N. Y. Regents Change Examination Cabinet Differences on Identity Card Issue Fade
as a United Israel Faces New Mid-East Crisis
Date from Shavuot after Protest
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Synagogue Council of America
reports that, in response to a
request to the New York State
Board of Education, state offi-
cials have agreed to change the
scheduled date of next year's
regents examination to avoid
a conflict with Shavuot.
Rabbi Theodore L. Adams,
president of the Synagogue
Council, said John F. Brosnan,
Chancellor of the .University
of the State of New York, had
been advised that the schedul-
ing of the high school student
examinations for 1959 on June
13 would conflict with the sec-
and day of the Jewish holiday
"and would therefore constitute
a difficulty for members of the
Jewish community as well as
create a widespread negative
impression of lack of concern
for the religious need of the
substantial Jewish community
in New York."
Rabbi Adams said that a reply
had been received from Chan-
cellor Brosnan, declaring that
the June 13 date selection had
been a mistake and that he had
been assured by the education
department that "at an early
mailing, the schools will be
advised of the new date of the
examinations for June 1959."
Hitler was 'Mentally Deranged,'
Says Himmler's Former Doctor
DETMOLD (WJA) — "From
about 1943 on Hitler was so
badly mentally deranged that
he should have been locked up
in an asylum," Dr. Felix Ker-
sten, former private doctor of
SS Chief Heinrich Himmler,
told an audience of lawyers in
Detmold, the official West Ger-
man news agency reports.
Dr. Kersten claims he him-
self had seen a sick report on
Hitler which had proved be-
yond any doubt that after the
Fuehrer's last serious brain at-
tack in 1943 he had never again
really recovered.
The attack had come in direct
consequence of Hitler's syphili-
tic disease, contracted during
the first world war and never
completely cured.
When troubled by violent
headaches, as he had often been,
Hitler had banged his head
against the wall 50 or 60 times
at one go, Dr. Kersten told the
meeting. All words uttered by
him during these attacks had
been faithfully taken down ver-
bally and had later been propa-
gated by his Nazi helpmates as
"inspirations from providence."
Dr. Kersten, before the end
of the war, arranged a meeting
between Himmler and a repre-
Bavarian Assn. to Probe
Munich Jewish Community
MUNICH (JTA)—The Bava-
rian Jewish Association, cen-
tral body of Jewish communi-
ties in the province of Bavaria,
set up a board of arbitration
to investigate conditions within
the member Munich Jewish
Community.
The Association refused to
accept the decision of the
Munich community's executive,
seceding from the Association.
The parent body claimed that
the Munich executive was not
legally constituted.
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sentative of the World Jew-
ish Congress Swedish Section
which is believed to have con-
tributed to the implementation
of the Bernadotte rescue action
and assisted the humanitarian
efforts of the Swedish Foreign
Ministry.
He is said to have prevented
the deportation of a large num-
ber of Dutch people to Poland
and to have saved the lives of
63,000 Jews. His application for
Swedish citizenship, which was
supported by the Swedish Sec-
tion of the World Jewish Con-
gress, was granted in 1953.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
crisis in the Middle - East,
spurred on by the pro-Nasser
revolt in Iraq, brought a close
to the opposition facing Premier
David Ben-Gurion's cabinet on
the religious identity card issue.
Previous to the uprising in
Iraq, the Israel government
was already reaching agree-
ment with the religious bloc on
the identity problem, but when
news of the danger to peace
in the area reached Israel, all
possibility of a cabinet crisis
faded.
A meeting on Tuesday be-
tween Ben-Gurion and his
cabinet, originally scheduled
for formalization of the com-
promise solution to the iden-
tity card problem, was in-
stead devoted to consultation
on the Iraqi revolt.
One of the earlier. proposals
by Ben-Gurion to settle the
differences between the gov-
ernment and the resigned re-
ligious cabinet members was
the Rosen plan, authored by
Justice Minister Pinhas Rosen.
The Rosen Plan suggested
that the present question in
the identity card combining re-
ligion and nationality, should
be replaced by the following:
A. Religion and nationality—
those filling in the answer to
this question would be con-
sidered religious Jews.
B. Religion and nationality,
Ben-Gurion's Coalition Government
Accused of Insincerity by Religious
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — Leaders of
the national religious party,
whose motion of non-confidence
in Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's
coalition government over the
issue of Jewish self-identifica-
tion was beaten Tuesday,
charged Wednesday that "no
sincere effort was made to find
a solution to the problem
which had so stirred Jews in
Israel and abroad."
The non-confidence motion
offered by the religious parties
and supported by the Agudah
parties, the General Zionists
and the right wing Herut, was
defeated 60 to 41. The vote
marked the final estrangement
of the 11/lizrachi and Hapoel
Hamizrachi parties from the
coalition in which they had
served since the formation of
the Jewish State.
The religious party leaders
scoffed at Ben-Gurion's ap-
pointment of a three-man
ministerial committee consist-
ing of himself, Interior Minis-
ter Israel Bar Yehuda and Jus-
tice Minister Pinchas Rosen,
which was to study formula-
tion for directives for the
registration of children of
mixed marriages whose parents
wish to have them registered
as Jewish citizens of Israel.
Bar Yehuda issued the new
identity cards last month which
sparked the dispute over offi-
cial state identification of
Jews.
The religious leaders said
that they opposed the minis-
terial committee idea, first be-
cause the attitudes of two of
its members — Ben-Gurion and
Bar Yehuda — were already
known, and second because
the disputed registry provisions
remained in force.
Dr. Zorach Warhaftig, former
Deputy Minister of Religions,
told a press conference that
the religious parties would con-
tinue the task of mobilizing
opinion against the government
decision to retain the identity
card regulation by which any
person can declare himself a
Jew without proof acceptable
to rabbinical authorities in
Israel.
Opinion in the Knesset lob-
bies was that failure of the
government to reach a settle-
ment with the religious parties
was due primarily to Prime
Minister Ben-Gurion.
The Jerusalem Post, which
canvassed Knesset members in-
formally, reported that both the
left wing Mapam and Achdut
Avodah had shown in the past
few days a more conciliatory
attitude toward the religious
parties, and that this concilia-
tory attitude became more
evident after the revolt in
Iraq on Monday.
Israel's Exports Up
21/4 Million Over 1957
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel's
exports during the first six
months of this year totaled $70,-
950,000, as against $68,750,000
in the first half of 1957, accord-
ing to official statistics issued
here.
Imports in the first six months
of 1958, the figures showed,
reached $145,750,000 compared
with $136,950,000 during the
corresponding period of last
year. The January-June trade-
deficits for the two years
amounted to $74,800,000 this
year against $67,650,000 for 1957.
as well as sociologists and
other persons of academic
standing. It was expected that
this plan would be acceptable
to the religious leaders.
Before the plan could be
voted on, however, the cabinet
lined up behind Ben-Gurion to
cope with the international
crisis now facing them, follow-
ing the Iraqi coup.
Meanwhile, it has been
learned that that religious
party delegates to a forth-
coming meeting of the World
Jewish Congress in Geneva
will make known their de-
mands on the identity card
issue and will seek general
support for their position. The
question will also be placed on
the agenda of the next meet-
ing of the Zionist Actions
Committee.
listed separately — this would
enable non-religious elements
as well as Arabs and Christians
to be registered as such.
C. Assumed Jewish religion
—this would. serve to register
those who declare themselves
to have assumed the Jewish
faith.
After turning this plan down,
the Religious Party officials
reiterated their willingness to
discuss any new proposals to
solve the crisis, though they
again stressed their desire to
return to what they called the
status quo — the registration
method in effect when Mr.
Shapira was Minister of the
Interior.
There followed a plan to
postpone decision on the issue
for a year by referring it to
a study commission composed
of legal and rabbinical experts
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