban, Israel Ambassa-
dor to Washington, addressing
the dinner, characterized as
"outrageous" proposals by "third
party" nations that Israel cede
territory to the Arab states as
the price of a peace settlement.
Warning that only Israel can
dispose of its territory, Eban
advised the nations of the world
to "leave our small territory
alone."

Plant 300 Eucalyptus Trees
for Israel's Industrial Use
HAIFA BAY — 300 dunams
of sand dunes near Kurdaneh in
the Haifa Bay will be planted
with eucalyptus trees by the
Jewish National Fund to supply
timber for industrial purposes.

David Idzal, form-.
er manager of the
Detroit. Fox Theater,
is shown here in
the lounge of the
new theater in Tel
Aviv, construction
of which he super-
vised in the last six
months. Known as
Kolnoa Tel Aviv,
this theater has all
the modern Ameri-
can facilities. It is
the newest building
in Israel's. major
city.
Idzal is staying on in
Tel Aviv and hopes
to manage the con-
struction of more
m o de r n American-
style theaters in Is-
rael.

Iranian Leaders Pledge
Full Support to ORT

GENEVA, (JTA)—The con-
tinued support of the Iranian
government to the work of the
ORT in Iran was pledged by
two members of the cabinet
following a tour of ORT schools
in Teheran.
Hussein Allah, Minister of
the Imperial Court, and Dr.
Mahmoud, Minister of National
Education, toured the ORT in-
stallations and spoke highly
of the organization's work.
More than 1,000 boys and
girls are enrolled in the 11
schools, nine workshops and
several primary manual train-
ing centers run by ORT in the
three main cities of Iran.

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