Friday, May 16, 1958—THE DETROIT JEW ISH NEWS-24
Agudah Boycotts Opening
of Israel Judaism Center
JERUSALEM (JTA) — In a
ceremony recalling the Temple
offerings of the 12 tribes of
ancient Israel, greetings were
brought by 12 Chief Rabbis from
cities across the world to
Heichal Shlomo, the new seat
of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel,
which was dedicated here this
week.
The dedication was boycotted
by the Agudas Israel and Poale
Agudas Israel, two Orthodox
parties, because they were not
consulted in the management or
activities of the new building.
(Rabbi Isaac Stollman, of De-
troit, president of the Mizrachi-
Hapoel Hamizrachi Organization
of America, attended the cere-
monies.)
The visiting Chief Rabbis,
representing Jewish communi-
Knesset Bomber
Found Guilty;
Awaits Sentence
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Moshe
Douek was found guilty by a
three-man tribunal in district
court of having caused grievous
bodily harm in the bomb
attack in Knesset last Oct. 29
in which Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion and four other
Cabinet Ministers were injured.
Sentence on the 26-year-old
immigrant from Iraq was post-
poned pending a probation
report.
The judges rejected the con-
tention of the defendant, made
in a defense he conducted him-
self, that the crime was un-
premeditated and that the
actual tossing of the hand
grenade was an impulsive act.
The judges also rejected the
defense implication that the
defendant was mentally un-
balanced.
Douek, in a lengthy final
plea, asked for a suspended
sentence, citing his army serv-
ice and educational work in
immigrant settlements.
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ties on all continents, expressed
the hope that the spiritual
bounty emanating from the new
supreme religious center of Ju-
daism would radiate out over
the entire Jewish world.
The impressive dedication
ceremony, heralded by the blow-
ing of the shofar, started with
the mass singing of Hatikvah
by 300 distinguished guests.
Then Israel President Ben-Zvi
and Isaac Wolfson, British Jew-
ish philanthropist, who contrib-
uted 2,000,000 of the 3,000,000
pounds cost of the construction
of the center, walked into the
hall.
The guests included diplo-
mats from Western and Eastern
countries representatives of the
Moslem and Christian churches
in Israel. Cabinet members and
other Israeli notables. A mes-
sage was received from Pre-
mier David Ben-Gurion, who
was prevented by illness from
appearing at the ceremony.
Noting that the building also
will serve as a Supreme Re-
ligious Center, the Agudas Is-
rael charged that with the Miz-
rachi party "in sole control,"
the center could publish edicts
for Jews throughout the world.
Moshe Shapiro, Israel Minis-
ter of Religions, told the press
that the action of the two Agu-
dah parties was not a surprise,
since they have been boycotting
the Israel Chief Rabbinate
since its inception. He said that
if the two parties would join
in the Chief Rabbinate, they
would be represented in the
Center's activities.
The ceremony also was with-
out the participation of Rabbi
Judah L. Maimon, who rejected
an invitation to attend because,
he said, he was asked at the
last minute not to make any
reference in• his speech to his
long-advocated proposal for the
reestablishment of • a Sanhed-
rin.
Rabbi Maimon has advocated
the new seat of the Chief Rab-
binate as the site for a reestab-
lished supreme Jewish religious
legislature-court, which is op-
posed by the two Agudah
parties.
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Rabbis Disagree Mapam Instigators of Communist
on Space Probe May Day Parade Are Out of Mapai
NEW YORK (JTA)—A fa-
mous Jewish theologian said
this week that the Biblical
promise in Genesis that man was
to have "dominion . . . over ev-
ery living thing that moveth on
the earth" implied a Divine ban
on outer space control.
Dr. Abraham J. Heschel, pro-
fessor of Jewish mysticism at
the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary, said man had been given
"the right to master the forces
of other planets."
He said he was doubtful that
space navigation would reflect
"an expansion of that right be-
stowed by God on this genera-
tion. To judge from the way
men have used their power over
the earth, one doubts whether
this generation has even proved
worthy of possessing the right
to exploit the earth."
Rabbi Robert Gordis, a for-
mer president of the Synagogue
Council of America, suggested
that space exploration might
kindle greater faith in God. He
said that "if the ancients. saw
God's glory pervading the
earth, how much greater should
be man's reverence when he
sees God's manifestations on
horizons wider than ever
dreamed in the past."
The two rabbinical scholars
expressed their views in a sum-
mary of Christian and Jewish
theological approaches to ,the
issue of space and religion pub-
lished by the Associated Press.
ing of a leaflet circulated by
Mapam among Nazareth .Arab
residents prior to the May Day
parade.
The pamphlet said: "Arab
workers, and fellaheen for 364
days of the year! Mapai expels
you from your work, but on May
Day it allows its paid men to
demand reopening of Hista-
drut's doors to you."
Reuven Barkatt, head of His-
tadrut's international- and Arab
departments, who read the leaf-
let, called Mapam's May Day
behavior "a breach of Histadrut
discipline."
The decision against Mapam
was approved by a majority
vote of 13 members of the Ex-
Mosleyites Defied
ecutive Bureau. Mapam, the
Achdut Avodah and the Pro-
at London Rally
gressive members of the Bureau
by Lord Hailsham
opposed the motion.
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
A debate on the proposal by
to The Jewish News
Barkatt to expel four Commu-
LONDON. — A group of fol- nist members from Histadrut's
lowers of Sir Oswald Mosley, 96-member executive committee
led by his 19-year-old son, was was postponed for a week.
ejected Monday night by police
from a North London meeting, Orthodox Students Allowed
after continuous heckling of
Conservative Party chief Lord Minyan in Brooklyn College
NEW YORK (JTA)—A dis-
Hailsham, who fired back the
stream of counter-heckling at pute over the practice of a
group of Orthodox Jewish stu-
the intruders.
As the hecklers chanted "Mos- dents holding nightly prayer
ley, Mosley, Mosley," Lord Hail- services in an unused class-
sham, pacing up and down the room at Brooklyn College was
platform, shouted "Up with free resolved with official college
speech, doWn with hooligans, up permission to use a classroom
for that purpose.
with democracy."
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
TEL AVIV.—A separate May
Day parade under auspices of
the Mapam in Nazareth, which
was the scene of a violent clash
between Communist Arab riot-
ers and Israel police, led to the
expulsion Monday night of Ma-
pain representatives from the
Arab department of Histadrut,
the Israel Labor Federation.
The expulsion decision, mark-
ing one of most serious rifts
in Mapam-Mapai cooperation in
Histadrut, was made by the His-
tadrut Executive Bureau after
th meeting listened to the read-
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Military Academies
to Graduate 25 Jews
Twenty-five Jewish graduates
of the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point, the U.S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis, the U.S.
Merchant Marine Academy at
Kings Point. and the U.S. Coast
Guard Academy at New Lon-
don, Conn., will be commis-
sioned at the 1958 commence-
ment exercises at those institu-
tion, according to the Commis-
sion on Jewish Chaplaincy of
the National Jewish Welfare
Board.
The eight newly-commissioned
Jewish second lieutenants at
the U.S. Military Academy, the
14 newly-commissioned ensigns
at the U.S. Naval Academy, the
two newly-commissioned en-
signs at the Coast Guard Acad-
emy, and the one newly-com-
missioned ensign at the U.S.
Merchant Marine Academy will
each receive personally in-
scribed copies of the Bible from
the JWB Commission at spe-
cial baccalaureate services ar-
ranged by the Jewish chaplains
at the academies.
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Dedicate Israeli Center
in Memory of Dickstein
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A distin-
guished. group of Canadians and
Israelis, including Canadian
Ambassador E. D. McGreer, at-
tended ceremonies in Eilat dedi-
cating the Moshe Dickstein
Medical Center, named after the
late president of the Labor Zi-
onist movement in Canada and
the first institution to be con-
structed in Israel with funds
raised exclusively by the Cana-
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