THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, January 15, 1960-24 Rome JIL.-1 Correspondent Reviews Disputed USSR Anti-Semitic Denial BY TULIA ZEVI JTA Correspondent in Rome Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News only the last of a series of sim- ilar attempts made earlier to burn down the synagogue at Malachowska. According to the unofficial sources, there was considerable delay on the part of the author- ities in taking action following the incident, but steps were finally taken after the incident had been given prominence in the foreign press. ROME — A member of the had been strangled. They esti- Soviet government's five-man mated the damage at several "Committee for Religious Cults" thousand dollars, declaring that —the highest governmental au- the cemetery and the care- thority on religious problems in taker's home were destroyed the USSR—has told the Jewish and that • several hundred Jew- Telegraph Agency correspond- ish books had been lost in the ent in Moscow that there are flames. Furthermore, they in- 500,000 "practicing" Jews in sisted, the Oct. 4 incident was the Soviet Union and 400. syna- gogues. (The Jewish population in the Soviet Union is generally estimated at 3,000,000). This correspondent has just A Digest of World J ewish Happenings, from returned from a week's visit to Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other Moscow where she interviewed government officials as well as News-Gathering Media. various non-official sources fa- United States miliar with Jewish life in the NEW YORK—Trade between the United States and Israel Soviet Union. continued to grow in the last quarter of 1959, totalling more M. Voschikow, one of the five than $35,000,000 for the quarter, trade for the first nine months members of the religious cults of the year having totalled $109,930,600, comprising $89,875,500 committee, conceded "there are in U. S. exports to Israel and $20,055,100 Israeli exports to persons with anti-Semitic feel- the U. S..... In the past six month, Pioneer Women trans- ings in the USSR," but he in- mitted $300,000 to its sister organization in Israel, the Working sisted that such feelings in the Women's Council, Mrs. Clara Zeff, PW president, announced. Soviet Union are only similar to WASHINGTON—In his State of the Union message to "anti-Protestant feelings in Italy Congress,. President Eisenhower said he hoped it would "seri- or dislike of Italians in the ously consider" certain civil rights measures he had recom- United States." mended last year • . The U. S. Government was urged by a The Soviet civil authorities, Senate subcommittee to. encourage Israeli medical assistance to declared Voschikow, "don't en- underdeveloped areas, and Chairman Hubert H. Humphrey of courage such feelings. When the subcommittee in international health study praised Israel they are too strongly manifested as "a beacon of inspiration" for many emerging Asian and they are prosecuted and pun- African nations . . . ALBANY — Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller told the ished." Voschikow, whose committee State Legislature he was preparing and would soon submit is appointed directly by the specific legislation extending the state's anti-discrimination cabinet of the USSR, minimized laws in the field of housing ... The Abington Township School the incident at the Moscow Board has petitioned the Federal Court to reconsider a ruling suburb of Malachowska last Oct. enjoining the - reading of the Bible in the public schools of the 4, when fire was set to a syna- State. The school board asked that.tM court either dismiss the gogue and a Jewish woman, wife action against it or provide a rehearing for presentation of of the Jewish cemetery's care- additional testimony. taker, died. Israel According to the Soviet offi- JERUSALEM — Yaacov Tsur, former Ambassador to cial, somebody had started a fire in the upper floor of the France, now acting director general of the Foreign Ministry, synagogue as well as to a build- was elected a member of the Jewish Agency executive and ing of the adjoining cemetery. director of its information division, succeeding Avraham Har- The dead woman, he said, was man, and Abraham Granott, chairman of the Keren Kayemeth suffocated by smoke while try- board of directors, was elected JNF president in recognition been Name Schools for Butzel, Keidan The names of two of the most distinguished leaders in the Jewish community will be given to new schools proposed in the city of Detroit, it was announced Wednesday by the Board of Education. They are the late Fred M. Butzel and the late Judge Harry B. Keidan, both attorneys and Around the orld . . . of the University of Michigan, he died in 1948. Already named for Mr. But- zel is the JWF building at 163 Madison, the Butzel Playground and the Butzel Recreation Cen- ter. Judge Keidan, a graduate of Eastern High School and the Detroit College of Law, was an Assistant Wayne County Prose- cutor and later Judge of Re- corder's Court. He was a leader in the United Hebrew Schools. He later became Judge of Cir- cuit Court, and was considered one of the city's ablest jurists. He died in 1943. • ranada: 1015 MERIDIAN AVE. MIAMI BEACH ktilt .Afik Butzel ONE OF MIAMI BEACH'S ON IN FINEST KOSHER HOTELS 400 1114011 Keidan or Salt & Sugar Free Diets imo Catered to leading figures in the Jewish Friendly Atmosphere WV Welfare Federation and its pre- kap Same Owner Mgmt. 11 Years decessor, the United Jewish Eva and Terry Charities. Spender and Son A junior high school in the Van Dyke area will bear Mr. Butzel's name, while an elemen- tary school at the site of the Jewish Home for Aged will carry Judge Keidan's name. Mr. Butzel, well-known in the city for his philanthropic activi- ties, helped to found Ford (now THE OCEAN AT 18th Boys') Republic and the Detroit Boy Scout movement. A native GALA JANUARY Detroiter and an 1897 graduate FULLY Aif, CO,OITIONCE1 FESTIVAL CA'1.,5‘c MODIFIED ".RICAN PLAN ercl $14* Day, person, doub. occ. Jan. 4- 22. $18, Jan. 23-Mar. 19. Europe LONDON—The Arab League Boycott Committee has black- listed a British Freighter, the Black Prince, for trading with. Israel, the 3,500-ton ship being listed as 'having called at Israeli ports and having carried Israel cargo .. . / INCLUDING TWO SUMPTUOUS MEALS I OCEANFRONT 'So rooms out of 258 25th to 26th Sts., mom ; Reac h • ANCROFT ing to escape the flames. The of his 20 years of JNF services, the latter post having entire monetary loss, Voschikow vacated by the death of Menahem Ussishkin in 1941 . . . Figures at a meeting of the Association of Americans and said, was only about 200 rubles presented Canadians in Israel showed that Israeli immigration from the —the equivalent of $20. United States and Canada in 1959 amounted to 3 per cent of the Voschikow's version of the total number of immigrants for the year . . . The Ministry of Malachowska incident—the first Agriculture will pay Negev Beduins a total of 1,000,000 pounds given by any Soviet official to compensate them for losses the Israeli Arabs suffered during since Oct. 4—is that the reli- the drought last year, the money to be distributed to 3,000 gious services in the Malach- Beduin families who engage in agriculture in the Negev . . • owska house of Jewish worship Twelve students from Yeshiva University, New York, corn had not been interrupted even pleted a special six-month course of post-graduate study, ar- for a single day. He said those ranged by the Jewish Agency's* department of education, and responsible for the fire have culture, at the Haim Greenberg Seminary, and a second group been found and a judicial inves- of 55 post-graduate seminarians, most of them from Latin tigation into the occurrence is America, soon will start a similar course . . . Soviet Russia's now under way. supply of powerful offensive weapons to the. United Arab Repub- Declaring that he did not lic and Iraq is inconsistent with its proposals for disarmament, know_ the names, number or Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion told, the Knesset, in reply to ages of those responsible for a Coinmunist motion for debate on the Supreme Soviet's appeal the incident, he said neverthe- to world parliaments to support disarmament . . . A tombstone less the episode was one of was unveiled Jan. 7 over the grave of, the late Chief Rabbi Isaac "hooliganism committed by an Halevi Herzog,. whose remains are_ interred at Sanhedria Ceme- isolated group and did not con- tery here The Israel State Radio has inaugurated a new schedule of overseas broadcasts in French and English, beamed stitute organized action." Other reliable unofficial • in- to West Africa The Jewish Agency executive has approved 'budget of 201,000,000 Israeli pounds ($110,667,000) for the formation about the 'Malachow- year commencing April 1 . . The Israel State Bank's foreign ska • incident differed from the eurrencY:-- and gold reserves increased by $29,000,000, totalling -- version given by Voschikow,• '$124,000,000 by. the end of 1959 . . . The Jewish people have doubting that the incident was "never fulfilled" the goals of Jewish appeals, and Israel must the fault of an unorganized 'continue to live with the results "until sufficient funds are group. The unofficial sources raised to empty the transit camps, solve the problem of pro- stated that during two consecu- ductive employment and fully integrate our immigrants," tive nights before and after the Finance Minister Levi Eshkol said in his discussion of the incident, anti-Semitic leaflets new government development budget . . . Investment in Israel bearing the old Czarist slogan, industry to enable expansion of exports and • elimination of the "Hit Jews and Save Russia" adverse balance of payments was urged by Pinhas were placed on walls of Jewish country's Sapir, Minister of Commerce and Industry, when he received homes in Malachowska. The the Canadian national leadership mission . touring Israel to leaflets also referred to the obtain first-hand information of the country's status . . • The town as a "second Jerusalem." launching of a $5,000,000 campaign for the construction, equip- The population of Malachowska ment and expansion of the Hebrew University and National is about 30,000, of which about Library was announced by Dr. George S. Wise, chairman of 10 per cent are Jews. the university's board of governors . . • . Unofficial sources insisted TEL AVIV — Top members of the Hapoel Soccer Club that the dead woman had not of Israel will visit the United States in May or in June, the been suffocated by smoke but contract for the American tour, to be sponsored by the Farband Labor Zionist Order, having been signed here by Louis Segal, of New York, general secretary of the Farband .. . • Dancing to our orchestra • Entertainment around the clock • Pool • Beach • Cabana • Lincoln Road Area • FREE PARKING daily per Write for person dbl. occ. brochure N 20 of 117 rms. See your travel agent Jan. 4 to 23 - WoTki.. • MOTEL' :4Z tk • Coffee Shop • Entertainment Norman Arrow Jan. 4 to food director Jan. 23 • Crystal Daily Clear Pool per • Entertain- pers. ment • Dancing Dbl. Occ. 40 of • Sally Den- 125 rms. Mod. mar Social Amer. 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