New York Rally Demands Soviet Union Grant USSR
J ewry 'Freedom to Live and Create Collectively'
NEW YORK (JTA) — A demand that the Soviet Union "grant
Soviet Jewry the freedom to live and create collectively!' was voiced
here Sunday in a resolution adopted at a protest rally marking the
10th anniversary of the beginning of the Jewish cultural purge in the
USSR. More than 1,500 people attended the rally, which was called
by the Congress for Jewish Culture.
"Three million Jews are silent," the resolution said, "every indi-
cation of a Jewish national life has been destroyed." The resolution
demanded of the USSR: that the Jews be given an opportunity to
maintain their own literature, schools, theaters in the Yiddish lan-
guage; that they be permitted to live in their own communP 1 id
cultural life, with the opportunity Of . contact with Jews evP -
Principal speakers at the rally iiltqluded H. Leivick, '-
the Congress for Jewish Culture; Jac-ob Pat, executiy-
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tural and spiritual life.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American Jewish Congress,
issued a statement demanding that the USSR grant its Jewish popula-
tion spiritual and cultural freedom. He made the demand in connection
with the 10th anniversary of the execution of Prof. Solomon Mikhoels,
founder of the Moscow Jewish State Theater and a giant of a figure
in Russian Jewish intellectual life. The attempt to wipe out Jewish
cultural life in the USSR dates from Prof. Mikhoels' death.
A group of prominent American writers, in a letter to the New
York Times, recalled the purge of Yiddish writers, the refusal of the
current Soviet regime to permit a renaissance of Jewish culture and
the existence of a quota system on Jews in education, professional and
civil service fields and appeals to the USSR to release to Israel and
Sher countries Soviet Jews. The signatories of the latter were: Saul
Leslie Fiedler, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Philip Rahv, Lionel
Trilling and Robert Penn Warren.
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Vatican Resumes Drive for
Internationalized Jerusalem;
Israel to Rehabilitate Arabs
Hungarian Charges Denied
by Israel in New Tension
Over 'Illegal Activities'
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Formal Hungarian charges that
members of the Israel Legation in Budapest had falsified pass-
ports and engaged in other illegal activities were categorically
rejected by a spokesman for the Israel Foreign Ministry.
The charges included allegations that the Legation mem-
bers also had distributed money to foreigners in Hungary
and to Hungarian nationals. They were contained in a protest
from the Hungarian Foreign Ministry to the Israel Legation
in Budapest.
The Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman carefully avoided
disclosing anything about the content of the Hungarian protest
beyond what had been publicized by the Hungarian announce-
ment. The Foreign Ministry spokesman said all the allegations
were "completely unfounded."
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ROME, (JTA)—The Vatican resumed its campaign for the international-
ization of Jerusalem and the Holy Places in Palestine.
Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's newpaper, on Monday prominently
displayed a statement by Dr. Gaspare Ambrosini, well known Italian jurist,
that the world was disregarding Christian interest in the Holy Places while it
concentrated its attention on the Arab-Israel conflict. He asserted that even
the United Nation's advocacy of the internationalization of Jerusalem had been
disregarded.
Judge Ambrosini called for a solution only of the question of the
Holy Places, expressing hope that such action might help reunify the Christian
churches.
Israel to Spend 10 ,000,000 Pounds to Rehabilitate Arabs
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—An Israel government interdepartmental commit-
tee recommended the expenditure of 10,000,000 pounds over the next three
to four years to achieve the economic rehabilitation of Arab refugees who
returned to this country. . .
Some 20,000 Arabs, most of them repatriated after the war of 1948, will
receive compensation for lost or abandoned lands in the form of cash or land.
Housing mortgages, grants and loans for agricultural development projects
and for vocational training will be another form in which aid will be provided.
Where feasible, the refuges will be aided in projects linked with the improve-
ment of villages into which they will be integrated.
The new program flows from a decision by the Israel government last
year to rehabilitate local Arabs impoverished as a result of the war as well as
repatriates readmitted in the reunion of families plan. Some 16,000 of the
assistance recipients were removed from the rolls of the United Nations Relief
and Works Agency.
Israel inaugurated a powerful new Arabic-language radio station
which can be heard in every country of the Middle East and Moslem North
Africa and promptly dedicated the new facility to the promotion of friendship
with the Arab people.
Staffed entirely by Arabs, some of whom are recent arrivals from Arab countries, the
station is independent of the Israel Government Kol Israel radio network. Although
the station will be critical at times of certain Arab regimes the announcer said, it will
always defend the interests of the Arab people.
. Future Planning:
To implement the
most intensive action program in the history of the
Synagogue Council of America in behalf of American
religious Jewry in inter-religious cooperation with the
national Protestant and Catholic church federations, in
international affairs and research, a 1958 budget of
$350,000 has been set. Reviewing the program's details
for the coming year are (above) : Rabbi THEODORE
L. ADAMS, SCA president; Hon. HERBERT H. LEH-
MAN, honorary co-chairman of the SCA national spon-
sors committee, and JOSEPH SCHLANG, national spon-
sors committee chairman. The national committee in-
cludes 1,000 distinguished leaders in 44 states.
Lurie Named to High Campaign Post;
Yeshiva Dinner in His Honor Jan. 26
John E. Lurie has been named advisory committee
chairman of the 1958 Allied Jewish Campaign, by Max M.
Fisher, campaign chairman. "We plan to take advantage of
his experience that brought such excellent results when he
led the 1955 and 1956 campaigns," Fisher said.
Lurie, who was .special events chairman of the 1957
campaign, serves on the board of governors of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and on the board of the Detroit Service
Group.
On Jan. 26, Lurie will be honored at a testimonial dinner
at the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel by Yeshiva University and
the Albert Einstein Medical School of New York. The John
E. Lurie Scholarship Fund will be established with the
proceeds of this $100-per-couple event.
(See Story on Pagt U, Editorial on Page
John E. Lurie