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Dr. Richard Hertz, rabbi o
Temple Beth El, upon his re
turn last week from a tour of
countries behind the Iron Cur-
tain, reported that the position
of the Jewish "communities'
:q there is very
gloomy. He de
scribed th e
"communities'
as isolated en
tities,- and he
said that the
synagogues he
had visited
were being
frequented by
only a few old
men.
Dr. Hertz's
overseas trip
included visits
to London,
k.--; where he at-
Dr. Hertz
tended meet-
ings of the World Union for
Progressive Judaism; Berlin;
Vienna, where he conferred
with JDC leaders; Prague, War-
saw, Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad,
Helsinki and Copenhagen. .
Upon his return, he spent
several days in Washington,
where he reported to the
State Department on the
status of Jews and Judaism in
the Soviet Union.
In Prague, where he visited
the Altneu Shul, the oldest
synagogue in Czechoslovakia,
Dr. Hertz said he was ap-
proached by a Jewish woman
who was anxious to know
whether there was any hope
for a better future for her
people.
Rabbi Hertz said he witnessed
better conditions in Poland
where there was evidence of
more freedom.
He described his visit in
the Theresienstadt Concentra-
tration Camp outside of -
Prague and told of the hor-
rors still in evidence in the
place that is being retained
as a museum, as a reminder
of the German atrocities.
In Warsaw, Dr. Hertz said,
there was no evidence of the
ghetto where the fighters for
freedom had put up a heroic
battle against the Nazis in April
of 1943. Cheap apartment
houses have replaced the ghetto,
he said, and only the planned
monument in tribute to the
ghetto fighters will serve as a
memorial of the historic event.
Describing his visit in Mos-
cow, Rabbi Hertz spoke glow-
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there. He had words of praise
for Dan Slobin, of Detroit, One
of the American guides at the
exhibition.
He found a friendly spirit
among the Russian people for
Americans and the United
States, but he stated that a
visitor in Russia mainly sees
what the Intourist guide wants
him to see. "It takes a great
deal of ingenuity to see what
they don't want you to see,"
he said. .
The Jewish community, he
said, lives under the double
standard of being considered
Jewish but not being granted
the right to Jewish cultural
activities—to publishing a
newspaper, to conducting a
theater, _etc.
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Robert Kranitz, program
chairman of the Harry B. Kei-
dan Lodge of Bnai Brith, an-
nounces that at the lodge
meeting 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday at
Holiday Man-
or, the fea-
tured speaker
will be Sidney
G. Kusworm,
of Dayton, 0.
Kusworm is
national treas-
urer of Bnai
Brith.
He has held
high govern-
mental ap-
p ointments
not only in
Ohio but also
in Washing.
Kusworm
ton, D. C.
Keidan Lodge extends an in-
vitation to all to come and
hear this prominent leader.
A social program has also
been arranged.
Rabbi Yehudah Levin of
Moscow would not shoW him
the library or the Yeshivah and
insisted that all was well with
Russian Jewry. Only a minyan Export of Canadian
of old people was to be found Products to Israel Rises;
in any of the synagogues Wheat Is Largest Item
Rabbi Hertz visited. -
OTTAWA, (JTA) — The ex-
port of Canadian products to
Shaarey Zedek Women Israel during the first six
months of the year . has in-
to Hear Rabbi Adler creased
more than 50 per cent
over the 1958 figure for the
at Meeting Sept. 14
same -period, according to the
report of the Dominion Bureau
of Statistics issued by the In-
ternational Trade Division. The
value of the exports rose from
$1,815,000 to $2,725,000.
New States' Scientific Advancement
NEW YORK, (JTA)—An in-
ternational conference to ex-
plore the capacity of science
to advance the life of new states
which have not yet reached the
full momentum of their devel-
opment, was announced by
Meyer W. Weisgal, 'chairman of
the executive council of the
Weizmann Institute of Science,
on his arrival here on the S.S.
Queen Elizabeth. The confer-
ence will be sponsored by the
Weizmann Institute in Israel.
Weisgal said that Abba Eban,
former Israel Ambassador to
Washington and now president
of the Weizmann Institute of
Science, is heading the organi-
zation of the International Con-
ference,- and has already se-
cured the cooperation of the
government of Israel and influ-
ential official groups in the
Middle East.
"The purpose of the confer-
ence scheduled for the Summer
of 1960 will be to discuss the
role of science in the advance-
ment of new states and to in-
dicate the instruments by which
scientific and technological ap-
plication could be made effec-
tive," Mr. Weisgal stated. It
is hoped that Israel, no less
than the other countries of
Africa and Asia, will benefit by
the substance of this interna-
tional discussion."
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1 1 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Frida y, Sept. 4, 1959
Dr. Hertz Reports Position of
Jews in Russia as Very Gloomy