THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW S — Fri day, August 7, 1959 12
AJ Congress Survey Reveals 1959 Knesset to End Session. Begin Election Campaign
The view was underwritten
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The the measure, appealed to the
by
the entire five-man board of
as Good Year for Civil Rights Laws final
deputies
to
remove
the
"shame
regular weekly session of
the London Rabbinical Court.
the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, and crime" of new regulations
begah Monda y, before the which enabled children of A few of the scholars polled
House adjourns to enable its mixed marraiges—as well as an would impose a rule even more
NEW YORK — Twenty-four
members to campaign for re- adult who declared he had no strict than that required by a
laws against racial and religious
election in the November elec- other faith—to become a Jew traditional Judaism, while
discrimination were adopted
without conversion. The issue minority is opposed to strict
tions.
during 1959 by 14 states, the
interpretation.
The Knesset, however, can led the National Religibus Party
American Jewish Congress re-
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion
be convened for special sessions to quit the coalition a year ago.
ported here following a special
Lorenz said the issue had circulated the replies of those
until the newly-elected Parlia-
study made on civil rights legis-
ment assembles after the elec- created a controversy in world who were polled to the mem-
lation in various states.
Jewry and had tended to cause bers of the Cabinet, Summaries
tions.
"Both in number and con-
The Knesset is expected to divisions and widen the rift be- of the replies are expected to
tent," the study notes, "the
pass this week several bills in tween deligions and secular be made public later in the
civil rights laws enacted by the
week.
final readings. These will in- elements.
states this year exceeded the
Ben-Gurion replied that the
clude an amendment of the
product of any year in the past
Civil Service Law; restricting proposal would be -interpreted
decade."
political and fund-raising acti- as a pre-election gesture and
The study summarizes the
vities of government employes, counselled patience until the
principal legislative advances of
as well as an amendment broad- opinions of the Jewish scholars
1959 as follows:
were available.
THE NEW
1. California and Ohio adopted Anti-Bias Housing Bill ening the privileges of foreign
Meanwhile, it was reported
investors.
enforceable fair employment
Ruled
Unconstitutional
laws. This brought to 16 the
A watered-down anti-trust here, that 90 percent of the 61
SEATTLE, (JTA) — A state and anti- cartel law, supported world-famous Jewish scholars
number of states having such
law which prohibits discrimina- only by Mapai and the left-wing around the world, polled by a
legislation;
tion on racial grounds in the
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2. Colorado, Connecticut, Mas- sale of houses built with the parties, approved by the Knes- special Israeli Cabinet commit-
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tee on the touchy problem of
•The most
sachusetts and Oregon adopted
set. •
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beautiful
broad fair housing legislation, aid of Federal financing was
The other parties, abstain- who should be acknowledged as
declared
unconstitutional
here
cocktail lounge
thereby following the path re-
ing on the vote, protested vari- a Jew, have ruled that strict
Jewish religious law should be
in Detroit
cently marked by New York in Superior Court.
ous
exemptions
in
the
measure.
Judge James W. Holden set
City and Pittsburgh,
The new law permits price the rule.
aside a ruling by the State
That would mean that a
agreements and monopolistic
3. Maine became the 24th
state to enact an enforceable Board Against Discrimination practices in firms growing and child must be registered in
•The same
accordance with the religion
law prohibiting discrimination directing a home-owner to sell marketing farm products, if one
fine food you
in places of public accommoda- his house for $18,000 to a Ne- or more of the companies are of the mother. Thus, children
have always
of
mixed
marraiges,
where
gro
applicant.
tion. A number of other states
owned by a labor union, or if
enjoyed
The
judge
ruled
that
the
the
mother
is
not
Jewish,
improved the effectiveness of
all companies involved are
could not be registered as
property-owner was acting as a owned by the government.
their laws in this area.
private
individual
even
though
Jewish without ritual con-
The Congress survey also re-
There is no outright ban on version to Judaism.
20231 James Couzens
veals that the work of the 1959 his home had been purchased all cartels and monopolies in
Those in favor of the strict
with
a
Federal
Housing
Admin-
state legislatures "brings to an
the measure, 77hich provides interpretation of Jewish re-
impressive total the number of istration-insured mortgage.
"An individual acting in his only for government control ligious law on this question in-
state anti-discrimination laws in
clude a famous professor at
private capacity is perfectly and inspection.
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The law assumes each restric- Harvard, and other famous
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Sixteen states, it notes, now free to discriminate as he tive practice will be judged on scholars and rabbis, including
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12th at Hazelwood
Jews.
agency using the method of discrimination law was enacted
All
restrictive
practices,
how
conciliation, backed by the in 1957.
ever, must be reported to a
power to issue administrative
newly-established office of the
Oak Pa•k's
orders enforceable in the courts.
Commissioner for Restrictive
Four states have laws broadly
Trade Practices.
prohibiting discrimination in
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At the same time, the
education, enforced by admin-
Parliament rejected a pro-
istrative agencies, while a num-
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number of states have more of the library is the gathering regulations of the Ministry of
of
material
covering
2,000
years
Interior
on
registration
of
chil-
limited statutes in this area.
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California to Put Teeth ment, state governments, pri- been
He also noted that pending
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library
by
the
city
of
Cologne
gate and report on alleged in-
and David Horowitz, Israel State
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order to prevent infringement
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Judge Mosk commented that
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liberties in California is good,
there is room for substantial
improvement." He n a in e d
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West Coast counsel for the
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