Friday, March 21, 19 58—THE DETROI T JEW ISH NEWS-1 4
Hoover Accuses 1 Knesset Rejects Ziprin's Warning Columbus a Jew,
Historian Writes
Motion to Debate on Conformity
Communists of
PARIS, (AJP) — The great-
Mixed Swirninirtg in Israel Issue
Abetting Nazis
est living Spanish historian,
Anti-Israeli Criticizes
Stand by NY Times
NEW YORK, (AJP) — In a
letter to the New York Times,
Dr. Virginia C. Gildersleeve
bitterly complains against that
newspaper's editorial policy
vis-a-vis Nasser, chiding it for
its support of Israel.
"Sometimes I feel that you
may advocate encouraging
Israel to conquer Egypt and
rule it," wrote the colleague of
Dorothy Thompson. "But would
Russia ever stand aside and let
Israel dominate the whole
Middle East?"
Apologing for Egypt, Dr.
Gildersleeve f u r t her com-
plained: "Though we have
treated both Egypt and Nasser
badly, what wrong has Nasser
done to the U.S.? Not Egypt,
but Britain, France and Israel
were adjudged aggressors by
the UN in the Suez incident.
Nathan Ziprin, editor of Seven Ignacio Olague, dismissing the
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
In the chapter "The Com-
munist Attack on Judaism," in Parliament of Israel again Arts Feature Syndicate, devotes view that Christopher Colum-
turned down a motion to hold his column this week to the bus was an Italian from Genoa,
"Masters of
a debate on the construction Agudath Israel proclamation of has brought forth hitherto un-
Deceit — The
of a swimming pool at which "deep concern" over the con- published documents proving
Story of Corn-i::
mixed
bathing will be permitted struction of a swimming pool in that Columbus, although out-
munism in•
in
an
area
of Jerusalem chiefly Jerusalem for bathing for both wardly a Christian, was a Jew
America a n d .
at heart.
men and women and warns:
inhabited by Orthodox Jews.
How to Fight
Historian Olague goes much
In recent weeks there have
"Guard your own vineyards,
It," J. Edgar
been numrous dmonstrations by gentlemen. Evangelism is not further in proving Columbus'
Hoover, the:
the ultra Orthodox residents of the way, whether the target Jewishness than Salvador de
director of
Jerusalem and frequent clashes intended is Jew or not. The Madariaga who, in a previous
the Federal'
between police and the demon- sanctity that is Jerusalem book, claimed that the explorer
Bureau of In-
was a conscious Marrano prac-
strators. A number of citizens must not be profaned by the
v esti gati o n,
Hoover
and policemen have been in- quarreling of the brothers." ticing his Judaism in secret.
exposes every
Olague stresses a detail un-
Ziprin states in his column:
aspect of Soviet anti-Semitism. jured and some of the demon-
derlining the "conscious Jew-
strators
were
hauled
off
to
jail.
Hoover attacks the claims
"This is the Twentieth Cen-
"He
Replying to a motion for the tury, when neither religion nor ishness" of Columbus:
that have been made that Jews
Olagu e,
remarks
have an affinity for Com- debate, introduced by Agudist definitive religious practices never,"
"started a voyage on the Sab-
munism. In his hard-punching deputy Kalman Kahane, Minis- can be foisted upon people bath Day." Also, he quotes a
approach to the facts, in the ter of the Interior Israel Bar either by rod or excommunica- letter which Columbus wrote to
book that has just been pub- Yehuda asserted that while ob- tion. Religious freedom does not the Spanish king in 1502, ten
lished by Henry Holt and Co. servant Jews were given every imply the liberty of pre-empting years after his first voyage.
383 Madison, N.Y. 17), Hoover opportunity to live according to the rights of the freethinker or
In it Columbus wrote: "In
shows how "some of the most their views, the government religious dissenter. The rights all my plans I have never used
effective opposition to corn- could not countenance their of the disbeliever are no less my reasons, nor have I used
For Passover
rpunism in the United States forcing their views on others. sacred than those of the be- mathematics or geographical
Famous for
The
builders
of
the
pool,
he
has come from Jewish organi-
liever. Nor can there be any charts. I only fulfilled the word
said, were completely within trespassing on the rights of men of our prophet Isaiah."
zations ... "
QUALITY and
The hypocrisy of communist their rights, and he condemned to interpret faith and practice
KASHRUTH
claims is exposed in this inter- the Agudah for identifying it- it in their own light.
esting analysis of the "masters self with the Neturi Karta's
"This columnist over the tention, and rightfully so, that
Variety
of Flavors
of deceit." Describing com- anti-government "smear" cam- years has taken a strongly sym- in matters of religion no ma-
jority
has
the
right
to
foist
prac-
munist attacks on Judaism, paign.
pathetic view of orthodoxy and
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there is no intention now to de- tices or observances on the mi-
the FBI director states: "Juda- Mixed Pool 'Profanation'
viate from that path. But the nority. The argument of the
Manischewitz
NEW YORK.—A protest was issue here is not orthodoxy but demonstrators was that Sunday
ism cannot exist unless Hebrew
Matzo and
laws
violate
the
constitutional
to
Israel
Consul
Gener-
taught
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rabbis
can
handed
is
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conformity.
safeguards
against
the
mingling
study the Torah and Talmud in al Simcha Pratt by a delegation
•
"What the religious extrem-
the original language in which representing Agudath Israel of ists seem to want is a theocratic of church and state apart from
Carmel Kosher
America, against the building state in Israel, without thinking depriving Sabbath observers of
they were written."
Products
Communist attacks on Zion- of a mixed swimming pool in of its grave implications for the economic rights enjoyed by
a
ism and Israel also are ex- Jerusalem and an alleged cam- Jewries in other - countries. If other citizens. Now, if the sepa-
posed in the Hoover story. He paign of defaming Israel's Sfar- theocracy is good enough for ration - of - church - from - state-
And
Other
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thesis is to have any meaning
charges: "The silence of the dic Chief Rabbi Isaac Nissim.
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They deplored the impression Italy and other countries? The
Soviet leaders on the outbreaks
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"There can be no two stand-
ropean - Jews as to the real group of Neturei Karta, and as- ment has no place in Twentieth-
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