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E JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

of Jewish Events

Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOLUME XXXIV—No. 13

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`Panic' Plans, Libel Legislation
Called Threats to Civil Liberties

Rabbi ToliedaIno Gets Israel
Religions Ministry Cabinet
Post Despite Party Pressure

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

JERUSALEM — Rabbi Jacob Moshe Toledano, Israel's new
Minister for Religious Affairs, asserted Tuesday that the
national religious party had organized pressure against him
to prevent his assuming his new duties, but he added he
intended to resist all such pressures.
The new Minister, formerly Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and
second Sephardic Jew to hold a cabinet position, declared he
had received cables from American Orthodox Rabbis containing
similar efforts at pressure. Several newspapers charged that
a pressure campaign was being organized in the United States
by Moshe Shapiro, Rabbi Toledano's predecessor as Minister
for Religious Affairs. Shapiro, who is now on a visit to the
United States, resigned his Cabinet post last summer in a
dispute over- the self-identification of Jews for registry purposes.
Rabbi Toledano said he was drafting a new definition of
Jewishness for registration purposes, which he said would
satisfy the Orthodox groups and would also be acceptable to
a majority in the Cabinet.
Political observers called the appointment a masterful move
because the presence of such a venerated rabbinical authority
in the Cabinet is an effective counter to the anti-government
propaganda of the religious parties.
The only other Sephardi in the cabinet is Minister of Police
Behor Shitreet.

PHILADELPHIA, (JTA) — "Panic proposals" to combat vandalism and hate
literature were attacked by the American Jewish Congress as ineffective and a
threat to civil liberties. Concluding a two-day meeting here, the national adminis-
trative committee of the AJC warned in a resolution against attempts to curb
bigotry and bombings by group libel legislation, postal censorship or Con-
gressional investigations.
Such proposals, the resolution said, were dangerous because: 1. They treat
the symptoms rather than the causes of recent violence and defamation; 2. They
engender fear and hysteria; and 3. They threaten basic American freedoms.
The resolution said that recent anti-Semitic outbreaks must be considered
as part of the general breakdown of respect for law in the South following the
1954 Supreme Court decision on school segregation. Responsibility for this law-
lessness, the resolution stated, rests with Governors, Senators and other public
officials who have expressed defiance of the Constitution.
The resolution emphasized that anti-Jewish defamation, vandalism and
terror constitute a serious problem that should not be underestimated, but it
scored exaggerations of the extent of the problem as tending to incite panic or
hysteria. Hate mongering and anti-Jewish vandalism operate in cycles, the AJC
statement declared. While the volume is high today, there is no reason to believe
it will not again fall to lower levels. It urged that anti-Semitic attacks be
placed in their proper perspective.
One of the most regrettable consequences of the fear rising out of
exaggerated accounts of race hate publications and anti-Semitic violence, the
AJC resolution stated, is that in the effort to suppress lawlessness, lawless
measures should be urged.
"We oppose the enactment of legislation that would make it a penal
offense to defame racial or religious groups," the resolution said. "The same
group libel statute that might be used to jail or silence hate mongers today can
be used tomorrow. to silence unpopular minorities
whose views merit great public consideration. Freedom
to express unpopular opinions is essential to our
democratic tradition."

The American Jewish Congress statement proposed: (1) A
Federal law to make the transportation of explosives across
state lines with the intent to use them against communal
buildings, business places or dwellings a Federal offense; (2)
Vigorous enforcement by the Department of Justice of present
laws making it a Federal offense to conspire to deprive persons
of federally secured rights; (3) A probe by the Department of
Justice and the Federal Commission on Civil Right of the
denial of voting rights in the South; and (4) Acceptance of
"full responsibility" by the Executive and Legislative Branches
to implement the mandate of equality of education laid down
by the Supreme Court.

Hope of 200,000 Distressed:

Jewish youngsters in Po-
land and North Africa are among the 200,000 distressed Jews in 25 countries whose
needs and aspirations will receive the attention of delegates to the 44th annual

meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee, Dec. 11, in New York. Delegates will

adopt a budget covering child care, feeding and clothing programs, care of the aged
and handicapped, health and medical services, education and cultural programs and
programs and other assistance for the coming year. Pictured top left is an infant re-
re-
ceiving a bath in a JDC child-care station in Tunisia; top right, a JDC lunch for two
destitute Jewish youngsters in Poland; bottom left, a group of Polish Jews recently
repatriated from Russia who are learning a trade to start life anew; and bottom right
a Jewish schoolboy in Morocco who must study Arabic as well as Hebrew and other
subjects. JDC resumed its activities in Poland at the end of 1957, after an eight-
year lapse. Funds for JDC's activities are provided by the United Jewish Appeal,
major beneficiary of the Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign.

Classics for Chaplains:
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Hundreds
of copies of Jewish classics are being shipped to Jewish
chaplains overseas for Jewish libraries by the Women's
Organizations' Division of National Jewish Welfare
Board. In connection with this nationwide project, Chap-
lain Joseph Messing, of the Army Chaplains School, Ft.
Slocum, N.Y., examines first shipment at JWB head-
quarters. Handing a book to the chaplain is Mrs. A. J.
Levy, chairman of the JWB Bronx, N.Y., "Serve-A" Com-
mittee. Looking
Lookincs on is Pvt. David Davis of Ft. Slocum.

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