• 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- Rugs & Carpets PERFECTLY CLEANED ! ingly of the U.S. Exhibition 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. ea 11404 _°11' Y. 5-3400 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." It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something. 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