r. NEWS Increasing Campaign Responsibilities Tribute to an Eminent Rabbi and Leader Editorials Page 4 A We ekly of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME XXXIV—No. 18 loora nted iionn s nOp a 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364--Detroit 35, January 2, 1959 David A. Brown, One of Jewry's Most Colorful Personalities Commentary Page 2 $5 Per Year; Single Copy 15c Soviet Presses Attacks on Israel; Hushes Up Nasser's Condemnation of Communism Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News Educators Assail 'Sporadic, Unscientific' Approach to Methods of Teaching Hebrew A group of 60 leading American Jewish educators, represent- ing a cross section of Jewish religious and cultural organizations in the United States, called for the promotion of a central re- source for the theory and practice of the teaching of Hebrew on all levels. The educators, who participated in the Institute of Hanhalat Halashon which convened in Rockaway Park, New York, charged the initiators of the Institute — the Department of Edu- cation and .Culture of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Amer- ican Association for Jewish Education — with the task of preparing the groundwork for such a coordinating project. The full text of the Institute's proceedings will be published later. The speakers at the three-day Institute, who represented more than 30 organizations and institutions of higher learning, were unanimous in their criticism of "sporadic and unscientific" methods of teaching Hebrew which fail to take into account the latest findings in the field of linguistics. They urged extensive use of new audio-visual teaching aids such as phonograph records and tape recorders which could extend a Hebraic atmosphere beyond the classroom into the Jewish home. They deplored the fact that American teachers of Hebrew often lack fluency in the language they teach, and asked that Israeli educators working in the United States pass through a preliminary training period which would enable thein to relate more significantly to the American child and American language habits. Emphasizing the lack of a suitable body to coordinate the plethora of educational institutions and organizations and to chan- nel the contributions of individuals to the field of Hebrew lan- guage teaching, the educators outlined the scope of the proposed central resource as follows: Collect and evaluate textbooks, syllabi, articles and' other materials on teaching Hebrew produced in this country, in Israel and elsewhere. Collect and prepare abstracts of articles and books on teach- ing foreign languages in the United States. Evaluate Israeli Hebrew materials with a view to adapting them for use in this country. Serve as a clearing house in the field of Hebrew language instruction. Disseminate information about new materials, successful ex- - periments and other developments in the field. Plan, suggest, and evaluate experimental projects to be car- ried out by various Bureaus of Jewish Education and Teachers Colleges. Encourage qualified individuals to undertake specific tasks of research and experimentation. Offer assistance and guidance to centers of foreign language teaching and linguistics and to graduate departments of educa- tion and foreign languages at universities and Jewish institutions of learning in carrying on research in the field of Hebrew linguistics (for Masters' and Ph.D. theses). Arrange workshops for teachers of Hebrew throughout the country in cooperation with existing educational and professional organizations and agencies, on a national, regional and local level. LONDON.—The Soviet press is continuing its attacks against Israel. The copy of the newspaper Pravda, received Tuesday from Moscow, couples Israel's alleged "aggressivity and rearmament" with the visit to the Middle East of United States Assistant Secretary of State William M. Rountree. The Russian Communist Party's organ says that Israel's attitude and Rountree's visit "are links in a chain of imperialism erected by the United States and meant to im- prison the people of the Middle East." At the same time, however, the Soviet press is still holding down the lid on the recent anti-Communist remarks uttered by United Arab Republic Presi- dent Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser's "victory" speech last week at Port Said was reported in the Soviet Press, but not a word was mentioned of his condemna- tion of Communist activities in his own domain. Pravda continues, as it has for some time now, to insist that "the West is actively arming Israel and pushing the Jews to attack the United Arab Republic." New Anti-Jewish Attacks in Ukrainian Broadcast MUNICH.—An inciting anti-Jewish broadcast in the Ukrainian language, addressed to all Ukrainians in the Soviet Union, was monitored here Tuesday. The broadcast came from a station in Kirovograd which disseminates material over the air for editorial guidance to the Soviet press in the Ukraine. Contrary to the broadcasts over the Moscow radio, which limit themselves to attacks on Israel, the Ukrainian broadcast contained attacks on Jews in gen- eral in addition to usual Communist charges against Israel. It went out of its way to emphasize that although the Communist revolution abolished the anti- Jewish laws of the Czarist regime, Jewish "nationalists" not only abroad, but also in Soviet Russia and in the Ukraine, "adopted an inimical attitude toward the Soviet regime." To justify this inciting propaganda against the Jews, the broadcast re- ferred to Lenin, stating that he allegedly declared that "reactionary essence characterizes the growing national unity of Jews." This was the first direct attack on Jews in the Soviet Union over the Soviet radio since the Khrushchev Ship Carrying Israel Cargo Reaches Eilat TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The S. S. Sylvik, a Norwegian freighter that has been over- due at the Port of Eilat after .negotiating the Suez Canal, is safe in port. Fears had been voiced that it might have been seized by the United Arab Republic while passing through the Canal. The Sylvik brought more than 2,000 tons of sulphur for the phosphate plant in Timnah, north of Eilat. When it finally landed, the captain of the vessel reported that the delay in his passage through the Suez Canal was due to relatively normal causes, involving formation of a southbound convoy, and some further slowing-up be- cause another ship ahead of the Sylvik had developed en- gine trouble. regime. Starting with the usual attacks against Zionism, the broadcast said: "After the victory of the great October Socialist • Revolution, leaders of Jewish bourgeois nationalists adopted an inimical attitude toward the Soviet regime. "They concluded agreements with Denikin, White Russian general, and Petlyura, chairman of the directo- rate of the Ukrainian national government, despite the horrible Jewish pogroms committed by their gangs in the Ukraine and Byelorussia. In one of Kharkov's black- hundred (Chornosotenna) papers in July 1919, the Zion- ists published an appeal entitled 'to all Russian citizens of Judaic extraction' in which they urged all Jews to join Denikin's army. Throughout the Soviet regime, Jewish bourgeois nationalists have conducted inimical activities against the USSR: Jewish bourgeois nationalists enjoy great support from the American imperialists, for in- stance; from Rockefeller who recently gave them several million rubles. "The Jewish bourgeoisie has widely advertised the State of Israel as a shrine and refuge for the Jewish peo- ple, but everybody knows that this shrine has been a tool in the hands of the imperialists. It has been used to deceive the working masses of Jews in various countries and make them subservient instruments in the imperi- alists' hands. The Zionists are also indoctrinating indi- vidual Jews with a nationalist spirit, trying to enlist them in anti - Soviet activities, and forcing them to become traitors to their fatherland." (Continued on Page 24)