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May 29, 1959 - Image 9

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1959-05-29

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Strictly Confidential

New AJ Committee Head Promises Support - to Israel

NEW YORK (JTA)—All pos- pean countries.
maintain their traditional life.
sible aid to Israel by the Amer-
The Jews in these lands, he
Ehrmann expressed the be-
ican Jewish Committee was reported, a r e seeking to lief that the talk held by lead-
On the Rialto
he did not buy the movie rights
pledged
by
Herbert
B.
Ehr-
strengthen
their
communal
Meyer W. Weisgal paid us of the book . . . He would have
ers of the American Jewish
an unexpected visit . . . He flew loved to make the picture and, mann, newly elected president life, and are being aided in Committee with Soviet Deputy
of the organization, at a press this respect by the Committee.
Premier Mikoyan during the lat-
in from Rehovot for emer- we think, that he is just the
conference at Harmonie Club. In Germany, he stated, anti- ter's recent visit in the United
gency dental treatment and man to have handled it in the
after suffering on the dentists right manner . . . He'll have an However, he added that the Semitic elements are now be- States has prevented the mass
chair for e three days returned -opportunity to do something Committee will not participate coming more and more arro- transfer of Jews in the Soviet
in a projected advisory corn- gant, but the West German
Union to Birobidjan. Plans for
in' a jet to London . ... Joseph which may even be of greater
mittee for the Jewish Agency. government is taking all meas- such a "transfer" were known
Buloff, the Jewish stage star, impact . . . Our tip to him is to
The new president said that ures possible to curb their ac- to have been under discussion
is preparing a one-rnan show read Maurice Samuel's manu- his
organization is now en- tivities.
in the ranks of the Soviet gov-
which should raise him to new script of the novel "Marcella gaged in long-range plans to
,
Touching upon the situation ernment, he stated.
heights . . . One of the best of Rome" which is due for pub- eradicate anti-Semitism in the
selling authors' (his latest book lication sometime in 1960.
United States. He noted that of the Jews in Morocco and
deals with a subject of Jewish
Isaac Carmel, the veteran organized anti-Semitism has Tunisia, Ehrmann revealed
interest) gives his services as Zionist who now resides in lost ground in this country, that he addressed a letter to
a SPeaker "without charge" for Israel (where is he is married but that individual hatemon- the Moroccan government, ask-
Zionist and _Israel fund-raising to a young and beautiful lady) gers still are active in dis- ing it to permit the emigra-
affairs . • . . He asks "only" for is promoting an important proj- seminating anti-Jewish propa- tion from Morocco of those
Jews who wish to emigrate.
expenses . .. The trouble is that ect' during his present visit ganda.
He said that the govern-
his expenses are no less than in the States . . . He has formed
Ehrmann said that, with the
Woodhull Lake
a speaker's fee . . . The other a non-profit corporation which exception of Germany, • there ments of Morocco and Tunisia
are
friendly
to
their
Jewish
Community
Center
day • in a midwest city he ran will sponsor the publication of is no anti-Semitism existing
up an expense account for over one • or more books dealing with today in any of the West Euro- citizens but insist on their "in-
TERRIFIC
tegration" by interfering in the
$400 for hotel, meals, etc . . . American Jewish contribution to
OPPORTUNITY !
activities of Jewish institutions.
Israel will have no •ambassa- the upbuilding of Palestine and
The Committee, he reported,
dor (that is, a full rank am- Israel . . . Louis Lipsky is plan- British White Supremists
has asked the North African
bassador) in Washington until ning a long stay in Israel, not Attack 'Jewish Influence'
LONDON, (JTA)—Observers governments to let the Jews
after Israel's general elections only for pleasure . . . He intends
in November ... William Zuker- to edit his collected Zionist writ- of the "Keep Britian White"
man's Jewish Newsletter ings which will be published rally in Trafalgar Square com-
"Your Bowling Pleasure is Right Down Our Alleys"'
charges a group of eminent Jew- eventually in English and He- mented on the efforts of the so-
ish leaders with having used brew . . . Israel will have in caled White Defense League and
pressure on the U.S. Govern- the near future a big set up the Nationa Labor Party, organi-
ment to bar Jewish immigrants for a book-of-the-month organ- zers of the ray, to use the issue
from Romania to the United ization and a distribution com- of colored immigration into
States . . . He quotes minutes pany to subscribers of long hair England as a means of arous-
TAKE THE
ing anti-Jewish feeling.
from a meeting and other evi- records . . . At the last direc-
Speakers at the rally, which
WHOLE FAMILY
dence which if untrue should tors' meeting, Joe Brainin was
was attended by 3,000, asserted
expose him to a libel suit . . . elected executive vice-president
that the immigration of colored
BOWLING AT THE
The social service division of of the American Committee for
people into Britain from British
the New York United Jewish the Weizmann Institute.
overseas possessions was due to
MODERN AIR COOLED
Appeal set up a new record
"Jewish influence."
this year contributing close to
$300,000 . . . If the big donors Prinz Presses Issue
PAUL BEN-HAIM, Israel
gave in the same proportion of Arab Blacklists
composer now in the United
as the paid workers of Jewish
States. has been commissioned
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Rabbi by the America-Israel Cultural
organizations, the annual in-
Joachim
Prinz,
president
of
the
There are still some openings available in the
come of the UJA would total
Foundation to compose a vio-
—so we are told—$150,000,000 American Jewish Congress, lin concerto for the Israel vio-
following summer leagues:
took issue with the spokesman linist Zvi Zeitlin. The commis-
per *year.
for
the
State
Department
in
Thursday
Night Senior Men — Tuesday Night
"Exodus," the book which is
sion has been made possible
said to convert a lot 'of Jews Washington on the matter of by a gift of Mrs. Lionello Pere-
Women and Wednesday Afternoon Women
to • better Jews will be made discrimination against Ameri; ra, 15 East. 91st Street, .a musi-
can citizens who are Jews, and cal patron and friend of Zeit-
Coolidge at 9 Mile
into a big movie by Otto
Information
LI 3-5200
Premiger . . . We were told who are blacklisted by an lin.
American firm doing business
that Dory Schary, the writer-
with Saudi Arabia.
producer-director, feels bad that
Dr. Prinz had sent a letter to
Undersecretary of State C.
Douglas Dillon, seeking a con-
ference with Secretary of State
Christian Herter on the dis-
crimination against American
Jews practiced by the Arabian-
American Oil Company (Aram-
co). Lincoln White, spokes-
man for the State Department,
issued a statement replying to
Dr. Prinz.
In a counter-response, Dr.
Prinz stated that White was in
error when he characterized
the Arab attack against Amer-
ican Jews as resulting primarily
from Israel-Arab tensions. Ac-
cording to Rabbi Prinz, White
had also indicated that the Sau-
di Arabian blacklist applied on-
ly to firms that have branches
in Israel or are engaged in com-
mercial dealings with Israel.
6 A.M. to Midnight
"The fact is," declared Rabbi
Prinz, "that American firms,
owned or managed by Jews, are
A. B. POLINSKY
Regular
subject to an unremitting boy-
$3.50 Value
NEW YORK—The re-election cott by Saudi Arabia, whether
of A. B. Polinsky of San Diego, they maintain branches in Is-
Cal., and Marvin J. Silberman rael or not." The fact was ad-
of White Plains, N.Y., to fourth mitted, said the Jewish Con-
successive terms as general gress leader, by counsel for
chairman and associate general Aramco who had testified that
chairman of the Combined Cam- Saudi Arabia ordered Aramco
paign for American Reform not to deal with "any company
Judaism, the central agency for or corporation, no matter where
support of the Union of Amer- it is located, that is in any
ican Hebrew Congregations and way influenced by Jewish man-
the Hebrew Union College-Jew- agement."
ish Institute or Religion, took
place here last week at the
Completing a two-month tour
semi-annual meeting of the of Israel and Europe during
campaign's national board.
which he made a documentary
Irving S. Schneider of New film on the State of Israel, ED-
York, executive vice-chairman WARD G. ROBINSON, accom-
of the nationwide religious panied by his wife, returned to
drive, in reporting on officers the United States this week. He
and objectives for fhe 1959-1960 narrates and stars in the film
fund-raising effort to be opened on Israel, which was written by
on July 1, said the Combined Leon Uris, author of "Exodus."
Campaign has an expectancy of The new film was made by the
at least $2,150,000 by the time State of Israel Bond Organiza-
DEALER IN
its current 1958-59 drive is tion in cooperation with the
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