HE JEWISH NEWS World Jewry Must Reply to Acts of Hatred with Continuing Humanitarian Programs A Editorial Page 4 Weekly Review f Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME XXXV—No. 2 Printed in a 100% Union Shop 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, March 13, 1959 Israelis' Regrettable Myopic Views of the Jews of America Commentary Page 2 $5 Per Year; Single Copy 1 Sc Israel Protests Discriminatory Actions in Romania and USSR; Arabs Demand Migration End Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News My Father Sholem Aleichem Editor's 'Vote: The 100th anniversary of the birth of Sholein Aleichem, one of the best known of the world humorists of the present century, is currently being celebrated in Jewish communities in many lands. This article by his daughter, who resides in New York. therefore is of special interest at this time. By LALA KAUFMAN Wrapped in a soft bathrobe, with slippers on his feet. my father stands from early morning, writing, writing, biting his nails for many hours. I rush in before leaving for school to kiss him goodbye. He looks at me but he does not see me. His eyes have a remote look, his mind is elsewhere. in Kasrilevke. We children ask him: "Where are you now, papulia?" (We call him "papulia"). "In what world?" Sometimes he laughs there at his desk until the tears come. "Now listen to him, listen to what he says!" and he points at some passage in the manuscript. He can write standing. sitting, lying on his back. Even in the tram-car he goes on writing. He always carries with him a little - note- book with tissue-thin pages. But he is superstitious and never marks a page with the number 13 — it is always .12a. A long winter evening. Snow is falling outside. Papa sits on the sofa, and we are all huddled around him. We fight — each of us wants to be closest to him. "Go away!" — "I was here first!" — "I told you this is my place!" He puts his arms around two of us. We girls adore papa and are jealous of each other. His hands are always warm. Later he sits with mother on the same couch, his arm around her shoulders, patting her cheek and kissing her. There is a grand piano in the drawing room. Once in a while father sits down at the piano and plays without music, by ear. Wistful Jewish melodies. He likes to sit by the piano and pick out a tune. He says: "I might have become a musician instead of a writer. Who knows?" * A dreary day. It has been raining steadily since morning. Father is late for dinner. He has been out all day, looking for "business". He tells mother he has been running around all day. "Nothing?" — "Nothing." The bright merry eyes have a sad look today. The wrinkles on the brow are deeper. A red letter day! Come on, children! Father is going to read a new story! "He will read! He will read!" we chant, jumping up Continued on Page 32 JERUSALEM—Israel lodged a form al and vigorous protest Tuesday against Romania's expulsian order of a member of its Bucharest legation and against the Romanian government's quarantine of Is rael's mission. headquarters at Bucharest. The Romanian government had declared a member of Israel's Bucharest mis- sion, Amnon Keren, as persona non grata, and has ordered him to leave Romania. He has been accused of "espionage," spre ading "Zionist propaganda," alleged deal- ing in foreign currency and alleged "smuggling of valuables from Romania." On Tuesday morning, Walter Eytan, director general of Israel's Foreign Mini- sry, summoned the Romanian minister to Israel, A. Petremanu, and voiced the twin protests. In regard to Keren, Israel completely rejected the charges as unfounded and protested sharply against the expulsion order aimed at a member of its legation. At the same time, Eytan took the occasion to express his government's "aston-- ishment and protest" against the blockade imposed in Bucharest against Israel's le- gation. Calling the blockade a "siege by numerous plainclothes and uniformed police- men in order to interfere with the contact between members of the legation and the public," the interference, said Eytan, ex tended to "candidates for immigration and to people seekina Consular services." Eytan told the Romanian b minister that the "siege" against the Bucharest offices is "contrary to normal diplomatic relations." Israel has instructed its Embassy in Mos- cow to investigate reports that two Soviet jour- illosco-iv's Radio nals, the publications "Communistun" and the "Krasnaya Zvezda," recently published "anti- Disclaims Israel Semitic articles reminiscent of Nazi publica- tions." Migration Facts According to a report received here, the two publications carried articles charging So- • MUNICH (JTA)—A Moscow broad- viet Jews with subversion, espionage and hatred cast, quoting an article in the So- for the Soviet regime. The articles, according viet newspaper Trud, organ of the to the report, urged Soviet citizens "to differ- labor unions, criticized reports that entiate _between normal Soviet citizens and about 250,000 Jews from Romania Jews." will reach Israel "within the next two or three years." The articles stressed that "according to the 1956 census in Romania, there are only 146,264 Jews there." The article especiallly attacked the Israel Prime Minister, David - Ben Gurion. It said that the Israel Prime Minister "is pleased when anti-Semi- tism prevails somewhere, for it pro- vokes emigration to Israel." An attack on Israel has also ap- peared in Lvovskaya Pravda, Com- munist daily newspaper published in Lvov, the Soviet part of Galicia. The article said "bourgeois-nationalist pro- paganda" is being spread in Jewish communities in the Lvov district "with help from reactionary circles in Israel." Arab League Renews Fight Against Israel Immigration LONDON—In a resolution adopted at its meeting in Cairo Monday night, the Arab League Council has warned the governments of Romania, Hungary and Poland that their rela- tions with Arab countries will be "harmed" un- less they halt "renewed Jewish emigration to Israel." Cairo dispatches received here Tuesday further report that the council, summoned a week ago by the League Secretary General Abdel Khalek Hassouna, warned the three com- munist governments in Eastern Europe that the new wave of Jewish immigration into Israel "threatens the peace and security of the Mid- dle East." Continued on Page 3 Allied Jewish Campaign Official Opening Set for March 23; Retiring Israel Ambassador the Speaker Irwin I. Cohn, chairman of the 1959 Allied Jewish Campaign, announced this week that the official opening of the drive, for the regular and emergency funds for the United Jewish Appeal, to provide assistance to the new wave of immigrants to Israel from Romania and other East European countries, and for more than 50 other local, local, national and b overseas causes, will take place Monday, March 23, starting at 7 p. m., at a dinner • in the Grand of the Statler-Hilton Hotel. Abba Eban, who will retire the end of May as Israel's Ambassador to the United States and as his coun- try's Chief Delegate to the United Nations, will be the guest speaker. Eban, Israel's chief spokesman at the world organization, began his diplomatic career in 1947. He speaks six languages fluently, including Arabic. He is considered, after the November elections in Israel, in which he will be a candidate for the Knesset, not only as the possible successor to Foreign Minister Golda Meir but also as the probable political heir of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Allied Jewish Campaign leaders are hopeful that the March 23 official campaign opening event will be marked by large initial contributions to assure vast incre ases over last year's results, to provide adequate support for the new immigrants clamoring for admission to Israel. City and state officials are expected to take part in the opening campaign dinner as an encouragement Abba Eban to the Jewish community in its major philanthropic efforts.