Jewish Agency's Expansion Planned in 4th Decade
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U.S. .Officiari Report •Violent
New Anti-Jewish USSR Broadcast
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WASHINGTON — Government officials here
noted a violent new anti-Jewish broadcast trans-
mitted in recent dayS within the Soviet Union. The
broadcast, originating in Kirovograd on the Odessa
regional service, attacked religious Jews as "swind-
lers under the mask of God's servants."
Using Nazi-like terminology, the b r o a d c as t,
which was in the Ukrainian language, said that
"stuffing themselves with matzoth and special. fruit
received from Israel, the preachers of Judaism pray
only to the golden calf how to collect more money
_ from believers" and that they "pray for the militant .
spirit of the Israeli militarists."
During the Soviet rule, said the broadcast, many
of the rabbis "had an inimical attitude toward the
Socialist system and...opposed- -- the - interests of the
Soviet people." It charged that the rabbis served
"internal counter revolutions • and international
imperalism."
Mentioning a number of rabbis **by name, the
broadcast said that "hiding under the cloak of
believers" they "busy themselves with swindles;
appropriate money given by believer s, and
when this is not enough they go to the people to
collect donations which then go into the bottomless
pockets."
The allegation was made that "reactionary" Jew-
ish sermons preached in Soviet synagogues reveal
that "the Jewish faith has been strongly intermixed
with Jewish bourgeois nationalism and Zionism
already possessing strong reactionary essence."
The broadcast also alleged that in Soviet syna-
gogues followina Saturday services, synagogue
leaders gore
b ms elves on "vodka, wine and
ore t he
snacks." bIt alleged that swindled money was used
to finance these "drinking bouts."
Circumcision was condemned for its "nationalistic char-
acter." The broadcast said "its specific . significance lies in
the fact that it gives proof of belonging to the 'Chosen
People,' the Jews. At the same time it imbues Jews with
repugnance and hatred of those who do not possess this
special sign. Besides, the rite of circumcision is a cruel
rite and not always harmless because it is carried out in a
crude manner by circumcisers, people who have no inkling
of medicine."
According to the Communist broadcast. "Judaic ser-
mons are sermons of bourgeois Zionists. Such sermons are
:tools of the nationalistic Israeli cosmopolitan American
bourgeoisie. With their tentacles the Jewish bourgeois
nationalists, with the help of Judaism; try to reach into our
Soviet garden. But they will never succeed."
The broadcast credited "the working people of Jewish .
nationality" with 'building "the Communist Society" and a.
portion of credit for the creation of Soviet sputnicks. But
the attack on the Jewish religion and the State of Israel
was without restraint.
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Hanukah on Two Continents:
Jewish Welfare Board
services on two continents, in Jewish centers and among the armed forces, are de-
picted in the accompanying two photographs. The upper photo shows Israeli children
in the arts and crafts workshop in the Jerusalem YM-YWHA, making Hanukah meno-
rahs as their NA./.y of preparing for the festival's celebration. The lower photo, taken
at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, shows children of servicemen getting Hanukah
gifts, It is typical of hundreds of such events that will take place at military instal-
lations in the U. S. and overseas as part of global "Operation Hanukah" organized
by the Jewish Welfare Board,
1134411. Ask* More Funds
From LJ.S. Jewry
• . in 1960
Delegates to the three-day annual national con-
ference of the United Jewish Appeal, held last week-
end at,.the Statler-Hilton Hotel, New York, voted to
ask the American Jewish communities for additional
funds to carry on the work of rehabilitation of dis-
possessed Jews in Israel during the 1960 campaigns.
It was reported that the UJA raised $69,300,000
in 1959.
Max M. Fisher, president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit, who was re-elected UJA spe- -
cial fund co-chairman, was one of the conference
speakers.
Morris W. Berinstein was re-elected UJA gen-
eral chairman, Joseph Holtzman Was elected honor-
ary national chairman.
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