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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, Sept. 18, 1959 —
Refugee Back from the Dead
UN Agenda: Human Rights, Refugee Issue
By SAUL CARSON
JTA and Jewish News
, Correspondent at the UN
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
—A UPI Photo
Harry Levenstein (right), a refugee who was given up for
dead for nearly two decades, is greeted in New York .b-y his
father, Samuel, and Cong. Florence B. Dwyer, of Elizabeth,
N. J., who helped him gain entry to the U.S. Young Levenstein,
who is tubercular, started his flight from possible death at the
age of 10, when Poland was invaded by the Nazis.
Release ‘Aa
,t,unah' Pharmaceutical Firm
After Long Search Denies Conforming
to Boycott Terms
for Dead Spouse NEW YORK,. (JTA)—Merck,
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Authori-
ties on three continents coop-
erated in an effort to release
a Jewish woman from a suita-
fion under which, according to
Jewish religious law, she could -
not remarry, It was disclosed
here this week.
Leah Klimnowski was mar-
ried in 1936 in Poland to a
Russian Jew. When World War
II broke- out, the couple fled to
Russia. The woman was allowed
to proceed into the Soviet Un-
ion, but Communist officials ar-
rested her husband and she
never saw-him again.
Several years later, she man-
aged to reach the United States.
She immediately began a search
for her husband, because under
Jewish law, she was an "Agu-
nah," a wife who could not re-
marry because she could not
produce proof of her husband's
death.
She turned to American rab-
binical authorities who referred
her to Chief Rabbi Abraham
Katz of Petach Tikvah. Rabbi
Katz has a record of successful
solutions of such problems.
When he received her request
for help, he contacted a group
of Japanese scientists visiting
Israel, who later visited the
Soviet Union.
One of the scientists visited
the Russian Ministry of the In-
terior in Moscow who provided
due notice that the woman's
husband died in 1949.
The- death certificate was sent
to Rabbi Katz who forwarded
it to the United States where
the American rabbis declared
the woman free to marry again.
Goren Leaves Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, (JTA)—Col.
Shlomo Goren, Chief Chaplain
of the Israeli Army, concluded
a six-day stay in Uruguay dur-
ing which he launched the local
Israel bond campaign.
Shrinks Hemorrhoids
Without Surgery
Sharp & Dohme, export division
of Merck & Co., issued a denial
this week to the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency of an Arab
report that the pharmaceutical
firm had_ been removed from
the Arab League boycott list
after allegedly conforming with –
the League's policies on trade.
A report to this effect was
broadcast by the Baghdad
Radio.
A spokesman for the export
division said that "to the best
of our knowledge, we have
never been placed on an inter-
national 'blacklist'," adding that
while the company had "no di-
rect operations" in Israel, its
products are sold in Israel by
distributors.
The spokesman said that it
was company policy to "make
available the products of our
extensive pharmaceutical re-
search throughout the world
without discrimination. W e
place no restrictions on the
export of our products to any
country, except those imposed
by United States law."
Israel Invests in PEC;
Now U.S. Shareholder
Israel, traditionally the, re-
cipient of investments from the
United States, has , herself be-
come a shareholder in a U.S.
corporation. Believed to be the
first such holding, the state of
Israel now owns 100 shares in
Palestine Economic Corpora-
tion, New York, making her the
10,000th stockholder in this 34-
year-old investment company.
Marking the historic occasion,
Joseph Meyerhoff, of Baltimore,
builder and president of • Pales-
tine Economic Corporation, pre-
sented the stock certificate to
Levi Eshkol, Israel Finance
Minister, at a -ceremony in
Jerusalem.
Meyerhoff, now an a business
trip in Israel, said that "PEC's
growth and partnership with
Israel is commemorated by the
inclusion of the state of Israel
as one of its stockholders."
Stops Itch — Relieves Pain 15 Chaplains to Debut
For the first time science has found
a new healing substance with the as-
tonishing ability to shrink hemor-
rhoids and to relieve pain — without
surgery. In case after case, while
gently relieving pain, actual reduc-
tion (shrinkage) took place. Most
amazing of all — results were so thor-
ough that sufferers made astonishing
statements like "Piles have ceased to
be a problem!" The secret is a new
healing substance (Bio-Dyne*)—dis-
covery of a world-famous research
institute.This substance is now avail-
able in suppository or ointment form
called Preparation. H.* At all drug
counters —money back guarantee.*0
at GI Holy Day Services
Fifteen Jewish chaplains, the
largest single group of new
chaplains to be inducted into
military service ' at one time
in more than a year, have en-
tered service for orientation
and training, Rabbi Morris
Lieberman, of Baltimore, chair-
man of the National Jewish
Welfare Board's Commission
an-
on Jewish chaplaincy,
nounced.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. —
The 14th session of the United
Nations General Assembly
opened here T u e s d ay with
more than 60 items on its
agenda, including several which
are of direct importance to
Israel and to Jews throughout
the world,
The Israel delegation at the
Assembly consists of 17 mem-
bers headed by Golda Meir,
Israel's Foreign Minister.
The Arab refugee problem
is one of the major questions
which the assembly will take
up. At its session last year,
the Assembly adopted a reso-
lution noting with graye con-
cern that the financial situa-
tion of the UN Relief and
Work Agency is serious. UN
Secretary General Hammarsk-
jold later recommended that
the UNRWA should continue
its existence pending the
"reintegration of the refugees
into the economic life of the
Middle East, either by re-
patriation or by resettlement."
The Agency's mandate ex-
pires June 30, 1960.
Another item on the As-
sembly agenda, which is of
direct interest to Israel is
maintenance of the UN Emer-
gency Force which is stationed
between Israel and Egypt to
prevent possible clashes be-
tween the two countries. The
cost of maintaining the UNEF
during 1960 is estimated by
the UN Secretary General at
$18,916,000.
The Assembly will have to
decide on the manner of financ-
ing the force which is made
up of military units from seven
countries. It will also hear a
progress report on the force.
Of interest to Jews through-
out the world is the item on
the agenda dealing with the
drafting of an international
convention on hulman rights.
Last year the Assembly de-
cided to give priority at this
session to consideration of the
draft international covenants on
human rights. These covenants
were originally prepared by
the UN Commission on Human
Rights and have been on the
agenda- since 1954.
(The AJP UN correspondent
reports that a Soviet delega-
tion aide at the UN stated that
Israel's Foreign Minister Golda
Meir is expected to see Pre-
mier Nikita Khrushchev dur-
ing his visit at the UN with
the view, of improving Soviet-
Israel relations.)
(AJP's correspondent a 1 s o
reports that Dr. Charles Malik,
who was president of the 13th
session of the General As-
sembly and formerly notorious
as the anti-Israel Arab spokes-
man here, has been excluded
by the Lebanese government
from its UN delegation. Leb-
anese Prime Minister Rashid
Karami will head the Mission
to the UN. In recent years,
Dr. Malik has recognized Israel
as "an international reality"
within the family of nations.)
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